[Maybe part of it is the way his... past mother threw boiling water in his face. How she called him unsightly and ugly.
Yeah, he's an actor here, he knows he has a nice face, aesthetically pleasing, at the very least. But he also knows he's dense or overly straightforward about things. Emotions tend to slip past him without him ever grasping onto what they actually are and just living his life without considering it.]
I don't think about feelings. Mine or anyone else's. Accidentally making people crush on me.
[ 30 minutes is enough time for Mafuyu to get home too, because she's hardly ever home. She leaves the front door open so her dog can have free rein of the front yard and be Yukine's greeter, while she digs around her room for tubes of glitter she knows she has lying around somewhere, mostly silvers, golds, and reds. She grabs all three just to be safe, and also her cat, because Yukine would probably like to say hi to Creamsicle. ]
( oh my god. that's definitely not what he expected. )
don't you think you should start? considering people's feelings and your own?
i don't think you get it shouto you're a really nice guy you're kind and earnest but some of the things you say like the bunny thing kind of give the wrong impression
( the reality of the situation is that yukine gets there about when he says he would, but he immediately get distracted by the dog that comes rushing towards him in excitement. the plans of destruction temporarily have to go on hold while he lovingly rubs the dog's ears.
[ Yeah, she doesn't believe that for a second. She can hear everything that's going on outside and guesses what happened when Chicken Nugget's excited barking quiets to happy little whines. Backpack stocked, she runs out to door to the both of them, plops her cat on Yukine's head and sits on her dog's back. ]
[ But she also hugs her dog around the back, because she loves her pets too. Chicken Nugget stands up with Mafuyu still clinging onto his back and nudges Yukine towards the gate. They can all go! To wherever they're going! His waggy tail hopes it's the park. ]
( obviously there's only one solution to this. using his spare hand, he reaches out to pet mafuyu's hair as if she too were a pet while they shuffle towards the gate.
distinguished... how you know that when you think of silver hair your mind immediately goes to old senile people and i am not senile!!! im still young and ill look forever young thanks to my diet and 12 step nightly skincare regimen but gray hair..........
[ This is really stupid, so it's fine that it looks that way, a little entourage surrounding Yukine as they leave the house, although Mafuyu has the presence of mind to get on her feet after a while because going by dog is pretty bumpy.
Creamsicle is the one who leads the way, balanced on top of walls and fences as they go down the street. She's apparently equated the Subway with food, seeing as last month was party month for Mafuyu and her team. ]
[ There's no way in fresh hell that Koushuu is going to do the whole "third time's a charm" bullshit, not after how his first two attempts went. He was just thankful it was Anya and Mao that got the misfires meant for Yukine, and not someone else, or not Eijun, so.
Here he is, knocking on the door. Because he had to talk to Eijun about his stupid crush on him without telling him it was on him. And then he had to try and navigate thought bubbles with Eijun. And he's just.
( the amount of texts that he's attempted to send to koushuu today and failed is outright staggering. every single one of them ended up somewhere weird or occasionally to someone that he doesn't even know. he almost wants to scream.
especially considering a text that ended up on eijun's phone. . .
when there's a rap at the door, something in his stomach twists and he rushes to answer it. he's all but yanking the door open as soon as he reaches it. )
Koushuu—! I'm sorry.
( even if koushuu doesn't know yet. he needs to tell him right away. )
[ Retrospec really is out to get them, and he's convinced. Between monsters and being shrunken and literally every single life threatening issue that it's thrown at them... he's not exactly a big fan. The stalker photos are something he almost misses, now, innocuous and harmless as they were in comparison. If only those simpler, shitty days were what they were dealing with.
Even misfired texts would be fine, he thinks, to go along with the creepy stalking, if not for who wound up with one of them.
But he blinks, once, slowly at the look on Yukine's face and his panicked apology when he opens the door. And then he shrugs, brief and loose. ]
I'm not mad, and it wasn't your fault. I figured out pretty fast that Retrospec was causing trouble when I tried to message you about it.
[ Koushuu says that, but there's something a little tight around his eyes. ]
( while that definitely makes him feel better, he doesn't exactly like that it happened in the first place. it's also confirmation that eijun definitely texted him about the whole thing, which is awful. like at least four kinds of awful.
it probably didn't go great.
he lets out a hard sigh through his nose, but opens the door a little wider to welcome koushuu inside. )
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