[Tsubasa fanfiction] Cliches Sometimes Ring True
Title: Cliches Sometimes Ring True
Prompt: March 5, 2009 ~ home is no longer a thing with walls of stone and windows of glass
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Pairing: KuroFai
SPOILERS: Up through the Clow arc
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In one of the worlds they passed through, there was a saying. Home is where the heart is.
Posted to 31_days, kuroganefai, kuroxfai and clampfiction.
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They've been travelling for a long time now, and the travelling has changed them.
Some of the changes are big. Or maybe 'big' isn't the right word. Some of the changes are huge, life-altering things that have changed their viewpoint on everything they knew and held dear. Everything.
But some of the changes are small, subtle things you don't notice until they're brought to your attention.
Fai saw reflected in Ashura-ou's eyes how much he had changed, and how the king was glad he had.
Kurogane saw in Tomoyo-hime's smile how much he had changed, and how the princess had known all along that he would.
Subtle changes. Changes that had twined them together, like branches of two different trees planted too close together, so that when they grow they tangle and twist. They were still separate, still distinct and very different, but trying to separate them now would kill them both.
Their paths had originally been very different, their wishes about as opposite as you could get. But the journey had changed them, turned them toward each other as everything else fell apart.
They walked together now, for good or ill, in unspoken agreement that never needed words. They moved as one, fought as one. Whether they fought for the princess and the boy who'd twisted time for his own selfish gain, or whether they fought for each other, or whether they fought for some ethereal future that they may or may not ever reach, neither of them was really sure. But they fought anyway, and fought hard.
In one of the worlds they'd passed through, there had been a saying. It was oft-repeated enough that it had probably been a cliche there, but for them, at least, it was true.
Home is where the heart is.
They were too war-torn, too restless to find peace in Nihon, and Celes was no more. And staying in Clow would hurt far, far too much.
Two wanderers, tattered and scarred, but that was okay.
They'd found home.
Prompt: March 5, 2009 ~ home is no longer a thing with walls of stone and windows of glass
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Pairing: KuroFai
SPOILERS: Up through the Clow arc
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In one of the worlds they passed through, there was a saying. Home is where the heart is.
Posted to 31_days, kuroganefai, kuroxfai and clampfiction.
~*~
They've been travelling for a long time now, and the travelling has changed them.
Some of the changes are big. Or maybe 'big' isn't the right word. Some of the changes are huge, life-altering things that have changed their viewpoint on everything they knew and held dear. Everything.
But some of the changes are small, subtle things you don't notice until they're brought to your attention.
Fai saw reflected in Ashura-ou's eyes how much he had changed, and how the king was glad he had.
Kurogane saw in Tomoyo-hime's smile how much he had changed, and how the princess had known all along that he would.
Subtle changes. Changes that had twined them together, like branches of two different trees planted too close together, so that when they grow they tangle and twist. They were still separate, still distinct and very different, but trying to separate them now would kill them both.
Their paths had originally been very different, their wishes about as opposite as you could get. But the journey had changed them, turned them toward each other as everything else fell apart.
They walked together now, for good or ill, in unspoken agreement that never needed words. They moved as one, fought as one. Whether they fought for the princess and the boy who'd twisted time for his own selfish gain, or whether they fought for each other, or whether they fought for some ethereal future that they may or may not ever reach, neither of them was really sure. But they fought anyway, and fought hard.
In one of the worlds they'd passed through, there had been a saying. It was oft-repeated enough that it had probably been a cliche there, but for them, at least, it was true.
Home is where the heart is.
They were too war-torn, too restless to find peace in Nihon, and Celes was no more. And staying in Clow would hurt far, far too much.
Two wanderers, tattered and scarred, but that was okay.
They'd found home.