Empty Pages

by Hope-ItsyBitsySpider

It was a diary left behind and seemingly forgotten. However, as Kurama discovers it and its owner's secrets one-by-one, he learns that fate has intervened in his life once again and cast him into the role of avenger... and rescuer.

7. Skin Deep

Empty Pages

Chapter 7

Skin Deep

That night, Kurama dreamed of her. Ebony hair tumbling past slim, faintly muscled shoulders, blue eyes sparkling like sapphires in the darkness of a cave where she had once reabsorbed her missing half. Pale skin glistened like ivory as her pink aura darkened to a rich violet. She stared at him, cruelty borne of desperation and love.

How sad it must have been, he thought, to live a life like that.

However, despite the color of her hair, the hue of her eyes and the pallor of her skin, he couldn't make out her features. He continuously tried, but she only laughed at him, the sound haunted and ghoulish as it echoed against craggy rock in the dreamed up cavern.

"I can't see you," he cried, desperate to glimpse her surely beautiful face. "How can I see you?"

A smirk twisted her mouth, ruby lips wet and dark. Bloody. "See me? You remind me of a hanyo boy I once knew." The sound of her voice cracked against his flesh like a whip. "Perhaps you'll avenge me, demon boy?"

"But I never intended. I only want to see you," he admitted, eyes downcast.

His answer was a bitter laugh. "Of course."

This is drabble 7, using prompt no. 20, 'Can't See You'. Each drabble is 200 words long exactly, no more. Each comes forth from a prompt (a little bit of a dedication to Forthright).

Disclaimer: All rights for YYH and IY go to their respective creators.