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The light of his heart
Written for @fluffbruary Extended for the month of July: library | glimpse | trip .
Thank you for the prompt. This is the continuation of the fiction: The Favourite: Fragments from the last setting. Both Wakamiya/Nazukihiko and Yukiya’s characterisation might be OOC, but reading the third novel and mainly watching the anime, Nazukihiko’s resolve crumbles when it comes to Yukiya. This is my interpretation between the lines. Hence, fan fiction.
Here I am still focusing on Yukiya/Wakamiya ship whereas the Japanese audience, who have read all Chisato Abe’s novels and collection of stories, are already hard on Yukiya/Shigemaru train.
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Fandom: Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master
Characters: Wakamiya/Nazukihiko, Yukiya, a very brief appearance of Sumio
Rating: T to slight M
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Oh, I beg you, / always, always stay / the light of my heart, just as you have / illuminated my way / for an entire year!
— Daigobô Toshiô ( from “Japanische Jahreszeiten: Tanka und Haiku aus dreizehn Jahrhunderten”)
As soon as Yukiya rose to his feet, Wakamiya watched his every move and marveled at how his former attendant had grown up. Gone were the baby fats on the cheeks. The prominent jawline took over a once perfect oval face, and his eyes were bluer than before. He tied his hair on top of his head that flowed down his shoulders reaching the chest. Reddish brown, the same colour like his deceased mother’s, the second princess of the North. He kept his fringe. It suited the younger man, who turned 18.
He also gained more muscles due to countless rigorous trainings at the academy—hand-to-hand combat or otherwise— shapely powerful legs that brought into the fore. He was also a proud owner of a golden sword that dangled on his left side. The dainty stubborn boy was gone replaced by a cunning young military man ready to challenge the enemies of Yamauchi.
“Are you only going to stare at me the whole time? Or are you going to ask me what happened during my absence? If I have friends… Or how am I?” Yukiya licked his lips while he gazed at the Crown Prince, who, in turn, could not take his eyes off his personal guard.
Nazukihiko thought: Which you have. I know them well. You are enjoying your remarkable intimacy with Shigemaru, a fellow Northerner. It bothers me a bit, quite to be honest. And there’s Haruma, who looks up to you as if you were his god. He invited Yukiya personally after the young man successfully took the topmost award among the graduates at Keisoin.
This is strange. Words failed Wakamiya. As a true Golden Raven, he should not feel anything, like desire, at all. Hiding the blush on his cheeks, he shook his head and laughed softly to himself then turned his back to his distinguished guest. He focused his attention instead to the scrolls and books that he was reading at the moment laid out on the mahogany table next to the wall.
No more words exchanged, but heavy footsteps that made the nightingale floors chirp.
Read the rest on AO3.
(Images courtesy of Matsuzaki Natsumi and Studio Pierrot)
*Here I go again @ynxnyx
I am keeping a tally of how many times the Crown Prince has saved Yukiya from this arc so far: Nazukihiko did it four times already.
Disguised as Sumimaru, he shoved the stark raving mad crow that tried to ram against Yukiya and the old man rendering the crow unconscious (Episode 14)
The first monster monkey attacking them in Suguo. Yukiya was too slow to react that Wakamiya carried him and proceeded to decapitate the huge monkey (Episode 15)
Yukiya thought he found a survivor in one of the houses only to realise too late that it was a shapeshifting monkey. Wakamiya tried to talk to it wondering if it understood the Yatagarasu language. When it tried to devour Yukiya he swung his sword hitting it in the forehead bullseye. (Episode 15)
And on Episode 17, just before Yukiya wondered if it was the end of him, the two young monkeys biting him and three more others coming, the Prince, like a knight in shining armour, has come to save him. Again.
Keep in mind that Yukiya didn’t let the whole thing without a fight. For a 15-year-old boy, he was able to give strong punches. Though without training, it was not easy.
This series will be the end of me. I want to know what will happen next week when narrator Matoyo Yamane tells us “The Prince's words cause ripples in Yukiya's heart.” What could that be? Aaahh!!