Title: Sleep Tight, Sweet Dreams
Author:annonymouse
Disclaimer: don't own, never will.
Summary: It wasn't exactly that Shuichi was scared of the dark. He just seldom slept with the lights off. But you know… These days he didn't mind it much at all. -fluffy drabble-
Author's Notes: Inspired by one too many nights with an over active imagination xD
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Shindou Shuichi wasn't afraid of the dark, and it wasn't that he didn't like the dark. He even found it calming at times… It's just that he had an overactive imagination.
Once it took him three hours to fall asleep because of a shadow from a tree branch. He knew what it was, he knew it was the tree he used to climb on as a kid. The one he sometimes used to sneak out at night.
But it didn't stop him from imagining that it was just the leg of a ten foot giant who liked candy floss. A ten foot giant who would probably mistake his newly dyed hair for the sugary treat. A ten foot giant that was just bending over and was about to devour him alive. Possibly licking him and keeping him in his mouth before swallowing. Then Shuichi would be covered in saliva. And stomach fluids. Acidic stomach fluids.
Shuichi was so glad he didn't sleep in his own room in his parent's house anymore.
He could remember a thousand other nights when he let his imagination play, when a simple jacket turned into a flesh eating monster, or the time the lights from a passing car was an invasion of double headed aliens that was here to kidnap Nittle Grasper. He could remember hugging his Kumagoro-imitation-plushie tightly and snuggling in his warm blanket, desperately humming some random tune he happened to remember.
Shuichi was glad that he didn't need his fake-Kumagoro anymore.
He turned to face his lover and traced a finger down Yuki's naked back, the sweat that covered him earlier now completely dry.
"Hngh?" a grumble came from the sleeping man
"Nothing. I love you, Yuki." he whispered and gently kissed a shoulder blade. "Go back to sleep."
The blond didn't make another sound in response but he turned to his lover and held him tight. Shuichi happily snuggled and inhaled lingering scents of tobacco, sweat and musk.
In Yuki's warm embrace, where he could see slightly parted lips and soft eye-lashes, where all he could hear was a soft barely noticeable snore and all he could feel was Yuki Eiri… Shindou Shuichi decided he didn't mind the dark much at all.
After all, he had all he wanted there. His Prince in Shinning Armour, complete with blond hair. Nothing could hurt him as long as he could feel Yuki's hair tickling his nose.
-owari-