Yukihina is on watch tonight. Yukihina is, in fact, on watch every night. He does not really mind it though. It's not that Seeker is a man without empathy, though many would testify that he certainly acted like it. It is practical to make the one who needed no sleep, and could likely not sleep at all, the watch and Yukihina never complains.
Bullets whizz overhead and to the sides, sometimes passing through the open window and other times dropping on impact with the stone wall that guards them. The Re:Codes always sleep in a warzone whether it be metaphorical or literal. Tonight is the latter. It is deadly outside from weapons and weather; sleet soaks the air in dreaded cold. It is a wonder that neither side has backed down from fighting. They are trapped here as long as bullets buzz by like angry wasps and Yukihina does not mind that either.
There's a little bubble of warmth here in these ruins; a little bubble of home in the field of battle in the form of a bundle of blankets on the floor. He has not been invited. Hiyori protested when Kouji suggested it. "He doesn't just have cold feet!" she'd insisted, wrapped in a rare scrap of fleece. "He's cold all over! It's like sleeping with an ice man!" Kouji and Rui made several more attempts to secure him a place under the blankets but he had not backed them and the campaign ended in a fizzle.
Yukihina has been banished from the blankets and been told to watch and so he does.
Seeker is in the center of it all; he always is. They are there for his sake. Yukihina had been amused at first (he'd been 'on watch' many, many times before) but has now come to accept it as a matter of course. Lily is off to Seeker's right, his arm in hers, pressed up against his side as if she intends to melt into him in the warmth the blankets retain. Sometimes, when they are in safer places, it seems as if she is trying to seduce him. Occasionally he humors her and sometimes he does not. Here though, in the middle of a battle, she only seems like a scared little girl clinging to her favorite doll. Kouji sleeps to Seeker's left, one arm folded over his stomach and the other thrown to the side, over Seeker's torso. The back of his hand has fallen on Lily's waist but it had landed long after both fell asleep and neither seem to notice. Rui is there as well, lying on her side and leaning heavily on Kouji; something she'd never do when awake. Hiyori is curled in her arms, a kinked thumb hovering just in front of her lips. It is somewhat like a mother and her child would be if they were the sort for family. Ryuuji and Sendou snore loudly to Lily's right and Shigure sleeps sitting upright propped against Ryuuji's vast shoulders. Uesugi lies over their feet making the circle complete.
Even if Yukihina had been allowed to rest with the others he sees no place for himself there. He is the watch dog and his duty is to protect and he is content with that. The time for sleep is not now; he will rest when he lives again.