WHO: Yuji Itadori & various ( closed and open prompts ) WHAT: Yuji has Canon Updated. It isn't going well. WHERE: Across the base WHEN: March 21 onwards WARNINGS: Jujutsu Kaisen spoilers up to chapter 248.
Yeah, I talked to Megumi about my other healing, too. He said there was something in the body the electrics might have messed with, so that's why my technique wasn't working the way it was meant to be.
[ Yuji is quick to greet the owners, chattering away to them as if they're old friends and have known each other for years, babbling on before he remembers what they're here for and focuses. It's not long until he's paying for their lunch and stay - sorry, Raidou - and tugging his boyfriend to head towards the changing room.
Last time had been embarrassing, but they weren't boyfriends then... Maybe he won't blush so much this time... ]
[And that's the whole reason they remember these two, the quiet polite one and the cheery chatty one.]
Mm. You too.
[Raidou has been to onsens countless times, and never has an issue with it. He was practically require to attend them after long training sessions his whole life. But coming here again with Yuji... sure, it was his idea, but maybe he still is a little embarrassed? Maybe it was something else, something he can't quite put a finger on yet...
As much as he wants to protest Yuji paying for everything, he's not really in a position too. His new career choice doesn't exactly have him flush with cash. He'll start saving up for next time, though. Still, won't waste any time getting changed and heading out to the water though. It'll all be fine once sitting in the spring, right? The best way to forget all your troubles for a little while.]
[ The stiffness is just the after-effects of healing, so there's not much he can do now other than rest it and give it time to settle back into the routine. The nanobots are going to help, if nothing else does, and 'taking it easy' isn't really in Yuji's vocabulary.
Yuji changes without any second glances this time, not wanting to embarrass himself in front of his boyfriend, sliding into the water with a pleased little sigh, stretching out and sinking as low as he can, chin floating just above the top. ]
[Raidou certainly isn't one to sit around and wait to heal, but... Well, things were very different this battle, weren't they. So he decided to take he medics' advice, for Yuji's sake.
And he will desperately try to not. Sneak. A peek. At his incredibly muscular boyfriend. Nope. Respectful polite 1920s boys would do no such thing!
A deep sigh comes out of Raidou as he hits the water, probably something he'd been needing to let out for days now. He leans back, eyes closed, smiling.]
It always is, isn't it.
[Even more perfect when it gets to be the two of them her together. How did he get so lucky?]
[ Watching Raidou, Yuji can feel the spread of his smile before he can stop himself, a warm fondness that he can't fight back. He wants to reach out and tug him close, to kiss him again, but... They're in a hot spring.
They're a little naked.
Instead, he wiggles a little closer, reaching out to offer his hand, brushing his fingers against Raidou's under the water. ]
When I'm with you... [ Yuji pauses, considering.
What's the right word? He ruminates over it for a moment before... ]
You-- [He stops, and finally smiles, relaxing a bit more. For a moment, he almost questions it, but why? Why is it so hard to believe that someone would say something so sweet to him like that?]
You're too sweet.
[It's true. It drives him crazy, but in the best way.]
I... do too, with you. I...
[It's so hard for him, to talk about these things or even start a sentence with something like I feel to anyone. But if Yuji can, he wants to be able to do the same.]
I feel like... together, things will be okay. Things will be good.
[ That smile is what he wanted, and he can feel his expression softening, tenderness overtaking him briefly. There's something that prickles at his eyes, but he shakes it off.
After the horrors of going home so briefly, the nightmare of the mission... He sniffles a little. ]
I'm just honest. Nothing sweet about it.
[ Wiggling closer, he tilts his head up, leaning in to kiss Raidou. It's soft and sweet, just the gentlest press of their mouths together, unconcerned with how close he's getting now. He needs to kiss him, he just has to.
He can't stop himself. ]
We'll be okay, because we'll take care of each other. Even if we're a little dumb sometimes.
[ He rests his head on Raidou's face, sighing softly. ]
You... It's... [ He hums softly. ] I feel sad... So much of the time. But you make it feel as if I'll never be sad again.
Yuji... [The name barely makes it from his lips before Yuji kisses him, a soft noise coming from him when he does.
Those words are simultaneously so heartwarming and heartbreaking that he doesn't know what to say. The words are always the hardest part, or at least they are now. Touching like this, the kisses... Of course he felt safe with Yuji. He could never get this close with anyone if he didn't.
His hand takes Yuji's cheek, thumb gently caressing him.]
I want to do everything I can to make sure you're won't be.
[ Yuji leans into the touch, feeling a wave of emotion that he can't seem to swallow back.
When he had given Choso his tracker ring, he had shared his feelings with him, and it had been intense... Painful. Sickening. It had felt like someone had their hands around his throat and were just shaking the hurt inside of him, rattling him like a doll. But it had felt a little bit better, somehow, to share that grief.
Leaning in, he kisses Raidou another time, a little more desperate somehow. ]
You make me really - I'm happy. I don't think I deserve it, but I am.
[ Reaching, he squeezes the hand where their matching rings are. ]
[He's more than ready to kiss him back, despite where they are, despite how they could get caught at any moment.]
You deserve it as much as anyone does.
[And knowing he is part of that, the person who can make this broken boy feel more human again, gives him a reason to keep on going too.
That last phrase makes his breath catch in his throat for a moment, but he can't stay away any longer either. Raidou leans in to where their lips are just brushing one another before he whispers.]
[ Leaning in, Yuji kisses him again, soft and gentle, before he reaches down to activate the ring.
It's like there are layers to the feelings, different levels. Surface level is simple, easy: Yuji feels happy, contentment thrumming through him like sunlight on a summer's day, flickering through a half-open window. The warmth of it is the affection he feels for Raidou, the first hit of the rays in the morning, the first cool breath of winter air, refreshing and exciting.
There's so much more bubbling under the surface, though, and it comes in a wave, brushing against the edge of the beach that is Yuji's heart, dragging the happiness back with it into the depths of his heart.
Pain, hurt, grief, sadness, like a well with no bottom, endless and bleak.
A thunderstorm of emotion, snapping, lashing out like a chained beast, biting at the happiness to tear it away: rabid, feral, ripping, biting, jaw gnashing. When Yuji lets himself feel it, it comes hand in hand with a shuddering breath. The grief is Everest, Yuji stuck at the peak, shivering from the cold of it - so much death, so pain suffering, his joy and childhood ripped away from him and leaving him weak, sobbing, and when he reaches out all he can do is grip at Raidou's hand as he swallows the sudden lump in his throat.
It's too much - it's too much, and he forces himself to stop, reaching down to turn off the ring before he does something awful to Raidou just from him feeling his own hurt and sadness. ]
[Raidou knew it was going to be intense, but nothing could prepare him for that. When his own emotions were almost always so muted, sometimes incomprehensible, to feel a flood of an emotion so strongly like this is enough to cause him to gasp.
There's an undercurrent of familiarity to it though, those feelings of grief and failure that simmer under the surface of Raidou Kuzunoha that he can't understand himself. It sharpens his view on it, an understanding he didn't have of them before. Reminding him how those feelings haven't gone away just because he chooses not to acknowledge them.
The ring being turned off suddenly is as startling as it was being turned on, even though the whole ordeal only lasted a few seconds. In that time, Raidou's hand on Yuji's cheek moved to the space between his neck and shoulder, clutching him tightly, face pressed against the side of Yuji's. When it's over, he quickly brings his arms to move Yuji into a tight hug, not caring for a moment about their compromising position.
Yuji did trust him. He trusted him to feel this, to share it with him. No words come to him. He simply lets out a shuttering breath as he holds Yuji tightly.]
There's a reason he doesn't talk to people about how he feels, because it's too much. He's always felt things deeply - happiness, sadness, everything in between - but the last few weeks have been a level of rough and difficult that he hasn't been able to process. He still hasn't, not really, and he hasn't even begun to let himself think about the fact that Nanami has left, been sent back just to die.
If he thinks about that he'll tear himself apart.
Losing Nanami the first time had broken him, left him a sobbing mess on the floor, wanting to die - and he still feels that way, and Raidou would have felt it too, that desperation for it all to be over but not being able to do it just yet. Wishing he was dead, or he had been killed, for what he had done in Shibuya, what he had lost, the gut-wrenching pain of it all shredding what little hope for the future he still had. His role is to fight curses and there's one major one he still has to deal with, one that he can't die without defeating.
After that, though... His role will be done... He doesn't expect to survive the fight with Sukuna. He said as much: his role is to fight curses, save Megumi, and to die in that fight. He knows it. He's prepared, he's accepted it.
Taking a deep, pained breath, closer to a wheeze, Yuji blinks back his tears and wraps an arm around Raidou, only feeling a little regretful about sharing something so... Intense and personal. ]
... Sorry, Johei. I should've warned you a little more, it's...
[ He leans in, curling against his boyfriend. It was more intimate than just kissing him, but he's glad that he shut it off when he did. ]
No. [He cuts Yuji off, burying his face further into his neck.] Don't apologize for feeling such a way. I agreed to it. [Not that he could have comprehended how bad it was until he felt it.
Raidou Kuzunoha XIV does not cry. He doesn't laugh. He doesn't feel or show many things, because he was strictly taught not to. Even among the other summoners, he is exceptional in his ability to stay strong and silent in the face of all the strange and dangerous things they encounter in their lives. Nothing in his life, however, could have prepared him for feeling these things coming from someone he cares about so deeply.
It takes a few more long moments for him to find a way to form words, to figure out what he could possibly say to comfort someone feeling this way. As he ever is, the ones he comes up with are straight to the point.]
I'm glad you're still here.
[Here, with him. With all of them. Alive. Despite all the odds, despite all the pain.]
[ Sharing this is still so daunting, so sad, and it makes Yuji heave a sigh as he tries to lock it all away again.
The grief is real. The sadness and pain and hope is real. It’s what proves that, despite all the strange things that have happened to him, he’s still human in his own way. He’s still Yuji Itadori, in spite of all his suffering and losses and pain. He can grasp that with both hands and keep it.
Raidou cuts him off, accepts it, doesn’t scold him or punish him or tell him to quit. Doesn’t force Yuji to sink into his guilt, and it makes him feel such a sweet relief, because… He understands. Raidou understands.
Nodding his head, he leans in for another soft kiss, slower, a little deeper. Pouring those positive emotions into his boyfriend and not stopping until he’s breathless. ]
I don’t want to be here without you either. I… I want to spend as much time with you as I can. To cherish you for as long as I can. You mean so much to me.
[He's so overwhelmed, with the long kiss helping ground him, only stopping to catch his breath. But it only continues when Yuji says adoring things, feeling like his heart could burst at any second. Here they sit, the most vulnerable they could possibly be, Yuji still finds a way to make him melt anew.
How bittersweet it all is, knowing that their time here together could end at any time.
A finger traces lightly down Yuji's back, over his spine. If they continued to sit here like this, things could get, let's say, compromising.]
Me too. [Whatever Raidou can do to make this boy even one iota happier, to keep that smile he loves seeing so much on his face.]
[ The soft touch to his skin is grounding, calming, and Yuji comes back to himself slowly. Raidou might be glad that he’d shared how he felt, but that doesn’t mean Yuji isn’t embarrassed or saddened by it all the same. The hollow feeling will never go away forever, but he’s filled with the warmth of his affection for Raidou.
He hopes that he felt it, understood it, behind the sadness. That the way he feels for his boyfriend is blindingly obvious despite his grief.
Nuzzling in for another kiss, he sighs softly, relieved and happy as the smile curves. ]
You really are the best, Johei. Kissing you is super addicting.
[ Move on from the sadness and back to the tender warmth of a first proper relationship. ]
[Someday, maybe, Raidou will do the same on his end. Turn on the ring, and let Yuji get a glimpse of the depths that hide under the still waters of Raidou's expressions. Does he have the right to burden him with his feelings when Yuji is still drowning in his own? Or would he want help pull him above it, like Raidou is with his? He'll be thinking about this for a long while to come.
That comment gets a smile back on Raidou, too. Those smiles, the shy blushes he gets when Yuji says all those sweet things to him, those are things reserved only for Yuji.]
Yeah? That's good, because I really can't seem to get enough of them, either.
You’re gonna make me say something super lame if you keep this up.
[ Not that Yuji is complaining, really.
It’s too easy to get caught up in this, especially when they’re already in a situation that breeds intimacy, curled together in a hot spring and relaxing after suffering so much pain. Yuji avoids thinking of the mission, of the difficulties, the way they’d pushed themselves and focuses on this instead.
Raidou, curled up with him, cheeks flushed and lips kiss soft. It’s a memory to treasure.
He takes one more kiss, much slower and softer than the others, drawing it out. He can’t help but to want more, crave more, seeking the gentle pleasure of moments together like this, his heart thrumming a dangerous rhythm in his chest. He’s never wanted to kiss anyone like this before, to do stupid teenage stuff like make out or whatever.
Raidou makes him want to do a lot of silly stuff. ]
How is that different from normal? [Congrats on receiving the Raidou Joke of the Week!
A kiss like this is enough to get lost in, and Raidou doesn't notice at first how he's leaning back, making more space for Yuji against him, hand absently moving down from his neck to his chest...
When it finally breaks is when it all hits him, his face considerably flushed. As much as he's enjoying this, as nice as it would be to stay here all day-- well.]
[ He’s still smiling though. It’s small, and soft, but it’s real and it’s there.
The truth is that Yuji doesn’t really want to get out, he doesn’t want to stop kissing, or being this close, but he’s aware it’s a bad idea to stay where they are. It’ll get them into some kind of trouble, and he’s already caused Raidou enough problems today by baring his soul.
Leaning in for another quick kiss, his own cheeks red as he shifts away. He’s not going anywhere and neither is his Johei. They have time to figure out what they want to do. There’s time for them to… Maybe.
[Well, he certainly doesn't seem like he's in a rush, and Raidou hesitates a moment before letting out a content sigh with a nod. That's fine. Once he moves aside to do so, he playfully covers up Yuji's eyes with the palm of his hand for a moment. Then he'll get out, grab his towel, and head back to the changing room, sparing a glance over his shoulder.]
[ Yuji can’t help but splutter a little laugh, letting Raidou tease him - he wouldn’t peek, really - and giving him a moment to get out and get covered before he’s going to do the same. His arm definitely feels a little more relaxed now and he huffs a pleased sigh, stretching both above his head with a pleased hum.
Then he gets his towel and heads in to change, tugging on his clothes and practically stumbling back out into the main room. ]
[The spring water is exactly what Raidou's muscles needed, so much tension finally released. He didn't realize how bad it had been until he got out of the water.
Raidou slips back on his hat and his robe, and slides and arm around one of Yuji's as they head back to their room. The can let the proprietors know they're out and ready to eat.]
Mm. I'm starving.
[The owners are ready shortly with food, always glad to have customers around to feed. Won't they be surprised next week when the whole base practically shows up over two days.]
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[ Yuji is quick to greet the owners, chattering away to them as if they're old friends and have known each other for years, babbling on before he remembers what they're here for and focuses. It's not long until he's paying for their lunch and stay - sorry, Raidou - and tugging his boyfriend to head towards the changing room.
Last time had been embarrassing, but they weren't boyfriends then... Maybe he won't blush so much this time... ]
Come on. You deserve to relax.
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Mm. You too.
[Raidou has been to onsens countless times, and never has an issue with it. He was practically require to attend them after long training sessions his whole life. But coming here again with Yuji... sure, it was his idea, but maybe he still is a little embarrassed? Maybe it was something else, something he can't quite put a finger on yet...
As much as he wants to protest Yuji paying for everything, he's not really in a position too. His new career choice doesn't exactly have him flush with cash. He'll start saving up for next time, though. Still, won't waste any time getting changed and heading out to the water though. It'll all be fine once sitting in the spring, right? The best way to forget all your troubles for a little while.]
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[ The stiffness is just the after-effects of healing, so there's not much he can do now other than rest it and give it time to settle back into the routine. The nanobots are going to help, if nothing else does, and 'taking it easy' isn't really in Yuji's vocabulary.
Yuji changes without any second glances this time, not wanting to embarrass himself in front of his boyfriend, sliding into the water with a pleased little sigh, stretching out and sinking as low as he can, chin floating just above the top. ]
This is perfect.
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And he will desperately try to not. Sneak. A peek. At his incredibly muscular boyfriend. Nope. Respectful polite 1920s boys would do no such thing!
A deep sigh comes out of Raidou as he hits the water, probably something he'd been needing to let out for days now. He leans back, eyes closed, smiling.]
It always is, isn't it.
[Even more perfect when it gets to be the two of them her together. How did he get so lucky?]
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They're a little naked.
Instead, he wiggles a little closer, reaching out to offer his hand, brushing his fingers against Raidou's under the water. ]
When I'm with you... [ Yuji pauses, considering.
What's the right word? He ruminates over it for a moment before... ]
... I feel really... Safe.
1/2 as he dies
Did he mean that? Did he, even after this last battle? He felt like he had been nothing but a burden for Yuji, something to cause him worry.]
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You're too sweet.
[It's true. It drives him crazy, but in the best way.]
I... do too, with you. I...
[It's so hard for him, to talk about these things or even start a sentence with something like I feel to anyone. But if Yuji can, he wants to be able to do the same.]
I feel like... together, things will be okay. Things will be good.
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After the horrors of going home so briefly, the nightmare of the mission... He sniffles a little. ]
I'm just honest. Nothing sweet about it.
[ Wiggling closer, he tilts his head up, leaning in to kiss Raidou. It's soft and sweet, just the gentlest press of their mouths together, unconcerned with how close he's getting now. He needs to kiss him, he just has to.
He can't stop himself. ]
We'll be okay, because we'll take care of each other. Even if we're a little dumb sometimes.
[ He rests his head on Raidou's face, sighing softly. ]
You... It's... [ He hums softly. ] I feel sad... So much of the time. But you make it feel as if I'll never be sad again.
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Those words are simultaneously so heartwarming and heartbreaking that he doesn't know what to say. The words are always the hardest part, or at least they are now. Touching like this, the kisses... Of course he felt safe with Yuji. He could never get this close with anyone if he didn't.
His hand takes Yuji's cheek, thumb gently caressing him.]
I want to do everything I can to make sure you're won't be.
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When he had given Choso his tracker ring, he had shared his feelings with him, and it had been intense... Painful. Sickening. It had felt like someone had their hands around his throat and were just shaking the hurt inside of him, rattling him like a doll. But it had felt a little bit better, somehow, to share that grief.
Leaning in, he kisses Raidou another time, a little more desperate somehow. ]
You make me really - I'm happy. I don't think I deserve it, but I am.
[ Reaching, he squeezes the hand where their matching rings are. ]
I... I could show you.
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You deserve it as much as anyone does.
[And knowing he is part of that, the person who can make this broken boy feel more human again, gives him a reason to keep on going too.
That last phrase makes his breath catch in his throat for a moment, but he can't stay away any longer either. Raidou leans in to where their lips are just brushing one another before he whispers.]
Please.
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[ Leaning in, Yuji kisses him again, soft and gentle, before he reaches down to activate the ring.
It's like there are layers to the feelings, different levels. Surface level is simple, easy: Yuji feels happy, contentment thrumming through him like sunlight on a summer's day, flickering through a half-open window. The warmth of it is the affection he feels for Raidou, the first hit of the rays in the morning, the first cool breath of winter air, refreshing and exciting.
There's so much more bubbling under the surface, though, and it comes in a wave, brushing against the edge of the beach that is Yuji's heart, dragging the happiness back with it into the depths of his heart.
Pain, hurt, grief, sadness, like a well with no bottom, endless and bleak.
A thunderstorm of emotion, snapping, lashing out like a chained beast, biting at the happiness to tear it away: rabid, feral, ripping, biting, jaw gnashing. When Yuji lets himself feel it, it comes hand in hand with a shuddering breath. The grief is Everest, Yuji stuck at the peak, shivering from the cold of it - so much death, so pain suffering, his joy and childhood ripped away from him and leaving him weak, sobbing, and when he reaches out all he can do is grip at Raidou's hand as he swallows the sudden lump in his throat.
It's too much - it's too much, and he forces himself to stop, reaching down to turn off the ring before he does something awful to Raidou just from him feeling his own hurt and sadness. ]
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There's an undercurrent of familiarity to it though, those feelings of grief and failure that simmer under the surface of Raidou Kuzunoha that he can't understand himself. It sharpens his view on it, an understanding he didn't have of them before. Reminding him how those feelings haven't gone away just because he chooses not to acknowledge them.
The ring being turned off suddenly is as startling as it was being turned on, even though the whole ordeal only lasted a few seconds. In that time, Raidou's hand on Yuji's cheek moved to the space between his neck and shoulder, clutching him tightly, face pressed against the side of Yuji's. When it's over, he quickly brings his arms to move Yuji into a tight hug, not caring for a moment about their compromising position.
Yuji did trust him. He trusted him to feel this, to share it with him. No words come to him. He simply lets out a shuttering breath as he holds Yuji tightly.]
cw: reference to suicide ideation
There's a reason he doesn't talk to people about how he feels, because it's too much. He's always felt things deeply - happiness, sadness, everything in between - but the last few weeks have been a level of rough and difficult that he hasn't been able to process. He still hasn't, not really, and he hasn't even begun to let himself think about the fact that Nanami has left, been sent back just to die.
If he thinks about that he'll tear himself apart.
Losing Nanami the first time had broken him, left him a sobbing mess on the floor, wanting to die - and he still feels that way, and Raidou would have felt it too, that desperation for it all to be over but not being able to do it just yet. Wishing he was dead, or he had been killed, for what he had done in Shibuya, what he had lost, the gut-wrenching pain of it all shredding what little hope for the future he still had. His role is to fight curses and there's one major one he still has to deal with, one that he can't die without defeating.
After that, though... His role will be done... He doesn't expect to survive the fight with Sukuna. He said as much: his role is to fight curses, save Megumi, and to die in that fight. He knows it. He's prepared, he's accepted it.
Taking a deep, pained breath, closer to a wheeze, Yuji blinks back his tears and wraps an arm around Raidou, only feeling a little regretful about sharing something so... Intense and personal. ]
... Sorry, Johei. I should've warned you a little more, it's...
[ He leans in, curling against his boyfriend. It was more intimate than just kissing him, but he's glad that he shut it off when he did. ]
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Raidou Kuzunoha XIV does not cry. He doesn't laugh. He doesn't feel or show many things, because he was strictly taught not to. Even among the other summoners, he is exceptional in his ability to stay strong and silent in the face of all the strange and dangerous things they encounter in their lives. Nothing in his life, however, could have prepared him for feeling these things coming from someone he cares about so deeply.
It takes a few more long moments for him to find a way to form words, to figure out what he could possibly say to comfort someone feeling this way. As he ever is, the ones he comes up with are straight to the point.]
I'm glad you're still here.
[Here, with him. With all of them. Alive. Despite all the odds, despite all the pain.]
I don't want to be here without you.
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The grief is real. The sadness and pain and hope is real. It’s what proves that, despite all the strange things that have happened to him, he’s still human in his own way. He’s still Yuji Itadori, in spite of all his suffering and losses and pain. He can grasp that with both hands and keep it.
Raidou cuts him off, accepts it, doesn’t scold him or punish him or tell him to quit. Doesn’t force Yuji to sink into his guilt, and it makes him feel such a sweet relief, because… He understands. Raidou understands.
Nodding his head, he leans in for another soft kiss, slower, a little deeper. Pouring those positive emotions into his boyfriend and not stopping until he’s breathless. ]
I don’t want to be here without you either. I… I want to spend as much time with you as I can. To cherish you for as long as I can. You mean so much to me.
[ Another kiss, then. ]
I want to do everything with you. Anything.
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How bittersweet it all is, knowing that their time here together could end at any time.
A finger traces lightly down Yuji's back, over his spine. If they continued to sit here like this, things could get, let's say, compromising.]
Me too. [Whatever Raidou can do to make this boy even one iota happier, to keep that smile he loves seeing so much on his face.]
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He hopes that he felt it, understood it, behind the sadness. That the way he feels for his boyfriend is blindingly obvious despite his grief.
Nuzzling in for another kiss, he sighs softly, relieved and happy as the smile curves. ]
You really are the best, Johei. Kissing you is super addicting.
[ Move on from the sadness and back to the tender warmth of a first proper relationship. ]
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That comment gets a smile back on Raidou, too. Those smiles, the shy blushes he gets when Yuji says all those sweet things to him, those are things reserved only for Yuji.]
Yeah? That's good, because I really can't seem to get enough of them, either.
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[ Not that Yuji is complaining, really.
It’s too easy to get caught up in this, especially when they’re already in a situation that breeds intimacy, curled together in a hot spring and relaxing after suffering so much pain. Yuji avoids thinking of the mission, of the difficulties, the way they’d pushed themselves and focuses on this instead.
Raidou, curled up with him, cheeks flushed and lips kiss soft. It’s a memory to treasure.
He takes one more kiss, much slower and softer than the others, drawing it out. He can’t help but to want more, crave more, seeking the gentle pleasure of moments together like this, his heart thrumming a dangerous rhythm in his chest. He’s never wanted to kiss anyone like this before, to do stupid teenage stuff like make out or whatever.
Raidou makes him want to do a lot of silly stuff. ]
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A kiss like this is enough to get lost in, and Raidou doesn't notice at first how he's leaning back, making more space for Yuji against him, hand absently moving down from his neck to his chest...
When it finally breaks is when it all hits him, his face considerably flushed. As much as he's enjoying this, as nice as it would be to stay here all day-- well.]
We... ah. We should get out, yeah?
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[ He’s still smiling though. It’s small, and soft, but it’s real and it’s there.
The truth is that Yuji doesn’t really want to get out, he doesn’t want to stop kissing, or being this close, but he’s aware it’s a bad idea to stay where they are. It’ll get them into some kind of trouble, and he’s already caused Raidou enough problems today by baring his soul.
Leaning in for another quick kiss, his own cheeks red as he shifts away. He’s not going anywhere and neither is his Johei. They have time to figure out what they want to do. There’s time for them to… Maybe.
He’s embarrassed to think about it. ]
Um, do - do you want to go first again?
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Then he gets his towel and heads in to change, tugging on his clothes and practically stumbling back out into the main room. ]
Lunch now, right?
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Raidou slips back on his hat and his robe, and slides and arm around one of Yuji's as they head back to their room. The can let the proprietors know they're out and ready to eat.]
Mm. I'm starving.
[The owners are ready shortly with food, always glad to have customers around to feed. Won't they be surprised next week when the whole base practically shows up over two days.]
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