Pomegranate Interlude - The River Styx
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"Miss Yukishiro."
Looks up from her typing into warm brown eyes. Kind smile. Outstretched hand.
Did I dream you?
"Pleasure to see you this morning." He was going to say something more, but the words died between them, irrelevant between his seeking, searching light and her cold, mirror-like stare.
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"Stop staring at me, girl! You look like a ghost."
"I'm sorry, Father."
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"Kiyosato-san..." The silk slide of jet-black hair, bowing her head, hand gently slipping from his fingers.
Don't hide the light of your face from me. Pain in the brown eyes; she doesn't see. "I'll... let you get back to your work, then."
She sits at her desk and feels her failure. Sadness she thought she had abandoned when she was a girl.
All the fairy tales fall to pieces.
"Kiyosato-san looks so stern today!"
"The new Drug Resolution is having a lot of trouble getting through."
"Ah, he puts so much heart into his work...!"
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"How was school today, Enishi?"
"It's been almost two weeks since you've asked me that."
She looks up sharply, shocked at the accusation in his voice, shocked because it was true.
He just stared and stared, his eyes grown so cold.
She couldn't apologize - couldn't regret because the sunlight had seeped into her life through a pair of brown eyes, and it was breaking her to pieces.
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He had met the goddess on the moon. In the space of a moment, she waxed and waned before his eyes. He had glimpsed the sadness within her perfection.
She is a woman men would die for, bleeding at her feet to send their ghosts into her eyes.
He was just a politician - am I worthy of giving myself to her?
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Author's Notes:
Well. It's been a while, but the story never really left my mind. Granted, this is an extremely short chapter, but I tried to get across the sense of time moving.
And, naturally, I get Tomoe and Akira in my head fixed pretty well and then Enishi slips out. I just can't handle more than one relationship at a time, so it seems. Brother/sister stuff in a later chapter.
I'd like to revise the first chapter, but I think I'll save that until I write more. Shape everything up into a more coherent story, probably with... five or six chapters. Uhm... don't expect a plot anytime soon. However, DO expect some explanations of why Tomoe is the way she is. And it won't be pretty. I've been reading a lot of Kaori Yuki lately.
To the two people who reviewed, one of whom sort of had to: Thank you!! Maybe you'll get some company with this new chapter! Maybe......