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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.]

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[...well obviously.]

If you'd left while predicting those things, I would be angrier with you.

[But he knows Tenka would have never left his little brothers in danger. So there's that. Instead, he almost looks amused, shaking his head and accepting that for the fact it is.]

You'll have to catch up, then.

I'm pretty sure ten years of silence were a good enough testament toward your anger with me.

[Just saying. But at the second bit he's just going to make a face and-]

Just wait! Once I get all the information, I'll be matching your pace no problem!

[....... please. Of course he was angry. But he's gotten over it now. Mostly.

Placidly--]

Do you have a problem with it?

[Because quite frankly--]

It has been some time since we have settled things with a match.

[whoa, a match? not where he was going with that but-]

Do I have a problem with knocking the birthday boy on his back? Nah, not really.

Some might consider it bad manners though.

[It's been a long time. And now that he's spending basically all of his working time in the gym for kendo... well.]

Your confidence will be a shame when you lose.

[YEAH RIGHT, TENKA.]

I have not been amiss in practicing.

[So they're both kinda drunk and deciding that they're going to have a sparring match.

Yeah, okay.]

Then we'll see if you practice will back up your words! Just don't break any of your bones on me, old man.

[Seems about par for the course for them.]

Concern yourself with you. Playing with petty criminals didn't decrease your reaction time, did it?

Not so much that I can't keep up with an elderly gentleman like yourself!

[Now he's going to try standing. Finally.

Whoa, was that a miniature earthquake.]

[Sousei just sort of...watches him from his seated position.

Are you finally doing what he said to do ages ago?]

...

[far be it from him to interrupt then. Carry on.]

[He's standing now.

And looking at Sousei and blinking.]

Are we not sparring?

[HE THOUGHT YOU MEANT RIGHT NOW]

[UH???]

You're drunk.

[And so is Sousei, a little.

There is no way they're sparring right now. It's the middle of the night. They'll probably wreck their house.]

Tomorrow would be better.

I'm not that drunk! We could totally still spar!

[tenka no stop]

You almost fell over standing up.

[stop]

If I beat you now, you would claim I cheated.

[ . . . okay but-]

You should stand.

If you almost fall over too then we're even.

[LOGIC????]

[no]

I'm comfortable here.

[SO THERE.]

I have no interest in sparring with you while drunk.

You really have no sense of adventure!

[that sounds like a good time to him ok]

You should have gone to bed hours ago.

[OK KIDDO]

You're speaking even less sense than usual.

I'll go to bed when you go to bed!!

[kumou "manchild" tenka, at your service]

[And so, in one easy movement, Sousei stands.

And.

Almost wobbles.

But he manages to catch his balance, and thus he seems steady enough.]

Fine.

[GOING TO BED THEN.]

[ . . . Tenka's just staring him down then.]

.... Fine.

[cue him starting the wobbling off to bed

wow, adults]

[Wobbling off to bed indeed... leaving alcohol cups and empty sake bottles on the table in the dining room.

Definitely such adults.

Wow. Amazing.

But hey, at least they sort of talked about some things maybe. All Sousei knows is that he's definitely ready for bed.]

[EXCEPT WAIT

TENKA HAS A SUDDEN THOUGHT AND THEN IT'S VERY HURRIED WOBBLING BACK OVER TO WHERE SOUSEI IS]

Wait, hold on!

[sure is putting both of his hands on Sousei's shoulders then so that they're face to face]

I nearly forgot!

[WHAT, TENKA.......

Sousei just blinks a little blearily to find himself suddenly face to face with Tenka again.

???]

What?

[And then Tenka is looking at Sousei very seriously for a moment.

Then he's just laughing and breaking out into a grin.]

Happy birthday, partner. I've missed you.

[and you get another hug, Sousei

because Tenka is about 200% hammered]

[????????

Maximum critical brain breakage here. What.... does he do??? While Tenka has never had problems (or didn't when they were kids) with throwing an arm around Sousei or dragging him everywhere, the affection had never been quite so...well, blatant as this.

It's a hug, but he's not sure what to do with it. Most people don't hug him. He's not a huggy person.

So he freezes, though a moment later he sighs softly, the breath escaping him, and relaxes a little.]

...Thank you.

[Thank goodness for alcohol, really--though Sousei isn't as hammered as Tenka, he's still a little looser with his words (probably in part because Tenka is so hammered).]

I...have missed you too. [Kiiko would be so proud.] Do not go where I can't follow again.

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