http://highboys.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] highboys.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2012-05-11 08:35 pm

[May 11] [Sket Dance] and I would have met you

Title: and I would have met you (11/31)
Day/Theme: May 11 / one heartbite after another
Series: Sket Dance
Character/Pairing: Ryosuke/Haru/Akane
Rating: PG-13



When Ryosuke and Akane fight, they use angry, hurtful words. They provoke and tease at turns, sometimes with good humor, sometimes with none at all. Ryosuke is the reason Akane has a near-permanent crease on her brow. Akane is the reason Ryosuke rolls his eyes and sighs. They do it over the kitchen table as they steal each other's dumplings, or in the living room where they drown out the sounds of the television. They rip at each other's throats and bite a little deeper into the parts that hurt the most, with resolution that strikes at their most tender, private secrets, the things they confess only in the darkness. It ends with awkward offerings of pudding and no words, only the two of them seated shoulder to shoulder in front of the TV. On occasion, there may be a punch or two. Haru shakes her head at both of them and smiles.

When Akane and Haru fight, Akane sullenly picks at her fast food fare as Ryosuke outlines the many reasons Akane screwed up. It's a rare enough scenario that Akane has no idea how to react, but she knows that Haru never needs an apology, much like how she never seems to need anything else. The least Ryosuke can do is to not be a complete ass about it, but if the way he pushes his soda to her is any indication, he's equally as worried and impatient for the bad feelings to end.

When Ryosuke and Haru fight, Akane does not know how things turn out. They never fight in front of her (if they do fight at all), but Akane knows, sometimes, from the redness of Haru's eyes, the stiffness in Ryosuke's jaw, that they're not perfect, they'll never be happy 100 percent of the time, but they try. They try.

Akane will never know how these things end. She's not sure she can be self-possessed enough not to feel her heart ache at the thought.