300+ Anime & Manga Prompt Oneshots/Drabbles

Devotion - Miyata Ichirou

Prompt: Devotion
Characters: Miyata Ichirou
Series: Hajime No Ippo
O.C: Onikita Kaiya
Genre: Friendship
Theme Song: Running Back To You – Charlotte OC
Warnings: None
Date: 26th November 2012
Author's Note: Snippet from a full length story.

The bathroom door clicked open and a burst of steam escaped, shortly followed by the homeowner. Water droplets raced down the reddened skin as light footsteps padded down the hallway and into the main room. Completely unfazed, Kaiya continued on her way to the kitchen despite finding the uncalled for guest sat cross legged in her living room. "I didn't know you where here."

The once-silent guest hummed. "Is there any need to spend so long in the shower?"

"Is there any reason I shouldn't?" Without asking if her guest actually wanted a drink, she took two cups from the cupboard and began heating water. "Besides, what would you have done if I was walking about naked?"

As stoic as ever, the raven haired boy looked at his old friend. "There wouldn't have been much I could have done, is there?"

Putting down the cups with a heavy hand, the female wrinkled her nose. "Geeze, what the Hell kinda answer is that?"

"It's too cold to walk around naked anyway." He stated, as if it were a fact.

"I'm from the land of snow, dummy." After placing the drinks on the table she shuffled out of the room to change into something more appropriate. Not long had passed when she had returned to find her guest in the same position as she had left him. She sat down and watched the man frown as he shifted. "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing."

"Are you hurting?"

"No."

Frowning, Kaiya placed down her cup and stared down the bower that was looking away. "Why are you being awkward?"

"Onikita San..."

Kaiya gave an appalled look. "You can't be so formal when you just came into my apartment when I was in the shower." A pout formed on her lips. "There's no one around but us so there's no need to keep up your cool facade." Miyata stared into his drink feeling sorry. "What's on your mind?"

There was still no answer and it made her worry. She knew the Miyata from thirteen years ago; this certainly wasn't him. There was no bright smile or shining eyes. There was definitely no light-heartedness about him.

Some may argue that he had just matured and grown out of his childish ways from way back when, but Kaiya knew better. She knew that he probably missed being the way he was just as much as she missed seeing it - Being able to laugh and joke honestly without feeling like he didn't deserve the privilege of such a free life. All she saw now was the dangerous results of his weight training and his own overbearing habits.

"Won't you smile...Just a bit?" She examined his profile in hopes that what she was saying was getting through.

The words caught the man off guard. Looking across the small table and to the female, he shook his head once.

An uncontrollable urge arose in the girl. Suddenly jumping from her place, she crawled rapidly to his side. Slapping her hands on Miyata's face, she beamed as she pushed his cheeks up. "I said smile, damn it." Her huge grin contrast with the twitching eye and throbbing vein on her forehead.