Indiscriminate Happenings
Fandom: xxxHoLiC
Characters/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Prompt:10:4- Hold Your Breath
Rating: K
Chapter Genre: Romance/Comfort
Summary: Water is symbolic of emotions, and Shizuka's are running too high for his personal comfort zone, regardless of whether or not he accepts that.
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Shizuka cradled the fragile form in his arms, waist deep in the water. Glazed blue eyes stared at him, half-lidded and unseeing, body limp and unresponsive. The pond water, purified by the temples aura and his own innate abilities, lapped at them, cooling their skin. Gently he placed a soft, chaste kiss on the pale forehead, lowering Kimihiro back into the dark depths, the moon light their only illumination.

"Hold your breath," he whispered, keeping their heads pressed together and desperately hoping that it would turn out all right. Kimihiro didn't respond, arms settling delicately on the surface of the water for a split second before sinking with the rest of him, until they were completely submerged. After five minutes of periodically lifting their faces out and taking a fresh breath there was finally a movement, the first in days. Thin, scarred fingers twitched, a minute motion that, in any other circumstance and time, would have seemed normal and anything but out of place (especially given Kimihiro's habit of random, flailing actions), but now seemed as though it was a blessing.

Shizuka breathed out a sigh of relief, pulling Kimihiro closer and dunking them once more, heart beating faster with every small muscle spasm that came after the first.

"Oi," he called quietly, watching with building anticipation as the eyelids trembled then fluttered open, showing the first traces of awareness since the collapse.

"M'name's not 'Oi.' Get 't str'ght." Shizuka fought not to shake, not to grab the smaller teenager and cart him inside. After all, there were others who wanted to make sure that he was all right and they probably wouldn't appreciate Shizuka hoarding him so soon afterwards. Kimihiro's head lolled forward, hitting his shoulder and resting there comfortably. Content with the extent of the ritual Shizuka lifted the boy out, feeling the small chills beginning to attack him.

"Shiz'ka..." He glanced down at the sound of his name, not pausing in the midst of sliding open the door and stepping inside, completely ignoring the slippers set up and the fact that he still had his shoes on and walking inside.

"Hm?"

"I l've y'." Shizuka placed Kimihiro on the futon in his room, first pawing at the blankets until he he gripped them enough to pull them down with his toes after kicking off one shoe. He brushed aside the messy black bangs, crouching at Kimihiro's side.

"I love you too."
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Done quickly. It must've taken roughly half an hour or twenty minutes. XP Just something forced from my imagination. The second thing that came to mind was, "It's gonna be a bumpy ride." I might do a bonus drabble for it... Hmmm... Even if it's actually, "Hang on," not, "Hold your breath," but who's actually paying that close attention? Hm... you know what's a good movie? Across The Universe. I love the remakes of the Beatles songs. D Woot~! "Come together, right no-o-ow.... Over me." Love it. ^^