Title: Introspection
Author: Dragoni
Yaoi/Yuri/Regular: Yaoi
Warnings: ::Blinks in surprise:: None... O.O That's a first...
Comments: C&C desperately needed! Feed the starving author! Flames will light the BBQ Grill.
*...* --- emphasis
"..." --- spoken
Disclaimers: The Ronin Warriors belong to Sunrise. I am not Sunrise. Therefore, they do not belong to me. This is just a fan-for-fan work... The only thing I'm making is the 3 o'clock in the morning club. Please don't sue me!
I can feel the bed shift as you wake up and I quickly shut my eyes. I can't sleep tonight... but I don't want to worry you, either.
So I just lay silently as you slip out of bed, listening to the soft pads of your feet down the hallway. Almost despite myself I grin... something tells me that tonight's leftovers won't see tomorrow morning.
I shift slightly, already missing your warmth behind me. I can't believe how easy it was to get used to sleeping with someone else. I'd never shared a *room* before now, much less a bed. I should be used to the stillness.
But I'm not. Now it sounds eerie and unnatural, only the sound of my breathing holding off the oppressive silence. You're so much stronger than I am... the dark doesn't seem as black when you're here. Where are you? Usually a midnight snack run doesn't take *this* long.
I hear the door click to the bathroom down the hall. Oh. Not much longer, then. I sigh impatiently, confused.
When did you start to mean so much to me? When did you stop being a challenge, just to humor Rowen? I never planned to fall for you, to stay this long. It's been almost two months that we've been together. When did you become so bloody indispensible? When did my heart synchronize with yours?
I love you.
The declaration springs unbidden to my mind. I don't try to deny it. I know that it's the truth. Instead, a hot tear leaks from the side of my eye. It almost hurts, a pure, wonderful pain... almost as if my heart will burst. I could die happy now, if it wouldn't mean that I'd have to wait for you.
The soft creak of the bathroom door tells me you are on your way back. I can feel the shadow you cast across the hallway light that has spilt into the room. I slit an eye open when it does not move.
The hallway light is a soft, glowing halo around you... giving you in fact the sacred quality you always hold in my mind. Your dark hair is sleep-mussed, your t-shirt and boxers crumpled as always. And you just stand there, for an eternity, before you begin to walk this way, stopping to kneel at the bed beside me. I close my eye before you can tell that I am awake. I still don't want to worry you.
I can feel your warm hand on my cheek, wiping away the moist trail left by my solitary tear.
"Cye... what's wrong?" Your whispered question startles me until I realize that you do not expect an answer, sliding gently into bed beside me, gathering me to your chest with your strong arms. I snuggle in closer, knowing that the movement will not surprise you.
I can feel your breath slow as you fall back to sleep again. "Nothing..." I whisper the word against your skin. Nothing is wrong, not anymore.
"I love you..." For some reason, saying the words is comforting to me. I repeat them, making them a quiet mantra as I gradually slip into dreamland.
~Owari~
Author: Dragoni
Yaoi/Yuri/Regular: Yaoi
Warnings: ::Blinks in surprise:: None... O.O That's a first...
Comments: C&C desperately needed! Feed the starving author! Flames will light the BBQ Grill.
*...* --- emphasis
"..." --- spoken
Disclaimers: The Ronin Warriors belong to Sunrise. I am not Sunrise. Therefore, they do not belong to me. This is just a fan-for-fan work... The only thing I'm making is the 3 o'clock in the morning club. Please don't sue me!
I can feel the bed shift as you wake up and I quickly shut my eyes. I can't sleep tonight... but I don't want to worry you, either.
So I just lay silently as you slip out of bed, listening to the soft pads of your feet down the hallway. Almost despite myself I grin... something tells me that tonight's leftovers won't see tomorrow morning.
I shift slightly, already missing your warmth behind me. I can't believe how easy it was to get used to sleeping with someone else. I'd never shared a *room* before now, much less a bed. I should be used to the stillness.
But I'm not. Now it sounds eerie and unnatural, only the sound of my breathing holding off the oppressive silence. You're so much stronger than I am... the dark doesn't seem as black when you're here. Where are you? Usually a midnight snack run doesn't take *this* long.
I hear the door click to the bathroom down the hall. Oh. Not much longer, then. I sigh impatiently, confused.
When did you start to mean so much to me? When did you stop being a challenge, just to humor Rowen? I never planned to fall for you, to stay this long. It's been almost two months that we've been together. When did you become so bloody indispensible? When did my heart synchronize with yours?
I love you.
The declaration springs unbidden to my mind. I don't try to deny it. I know that it's the truth. Instead, a hot tear leaks from the side of my eye. It almost hurts, a pure, wonderful pain... almost as if my heart will burst. I could die happy now, if it wouldn't mean that I'd have to wait for you.
The soft creak of the bathroom door tells me you are on your way back. I can feel the shadow you cast across the hallway light that has spilt into the room. I slit an eye open when it does not move.
The hallway light is a soft, glowing halo around you... giving you in fact the sacred quality you always hold in my mind. Your dark hair is sleep-mussed, your t-shirt and boxers crumpled as always. And you just stand there, for an eternity, before you begin to walk this way, stopping to kneel at the bed beside me. I close my eye before you can tell that I am awake. I still don't want to worry you.
I can feel your warm hand on my cheek, wiping away the moist trail left by my solitary tear.
"Cye... what's wrong?" Your whispered question startles me until I realize that you do not expect an answer, sliding gently into bed beside me, gathering me to your chest with your strong arms. I snuggle in closer, knowing that the movement will not surprise you.
I can feel your breath slow as you fall back to sleep again. "Nothing..." I whisper the word against your skin. Nothing is wrong, not anymore.
"I love you..." For some reason, saying the words is comforting to me. I repeat them, making them a quiet mantra as I gradually slip into dreamland.
~Owari~