Category : 07-Ghost

Character(s) : Teito Klein, Karu Barsburg

Summary : Sometimes, when he's on the edge of sleep, he remembers.


Sometimes, when he's on the edge of sleep, he remembers. Lying in his bunkbed, with the darkness surrounding him, he remembers.

It was when he was six. Once, he had gotten heavily injured on a training session, and had had to spend days in recovery. Drifting in and out of consciousness, not knowing whether he was dead or not, he had thought he heard a voice.

It was calm and soothing, and a hand had brushed through his hair gently. It was the only human contact he had ever recieved from someone other than Kurena, a touch which wasn't meant to hurt or injure him.

He could only bring up the image of a strand of dark brown hair, and a soft, warm chuckle. It was oddly familiar, but try as he might, he couldn't remember whose that voice belonged to.

But he almost felt as though he should know, and that the answer dangled in front of his face. But he could never grasp the answer which so tantalisingly swung to and fro in front of him.

And as the years passed, he had convinced himself it was a hallucination, something his mind had made up to comfort him. But still, whenever he was injured, or on the edge of sleep, he would remember.

That oddly soft, comforting voice. That strand of brown hair. That gentle hand brushing through his hair.

And as Teito drifted back into sleep, he suddenly recalled something else. A flash of white.

Yes... he thought drowsily, sleep overtaking him... white bandages.


Written : 14/08/12

Edited : -/-/-


A/N - Just something on the relationship between Teito-kun and Karu-san.