itle: In Memory of a White Christmas
Disclaimer: Katekyo Hitman Reborn! belongs to Akira Amano
Pairing: Byakuran x Mukuro (10069)
Rating: PG-13 ~ PG-15
Warning: Nothing in particular. Pretty much worksafe. Aside from young boys' nudity.Sometimes, they say, dreams bring back memories that you have long ago forgotten – those memories being pushed and locked securely away in a place you only wish someone could never find. The very back of your mind has become very dark – stained with bloody hatred and maddening sadness – yet those memories are never really lost, only just hidden…and when you happen to find the key – intended or not – they start to come, leaking from the old rotting chest, back to you…—In Memory of a White Christmas—…I dream of you…The stone-paved street was cold against his bare feet…so cold that after walking or actually, staggering forward for a while, he couldn't feel anything but increasing numbness that weakened him more and more to the cold. Even the blood from his freshly daily cut open wound was starting to cake as if everything could be frozen in this world of chilliness.Still, brilliant blue eyes never stopped wandering, looking around as if searching for something and then back up at the bottomless night sky.It was a night so cold and dark that even the shining light from the lining street lamps wasn't enough to lead a stray sheep back. And because of this, only a few souls could be seen out strutting – all wanting more than anything to return to the warm coziness in such a night.But a small boy in a rag was hoping those people he knew would not come and drag him back to their place tonight…if he couldn't have forever.His legs, even though poorly, continued to carry him forward in his aimless quest. He couldn't really call this 'success escape' as he knew all-too-well that sooner or later those people would certainly find him just like those other times he had tried. They made it an easy task enough as if…it was his curse, his destiny to never be able to escape.A chain promised of eternity of imprisonment that could never be cut.He felt like nauseating just thinking of how those adults treated him and those who happened to share the same fate as him as if they were animals…lab rats…or just something less human. Even so, there was nothing in his stomach to puke out, for he hadn't eaten anything for…what? 3 days? Somehow, it seemed even longer…At the thought of food, his body immediately negatively reacted. His legs suddenly gave up on him and he fell limply to the cold solidness. And as he lay there, he could hear the wind carry the enchanting sound of the chant of Christmas Carol…the song he had longed to hear.Slowly, painfully slowly, the corners of the lips of the lying boy lifted, curving into a spiteful smirk – a smirk unfit for a boy his age – as a thought, a question he himself couldn't answer, occurred:Since when had he learned how to sing a Christmas Carol?I am human too…Since when…had it started; this nightmare that seemed never-ending?Or used to be treated as one…Every day, there was always a new wound bleeding.Even if I can't remember…Every day, there was always a new tear being shed.I just want to believe…Why couldn't this be stopped?A small sound escaped the boy's throat. It wasn't a sob…but laughter, laughing at the world and his own pathetic fate. He felt so tired but didn't dare to sleep because…If he slept without knowing for sure the sleep was eternal, all he would find when he woke up would be nothing but nightmare again…and again…and again…Never-ending…And yet his eyelids, which became heavier and heavier every passing minute, started to droop as the familiar fear of restarted nightmare became bigger and bigger in his heart, something white caught his blurring eyes…so white and pure like the beautiful snow he had longed to see falling from the great, endless sky.The sardonic smile on the boy's lips widened…"Are you…a snow angel?"He then became unconscious almost too quickly to hear an amused chuckle."Snow angel? I think I prefer my 'Marshmallow Snowman'."…Warm. It was warm – so warm and cozy like he had imagined living behind those orange-lighted windows he had passed on the cold street. The warmth enveloped him like an embrace he had never felt, for it was only the embrace of cold darkness that was always around him, refusing to let him permanently free.The warmth felt so good that he might have imagined he was now lying in an especially soft bed instead of the solid floor of the soulless street where he remembered to be. It was warm
Disclaimer: Katekyo Hitman Reborn! belongs to Akira Amano
Pairing: Byakuran x Mukuro (10069)
Rating: PG-13 ~ PG-15
Warning: Nothing in particular. Pretty much worksafe. Aside from young boys' nudity.Sometimes, they say, dreams bring back memories that you have long ago forgotten – those memories being pushed and locked securely away in a place you only wish someone could never find. The very back of your mind has become very dark – stained with bloody hatred and maddening sadness – yet those memories are never really lost, only just hidden…and when you happen to find the key – intended or not – they start to come, leaking from the old rotting chest, back to you…—In Memory of a White Christmas—…I dream of you…The stone-paved street was cold against his bare feet…so cold that after walking or actually, staggering forward for a while, he couldn't feel anything but increasing numbness that weakened him more and more to the cold. Even the blood from his freshly daily cut open wound was starting to cake as if everything could be frozen in this world of chilliness.Still, brilliant blue eyes never stopped wandering, looking around as if searching for something and then back up at the bottomless night sky.It was a night so cold and dark that even the shining light from the lining street lamps wasn't enough to lead a stray sheep back. And because of this, only a few souls could be seen out strutting – all wanting more than anything to return to the warm coziness in such a night.But a small boy in a rag was hoping those people he knew would not come and drag him back to their place tonight…if he couldn't have forever.His legs, even though poorly, continued to carry him forward in his aimless quest. He couldn't really call this 'success escape' as he knew all-too-well that sooner or later those people would certainly find him just like those other times he had tried. They made it an easy task enough as if…it was his curse, his destiny to never be able to escape.A chain promised of eternity of imprisonment that could never be cut.He felt like nauseating just thinking of how those adults treated him and those who happened to share the same fate as him as if they were animals…lab rats…or just something less human. Even so, there was nothing in his stomach to puke out, for he hadn't eaten anything for…what? 3 days? Somehow, it seemed even longer…At the thought of food, his body immediately negatively reacted. His legs suddenly gave up on him and he fell limply to the cold solidness. And as he lay there, he could hear the wind carry the enchanting sound of the chant of Christmas Carol…the song he had longed to hear.Slowly, painfully slowly, the corners of the lips of the lying boy lifted, curving into a spiteful smirk – a smirk unfit for a boy his age – as a thought, a question he himself couldn't answer, occurred:Since when had he learned how to sing a Christmas Carol?I am human too…Since when…had it started; this nightmare that seemed never-ending?Or used to be treated as one…Every day, there was always a new wound bleeding.Even if I can't remember…Every day, there was always a new tear being shed.I just want to believe…Why couldn't this be stopped?A small sound escaped the boy's throat. It wasn't a sob…but laughter, laughing at the world and his own pathetic fate. He felt so tired but didn't dare to sleep because…If he slept without knowing for sure the sleep was eternal, all he would find when he woke up would be nothing but nightmare again…and again…and again…Never-ending…And yet his eyelids, which became heavier and heavier every passing minute, started to droop as the familiar fear of restarted nightmare became bigger and bigger in his heart, something white caught his blurring eyes…so white and pure like the beautiful snow he had longed to see falling from the great, endless sky.The sardonic smile on the boy's lips widened…"Are you…a snow angel?"He then became unconscious almost too quickly to hear an amused chuckle."Snow angel? I think I prefer my 'Marshmallow Snowman'."…Warm. It was warm – so warm and cozy like he had imagined living behind those orange-lighted windows he had passed on the cold street. The warmth enveloped him like an embrace he had never felt, for it was only the embrace of cold darkness that was always around him, refusing to let him permanently free.The warmth felt so good that he might have imagined he was now lying in an especially soft bed instead of the solid floor of the soulless street where he remembered to be. It was warm