Title: Keeping Me Grounded
Anime: 11eyes
Pairing: KakeruXYuka
Written after episode 2 of 11eyes
"It's just an illusion… Kukuri-san." Yuka said.
She has no idea how much hearing that meant to me. After all this time of my big sister being gone, it's good to be reminded by someone that cares of what's real and what's not.
How can I ever repay Yuka for all that she's done for me? She's always been there for me ever since Kukuri-neesan died. Yuka will never disappear.
That's what I'd like to believe, anyway.
We may not be alone during the Red Night anymore, as there are others like us who got sucked into this mess for some reason or another, but I made a promise that will be broken. I can't protect Yuka. I want to, God knows I do… but I don't know how. I don't have a way.
Misuzu Kusakabe is an Onmyoji, and the one who revealed that there are three others besides her, me, and Yuka. She also put two and two together, helping us realize that those of us in this Red Night have one thing in common—we have powers.
Kusakabe-sempai thinks my right eye has something to do with my power, which I never knew anything about.
"This means I have a power too." Yuka said. "When I die, stay close to me." she hugged my arm close to her.
Hearing her sound so lost and without hope could have been enough to keep me up all night in itself.
She is the first person to ever be able to keep me grounded and make me feel safe. I can't relax around her, though. Not now, not ever. Until I learn how to use my powers, she'll never be safe.
I don't have the heart to tell her that we may be separated.
END