Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James M. Barrie

Oneshot 1: Shinigami-sama, doushite?

Gilbert wrung his hands in agitation. They'd been sitting out here for the past two hours already. He looked over towards his father anxiously to see the man pacing back and forth. Suddenly a loud crying noise came out of the room beside him.

Gilbert hopped out of his chair and went racing into the room. "It's a boy!" His father raced towards the woman laying weakly on the table and hovered over the newborn child. Gilbert stood frozen in the doorway. "What... Are you?" He asked softly.

A creature robed in black hovered on the other side of the bed. At the boy's question, the creature looked up from the newborn child. "Hm? Shouldn't that be obvious, boya?" The creature had a strangely feminine voice that resounded giving the illusion of an echo. It floated over the bed before stopping in front of Gilbert.

"I'm a shinigami, boya."A pale hand emerged from the darkness and caressed the boy's cheek. "Hmm.. I can touch you then? What a waste that you weren't chosen by now." The shinigami sighed before turning away from the albino back to the boy. "I might as well go back to what I came here for anyways."

It began moving towards the newborn child before Gilbert latched onto the hem of the dark robes. "Wait! What are you doing?" He asked desperately. Admittedly, Gilbert knew that he didn't know too much. But this... Shinigami couldn't be doing anything good for his brother.

"Ludwig! We'll call him Ludwig!" He faintly heard his father's voice in the background as he stared into the glowing red eyes of the shinigami.

"Possessing him, of course. Isn't that what we shinigami do anyways?"

"What will that do to my brother?" Gilbert clenched a fist.

"Kill him. At least in a year or so." The shinigami traced the newborn's forehead softly. "The younger ones normally don't last too long, but the older ones normally don't willingly accept us in. Only the ones that can see us can be possessed by us."

Ludwig raised his chubby arms up and grasped the shinigami's finger tightly.

Gilbert choked as he saw his father fawning over his new son. "Look how he's reaching out for me so early! Ludwig is really smart isn't he, my dear?"

"I can see you can't I? Take me instead."

"Hoh?" The shinigami pulled away from the infant and rushed over to the albino. She crouched down beside him and asked, "Would that really be what you want? After all, you probably wouldn't live more than twenty years. Your body's strong enough to last longer than his, but you'd still die prematurely."

Gilbert clamped his eyes shut. His red eyes looked over towards his father and his mother. Ludwig was getting all the love that he deserved. Something that he, himself, would never get. "Yes. This is what I want."

"Good boy."

Recently I've been having these little ideas for oneshots. Strange thing is that I never do one shots. O.o They'll be all out in about 4 days tops and they'll probably all be tiny. I don't really expect anyone to read these, but I just felt like publishing them. xD If you're seeing this: Thanks so much for reading! :D

I've already written all of these out and they're pretty short. I'll just be updating these once per day until I'm done to stretch out my air time. /shameless advertising