Title: Overprotective
Written: 6/30/05
Word Count: 100
Rating: K+
Notes: Non-challenge drabble inspired by Martina McBride's "Concrete Angel.
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Jien should hate him, but he didn't.

Gojyo's whole existence humiliated his mother. The fact that he was halfblood was even worse. It meant that his father had been driven into the arms of a... it was unspeakable.

But whenever he looked into his little brother's eyes, there was something lurking behind the crimson.

It was a wish that he had never been born.

Jien felt sorry for him. He had been shoved into a life that would cause nothing but pain and heartache.

But he was kind.

Jien refused to let him become another body marked by a tombstone.
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