Author's notes:

This is a short collection of drabbles...introspective stuff...I think. It's hard to try living in these two characters' mind because they are so complex. That's what made me fall in love with them too. The process of dismantling their psyche piece by piece leads you to fall in love with them.

Well, I hope you guys like this piece. Do leave a review if you agree with my perspective!

Unsolved Equation

I watched the ripples quietly lapping along the shore of the lake and the pending darkness of night trailing leisurely after the golden sunset. Sitting alone on the pier with wondering thoughts, I feel your gaze upon me as you bring to life the portrait on your canvas. Each brush stroke conveys the emotions playing on my face masterfully; you know by heart what each smile and look meant. I am your perfect muse...you once said. That was a long time ago. Do you still think I am perfect now that the ravages of time have manifested itself?

ooOoOoo

Throughout the seasons past, he has been the only constant in his life. His love and devotion is a steady influx of strength for him, withstanding through the test of time. Even though he is tired of fighting himself, he still tries to deny it sometimes, hating the fact that he is now so completely reliant on the red eye man. So when he starts feeling lost and unhinged, he tries to seek the calm within himself...just like how Kurogane does. He calls it meditating.

ooOoOoo

For everyone, there is somebody out there to make things wrong or right. You search for that rare fit, for that perfect body to meld together with yours. You search for that perfect someone to share your life with. It seemed so impossible from the start. I thought I might just die when I found mine...He pushes everyone away, including himself. He doesn't allow any rest for his worn out soul. I wondered if he realizes what he was doing. Curious, I started picking at him...forcing the gaps between his cracks apart, leaving them too wide for him to hide. I think he went insane for sometime from the immense frustrations due to my intense prodding. But I was too stubborn, filled with determination and will to get under his skin. I ignored his gradually shattering persona...

ooOoOoo

He was on the precipice of falling over the cliff in his mind. Kurogane just keeps pushing. Doesn't he see the signs? He's breaking down. His last vestiges of iron clad restrains smashed and he's being pulled into the land of living. He has no choice but to look for another alternative outlook towards his life. He realized it was futile to fight the red eye man; therefore, he gave up his control. Like a puppet, he let Kurogane direct and moved him. Of course...he should have known. How could Kurogane be satisfied with just that? He broke the glass doll and replaced it with a wooden one...yet he's greedy...like Pinocchio, he wants him to come alive!

ooOoOoo

He yearns for his smoldering fire to stoke the flames that the blonde hid within. He wants to see him burst into life and burn with his own flames. So, instead of trying to crush his mask into smithereens, he tried scorching the blonde. His heat was not something anyone can escape from.

ooOoOoo

Fay couldn't find his shields anywhere...anymore, he has no more energy to pull up his defenses. He couldn't protect himself against Kurogane's stinging truths and sharp doses of reality. He couldn't resist that persistence or the love that the red eye man so desperately wants him to have. He also sees how the man was destroying himself over it. He guessed he should accept his fate, but, he feels angry too. He don't understand how Kurogane failed to see that he is a destructive force of nature, anyone or anything in his path will be decimated.

Somehow, Kurogane was not the one he wants to see left in pieces and unamendable.

The End?