[closed]

[deontology]

Who: Sousei and Tenka
When: 10/25 ; night
Where: their currently shared apartment
What: There's a lot of canon to catch up on. Alcohol definitely makes that much worse better
Rating/Warning: drunk people, Manpain

[Living with Tenka is simultaneously really, really familiar and also a little irritatingly different. Cutting contact for years will do that, he supposes--but nonetheless, as easily as they fall back into the groove of being partners, there's still a lot under the surface that needs to be said.

Neither of them wants to say it, though.

Sousei still doesn't like this place, certainly, and has no intentions of playing along with them--but at the very least, acting as a kendo instructor is calming. It's familiar, and separate from all of this futuristic nonsense, and while he's doing his best to adapt, it isn't bad to have something very like home to ground him.

There's that, and there's Tenka.

So when he gets home from said work, he expects it to be another night of them trying and failing to return to the place they were before, when all they had had to do was be partners, and the understanding came right along with it.]

Comments

[sunshrouded]

[Well, Sousei is free to straighten up a bit more if he wants but Tenka's honestly not budging. Guess who's drunk? Tenka's drunk. Tenka's drunk and therefore he's going to stay where it's warm and comfortable and clinging to Sousei means it's less of his own effort to keep himself upright.

Should've shoved him off a while ago, Sousei.

Anyway now he's just going to grouch-]

Hopeless - our test scores were the same!!

[JEEZE.]

[deontology]

[Wow this is so familiar... now he's going to try to push Tenka off and it's not working.

Why this.]

Miraculously. [HMPH.] You were always distracted by other things.

[mama kumou despaired.]

[sunshrouded]

[nope

not working

he's stubbornly staying where he is, fight him]

I was very busy, even as a child!

[DON'T HATE]

[deontology]

[HATING. also he's going to start pulling Tenka's hair if he doesn't get off of him soon. Just tugging at the stupid crabhair.]

You were not! [WHAT...???] Our matches aside, you spent most of your time dreaming up ridiculous dreams!

[That...Sousei completely believes in. A+ Sousei.]

[sunshrouded]

I was very busy!! I had matches with you and to make sure Ashiya didn't go sleep in a box and to watch my little brothers and all sorts of other duties!

[ashiya not sleeping in a box was very important]

Also you're welcome and- ow!

[hair pulling what is this, are they five (yes they are)]

[deontology]

[He'll admit that Ashiya not sleeping in a box was very important, it's true, but--]

Get off. You weigh too much.

[You're heavy jeeze!!!]

Are you going to claim that you're busy here as well?

[sunshrouded]

Strength-training, Sousei. Or are you really too slight to keep up with my weight?

[No, he's not getting off, even if he's drawing at straws and-]

.... Well, less busy. It's almost kinda boring here.

[and their house is too quiet, he needs to fix that]

[deontology]

[oh. That's enough to get Sousei to legitimately shove Tenka off of him because don't insult him!!!]

I can keep up with you just fine.

[When was the last time they even had a match...]

... That much is true, however. There are important things to be done back home, and yet we are kept here. [UGHHH]

[sunshrouded]

[OOF.

okay yeah no he's landing on the floor in a heap and honestly just. laughing now.

yeah he's a laughing drunk, who's surprised

still though he's snickering as he sits up and reaches to take another drink]

Workaholic.

[deontology]

I don't want to hear that from you.

[Slacker.

Sousei just picks up his own cup, because he's also too far gone to bother to regulate his alcohol intake GET THE BIRTHDAY BOY DRUNK: SUCCESS??]

What job did they even assign you? [He's still a little bitter about working for the city, which is why he decided against being a police officer, but. Tenka...]

[sunshrouded]

[TOTAL SUCCESS and Tenka is honestly giving Sousei a very blank look at that.

Are you for real, homie.

He's just going to gesture to the bottle of sake that he managed to procure seemingly out of thin air-]

Bartender.

[deontology]

[Excuse you, Tenka, you could've bought that anywhere. Maybe even in a vending machine??? He's not entirely clear on it, Naoi had said you can buy most anything in them.

... ... ...anyway.]

... Of course. [Really, CERES? What a waste of talent.]

[sunshrouded]

[Let's be real, Tenka probably already checked to see what you could buy in vending machines. Liquor? Much harder.

He's not entirely sure what soda is though so he didn't get any of that.]

Are you already judging my career? That's rude!

[deontology]

[Yes, yes he is.]

Well, I suppose it's harmless enough.

[A glance at the alcohol in his hands, and some fuzzy processing, and--]

... ... ... I take that back.

[NOT REALLY HARMLESS.]

[sunshrouded]

Buhahahaha!!

[there's that obnoxious laugh

But no really, Tenka's just going to laugh a lot at that.]

Aw c'mon, we're just having some fun! No big deal!

[deontology]

[So obnoxious...but also so Tenka. Sousei just shakes his head, closing his eyes and biting back a sigh. He's a lot looser right now than he has been.

It's Tenka + alcohol, what a potent combination.]

We still shouldn't be letting our guards down.

[too late]

[sunshrouded]

I say we can do whatever we want on your birthday.

[and that includes letting their guards down

besides-]

It'll be fine. Jeeze. What can they do against the both of us anyway?

[deontology]

[it's true that they're both ridiculously strong....... but Sousei doesn't like being overconfident when he doesn't know his opponents at all.

..Also, we're back to this, aren't we.]

If it's my birthday, shouldn't it be that what I say goes? Stop reclaiming it for your own use.

[sunshrouded]

Yeah, but you're really bad at celebrating your own birthday.

[so he's just helping obviously]

[deontology]

How would you know the best way to celebrate my own birthday?

[GOD.]

You're as bratty as ever.

[sunshrouded]

Because I actually know how to have fun!

[YEAH, HE SAID IT-]

I don't need to hear that from you though! Just when I try to do something nice for you....

[deontology]

[???????]

This is nice for you. Some of us don't care much either way for sake.

[he's still a party pooper.]

[sunshrouded]

Don't act like you're part of that 'some' - you're drinking this stuff like water!

[not that talks of tragedy forced his hand or anything]

[deontology]

[WITH A PERFECTLY STRAIGHT FACE--]

I have no interest in alcohol.

[so there]

[sunshrouded]

[ . . . ]

Birthday brat.

[there????]