A collection of fifteen drabbles, exactly one hundred words each. Written for FBFC's Bite-Sized Quotes Challenge with the quote "If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back. Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs."


01. If you think of
Shigure & Akito

"Has Rin responded to my invitation yet?"

Recently, Akito had taken to drinking French wine out of narrow, delicate flutes, a change probably intended to add an air of class around a young person whose only perfume had been anger for far too long. An air of much needed refinement. Or perhaps she simply enjoyed the taste. Shigure preferred the first explanation. Much more poetic.

"She said no. Like always."

He's curt, not trying to spin hope. Shigure wouldn't lock a lovely princess in a tower (even one who desperately needs a warm home).

The glass shatters in Akito's grip.