Theme: Snowball Fight
Thanks again to The Violent Tomboy for the theme! I may do another snowball fight in the future...I have this awesome line that I didn't get a chance to use this time around. (plots evilly) So, look out for that one.
This drabble is set in Jade Country, has no spoilers, and is named for what people experience working at summer camps too long. Regressive Pull is when an adult, after being with children for a long time, starts to act like a child. I had to learn all about it for my job. xD Anyway, requests, suggestions, inaccuracies, anything that needs pointing out, I'd lovce to hear about. Thanks!
--cy.
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Something wet, cold, and icy stung Kurogane on the left side of his face.
Wiping the snow off his doublet and jacket, he scoured the area for the thrower. Stupid kid. If he had Ginryuu with him, he'd be able to cleave any snowball in two before it hit him. Back in Nihon, in fact, Tomoyo-hime had seen that he'd gotten quite good at it.
"Do it again!" the princess had shouted gleefully, upon discovering his talent. Much to the dismay of her attendants, she spent an entire frigid afternoon hurling snowballs at her ninja and watching him slash them in two.
Kurogane still couldn't figure out what was so amusing about it: his hands had adhered themselves like immovable ice to Ginryuu's hilt and his face felt like a stiff mask of concentration, but something about it still made her smile...
Whack!
Kurogane whirled and faced his attacker, hand searching for a katana that wasn't there.
"Wheet-woo! Kuro-tan, you really aren't good at dodging things, are you?"
"I told you to stop saying the sound! And don't throw snowballs at me!"
Honestly, that mage could be so childish. Couldn't he see that he had a job to do, that he needed to get back to Princess Tomoyo as soon as possible? Throwing snowballs, how dumb could you get?
Sometimes, Kurogane felt as though he was traveling with a pack of kids. He sighed. It was tough being the adult all the time.
Tightly packing together a wad of snow, Kurogane hurled it back through the air at Fai. Childish or not, he couldn't stand being beaten at a snowfight.