Title: A Man
Author: iloveprettysilverhair
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Gathering
Genre: General
Warnings: None
AU/Canon: Canon
Pairing: Shuurei/Seiran
Words: 300
Summary: When did this happen?
Shuurei absently peeled potatoes as she stared, entranced, out the kitchen window. Just recently she had come to watch him during his exercises, and she wondered, not for the first time, when he had become so handsome and charismatic. She had known him for years and yet it seemed as though she was looking at a stranger.
He had his hair tied up, leaving his strong neck exposed to the warm sun. From her vantage she could clearly see the sweat gathering upon his naked chest and noticed the way it seemed to make him glow. His muscles strained with every swing of his sword, and Shuurei's hands ceased their movement. Her innocent eyes watched as he raised his arm to his brow to wipe off the perspiration there before he tilted his head from side to side to loosen up his neck and shoulders.
She dared not blink in case the trance she was in be interrupted; she knew it was unlike her to think of him in such a way, but she couldn't help herself. Her lower lip drew into her mouth and licked her dry lip before swallowing thickly. He was no longer the boy her and her family had taken in all those years ago. He was a man. And she couldn't take her eyes off of him.
"Shuurei?" her father's voice sounded behind her.
With a startled yelp, Shuurei quickly turned and held her hand over her racing heart. Was it racing because of her father suddenly being there or because of another reason?
"Yes father?"
"What are you doing in here?"
"Just…um…Potatoes! I'm peeling potatoes!" she said as she held up a half-naked spud.
Her father nodded and Shuurei relaxed. She missed the knowing smile upon his face when he looked out the window.