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A Flame of Recca fic challenge
by Yen
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me yadda yadda yadda...
Warning: Possible *chibi-Yen mutters* Oh all right, definite OOC and
creative liberties being taken (especially with the elements, gomen) but
hey, that's what fanfiction is for, right? *smile*
And just a reminder:
The fic challenge is:
Write a one-shot FoR fanfic using all of the following:
Kurei
A love interest
Rain
Pocky
A fortuneteller
Kurei looked up at the sky and it's rolling gray clouds and his eyes
hardened. He hated the rain. He supposed some might have theorized that it
was because he was a Flamecaster and his element fire was a complete
antithesis to water which fell from the sky as rain and so on but he really
didn't care. All he knew was three simple truths.
It was going to rain. He had no umbrella. Ergo, he was going to get wet. He
almost growled. He hated getting wet. Ordinarily, he would have simply
created a wave of intense heat to emit from his body, thus evaporating all
the water before it hit but he doubted that the passer-bys would have
imply regarded a young man walking down the rainy street and staying dry
through no visible means as a normal occurance in their ordinary mundane
lives.
He sighed. Which meant getting wet. Perfect. Absolutely perfect. He had
walked to the temple on foot, not wishing for the chaos that was caused
every time he wished to summon a car to travel. It always took them at
least half an hour before they could leave with Neon screaming that she
couldn't leave as she looked, Joker taunting her and causing a minor fight
to break out while Raiha merrily fell on his face every five minutes or so
as they walked to the car.
And that was if he was lucky and the others didn't want to go out as well.
He almost shuddered at the last time the entire gang had tagged along. To
say that Tokyo was never the same was an understatement and he had the
bills to prove it... which reminded him that he still had to go to court
for the civil disturbance charge.
He sighed again. Maybe a long walk alone in the rain by himself was just
what he needed. By himself being key.
"No sir, you need something else and you will find what you do not seek."
"What the..." Kurei started for a split second before his painfully
inculculated composure came to his rescue and he faced the speaker, cool
mask in place.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Kurei asked coldly, but the old man did
not retreat as he had expected, his bright beady eyes instead alert with
curiousity.
"It is not what I want. It is what you need." The old man chuckled softly,
as it at some internal joke as Kurei's face crossed into mild suspicion.
He had not felt the old man coming up and that, if nothing else, that was
cause for alarm bells to ring. Eyes narrowed, he studied the streets,
waiting for the possible ambush.
"Oh do not be so suspicious child. I am but an old fortuneteller who merely
reads what he sees in people's future."
"Then you have nothing to do with me," Kurei retorted brusquely, turning
away. "I have none."
"But everyone has a future." The old man's voice lowered. "And a love."
Kurei stopped, back to the old man, his breath hissing out softly. "And I
repeat, old man. I have none."
Stalking away, his clothes waving slightly in the wind, Kurei strode away,
unaware of the old man''s form slowly evaporating in the wind, a smile on
his wrinkled features. "And I repeat, Kurei, you'll find what you do not
seek.
Several minutes later, Kurei growled softly to himself, berating himself
for the loss of composure. He wasn't certain what had come over him, what
had caused him to merely stomp away and ignore the old man's unusual
ability to come up behind him undetected. Swearing at himself, he turned
back... to a deserted street.
What the... Kurei shook his head. Why the surprise he wondered, it would
have been a simple matter for the fortuneteller to slip into one of the
alleys that opened into the street. In fact, that was probably what had
appened instead of the notion that the old man had just vanished that had
popped into his mind.
Not that he wasn't aware of the possibility of that happening. In his life,
he had seen stranger things than people popping in and out mysteriously,
but just to fuddle his mind? He doubted it.
And just to prove that it had merely been a harmless, crazy old man, he
stepped into the nearest alley, certain to see the street over with many
people crossing. Which he did.
The old man was probably long go... A quiet rustling reached his ears and
tensing slightly, Kurei scanned the surroundings with battle-trained eyes,
his hand moving slightly to hear the comforting sound of the bangles that
adorned his wrist.
*Meow* Kurei's posture relaxed and he shook his head at his own wild
imaginings. It was unlikely that anyone would have decided to attack him,
even alone as he was. Not unless they had a death wish. Kneeling uncaring
on the cold concrete floor stained with some unidentifiable stains that are
best left unidentified, Kurei slowly untied the top of the wriggling
garbage bag and waited.
A small black head immediately popped out and two large blue eyes stared up
at him, an inquisitive meow filling the air.
It was love at first sight.
Sighing softly to himself, Kurei scratched behind the kitten's ears, an
expression on his face that countless others would have been astonished to
see.
Standing up, he looked down at the remains of his suit in disgust and shook
his head. "Now see what you made me do. Ah well... you're free now. Scat."
Turning swiftly on his heel, he stalked back to the mouth of the alley,
aware of the possible commotion in the house once they had discovered his
absence. He grimaced slightly and hurried to stop the renovations the house
would definitely need should he stay away a minute longer.
Well, that was the idea. A plaintitive meow reached his ears, and
reluctantly, his eyes went back to the little cat who had somehow managed
to clamber the rest of its way out and was presently followly his quick
footsteps, while favouring its front right paw.
Cursing at himself, he strode back, and bent down, almost nose to nose with
the tiny animal. "Go home."
It licked him on the nose. Sitting back on his heels, he stared at the
small thing who started biting at his pants.
"What the... stop that." Grumbling slightly, Kurei reached into his
pockets, searching for something to distract it while he made his getaway.
He really had no wish to have a kitten follow him. Especially when it could
be run over on the way. And especially considering what home he lived in.
Opening up the palm of his hand, he took stock of his pocket's inventory.
Two bedraggled mint sweets, a few cents and a couple of yen, a flyer on a
Rubic competition he had been meaning to tell Kogenai about, his keys, and
a box of half eaten Pocky that he had found lying round and had been
planning to scold Ganko about.
Quickly emptying the box, he quickly and competently crushed up the biscuit
sticks into crumbs and fed some of it to the black kitten who wolfed it
down. Slowly transferring the crumbs from his hand onto the groud, he
watched in satisfaction as the kitten continued voraciously on its meal,
apparantly unaware of the change in "table".
Getting up, he carefully moved off, fearful that the slightest movement
would... *meow* He sighed. Too late. Turning back, he saw the kitten
following him again, the meal forgotten as he bravely limped towards the
Flamecaster.
"I rule the Uruha and I can't shake one lousy cat." Shaking his head and
muttering about damn stubborn felines who didn't know what was good for
them, he grabbed the injured cat up and stuffed it into his coat while
making a run for it back to the mansion in the rain.
"And stop moving down there." He muttered, finally ending his litany of
complaints, even as one hand protectively kept it cuddled in the folds of
cloth. "It's not very comfortable down there and you're really hot."
And though Kurei was unaware of it as he walked the rest of his way home,
the warm feeling under his coat wasn't solely due to the kitten.
~Owari~
Notes: And btw, just in case no one got it, or it was too out of sight for some of
you, which it probably was since I have really strange thought processes,
the cat is the love interest :) Okay okay... so not love interest per se
but I was taking it more along the lines as the loving relationship between
pet and master especially since Animal Planet just came on cable <g>
Anyhow, probably doesn't make any sense really but hey, makes for an
interesting WAFF don't you think? :)
comments? Please send them over, kudasai! ^_^
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