(A/N: One of several crossovers written from random prompts. Features Yami no Bakura (Yuugiou) and Kratos Aurion (Tales of Symphonia); the prompt was ' Take my hand, live while you can; don't you feel that dreams are right in the palm of your hand?')
Two immortals.They are radically different, appearance, motivation and history-wise. On one hand, a fiercely independent, self-directed individual, white-haired and pale, his family murdered and the man he marked as responsible being the only reason he stayed alive – for revenge. Born of desert sands and reborn of dark magics, he would never die.
On the other, a man who chose to mind the way of one whose path became dark, auburn-haired and with wings of light blue, despairing in the knowledge that his family was dead and the creature responsible was the sole reason he was allowed to continue living.
Upon meeting, they despised one another.
Yami no Bakura saw a broken wreck of a man who clung to life only because he was too afraid to die – and yet valued nothing in that life he refused to relinquish.
Kratos Aurion saw a cold, revenge-obsessed maniac with no principles and no sense of justice, only a single motivation to keep going – and that motivation was a poor excuse to treat other beings the way he did.
But something made them stay – stay and argue, discuss, disagree. … And talk. It was a reluctant Kratos who opened that channel, after yelling something about there being no shame in living for the lives of those who should not have died before you.
Bakura had asked if he meant that literally, as in right before your own eyes. His words had been sharp, bitter; Kratos had seen the tightness in his lips.
They talked for a long time. Long enough for both their throats to start to rasp for the dryness. Long enough that words became just extensions and extras if you will – just add ons to the sidelong looks and the smallest nods and the slightest twitch of a hand. Long enough that they knew how to read one another.
And they found they were not so different as they had originally thought.
