( CLOSED )

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WHO: Anya, Yukine, & Yato
WHERE: Anya's house.
WHEN: 5/2 (backdated), almost evening.
WHAT: an exciting reunion a few years past due.
WARNINGS: violence, swearing, & yato.

[ continued from here ]

( it's funny how the sound of one person's name can make someone's blood run cold. it's probably a coincidence, just a weird happenstance of someone else sharing the same name as his aniki, but the possibility of it alone is enough to make yukine feel sick to his stomach. his feet feel like lead as he follows behind anya, breath caught in his throat as he fears for who might turn the corner to greet her, and he strongly considers running.

turning around and running in the opposite direction just because he might encounter the person he's wanted to see the most for the last few years.

what was he going to do if it were really him? would he even be happy to see him? he abandoned him. just like everyone else. )

A-anya. . .? Did you say "Yato"?

( maybe he just misheard. )

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[goen]

[ Yato watches Yukine's tears spill over, and he feels heavy. No matter what excuse he tries to offer, this is the consequence of his actions. A boy with a small voice and bloodied knuckles crying over loss. ]

Things got too hot overnight, so I left because I couldn't stay. I realize it's small consolation now.

... Believe it or not, to me, you were the best thing to come of that town. When I felt lonely, you always made it better. But I didn't think you needed me the way I needed you.

[ Because Yukine's parents were decent? Because he had a home? At the time, Yato couldn't have wished for more in the world than those two things. But he knows now that that was the wrong way of framing things.

He was simply too young back then. ]

I see that I was wrong. Your aniki is human like everyone else. And humans make mistakes. I'm sorry, Yuki.

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( trying to hide his face behind his sleeves. he doesn't want yato to keep looking at him. not right now, not like this. he hates this. he hates all of this. he just wanted to come out here and hit yato until he finally felt better.

instead he just feels worse.

it's impossible not to yell. )

I always needed you!! You were the most important person to me!!

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I still need you!

( it's a complete mistake to say that, but the words fall out of his mouth before he can stop them. in hopes of hitting yato hard enough to force him to forget, yukine swings out with his other hand to clock yato right in the jaw. )

[goen]

[ This time it's one hit too many. Yato barely has time to register what Yukine is saying before he's seeing stars again, and when he opens his eyes again he's looking up at Yukine from the ground.

What's there to say to that? "Still need", after all this time? Yato can't quite comprehend it. So he only stares up at Yukine with a slow turning of cogwheels, struggling to make sense of Yukine and his life until now.

I still need you... huh. ]

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Tell Anya I'm sorry. Cuz 'm going home.

( nudging yato in the stomach with his shoe like that might do something. )

And I hate your pajamas.

( an eloquent parting line before yukine walks off. )