Requested by The Crazy Chick In Black- thank you
Kuukaku x Hanatarou
Moonlight
She didn't like to think about it, because if she were the type to get scared about things, then she probably would be terrified right now. He was just some tiny scrap of a thing, and yet, when he sat next to her, with his hands neatly folded in his lap and his eyes down to the floor, he made her want to pet his head and protect him from every nasty thing in the world.
And that really wasn't the type of person that she was.
Seriously, you could ask anyone. Some people even remembered the time when she was much younger, and tied a small rodent to a firework, just to see what would happen. Her brother still told that story when he was drunk and she was far, far away.
They sat now on the veranda of her house, her slumped back with a leg up and bent, him perched demurely by her side, for all the world her polite little wift. It was pitch black: a clear night, but with no visible moon. She sort of regretted that, because his skin always looked so lovely in the silvery light of the moon, like something that should be tasted and cherished. She wasn't used to doing that, either- biting and throwing away was more her style.
He glanced up at her with his stabbed-puppy eyes, and wrinkled his nose.
She found herself smiling back at him, although as soon as she caught herself she coughed, and covered her hand with her mouth.
"Oi, assholes! Light the fuse!"
Overhead, after a pause, there came an explosion in the sky, yellows and golds and vibrant reds and verdant greens, all spilling outwards in a mass of colour. The glowing darkness above them, just for a moment, was in the shape of a flower.
He reached out an took her hand, and she stroked her thumb in circles around his skin.
"Thank you."
She scowled at the darkness. This really was far too sappy for her tastes- she supposed that he just inspired that in her.