Isolation.

T: My first foray into the fandom and yet I am wise enough to the ways of fanfic that you shouldn't fear giving me constrictive criticism. This drabble is the fourth in my seven deadly sins project, which you can read more about in my bio should you wish! I am not a member of clamp and thus it seems I can stake no claim in Watanuki…this fact depresses me and so I'm going to let you be!

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As with so many of his other 'bad habits' his fierce independents…his inability to as for help…had not existed 'before',

Indeed he still occasionally dreams of the taunts of 'mummy's boy' that had often followed him in preschool.

In the disjointed reality of 'after' he's been too hurt…too bitterly alone…to reach out for help.

Eventually the hurt had dulled, yet still he had refused to ask for help.

For a while this independents had been born of his wish to simply follow them and then out of a foolish fear that it'd been his clingy nature that had killed his parents.

Now…

Now he was 'striking out on his own' simply for the sake of his pride.

To ask for help now would be admitting himself weak, after all…

Would be admitting that he actually needed Doumeki in his life.

Thus, no matter how far he was pushed, no matter how much fate was conspiring against him at the moment, he would not ask for help.

The jar lid would have to give eventually, after all.

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T: Forgive the slightly silly ending…I couldn't resist! This is, clearly, based around the sin of PRIDE for which Watanuki is a poster child!! Nothing else really to say except R+R and look out for the rest of the series!