Yami no Matsuei: Rewritten on the Body

[thuviaptarth]

Title: Rewritten on the Body
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: So pretty I think about stealing them all the time. But no, not mine.
Summary: No challenge, and yet a drabble.



He keeps trying to copy it to paper: the curse written on his body, the red ribbons that bind pain to skin and soul to soul. Lines twist away from him; pens blot, brushes smear, pencil points break. It would be sensible to let someone else try, but facing the mirror is hard enough.

In the dark, Tsuzuki's gentle fingers trace new ideograms on his skin, rewriting curses into blessings. Fuda for protection, fuda for transformation, fuda for bringing the weary peace and the lost home. Hisoka never knew, never knew before, how much the paper must love the pen.

Comments

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

...so beautiful. I dead from sweet.

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, pretty and evocative. (In a way where I don't know what's going on, but kinda get it. I think. Enough. It brought to mind the image of Willow tracing calligraphy on Tara in Restless, and words rising up over her skin in season 6, anyway, and those aren't bad images to have.)

Rewriting curses into blessings--neat.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

::cries::

You realize, this is the basis of the epic Hisoka/Oriya I'm working on right now, and. Well. I realized it couldn't possibly be a theme I was the only one to see. But.

::cries::

It's even titled Written on the Body.

That said, this is utterly gorgeous.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

I love you. I may have said that a time or two. But it's true!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I really like that. Especially the last clause.

[ascian3.livejournal.com]

I have no clue what this relates to, but I think I want to. It was gorgeous.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh. God. So beautiful. Such pretty language, and I adore your Hisoka.

[jtriskell.livejournal.com]

Another lovely piece, with a real feeling of *home* about it.
It's all in this, for me, really "how much the paper must love the pen" -- makes me want to curl up with a cup of hot chocolate and hear the rain splatter against the window.
Can't explain better, but I love the image of Tsu writing fudas on Soka's curses. Just *dies*.

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

Mmm, lovely. The last line just stole my breath.

Thank you.