Title: The price of the umbrella...
Challenge: Reciprocation
Pairings/Characters: Soubi/Ritsuka
Rating: PG
Word Count: 227 words
The storm that raged right now kept him in front of the convenient store. Though it had been raining all day, he hadn't considered bringing an umbrella, and now he had to face the consequences.
No one was coming.
Minutes passed and he shivered under his coat, and sighed just before a lightning resounded in the sky.
No one was coming.
The streets were deserted, no one dared to set a foot outside and he felt sad and lonely. He knew his mother wasn't coming, he knew his father wasn't coming, but more importantly, he knew his brother wasn't coming. No one was looking for him with an umbrella, worried that he would get stuck somewhere under the heavy rain.
"Ritsuka?"
Soubi was there, looking at him, completely soaked and holding an umbrella under his arm. He tried to speak, to explain, to tell, but he couldn't. All the emotions choking him and making him shiver even harder than a minute ago from the cold.
Soubi just smiled and pulled him into a tight embrace, before the tug on his own coat made him look down.
A quick kiss, so quick that it didn't seem it had happened, was placed on the Fighter's lips before Ritsuka started to walk down the street.
"And that?"
"It's just a thank you... for the umbrella".
Someone did come after all.