Word Count: 350
Rating: G, gen
Note:
Kind of like a fic fart. With art.
All Ghost Stories End Messily
Shindou is being haunted.
Yoshitaka thinks it is the only explanation. Five months ago, he was rereading an old issue of Weekly Go and noticed, to his amusement, a faint white outline behind Shindou's left shoulder in the picture. He remembers it wasn't there the first time he read it and he blamed the recycled paper.
A few days later, he was rearranging his photo albums and his eye caught a solo photo Isumi-san had taken of Shindou. Looking melancholic for a change, Shindou's eyes were somewhere else, but there was a faint shape of a hand on his shoulder.
And last week, he randomly took pictures of his friends, Shindou included. Some shots included that Touya as well, unfortunately, since Shindou insisted on dragging him along. When Yoshitaka browsed through the pictures on his computer, he almost screamed.
Every picture with Shindou had a faint shape of a person behind him.
With that, Yoshitaka went through all his pictures of Shindou, heart pounding upon finding that the form had appeared so suddenly over the past few months that the recent photos now almost, almost had a face. The wisps show hair that become clearer through the different pictures—long and flowing, more prominent of all figures.
It's creepy, and it scared Yoshitaka for an entire week that he barely managed to sleep. (He likes horror movies, he does...but he chucked all his DVDs into the trash as soon as he locked the drawer with all of Shindou's pictures.)
He contemplates on telling Shindou. Yoshitaka thinks he should know; maybe they could get it exorcised, make it leave permanently. Who knows if it'll harm someone soon? Isn't that how all ghost movies go?
Yoshitaka thinks he should.
Only he's having a hard time knowing how to start. Just coming out from what looked like a severe depression, Shindou finally looks like he's beginning to pull himself together—even though he still looks sad when it rains.
He wouldn't want to hear Yoshitaka's crazy theories about ghosts.
Yoshitaka hopes he's making the right choice.
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with an attempt at art found in http// osmalic. livejournal. com/ 85235 .html