[Brainstorm] Cicada Requiem
Title: Cicada Requiem
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairings: Yukimura x Yanagi, Sanada x Yanagi, Akaya x Yanagi
Rating: R
Notes: 鬼畜腹黑攻#1， 闷骚深情攻#2，忠犬健气攻#3，隐忍淡泊受
NOTES: This is not an actual story. But, it's special so it gets its own entry and setup. :)
Cicada Requiem
~空蟬安魂曲~
Summary: AU. One shot.
Genre: Angst / Drama
NOTES: ANGST. Dark themes. Hints of lime. Twisted!Yukimura. Seme!Yukimura. Uke!Yanagi. Blood. Alternating POVs.
Heart and Body separation
MAJOR angst
dominance and submission relationship
SMUT & MADNESS 风狂！！！
sleep, burial
lotus blossoms
carved out heart
[BGM: Jia Peng Fang - "A Water Lily"]
[BGM: Kagamine Rin - "Iroha song"]
[BGM: Rin' - "Ranka"]
[BGM: Jay Chou - "Hair Like Snow"]
Sanada: 强占了，便是毁了他；放了，便是亲手给他幸福
I. Yanagi
-Akuto: "每个人......终于都会找到归宿." "Everyone will eventually find where they truly belong."
-Yana: (remembers Akuto's words before the other left Rikkai to become a wanderer)
-but of course, he didn't know what Akuto-nisan meant only until later
-Yana: (lives in isolation in a little cottage in a woodland area that is the extention of Yuki's large residence) (little cottage near lotus pond)
-Yuki: (put Yana in isolation after he requested to leave with Inui to become wanderers)
-Yana: (broke friendship with Yuki) (when he found he had no way of escaping, he tried committing suicide)
-saved by Sanada; Sana slapped him and lectured some sense into him
-gets hopeful b/c at least Sana still cares for him and is his friend
-gets will to live on
-Yuki: (puts certain drug into Yana's food - Yana will never get hurt b/c wounds heal by self)
-Yana: (taking walk in snowy forest) (sees a rare sight - a cicada perching on the tree bark) (knows the cicada won't be able to survive b/c Rikkai = eternal winter)
-cups cicada in palms, keeps in little box in room to keep cicada alive just a little longer
-Sana: (comes to drink sake with Yana)
-Yana: (enjoys little time they have together) (suddenly feels numbed by ETOH & drops to floor)
-looks incredulous at Sana: "You..."
-Sana: (shocked too) (goes numb & drops to floor) (cries out to guards outside)
-Yuki: (comes in) (no guard follow)
-feeds Sana aphrodisiac
-Sana: (struggles, pounces on him) (SMUT)
-Yana: (for a few days after event, Yana sits like a sculpture carved from ice)
-Sana: (disappears for a few days, comes back to apologize to Yana) (and that was the last time Yana ever seens him) (because they remind each other of their shame)
-Yana: just sits there
-Yuki: (comes everyday to sleep with Yana) (sometimes he takes it further than just sleeping)
-Yana: (lets him do whatever)
-one day, laying in bed with Yuki
His dreams are turbulent at night. And his dreams are always the same.
He always dreams of his death. He dreamed of his younger self, when he still had the straight shoulder-length hair. He saw his petite figure wielding a blade, and the blade always piercing his heart.
He always dreamed of his own death.
But then, he awakes and he witnessed the sunrise yet once more.
At first, he saw the dream as a omen, a sign, something that could help him be released from this prison.
But no matter how many blades, big and small, he plunged into his flesh, he would always be revived. He witnessed again and again the sun rising in the distance day after day.
-sees the tanto (短刀) Yuki carries with him; hides under pillow
-once Yuki leaves, Yana plunges blade into chest, just pain, and a few droplets of blood
-Yuki: (opens shoji door behind him)
-"No one can take your life, not even yourself. Your body belongs entirely to me. I am the only one who can end your life."
-bends and kisses the sealing wound at his left chest
-Yana: (realizes that it must be one of Yuki's concocted drugs)
-He should have known that Yuki wouldn't let such a thing in his sight; he left the blade out on purpose, to mock him.
-Yuki: "The day of my death will be the day of yours. I've already made our burial ground." (points to lotus pond that could be seen from window) "We'll become fertilizer of beauty."
-after event, Yana stops talking altogether
-reads, makes tea (though, it took him a long time before he could conduct a proper tea ceremony. Tea ceremonies emphasized purity. But his body had already been tainted so many times)
-sometimes, he would stare out the window, and wonder what lied beyond the field of white
-opens little box where the cicada crawled and wonder if a cicada that didn't belong here could come here, why couldn't he go out
-cicada eventually dies; Yana finds it ironic how as much protection as he gave to the insect he still dies
-maybe it was the environment, whene something doesn't belong, it doesn't belong, there was no forcing anything
-couldn't help but wonder if he would be like this cicade: if his wish is fulfilled, and he is freed, he wonders if he will be able to adapt to the outside environment; or if he would end up like this cicada
-one day, Yana gets visitor (Aka)
-got lost and wondered into wood
-Yana: (hides Aka in antique room b/c Yuki and Yana hardly go there)
-Aka: (never seen someone so clean) (gets attracted to Yana immediately)
-Yana: (treats Aka like a respected guest)
-Aka: (stays for a week) (they talk about the outside world, about Aka's hometown in the south, where it is always summer)
-Yana: (gets dreamy) "I would like to go to such a place..."
-Aka: "Come on. We can go together!"
-Yana: (only smiles in resignation) (doesn't say anything)
-one day, Yuki visits unexpectedly; Yana + Aka caught off guard
-Yana: (pushes Aka to veranda, closes shoji door behind him)
-Yuki: says he was going to go to war with Seigaku: "They are a strong opponent."
-"So, Renji, this might be the last time..." (pushes Yana to floor and tops him)
-Yuki, leaves after activity
-Yana: (struggles up) (legs still trembling) (Yuki is rougher than usual; left a lot of bites marks that broke his skin) (puts on yukata with difficulty) (opens shoji door)
-Aka: (still outside) (looks at Yana with eyes tainted with ruby emotions)
-Yana: (looks away) (feels even more tainted under Aka's gaze)
"Please leave." (turns)
-Aka: (embraces Yana from behind) "Le'ts go. Let's get out of here."
-Yana: (tells him that his body is already used to this place, sadly)
-asks for request; Aka agrees
-Yana: gives him cicada in box, and cuts out heart
-last thing he feels is a warm pair of hands severing the last attaching artery in his heart
II. Kirihara
He met someone who lived in a snowy country in the cold north.
The country was pure white all year round. Covered in layers and layers of snow. Thin in the summer. Thick in the winter.
He remembered telling that person about his origins, about his home in the south, where the weather was like summer all year round. The place where it never snowed. Ever.
Then, the other told him he would like to go to such a place. Since he lived in the cold his whole entire life.
At that time, he didn't think much. Excitement took him and he offered to take him to his country. The other only smiled and said nothing.
He really cursed his stupidity at that time. He didn't know that the other couldn't go anywhere. Not even in his home country. He wasn't allowed to walk on the streets in his country, let alone his.
He was being held captive. In that little cottage by the lotus pond. Held captive, stripped of his identity to become a lowly plaything for the country's leader.
He remembered when he told him he was tired. Tired of living a nonexistent life. He said he wanted to go with him back to his country. Even if his masters come chasing after him. Regardless. It didn't matter.
He took part in his release too. He racked his brains out, trying to think of a perfect plan that could be executed to produce the other's freedom.
But they ended up using no plan at all. The other' needed no plan, because he wasn't going to leave his cottage, his country. Physically.
Only, he plunged a sharp blade into the flesh at his left chest. Opened up the cut, dragged the blade down his ribs. He neither cried out nor hesitated during the whole process. As if the body he was dissecting wasn't his own. As if he felt no pain, as if his sense of touch had been numbed.
Then, he explained his own plan. It was really more like a request. The whole time, he stood stunned, unable to believe the twisted sight before his eyes.
Only when the other began speaking did he recollect his senses.
The first thing he thought to do was to stop the other's self-mutilation. But the other stopped him with his determination.
He explained the request, the whole time, his knife gently scraping at the veins are arteries that held the cold organ in place within his chest cavity.
He told him, he could go with him physically, because they already possessed his body.
"They only thing I have left to give you is my heart."
The other laid down on his white bed. He passed him the blood stained blade. He saw how the liquid was already drying up when the chilly hit its surface.
"The last cut. Please." When he peered into the other's chest cavity, he saw the last artery bond that imprisoned his heart in his ribcage.
Ironically, all he could think of was how the scene before served as fitting analogy to the other's life of captivity.
He hesitated, looking into the other's now opened eyes. Akaya look at Renji. Renji looked at Akaya.
Until, he dipped down and pressed his lips to his for a brief moment.
Then he proceeded.
When he escaped that night, running away like a thief afraid of getting caught, all he could think of was the other's gaze. And the last glimmer of hope he saw within in his eyes before they closed forever.
(i)"Cremate it. Let the wind carry its ashes away and spread it to all the corners of your country." (i) (Yana's last words)
III. Yukimura
Yukimura: 若是我爱的人，即便摧毁了，也要留在身边
我不要温情。温情代表着更快的遗忘。
我不要遗忘。
只有疼痛，才能让你更深刻地记得我。
IV. Sanada
-Sana: (remembers the night of NCS with Yana)
-ended up cleaning Yana up afterwards, redressing him, put him in futon
-afterwards, turns, pulls blade from sheath, swings and in the blink of an eye, it's point shreds off the ends of blue hair; thinks of the despair in Yana's eyes before he fainted
-Yuki: (shrugs off sword and kneels down by Yana) (strokes cheek, stares intently at sleeping Yana)
-"Sorry, Genichirou. I can't bear the weight of his hatred." (stops and looks at him) "That's why, I had to drag you into this."
-Sana: (puts sword away) (sighs) "You're mad, Yukimura."
-Yuki: (chuckle turns into sharp laugh)
[END BGM: Morikawa Toshiyuki - "Fuyu no Semi"]
END NOTES:
Beauty and sadness cannot be separated. I'm an artist, not a writer.
I recently got hooked on this one writer's short stories. What makes his stories special is that his plots are VERY extreme. Because of this, his works really made a lasting impression. And thus, this fic is born...
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairings: Yukimura x Yanagi, Sanada x Yanagi, Akaya x Yanagi
Rating: R
Notes: 鬼畜腹黑攻#1， 闷骚深情攻#2，忠犬健气攻#3，隐忍淡泊受
NOTES: This is not an actual story. But, it's special so it gets its own entry and setup. :)
Cicada Requiem
~空蟬安魂曲~
Summary: AU. One shot.
Genre: Angst / Drama
NOTES: ANGST. Dark themes. Hints of lime. Twisted!Yukimura. Seme!Yukimura. Uke!Yanagi. Blood. Alternating POVs.
Heart and Body separation
MAJOR angst
dominance and submission relationship
SMUT & MADNESS 风狂！！！
sleep, burial
lotus blossoms
carved out heart
[BGM: Jia Peng Fang - "A Water Lily"]
[BGM: Kagamine Rin - "Iroha song"]
[BGM: Rin' - "Ranka"]
[BGM: Jay Chou - "Hair Like Snow"]
Sanada: 强占了，便是毁了他；放了，便是亲手给他幸福
I. Yanagi
-Akuto: "每个人......终于都会找到归宿." "Everyone will eventually find where they truly belong."
-Yana: (remembers Akuto's words before the other left Rikkai to become a wanderer)
-but of course, he didn't know what Akuto-nisan meant only until later
-Yana: (lives in isolation in a little cottage in a woodland area that is the extention of Yuki's large residence) (little cottage near lotus pond)
-Yuki: (put Yana in isolation after he requested to leave with Inui to become wanderers)
-Yana: (broke friendship with Yuki) (when he found he had no way of escaping, he tried committing suicide)
-saved by Sanada; Sana slapped him and lectured some sense into him
-gets hopeful b/c at least Sana still cares for him and is his friend
-gets will to live on
-Yuki: (puts certain drug into Yana's food - Yana will never get hurt b/c wounds heal by self)
-Yana: (taking walk in snowy forest) (sees a rare sight - a cicada perching on the tree bark) (knows the cicada won't be able to survive b/c Rikkai = eternal winter)
-cups cicada in palms, keeps in little box in room to keep cicada alive just a little longer
-Sana: (comes to drink sake with Yana)
-Yana: (enjoys little time they have together) (suddenly feels numbed by ETOH & drops to floor)
-looks incredulous at Sana: "You..."
-Sana: (shocked too) (goes numb & drops to floor) (cries out to guards outside)
-Yuki: (comes in) (no guard follow)
-feeds Sana aphrodisiac
-Sana: (struggles, pounces on him) (SMUT)
-Yana: (for a few days after event, Yana sits like a sculpture carved from ice)
-Sana: (disappears for a few days, comes back to apologize to Yana) (and that was the last time Yana ever seens him) (because they remind each other of their shame)
-Yana: just sits there
-Yuki: (comes everyday to sleep with Yana) (sometimes he takes it further than just sleeping)
-Yana: (lets him do whatever)
-one day, laying in bed with Yuki
His dreams are turbulent at night. And his dreams are always the same.
He always dreams of his death. He dreamed of his younger self, when he still had the straight shoulder-length hair. He saw his petite figure wielding a blade, and the blade always piercing his heart.
He always dreamed of his own death.
But then, he awakes and he witnessed the sunrise yet once more.
At first, he saw the dream as a omen, a sign, something that could help him be released from this prison.
But no matter how many blades, big and small, he plunged into his flesh, he would always be revived. He witnessed again and again the sun rising in the distance day after day.
-sees the tanto (短刀) Yuki carries with him; hides under pillow
-once Yuki leaves, Yana plunges blade into chest, just pain, and a few droplets of blood
-Yuki: (opens shoji door behind him)
-"No one can take your life, not even yourself. Your body belongs entirely to me. I am the only one who can end your life."
-bends and kisses the sealing wound at his left chest
-Yana: (realizes that it must be one of Yuki's concocted drugs)
-He should have known that Yuki wouldn't let such a thing in his sight; he left the blade out on purpose, to mock him.
-Yuki: "The day of my death will be the day of yours. I've already made our burial ground." (points to lotus pond that could be seen from window) "We'll become fertilizer of beauty."
-after event, Yana stops talking altogether
-reads, makes tea (though, it took him a long time before he could conduct a proper tea ceremony. Tea ceremonies emphasized purity. But his body had already been tainted so many times)
-sometimes, he would stare out the window, and wonder what lied beyond the field of white
-opens little box where the cicada crawled and wonder if a cicada that didn't belong here could come here, why couldn't he go out
-cicada eventually dies; Yana finds it ironic how as much protection as he gave to the insect he still dies
-maybe it was the environment, whene something doesn't belong, it doesn't belong, there was no forcing anything
-couldn't help but wonder if he would be like this cicade: if his wish is fulfilled, and he is freed, he wonders if he will be able to adapt to the outside environment; or if he would end up like this cicada
-one day, Yana gets visitor (Aka)
-got lost and wondered into wood
-Yana: (hides Aka in antique room b/c Yuki and Yana hardly go there)
-Aka: (never seen someone so clean) (gets attracted to Yana immediately)
-Yana: (treats Aka like a respected guest)
-Aka: (stays for a week) (they talk about the outside world, about Aka's hometown in the south, where it is always summer)
-Yana: (gets dreamy) "I would like to go to such a place..."
-Aka: "Come on. We can go together!"
-Yana: (only smiles in resignation) (doesn't say anything)
-one day, Yuki visits unexpectedly; Yana + Aka caught off guard
-Yana: (pushes Aka to veranda, closes shoji door behind him)
-Yuki: says he was going to go to war with Seigaku: "They are a strong opponent."
-"So, Renji, this might be the last time..." (pushes Yana to floor and tops him)
-Yuki, leaves after activity
-Yana: (struggles up) (legs still trembling) (Yuki is rougher than usual; left a lot of bites marks that broke his skin) (puts on yukata with difficulty) (opens shoji door)
-Aka: (still outside) (looks at Yana with eyes tainted with ruby emotions)
-Yana: (looks away) (feels even more tainted under Aka's gaze)
"Please leave." (turns)
-Aka: (embraces Yana from behind) "Le'ts go. Let's get out of here."
-Yana: (tells him that his body is already used to this place, sadly)
-asks for request; Aka agrees
-Yana: gives him cicada in box, and cuts out heart
-last thing he feels is a warm pair of hands severing the last attaching artery in his heart
II. Kirihara
He met someone who lived in a snowy country in the cold north.
The country was pure white all year round. Covered in layers and layers of snow. Thin in the summer. Thick in the winter.
He remembered telling that person about his origins, about his home in the south, where the weather was like summer all year round. The place where it never snowed. Ever.
Then, the other told him he would like to go to such a place. Since he lived in the cold his whole entire life.
At that time, he didn't think much. Excitement took him and he offered to take him to his country. The other only smiled and said nothing.
He really cursed his stupidity at that time. He didn't know that the other couldn't go anywhere. Not even in his home country. He wasn't allowed to walk on the streets in his country, let alone his.
He was being held captive. In that little cottage by the lotus pond. Held captive, stripped of his identity to become a lowly plaything for the country's leader.
He remembered when he told him he was tired. Tired of living a nonexistent life. He said he wanted to go with him back to his country. Even if his masters come chasing after him. Regardless. It didn't matter.
He took part in his release too. He racked his brains out, trying to think of a perfect plan that could be executed to produce the other's freedom.
But they ended up using no plan at all. The other' needed no plan, because he wasn't going to leave his cottage, his country. Physically.
Only, he plunged a sharp blade into the flesh at his left chest. Opened up the cut, dragged the blade down his ribs. He neither cried out nor hesitated during the whole process. As if the body he was dissecting wasn't his own. As if he felt no pain, as if his sense of touch had been numbed.
Then, he explained his own plan. It was really more like a request. The whole time, he stood stunned, unable to believe the twisted sight before his eyes.
Only when the other began speaking did he recollect his senses.
The first thing he thought to do was to stop the other's self-mutilation. But the other stopped him with his determination.
He explained the request, the whole time, his knife gently scraping at the veins are arteries that held the cold organ in place within his chest cavity.
He told him, he could go with him physically, because they already possessed his body.
"They only thing I have left to give you is my heart."
The other laid down on his white bed. He passed him the blood stained blade. He saw how the liquid was already drying up when the chilly hit its surface.
"The last cut. Please." When he peered into the other's chest cavity, he saw the last artery bond that imprisoned his heart in his ribcage.
Ironically, all he could think of was how the scene before served as fitting analogy to the other's life of captivity.
He hesitated, looking into the other's now opened eyes. Akaya look at Renji. Renji looked at Akaya.
Until, he dipped down and pressed his lips to his for a brief moment.
Then he proceeded.
When he escaped that night, running away like a thief afraid of getting caught, all he could think of was the other's gaze. And the last glimmer of hope he saw within in his eyes before they closed forever.
(i)"Cremate it. Let the wind carry its ashes away and spread it to all the corners of your country." (i) (Yana's last words)
III. Yukimura
Yukimura: 若是我爱的人，即便摧毁了，也要留在身边
我不要温情。温情代表着更快的遗忘。
我不要遗忘。
只有疼痛，才能让你更深刻地记得我。
IV. Sanada
-Sana: (remembers the night of NCS with Yana)
-ended up cleaning Yana up afterwards, redressing him, put him in futon
-afterwards, turns, pulls blade from sheath, swings and in the blink of an eye, it's point shreds off the ends of blue hair; thinks of the despair in Yana's eyes before he fainted
-Yuki: (shrugs off sword and kneels down by Yana) (strokes cheek, stares intently at sleeping Yana)
-"Sorry, Genichirou. I can't bear the weight of his hatred." (stops and looks at him) "That's why, I had to drag you into this."
-Sana: (puts sword away) (sighs) "You're mad, Yukimura."
-Yuki: (chuckle turns into sharp laugh)
[END BGM: Morikawa Toshiyuki - "Fuyu no Semi"]
END NOTES:
Beauty and sadness cannot be separated. I'm an artist, not a writer.
I recently got hooked on this one writer's short stories. What makes his stories special is that his plots are VERY extreme. Because of this, his works really made a lasting impression. And thus, this fic is born...