Requested by ravens rising- thank you
Kira x Momo
Grapes
He sat next to her bed, waiting for her to wake up. There was peace in her sleeping face, and that had not been there for a long time- it had been replaced by worry, anxiety and sadness.
He had tried to visit her as often as he could, waiting for the day that she would look at him and look happy again.
She began to stir, her eyes fluttering. Soon enough she rolled over, opened her eyes fully, and smiled a small smile at him. It was not the bright smile of their youth, but he supposed that something was better than the void in her eyes that they had all tried to keep filled.
"Hey."
He rested his hand on her cheek, briefly.
"I brought grapes."
"I'm not sick."
"I know. I just thought you'd like them."
She wrinkled her nose, and he was forced to suppress a sudden memory as sharp and painful as the unexpected prick of a needle. She pulled that face when she was pleased with something- he remembered he doing it when she had first managed to wield shikai.
"Thank you."
She picked a grape from the proffered bunch, and popped it in her mouth.
"Mmm. They're nice."
He smiled.
"They are? I'm glad."
She leant over, and hugged him, her arms thin but there.
"Thank you."
He blinked, a smile turning up the corners of his mouth.
"For what?"
She pulled back a little, and looked up at him. There was a look on her face- a look of surprise, as if she were seeing something that she had never seen before. With a painful hesitancy she hovered there, arms still around his neck, before placing a warm, brief kiss onto his nervously dry lips.
"For trying to make me smile."