• red child

There should be rules about this kind of thing. Laws of nature that should say this is impossible.But Touka’s gaze is steady. Her hands are on the cafe table, and one tightens its grip on the other. “I’m sure.” She’s pregnant.

• over my dead body

Kirishima Touka. On a date with Shirazu. Kirishima Touka’s smile, aimed at Shirazu. Kirishima Touka’s fingers interlinked, with Shirazu’s. Over my dead body , hisses the voice in Haise’s head.

• impalpable ash

"Rabbit" . "Kaneki"

• pareidolia

Rabbits belong where there are…plants, right? Grass? That they eat? Yet…there it is. A little mud-colored shape, with red eyes. Huddled, beneath a soggy cardboa...

• butterfly edge

but aerith was there, and that's all he needed.

• february 7th

february 7th, cloud walks up to aerith's room, flowers in hand.

• broken

in which aerith comes to terms with everything she'll never give up for him.

• though hope is frail

the world is empty without her, and your heart is no home for a ghost.

• drip-drip, ribbon

tonight was her night, they all knew it, and he was allowed this selfishness. Just tonight.

• the opposite of friend

Lenalee probably thought he was doing all he could to drive her away. Kanda Yuu knew he could have been trying harder.

• unforgive me

There are seven deadly sins. He's guilty of most of them.

• coffee mugs

Because he is Kanda and she is Lenalee and it might never be enough. What she wants might not come but she can make do. That's what she's good at.

• yoake

Red sky dawning, sailor's warning.

• the load we bear

"you are too brilliant for a world such as mine. my world is a world full of darkness. i cannot permit the sun to shine there. and i cannot darken yours."

• through endless hands

ulquiorra doesn't answer for a long moment. "nobody," he finally says. "nobody at all."

• the wolf in the forest

he’s on top of her now; she’s on the floor, bleeding out, and the last thing she sees is him. his eyes, always so intense, now soft as he gazes down at her. She thinks, ah, no one has ever loved me more than him.

• and after

"I do have a choice. I just choose you every time.”

• trial and error

then, he speaks. not through the cracking sound of the telephone, not through the microphone that puts an annoyingly metallic quality to his voice. but he speaks, directly, to her.

“I’m home.”

• oddity royalty

• i thought i lost you

rukia’s reiatsu is the summer wind. it’s the curve of his mother’s smile, frozen forever in time atop the faded polaroid in his pocket.

• bleeding out

"this isn’t how it’s supposed to happen," you think.

• denouement

she says you name as if she's been saying it for lifeteimes.

• thing you said that i wish you hadn't

"i would die for you, you know."