they are full of regret

[sunshrouded]

Who: two dads (Tenka sunshrouded & Sousei deontology)
When: backdated to after the event!
Where: the Kumou Estate
What: first goal: get sousei to spit out his tea. second goal: get him drunk off his ass.
Rating/Warning: embarrassing adults

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[Tenka comes home the morning after all the madness only after Shirasu called him out. And he's tired. He's tired and he's exhausted and honestly not much of a morning person, despite all the comparisons people make between him and the sun.

Either way, he's trudging his way into their home now and going to sit in front of their low coffee table, joining his partner.

Then because maybe, just maybe these past three days have been hard on him-]

So I woke up alone this morning.

That was nice.

[Are you ashamed yet, partner.]

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[deontology]

[.... .... .. he doesn't want to think about that, okay.

He actually grimaces at that, picking up his drink.

Nope. Not drunk enough to deal with that.]

That was not me. This is how I am.

[properly. The real Sousei. Boring. You're welcome.]

[sunshrouded]

[That just manages to get Tenka to laugh again.]

Yeah, I guess you're better this way.

[He guesses.]

[deontology]

[and dryer than the sahara desert--]

I'm glad you think so.

[sunshrouded]

[so genuinely as it's probably a coin toss as to whether or not he caught the tone-]

You're welcome!

[deontology]

I'm not grateful to you.

[SLAMS THAT DOWN]

[sunshrouded]

[and now he just looks sad but

probably not because of expected reasons]

Lying isn't a good habit, Sousei-kun....

[deontology]

[WHY....]

Shut up.

[what are you even talking about HE'S NOT GRATEFUL. AT ALL. for this particular thing anyway]

I don't want to hear a lecture from you.

[sunshrouded]

Pfffft.

As if you haven't tried to lecture me every day since we got here.

I see why people get confused and try to call you Sousei-dono.

[cONFUSED]

[deontology]

[confused???????

... though that distracts him enough and/or presents him with an alternative option here]

You have met Okamoto Katsushiro, then.

[sunshrouded]

[Yes, but they haven't talked about Sousei.

Yet that also makes sense.]

Is that the brat that thinks he knows better than me?

Yeah I guess I can see why he'd stick to you. You're both too serious and kind of jerks.

[deontology]

[he snorts quietly under his breath]

You do not take well to not being listened to.

[...]

I am not certain when you developed these delusions of grandeur, but I am certain they were not taught to us.

[sunshrouded]

[ . . . . . ]

What did you just say?!

[RUDE AS HELL

PEOPLE LISTEN TO HIM, IT'S JUST A THING

guess who's not used to not being the rule, whatever that means]

[deontology]

You heard me.

[he's not intimidated by you!!!]

You are not always right, you know. Do not try to protect everyone here if they do not want it.

It's insulting.

[Katsushiro is trying to be a fighter in his own right.

It'd be like telling Takeda to stay behind. Instead the Yamainu very carefully make sure he doesn't see most of the fighting...DIFFERENCE]

[sunshrouded]

Ah? Should I let everyone be as reckless as you then?

[listen he's still not over Sousei trying to fight a giant invincible ghost

even though he's the one who got injured in the end from that]

[deontology]

I know my limits.

[JEEZE.]

I know what I'm doing.

[sunshrouded]

[do you see this face sousei

this is the face of someone who doesn't believe]

I'm gonna get another scar because of you one of these days.

[deontology]

[He scowls in return at that face and the words.]

I'm not asking you to. I'll take the consequences of my own actions.

[okay

he'll get his own scars.]

[sunshrouded]

[And Tenka just huffs faintly at that and as if it's the most obvious thing in the world-]

Of course you won't ask.

[But he'd defend and jump in the line of fire for Sousei any day anyway.

It's kind of a given, he thinks.]

[deontology]

[...is that how it is. For a moment, Sousei looks as though he's swallowed a lemon. He doesn't want Tenka to jump in the line of fire for him. He knows that defending each other just comes with being partners, so he can't say anything about that, and yet...]

It seems you are always the one being harmed.

[That's not fair. It's not that Sousei wants to be injured--anything but, really.

But he's tired of seeing Tenka in pain too.]

[sunshrouded]

Bad luck?

[Or maybe Tenka has a habit of being more likely to jump in the way because it's what he's always done. Cuts and wounds are things he's never had a problem handling - his pain tolerance is remarkable.

But regardless he just empties his cup yet again to avoid thinking about why his pain tolerance is so high.]

You know I prefer that over the alternative.

[deontology]

[...yeah, he knows.

But it's still not fair. He just sighs at that, lifting his cup in return.]

And still you place your preferences over mine.

[selfish jerk]

You've always been that troublesome.

[sunshrouded]

[Tenka just laughs faintly at that, amused.

Troublesome? Yeah, he knows. To the people who are closest to him, isn't he always a bit of a burden? They're the ones he owes the most to. Always.]

Your patience is wasted on me, partner.

[deontology]

That doesn't matter.

[oh]

You are who I've decided to waste it on.

[well..........it is what it is. He knows Tenka rarely listens to him and causes him troubles but...he's his partner.]

[sunshrouded]

[ . . . . . . oh.

admittedly tenka is confused

and also hammered

hence why he's openly critical-]

Shouldn't it to be someone more deserving then?

[you can still??? change your mind????]

[deontology]

[And Sousei just arches an eyebrow at him at that. Why wasn't that enough? That should have been enough. Don't make this gayer, Tenka.]

You're Kumou Tenka, aren't you?

[WELL???]