1st batch for Drabble123
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drabble123. Because these go into Yuuto's true motivations, which aren't revealed until very late in the series, count all of them as entire series spoilers.
Title: Forgotten, for Safety's Sake
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estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #1, Forsaken
Rating: 8+
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Summary: Sakurai's wandering for a reason.
He'd given up who he was, given up who he would be, given up everything, forsaken love and life and everything to save the world.
To save his fiance, and his child.
His potential brother-in-law had forgotten the child; the cards were powerful enough to block even a Singularity Point's memories, thank goodness. Whatever Ryoutarou remembered, existed. What he forgot, disappeared. Airi's memories were wiped too, even though she didn't have Ryoutarou's power; between the two of them, the child was not coming back. At least until it was safe, until there was a way to make Airi remember, or Ryoutarou.
Until then, he'd slip through time, drawing the Imagin away from his family, away from Airi and their potential child, away from Ryoutarou so that he couldn't remember.
He was limited only by his memories, though his younger self would burn those up. He'd be forgotten by everybody just as he'd been forgotten by Airi, hopefully forgotten by Ryoutarou. Soon, he'd be alone, wandering time, forgotten by all he cared about.
But he'd protect them, even if they forgot who he was. He'd protect them.
Title: Not Bleeding Sand
Author:estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #3, Bleed
Rating: 8+
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Summary: Yuuto retreats.
Sakurai Yuuto coughed as he lost his transformation, gritting his teeth in pain. Kai and the others were too close behind him, too near to really be safe in the state he was in, but he didn't really have a choice in the matter.
"Yuuto! Yuuto! Are you okay?" The Imagin his older self had named Deneb had gone to physical form, alarmed by his sudden shift. Yuuto had to wonder what had prompted his older self to bond with the Imagin, and then reminded himself that being an Imagin's host wasn't something humans had a choice about; it was either make a wish and hope that it wasn't too damaging to one's personal timeline, or keep them inside and hope it didn't interpret one's simplest words as a wish. His older self had made a wish to Deneb, and Yuuto was stuck with him.
At least he didn't bleed sand everywhere like some Imagin hosts did; it was annoying, messy, and got everywhere.
"I'm fine," he snapped, just as Deneb helped him up. "Let's get out of here."
"All right!" Deneb proclaimed, and they both stumbled through the alley.
Title: The Fools That Wait
Author:estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #5, Infidelity
Rating: 8+
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Summary: Yuuto has contempt for the Milk Dipper regulars.
Every time Yuuto came to the Milk Dipper to see Airi, his fiancee-to-be, he wanted to growl. And there was no reason to. She had no clue who he was, had no idea that the young man that was sometimes her brother's friend, who didn't like her coffee, was anything other than that.
Still, he watched the fools that tried to attract her, tried to get her attention. There was something in her that prevented her from noticing them; partly her own nature, and partly because, deep inside, she had to know that it was wrong.
That he - the mysterious future him - would come back to her.
Someday, things would be right. She would remember who he was, and the future him would step out of time, and everything would be as it should have been. They would be together once more, they'd have the baby, and everything would be all right with the world.
Then all these fools would be gone, the threat of infidelity with them, back away from where they shouldn't be, leave them alone. Because they would be back together some day.
He swore to everything that it would happen.
Title: No Choice But To Lie
Author:estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #7, Untruth
Rating:
Warnings:
Word Count: 200
Summary: To tell Nogami the truth would ruin everything.
The lie was necessary. That truth burned in his soul, kept him from telling Nogami everything about the whole mission. He knew, if only from his future self, that Nogami had to remain ignorant. He had to remain ignorant to his future kin, had to remain ignorant of his older self's true mission. Right now, Nogami knew that his older self had fled into time, taking the pocketwatch with him, luring the Imagin.
But he didn't know why. And unless it turned out that Yuuto had no choice, he would not, could not know why.
So Yuuto lied and taunted and annoyed his future brother-in-law, hoping against hope that the other man would never ask, never wonder why the future self was out there roaming time instead of being with Airi. He would do everything he had to do if it kept his future wife, his future child safe.
Nogami Ryoutarou was starting to question, though, starting to wonder what was wrong, what had happened, why he didn't remember certain things and what those certain things were. So Yuuto lied, and lied, and lied some more, and hoped to hell that Nogami would believe him.
Title: Keeping the Child Unreal
Author:estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #9, Unrequited
Rating: 8+
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Summary She couldn't remember.
Yuuto stood in the little dusty storeroom where Airi had been held captive. The woman herself stood there, caught between a falsehood, a faint memory, and the truth, a truth that Yuuto himself couldn't give her.
Though he wanted to. Oh, he so wanted to. Tell her of the child they'd have together, someday, of the fact that the only reason it wasn't there was because he'd had her little brother, the little brother out there fighting against the Imagin, forget.
But every time he did, he remembered what his future self had told him, what Deneb had too. That she couldn't remember, because if she remembered Ryoutarou would remember. And if Ryoutarou remembered, their child would no longer be a dream, a product of their collective imagination.
Their child would be real.
So he let her be, went into battle, made her forget. The cards worked on her even better than they did on her brother. Once the card was gone, her memory was gone too.
And she'd have forgotten Sakurai Yuuto and his love for her once more. A small price to pay for keeping her child safe.
A small price indeed.
drabble123. Because these go into Yuuto's true motivations, which aren't revealed until very late in the series, count all of them as entire series spoilers.Title: Forgotten, for Safety's Sake
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #1, Forsaken
Rating: 8+
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Summary: Sakurai's wandering for a reason.
He'd given up who he was, given up who he would be, given up everything, forsaken love and life and everything to save the world.
To save his fiance, and his child.
His potential brother-in-law had forgotten the child; the cards were powerful enough to block even a Singularity Point's memories, thank goodness. Whatever Ryoutarou remembered, existed. What he forgot, disappeared. Airi's memories were wiped too, even though she didn't have Ryoutarou's power; between the two of them, the child was not coming back. At least until it was safe, until there was a way to make Airi remember, or Ryoutarou.
Until then, he'd slip through time, drawing the Imagin away from his family, away from Airi and their potential child, away from Ryoutarou so that he couldn't remember.
He was limited only by his memories, though his younger self would burn those up. He'd be forgotten by everybody just as he'd been forgotten by Airi, hopefully forgotten by Ryoutarou. Soon, he'd be alone, wandering time, forgotten by all he cared about.
But he'd protect them, even if they forgot who he was. He'd protect them.
Title: Not Bleeding Sand
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #3, Bleed
Rating: 8+
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Summary: Yuuto retreats.
Sakurai Yuuto coughed as he lost his transformation, gritting his teeth in pain. Kai and the others were too close behind him, too near to really be safe in the state he was in, but he didn't really have a choice in the matter.
"Yuuto! Yuuto! Are you okay?" The Imagin his older self had named Deneb had gone to physical form, alarmed by his sudden shift. Yuuto had to wonder what had prompted his older self to bond with the Imagin, and then reminded himself that being an Imagin's host wasn't something humans had a choice about; it was either make a wish and hope that it wasn't too damaging to one's personal timeline, or keep them inside and hope it didn't interpret one's simplest words as a wish. His older self had made a wish to Deneb, and Yuuto was stuck with him.
At least he didn't bleed sand everywhere like some Imagin hosts did; it was annoying, messy, and got everywhere.
"I'm fine," he snapped, just as Deneb helped him up. "Let's get out of here."
"All right!" Deneb proclaimed, and they both stumbled through the alley.
Title: The Fools That Wait
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #5, Infidelity
Rating: 8+
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Summary: Yuuto has contempt for the Milk Dipper regulars.
Every time Yuuto came to the Milk Dipper to see Airi, his fiancee-to-be, he wanted to growl. And there was no reason to. She had no clue who he was, had no idea that the young man that was sometimes her brother's friend, who didn't like her coffee, was anything other than that.
Still, he watched the fools that tried to attract her, tried to get her attention. There was something in her that prevented her from noticing them; partly her own nature, and partly because, deep inside, she had to know that it was wrong.
That he - the mysterious future him - would come back to her.
Someday, things would be right. She would remember who he was, and the future him would step out of time, and everything would be as it should have been. They would be together once more, they'd have the baby, and everything would be all right with the world.
Then all these fools would be gone, the threat of infidelity with them, back away from where they shouldn't be, leave them alone. Because they would be back together some day.
He swore to everything that it would happen.
Title: No Choice But To Lie
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #7, Untruth
Rating:
Warnings:
Word Count: 200
Summary: To tell Nogami the truth would ruin everything.
The lie was necessary. That truth burned in his soul, kept him from telling Nogami everything about the whole mission. He knew, if only from his future self, that Nogami had to remain ignorant. He had to remain ignorant to his future kin, had to remain ignorant of his older self's true mission. Right now, Nogami knew that his older self had fled into time, taking the pocketwatch with him, luring the Imagin.
But he didn't know why. And unless it turned out that Yuuto had no choice, he would not, could not know why.
So Yuuto lied and taunted and annoyed his future brother-in-law, hoping against hope that the other man would never ask, never wonder why the future self was out there roaming time instead of being with Airi. He would do everything he had to do if it kept his future wife, his future child safe.
Nogami Ryoutarou was starting to question, though, starting to wonder what was wrong, what had happened, why he didn't remember certain things and what those certain things were. So Yuuto lied, and lied, and lied some more, and hoped to hell that Nogami would believe him.
Title: Keeping the Child Unreal
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #9, Unrequited
Rating: 8+
Warnings: None
Word Count: 200
Summary She couldn't remember.
Yuuto stood in the little dusty storeroom where Airi had been held captive. The woman herself stood there, caught between a falsehood, a faint memory, and the truth, a truth that Yuuto himself couldn't give her.
Though he wanted to. Oh, he so wanted to. Tell her of the child they'd have together, someday, of the fact that the only reason it wasn't there was because he'd had her little brother, the little brother out there fighting against the Imagin, forget.
But every time he did, he remembered what his future self had told him, what Deneb had too. That she couldn't remember, because if she remembered Ryoutarou would remember. And if Ryoutarou remembered, their child would no longer be a dream, a product of their collective imagination.
Their child would be real.
So he let her be, went into battle, made her forget. The cards worked on her even better than they did on her brother. Once the card was gone, her memory was gone too.
And she'd have forgotten Sakurai Yuuto and his love for her once more. A small price to pay for keeping her child safe.
A small price indeed.
