Title: Veni, Vidi, Vici
Characters/Pairing: Kyouya
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: spoilers for end of anime
Word Count: 319
Summary: TRUFAX: Kyouya is all kinds of kick ass. Kyouya, ep. 25-26 of the anime.
The way his father's hand connects with his face stuns Kyouya, but the sharpness of his voice and his anger is what knocks the breath from Kyouya's lungs.
To all the shocked and already murmuring bystanders, the youngest Ootori is perfectly calm, reaching down to pick up his glasses, coolly waving off Tamaki's horror and the other host club members.
Inside, there is a sliver of something cold worming into his muscles and holding fast. More importantly, under that chilling numbness, there are embers beneath his skin: Kyouya finds that he is suddenly and completely furious.
It feels like the frustration he'd poured out once on Tamaki, when the idiotic blonde boy had first invaded his home and cheerfully saw right goddamn through him. It feels helpless, and that is both insulting and infuriating.
When Eclair appears and Tamaki disappears, when the sound of combat boots and armored guards his father's sent click heavily into the underground garage, that iciness snaps, that hold breaks; it has been coming apart--little by little--since the moron first began babbling about kotatsus and namehages. Kyouya turns away from the fight, and, reaching for his cell phone, starts making some calls.
All his life has been an exercise in carefully monitored passivity. Well, Kyouya thinks, his father has been throwing the first punches for too long with that filthy threat of succession. And, well, he's had plenty of patience--my god, Suou Tamaki is his best friend, after all--and he's finally had enough.
The way Kyouya moves pen across paper is a sharp, savage slash--a reflection of the smile on his face, when he's signing away every red cent the host club has ever earned. By contrast, the next contract he signs is in a languid, genial motion--K.O. in large elegant letters--as Kyouya buys out the Ootori group and flings all that trash back in his father's face.