Title: Scabies (a.k.a Green)
Fandom: Nabari no Ou
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Yoite/Miharu
A/N: birthday!fic for roys-neko. Written pre-volume 8. Love you Neko-chan.
Scabies
Miharu is like a mite. He burrows under your skin, and you don't notice it until the itching becomes so insistent, so unbearably pervasive that you can't ignore it anymore, and there's nothing you can do about it but scratch and scratch until your skin turns red-raw and blood starts coagulating under your fingernails.
Yoite hates Miharu.
Miharu is a mix of colors and feelings and sensations that Yoite had thought long forgotten, and that Yoite wants to forget.
Yoite's world had long ago faded to blacks and whites and an all-encompassing gray that was only marred by the occasional splatter of crimson red.
He had accepted this. Life had moved on. This hazy absence of color had become just another unchangeable fact in Yoite's newly monochrome world.
And then, Miharu stepped into his life, an all Yoite could focus on was that brilliant, iridescent green.
He hates Miharu because he knows that soon enough, that green will fade, pale, disappear, and Yoite's world will be dull and colorless once again.
And when that time comes, he'll know exactly what he's missing.
Those tantalizing glimpses of what his life would be like without Kira never fail to throw him off balance. Everything about Miharu throws him off balance. From his startling eyes to his touch to his gangly limbs to the fact that such a pure person would want to be friends with someone as sullied as him.
Either way, until his wish is granted, Yoite is stuck. He's charged with protecting and not dying and trying his very best not to befriend this boy, the container of the Shinrabanshou, that has somehow managed to slip past all his carefully constructed defenses without breaking a sweat.