[fanfic] Kamen Rider Kuuga
Title: Not Invincible
Fandom: Kamen Rider Kuuga
Pairing: Godai Yusuke/Ichijou Kaoru
word Count: 530 (Holy Kabuto, that's short...o.o I've never written a fic this short in my LIFE)
Disclaimer: If Godai and Ichijou were for sale, I wouldn't be able to afford them anyway. ;_;
Warning: Spoilers for episodes 18/19. and um...it might be a bit ooc...my brain just said 'write this NAO' and I haven't beta'd or edited it. >.> You've been warned. oh, yeah. and there's..um...angst.
"The time of death was confirmed at 7:44." Confirmed. Death. The words swam through the sudden fog in his mind, unable to force themselves into a type of sense. His mind refusing to accept, to understand. In the interminable space of time between one heartbeat and the next, Ichijou Kaoru's world had fallen out of balance. If he admitted it, his world had lost its balance long ago, after waking up on the shoulder of a man whose only reason for fighting was because he wanted to protect the smiles of people he would never meet. He remembered thinking that it was warm, and not an unpleasant feeling to have someone else support him, though he would never have admitted it, at the time.
Ichijou's breath stilled, unseening eyes staring at the dashboard in front of him as he slowly lowered the phone, lifeless in his small movements. In his heart, the man had always seen Godai Yusuke as being just this side of invincible. Fearless, going into battle with a smile, and coming out if not completely unharmed, then at least able to recover in a ridiculously short amount of time. A reckless idiot, who could somehow survive a fall from 50 stories, or being punched by a force that could kill another man in an instant. He shouldn't have been able to die from this. But he had. And Ichijou Kaoru, whose world had been upturned from meeting him, would never be the same again.
Dark eyes blinked back the tears that wanted to fall, his mind travelling back along the path of their friendship. Meeting the perpetually happy adventurer, their serious and not-so serious arguments, watching the clouds after a battle, or standing quietly at the shore, the soft silences meaning just as much as the spoken words. The way his heart nearly burst in his chest every time the other man fell in battle, only to have it relax once more as the brave -stupid- man picked himself back up, and continued to fight. But Godai didn't get back up. Not this time. He would never stand up and smile that lopsided smile, or hold out his hand, fingers curled together with his thumb pointing to the sky. He was gone.
White knuckles showed as the detective gripped his handphone, fighting the wave of emotion that tried to creep its way from his heart and into his mind. There was no time for that now. The unknown life form was still out there, and wallowing in depression would not catch it, or kill it. There would be no help from Kuuga, now. As his partner knocked on the car window, the sound distant and hollow to his ears, Ichijou Kaoru pushed away the emotions that he knew he would someday have to face, in favor of a cold-burning resolution. Without Godai, it would be up to him, and up to the rest of humanity to fight back against the Unknown...the time for tears and regrets would come once the world was saved. If he lived that long.
feel free to fricasee my failed Toku fic on a flame of concrit if you must. I'll be hiding in this waterfall with my muses. >.>
Fandom: Kamen Rider Kuuga
Pairing: Godai Yusuke/Ichijou Kaoru
word Count: 530 (Holy Kabuto, that's short...o.o I've never written a fic this short in my LIFE)
Disclaimer: If Godai and Ichijou were for sale, I wouldn't be able to afford them anyway. ;_;
Warning: Spoilers for episodes 18/19. and um...it might be a bit ooc...my brain just said 'write this NAO' and I haven't beta'd or edited it. >.> You've been warned. oh, yeah. and there's..um...angst.
"The time of death was confirmed at 7:44." Confirmed. Death. The words swam through the sudden fog in his mind, unable to force themselves into a type of sense. His mind refusing to accept, to understand. In the interminable space of time between one heartbeat and the next, Ichijou Kaoru's world had fallen out of balance. If he admitted it, his world had lost its balance long ago, after waking up on the shoulder of a man whose only reason for fighting was because he wanted to protect the smiles of people he would never meet. He remembered thinking that it was warm, and not an unpleasant feeling to have someone else support him, though he would never have admitted it, at the time.
Ichijou's breath stilled, unseening eyes staring at the dashboard in front of him as he slowly lowered the phone, lifeless in his small movements. In his heart, the man had always seen Godai Yusuke as being just this side of invincible. Fearless, going into battle with a smile, and coming out if not completely unharmed, then at least able to recover in a ridiculously short amount of time. A reckless idiot, who could somehow survive a fall from 50 stories, or being punched by a force that could kill another man in an instant. He shouldn't have been able to die from this. But he had. And Ichijou Kaoru, whose world had been upturned from meeting him, would never be the same again.
Dark eyes blinked back the tears that wanted to fall, his mind travelling back along the path of their friendship. Meeting the perpetually happy adventurer, their serious and not-so serious arguments, watching the clouds after a battle, or standing quietly at the shore, the soft silences meaning just as much as the spoken words. The way his heart nearly burst in his chest every time the other man fell in battle, only to have it relax once more as the brave -stupid- man picked himself back up, and continued to fight. But Godai didn't get back up. Not this time. He would never stand up and smile that lopsided smile, or hold out his hand, fingers curled together with his thumb pointing to the sky. He was gone.
White knuckles showed as the detective gripped his handphone, fighting the wave of emotion that tried to creep its way from his heart and into his mind. There was no time for that now. The unknown life form was still out there, and wallowing in depression would not catch it, or kill it. There would be no help from Kuuga, now. As his partner knocked on the car window, the sound distant and hollow to his ears, Ichijou Kaoru pushed away the emotions that he knew he would someday have to face, in favor of a cold-burning resolution. Without Godai, it would be up to him, and up to the rest of humanity to fight back against the Unknown...the time for tears and regrets would come once the world was saved. If he lived that long.
feel free to fricasee my failed Toku fic on a flame of concrit if you must. I'll be hiding in this waterfall with my muses. >.>