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[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.]

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[sunshrouded]

[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!

[deontology]

[WHAT, TENKA.......

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

???]

What?

[sunshrouded]

[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]

[deontology]

[????????

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.

[sunshrouded]

[Tenka's had enough alcohol by this point that he doesn't seem to remember that Sousei isn't a huggy person. He might even remember this in the morning. It's a coin toss, to be honest.

But for right now, he's content. And he also sighs and relaxes.]

I thought you're the one who gets to lead for a bit. Being the one to make all the bad choices all by himself is pretty awful, you know?

[deontology]

[What, the way that he's not quite hugging back isn't obvious enough........ what do. how does. hugs???

But he just nods, closing his eyes for a moment. He can lead. He can do that. Though--]

For now, I will lead, until you are ready to walk side-by-side again.

[This was how it was always supposed to be.

Tenka and his right-hand, Sousei. Things just...got a little messed up.]

[sunshrouded]

[... pffft. That just gets him to laugh because honestly-]

You just really like shoving responsibility onto me, huh?

[But honestly he's yawning again and bed is sounding like a pretty solid idea so he's gonna pull away and nod, even as he rubs at his eyes sleepily.]

Alright, alright. Then just be patient a while longer, old man. I'm not going anywhere, for what it's worth.

I mean it this time.

[deontology]

[Alright. He can breathe again. No more blatant shows of affection. Wheeze.

Sousei just pauses, meeting Tenka's eyes even if he is half asleep and wasted.

And he nods.]

I'll hold you to that.

[No more leaving. No more death. None of that.

They'll stay together, like they should have from the start.

And everything will be okay.]