Prompt 11: Uniform
Title: Clothes Make the Man
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Uniform (fb_fics #11)
Word Count: 365
Warning: None
Summary: Clothes affect the way Momiji is treated.
The uniform seemed so strange. After years of wearing the girls uniform to school now he had decided to wear the boys’ uniform. Gone was the sailor fuku which he had worn. In its place were the jacket and slacks of his school uniform. His blond curls had been shorn. His uniqueness. What had set him apart was gone
When he put away the girls uniform, his smile went with it. Pretending to be a girl had allowed him to pretend to be happy. The stark lessons of the boys uniform and his new hair style stripped him of all pretense and exposed him for what he was. No longer allowed to pretend, he could no
longer pretend to be happy.
People began to react to him in a completely different manner. Girls who had never noticed him before found him to be a very attractive young man. He discovered that as a boy he had romantic feelings which he never felt before, but not for any of the girls who wanted him. His feelings were reserved for Torhu, but she had eyes only for Kyou.
She would never see him as a man. To her he would always be that little vulnerable bunny. But then Torhu had always been able to see through the pretense and see the real boy beneath the frills and the curls. Too bad she could not see the boy who loved her. His love for her would remain unrequited.
Clothes had made him the happy little girl who brightened everyone’s day. Clothes now made him the brooding awkward young man whom all the girls loved. Neither was really him, but people saw only what they wanted to see. Only Torhu could see the real him who cried for his mother, but she did not have eyes for him anymore.
Somehow he would have to endure. Hiding behind his mask. Clad in the uniform which made him the same as every other boy in school. Someday he would find his Torhu. The woman who could see behind the mask and see him for whom the person he really was and not the person that clothes made him appear to be.
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Uniform (fb_fics #11)
Word Count: 365
Warning: None
Summary: Clothes affect the way Momiji is treated.
The uniform seemed so strange. After years of wearing the girls uniform to school now he had decided to wear the boys’ uniform. Gone was the sailor fuku which he had worn. In its place were the jacket and slacks of his school uniform. His blond curls had been shorn. His uniqueness. What had set him apart was gone
When he put away the girls uniform, his smile went with it. Pretending to be a girl had allowed him to pretend to be happy. The stark lessons of the boys uniform and his new hair style stripped him of all pretense and exposed him for what he was. No longer allowed to pretend, he could no
longer pretend to be happy.
People began to react to him in a completely different manner. Girls who had never noticed him before found him to be a very attractive young man. He discovered that as a boy he had romantic feelings which he never felt before, but not for any of the girls who wanted him. His feelings were reserved for Torhu, but she had eyes only for Kyou.
She would never see him as a man. To her he would always be that little vulnerable bunny. But then Torhu had always been able to see through the pretense and see the real boy beneath the frills and the curls. Too bad she could not see the boy who loved her. His love for her would remain unrequited.
Clothes had made him the happy little girl who brightened everyone’s day. Clothes now made him the brooding awkward young man whom all the girls loved. Neither was really him, but people saw only what they wanted to see. Only Torhu could see the real him who cried for his mother, but she did not have eyes for him anymore.
Somehow he would have to endure. Hiding behind his mask. Clad in the uniform which made him the same as every other boy in school. Someday he would find his Torhu. The woman who could see behind the mask and see him for whom the person he really was and not the person that clothes made him appear to be.