Title: Shadows
Challenge: Shadows
Pairings/Characters: Soubi, Kio, Ritsuka
Rating: General
Word Count: 336
Challenge read in Vienna. Drabble created in a train while crossing the Austrian-German border. Typed and uploaded in Leipzig.
~*~ Shadows ~*~
Shadows had crept into those eyes.
He knew, because he liked to watch when the other wasn't paying attention, because he liked the way those bright orbs reflected any emotion running through that agile mind behind them.
Every time Soubi's consciousness was swallowed by darkness after a fierce battle, they would be a bit darker once the other had patched him up and he was returning to the world of the waking.
Right now, he sensed those eyes on himself as well, as he got up and left the auditorium in the middle of lecture.
He hated the shadows eating away the light that kept him near the other man.
And there was nothing he could do.
Time to fetch Ritsuka from school.
Time to fetch Ritsuka from school.
By now, he knew Aoyagi's schedule by heart, knew when Soubi would wordlessly take his leave, leave him.
The older Aoyagi had been the darkness falling between them, a shadow turning the Soubi Kio knew into a shadow himself, untouchable, cold, fleeting.
Yet, whereas the younger brother had more shadows to him than a 12-year-old should have, to Soubi he was... light.
Something Kio so longed to, but never would be.
He felt cold all of a sudden.
...
He hated shadows.
He hated shadows. He feared them.
Especially those in his mind, where the first eleven years of his life were supposed to be.
The quiet ticking of his watch announced the passing hours as Ritsuka stared into the night outside his window, waiting.
No, he corrected himself after a while. He didn't fear them anymore.
He had lost his existence to the shadows two years ago. Now, however, he had found another one.
One, where neither the darkness of the battlefields nor the pain he suffered as a Sacrifice managed to scare him.
...
Because he wasn't alone, Ritsuka though with a tiny smile as Soubi's bright figure stepped into the light of his room, leaving the shadows of the night behind.
