ext_156076 ([identity profile] kira-shadow.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] writetomyheart2019-11-04 01:06 am

[Team One] Like a Flame

Ok so [livejournal.com profile] mousapelli told me to write a Snow Man Promare AU.
And since I did not deliver on Date/Nabe last time... this happened.



“Want to get away for a bit, Mr. Burning Rescue Captain?”

The voice stops him dead in his tracks. Watanabe recognizes it immediately. He wishes he could hear it more often these days, just like in the old days but alas.

Turning around, he lets his eyes roam over the sleek black motorcycle first and then up a leather clad leg and chest until he finally lays his eyes on an all too familiar face, which is partially hidden by the biker helmet the other is wearing.

“I’m off duty. And you know I am.”

“Well?”

“Where to?” Watanabe gets onto his own motorcycle and puts on a helmet.

“Follow me.”

They drive outside the city. It isn’t save for them - or at least one of them - to stay there. The roads lead them deep into the forest and then eventually a cave. Watanabe recognizes it. It’s a place they had sometimes played in as kids. The cave split off into two tunnels at one point. One lead towards a volcanic area, the other to a large underground glacier.

In a way, it represented them. And so it only felt right for them to be here.

Watanabe enters the cave first and squints as his eyes try to adjust to the darkness. He squints again when the cave suddenly gets illuminated by a flame. A flame that dances in Miyadate’s palm as the other casually leans against the wall.

He can feel the warmth of the flame all the way to where he is standing.

“Your flame’s gotten stronger again, Ryota.”

“It’s in our nature. As Burnish we want to burn more and burn brighter with every single breath we take,” Miyadate moves away from the wall and towards Watanabe.

The flame moves from Miyadate’s palm and dances around them, painting strange shapes and patterns onto the walls. Watanabe watches them for a moment in fascination but then turns his attention back to the person in front of him. He wraps his arms around Miyadate and meets the other half way when Miyadate leans in for a kiss.

A rush of heat goes through him when their lips meet, their tongues touch.

Unlike other people, Watanabe is not afraid of people like Miyadate. He knows that Miyadate’s flames would never hurt him. They never had and they never would. And maybe this is why he can do his job so well, why he can be part of the Burning Rescue squad.

When they separate for a moment and Watanabe catches a glimpse of Miyadate’s eyes, he sees the same longing in them as he feels. And so much more. Miyadate has changed, has aged more since the last time they met. It pains Watanabe to see it. He wishes he could do something against it but he does not have that power.

Speaking of powers.

Miyadate’s had awakened shortly after they had entered university. Watanabe remembers how Miyadate had been telling him about feeling strange for a couple of days. About feeling like there was something inside of him that wanted to come out. And no, he didn’t mean he had to throw up or anything like that. Something ‘different’.

And then it had happened on campus. Luckily there had been no one else around but suddenly flames had burst out of Ryota’s body and started to dance around him. Watanabe, on autopilot, had grabbed an extinguisher to put out things that had caught on fire in that burst. The flames had for some reason completely missed him, despite him having stood right next to Miyadate.

The next thing he knew was how the sirens of the Freeze Force had started wailing and then a member of the faculty, Miyadate’s supervisor and favourite professor in fact, Kamenashi, had come running and then grabbed Miyadate. Kamenashi fought off the Freeze Force and then he and Miyadate had disappeared.

The realization that his childhood friend - and boyfriend - was a Burnish had never really registered with Watanabe. Even now. Miyadate was Miyadate.

Watanabe knows he is deceiving himself in a way. Is being a hypocrite. As a member of the Burning Rescue he technically fights against Burnish as well, is part of the apparatus that discriminates against them.

And yet here he is, ‘fraternizing with the enemy’.

It’s all because the feelings he has for Miyadate are just like the flame in the other’s hand. They burn brighter and hotter with every passing moment.



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[identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com 2019-11-03 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
NIIIIIIIIIIIICE. oh man Miyadate as a Mad Burnish would be so ridiculously hot!!!

[identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com 2019-11-04 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
YES KIRA LITERALLY