the bathroom window

#21 - Fool
"He stood at the wrong street corner for three hours," Ken explains to his baffled mother as he dragged a drenched and dripping, practically delirious Daisuke into the apartment; Daisuke's knight in shiny armor froze at the bathroom, suddenly paralyzed as his valor retreated -

#22 - Mad
Daisuke crushes a frigid snowball down Ken's shirt (fingers briefly touching the warm, silk skin), and ken retaliates with a full-body take down; the roll down the hill in hysterics, wet and freezing and boiling inside and this is madness (this is love!).

#23 - Child


#24 - Now


#25 - Shadow
He visits later, long after his parents have come, cleaned, and gone, expecting his brother's grave to be abandoned: Daisuke's there, defiantly holding wilted flowers; they stand in the shadow of the tomb until the sun sets and the shadow spreads into night.

#30 - Ghost
It must be Osamu's spirit that Daisuke sees in the Kaiser; the Ken he knows could never be so cruel.

Daisuke squeezes Ken's cold hands tightly, almost painfully, as if he could exorcise Osamu's spirit through pure force.

#31 - Book
Daisuke's hand inches closer and closer, a ninja sneaking toward his prey; "Daisuke, I'm trying to read," are Ken's last words before he's attacked and defeated.

#32 - Eye
Daisuke grabs the Kaiser's shirt and draws his fist back again as the glasses slide off his opponent's face; a pair of icy violet eyes glare up at him, stunning him effectively as any attack.

#33 - Never
Willis crumples the letter and throws it wrathfully at the trash can, earning an odd look from a puzzled Mimi who glances down again at the photograph: "I think Ken and Dai-chan are sweet together."

#34 - Sing
Ishida's voice slices through the crowd's drone, and his lyrics pierce into Ken's thoughts against his will; for the blond to understand is simply an unbearable insult, but his comprehension is undeniable.

Fandom: Final Fantasy X
Pairing: Auron/Rikku
Theme set: Alpha
Rating: PG13
Author's Notes: Beware the run-on sentences of doom! Also, mild spoilers for FFX.

#01 - Comfort
Home is gone and the sand is stained with blood and oil and Rikku almost breaks in half from the sorrow, but then Auron murmurs a few words in Al Bhed and she slowly regains herself, clinging to his arm until the well of tears inside her dries.

( Coming down fast, but I'm miles above you )