See first installation for explainations, disclaimers, warnings, etc. But, then, of course... I dunno what the heck you think you're doing here if you haven't read the first chapter, and if you have, then why do you care about reading explainations, disclaimers and warnings, because you've already read them, right?
As a small note: I'm really not sure who's older, Youji or Schu, but I'm gonna sum up all the S/Y pairing's I've read, extrapolate, and assume Youji's the younger of the two.
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"In the Eye of the Beholder"
-Kudou Youji-
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I'm not sure why everyone loves him. Maybe it's just in the eye of the beholder. Maybe they all see the living, wild spirit in him.
Perhaps I'm thinking about it wrong... his spirit isn't wild, as someone might think of *my* spirit as wild. His is untamed. It knows no boundaries. I could think of his spirit as... butterflies? Free and hard to catch, but beautiful. Or maybe as his kitten namesake... Yeah, he is like a kitten, sometimes. You bat their ears, and they still come back to purr at you, but you have to be careful, because they've got sharp claws.
My spirit, though... really is a spirit. It's a ghost, a poltergeist haunting through what used to be my body. At night, it comes out to dance and rave and show the world what I used to be... but as the sun rises, it falls back in the depths of my subconscious, and it is dead again. I am dead.
All I could ask for was some fun. A little party here, a little love there, a smoke, a drink... I was content with my place in life. Then my life shattered around me. Love was gone, so the smoking, the drinking, and the partying all increased to make up for it... but how can they fill such a void as is left by love?
But there he was. I was a pack-a-day smoker, alcoholic when I had the time, partying from sunset to sunrise, killing myself slowly and wondering when it would all be over... and then there he was. His overflowing spirit met mine, and filled the black hole in my heart.
Suddenly, I didn't need the nicotine, or the alcohol, anymore. I could just watch him, and be content.
And that's why I love him.
He's saving my life.
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As a small note: I'm really not sure who's older, Youji or Schu, but I'm gonna sum up all the S/Y pairing's I've read, extrapolate, and assume Youji's the younger of the two.
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"In the Eye of the Beholder"
-Kudou Youji-
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I'm not sure why everyone loves him. Maybe it's just in the eye of the beholder. Maybe they all see the living, wild spirit in him.
Perhaps I'm thinking about it wrong... his spirit isn't wild, as someone might think of *my* spirit as wild. His is untamed. It knows no boundaries. I could think of his spirit as... butterflies? Free and hard to catch, but beautiful. Or maybe as his kitten namesake... Yeah, he is like a kitten, sometimes. You bat their ears, and they still come back to purr at you, but you have to be careful, because they've got sharp claws.
My spirit, though... really is a spirit. It's a ghost, a poltergeist haunting through what used to be my body. At night, it comes out to dance and rave and show the world what I used to be... but as the sun rises, it falls back in the depths of my subconscious, and it is dead again. I am dead.
All I could ask for was some fun. A little party here, a little love there, a smoke, a drink... I was content with my place in life. Then my life shattered around me. Love was gone, so the smoking, the drinking, and the partying all increased to make up for it... but how can they fill such a void as is left by love?
But there he was. I was a pack-a-day smoker, alcoholic when I had the time, partying from sunset to sunrise, killing myself slowly and wondering when it would all be over... and then there he was. His overflowing spirit met mine, and filled the black hole in my heart.
Suddenly, I didn't need the nicotine, or the alcohol, anymore. I could just watch him, and be content.
And that's why I love him.
He's saving my life.
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