Title: Abandon All Hope Here
Rating: T
Pairing: Kyo/ Yuki
Look right through me
look right through me . . .
The sky seemed to fall apart before his very eyes. Layer and layer of cloud and sky drifting down in white, feather like pieces. They fell in a gentle sort of dance before pilling gracefully in a duvet across the Sohma grounds. For a moment, just a moment, everything was clean.
Sometimes Yuki would be out there as well, sometimes with Tohru, sometimes alone, but he never stayed out for very long. He had trouble breathing in the cold.
Once, a while back, he'd stayed out longer than usual while hiking with Tohru. An attack was inevitable but for him, seeing the joy on Ms. Honda's face had been well worth it. After convincing her it was not her fault and that she should go get Shigure, Yuki was left alone on the path. His breaths came in short wheezing spurts that hurt his chest and head. The snow started to fall again and he thought maybe this wouldn't be the worst thing to see before you die.
He also thought that this wasn't the time to be melodramatic.
Crunching snow to his right from where he was on the ground and Kyo was coming up the path, an irritated scowl twisting his face.
"Get up." Yuki nodded, tried and failed. His wheezing became worse. He was clutching his chest now, hands shaking. Kyo came around to face him, dropped to his knees and looked his rival in the face. "I guess all those redeeming qualities that your fans at school talk about come with a price, huh?" Yuki's head was up in a flash, anger in his gray eyes but he didn't lash out.
Wait for it.
Surprisingly, Kyo didn't lash out either. He grabbed the hand clutching the heaving chest and stared at it. He could just walk away, Shigure would find him, help him like the needy princess his rival was and not a word would be spoken of Kyo even being there. Yuki would be doted on, cherished by the family despite the fact that he was in no real danger. People at school would gush over how brave he was, how strong he was to survive the attacks and still be great enough to beat Kyo at every turn. He could just walk away and let the natural order of things take over.
He couldn't hear them coming, only the raspy sound of Yuki trying to breathe.
The hand in his own was shaking in its glove, cold, Yuki was so cold.
Snow is cold, Kyo thought to himself, like milky white skin and cleansing like chillingly soft touches from those frigid fingertips. The rain seemed to overwhelm him, it was smothering and made him want to crawl into a dark hole until it stopped. But not the snow, it made him feel clean. It covered everything; him, like a soft blanket and washed away all doubts and reservations leaving him bare and calm.
Without thinking, Kyo blew on those icy-cold fingers, coaxing the circulation back into them with his own hands. This was nothing like Her. It didn't snuff him out the way a pounding rainstorm did. It chilled him, inside and out, quelling the fire raging inside of him.
Shigure came and Kyo stood and walked away, murmuring something to Tohru as he passed her. No one said a word and by the time their dear, wonderful Yuki passed out he'd been given his medication and would be fine.
Later, the swish of a sliding door was picked up by Kyo's sensitive hearing, followed by soft footsteps. A gentle wind sent the falling crystals tumbling into his hair and clothes, he didn't bother to shake them off. It was falling much more softly now and he didn't want to miss it before it stopped. He didn't have to look up to see Yuki was watching the snow fall too.
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Incase you didn't catch it I was comparing;
Kagura-Rainstorm
to
Yuki-Snowdrift