Blood
Akatsuki no Yona flash fic. As she sat watching the Dragon's spectacle For an edit pic: post/188671700551/thewritingstar-starsobafictober-akatsuki-no-yona
What is the saying, when anger makes you… see red? To have the blood of your enemies soak the ground in retribution. Yona didn't want to feel that way, it hurt to stoop down to her cousin's level, but it would be a lie to say she hasn't thought of it.
Sitting beside him after all this time. Yona did her best to keep an even affect. She didn't want her cousin to know what she was thinking, feeling, seething about, as he isolated her from her love and paraded her friends before the citizens in this spectacle. Festival, it was all bullshit. Clearly, Keishuk was in large part the brains pulling Soo-Won's strings, but regardless, her cousin was an active and willing participant. Ready to draw a sword.
Breathe. An image of her father as Soo-Won pulled the sword from his body, stained with blood briefly muddies her vision. She'll never forgive his reasons for the assassination. That was her father, and he tried to kill her and Hak…
But why did Soo-Won protect her in Awa? Did he hope she could be turned to his side? Did he actually care about her? Or was this political, get the darling of Kouka by his side to rally even more support or even worse, to control the dragons. Having her as a hostage kept them all in line.
She wanted to close her eyes to the battles. Jaeha… Kija… this was wrong! So, wrong!
In the chaos created by their battles, Hak could have taken advantage to go after Soo-Won. Watching her love rush to Jaeha's side, Yona was proud of him for controlling his emotions. She side eyes her cousin and notices his head down, ignoring seeing Hak helping his friend. 'Was Soo-Won jealous,' she wonders. Could there be a part of him that still cared about Hak too?
It didn't matter. She would never bow down to Soo-Won, blood family or no. Yona has new ties that bind her, and she'll see a new dawn rise.