[IC] [In the YnM Cabin]

[kagekachou]

*Tatsumi enters the cabin and sets down a pile of tax paperwork on his desk*


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[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

*Tsuzuki has been using his computer to monitor his post, but looks up now*

Ah- welcome home.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

How has your post been going?

*goes over to the kitchenette and begins preparing some tea*

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

Mm... I think it's helping. I hope so, anyway.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

*the water is heating up*

Helping whom?

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

The campers here, I hope.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

Hm. Perhaps. Would you like some tea?

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

Please.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

*is quiet as he finishes preparing the tea, then pours some for Tsuzuki and himself. pulls out his desk chair a little and sits.*

Camp certainly does like its tricks, doesn't it?

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

*coming closer*

Mm, you mean the other you?

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

What else would I be talking about?

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope you wouldn't think anything I did was a trick.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

I said "camp," didn't I? I didn't say you.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

That's true.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

It certainly was inconvenient timing. Out of everything... something like that from such a long time ago.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

But something so important, too.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

Well. Yes. Naturally, at that age...

*sets down his tea to rub at the bridge of his nose*

...as I said. It was a long time ago.

But thank you for being so... understanding of the situation.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

Thank you for understanding me. Then, and now.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

...you give me a lot of credit.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

... aah, maybe I do.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

...you're not supposed to agree with a person when they say something like that.

*habitually scolding words, but hollow*

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

*stands level with his shoulder*

Why not? It isn't a bad thing for me to do, if I think you deserve it.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

In that case, no, though I would have to call your judgment into question.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

Mm, but it wouldn't be the first time.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

...no, it wouldn't.





Would you be willing to indulge my curiosity on one matter, Tsuzuki-san?

Why had you never told m- the younger me about the de-aging effect? And that you knew me?

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

...



Tatsumi is Tatsumi... but he might not have seen it that way. It, mm, didn't seem fair.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

Hearing it from other people after having been here twice before, though...

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

Didn't I explain it to him well enough?

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

You did well enough, I suppose. But there are some things that can only be explained so well. Especially with everything being so crazy, I don't know if it was... well. It doesn't matter now.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

It was... what?

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

Easier or harder to wrap my mind around was what I was going to say, but there didn't really seem to be much point in dwelling on the subject.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

...

*pauses for a long moment*

Tatsumi... maybe I didn't handle everything as well as I could have.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't have had to handle it at all. It's not an issue.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't mean that I minded.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

It...







You handled it well.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

I don't regret knowing.

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

But has that... changed anything for you?

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

Only what I'd said, in that post. Is it wrong to think I understand?

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

*avoiding eye contact so hard*

...no. It's probably not wrong.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

*and here we are again, reaching out for Tatsumi*

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

*catches Tsuzuki's hand before it reaches him. Tatsumi's own hand is... almost steady.*

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

*looks up*

Ah-?

[kagekachou.livejournal.com]

About what you said in that post. I don't feel that I understand you better. But... I think that... I maybe understand myself a little better.

[cake-and-death.livejournal.com]

... if that's the case then I'm glad for that too.