Sound

Disclaimer: anything you recognize is not mine.

Set after Shinrei attacks Yuya.

Demon Eyes Kyo has nightmares.

He jerks awake, and for a moment the dream lingers in his senses, before leaving just a memory.

The memory rings in his ears, sounding over and over again; and he curses the silence and he curses the sounds. Quietly, of course, because if it is out loud, every one will hear.

Because if out loud, everyone will know.

He curses again, and hauls himself up and out to find the door of the noisiest sleeper in the house. She's the noisiest, because she does not yet know that enemies of the group may attack in the night.

Because before she met the group, she hadn't an enemy in the world.

He stands outside her door, and listens to her breathing and to her light snores and to the sound of her shifting in her sleep.

He listens to her, and lets her drive the dream from his mind.

He will stay there until morning, because during the night there is silence; and she is the noise that keeps away the silence and keeps away the sound.

He will listen to her, and he will promise himself and he will promise her that her noise will never become the sounds of his dream; because in his dream, there is no noise of her breathing and no noise of her moving and no noise of her living.

Because in his dream, she is dead.

In the morning, when he is asked why he's so irritable, he will say it is her fault.

Which is true.

He will say it is because she snores.

Which is to say, because she makes noise in her sleep. Which is also true.

And when she shouts at him and threatens him with her gun, he will be amused.

He will bask in the noise of her voice.

And when she drops back down, running out of breath much faster than usual, his eyes will narrow and the dream will ring in his ears; because in the relative silence he can hear her heartbeat.

Because with every beat, the…

Sound…

Slows…

Down.

Demon eyes Kyo has many, many nightmares.

This started as an answer to The Narrators challenge… I have no idea how memories morphed into sounds. First SDK fic, be gentle.