Title: because...
Rating: G
Fandom: Tokyo Xanadu
Relationship: Hiiragi Asuka/Kurashiki Shiori
Wordcount: 269
Short summary: Shiori will wait for Asuka to come home.
Once again it’s 7:30 PM and Asuka is still not home.
Shiori knows by now to put dinner away if Asuka isn’t home by 7 PM, because that means Asuka has found an anomalous gate and is fighting Greed.
It hurts, sometimes, to know Asuka is putting herself in danger over and over again. It’s a sacrifice Asuka makes, to keep the world safe. It’s a sacrifice Shiori would have made, back then, to keep Kou and everyone safe.
Shiori knows it’s hard sometimes for Asuka to talk about her work as an enforcer. She knows that Asuka doesn’t want to drag Shiori into that world again, a world she was part of because she was lucky to live, not because she was deserving. So many other people died that day, and yet… Yet because that world is so important to Asuka, Shiori wants to know more.
She wants Asuka to share her troubles, no matter how minor. Shiori can’t heal those injuries, she can’t make Asuka physically stronger, she can’t temper Asuka’s soul device, but… If Shiori can do anything to lighten the load…
Asuka says just by being her home, by staying at her side despite her job requirements, those late nights, those trips abroad that sometimes go for a few months…this sacrifice is more than Asuka wanted to ask of anyone. But Shiori would do it again, will continue to do it every day.
Because she loves Asuka with all her heart.
Shiori puts the food away, cleans the dishes, soaks in the bath. She closes her eyes and prays for Asuka to come home safe.