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Title: Of Empathy And Compassion
Author: [livejournal.com profile] urania_chan
Pairing: Agatsuma Soubi x Aoyagi Ritsuka
Fandom: Loveless
Theme: #28 - Wada Calcium CD3
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Loveless and its characters don’t belong to me.

Written for [livejournal.com profile] 30_kisses.

Spoilers / Setting: Set somewhere during volume 1 of the manga.
Notes: It’s fluffy and crazy, and I’ve no idea where this came from... but somehow it took me years... and now everything is rather symbolic. o.O
Superfluous Special Notes: Wada Calcium CD3 is a calcium supplement for the growing, the elderly, and those who don't get enough sunlight or fish.

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While Seimei had been tall, Ritsuka wasn’t, but he liked to think that this would change eventually, that he would grow and be just as perfect as Seimei had been. That was the next best thing to happen because whatever happened, Seimei wasn’t going to come back, and Ritsuka should at least try his best to be like him. And maybe if that worked he would remember everything and be the old Ritsuka again. His mother could love him again. It was all a matter of time.

Or so he told himself. But every time he checked his height and noticed that he had not grown, he couldn’t ignore the little twinge that gnawed at his heart. It was as if the cruel truth was biting him, the truth that he could never be as great as his brother had been, and that there wasn’t any way that everything would be okay.

It was all a matter of time.

...

Ritsuka hated it when Soubi patted his hair. He hated it when Soubi scooped him up and held him like some puppet. He hated it when Soubi had to bent down to kiss him.

One day he mumbled just that into Soubi’s furry black collar, while the blond was carrying him away from the battlefield, and Ritsuka was clinging to him once again.

When Soubi asked him why, he just whispered, “Seimei was really tall.”

Ritsuka wasn’t quite sure if that actually was the answer or if he was evading it, but it was the only thing he had to say anyway.

When Soubi didn’t answer Ritsuka wasn’t sure if he had heard him. Maybe it hadn’t even been a whisper but rather a thought. Or Soubi simply hadn’t wanted to hear him. It was pretty easy to pretend he hadn’t heard anything. He could let Ritsuka think he hadn’t said it aloud. Or maybe Soubi saw no need to answer since it hadn’t been a question.

Time seemed to stretch as the golden tinged leaves drifted by, carried by a wind that wafted gently through the hazy air of dusk.

Ritsuka wasn’t expecting an answer anymore when Soubi spoke up, “Then maybe you just have to take some of this calcium supplement. How do they call it?”

Soubi smiled.

And Ritsuka smiled back.


*Le Fin*


Uhm, that was strange, I’m sorry... But, well, it’s late.
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