Saiyuki Gaiden: Tenpou/Kenren
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kinkfestFandom: Saiyuki Gaiden: Tenpou/Kenren
Title: Darkness: It Walks Softly in from Shadow
Author: i_am_zan
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None, unfortunately. Very sorry about that.
Word count: 580
Summary: Prompt – History repeats itself - “Who wants to live forever?”
Darkness: It Walks Softly in from Shadow by Zan
Is it like this when future histories and past lives collide
…and moments in time cross paths? Perhaps.
The light of Heaven is perpetual. Or rather it used to be. Kami walk amongst each other going about their business and the light is whatever any individual wants it to be. If you want your days and nights to be so broken, into days and nights, you make it so. If you see the light change as a suffusion of one shade into the next then you will, just so you can split one moment from the next. Then the shadows will lengthen and move as you wish.
It is how it is. Unchanging things are always boring.
…
The darkness came in softly and then it was everywhere. You could say that a force equaling heaven’s might came through it and shook its foundations. You smiled behind your hand, not quite polite and charming as always. How else could you be? You are all merciful and watching is what you do.
…
The general washed his mouth out and spit out the browned water with its flecks of dried blood into the washbasin. He was lucky, he supposed. It was not bad, after all the alternative was spending forever in one of Heaven’s cells. The flecks left odd stains, like strands of red hair in the sink and when he looked into the mirror there was the face of a man he did not know looking back at him with red eyes, red hair and two tracks like red tears down the left side of his face. For the merest moment there in the pit of his stomach is a loss and void he could not touch. The feeling was gone between one moment to the next. Kenren reached out to touch the image and found that once again the image was his familiar self again - his mark, his dark eyes and hair. He let out his breath nice and slow. He wondered at that strangeness and then thought no more of it, but just to be on the safe side – he went to look for Tenpou Gensui. Whatever feelings he had for his Supreme Commander, Kenren was grateful that Goujun had seen fit to free him.
…
Tenpou Gensui was momentarily in shock. In as much as Gokuu was after he witnessed Nataku turning his own sword upon his self in defiance of his father’s orders. The splintering crack was loud and thunderous in the Gensui’s ear. In that moment superimposed upon the young feral creature that was Seiten Taisei, was another. A man as feral and wild in look as Gokuu was in that moment and unseeing. With a sword, or it could have been a knife, Tenpou was uncertain. It was so fast, how the image came and went. Instead of dead Kami and the courtiers in the grand hall where light was beginning to darken with the shadow of blood. The hall he saw in his mind’s eye was dark already with the dead and dying but they were youkai and not Kami. It was night there, and here the night was just beginning.
“Now then, would you all mind getting out of the way and letting us through,” Tenpou Gensui gripped his sword firmly but gently underneath his Supreme Commander’s chin.
He made his mind up, Kenren did too. They did not want to live forever and would happily settle for death. So, together they would fight.
Fin
Title: Darkness: It Walks Softly in from Shadow
Author: i_am_zan
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None, unfortunately. Very sorry about that.
Word count: 580
Summary: Prompt – History repeats itself - “Who wants to live forever?”
Darkness: It Walks Softly in from Shadow by Zan
Is it like this when future histories and past lives collide
…and moments in time cross paths? Perhaps.
The light of Heaven is perpetual. Or rather it used to be. Kami walk amongst each other going about their business and the light is whatever any individual wants it to be. If you want your days and nights to be so broken, into days and nights, you make it so. If you see the light change as a suffusion of one shade into the next then you will, just so you can split one moment from the next. Then the shadows will lengthen and move as you wish.
It is how it is. Unchanging things are always boring.
…
The darkness came in softly and then it was everywhere. You could say that a force equaling heaven’s might came through it and shook its foundations. You smiled behind your hand, not quite polite and charming as always. How else could you be? You are all merciful and watching is what you do.
…
The general washed his mouth out and spit out the browned water with its flecks of dried blood into the washbasin. He was lucky, he supposed. It was not bad, after all the alternative was spending forever in one of Heaven’s cells. The flecks left odd stains, like strands of red hair in the sink and when he looked into the mirror there was the face of a man he did not know looking back at him with red eyes, red hair and two tracks like red tears down the left side of his face. For the merest moment there in the pit of his stomach is a loss and void he could not touch. The feeling was gone between one moment to the next. Kenren reached out to touch the image and found that once again the image was his familiar self again - his mark, his dark eyes and hair. He let out his breath nice and slow. He wondered at that strangeness and then thought no more of it, but just to be on the safe side – he went to look for Tenpou Gensui. Whatever feelings he had for his Supreme Commander, Kenren was grateful that Goujun had seen fit to free him.
…
Tenpou Gensui was momentarily in shock. In as much as Gokuu was after he witnessed Nataku turning his own sword upon his self in defiance of his father’s orders. The splintering crack was loud and thunderous in the Gensui’s ear. In that moment superimposed upon the young feral creature that was Seiten Taisei, was another. A man as feral and wild in look as Gokuu was in that moment and unseeing. With a sword, or it could have been a knife, Tenpou was uncertain. It was so fast, how the image came and went. Instead of dead Kami and the courtiers in the grand hall where light was beginning to darken with the shadow of blood. The hall he saw in his mind’s eye was dark already with the dead and dying but they were youkai and not Kami. It was night there, and here the night was just beginning.
“Now then, would you all mind getting out of the way and letting us through,” Tenpou Gensui gripped his sword firmly but gently underneath his Supreme Commander’s chin.
He made his mind up, Kenren did too. They did not want to live forever and would happily settle for death. So, together they would fight.
Fin
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Date: 2007-10-08 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 12:10 am (UTC)thank you for liking it. ^_^
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Date: 2007-10-09 12:14 pm (UTC)This was actually my prompt--I'm not writing this round, but did put in a request or two, and this was an excellent match. Thanks so much for writing this! ^_^
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Date: 2007-10-09 01:29 pm (UTC)Thank YOU for posting the prompt, and I am so glad you like it. ^__^