Notes: I originally posted this fic under an old account on June 1, 2012. The prompts are from the LiveJournal community 1character (theme set alpha).
Zeta, Epsilon, Delta
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#01 – Speak
His first word was "bacon."
#02 – Touch
On his first birthday, he touched the bright orange thing flickering on the candle and discovered it was evil.
#03 – Memory
He remembers the first time he saw Mami cry: The rain had stopped, the clouds had cleared, and she was looking at a glowing, shimmering night sky, mesmerized.
#04 – Vanilla
"No, Kamui," his mother said as she snatched the plastic container from him. "This is corn starch and water, not vanilla cream."
#05 – Chocolate
Mami wasn't very happy when he gave Kagura a bowl of mud and told her it was chocolate.
#06 – Ways and Means
People were leaving the city, he noticed one day, to fight in a war at some faraway place called Earth, and he wondered if any of them would ever come back.
#07 – Belief
When his mother died, he realized there was only one kind of strength and too many kinds of weaknesses.
#08 – Linger
His sister's words "I love you" linger at first, but then all he hears is the rain.
#09 – Illuminance
Like the Sun, love is blinding, so he looks away from it, uses his umbrella as a shield against it.
#10 – Ornament
Anything that doesn't help him become stronger is an ornament—excessive and useless; his room on the ship is practically empty.
#11 – Coup de foudre
What?
#12 – Archway
When he fought Umibozu, they destroyed the archway leading to their house; and with it, everything crumbled.
#13 – Fate
He knows how his story will end, so he follows his instinct and walks down the path of bloodshed merely like an actor playing his role.
#14 – Pulse
In a truly satisfactory fight, he hears the blood in his head and feels the heart in his chest—and that's what he wants.
#15 – Envelope
Abuto wrote letters to his mother, Kamui discovered one day, but he didn't think or say much about it.
#16 – Cold
Space is a cold place, but "home" is even colder.
#17 – Need
When he fights, he forgets, and he's addicted to that feeling of high.
#18 – Drunk
He hears about a legendary drunken fist master and wants to challenge him to a fight some day.
#19 – Mask
People say he wears the best poker face, but he knows that someone, some day, will be able to see through it all, and he also knows that either he or they will be killed as a result.
#20 – Rose
When the 7th Squad raided the Planet of Roses, Kamui found out he would sneeze nonstop if he got within two feet of the flower, so he leveled the place.
#21 – Two
That night, when the cloud cover is thin, he notices there are actually two moons in the sky, but he closes his eyes in response and falls back asleep.
#22 – Fresh
On Earth, the air smells fresh after a rain shower; on the Yato planet, it just smells dead.
#23 – Bribe
He lets Abuto handle the trifle matters, so much that the Elders sometimes forget who the real captain is.
#24 – Error
The most exhilarating fights are the ones that remind him he is far from perfect, even if the mistakes can be nearly fatal.
#25 – Appetite
It's never Kamui's problem.
#26 – Refrain
Abuto always complains that he never refrains from picking senseless fights, but that's not true—he can and does, because he defines "senseless" differently.
#27 – Family
Even after all these years of separation and changes in appearance, they can still recognize each other, and the absurdity of it brings a bitter smile to his face.
#28 – Grieve
He sees it in his sister's eyes, but he knows that she doesn't see it in his.
#29 – Vapor
Life is a string of decisions, Abuto often says, but sometimes Kamui wants to reply, "Life is just vapor."
#30 – Tea
Tea from every planet tastes different, and he likes the one on Earth.
#31 – Medicine
He pushes away the bowl of murky liquid, refusing to rely on something that failed to prolong his mother's life.
#32 – Moth
The day their ship had a moth infestation, everyone in his squad gave him murderous looks when he suggested that they simply eat the moths.
#33 – Perfect
Nothing is perfect, but he still thinks the silver-haired samurai comes closest to being the perfect opponent.
#34 – Rope
He is like a rope around Abuto's neck, and he wonders if Abuto realizes it.
#35 – Wind
He smiles as he walks onward without looking back at his footprints that the wind is carrying away.
#36 – Crossroads
He thought the silver-haired samurai was unique, but then he met another one.
#37 – Summer
There was a while when every planet they visited was in its summer season, and it irked him because he couldn't do much about his anti-sun gear and it was friggin' hot.
#38 – Candy
At the next squad meeting, Kamui brought up the controversial topic of implementing a candy jar that would be supplied by everybody and consumed by him, but no one was in favor of it.
#39 – Photograph
He has never been in any family or squad or whatever photos, and he plans to keep it that way.
#40 – Spoon
Abuto once remarked that dining at the same table as Kamui was like reenacting a particular scene from Beauty and the Beast.
#41 – Forest
The first time he saw a forest, it was on an undeveloped planet—and it was burning.
#42 – Mirror
Facing that samurai was like facing himself in a mirror, but with a lot more to hold on to.
#43 – Smoke
When the smoke cleared, he discovered that someone had taken a bite out of his birthday cake.
#44 – Shine
Sometimes people from other squads lament the lack of morning sunlight in space, and he maintains a steady smile as he watches the other Yato exchange wary glances.
#45 – Balloon
He never understood why balloons should be associated with birthdays as they weren't edible.
#46 – Vine
The Planet of Vines proved challenging to conquer with punches and kicks, but he prevailed nonetheless.
#47 – Butterfly
Butterflies don't fly high, he thinks, wondering why that samurai would wear something covered in them.
#48 – Gloves
He didn't throw away the gloves that Abuto's mother randomly knitted for him, but he didn't wear them either.
#49 – Venom
Nobody says it, but everybody knows it, including himself, that the truce between him and that samurai is nothing but slow poison.
#50 – Remain
His smile can falter and break, but it'll always remain on his face.