Disclaimer: This isn't my sandbox, I'm just playing in it for a while.
Notes: I stole these prompts. You hear me? I stole them like the dirty thief that I am. This is the 2nd prompt (fall from grace/glory) from the Beta List at 30kisses on LJ, and I haven't properly signed up for a challenge there, I stole the list because I needed something to get my creativity going.
This chapter contains spoilers for the end of the Chapter Black saga, Yuusuke/Koenma, implied Koenma/Sensui, and mentions of nekkidness.
And thus the heroes were exiled. Koenma, who had defied his father's orders to help Yuusuke. Yuusuke himself, who had come back from the dead with a genetic time bomb going off in his veins. One exiled to the human world and the other being ordered to leave it.
It was only ever a passing attraction, in that respect.
During the few weeks in which they were both earthbound, as it were, they sought relief in one another, the ones who understood just what had happened in that cave.
"I have really," Koenma mused, folding his hands across his bare chest, "really got to stop doing this."
"Look, if you didn't like it, I won't do it again." There was the slightest hint of a pout in Yuusuke's voice.
"No, that was great," Koenma assured him. "And I'm not going to ask where you learned it. I meant this in general." Yuusuke looked down at him, confused.
"Sense, please?" Koenma sighed and laid one arm over his eyes.
"I have the bad habit of getting...attached to people who work for me. They tend to die."
"Well, that's not exactly a concern of mine," Yuusuke murmured in response, shimmying under the blanket to lay with his arms under his head. "Besides, Shinobu - the one you knew - was dead long before he reached Makai."
"And that was still my fault," Koenma replied automatically before sitting bolt upright. "Wait, what did you say?"
"Calm down, Princey." Yuusuke looked askance at the obviously flustered Koenma. "It was obvious you cared pretty deeply for the guy. I'm just confirming a hunch." Koenma's shoulders sagged.
"I'm disturbed, aren't I?"
"Do I have any room to talk?" Yuusuke yawned. "Look, from what I understand he was a pretty amazing guy before he went all batshit crazy. And it's not like I wanna marry you, so if you wouldn't mind shutting up about it so I can catch a nap before someone comes looking for me like they always do?" His eyes closed. Koenma stared at him, shocked and a little peeved, before a smile found its way onto his face.
"Sure thing, Yuusuke." He lay down with his head on Yuusuke's shoulder, letting his eyes drift closed as Yuusuke's arm draped over him.
