By: Mad Mary Kidd

Pairing: Soubi x Ritsu

Rating: M

Disclaimer: Yun Kouga's, not mine

Intro: Ritsuka's innocent words provoke a powerful memory. Ficlet, 100 words

Butterfly Wings


"I never knew..."

"Knew what?"

"That Seimei had an adult friend," says Ritsuka, staring at the space on the top of my head.

For a second I am back in that office, bending over the desk, silently mocked by the butterflies as they stare down at me with the eyes on their wings.

How do you like it, they seem to say, to be pinned down and mounted? For I am pierced as surely as they are. I belong to him now just as they do.

"Oh, my ears?" I say now. "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you."