[_Quaintnotion AU Contest Fic] {Ruki / Reita} Carved [ 1 / 1 ]
Title: Carved
Genre: Romance ; AU ( I believe ) ; Drabble - ish
Author: rukixtora
Characters: Ruki / Reita
Chapters: 1 / 1
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Summary: "Everything was breathtaking from his eyes."
Notes: Just... bear with this story. I've been have some personal challenges lately and my imagination is really low.
Carving names on trees seems to be a popular event for teenagers. Embedding their names and the ones that they love the most, sealing the pact with a heart around the names. The trees doesn't mind it at all, knowing that one day that it's whole bark will get covered with other names from various amount of people. If carving names in a tree is so 'traditional', then why can't we carve the names in our hearts? It will stay there forever, wouldn't it?
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“Rei, can we go…?” a young voice whispered.
Another voice grunted in response, looking at the other man out of the corner of his eye before returning to his ‘project’. Sunlight crept through slight openings through the branches in the woods they were currently at, silently greeting them with warm kisses on their face. Ruki grunted in annoyance as he swatted another harmless insect away from his face, clearly getting irritated from being out here when he told the older man that he didn’t like coming out far in the outdoors like this. Lighting another cigarette, Ruki inhaled softly before allowing the smoke to exit his nose, trying to look over Reita’s shoulders to see what he was actually doing.
“Can you stop breathing on my neck?” Reita complained and soon smiled, “Don’t worry. You’ll get to see it soon enough,” he promised as he went back to concentrating on his ‘masterpiece’ - as he commented on it earlier on that day. Ruki huffed and settled back on his feet, looking around the environment he wasn’t ever familiar with before returning his attention back to the man before him, inhaling another smoke.
“All you’re doing is ruining that perfectly healthy tree by carving… I don’t know what, and allowing the pieces of the bark to float away freely like a flower petal when it clearly belongs on the tree,” Ruki began to complain himself, “We’ve been out here for hours. My feet hurt, I want to go home and be away from these insect, I want to feel protected in your arms. Can we please just go?” he pleaded.
“No,” Reita quickly stated, “I told you that I wanted to make you something and I’m not going to go anywhere until you get my present,” he said.
Ruki pursed his lips tightly, dropping the dead cigarette on the ground, stepping on it. Sighing heavily, he gazed upward towards the clouds, closing his eyes and savouring the suns warmth. He had to admit, it was pretty comfortable out here than being inside, allowing the wind to caress his face with the lightest touches imaginable, hearing the whispers and the cries of the trees whistling in the light breeze, even the scenery was beautiful. Everything was breathtaking from his eyes.
“Finished,” Reita whispered proudly before turning towards the smaller man, “Ruki?”
“Hm?” Ruki hummed unconsciously, his eyes fluttering open to see the taller man smiling at him as he tilted his head to the side, “Can I see now?”
A nod.
Ruki smiled softly before making his way towards the tree that Reita was recently occupied on, glancing over at the other man from the corner of his eyes when he took a step to the side. Eyes averting back to a small spot on the tree, Ruki blushed gently as he noticed two familiar names carved in the bark of the tree, one of which was his and the other was Reita’s, fitted perfectly in a heart around both of their names.
“Do you like it?” Reita asked, wrapping his arms around the smaller man’s waist, bring him closer. "I was trying to think of a perfect way to do this, but, this is all I came up with," he laughed slightly before grasping lightly on the other's hand, bringing it up to place the soft hand on his own name.
“Rei…” Ruki whispered between his teeth, his perfectly polished nails gently digging in to the rough texture before pulling his hand away.
“Yes?”
“Are you tell me that we’ve spent five hours out here so you can do this?”
No answer.
“Five hours that we could have been inside?”
No answer.
“Five hours that we could have been doing something else?”
The trees laughed silently in the wind, its leaves dancing wildly around the two bodies.
“I mean, you already know that I love you,” Ruki whispered, “But, no one has carved our names into a tree before - this is truly a one of a kind thing.”
No answer.
Ruki sighed and shifted slightly in the other’s arms, turning himself around to kiss him briefly, pulling away after a moment “Thank you, but why?”
“I.. just wanted our love to be forever. So, I just figured that carving our names into the tree would make it last.” Reita answered.
“Have you ever thought that the tree might be cut down?”
“No,”
Ruki laughed gently before placing a hand in the middle of Reita’s chest, looking in his eyes with pure affection and comfort. “That’s why love is always stored in our hearts, silly, so it can never fade away and be with us forever.”
Reita smiled. “You always have a way with words, you know that?”
“Which is why I write lyrics.”