Title: Monster
Fandom: Pucca
Character(s): Garu, Pucca
Genre: Angst, romance
Rating: K/G
Disclaimers: Pucca © Boo-Kyung Kim and Calvin Kim
Notes: This story was something I wrote in response to a challenge my friend and I were doing. We each came up with pairings and/or characters we liked, and the other person matched those pairings and/or characters with prompts they came up with. This is the story I came up with based on the prompt monster I got for the pairing Garu/Pucca. I apologize if it's unclear, but it was really all I could come up with at the time.
Summary: "When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
Monster
She ran toward him. If she caught him, she would embrace him with a strength that belied her young-girl appearance. She would give him kisses he didn't want, she would interfere with his training, and she would bother him to no end. It didn't matter how many times he declined her advances. It didn't matter how annoyed he was with her, that he was frustrated with her selfish desire to have him. It didn't matter what he wanted…She claimed to love him, and persisted in her mission to claim his heart as forever hers. Whenever she was around, he would find no peace.
She scared him.
He ran away from her. He didn't have a choice - he couldn't be distracted by her silly antics of affection. He had to improve his skills…no matter what it cost him. It didn't matter how he constantly pushed her away and had no time to notice how she already surpassed his expertise so naturally. It didn't matter how he tried to ignore all the times she helped him, tried to forget the anger he felt when someone spoke badly of her…It didn't matter that he tried not to hug her back when she caught him…that he tried not to think of how dedicated she was…tried not to notice how she radiated when she smiled. He claimed to hate her, and it didn't matter…because in the end, all that mattered was his honor. That's all that could matter. Whenever he was alone, his heart would give him no rest.
He frightened himself.