Do You See?

by Spider and the Fly

If Doumeki had helped Watanuki when they were children, and that's why he believed the crazy-as-nuts story of spirits... would it go something like this? rated K even though there's slight hints of violence, not too much though, so even squeamish people can read...

2. Chapter 2

Doumeki didn't often go to the old school. It was long closed down by now, creepy stories of ghosts and monsters haunting the ancient, dilapidated hallways where people once laughed. But Doumeki had at least one happy memory here: a boy, his face pale and blotchy from crying and bad circulation, slumping in relief in front of Doumeki's 6-year-old feet. He remembered thinking, What lovely eyes, before seeing the demon reflected in them. Somehow, it only intrigued him more. This boy saw things, things no human should have to see, and he still wasn't broken.

The boy's eyes seemed like a window into a soul so pure and yet, so wretched, that Doumeki couldn't quite grasp the whole of it. It seemed vast and lonely in the world the boy had created for himself, allowing Doumeki a mere glimpse, and that was enough. He didn't want the boy to be sad anymore, and yet, the child had slipped from his fingers as if the world itself was denying him entry.

Almost 10 years later, Doumeki was granted his "wish": that the boy come back, and be under his protective wing. He learned the boy's name: Kimihiro Watanuki. The boy-now-teenager's eyes didn't have quite the same emptiness as before, but he was still lonely, and quiet. So Doumeki met him as a stranger, some random passerby, but those eyes, those eyes, they drew you in, and Doumeki remembered as soon as he saw them.

Whenever he looked in them, he saw the reflection of a world that was both frightening and cruel, and yet, somehow beautiful. Perhaps because it was his eyes? Somehow, they seemed to grow warmer the more you looked in them.

And that was enough for Doumeki.

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