"Yuuko-san . . . It appears . . . that I have lost someone else today."

Grey had consumed him.

He couldn't breath. The grey. He was drowning in it.

The sky.

grey

The ground.

grey

The air.

grey

The wood.

grey

His cup.

grey

His fingers.

grey

His soul.

.

.

.

grey

"He . . . left me, Yuuko-san."

All of him was grey. Lifeless.

Heavy.

Dead.

"I don't think I was as ready as I had thought I would be . . . for him . . . to leave me."

Droplets. Grey droplets drizzled down his face and splashed unto the porch wood. The last of him went with it. His heart that he had thought was already gone. What was left of it . . . fell with his tears.

"Nee, Yuuko-san?"

Watanuki's grey eyes gazed up to the clouds as droplets fell down and mingled with his tears.

"I . . . was in love with him."

A sob hung in the air.

"I miss . . . his quiet."

"Shizuka" in Japanese literally means 'Quiet'. I just finished xxxHolic (am working on starting Rei) and I was really shaken up by Doumeki (Shizuka) having died already by the end of it. I kinda felt like I had to write what Watanuki's reaction to it would be. BTW I am CRYING like a motherfucker right now! TT^TT God, I hate CLAMP.