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Summer
a Shaman King fanfic by Sakura.
Standard disclaimers apply.

Word Count: 100

Posted: 2003.12.29

 

 

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With the afternoon breeze comes the billowing of sheets.  They rise and fall, almost drowning Yoh as he fixes pins on the clothesline.  In the mad flutter of white, he is barely seen: a knee, an elbow, the orange headphones tangled in his hair.  Deft fingers on the wire.  Eyes half-lidded in the sun. 

 

Sheets playfully flip, danced about by invisible hands.  Then suddenly, the air stills.  There is one last flop, a limp farewell, before sheets settle on the line like good children. 

 

Yoh stops, drops a clothespin in the basket.

 

Lifts his chin to smile at the sky.

 

 

 

 

[ the end ]