50 scenes - Sacrifice
Title: By The River
Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho
Characters: Keiko, mentions of Yusuke.
Genre: Angst
Prompt: Table 3, Prompt #49 - Sacrifice
Word Count: 362
Rating: PG
Summary: She was alone, full of unexpressed emotions and left throwing rocks at a river like some forgotten child. She hated to be left behind.
Warnings: None.
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A lone figure of a girl stood atop a sloping embankment. The sun sank down behind her shoulders, behind the suburban backdrop, leaving the sky a careless splash of orange and red; colors of sunset, familiar colors of the girl's childhood. Soft nostalgia wavered behind her brown eyes.
Keiko stared down at the modest river before her, the vibrant shades of the water doing nothing to change her pensive expression. Her body stood rigid against the emotional chains that pulled her towards the embankment, refusing to move even as certain memories flashed through her vision and threatened her with tears.
She remained rooted to the spot for a while, seeming to resent the peaceful scenery until at last she slid down the hill, the grass prickling her ankles.
She had seen this backdrop in her dreams many times the past few weeks, and so avoided this place like a cursed zone. The final reality of it slapped her in the face and stung her in the chest; right where she kept the memories of that stupid boy. The atmosphere would have been beautiful, had he not tainted it with such a bittersweet tone that she couldn't shake still. She had been left behind.
He reasoned with her before he said his last sayonara and before he walked out into the night like a fleeting shadow. In the end Keiko could do nothing but send meaningful glances at his back. He didn't turn around once. He never kept his promise to light up shady circumstances when she fumbled around in the dark. She hadn't understood anything.
Yusuke couldn't take her with him anymore. She couldn't help him anymore, he had to find his purpose on his own. It wasn't his fault. She knew that. He had no choice but to make her his sacrifice.
Keiko picked up a rock and hurled it at the river.
She did this repeatedly until an frustrated cry flew from her lips.
"Yusuke you jerk! Is that all there is to this? Well I don't need you then, you jerk! I don't need you!"
She imagined his reflection grinning at her from the waters surface.
She shattered the image with the biggest rock she could find.
Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho
Characters: Keiko, mentions of Yusuke.
Genre: Angst
Prompt: Table 3, Prompt #49 - Sacrifice
Word Count: 362
Rating: PG
Summary: She was alone, full of unexpressed emotions and left throwing rocks at a river like some forgotten child. She hated to be left behind.
Warnings: None.
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xxx
xx
A lone figure of a girl stood atop a sloping embankment. The sun sank down behind her shoulders, behind the suburban backdrop, leaving the sky a careless splash of orange and red; colors of sunset, familiar colors of the girl's childhood. Soft nostalgia wavered behind her brown eyes.
Keiko stared down at the modest river before her, the vibrant shades of the water doing nothing to change her pensive expression. Her body stood rigid against the emotional chains that pulled her towards the embankment, refusing to move even as certain memories flashed through her vision and threatened her with tears.
She remained rooted to the spot for a while, seeming to resent the peaceful scenery until at last she slid down the hill, the grass prickling her ankles.
She had seen this backdrop in her dreams many times the past few weeks, and so avoided this place like a cursed zone. The final reality of it slapped her in the face and stung her in the chest; right where she kept the memories of that stupid boy. The atmosphere would have been beautiful, had he not tainted it with such a bittersweet tone that she couldn't shake still. She had been left behind.
He reasoned with her before he said his last sayonara and before he walked out into the night like a fleeting shadow. In the end Keiko could do nothing but send meaningful glances at his back. He didn't turn around once. He never kept his promise to light up shady circumstances when she fumbled around in the dark. She hadn't understood anything.
Yusuke couldn't take her with him anymore. She couldn't help him anymore, he had to find his purpose on his own. It wasn't his fault. She knew that. He had no choice but to make her his sacrifice.
Keiko picked up a rock and hurled it at the river.
She did this repeatedly until an frustrated cry flew from her lips.
"Yusuke you jerk! Is that all there is to this? Well I don't need you then, you jerk! I don't need you!"
She imagined his reflection grinning at her from the waters surface.
She shattered the image with the biggest rock she could find.