Ship: sawamura daichi / sugawara koushi Fandom: haikyuu Major tags: none Other tags: supernatural elements, thirst Word count: 539
I love demon birb.
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Daichi’s first mistake was probably not looking both ways.
Daichi’s second mistake was probably looking far too much, but he can’t help it, the way the moonlight drips white and beautiful from the crystal stalactites to move formlessly into the mirror pool. It’s mesmerising. It’s magic. It’s--
“--rude to stare,” the tengu huffs. His lovely mouth is sharp in displeasure. He’s naked but for a twist of linen cloth and the wide, proud spread of his gloss black wings, and Daichi thinks he’s made of moonlight, too, the way the tengu’s hair gleams ash silver, the way the tengu’s claws curl dangerous and white like ivory daggers. His hips are slim and Daichi can see the elegant line of the bone tracing underneath all that soft skin, and he swallows once, twice.
“I’m sorry,” Daichi manages. His first mistake had stumbled him through the caves and broken his sword but he feels like this second mistake is the more dangerous one. “I lost my way through the forest.”
The tengu’s wing feathers shiver as he steps carefully into the water. “Ugh, cold,” the tengu mutters under his breath, but he walks all the way into the deep end until only his face and the top of his wings remain visible. “So you didn’t come here to steal a wish?”
“Um, what?” Daichi replies. The tengu has a little tuft of hair that sticks right up, and it bobs comically each time the tengu moves in the water. Daichi has seen birds bathe before and he wonders if a tengu preens his feathers in the same way, and he makes the third mistake of looking at the the tengu’s lovely pink mouth that sits right above the water line. “I don’t want to steal anything. I just need to find my way home.”
“If you wait until I’m done, I can show you the way out of the forest,” the tengu says. He’s looking at Daichi more carefully now, measuring him up. Daichi wonders if he’s been found wanting, but then the tengu adds, “If you help me scrub my back, it’ll go faster.”
“So you don’t preen your feathers?” Daichi blurts out. The thought of touching all that moonlight seems so impossible to him, he feels like every truth is being ripped from his bones. Surely this is the tengu’s real magic, looking into the hearts of men, finding each and every one of their weaknesses and eating them whole.
The tengu gives me a withering look. “Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably dumb.”
“Can I ask for a wish anyway?” Daichi says quickly. He might as well. He can feel every one of his truths laid out under the tengu’s scrutiny.
“And what would that be? No promises. I’m just curious.”
Daichi feels like he’s letting go of something inside of his lungs. “What’s your name?”
The tengu just laughs at that, and water droplets fly from his wings as he shakes with it, and something like the sun breaks across the moonlight of his face.
(The tengu doesn’t give his name, but he does lead Daichi from the forest, and the wish that is exchanged is Daichi’s and not his, to come back to visit him once more.)
FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, T
Fandom: haikyuu
Major tags: none
Other tags: supernatural elements, thirst
Word count: 539
I love demon birb.
***
Daichi’s first mistake was probably not looking both ways.
Daichi’s second mistake was probably looking far too much, but he can’t help it, the way the moonlight drips white and beautiful from the crystal stalactites to move formlessly into the mirror pool. It’s mesmerising. It’s magic. It’s--
“--rude to stare,” the tengu huffs. His lovely mouth is sharp in displeasure. He’s naked but for a twist of linen cloth and the wide, proud spread of his gloss black wings, and Daichi thinks he’s made of moonlight, too, the way the tengu’s hair gleams ash silver, the way the tengu’s claws curl dangerous and white like ivory daggers. His hips are slim and Daichi can see the elegant line of the bone tracing underneath all that soft skin, and he swallows once, twice.
“I’m sorry,” Daichi manages. His first mistake had stumbled him through the caves and broken his sword but he feels like this second mistake is the more dangerous one. “I lost my way through the forest.”
The tengu’s wing feathers shiver as he steps carefully into the water. “Ugh, cold,” the tengu mutters under his breath, but he walks all the way into the deep end until only his face and the top of his wings remain visible. “So you didn’t come here to steal a wish?”
“Um, what?” Daichi replies. The tengu has a little tuft of hair that sticks right up, and it bobs comically each time the tengu moves in the water. Daichi has seen birds bathe before and he wonders if a tengu preens his feathers in the same way, and he makes the third mistake of looking at the the tengu’s lovely pink mouth that sits right above the water line. “I don’t want to steal anything. I just need to find my way home.”
“If you wait until I’m done, I can show you the way out of the forest,” the tengu says. He’s looking at Daichi more carefully now, measuring him up. Daichi wonders if he’s been found wanting, but then the tengu adds, “If you help me scrub my back, it’ll go faster.”
“So you don’t preen your feathers?” Daichi blurts out. The thought of touching all that moonlight seems so impossible to him, he feels like every truth is being ripped from his bones. Surely this is the tengu’s real magic, looking into the hearts of men, finding each and every one of their weaknesses and eating them whole.
The tengu gives me a withering look. “Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably dumb.”
“Can I ask for a wish anyway?” Daichi says quickly. He might as well. He can feel every one of his truths laid out under the tengu’s scrutiny.
“And what would that be? No promises. I’m just curious.”
Daichi feels like he’s letting go of something inside of his lungs. “What’s your name?”
The tengu just laughs at that, and water droplets fly from his wings as he shakes with it, and something like the sun breaks across the moonlight of his face.
(The tengu doesn’t give his name, but he does lead Daichi from the forest, and the wish that is exchanged is Daichi’s and not his, to come back to visit him once more.)