Series: X/1999
Title: Barren Legacy
Rating: PG-13
Pairing/ Characters: Subaru/Seishiro
Word Count: 257
Warning/s: Spoilers for Rainbow Bridge, and a little of what happens after.
The house of Sakurazuka was very neat, to say the least. When Subaru first entered, it seemed as if there was not a single thing out of place. It was as if everything had been meticulously set down, to give the impression of normality.
But there were no pictures, of course. They would seem silly in a place of such simulated perfection. Pictured bring with them names, and with names, memories. The Sakurazuka had needed neither frivolous connection.
And Seishiro-san could not have actually lived there, Subaru was sure. The house was too airy, free from the heavy burden of cigarette fumes for Seishiro to have done more than occasionally visit.
But this was the house of Sakurazuka; this had been Seishiro's home. And he had been there recently – there was an old cup of tea on the coffee table in the sitting room. It could not have been more than a week old.
Subaru looked down at himself, with the same empty expression he had surveyed the house with. This is what that man had left him, an empty house devoid of pictures and any object with emotional value, a half empty cup of tea, and a white trench coat covered in the same blood that still flaked off of his hands and crusted under his fingernails. That man, Seishiro, had taken everything that had ever mattered in Subaru's life and returned only items cold and barren.
But these things, these unwanted things, were from Seishiro-san. These things carried his legacy. And Subaru could not refuse.
