Title: Existence
AN: Written for 31 Days on livejournal.
Series: Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play
Character/Pairing: "Taka" (Tamahome) / Miaka Yuki
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own Fushigi Yugi.
He still felt, strange and different being in Miaka's world now with Tamahome's memories. Even though he knew somehow he belonged to this world, something still didn't sit right. Like a part of him still resided deep within the pages of the Book of the Four Gods.
Once when he'd been brought back as Tamahome in this world, everything seemed so surreal, like it had been a detailed dream that had every sense heightened. Back then, he had no reflection as he recalled. No way of being able to live with the only woman that cared enough to stay by his side. The only person he lived for now.
Even now, as delicate fingers curl about his large hand and pull him toward the apartment where "Taka" lived before re-entering the book, he couldn't help but think if he simply shouldn't exist with this woman at all. As if the fates decreed long before he could begin to grasp the bigger picture, that they remain parted, separated from each other's loving embrace.
"Come on Taka, hurry it's freezing out!" Miaka giggled, giving him the pleasure of seeing her beautiful bright smile as they headed for the door and up the stairs where they would lounge in his bed, with nothing but a simple shirt on and their bodies pressed together.
He watched as she almost instantly fell asleep, her fingers twined with his shirt, afraid to let go in fear he would simply vanish from this world forever.
Kissing her forehead, Taka wrapped his arm about her tiny frame and breathed in the smell of her hair as he made a promise to himself. 'I'll stay, if only for this girl. Fates be damned."