Author Notes: These fics are all being done for the 5trueloves community on livejournal where you take a character and write five fics pairing them with different characters. Obviously I'm doing Akira and most of these fics will be shounen ai with the exception of this chapter. They will also be short. I will also still be working on the Benitora challenge for 10whores, but that will obviously take a little longer.
Title: Alike
Theme: Similarity
Pairing/Characters: Akira/Yuya, strong mentions of Akira/Kyo and a tiny bit of Akira/Sakuya.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer/claimer: I do not own this series or it's characters. They belong to Akimine Kamiyjo.
Notes/Summary: Short introspective from Akira's point of view about his relationship to Yuya and the similarities and differences between the two of them.
When Akira had first met Yuya, he had been impressed by the strength of her conviction, this simple desire to find her brother's killer, even though she obviously didn't know what she was going to do after she found him. Because she was so like him. Just like Akira, she was searching for one man, one man who had taken everything away.
There were also those combating feelings of old attraction and jealousy. She was like Sakuya in that respect, so much so that he had repeated old words spoken in haste. Words that had nothing to do with love, but with Kyo. A desire to have what Kyo had, to be what Kyo was. A hate of that which took Kyo from him that lead to something covetous. She had spoken old words in return and those feelings were dispelled yet again.
That was the biggest difference between them. Yuya Shiina did not need Kyo to be happy. To her, the man was merely a path, not the god that Akira dreamed of every night. It frustrated him yet at the same time, made him think of things other than Kyo, things that were much harder than those years of training, those years of blindness.
Sometimes he almost started believing that Kyo wasn't the only thing in life. This was impressive in its own way and he had to add it to the list of reasons why Yuya was special.