A/N: Challenges
Diversity Writing Challenge, g2 - a drabble collection consisting of drabbles 50-500 words
Becoming the Tamer King Challenge, Training Peak
Manga/Game Flash Bingo, #065 - paltry
Ultimate Sleuth Challenge, prologue: event 2 - write about something unwanted
Finding Yuugo
2.
They were both naturally quiet. Had to be, considering how the big empty house would echo about them. So Yuugo's absense didn't make much of a difference in the voice levels when in a crowd: at school, on the way home -
But the empty house made his absence echo just that much louder. Made her want to blast music to drown it out and she hated blasting music. But she hated that absolute silence more. Where she could hear every step and the teasing echoes that rebounded. Where she could pretend for fleeting moments that it was just Yuugo walking behind her even though he tended to walk more beside her or in front of her. And to think that would frustrate her before. Like he was trying to protect her from something.
And it wasn't even a car accident or something equally cliched that struck him down, in the end. Some sort of sickness instead that they just couldn't explain.
