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: Hijikata. A stick in the mud with poetic tendencies however inadequate they are. Also stubborn to the core, even if he does mellow out some as the story progresses.
Warnings: AU-verse, crossover, death, violent scenes and maybe happily ever after. Oh, and drama galore.
*Hijikata*
Hakuoki.
The name was given to him at the end of that dark road, paved with blood and bodies of both his comrades and enemies.
Ephemeral like cherry blossoms, that kind of honor.
All through his life, he had striven to be a samurai in the time that was rapidly rejecting the values samurai represented.
Shinsengumi as a whole were a bunch of fakes - idealists who believed that they could change their fates.
They had been fools that believed if they pretended long enough, they would eventually become the real deal.
And for a fleeting, brief moment, they had. With her.
But for all their pretending, the reality was harsh. No matter how much Okita pretended to be healthy, he still had tuberculosis. Heisuke wasn't any taller, Shinpachi wasn't the chick magnet he imagined himself to be, Harada didn't have his peaceful life and tiny family, Saito wasn't accepted in his family, and he, Hijikata, wasn't a samurai.
Nobody won. Like cherry blossoms that bloomed too early, their most secret wishes scattered away, unfulfilled and useless. Even his wish to be a samurai under Kondou and serve him took a second to last seat to the burning, all-consuming need to protect her.
To want her and to be the sole most important center of her universe - and if he had to forsake his human nature, just to walk alongside her, well, this was his own selfish decision. What was one more dance with demons and death if she was by his side?