Komoriuta:
Lullaby my love
Disclaimer: Don't own the song, the anime, or much of anything. Please don't sue me. Arigatou.
Authors Notes: Songs affect me in
the strangest ways, like this one, I pop on the song and immediately I see this
idea...I'm wondering if it's cliché' if it is, gomen nasai, but it's bugging
me! (And AGAIN I'm leaving my essays to chance...)
It'll either be Yami/Yugi Shounen-ai, or just brotherly love...it also has
another character, I've heard she's alive, but I've also heard she's dead, so
I'll leave it to my own whim.
Song is Lullaby: by Creed
The word up there in Japanese is Lullaby..
There will also be Ashiteru in there somewhere I think. I'm trying to remember if the two different
people need two different words for love..*Shrugs*
I don't care if Yami doesn't sing. It's my fic, my world, live with it.
Read on for my shortest ever piece of work, shortest song-fic too! Wow...
Short/Pathetic/Sappy/Did I mention Pathetic?
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~*~ Lullaby my love~*~
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As the last of the lights were shut off on the first floor of the house, save for the Christmas lights and the tree lights of course, one woman donning silk pajama's and a robe slowly climbed the stairs, cradling the small child in her arms she sat down in the rocking chair looking into his beautiful amethyst eyes.
Gently
she began to rock back and forth, her long midnight black streaked red hair
caressed her face with the motion and every so often the child would reach his
hands out to try and grab some of the inviting black silk that tickled his nose
so softy.
A door slammed downstairs and the child's eyes widened in fright before closing
as tiny tears formed and he let out a whimper and a very soft sob his tiny
hands balling into fists grabbing onto the silky robes his mother wore that
Christmas Eve.
"Oh, oh baby no..." Amunet whispered softly as she watched her tiny angel cry so silently, such an innocent angel she was given. And that angel was sad now, so sad...
Her
face creased in sorrow as she watched him weep. She smiled softly when a
thought slipped into her head and she held him closer now, protecting him from
the world around him with her arms, his tears continued but he no longer
whimpered. "Hush my love now don't
you cry everything will be all right...close your eyes and drift in dream, rest
in peaceful sleep..." she sang lovingly as she caressed his cheek,
wiping away the crystalline tears as they fell.
She stopped short of singing when she heard something downstairs, but right now
she couldn't bother, her baby was sad...
Taking a breath she closed her eyes and stood up swaying from side to side
watching as the little angel in her arms slowly drifted to sleep. A face she would never in her life forget,
nor would she wish to.
"If there's one thing I hope I showed you. If
there's one thing I hope I showed you. Hope I showed you..." she felt
tears sting her own eyes as a pain shot through her heart, a soft jolt telling
her something wasn't right.
"Just give love to all...Just give
love to all"
Setting the now slumbering angel into his crib she brushed a strand of jet
black hair away from his face and a melancholic smile graced her features as
she gazed upon the child. Closing her
eyes she heard a cry from downstairs and whispered something to the child
before she left.
Just give love to all....
"Suki
da tenshi..."
And then the
world faded to black.
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Tears
streamed unbidden down the tri-color haired teens face as he lay in bed
clutching the sheets to him in a pathetic attempt to ebb the tide of emotions
crashing upon him at the moment.
"Masaka..." he muttered to himself in pain as he sat up in bed and
stared as a pale ray of moonlight shown on the spot next to him, as if taunting
him about his loss.
The same dream... she always left with the same words...
Just to see her face that night, of all nights, made his heart jerk again in a terrible pain, which in turn caused another sob to escape his lips before he could stop it.
A glitter from the bedside where the Sennen Puzzle lay revealed a translucent
double of the young boy in bed, for a moment he stared at the boy in confusion
before closing his eyes and solidifying his form and moving towards the bed.
"Hikari?" he asked gently touching his others shoulder.
Yugi barely registered this and continued to struggle against the oncoming tide
of emotions.
"Aibou, please, what is the matter young one?" he asked softly, and
upon receiving no answer brought his hand up to the boys face and closed his
eyes, sifting through memories till he found the one that caused his light such
immense grief.
Upon seeing the scene of the dream he opened his eyes and sat down next to Yugi
on the bed who merely moved closer on instinct, though still completely lost in
his own world.
He remembered his charge telling him of nightmares about the loss of his mother and father that Christmas night, of the song that she sang to him before she left, before she died..
He
pulled the boy closer, protectively and then set his head on top of Yugi's
sadly.
You don't deserve this Aibou, the pains
of losing your mother, an angel like you...truly the fates are ill
humored. He thought to himself before
realizing that the boy was sobbing again, silently, trying to hide the pain he
felt. Pain you do not deserve young one.
He smiled sadly and straightened up cupping his hand under his young
counter-parts chin and looked into Amethyst eyes brimming with half unshed
tears, the rest leaving a bitter trail of hurt down the pale cheeks of his
hikari. Brushing them away with his
thumb he spoke softly, "It is ok to cry Yugi, cleanse your soul, don't be
ashamed..." he muttered and with that something in the boy broke and a new
wave of pain hit the both of them, and those eyes filled with more tears and
closed as another sob wracked his body.
Shifting
himself slightly Yami leaned against the back of the bed and pulled the young
teen into a very protective embrace, closing his eyes as his light cried.
Never had he understood the exact importance of the holiday known as Christmas,
save for the fact that people tended to get closer, if even for one night. But the meaning for one child was losing his
mother and father, and this struck the ancient pharaoh as bitter irony that a
holiday meant as the birth of somebody, could be counted as the death of
others. To the one who gave so much
asking for nothing more than friendship? To the pharaoh this seemed to be a fate
worse than death, and for the boy he was holding, while impossible to change,
it wasn't acceptable.
Without warning Yami pulled the boy closer and rocked slowly without thinking
as he closed his eyes. "Oh my
love...in my arms tight. Every day you give me life..." he smiled
sadly down at his charge, his little light who's tears were now ebbing, once
again returning from where they came, still leaving the trail of heartache down
his now flushed cheeks. The boy gazed
up at him silently, an almost peaceful look entering those eyes.
"As I drift off to your world, rest
in peaceful sleep..." Yugi's eyes slowly drifted shut, and as he did,
so did Yami, though still keeping the boy in the tight embrace and swaying
gently.
"I know there's one
thing that you showed me, I know there's one thing that you showed me... That
you showed me..." Closing his eyes Yami felt the pull of sleep that came with keeping the
full form, but being near his counterpart was enough to keep him away from his
soul room, in the mortal realm, and something in the air just wouldn't allow
him to leave. Something airily familiar
to the pharaoh.
"Just give love to all" he
could almost feel another presence in the room with them, guarding either him,
or the angel in his arms, now fast into a dreamless slumber.
"Just give love to all" the voice mixed with his with these last
words and for a brief moment he understood who it was, the one giving him the
energy he needed to stay with Yugi, to keep him near the light he loved.
"Just give love to all" it was Amunet Mutou, he recognized her
presence from the part that Yugi carried with him, and it was reassuring to
know, opening his eyes momentarily he blearily caught sight of a form caressing
her child's cheek and hair gently.
The form materialized further, to that of a woman, midnight black tipped red hair, peaceful amethyst eyes gazing at him serenely, and she smiled gently at him and spoke softly, more to her son than him.
"Let's give love to all
Just give love to all...." her hauntingly beautiful voice echoed through the
room and Yami noticed as his eyes again slipped closed that the young boy in
his arms cuddled closer to him as his mother placed a hand on his arm and
disappeared with a small flash of pure white light. "Suki da tenshi..." echoing after the apparition, the
angel...
"Hai, ashiteru...hikari…" he
murmured gently and slipped into a dreamless sleep.
"Let's give love to all…."
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::coughs:: yeah, ok here I am at 7:56 in the morning
editing a short fic I wrote in half an hour last night. This is probably the worst thing that will
ever appear on fanfiction.net!
I know because it sounds so bloody stupid.
I mean, come on…everything about it just reeks "pathetic", doesn't it?
Or is it just me, somebody agree with me here so I'm not as pessimistic as this
must make me look. Onegai?
Anyways, that's all, please drop me a line, flame, compliment, comment,
anything. Heck, tell me to take it off
the site if it's that bad. I will, rest
assured.
But, yeah, otherwise, here's probably the only under 5 page story you'll ever
get from me that is THIS bad.
Ja matta ne minna-san!