Requested by Kiharu Lamperouge- thank you
Byakuya x Rose
Autumn
They went for a walk around the Kuchiki estate in the middle of autumn. The air was hazy with damp, kissing their skin, and it was cool underneath the trees, the wet ferns that lined the path clinging to them as they passed, sticking to them like spider-fine, green fingers. A wind blew, and they watched the half-bare branches of the trees bending.
The world was sepia-toned, the sky an iron grey, the garden already acquiring the skeletal look of winter.
Rose smiled at him, a long, lazy smile, and wiped the moisture off his cheek with a finger that was surprisingly warm.
"Shall we go back?"
His voice was hushed and throaty, as if he didn't wish to disturb the garden, and Byakuya nodded. Rose took his hand, and they walked back towards the house through the scattering of leaves, red and orange and yellow and the husked brown of dried wood.
Byakuya picked one out of his own hair, and pressed the damp, burnt-orange leaf to his lips. It tasted of rain and wind and earth.
They reached the warmth of the house soon enough, and slowly pulled their saturated clothes off each others' bodies, piece by piece, baring pale skin that looked almost silver with the damp under the dimmed lights.
The leaves fell against the window, building up against the door.
All was still.