Subaru sat on the floor of the apartment, one arm hugging his knees to his chest and one arm limp at his side. His mismatched eyes looked blankly at the ground.
He could hear voices. Voices playfully teasing him, voices laughing, voices comforting him, and then the sound of ripping flesh, of falling blood, and her whispering his name as she died.
"Stop it!" Subaru said, whimpering. He covered his ears with his arms, tears streaming down his face as images flashed through his mind. He chanted one word repeatedly:
"Stop..."
"Subaru-kun." It was a masculine voice, followed by a swift draft of cold air which ended swiftly. Subaru turned around, tears rolling down his face.
"How did you get in here?"
"The window."
"What are you doing here?"
Silence. No sound.
Subaru turned around. The man was dressed in all black, a smart black suit that fitted the man perfectly. Unlike Subaru, whom had hung his trench coat on the back of a chair and was wearing sweat drenched clothes that clung to his terribly thin form.
The man wrapped his arms around the younger man and lifted him from his knees. Soundlessly.
"You're a wreck." Seishiro stated simply, moving his arm around the younger man's waist to lift him higher. Subaru tried to struggle, but Seishiro was much stronger then him. On a good day.
Seishiro removed Subaru ruined shirt, tutting when he saw the wounds on the Sumeragi's torso. Subaru shivered a little. His eyes started to close but he snapped them open again.
"How long has it been since you last slept?" Seishiro asked.
"........I don't remember...."
Seishiro sighed. He got to his feet and went into the bathroom with a basin of warm water and a clean cloth. He put the basin under the hot tab and turned it on. After a while, he put his finger in the basin. He turned on the tap of cold water and mixed it in with the hot water.
He came back with the basin and cloth. Subaru was sitting on the side of the bed, gripping the sheets tightly. Seishiro knelt down in front of Subaru. He dabbed water on Subaru's wounds, the man hissing with pain involuntarily.
The water moved soundlessly.
When the wounds were clean, Seishiro got a pillow and put it on the bed. He lay Subaru's head on the pillow gently. He raised the covers up to Subaru's neck and put a damp cloth on Subaru's forehead.
Subaru gripped Seishiro's hand tightly. He brought it under the bed sheets and placed it where his heart was.
"Seishiro-san..."
"Yes, Subaru-kun?"
"When I'm alone...or even with people...I hear sounds...I hear you and Hokuto-chan..teasing me...laughing... bickering...And....I'm not a part of that..."
"......."
"Hokuto-chan...She loved me....Even though there's nothing to love...she loved me....And...Seishiro-san?"
"Yes Subaru-kun?"
"Do you love me?"
".........do you know whom you are asking, and what you are asking of them?"
"I am asking Sakurazuka Seishiro-san whether or not he loves Sumeragi Subaru."
"..I cannot answer that..."
To Seishiro's surprise, Subaru smiled. "If you cannot answer, it means that there is hope...That I still have a chance.." Subaru whispered, curling up against Seishiro.
Subaru slowly fell asleep, his body rising up and down with soundless breaths.
"Do you love me?"
Seishiro bent down and whispered his answer soundlessly in Subaru's ear.
Soundlessly.
Wrote this when I was supposed to be doing homework... Well, I know that it's short, but yeah.....just got to the nagging stage... I hope you like it...
P.S. I'll leave Sei-chan's answer to you.