"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
-Sam Keen
You are cold, and uncompromising. You are singularly determined to adhere to your principles, and remain apathetic to the plight of those around you-and you have no interest in being kind, or charitable, or even approachable. Yet, despite all of these things, I want you.
More than that, I need you.
I need your strength to temper my flightiness. I need your ice to cool my reckless flame of youth. I need your worldliness to give sight to my eyes, so I see not just what I wish to, but what is truly there. I need your hardened heart to teach mine the same, as to prevent continuous suffering from empathy. I need your nobility, to remind me that there is grace, and beauty in this world.
But most of all, I need you-not the characteristics, or the title, but the man.
Because the man is more than cold and principled. He is the one who will find me, weeping in the gutters for my loss. And despite my filth, and lack of station, he takes me up and cherishes me, all while my tears irrevocably stain his silk. His arms remind me that I am protected, that the world, while unsafe, cannot hurt me.
And that, for all of our differences, I am loved.
A/N: I wrote this without a couple in mind. You can really apply whomever you see to this little drabble, because it's a universal concept. However, the lovely Alis Volat Propis, who I've been working with as a beta, has recently introduced me to a few of the more abstract uncanon pairings. To that end, this is identified as a Neji/Ino story...
Anyway, you should go check Alis out - you can find her here. www. fanfiction .net /~alisvolatpropris