Title: Kiss
Author: Ariadne-chan
Rating: G
Theme: # 8: Match/Matchmaker
Character/Pairing:Tsukimori Len/Hino Kahoko
At first, like butterflies, the gentle fluttering of eyelashes against the face; soft heartbeats, small and afraid, stuttering like stuck moths in lamplight. A match has been lit and it has ignited the fire—there was no one else there but the two of them, and for this one night, it was enough. Wind howled outside the empty function hall where they had just performed a duet—a dry storm raging, but still a storm and they both were unsettled. Perhaps more than usual; perhaps too much, so that it was painfully showing.
Then, in all quietness, like tired, forgiving animals, they bump faces and become still, nose to nose, eyelash to blinking eyelash, breath and breath.
They stare at each other in that abnormal, gasping stillness, unbelieving and skeptical of this moment's true meaning, if there is any. They were rivals, not exactly a match to the other, but a match they were nonetheless. They wait, uncomfortably, for an interruption.
—
to you, empatheticsympatheticpathetic.
fieryhazel, arigato.