DISCLAIMER:
The characters belong to Sai Yukino and Kairi Yura, Kadokawa Shoten,
Madhouse Studios, etc., i.e., not me.
I'm just borrowing them for a
while to spin a tale
This fic was written out of
sequence for Saiun
Challenge's Week 9 Prompt.
However, I missed the submission date because of Real Life scheduling
Prompt: Blind. Word Count: 300 Words.
To
Kindness, Blind
By firewolf
July 2008
@>;-'-
Contrary to Reishin sama and
Yuri Hime's belief, Kou hadn't forgotten how he came to join their
household. But he let them think he couldn't remembered being brought
down the mountains by Reishin sama.
Kou thought he understood why they wanted to pretend they had found him
on the streets. He supposed that they wanted to pretend he wasn't a bit
of discarded trash, but a streetwise little entrepreneur instead. It
was certainly less shameful to let others think he was a street kid
surviving on his wits rather than an unwanted slave who was also an
opium addict. Kou just thought he owed it to them to indulge their
little fantasy and save them from embarrassment when speaking about him
to their acquaintances.
Still, at the end of the day, Kou had been rather proud of the little
street lottery he managed to run for a couple of weeks for funds to buy
his 'sweets'. He thought Reishin sama had been impressed too. However,
the abject misery and humiliation over the truth of what his 'sweets'
actually were made Kou want to forget the whole affair. Reishin sama
and Yuri Hime had really been kind to him so far despite the troubles
he brought to them, but Kou knew their patience would eventually run
out.
He remembered Reishin sama mention taking him in to imitate his elder
brother's adoption of another boy. And Kou was wise enough to know that
decisions made on a whim never produced lasting results.
So every night when Yuri Hime tucked him in bed as if he was their
child, Kou would make a wish that they wouldn’t tire of him too soon.
They were the nicest and least demanding of his owners so far. And Kou
liked pretending to be a normal boy.
~owari~