Here, There and Everywhere
20 themes response for Samurai Deeper Kyo
Pairing:
Various.
Rating: PG
1. the places in between
There are two souls in him, and Kyo can no longer tell what lies in between them. During that fight with Shinrei...was that concern for the girl his own or somebody else's?
2. touching me, touching you
Sometimes, when he saw his reflection in the water, he could almost imagine the fleck of blue in his crimson eyes. Kyo placed his fingers on his cheek. The Kyoushiro in the water did the same.
When he reached out for his reflection, there was only ripples though.
3. real or not?
How do you tell if something is real or not? Hotaru believes in flames. If it could burn, it must be real. Illusions couldn't catch fire, could they?
Kyo's lips tasted a little like blood. But they were cold. No matter how hard he tried, Hotaru could not make Kyo open his eyes, to show him eyes the color of flames.
Bon said Kyo was dead. But there was no fire, there was no heat. Therefore, it could not be real.
Right?
4. secret garden
This was their secret garden. The place that they used to be when they were children.
Now, Koutarou would burn the whole damned forest down if he could.
5. pride over death
This was shameful, Hishigi thought. He could only imagine how revolting he looked now, the left side of himself completely infested by the Medusa's eyes. But when he saw the look of desperation in Fubuki's eyes, the fear that he would once again be left alone, Hishigi decided that he would give up anything just to live, if that was what Fubuki wanted.
Even if it meant he had to give up his own pride.
6. domestic
Yukimura loves the smell of noon best.
"What's for lunch, Kosuke-chan?"
"Ah! It's bear stew, Yukimura-sama!"
As it always is. The familiarity of the domestic.
7. always second best
How childish, Akari thought. It was amusing how Akira and Hotaru would fight over who would be second-best, after Kyo. Bontenmaru would not say anything, self-assured in that nonsensical confidence that he would not settle for anything other than the best.
Akari had a totally different aim altogether. He would not miss this time, he thought as he tightened his grip on his staff.
He did not want to be best or second best. He wanted to marry the best.
8. tug-of-war
It was a mental tug-of-war between them, trying to see who could outlast the other.
Akira could not help but smirk when Tokito jumped off Bon's shoulders to walk on her own, obviously bristled by what he said.
The rope's on his side. For now.
9. brother, thou art my brother
Dinner among the Goyousei is always a messy affair. Saisei does not understand, of all the many pieces of roast meat they have on the table, Keikoku has to have the one that Shinrei had his chopsticks on first.
If anybody bother asking, Keikoku probably won't admit that he does so because that's what brothers do.
Isn't it?
10. fool's dream
Owning the world was a fool's dream. It seemed so typical, so cliche, so stupid to shed blood just to play God.
But Nobunaga never said he wasn't one.
11. honor among enemies
Shinrei saw the hand offered. But for a moment, he hesitated, carefully considering the implications of that gesture. Keikoku could have struck him easily while he was down. But here he was, holding out his hand patiently. Was that a smile he saw on his brother's face?
Just when Shinrei thought there might just be honour among enemies yet, the strike to his stomach told him otherwise.
Keikoku, you bastard...
12. it's all about the money
It was all about the money. Yuya could keep convincing herself of that. If only she would stop blushing whenever Kyo gave her that smirk.
13. foggy days
Everybody else in the Shiseiten hated foggy days. You couldn't travel, you couldn't rest because there was always a chance that you would be attacked. You could not even see the people you travel with.
Hotaru didn't mind foggy days though. Only that Kyo always tend to attempt to eat him alive more often on those days, when nobody could see those stolen kisses through the white.
14. identity crisis
"Oi, Keikoku!"
"My name is Hotaru!"
"Keikoku!"
"Hotaru!"
"Keikoku!"
"Hotaru!"
"Hotaru!"
"Keikoku! Eh?"
Shinrei allowed himself a small smirk. It wasn't that hard to confuse his idiot of a half-brother after all.
15. "something's wrong here..."
"Something's wrong here..."
Bontenmaru rolled his eyes at the blond boy beside him.
"Sure there is, A-hou-tarou."
How else can you explain Kyo's decision to make the Shiseiten spend a night in a mushroom farm?
16. rise or fall
Shinrei grew up with an inflated sense of pride for who he was. Kingdoms rise and fall. But the Mibu, like the gods, are constant.
17. sad but true
So long as they could still fall in love with humans, they would always end up burying a lover younger than they were. A lover who would die before they do.
This is sad, Muramasa thought as he placed a hand on his wife's headstone. But nevertheless true.
18. back the way things were
Kyoushiro looked up at the hand offered.
"Let's go back." The smile on Sakuya's face was beautiful. "Let's go back to the way things were."
He reached out for that promise. Their hands never met.
19. earthquake
He was the wielder of earth. He could bury you alive if he wanted to. But why was it that he couldn't make the earth split apart wide enough to bury his pain?
20. the end is the beginning
When they cleared aside the rubble, not knowing whose corpse they should wish themselves finding, they found them both.
Their hands were held fast by the dried blood. There was a smile on both their faces.
They met as friends, lived as enemies, and died as friends again. Life certainly do have a morbid sense of poetry.