Passionless Art

by Akhushtal

Drabbles and one-shots revolving around the ambiguous and often tumultuous nature of Shuichi and Yuki's relationship. Shuichi lives for his passions, while Yuki realizes he is quite passionless after all. This revelation has unexpected repercussions.

1. Passion

Passionless Art

Standard disclaimers apply.

A/N: Pieces (of varying lengths) revolving around Shuichi and Yuki's relationship—the ambiguity, complexity, and even beauty. No linear story line, but some chapters may feed off one another.

Themes: art, passion, redemption

::Passion::

Shuichi Shindou had two great passions in life. Of course, being a rather impassioned creature, he nourished a cornucopia of loves, but there were only two he considered his reason for living.

These two passions fed off one another, each a catalyst to the other.

But that didn't mean they were always harmonious.

One day Yuki, in one of his foul moods, asked, "Why do you insist on writing your own songs when you obviously lack the talent for it?"

Shuichi simply laughed and cocked his head to the side. "Silly Yuki. The same reason I stay with you."

Yuki raised a scathing eyebrow, but his gaze lingered on the pink-haired boy's twinkling eyes a bit longer than necessary.

"Without passion we'd be truly dead."—Joss Whedon