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365daysofmikayuu · 6 years

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September 25th, 2018

Title: One Mind, Two Bodies (pt. ii)

Author: purple-forget-me-nots

Mika was forbidden to see Yuu, and Yuu was forbidden to see Mika. They were both so confused, and Mika didn’t understand. He and Yuu were made for each other, everyone had loved the fact that they were so close they practically lived in each other’s minds. So why was it that everyone wanted to keep them apart now?

So they met in secret, climbing out of their bedroom windows and meeting far from their homes, just to seek the comfort of the other’s mind. Yuu was bruised, his hands stained with oil, and his eyegems dull. Mika would run his hands through Yuu’s soft hair, stroke Yuu’s eyegems until they brightened again, and hold the other boy close, comforting him when he cried.

If we’re made for each other why do they want to separate us?

Unfortunately, like all the good things in their shared lives, the secret meetings came to a horrible end.

Yuu’s father had found a girl a likely candidate for Yuu, and the girl of course was deeply in love with the black haired, green eyed, and emerald-gemed Enturi who endlessly pinned for something he kept so hidden she doubted he himself even knew. But of course he knew, and he pinned for Mika, clinging to the wisps of the other boy’s mind that always lingered in his, shielded from everyone else.

She followed him everywhere, flirting and chatting. Mika could see her arrive each morning at the doorstep of Yuu’s house, her head filled with hope that maybe today, maybe today he’ll touch me, hold my hand, tell me I look nice, anything…

And each day, Mika longs for her to go away, and that maybe today we can sneak away, how long has it been since we’ve been in each other’s minds properly?

There was never a moment for Yuu to sneak away to see Mika, and it hurt so much to see the other boy every day, to see his eyegems dull with sadness and pain and longing. To feel the tickle of Yuu’s mind against his own. To feel and see all of this but to no be able to do anything.

One day the girl does not show up, and Mika can feel the relief and excitement, because they can finally see each other again. Mika can’t finish his work fast enough, and he can dimly feel the same feelings from Yuu.

When they meet up at their secret place, Mika can’t help himself, he pulls Yuu close and presses their lips together and everything just feels so right, and they let their minds crash together, and they hold each other so closely and so tightly, neither wants to be the first to let go. It’s the most wonderful feeling in the world to be with Yuu again, the feeling of rightness and completion.

They wander down to the docks to watch the skyships, hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, feeling like a whole person again. Everything is right in the world when suddenly they both hear a familiar thought, and it’s horrified and heartbroken and shocked all at the same time.

It’s the girl, with a few of her friends, and she’s staring at Mika and staring at Yuu, and staring at their closeness, at Yuu’s oilstained hand in Mika’s inkstained one. Her thoughts are running at a million miles a minute, and they know she can feel the closeness of the minds, but neither can bare to separate.

Yuu makes no move to explain the situation, no hurried excuses, other than please don’t tell my Father… and it makes Mika glad and scared at the same time. Because now they truly can’t ever be together, because the girl will tell Yuu’s father and Yuu will be beaten and Mika will be scolded and they’ll be separated again.

The girl drops her basket and runs away crying. Her friends grab her dropped items, and scurry after her to comfort and console her.

That night they pretend nothing happened. Separating their minds is the worst part and it brings tears to Mika’s eyes to watch Yuu’s eyegems dim and become still as he makes his way home.

The pain is so strong Mika can feel it through the wisp of a bond still connecting their minds. The phantom pain shoots up his arm and spiderwebs across his chest and stomach. It’s enough to bring tears to his eyes. He doesn’t dare react to the pain in any other way, because Mika knows his parents are watching him closely. So he rubs away the tears with a quick wipe that leaves a smear of ink on his face, and gently presses his mind closer to Yuu’s, providing the other boy a painless sanctuary, or at least part of one.

The girl doesn’t give up, but Mika can tell she knows when he glares at her through the window. Yuu’s eyegems are practically immobile and are a dull, dim shadow of their former sparkling emerald. His eyes have the same dead quality to them. It’s painful to see him like that, a shadow of his former self.

Mika starts working for a creepy silver haired, red-gemed Enturi who can’t seem to keep his hands to himself. He is farther from Yuu, but he can still feel his mind, even at this distance.

They can’t separate us. Nothing can separate us, I’ll find away, we can be together again.

It’s a weak hope, but it’s the only thing they have.

Mika is leaving work one day, lost in thought, when he feels an overwhelming swell of emotions from Yuu, and the other boy’s mind retreats into his, and Mika can feel what Yuu does again, and there’s lips, the girls, pressed against Yuu’s, and it’s wrong because only Mika does that, and it’s only ok when Mika does that.

It’s night, and Mika is nearly asleep when Yuu takes refuge in Mika’s mind again, but this time he brings fear and sadness and pain.

Sneak out, sneak away with me.

When they meet, Yuu runs up to Mika and tearfully tells him he’s being sent away to work on a skyship, to be an engineer for it, and fix it when it runs down.

He is to leave next week, and their parents thankfully turn a blind eye when they sneak out each night to see each other. It’s a small blessing, but they are glad for it. Neither wants to admit it, but neither knows if they’ll ever see the other after the week is over. They skyways are full of notoriously dangerous pirates, pirates who are more than willing to attack a ship for an Enturi’s eyegems.

They don’t think or talk about that though.

They can’t separate us.

The week is over all too soon, and Mika finds himself at the docks, watching as the Skyship Yuu is to leave on loads with cargo. He etches the painting on the prow, a golden moon, into his mind, along with the name of the ship, the Demon Moon.

The girl is there, and it makes Mika’s blood boil. How dare she show up here? She has no right.

She practically drapes herself over him when she says goodbye, and kisses him, and Mika wants to murder her, because she has no claims to him.

Yuu wipes his mouth on the back of his hand as he approaches Mika, and Mika can feel hurt emanating from the girl, but he doesn’t care, because Yuu’s mouth is soon on his own, and they pull each other close, and press their minds together, as if if they got close enough they couldn’t be made to separate.

Yuu’s father glares, and they have to separate their bodies, and Yuu says his goodbyes, and it breaks both of their hearts. He walks up the gangplank and turns to wave. Mika waves back, and tears begin to burn in his eyes.

The closing of the door sounds like the closing of a tomb to Mika, like their fates are sealed.

The gangplank is lowered, and the ship begins to pull away, and Mika can feel Yuu’s mind slipping away with it. He makes wild grabs after his, straining after Yuu’s mind, which is fading, it’s fading, thoughts that had once been strong and loud as if Yuu were standing right beside him now sound softer, like he’s talking from across the room, then across the street, then from Mika’s work, and Mika runs up to the edge of the dock and screams for the ship to come back, to bring Yuu back to him, and his vision is blurry but he can see the ship vanishing into the cloudless sky.

He reaches after the ship as if that could help him re-establish the connection, and he scrabbles for a hold on Yuu’s mind, and he can feel Yuu doing the same thing, and the connection between them feels as thin as a spider’s thread, and they can both hear the faint cries of the other as they grasp for just… one… more… moment…

And then it snaps.

And it’s quiet.

It’s too quiet.

Too empty.

Mika falls to his knees on the dock, chest heaving and tears streaming down his face, and he screams, and he can’t stop because it’s not right, it’s too quiet. He’s making a scene, but it’s not right, it’s not right! He reaches after the ship with his mind, because there has to be some mistake, he can’t be out of range so soon, and maybe if he just tries hard enough…

But it’s no use and he knows it, so he screams, and claws at the wood of the dock, and he begs for Yuu to return, and he cries.

It’s too quiet.

And Mika is alone.

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365daysofmikayuu · 6 years

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August 11th, 2018

Title: One Mind, Two Bodies (pt. i)

Author: purple-forget-me-nots

Yuu and Mika, Mika and Yuu. It had always been that way, the two boys inseparable, and neither could really put it into words why, but when they were together, everything just felt right. Neither of them ever had a private thought and it was like they lived in each other's heads.

It wasn’t uncommon for young Enturi to do that, to be practically the same person, so the closeness wasn’t questioned.

And luckily for them, they were neighbors, so they were never far away, never too far away as to not feel the thoughts of the other.

In the day, they’d run through the streets with the other kids, eyegems flashing and glinting in the light. They felt everything the other did, saw through each other's eyes, heard what the other heard. At night, they’d sneak outside, climbing to the roof to watch the stars and skyships cross the sky.

Life was good for Mika and Yuu.

One day, however, Mika woke to a sudden sharp pain on the side of his face. He knew it was Yuu’s pain that he felt, and when the two scurried outside after breakfast, Yuu had a large bruise on his cheek. They hugged and cried and were confused together, because there was no reason the two boys could puzzle out that Yuu’s dad would hit him.

Eventually, they came to the conclusion it was a one time thing, and when Yuu’s dad apologise that night, Yuu could feel the sincerity that poured through the mental link with his father.

But it wasn’t.

The next week, Yuu forgot to run an errand he had been asked, having gotten distracted by another Enturi who rode a strange, long-clawed beast, and wore a blindfold while performing tricks guided only by his eyegems. Yuu’s father gave him a black eye, and Mika could feel the force of the blow, and the pure confusion and betrayal because he promised he promised he PROMISED!

And there was an apology again, and another promise, and both Mika and Yuu thought that this would be it, that it wouldn’t happen ever again and their world could go back to being just as nice and peaceful and shared as it always was.

Except it didn’t, and it happened again two weeks later, when Yuu accidentally ripped his new pants out playing with Mika. This time it was a black eye and bruised ribs.

And then again a few days later, when Yuu asked if he and Mika could go look at some of the new skyships coming in to port, and wouldn’t stop asking. And again and again, and it hurt Mika just as much, and the confusion was the worst part because Yuu didn’t understand and neither did Mika.

It didn’t stop, and it seemed like each day Yuu had a new bruise, and each day Mika would be randomly startled with pain and confusion from his closest friend.

The pain wasn’t even the worst part. After each horrible injury inflicted, Yuu’s father would apologize, and it would feel genuine, and the two boys would believe it, and each time the promise of never again, never again would be broken.

Then it got worse. Mika was always a refuge for Yuu, always there to comfort him, to be a place where things felt better, where it didn’t always hurt. Mika’s parents decided that enough was enough, and told Mika he had to distance his mind from Yuu’s. It was alright to spend every moment of every day sharing feelings and thoughts with another Enturi as a child, but he was going on 11 now, and he was much too old for this. Of course, Yuu heard every word of it too, and got the same talk from his mother.

So at night, the two were forced to separate their minds. It wasn’t a complete separation, but the presence of the other faded to just a background whisper.

Each morning, however, they’d come back together just as strongly, though.

They’ll never separate us. We’re made for each other, see, our minds fit together just so, they can’t make us separate for good.

Each morning, Yuu craved the feeling of Mika’s mind and thoughts with his, and Mika craved the feeling just as badly, and the two just grew closer instead of farther apart as their parents wanted.

Yuu’s father beat him, telling the young Enturi he had to grow up, that he had to start learning important lessons, and that he couldn’t spend all day with Mika anymore, he had to learn how to fix machine parts, to make a living. And Mika’s parents told Mika he had to focus on learning mathematics and reading and all sorts of other things that didn’t seem important. He didn’t care about becoming a clerk or counter or whatever his parents were, he wanted to be with Yuu.

The two Enturi saw less and less of each other, but whenever they could, they’d press their minds together, and share everything.

They’ll never separate us, we’re made for each other. We’re made for each other and nobody can separate us.

They would sneak out at night, climbing onto the roofs to watch the stars, share memories, and just bask in the presence and comfort of each other.

It wasn’t odd to them that they still held hands or snuggled close even when it wasn’t cold. They were so close mentally, why would it be bad to be close physically as well?

They’ll never separate us, we’re made for each other.

It was a warm summer night and the stars were out, and the two adolescent Enturi lay on Yuu’s roof looking at the stars. Neither could precisely say what day it was, but it felt important, and despite the heat of the air, and the lingering heat of the tiles they lay on, they were pressed close together, and suddenly the view from Yuu’s eyes wasn’t another view of the night sky and glittering stars, but of Mika’s own face, and Mika turned to look at Yuu and perhaps it was both of them, or perhaps not, but the next thing either of them knew, they were kissing.

It wasn’t anything special, and it wasn’t particularly good or anything but it felt right. And as they lay there, leaning out of the kiss gently but still staying close, so wrapped up in each other, they forgot the world.

But the world did not forget them. Neither could stop the right feelings they felt, and unfortunately, Yuu’s father caught them.

The two Enturi clung to each other like scared children as Yuu’s father screamed up at them, screamed threats and insults that woke up the entire neighborhood.

Mika was scared, but it was nothing compared to the waves of fear that radiated from his dearest and closest friend. How could they possibly be doing anything wrong? They were made for each other, they had done nothing wrong.

If we’re made for each other why do they want to separate us?

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