[ it's not the biggest gift in the world, but there's a small bag of chocolate chip cookies waiting for kuro when he makes it to the dojo on the afternoon of march 14th. attached is a note: ]
Payback for the ice cream!! Happy white day! U(。•̀ᴗ-)✧U
[ and signed at the bottom is a scrawled picture of two rabbits. ni-to. ]
[ There is a very, very long pause. Kuro wasn't looking at the group chat, so he didn't see Nazuna's rudeass comment - truth hurts, Nito! - but he doesn't need it to have the sudden pang of a memory. It's fuzzy on details, but enough that he knows he didn't make this outfit.
But he has made outfits before. ]
i don't remember that, no probably missed it? probably had a competition or a class at the time that or i just didn't pay any attention to a concert
but it's gonna take me a while to get used to these sudden memory things i dunno if i'd call me sewin "charmin," though, but apparently that's a uh that's somethin normal? cause i don't think i made this one, but i'm pretty sure i made that red akatsuki thing
[ It's very... Nazuna, that he's done something like this for him. But he wishes that he didn't feel something warm settling in him. He's certain that plenty of people got something from him for this holiday, after all.
He sends him back a text at the end of his class anyways, with only an attachment of a very empty bag of chocolate chip cookies. ]
[the bull fighting had been fun to watch, and leo likes watching the video he'd taken over and over again..♪ it never fails to excite him. both in the sense that he wants to wrestle a bull himself and also mess around with kuro, so since he can't easily do the first he lets himself into kuro's room instead to wait for him there, kicking his feet with nothing but a shirt and boxers on.
comfy as fuck my guy.
he'll perk up when he hears kuro get home, resting back on his forearms with a grin, and calls through the door.]
things with retrospec... they're real complicated it makes things kinda messy, don't they? but... i think things will be ok i think right now people are upset, and they need some time to cool down, yknow?
[ nazuna stares at that text for a little while, then presses the phone to his chest and takes a deep breath. for how miserable and low he's trying to force himself not to feel at the moment, something in his chest still squeezes so tight that he feels tears prick the corner of his eyes.
right. calm down. if there's one thing nazuna's awfully good at, it's compartmentalizing. ]
sorry, I know that was out of the blue. 😫 it cheered me up though!! magic, magic ~ I'll just work twice as hard to fix things!
[ Kuro wants to go to Nazuna's dorm, wants to sit down and take his hands in his and squeeze them so tight that maybe, just maybe, he'll be able to transfer every feeling he has about Nazuna into him. Maybe it'll fill up the space where he seems to think so lowly of himself, at the very least convince him that he's better than the vulnerable little boy that he sees when it's just the two of them in a quiet, serious moment.
The one that he saw off, the last day he saw him ten years ago. ]
considerin the entrance leo made, and apparently the impact he's got on all the people in the chat, it's not so much outta the blue but i know you and how hardworking you are so i'm not worried, ok? people will cool down, and we'll all fix it
[ nazuna nito is a coward. in this life and the next, it seems. he's running from his feelings like a terrified rabbit, doing his best to pretend they don't even exist. he gets up in his own dorm room and goes to find tsuchin, mashing his face in his soft fur and taking a long moment to just breathe in deep. he could've gone into detail. he could've admitted something. could've, couldve, could've.
[ Considering all of the compartmentalizing that he's done in his own life, the way that he's bottled things away until his anger exploded like a Molotov cocktail. It's all better, now. He's got an outlet, got his life all together, but the guilt is still bottled up in the pit of his chest. People got hurt because of him, and he could've prevented it. Nazuna left, and he could've tried harder to keep him in his life.
He won't let go, now. But he also won't push when Nazuna's closed off this way. ]
[ With his sister coming and going at her leisure, and them keeping in contact with one another when either of them decides to do something, Kuro is never 100% sure if he'll be coming home to anyone more than Tora. The dog is always happy to greet him, curly-Q tail wagging and paws tapping at his legs, but he seems...
Well, like someone else was around so he wasn't so lonely. At first, he thinks it's his sister. That's the obvious choice?
But then he hears the sing-song voice calling, and can't help but roll his eyes as he kicks off his shoes and shrugs out of his jacket before going back towards his room. ]
Did you break in, or do you still have a key? [ And where are your pants? he doesn't ask when he shoulders the door open. It's Leo. ]
Key, but I broke in anyway. It's more fun like that.
[and he has to keep his skills from rusting, obviously. leo stretches out like a cat, arching up and then falling back again.]
You should put music on for Tora when you're away~. We sang together a lot! [well. leo sang.] And played too. Hey, you're not busy the rest of the day, are you? Strip down and lay with me~.
[ Not like he can judge him, all things considered. Their lifestyles, at their core, weren't that different. ]
I'm sure he appreciated the company, even if you probably got him all riled up breakin' in. [ Kuro eyes Leo on his bed for a second, familiar a sight as it is.
... he opts to just shake his head, reaching back behind his head to pull his shirt off easily. ] You're lucky I don't have work.
I consider myself very lucky that that's the case~.
[with a feline grin and eyes lidded just the same, appreciative as always at the familiar sight of kuro, he scoots back to sit up and holds out his arms to the other. come on, come on, he wants to kiss already ♪]
But I'm the sort of person that finds four leaf clovers without trouble, so what's "luck" anyway? Right place, right time?
I dunno if sayin' you're in the right place, right time, is always an accurate thing there. [ The comment comes out dryly, but not meanly, and he moves to press a knee into the bed, shifting forward onto both of them. The bright and bold dragon traces its way up the arm that he braces his weight into, right at Leo's hip as he leans over him. It's easy to keep his balance there, comfortable and known as it is.
Sure, they'll kiss. But Kuro isn't against holding things above Leo's head every now and then - in this case, literally, as he holds himself above him. ]
But I have a feelin' you kinda need all those four leaf clovers, y'know?
I used to give them all to Tsuka-tan, so it's not like I kept 'em for myself.
[he probably should've though, considering how his life's turned out. leo raises his arms and pulls himself up to nibble at kuro's lips, playful as usual.]
Think I'm in the right place, right time now though. Just goes to show you make your own luck in the end. ♪
[ Enough that he doesn't get himself killed, doing some of the wild things that he does. But Kuro shifts his weight a bit, letting him put his free hand between Leo's shoulders to keep him supported there. ]
Knowin' you... [ There, he gives him an actual kiss, noses bumping. ] You take whatever luck you're given and run with it. ♫
[ah, better, that'll let him koala properly..♪ his legs lock around kuro's middle and he hangs off his friend, humming happily at the kiss and returning it with his own series, eager as always.]
I'm used to taking things and running, so probably~. You do know me so well, Ku~ro. C'mon, c'mon, I wanna take a ride on you.
did you know you can remember how to do things from retrospec...?
i can put my leg behind my head! i definitely couldn't do that last night! i usually stretch every morning and i just kept going!!! it was weird! really strange!!
i think you beat me on "what the hell" cause i've been messin around with somethin but that takes the cake, nazuna how [ GODDD ] far'd you wind up stretchin?
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