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Mar. 6th, 2009 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kat8chaShouichi is testing the autonomic systems on his robot when Byakuran pops the question.
"Shouichi, would you like to join my family?"
Shouichi's bent over his computer, his robot whirring and beeping and lights lighting up and then turning off, all systems go, but his brain has stuttered to a slight halt. "B-Byakuran-san?" Shouichi turns to give Byakuran a look that is half questioning and half morbid curiosity. It is also a third appalled and a fourth confused, but we'll ignore that for now.
Byakuran smiled at Shouichi, and Shouichi is once again feeling that familiar twist and turn of a twin stomachache and headache combined. Ever since that first meeting on campus over Choice Byakuran had begun draping himself over Shouichi during his general education classes, chatting him up in the halls, and finally invading Shouichi's fortress of solitude in order to watch Shouichi work.
"As husband and wife, of course." Byakuran says, still with that ever annoying smile. Then he laughs as Shouichi's third appalled easily out weighs his questioning and curiosity. "I'm kidding Shou-chan! I meant my familigia, of course."
Byakuran has made no secret that he is the son of a powerful man in Italy, a man who's power quite probably extends to at least infringe on Japan. Shouichi has made no secret that he wants no part in it, whatever it is Byakuran's father does, and whatever it is Byakuran is planning to do. Shouichi's contact with 'familigia' brings back memories of a young boy in cow pajamas, and a baby with a gun. Shouichi does not know why Byakuran came to Waseda University for an International Liberal Studies degree, but part of him wishes Byakuran would go back to Italy. "I don't know why use you would have for an engineer in your 'familigia', Byakuran-san." Shouichi's tongue trips over the unfamiliar Italian word, and he turns his attention back to his robot.
If the person talking to him had been anyone else but Byakuran, Shouichi would have turned his music up and put his headphones on. Byakuran had been known to snip headset cords though, and Shouichi rather liked this pair of headphones.
"You'd be surprised, Shou-chan." And it's Byakuran's overly familiar manner of address that gets Shouichi teased by his fellow students. "Here, catch."
Out of the corner of his eye Shouichi notes and object heading straight for him. It's more a testament to Byakuran's aim than Shouichi's reflexes that Shouichi catches it. "What is this?" Shouichi looks at the box. It's pretty looking, enameled and looks rather like a music box actually. Shouichi peers at it. There's a place to insert something, something around the shape and size of a finger. Some sort of key?
"It's a box." Byakuran says, like that explains it all.
Shouichi turns to tell Byakuran that yes, he KNOWS it's a box, but then he sees Byakuran hold up one hand dramatically, the ring on his finger glowing softly, before he inserts his finger into the box. Within the next few seconds, Shouichi's computer shorts out, his robot spasms frantically, the room appears to warp and *change*, and Shouichi is rather sure his heart has stopped.
"See?" Byakuran smiles, the ring turning to dust and falling to the floor. "It's a box."
"What…" Shouichi's breath catches in his throat. He doesn't know what just happened. He has to study it, analyze the reactions, test the… the box. "What is it?"
"A family secret." And Byakuran plucks the box he had handed to Shouichi out of his limp grasp, holds the box up to the light and jiggles it around. "You seem like a sun attribute, Shou-chan. Would you like to see what kind of animal your box will produce?" Byakuran holds out a ring to Shouichi. "But only if you join the family."
And even after years of bad dreams, and careful relationships that can be severed without pain, Shouichi knows that he's going to take that ring. He's going to take that ring, and end up in a world of trouble, and he's so, so screwed.
But he wants to know more about that box. "…I don't have to get a tattoo do I?"
Byakuran's laughter makes Shouichi blush, but Byakuran hands over both the ring and the box, then ruffles Shouichi's hair. "It'll be a pleasure having you around, Shou-chan."
And I totally just realized how much like getting married becoming a 'Guardian' is. XD
"Shouichi, would you like to join my family?"
Shouichi's bent over his computer, his robot whirring and beeping and lights lighting up and then turning off, all systems go, but his brain has stuttered to a slight halt. "B-Byakuran-san?" Shouichi turns to give Byakuran a look that is half questioning and half morbid curiosity. It is also a third appalled and a fourth confused, but we'll ignore that for now.
Byakuran smiled at Shouichi, and Shouichi is once again feeling that familiar twist and turn of a twin stomachache and headache combined. Ever since that first meeting on campus over Choice Byakuran had begun draping himself over Shouichi during his general education classes, chatting him up in the halls, and finally invading Shouichi's fortress of solitude in order to watch Shouichi work.
"As husband and wife, of course." Byakuran says, still with that ever annoying smile. Then he laughs as Shouichi's third appalled easily out weighs his questioning and curiosity. "I'm kidding Shou-chan! I meant my familigia, of course."
Byakuran has made no secret that he is the son of a powerful man in Italy, a man who's power quite probably extends to at least infringe on Japan. Shouichi has made no secret that he wants no part in it, whatever it is Byakuran's father does, and whatever it is Byakuran is planning to do. Shouichi's contact with 'familigia' brings back memories of a young boy in cow pajamas, and a baby with a gun. Shouichi does not know why Byakuran came to Waseda University for an International Liberal Studies degree, but part of him wishes Byakuran would go back to Italy. "I don't know why use you would have for an engineer in your 'familigia', Byakuran-san." Shouichi's tongue trips over the unfamiliar Italian word, and he turns his attention back to his robot.
If the person talking to him had been anyone else but Byakuran, Shouichi would have turned his music up and put his headphones on. Byakuran had been known to snip headset cords though, and Shouichi rather liked this pair of headphones.
"You'd be surprised, Shou-chan." And it's Byakuran's overly familiar manner of address that gets Shouichi teased by his fellow students. "Here, catch."
Out of the corner of his eye Shouichi notes and object heading straight for him. It's more a testament to Byakuran's aim than Shouichi's reflexes that Shouichi catches it. "What is this?" Shouichi looks at the box. It's pretty looking, enameled and looks rather like a music box actually. Shouichi peers at it. There's a place to insert something, something around the shape and size of a finger. Some sort of key?
"It's a box." Byakuran says, like that explains it all.
Shouichi turns to tell Byakuran that yes, he KNOWS it's a box, but then he sees Byakuran hold up one hand dramatically, the ring on his finger glowing softly, before he inserts his finger into the box. Within the next few seconds, Shouichi's computer shorts out, his robot spasms frantically, the room appears to warp and *change*, and Shouichi is rather sure his heart has stopped.
"See?" Byakuran smiles, the ring turning to dust and falling to the floor. "It's a box."
"What…" Shouichi's breath catches in his throat. He doesn't know what just happened. He has to study it, analyze the reactions, test the… the box. "What is it?"
"A family secret." And Byakuran plucks the box he had handed to Shouichi out of his limp grasp, holds the box up to the light and jiggles it around. "You seem like a sun attribute, Shou-chan. Would you like to see what kind of animal your box will produce?" Byakuran holds out a ring to Shouichi. "But only if you join the family."
And even after years of bad dreams, and careful relationships that can be severed without pain, Shouichi knows that he's going to take that ring. He's going to take that ring, and end up in a world of trouble, and he's so, so screwed.
But he wants to know more about that box. "…I don't have to get a tattoo do I?"
Byakuran's laughter makes Shouichi blush, but Byakuran hands over both the ring and the box, then ruffles Shouichi's hair. "It'll be a pleasure having you around, Shou-chan."
And I totally just realized how much like getting married becoming a 'Guardian' is. XD
