[closed] TREAT YO'SELF

[twostringsonebow]

WHO: Goro Akechi & Izumi Sena
WHERE: wherever they can get sushi
WHEN: 02/15
WHAT: THEY CAME BACK FROM HELL. THEY'RE HAVING SUSHI. and playing twenty questions, eventually
WARNINGS: will add as needed, if needed

[While the first thing he'd done when he'd gotten back in the afternoon was make chocolates for his friends and Akira, there's still a great deal of time between then and the night, when he and Akira plan to meet up for a nice date...

...so he texts Sena and asks him out for sushi, because sushi is a good in this world and fuck if they do not need something expensively tasty to wipe off the past week and a half. His treat.

Sure, the best sushi place in town closed down with the rest of the joint shit getting pushed together, but this place isn't that bad. It's just sort of standard. And off a conveyor belt, so it's not as high class as Goro'd like it to be for the most beautiful boys in the world (them) but it's fine, it's fine, anything tastes like heaven after hell.]

Ah... I don't think I've ever been so happy for the cold before. I'm sure the novelty will wear off, but it certainly was nice walking in it after being close to the mantle. Were you alright, Secchan? Such a drastic change in temperatures would give anyone a headache, but I was worried about you in particular.

Comments

[adoringpast]

[ gross...... have some dignity, akechi ]

He used to be a child star, do you know? He did a bit of modeling back in the day too, so that's how we've met. Obviously you couldn't tell since he's just too puny for that at this point.

[twostringsonebow]

[He is... so happy to call people by nicknames...............]

Ah, I see... I'd like to see some shots, if you still have access to them. Nazuna's very cute.

[Look he didn't even slip this time..!!!]

[adoringpast]

Nah, I don't have them with me. He, uh. He doesn't want to talk about that part of his life so I think I shouldn't either.

[ he may bully him a lot, but even sena knows his limits. ]

[twostringsonebow]

[... Ah.]

Disappointing, but that's alright; we all have times in our lives we wouldn't like to speak of, I'm sure, even outside of Retrospec's whole business. Your boring childhood and mine, Nazuna's former work... Anyway, this is a poor twenty questions, because I honestly can't think of twenty to ask you.

[goro you

you don't ACTUALLY need to ask twenty questions

it's just....... a title............]

[adoringpast]

You don't need to ask exactly twenty questions, though. We can just ask each other shit, and it doesn't have to be too deep or anything.

[ hold on, just gonna grab the tempura and bite into it ]

Like... Do you have any brothers or sisters?

[ that's simple enough ]

[twostringsonebow]

[isn't it woefully obvious that goro doesn't tend to make friends like a normal teenage boy.]

Only child. My mother thinks I'm enough, but I wouldn't mind having siblings... You're one too, right?

[adoringpast]

[ i mean

mood ]

Yeah. My parents thought I was enough. [ ... ] Someone from my memories called me "niichan", though.

...I didn't take it too well.

[twostringsonebow]

[thanks secchan]

Really..? Do you have an aversion to it, unlike Nazuna?

[adoringpast]

I mean normally I wouldn't be too bothered, but...

[ he gulps even if he's not chewing on anything right look, looking a little smaller than before. ]

It triggered a memory in me. It's when I realized that I was... not that good of a person. You saw me at that cafe last time, didn't you?

[ connecting the dots can do that to you. ]

[twostringsonebow]

[Memories swing back easily of October; amidst everything, the nightmares and fog, Sena's dilemma with Keito and the things he'd remembered, a junior he loved to the point of obsession and being a stalker. He nods, taking a plate of tempura shrimp to share between them.]

I see. So are you afraid of becoming similar towards the person who called you "niichan" here? Even if the junior from your memories you mentioned is around, I trust you haven't done anything untoward him; you're a good person, Secchan, I say so to everyone.

[adoringpast]

Not at all, but did you know how I was really out of it these past few weeks, Akechin? I haven't... stopped thinking about him since the beginning of the month--

[ the heartstone in his bag shines on as he winces at the constant thought of makoto that can never go away from his mind. it's been affecting him nowadays, almost projecting on daisuke that one time until he remembered a baffling memory of makoto again. ]

Which is you shouldn't keep saying that to everyone. They should see what kind of person I am by themselves, without any bias whatsoever.

[ he does appreciate goro's help as always, but... b o y. ]

[twostringsonebow]

But--

[You are, though the words falter spectacularly at the sight of Sena still small. Goro puffs his cheeks out and eats some more, knowing that the Sena he's come to know isn't going to be the person that others might see. There's something else to address anyway.]

... I haven't been able to stop thinking about how lucky I am to have the friends I do, which I thought was odd but didn't think much else about it. And it only started recently? No sooner?

[adoringpast]

Recently?

[ headtilt ]

Don't you have any other friends before the app?

[twostringsonebow]

... There was Haru, but other than that, not really.

[friendless loser.]

[adoringpast]

[ ah...... ]

I had no one else but Otome either.

[ girls be lookin out for their model bffs ig ]

[twostringsonebow]

[damn dude]

Well. It's fine to be more or less friendless, in my opinion. There's no need to be surrounded by so many people, wouldn't you agree? Especially since people like us are more used to having a number of acquaintances over... actual friends.

[............ man that sounds pathetic.]

[adoringpast]

Yeah. For all we know, those people only befriended us for certain perks and good looks. It's normal to be suspicious.

[ on sena's case, at least. ]

But... I'm glad too, Akechin. That we met. Even if it took a long time to notice you for who you really are.

[twostringsonebow]

[goro knows that feel, don't worry. he didn't make friends in high school for that reason.]

My, you certainly are sentimental, aren't you Secchan? [just a lil tease!!] Though my feelings are the same. I can't imagine not having you in my life at this point; you've truly become one of the most important people in it.