Comfortable Silence (Touya/Yukito, Fujitaka/Nadeshiko)

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Comm: 30_lessons 
Words: 263
Title: Comfortable Silence
Author: rhap_chan
Pairing: Kinomoto Fujitaka/Kinomoto Nadeshiko, Kinomoto Touya/Tsukihiro Yukito
Theme: 3. Function Words and Content Words [Parts of Speech]
Genre: romance/fluff
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura belongs to CLAMP.
Summary/Notes/Warnings: Body language is a part of speech, and to the Kinomoto's, body language is sometimes all you need. Short.

 

From a distance, it might have looked like they didn't know each other very well. When they passed in the hallway, there were two casual waves. A nod in the cafeteria. He held the door for her when they left in the evening. But that's not it at all.

They knew each other very well; they came home to the same house each night and even the same bed. How often, those who knew them wondered, did two people become so in tune with each other that no words were needed? They spoke with gestures and smiles.

I love you... she had said, crossing--no leaping--that gap between student and teacher. And after that, nothing important remained to be said. Their hearts spoke.

That was how Touya understood it, anyway. He remembered the early quiet in his home, before the kaijuu came along and laughter came more often until the painful silence began. Then, his father was silent, but not because he was happy.

Lately Touya was noticing that he and Yuki spoke less and less together. They did their homework, they lay on his bed and slept or held hands. The hand-holding was new. Touya grabbed his hand the last time one of Yuki's admirers tried to talk the boy into dinner and a movie, and it made her leave quick. When Touya loosened his grip, Yuki smiled and said, "You don't have to let go."

It wasn't all that needed to be said, but Touya was working up his courage to say, "I love you." Until then, they could always wait in comfortable silence.