Chain Pair. Blue-eyed Fem!Kurapika. Edo Japan AU. Heavy symbolism (you've been warned). A drabble series. In which Kurapika is a courtesan and Kuroro is the leader of a band of thieves.
First and foremost: This is a story about obsession. There is no romance, just to be clear.
Warning: Mature and dark themes. Violence. (Eventually) Sexual implications; semi-explicit. Dub-con.
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From another lifetime, Kurapika has met the man in black.
He is winter, she thinks back then. Pale and preserved like ice, and like the cold, takes the breaths of the living through twelve white blades that slice through air, tear flesh and bone asunder, only with but a word. Human made blades, ruthless and blood-soaked as he. The Spider, they're called.
Despite leaving no phantom trail in the tragedy—not a footprint, not a hair—their shadow loom the desolate province regardless, like that of a curse that shall haunt it for a hundred years. However time fleets and the land forgets, but blood remembers.
We reject no one, so take nothing from us.
(She sees red, seethes red, screams for red—)
The snow falls into place, upon ashes and ruins of huts to clear its fading memory, as it has always done. The crows caw, hovering above, discontent of nameless bones and faceless rot. This, she knows, is a nightmare frozen in her heart. And it stops in a blink of an eon for the sight alone.
Then the earth is a blank canvas once more; ruined by decay and renewed with white frost. Death has come thus life is reborn, its design complete. The cycle repeats, endlessly.
The little girl has also withered, too, in the cold—in the ground that weeps of red—but the cycle persists still, when the soul lives for an eternity. This crimson is thicker than water and it bays for blood, as it flows through her veins and ignites her eyes aflame, alive, once again.
When the Spider bites its poison in her and vengeance stains and stays on her soul.
Exposition Corner:
Shinigami: they are gods or supernatural spirits that invite humans toward death, and can be seen to be present or interpreted to be present in certain aspects of Japanese religion and culture. Shinigami have been described as monsters and helpers, creatures of darkness, and fallen angels. Many cultures describe Shinigami as Death themselves.
A/N: This was supposedly meant to be written as a one-shot however I found it too long, and as time went by, it just kept getting longer. Then this happened. I was also never intending to write for this pairing. Anyway, it was quite interesting. I would deeply appreciate it if someone points out if the characters are OOC.
Disclaimer: I do not own Hunter x Hunter