[closed] every path is nothing but pain and suffering

[ohspearme]

Who: Harada Sanosuke ohspearme & various other people (starters below)
When: Up to about a week after the event? So ICly end of October, beginning of November
Where: All over the place
What: Sano gets to play damage control after the disaster that was his body-snatching. And also go drinking. A lot.
Rating/Warning: ANGST, booze, probably language, possibly violence???

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[ohspearme]

[Even if Sano doesn't like daddy issues, he's still going to stick around and listen some more. The confession that Heisuke is a bastard child is honestly surprising, though, but not in any bad way. It's just not something Sano would ever imagine, even if it is a common enough occurrence.

The hush money talk doesn't sit well with him, because Heisuke's right. It is a bribe. But even if he were to cause a stir, with his lack of any social standing, the most trouble he'd probably do to his father is make him look bad - but how bad, Sano doesn't know, because, again, illegitimate children are a thing that everyone knows about, even if they don't talk about them. And then at the end of the day, Heisuke would probably lose said bribe in the best of outcomes. And the worst...

He doesn't want to think about that.]

It's not a desirable situation, but it probably is the best one for everyone. But like you said, we're here. I don't wanna tell you to just forget about it, 'cause if you've been living with that your whole life, you can't just clap your hands and be done with it. You gotta stop talking about dying, though.

[Squeezing his arm around Heisuke a little tighter, Sano lets out a long, loud breath.]

But like I said before, you're still Heisuke and that's all that matters to us.

[The corner of his lips turns up, obviously to put some teasing back into their relationship.]

You numbnuts.

[wolfthatbarkstheloudest]

[ Rocking back onto his heels enough to pull his legs out from under himself, Heisuke stretches them out in front of him, leaning into that arm and sighing, the breath punctuated by the click of his tongue against the roof of his mouth. ]

Saaano-san, are you sure you should be calling me that? I'm not the one who almost got his broken, y'know?

[ Everything Sano says is true and he knows it, but at the same time, he can't help feeling like he's still on the outside looking in. It's not the best feeling, and not one he really had at home before leaving with Itou, but ever since arriving here-- no, ever since Zelien, he's felt like there's something off, something they're not saying. ]

It could be worse, though. I mean, I could do what Sannan-san did and talk about the ochimizu. [ He tilts his head back to look up at him, a smile on his face. To him, talking about dying is the lesser of two evils, because while dying isn't something he wants to do... again... becoming a rasetsu is even more of a big check in the No box. ] I'm starting to get good at it, though! The d-word, I mean... not that it's something to be all that proud of, 'cause I'd really rather not be just useless baggage to everybody, y'know?

[ His own attempt at trying to reinsert some sort of playful tone is a half-hearted laugh, the smile still in place. Or out of place as the case may be. ]