Shifting For You//Kurapika X Nonbinary Reader ONE-SHOTS

Chapter 6.

The rest of your what?

"ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"

All eyes on the boy who had only asked a question to your response, though quite loudly.

Sitting back in the metal seat with a red leather cushion, making it sink. 

The boy's cheeks brushed with pink from the embarrassment of his outburst.

Pinching the bridge of his nose as he thought all too carefully about what you said.

I made him upset, didn't I?

You'd fear that this would happen. What made you think that he would stay with you for the rest of your life, it was absurd. 

You couldn't hold him back from all of the things HE wants to do in life. Just being there with him, would drag him down. 

"I don't have to stay with you"

Saying this you wish that he could deny your option. But all he did was brush his bangs out of his face, just for them to curtain his face once again. Eyes shut, he let out a long sigh.

Oh, I know the answer

Looking down at your fingers from under the table, you twidle them and brushing your fingers over your palm.

Hands cold and numb, with a color of sakura pink. Making one shiver with one slight touch of the slender corpse-like fingers.

Hands, that also needed to be warmed by someone else.

It would be nice if I spent my life with him wouldn't it?

At the thought, you failed to notice that you smiled. Making the boy look up at you through his hand. 

Eh?

She's smiling, is it something she's holding?

Or maybe it was the minor scene I caused.

Either way, I don't want to deny her a life here even if it is desired to be with me. Speaking of which why does she want to spend her life with me?

Still facing down at your hands, the boy asks something that you somewhat wish he didn't.

"Why do you want to spend your life here with me?"

Eh?

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Wha-what do I say?

Um, I guess I could just tell him, I mean I've been wanting to for a while now, so nows my chance.

Facing the boy with a curious look as if he was just another boy, curious about what lies beneath the wonder.

"Because I-"

You take a moment to collect what you want to say, with a breathe in, and out.

"Because I love you"

Despite the fact that you feel like knocking yourself out for what you said with such confidence, you look for the boy's reaction.

Confused, taken aback, and...

a beam of light.

Where did that come from?

They're usually misty, lost.

But, now there's a little light shining through them.

Don't tell me

Has he?

"How long has it been since someone has told you that?"

"That you're loved"