xxxHOLiC: General Series, 086 Choices
Title: Overflowing Lonesome
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Characters: General (Watanuki Kimihiro, Domeki Shizuka, Lady who lost her son)
Prompt: 086. Choices
Word Count: 184
Rating: G
Summary: A piece concerning Watanuki dealing with his loneliness.
Author's Notes: Set during Volume 6 during the Lady who lost her son story.
Here is a boy with no family. Here is a boy alone. He has only one friend that the world could see. And many friends that the world could not see. He is in love with a cheerful sunflower. And is entrapped by a sulky witch.
One day the boy with no family met a lady who had lost her family, an elegant older woman in a traditional kimono. Everyday he would meet her in the park. And everyday he grew weaker and weaker.
Despite warnings, he chose to visit the lady who had lost her family. She had told him she was lonely. His one friend that the world could see followed and saw through the elegant older woman in a traditional kimono. Could see everything that was behind her and knew she was not human after all. Shooting an arrow through her despite the boy with no family's plea.
In despair and betrayal the boy with no family asked, "Was it because she wasn't human?"
"No," said his one friend that the world could see. "It's just what I chose to do."
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Characters: General (Watanuki Kimihiro, Domeki Shizuka, Lady who lost her son)
Prompt: 086. Choices
Word Count: 184
Rating: G
Summary: A piece concerning Watanuki dealing with his loneliness.
Author's Notes: Set during Volume 6 during the Lady who lost her son story.
Here is a boy with no family. Here is a boy alone. He has only one friend that the world could see. And many friends that the world could not see. He is in love with a cheerful sunflower. And is entrapped by a sulky witch.
One day the boy with no family met a lady who had lost her family, an elegant older woman in a traditional kimono. Everyday he would meet her in the park. And everyday he grew weaker and weaker.
Despite warnings, he chose to visit the lady who had lost her family. She had told him she was lonely. His one friend that the world could see followed and saw through the elegant older woman in a traditional kimono. Could see everything that was behind her and knew she was not human after all. Shooting an arrow through her despite the boy with no family's plea.
In despair and betrayal the boy with no family asked, "Was it because she wasn't human?"
"No," said his one friend that the world could see. "It's just what I chose to do."