[Yami no Matsuei] (PG)
Mar. 10th, 2014 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtxref_ficAuthor's Note: Written for < lj user="fuda_100">'s "alone". Featuring a young Muraki at his grandfather's funeral.
Dozens of Grandfather's students and colleagues had gathered at the family burial plot, the third funeral in a year. And for all their kind words of condolence, for all the concerned looks that people gave him, Kazutaka felt alone. His last blood relative aside from the cousins in Hawai'i, and now he had passed. He still had his friend and his love, but only he remained of this branch on the family tree. He could put on a brave face to the others, but he knew once he returned home that the mask would fall from his sorrowing soul beneath.
Dozens of Grandfather's students and colleagues had gathered at the family burial plot, the third funeral in a year. And for all their kind words of condolence, for all the concerned looks that people gave him, Kazutaka felt alone. His last blood relative aside from the cousins in Hawai'i, and now he had passed. He still had his friend and his love, but only he remained of this branch on the family tree. He could put on a brave face to the others, but he knew once he returned home that the mask would fall from his sorrowing soul beneath.
