The Moments Between Us
Summary: A collection of one-shot/drabble moments shared between Natsume Hyūga and Ruka Nogi as strangers, enemies, best friends, and lovers. Based on a list of 100 personal challenge prompts on LJ.
Rating: K – M (but will be mostly classified as T)
Disclaimer: if i owned GA, these two boys would be gay and having hot, inappropriate gay sex in every chapter. just kidding... hahahaha, no really though. i'm just kidding... it would be every two chapters. any other than that is pushing it, okay?
Memory 10 –Burn
Pairing(s): AU!Future!Canon!(?)NatsumexRuka
Warning(s): very vague mentions of boy on boy sex. so vague that the rating is T haha :D. BUT IT'S THERE! O.o
& vague character death... D:
Rating: T
Summary: Ruka could never hate fire, even as it was burning him alive.
Based on: Prompt 052 –Fire
Ruka had plenty of reasons to hate Natsume's fire Alice.
When they had first met at their early age, he had thought that it was cool. Natsume had, of course, saved him with fire. His kidnappers were rendered useless as they dropped him and ran from the kid with the fire hands, but all Ruka could do was sit there and watch as the fire in Natsume's hands burned out along with the fire in his eyes.
Later in their lives, when Natsume had first climbed into his window at night injured and bleeding, Ruka had started to switch the word 'cool' to the word 'horrible'. Ruka inwardly cursed his gift because maybe if Natsume didn't get a fire Alice, then maybe he could be happy and normal and not dying. He had said this aloud to his best friend through tears on a particularly bad night, but all Natsume did was chuckle and smile the smallest of smiles. Ruka didn't understand his actions that night, but he had never tried to figure it out either; Natsume would always stay an enigma and trying to take apart his actions move by move would only be the death of him.
Even through all this hatred for the certain Alice, Ruka grudgingly admitted to himself that being the wielder of the fire Alice did have its uses. Natsume, just his like element, was hot. It had more to do with his body temperature than his looks, but Ruka wasn't about to comment on the latter. Natsume's Alice kept his body a steady few degrees higher than a normal human's, so when he had a fever his body temperature would skyrocket like crazy.
The boy, Ruka had also learned throughout the years, was also like an electric safety blanket. On cold days, Ruka would don his winter jacket, scarf, mittens, and still be cold until Natsume stood close to him. When they were alone on said snowy days, Natsume would just move to hug the blonde almost automatically. It was something that Ruka (and secretly Natsume) enjoyed. Ruka would never feel truly warm or safe unless it was in the boy's arms, and on the days where the wind was the iciest, he relished in the fact that Natsume would stand super close—not at all affected as the snowflakes and ice particles melted off his body they instant they touched.
As more years passed spent together, Ruka had started to understand a little bit more about the reason why Natsume had laughed on that day. It wasn't because Ruka was silly to cry over such a thing, it was because it was simply impossible to separate Natsume from fire. In a sense, when it came down to the very basics, Natsume was fire. It wasn't just because of his mother that Natsume had fire because Ruka was sure that even if he was the first Alice wielder in his family, Natsume would have still gotten the rare fire Alice. Natsume just couldn't be separated from fire because everything that he was, was fire.
From his warm breath to his warmer than normal body, and all the way down to his fingertips that burned paths along Ruka's skin, Natsume was all fire. His touch burned, his lips devoured in a blazing inferno, and his body that moved and incinerated everything with its heat. Natsume's fire, all of it, was a spark that moved and captured Ruka's body, consuming every inch of him in a scalding burn that he knew would posses him until his very last days.
Because fire was Natsume, Ruka couldn't bring himself to hate it.
All he could bring himself to do was cry after they made love. Cry as he cradled Natsume's sleeping body to his own, still burning and reeling from the inferno that consumed it. The raven was getting weaker and weaker with every flame that lit from his hands, but as much as Ruka pleaded and cried, he knew that it would have no effect on his lover. To this day Natsume still looked at him with amusement, shushing him as he kissed away the tears until Ruka could almost swear that his lips were burned into his skin. The raven longed to say comforting words, but he had never been a liar and they had both known that. Fire was just too big a part of his life to ever truly give up; and Ruka, sweet, caring Ruka, could only sit back and try his hardest to plead for more time, praying to whatever God would listen.
At the very last end of their days, Ruka realized that he was burnt. His skin was the same creamy white, but if anyone took the time to look closer, they would see the burn marks left in the shape of fingers and hands, but because Natsume was the fire that consumed him body and soul, Ruka didn't do anything to try and rid himself of the marks. The blonde hoped that, even if Natsume wasn't there with him, at least let his fire be, and when the burn marks settled to stay forever marking his skin, Ruka could only smile.
Remembering the first day they had met, newly dropped from the arms of his kidnappers, all Ruka could do was sit there and think of how beautiful his lover had looked with his crimson eyes and handsome face lit up with the fire that sprang from his hands.
Then Ruka would be laughing and crying and cursing Natsume's name as he tried to rouse his blackened heart back to life, wishing desperately for scorching lips to burn his tears away.
A/N: i'm a horrible person *SOBS*
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