A/N: Hi guys! Just before I'm off to watch the new HunterxHunter episode, I finished this little drabble. I felt like I had to write a Kurokura drabble at least if I'm not going to update GLITCHED yet. I got inspiration for this one from Rihanna's "We Found Love". The sentences can be quite repetitive in meaning, but that was how I wanted it, so with that in mind, ENJOY~!

In A Place Like This

There was snow, widespread over a field circled by tall evergreens of a dense forest. There was myself, placed in the center of the round field with hair and clothes damp from the snowfall, staring into nothingness. Then there was him, standing a mile behind me looking nowhere but straight ahead. At me. I knew that. I knew his hair was down, dripping wet from the melted snow and his fur jacket was territory to layers of snow. Yet I only looked ahead, at nothing. And the clouds kept precipitating.

It was as if we were stuck in time, abandoned by the future and left to suffer the nothingness of the moment. And I knew he knew; and he knew I knew. We both understood this, yet we were both too stubborn and prideful to make the first move. How this even started, I had long forgotten. All I remember was the aircraft, the explosion and then the free falling that came after. The rest, I had forgotten. The only remnants were fragments of memories still lingering in the form of ghastly images of those scrawny bodies that held no more meat behind their dehydrated dead skin crawling along the ground desperately searching for scraps of anything edible. And since the very beginning, there was the everlasting snowfall.

Hopeless. Hopeless and fragile and desperate, that was them in the biting cold wind.

Helpless. Helpless and helpless and helpless, that was me in the midst of this epidemic with all my food and aid lost. I, who was their only hope soon became hopeless myself. Hopeless in self hatred and pity.

Then there was him, mysterious and cryptic and healthy in a land where there was nothing but winter and trees. That was him who came out of the blue with nothing more than himself. How he managed was still beyond me.

And I? How did I get to be in the middle of this field with nothing, staring into nothing for what felt like ages? I didn't know. I didn't care anymore. There were no more people on this land other than us—we who had grasped eternity for ourselves in a place like this. In a place like this, we had found something like that.

And all it took was just one moment from us to shatter it, but we didn't give. We didn't make one move, though we both knew it was the one thing we wanted most—we didn't bat an eyelash. And this phase lasted longer than either of us had wished. Yet we still preserved, this pride of ours, this stupid battle between us. When will it end?

What it took was one—just one—movement from either of us and this meaningless eternity will collapse, but yet he wouldn't budge. He just wouldn't. Then after all this time, I shall be the one the end this. I took a breath and turned my body around for the first time and angled myself to meet his eyes. The face that I always knew was there, I finally got to actually see those mysterious black eyes and that refined figure. At that moment, something clicked between us and our eyes connected in a way that could release electricity.

It was at that moment that I realized what we had wasn't eternity. It was nothing special like that. And by the looks in his eyes, I knew we were thinking the same thoughts. With every pulse of my heart, blood rushed into my head and for the first time, I felt excitement. Him too, with every breath was an escalation in excitement.

The clouds that I had began to believe were permanent in this sky, lifted away as if everything was a mere dream and the bright sun shone through as if to say everything was finally over. The ice on the ground began to thaw and grass was revealed beneath it. Flowers had magically blossomed and birds and insects which were non-existent before mingled in the trees and grasses now. The breeze was no longer biting cold, but mildly warm. I couldn't believe it. This was spring.

He moved and walked over to me with a held back grin. Then, when he touched me on the cheek and called my name I was most certain we found something new. Something much better than what we previously had. This wasn't any vain endeavour anymore. We had conquered real eternity.

In a place like this, we had found—

A sharp pain stings on my cheek and my hand instinctively goes up in self-defence. What is grasped in my hand is the rough skin of a wrist hovering above me. Staring down at me curiously is a pair of familiar eyes.

"Great. You're awake." He retrieves his hand from my grasp and stretches, sighing.

It takes me a while to completely take in what's happening, but I seem to be under the impression that I was asleep until just a while ago, say when I felt a sting at my cheek. My mind starts to spin and my vision is blanked into a vast white sheet. I've been blanking out like that quite a lot lately, but that is unimportant. What needs figuring out right now is what went on in my brain when I was sleeping. Behind the voice of my thoughts, I hear a voice yell, "I'm going to leave now, since you're already up."

The door shuts with a soft squeak as I sit still on the edge of my bed. My hands tug and push at my hair in frustration and I curse, throwing my pillow at the door. "I found something really hopeless."

Haha. So um...how was that? You can say this is somewhat connected with GLITCHED, but not really. I hadn't really planned it to be, but it turned out quite similar in feeling. Anyway, why don't you go off to review now? It sure as hell makes me happy and will encourage me to write~ ;DD