storypaint | untitled (Touya/Yukito)

Title: Yukito
Length: 410 words
Prompt: 365characters character sketch
Pairing: Touya/Yukito
Other: n/a
Excerpt: But Yukito had Yue, and that taught him a lot about appearing to be someone else.

Yukito wouldn't understand duality if he hadn't been experiencing it himself. He didn't understand liars' motivations or cheaters' justifications.

But Yukito had Yue, and that taught him a lot about appearing to be someone else.

Before he knew about his other self, he did his best to dismiss the blackouts, the tiredness, the mood swings that made it difficult to be his usual friendly self. Afterwards, he continued to ignore it, hoping deep in his unconscious that Yue would go away, if only Yukito forgot him.

Sometimes Yue tended to forget Yukito was there, especially when they slept. Sometimes he awoke first, when Yukito opened his eyes but wasn't fully conscious, and the sensation of wearing someone else's body was almost unbearable. Yue curled up in his metaphysical corner and went back to sleep. In his heart of hearts, he thought that he himself might go away, if Yukito forgot him, and he didn't know where someone like himself would go.

The nights were hard, but the days belonged to Yukito alone, and they were harder. Touya cared for him, but his glances had been getting longer and longer and Yue knew the look. Clow had worn that look.

He wants to kiss you, Yue said sourly in the half-time between Yukito's sleep and waking. Startled, Yuki came totally to consciousness.

"What?" he said out loud, forgetting that Yue could hear him regardless.

He looks at you sometimes and remembers when he gave up his power, and he wants to feel your lips on his neck instead of mine, Yue said. It was a long sentence for him, and it surprised Yukito a little bit.

He might have been uncomfortable sharing his body with Yue, but he knew that the guardian wanted what was best for them both (and best for Sakura, which he thought about sometimes, but she had seemed so understanding the day he told her that Touya was his number one).

So a few days later, Touya came up beside him and clapped a friendly hand on his back, and Yuki leaned over and kissed his cheek. It was barely a touch, but it made Touya blush furiously and then turn and return the kiss deeply and fully until Yuki's head was reeling...

And because of Yue, Yuki understood duality, but there was nothing dual about this. He and Touya were whole together, and he and Yue were whole together, and the three of them were perfect.