Theme: Beautiful

Setting: Trying to be canon.

Pairing: KK

Warning: None

Notes: None

Words: 226

95. Beautiful

A beautiful dream.

A pleasant afternoon, with the sun shining overhead. Within a sanctuary, built all around him, shielded by trees.

Birds singing. The sound of wind in the leaves, Laughter ringing out.

The cleanliness-the very perfection of the scene-too sharp and too blurred to be real.

On the porch, looking out into the yard. Laundry, impossibly white, hanging on the line. Swept and sweet and clean, the bare, immaculate yard.

Perhaps he could believe in it if he were alone.

Children, dancing and running, overflowing with innocent joy. Red hair and blue eyes, small bodies packed with spirit.

Beside him, a goddess sits, ruling his sleep as she leans back onto her arms.

She gives him a gleamingly real smile, flashing round teeth and sparkling eyes.

"What are you thinking about?"

Can the people around him, so happy, be real? Or is this another longing dream? If he reaches out and touches her, will she vanish into the mist of unrealized hopes?

The hand on his is solidly warm as she frowns slightly at his expression.

"Nothing important."

Her weight against him and she seems too good to be created by his imagination.

It is all too beautiful and too wonderful and too perfect to be anything but a dream, and he hopes, looking down at her, that he never has to wake up again.

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Have you ever gone outside in really bright sunlight and found that everything seems really sharp but you have to squint so it feels blurred, too? That's the idea behind this one. Of course, I write KK like it's going out of style, so of course it became romantic. And in my world, Reflections never happened because it's way too depressing. Does no one survive the Samurai X OVAs? Kenshin dies, Kaoru dies, Tomoe dies, Akira dies, Iizuka dies, about a thousand random soldiers die, that drawn-sword guy dies, um...is that all the dead people? Oh, and some ninjas die. And Shishio. Like I said, no one survives, making it difficult to write continuations that are canon and KK with it.

Review! ...and give feedback about my attempt at canon, says chickentyrant5.