[Natsume Yuujinchou] Strength
Title: untitled (for now) Strength
Fandom: Natsume Yuujinchou
Focus: Tanuma, Natsume, Nyanko-sensei, spirits (?)
Other: written for platonicism, 25 set themes, random stuff at best.
Warnings: ... uhm, strained language?
#1 story book
If he angles the book away from the light, faintly-inked scrawls of unknown characters would glisten across the blank pages like gloss-glitters girls adore to wear on their lips. One blink with his eyes, the scrawls disappear as if the shadows were playing tricks with him from the very beginning.
Habitually, he smiles, this is crazy--there's nothing there; there's nothing visible in the Yuujinchou, as Natsume and Ponta call it. But still, in the very back of his mind, he recognizes what this is all about. One of those inexplainable things that are part of Natsume's world.
Although Natsume hasn't gone into detail about the book and its contents (even Ponta is obviously unhelpful there), Tanuma feels he has gotten a little bit closer to Natsume than anyone besides Ponta.
Closing the hard cover carefully, his fingers trace around the cotton ribbon that holds the pages together, before handing it over.
"Thank you." He says at last.
And Natsume gives him a smile.
TheNekoTalks:
I let myself be baited to write this challenge. *drops head*
.:Nekocin:.
ETA: October 18th, 2009.