Fanfic: xxxHolic [Substitute gift fic for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isegrim_chan]
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uraniaHey, isegrim_chan, I know I said I was trying to post your gift fic this weekend, but I totally forgot that I have to look after my cousin this saturday, so uh... it can take a little more time. I'm sorry.
BUT I wrote a substitute gift fic for you! XD Yay! Hmm, it's not long or... intelligent or anything, it's just stuff I wanted to get out of my system before sleeping. A fic composed of my notes and my neverending love for this manga. ♥
(Btw, your actual gift fic isn't for that series. Ah, look, that was another hint. ^.~)
Fandom: xxxHolic
Pairing: general [hints of DoumekixWatanuki, with some Himawari-chan too. :)]
Disclaimer: xxxHolic and its characters don't belong to me. I couldn't make up something that great anyway. CLAMP are my gods.
Rating: PG-13 for swearing.
Warnings: This is kind of spoilerish. (I wrote it directly after reading up to chapter 144... I can't wait for the next!) But they're the kind of spoilers you don't really notice if you don't already know them. :)
Notes: Ah, I think I changed my opinion about Himawari-chan. ♥ She really is nice and cute! xD
And this ficlet is unbeta-d, and it's late, so I'm sorry if there are mistakes. Please correct me if you find any.
Beneath The Glint Of Moments And Dreams.
Sometimes Watanuki feels as if he is walking in a haze, as if he doesn’t really notice what’s going on, as if everything is just passing him by. This feeling is a little scary. Not as intimidating as the youkai following him around, and not as odd as the phenomenas he gets to witness, but still... scary.
And when the numbness creeps into his bones, the chill of dreams and nightmares, Watanuki is glad when something reminds him of reality. Even if it is Doumeki instead of cute and wonderful Himawari-chan. You have to take what you can get.
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It’s a bright summer day, with the sun blazing in the sky, its rays warming the pavement they’re walking on, when he hears those four syllables waft through the air, after what seems like years since last hearing them.
Ki-mi-hi-ro.
In reality it’s only been three days. On Monday he met Kohane-chan and she’s one of those persons who call him ‘Kimihiro-kun’ and not ‘Watanuki’ or any variation thereof. But still... hearing it in this voice, this tone, is a completely different matter.
Being adressed by his given name by Doumeki sounds foreign and somehow totally absurd to his ears.
“Are you trying to make fun of me?!” Watanuki yells indignantly, furiously throwing his arms in the air to emphasize his anger.
“No, why would I, Kimihiro?”
This asshole actually has the nerve to grin!
“Fine, be that way,” he huffs, but silently decides that he maybe can become familiar with it.
Kimihiro.
---
Doumeki surely has powerful nightmares.
He dreams of spiders and snakes, of hydrangeas and sunflowers, of blue eyes and glass shards.
He fears helplessness, that destiny will turn against him, that maybe someday he can’t hold onto all those things precious to him anymore. I will, he tells himself, I’ll make it, I can’t lose. But in the sea of petals and blood splattered across the flagstones, those words merely sound like lies of a desperate mind. And so the anxiety lurks around till the sun paints the sky orange.
But Doumeki has even more powerful dreams. So he can always save the ones important to him in the end.
He picks up the pieces, and puts them back together, just like he watches over yellow flowers and hissing cats. He won’t abandon his duty, even if they’ll sometimes hang their heads or scratch his hands. Doumeki can make it, he chose this after all.
He awakes with a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. A shimmering light drifts out of his window on a breeze, a balloon to be raised and bred and soar even higher one day.
le fin.
Feedback is nice. Corrections are also nice. Critic is super nice. Flaming... is not that nice. ;)
isegrim_chan, I know I said I was trying to post your gift fic this weekend, but I totally forgot that I have to look after my cousin this saturday, so uh... it can take a little more time. I'm sorry.BUT I wrote a substitute gift fic for you! XD Yay! Hmm, it's not long or... intelligent or anything, it's just stuff I wanted to get out of my system before sleeping. A fic composed of my notes and my neverending love for this manga. ♥
(Btw, your actual gift fic isn't for that series. Ah, look, that was another hint. ^.~)
Fandom: xxxHolic
Pairing: general [hints of DoumekixWatanuki, with some Himawari-chan too. :)]
Disclaimer: xxxHolic and its characters don't belong to me. I couldn't make up something that great anyway. CLAMP are my gods.
Rating: PG-13 for swearing.
Warnings: This is kind of spoilerish. (I wrote it directly after reading up to chapter 144... I can't wait for the next!) But they're the kind of spoilers you don't really notice if you don't already know them. :)
Notes: Ah, I think I changed my opinion about Himawari-chan. ♥ She really is nice and cute! xD
And this ficlet is unbeta-d, and it's late, so I'm sorry if there are mistakes. Please correct me if you find any.
Beneath The Glint Of Moments And Dreams.
Sometimes Watanuki feels as if he is walking in a haze, as if he doesn’t really notice what’s going on, as if everything is just passing him by. This feeling is a little scary. Not as intimidating as the youkai following him around, and not as odd as the phenomenas he gets to witness, but still... scary.
And when the numbness creeps into his bones, the chill of dreams and nightmares, Watanuki is glad when something reminds him of reality. Even if it is Doumeki instead of cute and wonderful Himawari-chan. You have to take what you can get.
---
It’s a bright summer day, with the sun blazing in the sky, its rays warming the pavement they’re walking on, when he hears those four syllables waft through the air, after what seems like years since last hearing them.
Ki-mi-hi-ro.
In reality it’s only been three days. On Monday he met Kohane-chan and she’s one of those persons who call him ‘Kimihiro-kun’ and not ‘Watanuki’ or any variation thereof. But still... hearing it in this voice, this tone, is a completely different matter.
Being adressed by his given name by Doumeki sounds foreign and somehow totally absurd to his ears.
“Are you trying to make fun of me?!” Watanuki yells indignantly, furiously throwing his arms in the air to emphasize his anger.
“No, why would I, Kimihiro?”
This asshole actually has the nerve to grin!
“Fine, be that way,” he huffs, but silently decides that he maybe can become familiar with it.
Kimihiro.
---
Doumeki surely has powerful nightmares.
He dreams of spiders and snakes, of hydrangeas and sunflowers, of blue eyes and glass shards.
He fears helplessness, that destiny will turn against him, that maybe someday he can’t hold onto all those things precious to him anymore. I will, he tells himself, I’ll make it, I can’t lose. But in the sea of petals and blood splattered across the flagstones, those words merely sound like lies of a desperate mind. And so the anxiety lurks around till the sun paints the sky orange.
But Doumeki has even more powerful dreams. So he can always save the ones important to him in the end.
He picks up the pieces, and puts them back together, just like he watches over yellow flowers and hissing cats. He won’t abandon his duty, even if they’ll sometimes hang their heads or scratch his hands. Doumeki can make it, he chose this after all.
He awakes with a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. A shimmering light drifts out of his window on a breeze, a balloon to be raised and bred and soar even higher one day.
le fin.
Feedback is nice. Corrections are also nice. Critic is super nice. Flaming... is not that nice. ;)
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Date: 2007-09-15 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-15 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-16 12:11 am (UTC)144 scared me near to an early grave, too...
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Date: 2007-09-16 12:03 pm (UTC)144 was... I can't find words. o.O I just wanna know how it continues.
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Date: 2007-09-16 04:49 pm (UTC)Me too. Dammit, and CLAMP's on a hiatus now. CURSE YOU, CLAMP.
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Date: 2007-09-16 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-16 05:43 pm (UTC)If Holic and TRC meet that fate, though, I will...I don't even know. Go insane.
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Date: 2007-09-16 06:10 pm (UTC)Yeah, I really don't wanna think about it... ;__; Why can't they just do one (or two! XD) series at a time? They just have to many projects...
I like your icon! XD
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Date: 2007-09-17 02:54 am (UTC)Kinda reminds me of
myselfthis one guy...thanks!
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Date: 2007-09-17 12:11 pm (UTC)Ahaha, shame on this guy! ;) Nah, I did that too... now I try to avoid it! XD
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Date: 2007-09-17 11:17 pm (UTC)[is seriously freaked out now]
That person just gets too many ideas and can't stop themself from writing them all when said ideas are received. Perhaps they will learn from your example. :D
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Date: 2007-09-18 06:30 pm (UTC)And Tsubasa, I read the first few volumes maybe one or two years ago, and recently decided that I wanted to read something happy and cute. So I started rereading Tsubasa... Well, Clamp surely like to do these things. ;___;
*is also seriously freaked out*
*tsk tsk at that person* XD I just sketch my ideas and write a concept for them, so that I don't forget them and can write them later. But I also think those people who write evrything directly down are cool, just so productive! :D
Uh, sorry, I was babbling! XD
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Date: 2007-09-18 11:26 pm (UTC)I read Tsubasa when it first came out in English, and was only buying the books for a while...and then I found the scanlation site, and read that just after 125 had come out. And then I realised how deeply in trouble I was. WHY DO I GET ATTACHED TO THE DOOMED ONES??? Cloney ): And now Holic looks like it's going to go dark, and Watanuki is one of two all-time favourite characters. The other being Doumeki. He had damn well better exist, is all I can say for the matter.
Ah, you are so organised! That person is really envious of your organisational skills.
babble away! I do not mind. :D
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Date: 2007-09-19 06:18 pm (UTC)I read Holic first, and then I had some crazy hope that maybe Tsubasa wouldn't get all angsty and sad. Heh, couldn't have been more wrong, I mean, it's just worse then Holic. :( But I love it anyway. And I hope for a happy ending like... I don't know. I just wish for it so much. And if it ends like TB, then... *growls*
Ah, I love Watanuki he's such a dork. <3 And somehow I just didn't suspect with a character like that a manga could turn dark... At least I thought that when I started reading...
Maybe that person should try doing it this way too. :D But I still think that writing everything down somehow is cooler. :D
Babbling again... but since you don't mind. :D
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Date: 2007-09-16 06:57 pm (UTC)So good. Something about the lines He won't abandon his duty, even if they'll sometimes hang their heads or scratch his hands. Doumeki can make it, he chose this after all. breaks my heart over and over again.
And yet they make me happy all the same, wai ^_^
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Date: 2007-09-16 07:20 pm (UTC)There's nothing wrong with not being able to type! XDD~
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Date: 2007-09-17 03:55 am (UTC)However, I absolutely loved your mode of expression, just plain breathtakingly and intensely beautiful! I really enjoyed reading this regardless of not knowing anything to begin with about the series and its characters :) Well done!
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Date: 2007-09-17 11:46 am (UTC)I think you should read xxxHolic, it's just fantastic from the very first chapter. <3 (xxxHolic and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle are my favourite series at the moment. <3 Read them! XD)
Btw, have you written something again? ^^
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Date: 2007-09-17 04:04 pm (UTC)Well, let's see about that... unfortunately, I don't really have the money to be starting reading a new series ;-; But I've read the first volume of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle some time ago, it seemed really interesting, but again, I wasn't able to keep up to date with it -_- Ah well, we'll see... ^^
I didn't really get around to do so yet, but I think I'll write something today, so maybe there'll be something in a few days... ;)
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Date: 2007-09-17 05:19 pm (UTC)Er, yeah, money... *coughs* That's why I love scanlations. <3 I just read them online here: http://www.onemanga.com/directory/ And the advantage with scanlations is you're always as far as the Japanese. XD
Tsubasa gets so much better. <3 The latest chapters are just... *swoons*
I so look forward to that! :D
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Date: 2007-09-21 02:52 am (UTC)Thanks for the link though, I really appreciate it :)
I don't really have the time to go read it right now, but I'll definitely keep it in mind. Will let you know when I get around to it ;)
btw, ever thought about pursuing a career in ads? XD
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Date: 2007-09-21 06:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, let me knooooow, so I can... I don't know, know maybe? XD
Ahaha, no I didn't but maybe I should. XD
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Date: 2009-03-15 05:13 am (UTC)Going through DoumekiWatanuki archives and this popped out! :D I love the second part the most, and the way i could just see everything as it happened.
Hearts for you!! <33333
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Date: 2009-03-15 08:44 pm (UTC)Glad you enjoyed it. :)