Darkness
Silver Moon, Chapter Two.
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A/N: Okay, so I got a very nice review on fanfiction for 'Scaredy-Cat' from a guest. That's it. That's the reason I'm writing another small chapter for MatsuGin so soon. This is a small sequel to 'Scaredy-Cat', and speaking of which, I'm gonna turn 'Scaredy-Cat' and 'Darkness' into a small series called 'Silver Moon', and I'll be adding more chapters in the future. This is set after chapter 139 but before 140.
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He was distressed, his fidgeting only making it painstakingly obvious. He walked on a spiralling wooden bridge, a sense of déjà vu strongly present in the back of his skull as he made his way upwards to an ominous hut at the very top of everything. The night was dark –as it ever was– but inside, the shadows flickered, he begun babbling incoherent words at a circling sheet, not even he could understand, he didn't know if they were for himself, or if they were meant to appease someone else, but he assumed the later, since there was a human-ish silhouette behind the curtain. There was a reply from it, and he tried again to explain something, but he didn't know what it was. A hand clawed behind the fabric, as if trying to tear it from the inside, and he clutched something in his hand –it was meant to protect him should need arise, but he didn't understand what the object did–, and then sharp claws pierced through the veil that hid them, aiming for him, in a haste he threw whatever it was that he held and made a run for the exit. But something grabbed his ankle and dragged him back inside. As he desperately clawed at the floor to stop going back, but the darkness simply swallowed him whole.
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He awoke in cold sweat, a strangled scream trapped in his throat –no sound was made–, he heaved harshly as he tried to regain normalcy in his breaths. 'Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out'. It felt like forever, before he managed to get a grip on himself, when he did, he looked around, and noticed that he wasn't in imminent danger anymore. Ginrou sighed. 'Just a nightmare'.
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There was the sound of water –ocean water– waves crashing, but they were muffled, as if he were underwater but could not feel the cold, salted liquid in his skin. There was something important, something he needed to remember but kept escaping his grasp the longer he stood in that untouchable moving water, and it was then that he noticed that he couldn't move at all. He sunk, unable to do anything about it. Everything was dark, but there was something very important at the back of his mind that he needed to remember. 'Remember'. It was a color. Yellow. Maybe a person. 'Person'. Someone, something, it was very pretty, it was something he needed to protect, someone he vowed to protect. 'Protection'. A person he protected... His lord.
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He opened his eyes and noted with relief that he could in fact, move. He heard the ocean at the distance and Matsukaze sighed. 'Just a nightmare'. He dragged a hand across his face as he sat up, the moonlight was visible, and he remembered he'd been freed from stone just a few hours ago. 'My Lord'. He remembered the young man with his lord's face, and he wondered if he was alright. When Matsukaze had spend some time alone with him, he had run away all of a sudden, and he hadn't caught a glimpse of him since. He got up decided to look for him, after all, he felt an uneasiness at the pit of his stomach. He marched outside and breathed the fresh air. He begun walking until he realized that he didn't know where the young man was. He slapped himself mentally for making such and error when he glimpsed something out of the corner of his eye, recognising the familiar back and heading towards it.
"My Lord" he greeted.
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Ginrou had gone to take a walk to wash away the shock he got from the nightmare. He jumped in surprise when he heard an unfamiliar voice, but looking behind him he saw it was just Matsukaze, so he somewhat relaxed.
"Oh, hey" he greeted, the chilled breeze made him shiver slightly.
"Are you unable to sleep?" Matsukaze questioned as he got closer.
"You could say that" responded Ginrou with a grimace. "I had a nightmare"
"Whatever could haunt your dreams?"
"Ah, something that happened before you got de-petrified. Don't worry about it" he dismissed with a wave of his hand.
However this only made the taller man concerned, because something had happened and he had been incapable of helping.
"Could you tell me about it? Please?"
Ginrou hesitated, he wasn't one to be so open about his fears, but he felt that this time around he needed to vent a little.
"Well. There was... this Ibara guy ruling this island. He didn't gain the power in a clean way, so to say. The thing is, that Ibara turned the actual ruler into a statue, and when I found out, he attacked me. Well, to summarise all that, the only way to save my life was to petrify me" his explanation quickly mumbled. "And, uh... I had a nightmare about the attack"
Matsukaze was then angry. He felt incompetent about his absence when he should've been there. The man fell down to his knees, head bowed down.
"I am so sorry to not have been there" he apologised.
Ginrou felt butterflies in his stomach, he felt embarrassed –and fuzzy inside–, at the man's words and actions, he wasn't sure what to do so he acted on impulse.
"Hey, dude, you were petrified then, there's nothing you could've done" said Ginrou as he knelt in front of Matsukaze. "Besides, since you seem so keen on it, why not defend me from now on, huh?" he added as a nervous afterthought.
This seemed to attract Matsukaze's attention, as his eyes lifted to see Ginrou's own, a hopeful look on his gaze.
"I will do what I can to prove my worth to you!" he stated as he once more, placed a soft kiss on the back of Ginrou's hand. This time around the blond doesn't run, but the heat in his cheeks seems to blow steam out of his ears.
"So, uh, what'cha doing up at this hour?" inquires the blond desperate to change the subject.
"Similar reason to your own. I'm afraid I too, suffered from night terrors this evening"
To this Ginrou smiles.
"Well, in that case, how 'bout we console each other for our nightmares?"
"I would be honored"
Both smile, and talk sitting beneath the stars until Ginrou yawns widely so they go back to their respective beds, neither noticing they'd held hands the entire time.
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A/N: Done. I was posting this yesterday, but I kinda got stuck at the end, and just now finished. Anyways, hoped you enjoyed this.