Suspended Motion
By Tione
Disclaimer: I own Yu Yu Hakusho. Really, I do.
A/N: Inspired by a random fly. It's all the fly's fault, which is why it's dead now. Not that I had anything to do with it. hides fly swatter behind back
::Suspended Motion::
Drip. Drip. Drip.
A fly. Its delicate wings outstretched. It was prepared to land, legs reaching, grasping, looking for something solid…
So easy to crush.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
Holes. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands. They littered the expanse, fluctuating in depth and placement. Little red animals started to poke their heads out…
How it must have hurt.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
He screamed. Opened his mouth and let the howl rob his lungs of his precious air. And he screamed and screamed and the voices of countless others joined him…
His soul screamed and they screamed back.
::Suspended Motion::
Drip. Drip. Drip.
They found the body the next day.
"What? Yusuke had gasped. "How? … How could this have happened?"
"I thought the shrimp was… stronger than… that," Kuwabara choked.
And they thought he could escape death because he was invincible and he was their superman.
"But, don't those punctures look like… thorn wounds?" Genkai asked sensibly.
They turned and looked at him. Looked past the façade, past him, past the real him, and into his fake soul, purchased at the cheapest price available.
And he screamed and screamed, feeling the others raise their voices to meet his.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
::Suspended Motion::
So easy to crush.
And that, my friends, was inspired by a fly.