Collection Title: Blind Bridle
Pairing: Karasu x Kurama
Warnings: Yaoi with inferences of sex and violence
Notes: Experimental piece written for the 1sentence community on LJ; 50 sentences with their individual themes
Disclaimer: YYH © Yoshihiro Togashi
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01. Motion
For several nights after
the Dark Tournament, Kurama awoke in a panic, the effects of his
incubus lingering like a plague; though he would never admit it, the
titillating thrill was real enough to leave him curiously airsick.
02. Cool
Dew had begun forming on
the eve of death-- with daybreak, they were at last relieved to bear
its shimmering brilliance.
03. Young
It is delicate, and
requires much precaution and sufferance if it is to grow into
something warm and ageless.
04. Last
How deliciously clever you
are; my last memory is but the back of your head.
05. Wrong
They were tricksters by
nature, and thus, by law, the concept of wrong was obsolete.
06. Gentle
A benign guise of a happy
union meant cancer to reality.
07. One
Through his one-sided
mirror, the menacing glow of his obsession's presence reflected so
nicely; it was time for glass to shatter.
08. Thousand
Perfection would grant a
millennium of felicity and pleasure, but he did not want perfection;
he wanted a coarse, deceptive mane of mortal sin.
09. King
Karasu is the immovable
king to his lain kingdom of green and red in which he may corrupt.
10. Learn
He had much to learn of
humanity; however, an unwilling fox was quite delectable.
11. Blur
Love is a blur, damaging,
and offers naught but an acidic aftertaste; though unsurprisingly,
Kurama enjoys being his own contradiction, appearing with a pair of
lenses, though blinding with extended hands.
12. Wait
Karasu found he was
loitering, eschewing his own ideals whenever fawning became priority;
though he figured Masochism was at that moment too busy seducing
Avoidance to notice.
13. Change
Kurama knew change was
necessary, but when he would catch that predacious gleam, that putrid
heart, the familiar odor of plague, he discovered an unmistakable
lust for this static horror.
14. Command
It was happening again,
albeit stronger than ever before; alas, unbeknownst to him, this
particular siren had fox like tendencies.
15. Hold
Every morning, he wants to
pin that devious bastard for the dotted crescents in his palms.
16. Need
Karasu's poverty-stricken
emotions jumped at the chance of replenishment, though missed, and
plummeted into the pit of obsession.
17. Vision
He sees in purple, the
untouchable colour painted on with lineal brush; he marvels, then,
when blasphemous green entered his life with the vampiric plant
dancing before his eyes, smearing purple with ail.
18. Attention
Ignore it as much as he
would like, the fetters remained, delighting themselves in the wait
for the next detonation.
19. Soul
The raven was no speckled
lark, and the fox was no obedient dog-- why did the obvious have to
be so glaring?
20. Picture
Indeed, Karasu was a
confusing fellow for although he spoke so amorously of the defective
flesh, Kurama often deliberated if he was simply a portrait, an
ornamental metaphor of dusty disuse for the vacant gaze.
21. Fool
When stumbling upon the
magnificent stash of the great thief, Karasu opted for fool's gold.
22. Mad
This madness was most
enjoyable, reminiscent of the lawless rendezvous of his youth-- filch
from death, and enjoy the chase.
23. Child
Soon after the birthday
cake incident, Kurama no longer allowed Karasu the pleasure of alien
movies showcasing exploding abdomens.
24. Now
They are fighting,
fervidly caressing in a barrage of ice picks as erotic breath
circulates, whiffed in passing; if he wishes to survive, he must
remember everything is simply a hostile, transient nudge into
illusory pleasure-- now was, never is.
25. Shadow
Their brows touched as
they peered quizzically at their shadows; at least neither was a
vampire.
26. Good-bye
There is nothing more
amusing than an impassioned grudge upon an unresolved parting; lock
the keys of a piano, and its voice will merely resonate as long as it
is pressed.
27. Hide
It was fun to pretend to
have fun for awhile until the fox abruptly ceased the games of
hide-and-seek.
28. Fortune
There were times when he
wished they could go to the carnival, to spend on games and fun until
they were penniless, until nothing else mattered but the genuine
laughs and beautiful lights-- when greed and misfortune were no
longer necessary.
29. Safe
Safety is phantasmal; he
will never be safe, never with the source of love and beauty still
living in the world.
30. Ghost
One Halloween, someone had
the gall to imitate the infamous raven and tactlessly flirt with
Kurama who, in turn, pointedly ignored it; though by the party's end,
the weathered fox demanded identification to which his team
confusedly inquired, "What Karasu?"-- Kurama didn't sleep
that night.
31. Book
A restraining order was as
unnecessary as it was ineffectual, Kurama mused; Koenma already had
his own unsuccessful hand in booking the lunatic.
32. Eye
Whenever Karasu complained
about his "yellow" eyes, Youko would scold the raven
post-haste for favouring a secondary colour over his.
33. Never
Wittiness and tenacity
aside, Karasu always understood the word, never, was
synonymous with unrequited.
34. Sing
Kurama had a beautiful
voice; such a beautiful voice that erupted in its stealthy listener a
desire to swallow it, drown it, and take part in its unthinkable
tragedy all at once.
35. Sudden
Kurama and the rest of the
team were concerned when the fox's new love interest would whine
about a stalker; alarm ensued when one day the eccentric girl
spontaneously combusted.
36. Stop
Horns blared behind him,
and Kurama realised the stoplight had long since turned green; he
accelerated at once, unwitting as the peculiar gathering of ravens
he'd been observing twittered provocatively of ill omen.
37. Time
The sharp excitement of
the passing seconds, oh, how the slow metronome tries to surpass the
deadly ache of his heart; the time bomb finally explodes amidst a
stunning scream, and Karasu knows this is love.
38. Wash
The burns on his skin had
their mending and the bloodstains on his clothes their rinse;
however, no amount of scrubbing could discount the sulphurous grime
embedded in his bones.
39. Torn
Like an old, beloved toy,
the stuffed fox could only withstand his own wear and tear for so
long.
40. History
Then consumed by the
inevitable war, all that existed was the stone ring, and their
pirouette of obscenities.
41. Power
There was a power outage,
and on standby, there was a candle upon Kurama's desk-- how
convenient for the vindictive philosophy that lurked amidst its
fluttering dance, so near its ring of ember it jarred with every
breath.
42. Bother
With lacquered lips,
Karasu puckered, and Kurama was disturbed.
43. God
The nitwitted
jurisdiction of God himself could hardly smite the standards of a
true immortality, of a true passion; the dark
figure stepped onto human soil, and smirked loftily, ah, what a
careless infant.
44. Wall
The wall is a cruel, thin,
translucent glass, permitting nothing more than the dusky,
tantalizing contours of physical and mental impossibility.
45. Naked
It was always clothed for
they seldom touched and, consequently, the effort was completely
feckless-- his raw glares admitted the most calculated violation.
46. Drive
In a way, the drive was of
short splendour; albeit usurped from the very beginning by a
hideously superior chauffeur and thrust them off a cliff.
47. Harm
When their relationship
threatened whatever sanctity remained, they reminded-- harm was
merely a breed of harmony.
48. Precious
Time between them was
never precious; it only seized him with anxiety, raking him
faithfully with croaking thoughts of slaying that loving smile.
49. Hunger
Karasu lived on and in a
world of carrion where soft, palatable, dead, green irises were
opened to shred and bleed, no longer looking away-- their capsules
generously pecked away-- and tried to feed the ravenous, insatiable
appetite.
50. Believe
And they lived happily
every after inside the repugnant alcove, atop the land of
make-believe where seemly doves secretly feared the vines of thorny
havoc.