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Title: Future
Author: anotherlazybum
Theme: Rubato
Fandom: Peace Maker Kurogane
Warnings: Implied shonen-ai. Just a tinge.
Disclaimer: Not mine...
Summary/Comments: Souji muses about the future.
Theme 3: Rubato
Rubato (Italian: stolen) :a direction to allow a player a measure of freedom in performance
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Souji has more freedom that anyone else in the Shinsengumi barracks and he knows it. Who else could get away with reading Hijikata's book of poems1 without actually dying of laughter or having their limbs lopped off by a furious Vice Commander? Or beg for money to buy sweets without being told to commit seppuku for wasting funds?
Even then, he finds himself a little envious of the Shinsengumi's “puppy” as he watches Tetsu being teased and provoked by the Comedic trio2. Souji muses that Tetsu will probably be free to grow up, leave3 and marry the little brown-haired girl that he likes so much and live happily ever after. As for him...well, Souji doesn't want a future where Shinsengumi does not exist. He wishes things would stay exactly as they are now. He cannot bring himself to see a future without Hijikata at his side grumbling about incompetent pages and spilled tea.
“Oi, shorty! How's the view down there?”
A few “thwacks” and a “foomph”later results in Tetsu having to re-wash the laundry while the others nursed bruises from the bamboo washing sticks.
Souji does not envy Tetsu much after that.
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1 In the loosest sense of the word.
2 And everyone else. It was the unofficially made the most popular past time in the Shinsengumi barracks to participate in what was known as “puppy-baiting”. Very manly in fact.
3 Pages are able to leave Shinsengumi without being told that they must leave the world too. Literally. Souji mentioned this somewhere in the manga/anime if I recall correctly.
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Author: anotherlazybum
Theme: Rubato
Fandom: Peace Maker Kurogane
Warnings: Implied shonen-ai. Just a tinge.
Disclaimer: Not mine...
Summary/Comments: Souji muses about the future.
Theme 3: Rubato
Rubato (Italian: stolen) :a direction to allow a player a measure of freedom in performance
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Souji has more freedom that anyone else in the Shinsengumi barracks and he knows it. Who else could get away with reading Hijikata's book of poems1 without actually dying of laughter or having their limbs lopped off by a furious Vice Commander? Or beg for money to buy sweets without being told to commit seppuku for wasting funds?
Even then, he finds himself a little envious of the Shinsengumi's “puppy” as he watches Tetsu being teased and provoked by the Comedic trio2. Souji muses that Tetsu will probably be free to grow up, leave3 and marry the little brown-haired girl that he likes so much and live happily ever after. As for him...well, Souji doesn't want a future where Shinsengumi does not exist. He wishes things would stay exactly as they are now. He cannot bring himself to see a future without Hijikata at his side grumbling about incompetent pages and spilled tea.
“Oi, shorty! How's the view down there?”
A few “thwacks” and a “foomph”later results in Tetsu having to re-wash the laundry while the others nursed bruises from the bamboo washing sticks.
Souji does not envy Tetsu much after that.
--
1 In the loosest sense of the word.
2 And everyone else. It was the unofficially made the most popular past time in the Shinsengumi barracks to participate in what was known as “puppy-baiting”. Very manly in fact.
3 Pages are able to leave Shinsengumi without being told that they must leave the world too. Literally. Souji mentioned this somewhere in the manga/anime if I recall correctly.
.
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