Day 2: Fic - Yu Yu Hakusho - Shizuru

[alchemicink]

The first character who popped in my head for "Guilty Pleasures" was Shizuru and her cigarette smoking habit. (I don't like real life smoking but I do love fictional smoking 😅)

Title: Rising Smoke
Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho
Character: Kuwabara Shizuru
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Summary: Shizuru takes a quiet moment to herself
Link: here on ao3 or you can read it under the cut below

Shizuru sits on the top step of Genkai's temple and lights her cigarette. She stares at the seemingly endless staircase stretched out below, stone winding through the trees like her smoke curls through the air.

She knows she probably should try to quit eventually – Kazuma nags her all the time about it – but it's hard to give up an excuse for a few quiet minutes outside to relax. 

It's chaos inside, as always when the whole group is together. Laughter and bickering and everything in between. 

But for just a moment here, it's only Shizuru and silence and rising smoke.

Comments

[cmk418]

Very nice. I love the picture you painted here. Is the guilty pleasure really the smoking or is it the sneaking out to get away from it all?

[dustbunny105]

This is such a lovely little character study with great imagery. I especially like how Shizuru's smoking habit is sort of intertwined with her desire to get some space, like she attaches some shame to both.