InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Numisma's Inuyasha Drabbles ❯ Drowntide ( Chapter 23 )

Title: Drowntide
Genre: Horror
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Summary: When he goes wading, he’s always pulled ashore, but held under first.
Word Count: 100

Date Originally Composed: February 9, 2005

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Strong hands pull him from the river. He coughs up muck, breathes. His vision blurs. There is he himself, and there is the man of damp curls and black promises.

“I promise to keep you afloat,” he says with a smile, and he spits up bloodmud to say yes.

When he goes wading, he’s always pulled ashore, but held under first. His mind reels. He struggles. Kohaku fumbles, grasping at the tight fingers. Bubbles escape.

A face flashes, flickers betwixt dreams and poisonous red sealing wax. He claws his own throat open raw, then breathes with gills beneath bloody waters.