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Bittersweet by orchidbreezefc
Food is the fastest way to a man"s heart, right? Well, Haise brings Juuzou some food and gets more heart than anyone expected.
"I’m not going to ask you to strip down or anything. I just think about it sometimes." Juuzou starts idly chewing on a nail. "When I see someone like Hanbee, or you, that are my age, but you don"t look like you are." He tilts his head thoughtfully. “Or, no, the other way around. I don"t look like I am."
It"s not that Haise is unwilling to talk with Juuzou, even about something like this. But would it be too much to ask for him to show some discomfort with the topic, or sheepishness for having implied Haise should strip? Haise knows it would be; self-consciousness is not in Juuzou"s vocabulary. “You think about—me? Like that?”
Juuzou weighs the question. “I think about you being bigger than me. I think about how your face looks different. I think about how you get to be an adult to people, even ones that don’t know you.”
“Does that bother you? People thinking of you that way?” Haise asks quietly, now feeling embarrassed for hiding sweets in his clothes for Juuzou to find, like he’s a child.
“I don’t care what people think of me,” says Juuzou plainly. “I act how I want. Sometimes people think that’s childish.” He shakes his head. “What I care about is that I’m always going to be different from people like you. Because of what was done to me. I care that I didn’t have a choice in that part.”
Haise considers this. “I’m always going to be different from people like you too,” he says at length. “Because of what was done to me. I didn’t have a choice, either.” He activates his kakugan again, then carefully shifts his grip on the ice bag to take Juuzou’s hand. “So maybe we’re the same in that way.”
Juuzou looks surprised for a moment, then smiles. “Yeah. Maybe so.”
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