Definition

By: Kowareta

A Sensui-centric drabble. Because Sensui rocks my knee socks.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho.

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He is not a man that you can define; he is a man that defines himself. The lure of an ugly society had never attracted him like it had the rotting hearts and festering souls of his fellow man--if "fellow" was what Sensui would call them.

He was not a man that society could define. The mere act of defining Sensui would cause society to look inwards and find what horror was hidden there. Society would have to dig deep under its bulk of gaudy fabric, tacky riches, and worthless gilt to find, under its robes, the wicked truth Sensui had discovered. But society would never look. It would never reveal the beast that lived inside.

Society led people to believe in hope. It led people to believe that they could truly change what they are. But Sensui saw the truth: he saw that people could never change. His society convinced people that life was better to live in a cage, in their own chains. It was these chains and that cage that demonized his "fellow" man. People preferred to chain their ugly hearts and Sensui had no intention of freeing them. All he saw was monsters.

Sensui was a result of our society.

He'd been a brilliant man, and perhaps because of his sheer brilliance, he chose to bring about his own demise in circumstances created only by him. Not by society; not by people. Himself.

He'd seen the core of the society around him. It had shown him illusions; it had offered false promises. But Sensui saw through it all. He saw society's raw and naked heart lain before him. It had pulsed slowly in his hand pleading for him to draw back the curtains of deceit, to become blind once again.

The heart had squirmed under his long scrutiny and screamed as he held it. It was then Sensui saw what society refused to define.

Only humans could be demons.

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