Series: Hunter X Hunter
Title: Fifty Themes
Rating: G-R
Pairing/ Characters: Kuroro/Kurapika
Word Count: 1264
Warning/s: Uh… Yorkshin. Slightly alarming fluctuations from mind-numbing fluff to angst. Homicidal tendencies? Sometimes smutty…
Disclaimer: Not mine. Never mine, really.
AN: My take on the LiveJournal 50 Themes One Sentence Challenge. Man, this took me forever. Pardon the bad grammar.
1. Ring
Kuroro does not sleep when Kurapika is sick, instead choosing to watch until there are dark rings under his eyes, gripped by an emotion he cannot explain.
2. Hero
Kurapika wanted to be a hero once, but when it came to killing Kuroro, justice paled.
3. Memory
If only they could forget their memories, the both of them, they would have a chance at being happy.
4. Box
Kurapika remembered being boxed in the musty cellar, hearing the screams of his parents, and wondering if he would be next.
5. Run
He had tried to escape, when he first realized what was happening, but eventually he fell back into Kuroro's arms, too tired to run.
6. Hurricane
Kuroro had never witnessed a hurricane before he looked into Kurapika's eyes, overwhelming in their intensity of fury, remorse, hatred, and love.
7. Wings
Kuroro keeps him caged up, like a bird with clipped wings, because he could not bear it if Kurapika were to leave.
8. Cold
When Kuroro is gone, and he is left behind, Kurapika sleeps on Kuroro's side of the bed, hugging his pillow had buried in the blankets, as he tries not to feel so cold.
9. Red
Kurapika lies still on the ground, bent and broken and pale as death, and although Kurapika is the one with the Crimson Eyes, Kuroro sees red.
10. Drink
If there really existed an Elixir of Life, a drink with the ability to shower eternal youth and beauty, Kuroro thinks that it must be housed in Kurapika's soul.
11. Midnight
If Kurapika is the sun, shining with his ideals and his justice, then Kuroro must be midnight, because together they are complete.
12. Temptation
There is temptation on both their sides, still, in the dead of night, to reach over for a pale, slim neck and strangle, but they are both too cowardly to try.
13. View
Kurapika was mourning, beautiful, avenging, angelic, cruel, naïve, and Kuroro was cleaver, disgusting, loathed, heroic; really, it depended on the point of view.
14. Music
Senritsu knew long before they did, hearing the matched tempo of their heartbeats, sweet music of love.
15. Silk
Moments after the Kurata slaughter, it rains, and Kuroro stands there, needing no redemption, as the blood slides off of him like silk.
16. Cover
It is during the quiet times (trying to fall asleep at night, listening to the soft rain under an overcast sky) that Kurapika wonders what he has done, and feels covered with death.
17. Promise
"I'll kill you someday," Kurapika whispers to Kuroro even as he falls into an embrace, and it is not a threat but a promise.
18. Dream
Kurapika looks at Kuroro, asleep and with an arm slung across Kurapika's waist, and dreams of the day he will be able to forgive his own transgressions.
19. Candle
He is a candle lit at both ends, carrying out his revenge and struggling with guilt as he does so, and Kurapika cannot help but to wonder when he will burn out.
20. Talent
It was never about talent; it was sheer determination that gave him enough power to kill Kuroro.
21. Silence
They do not speak of the Kurata massacre because they do not know what to say; that does not make the silence more bearable.
22. Journey
Kurapika was terrified when he looked at Kuroro, because he could not see joy at the end of the journey.
23. Fire
Looking at the mangled bodies of his loved ones, Kurapika felt his soul on fire and drenched it with tears, knowing that there would be no one to pick up the ashes.
24. Strength
It does not take much strength to kill a person (to snap a neck, to crush a windpipe) and it is always so easy, but then, Kuroro asks himself, why is Kurapika still alive?
25. Mask
Kuroro does not need to mask his emotions; all he has to do is smile and Kurapika will no longer want to know the truth.
26. Ice
Kurapika looks into Kuroro's eyes, so void that they are chilling, and learns that ice can burn just as much as fire.
27. Fall
It was a long and tedious journey, wrought with pain and pity and the past, but eventually they fell together, exhausted and having nowhere else they could go.
28. Forgotten
They tried so very, very hard, laughing and smiling, but for all that, the past could not be forgotten.
29. Dance
They fall into the motions, a graceful and deadly dance, fighting and trying to destroy and both half afraid that they might succeed.
30. Body
To them, there was nobody but the other.
31. Sacred
Hand in hand, they enter the sacred place, both fearing the in the back of their minds a sort of divine punishment, because they had lost their purity so long ago.
32. Farewells
Kurapika finally felt his personal demons evaporate the day Kuroro had bid the Ryodan farewell, and had never looked back.
33. World
Kuroro has offered Kurapika the world countless times, but every time Kurapika declines, because Kuroro's love is enough.
34. Formal
Kuroro notices that Kurapika always has an air of formality, even when with his friends, and that it is only with each other that Kurapika can relax and laugh from the soul.
35. Fever
It is summer, and they crush themselves together, kissing, licking and biting feverishly, as if there is nothing else in the world.
36. Laugh
The last time he laughed without a tendril of darkness in his soul was years ago, in a small tribal village, surrounded by his family and friends, drowning in the scent of grass and sunshine.
37. Lies
Kurapika's eyes are red, a dagger in his heart, as he looks at Kuroro and realizes that it has all been lies.
38. Forever
'There is no such thing as forever,' Kuroro thinks as he watches Kurapika's back, the blond walking out of his life for the final time.
39. Overwhelmed
Nausea overwhelmed him as he floundered, gripping Kuroro's strong hand, glad that he would see him one last time.
40. Whisper
When Kuroro first says those three little words, 'I love you', his voice is only a whisper, but it carries over like the crashing of a waterfall.
41. Wait
Five hours after the beginning of the massacre, and as Machi moves to kill the last little boy, Kuroro raises his hand and commands 'wait', sensing so much more.
42. Talk
They do not talk; their heated lips and fumbling hands and lustful glances are volumes without the burden of words.
43. Search
There is no point to searching for a meaning behind their relationship, because it cannot be explained.
44. Hope
After Yorkshin, Kuroro thinks of the Kurata, and realizes there is no point hoping for what he can never have.
45. Eclipse
Kurapika imagined that it was much like drowning, the moment when love eclipsed his rationality, and he let go of his past to reach for Kuroro.
46. Gravity
Kurapika looked at the blood on his hands and Kuroro's still cooling corpse on the bed, feeling a hollow ache where his heart should have been, slowly comprehending the horrible gravity of what he had just done.
47. Highway
Loving Kuroro was like driving on the highway, fast and empowering and thrilling in the fact that if he crashed, he would not survive.
48. Unknown
They stood looking into the darkness, backs straight and eyes calm, not afraid of facing the unknown because they had each other.
49. Lock
Kuroro had no qualms about locking him away, even if Kurapika hated it, because this way the Kurata would be his alone.
50. Breathe
Beneath him Kurapika's legs are spread open wantonly, the younger man's eyes glazed with lust, and for a moment, Kuroro forgets to breathe.