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
Flash Fic was written for
Word Count: 250 Words.
A Flutter of
Wings
By firewolf
May 2008
@>;-'-
Kouyuu had few
memories of the time before he entered the Kou household. Reishin and
Yuri persisted in telling their adopted son that Reishin sama
discovered him on the streets running an ingenious street lottery.
However, although Kouyuu had some memory of organising the materials to
run such a ‘business’, he always thought that first purported meeting
didn’t sound quite right.
One persistent memory Kouyuu
had was the sound of a flutter of wings.
However, his connection to this memory stayed ever elusive. Kouyuu
would never have imagined that in a time long forgotten, a flutter of
wings once herald for Kou a welcome to a safe haven, or a sending on
his way, back to the waking world.
In dreams, Kouyuu would
relived the day a flutter of wings brought a
familiar mountain god who rescued him from the cold. Sometimes, he’d
see the source of this sound; white and pied finches, which he
recognized as the guardians of his haven, who kept him safe and watched
over him.
Unfortunately, though Kouyuu
remembered in his dreams, he always forgot
when he woke.
As he grew older, Kouyuu
dreamed of this haven less and less until
eventually he no longer remembered the significance of a flutter of
wings even in his dreams. Fortunately, by then Kouyuu found another
haven in the company of a best friend, who was a General in the
imperial army and someone perfectly capable of offering Kouyuu love and
protection from those who might harm him.
~owari~