Ficlet // The Third Side // AkixToki
Title: The Third Side
Author/Artist: Ekachi
Pairing: AkiraxTokito.
Theme: #6. the space between dream and reality
Disclaimer: SDK ain’t mine
Note: for my 30 kisses challenge. I thought I'd post it here, too. thank yew, xskadi~ you make my life sound better.
Akira never quite knows which is which. How can he tell?
In dreams, he sees the faceless streets where hunger reigns, and everything he saw before he put his eyes out; in the mornings, he sees nothing but shadows. In dreams, he watches Kyo walk away again and again and again, like a ballad on repeat; in the mornings, he sees nothing but sounds and scents and the tingling of air. Which is the dream and which was the reality, he can never really tell.
There are two sides to every coin, and there are two worlds to Akira - yet they both feel the same to him, most of the time. The same darkness, the same misery.
Then he met Tokito.
When he met (or tried to kill) Tokito, he learned that there really are three sides to the coin. And her eyes, her chin, her lips, her nose, her hair, her neck, her arms, her fingers, her legs - they all belong to the third side.
In fact, they are the only things that belong to it - the only things that exist. And this little space between dream and reality is all so foreign to him, but feels rather nice.
After he met Tokito, he has stopped trying to figure out which is reality and which is a dream altogether. All that really matters is the odd space between, the third universe - the place where Tokito lives.
He only got a glimpse of this place, of course, but that doesn’t matter. He’ll get back there.
He will, once he tricks her into kissing him.