ANATA WA SHIAWASE NI NARU
Hakuoki/Utapri crossover
Disclaimer: I don't own Hakuoki, nor do I own Uta no Prince-Sama. This story is a figment of my imagination, with the characters being borrowed from their true owners.
Summary: STARISH was bound together with much older and bloodier bonds. A promise, spoken many years ago is now bound to either come true or crash and burn.
Shout Out: Shinsengumi as a whole were hard to describe. From a rowdy bunch to a a tragic people with noble intentions, depending on what you are reading at the moment. I don't know if I caught their overall image, but it fit in my imaging of the story however I wrote it.
Warnings: AU-verse, crossover, death, violent scenes and maybe happily ever after. Oh, and drama galore.
*Shinsengumi*
She came into their lives like a weed. Unneeded and unwanted, fragile and just there. At first, nobody had known what to do with her - her courage, going to Kyoto all by her lone self, was admirable, but that still didn't change the fact they couldn't do much, just because she was a girl and with rasetsu on the prowl, it was a foregone conclusion that someone would have to take responsibility for her well-being.
Their Vice-Commander was not happy, but he still allowed her to live with them as their caretaker. It was a strange feeling at first, coming back from their errands and patrols to warm meal and hot tea made by that girl's hands. Slowly, but surely, their quarters became different - not always visibly, but in a sense of being lived in, in belonging to someone. The building where they resided became home - comprised from shy smiles, determined brown eyes, freshly-brewed tea, quiet presence in the evenings and on the rare occasion, when one or another of them was wounded, gentle care that demanded nothing back.
Slowly, the weed became the most precious flower in their eyes. It didn't have the splendor of many other blooms they knew of; none of their vivid colors nor magnificent scent - but it was there – gentle, fragile, stubbornly clinging onto them and believing the best within them. They could've dealt with everything, but this had left them undone, ready, willing and able and doomed to lay their lives at her feet. Not because of their honor, but because she deserved to live and love and laugh and if the price for that was to be their lives, it was the one they would pay gladly a thousand times over.