#shortdribbles

[rad-ramenkingles]

"Dear Brother..."

If I can be honest to you, I'm scared. For what feels like the first time in my life I'm scared, and it's not even because of something that makes sense. Then again maybe it does.

I've been watching from afar for so long, so very truly long. I've done it happily too, because look what's become of you. Some would mock you, I know I have in passing in my thoughts long ago before I truly saw you for you.

What you have become though, grown into with your own will and through the trials you've faced, and the friends you've made along the way. It's amazing to have seen it, brother.

I don't feel I can just watch anymore, I have to take part. I have to participate and do what I can to look out for you. Every other time in your journey I've not felt you couldn't handle yourself in these battles and moments. This time though it's not about doubting you, it's about being afraid of God chosen foes doing their worst to get you, and prevent you from having what is rightfully yours.

I've no doubt of who you are, at your core you are a good soul baby brother. Anyone who knows you personally knows that undeniable truth.

These five men though, I don't feel that from them. They are at best powerful hollow vessels for evil higher beings, or at worst powerful spiteful wicked willing players in a game that feels all too stacked against you.

I'm scared not because of the fights that I will be facing when I go down this road, the blood I'll spill with my hands and the blood I will lose myself, but I'm scared… Scared of when you find out who I am, and what you've not known for so many years of your life.

Suguru, you have a big brother. One who loves you and only wants the best for you, because you are the best of our bloodline. You deserve to live long, and call Planet Kinniku your kingdom. I won't let anyone, Human, Chojin, or God, stop that from happening, or stop you from becoming what you are destined to become.

This is my final entry, baby brother. The final one before I stop being an observer. I hope one day you will read all this, and I hope you can forgive me for being hidden for so long and understand my choices in doing it all.

All my love brother...

-Ataru Kinniku

[zeecookiemochi]

In his Eyes

HP AU – In His Eyes

(based on ‘Felix Felicis’ tweet thread by @_92914)

 [link: https://twitter.com/_92914/status/973203431094738946]

*setting: a few days later after Felix Felicis

Jiho drops by at the library to borrow some books he needs to study on. As he passes by shelves and shelves of books, he sees Seungyoon and Mino huddled over a book by the corner table. The two whisper and hiss to themselves—Jiho thinks it’s Seungyoon whispering and it’s Mino hissing, basing on their expressions—much to the librarian’s annoyance.

Seeing them, he is reminded that he is yet to congratulate Mino—he has heard of the latter’s feat during that contest in Jaehyun’s class. Mino was successful in making the draught, so he was able to win a vial of Felix Felicis. Jiho then remembers the sullen faces of the sixth-year students of the Ravenclaw House when he’d gone to the Common Room that day as he’d passed by them.

The students have wondered how someone from Gryffindor (who is not Kang Seungyoon or Kim Jinhwan, and one of Hogwarts’ worst troublemakers at that) have been able to achieve such feat. Some of them have speculated it was probably because of the winner’s connections with Ravenclaw’s Woo Jiho, or with Kang Seungyoon, or even with Slytherin’s Park Kyung.

Nevertheless, the Ravenclaw students were awed with their classmate anyway, considering Mino’s performance when it comes to potions and draughts.

He is jolted out from his reverie when he hears Mino complaining at Seungyoon, which earns a sharp hiss from the librarian.

Jiho’s about to try to pacify the two of them, when he notices something . . . odd.

Not odd odd, but something that’s sort of different compared to all those times he’s seen Seungyoon and Mino together.

[Of course, Jiho has always been aware of Mino’s feelings toward Seungyoon—he’d even advised Mino not to use that felix if ever he confesses to Seungyoon. He’d always known all along that Seungyoon shared the same feelings anyway—so what was the point of using it?

Oh, right. Mino is completely unaware of it; he’s probably too overwhelmed by his own feelings to the point he hardly notices Seungyoon’s.]

But right now, as Jiho stares at them, he couldn’t help noticing the little smiles Seungyoon tries to hide, or how Mino struggles so hard to focus on his work without stealing a look at Seungyoon. He sees how their eyes twinkle or how their faces glow when they catch each other’s gazes. It’s as if . . . the dim library lightens up whenever Seungyoon and Mino chuckle softly to themselves, like sunshine seeping on a cold room, not caring whether or not the librarian kicks them out.

Jiho smiles to himself, getting a gist of what could’ve happened between the two of them. His chest warms at the sight before him, happiness and relief filling his heart.

His suspicion is confirmed when he spots Mino’s hand inching its way towards Seungyoon’s, and Seungyoon catching it and holding it firmly between his hands. While it may seem like an affectionate gesture between brothers to others . . . in Jiho’s eyes and intuition (and judging on Mino’s expression), it’s something else entirely.

He stifles a laugh.

He does his best to go unnoticed by the two as he strolls toward the librarian’s desk, knowing that once they sense him, they’d probably try to tone themselves down, Mino especially. But then again, knowing Seungyoon . . .

He chuckles to himself, earning a weird stare from the librarian.

As he goes out from the library and wanders towards his room, warm summer sunlight shines upon him, reminding him once more of what he’d witnessed inside the somber library. He smiles to himself, happy and somewhat proud for his younger friends.

I wonder if Mino used the felix after all . . . he thinks to himself.

“Or maybe not,” he mumbles under his breath, remembering the mischievous twinkle in Seungyoon’s eyes.