Title: Amber Waves
Author: Broken Music Box
Rating: G
Summery: Ryou muses about his favourite flower, and is interrupted by Yugi. One-shot.
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Amber Waves
Silver white hair framed an angelic face with brown eyes, which were currently zoned out. Slender fingers twirled the single flower around and around as the rain fell.
Why, after all these years, did some things stay the same? The rain was the same. Bakura was the same as he had been in England. Ryou was, pretty much, the same. And the flower was the same.
Strange, that the exact same sort of blossom he adored grew in Japan as well. The blooms in question, Amber Waves, were a light cream colour. Ryou had thought that when he moved, he'd never see one again. But they grew here too.
Amane laughed and put the final flower in place on Ryou's head.
"There, big brother, a flower chain! Now the fairies will come and give you good luck!"
Ryou smiled and hugged his little sister as their mother called them inside.
After that, his sister had always referred to Amber Waves as 'Ryou's Good Luck Flower'. It had been a habit that the albino teen just couldn't break.
"Ryou?"
Ryou shivered and dropped the flower, then turned to face Yugi. His other half, Yami, watched from the doorway. A small, distant smile bubbled up from somewhere Ryou couldn't stop.
"Yes, Yugi?"
Big purple eyes were filled with concern. Well, standing in the rain staring at a flower was not exactly normal behaviour. And the smile was a bit creepy too. On the ground, the bloom began to crumple under the weight of the rain.
"You should come inside."
Ryou shrugged, and started to walk towards the house. As he moved, he made sure the blossom disappeared beneath his shoe.
-Fin-