crack_van | The Language of Drought, by Maya (PG)

Fandom: GETBACKERS
Pairing: Kazuki/Toshiki
Author on LJ:

incandescens
Author's Website: fanfic page; note also the drabble page
Why this must be read:

I would really like to red everything GB that Maya has ever written, but it's not quite practical, so I'm settling for this. It has eir trademark of stunningly beautiful, floaty prose - Maya is good, very very good, at conjurng up a precise mood. In this case, it's about Toshiki's path after Kazuki left, and his accompanying desperation.

Kazuki is more than Toshiki is. Toshiki knows this. He doesn't dispute it. He wouldn't admire and respect Kazuki otherwise. Kazuki is like incense in church, like music in silence, like water in the desert to a thirsty man. Kazuki is richness to Toshiki's soul, food for Toshiki's need to be able to respect something outside himself, a pleasure for Toshiki to watch.

Kazuki is. And Toshiki doesn't know what he wants to ask him for, except that he wants something that Kazuki isn't giving him, and he can feel himself dying inside without it.

The Language of Drought