Indiscriminate Happenings
Fandom: xxxHoLiC
Characters/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki, mentions of Yuuko, Himawari, Kohane, Zashiki Warashi
Prompt:2:8- Lifestyles
Rating: T
Chapter Genre: Romance/Family
Summery: But that never stopped him from continuing on with his lifestyle, living the way he chose to, with his friends and family by his side and he by theirs.
I
Watanuki knew, without a shadow of doubt, that his lifestyle was vastly different from any other persons in his dimension. After all, not everyone got chased by hungry spirits every day for who knows how much of his life, nor did they get sent on their own at an extremely young age when their parents died. Most people were put into the foster care system or lived with extended family of some sort. Sufficient to say, he wasn't the poster child of normality, nor did he think, regardless of what he wanted, that he would be able to properly function in a regular society. He would be too paranoid that an angry spirit lusting for his blood would suddenly jump out from a dark corner and eat him in a room full of people who couldn't even see what the hell was happening.
That said, one of the most average things in his life was the fact that he was in a relationship (and only half of him actually consented to it. The other half was too busy shrieking in the back of his mind about what an oaf the man was) with another man. Granted, the issue of homosexuality was slowly becoming accepted more and more by the open minded individuals that made up the society, but there were still certain parties that would rather not have anything to do with them after they figured out just how deep the connection actually ran between the two of them. It made business hard for him at the shop because, while he was on his way to becoming a successful Dimensional Witch, he was still new and didn't have the prestige that Yuuko had achieved in her many years involved in the occupation.
Thankfully, and this was what he was truly grateful for, none of their close friends and acquaintances cared about their preferences and tended to, in fact, encourage their bond (it was Kohane that had ultimately pushed them together once and for all, having figured out the feelings that neither of them acknowledged long before them). In fact, he wasn't particularly surprised to find that most of the females in their odd, makeshift family (including the Zashiki Warashi) happened to be avid lovers and supporters of relationships such as theirs. No matter how unsurprised he was though, it didn't stop him from feeling a tad bit uncomfortable when they all began pushing Doumeki and himself together in one way or another (Kohane would give a small smile and ensure that all the spots were taken so they had to sit or stand next to each other, Yuuko would literally push them together, Himawari would do what she always did, making sure that the tiffs escalated into something of a more physical nature, and the female spirits they knew would come up with various clever ways that usually ended up with Watanuki against a wall).
But that never stopped him from continuing on with his lifestyle, living the way he chose to, with his friends and family by his side and he by theirs.
II
Yeah... so, how was that one? I liked it, personally, especially the part of them being surrounded by yaoi fans, but that's beside the point... Well, enjoy~!