Ivy Green Eyed
(Hakuouki SSL)
There was an arcade on his route back home from school, and Souji couldn't help but notice this one machine with this one strange little plush. A cat, the color of some strange poison chocolate, eyes as green as ivy; it looked lethal.
But that wasn't what was strange.
The strangeness came when he placed a coin into the machine, grabbed the lever, and aimed to catch a cute little calico cat that was NOT that ivy-green-eyed one. Souji swore it was that plush that had knocked his price down, that cheeky smile mocking him on his every attempt to get it back. This didn't happen once or twice, but several different times, several different days, and not even when he played the damn thing.
Heisuke tried the machine. He wanted the cat that mocked Souji's nights, what caused him to curse when he slept, and just irritated him for no apparent reason. He wanted that ivy-green-eyed feline with the cheeky grin; the attempt was a bust. The cat plush would not budge from its place and had even caused the metallic claw to fail in its return.
It had broken the damn thing!
Yet, none of this happened when he stopped one rainy day; his eyes trailed to the machine, to the deranged metallic claw that had a mind of its own, and to that damned, cheeky, mocking, ivy-green-eyed feline. He placed the coin in the slot, took hold of the lever, moved the claw above the ivy-green-eyed feline plush with the cheeky and mocking grin . . . and now he held that irritating plush in his hands.
The ivy-green-eyed feline plush, that was actually kind of cute; especially after throwing itself onto the claw the way she had.