thenearshore | [Closed] So it's come to this

Gojyo's tone of voice got him prepared for a confrontation, so he brings one hand up to hold Gojyo's fist in place while the other readies to do the same thing with the other hand.

"What the fuck?"

He allows himself a little indignant anger to hide his concern. He just has to act surprised, like he has no idea what he's done to merit a punch to the face even though he could recite a list by himself. Gojyo doesn't know that though. That's what being a shinki means. After that last encounter which was all too close to revealing things, he took Sharak's advice and backed off. This is the thanks he gets.

Now to see if Gojyo's in anything close to a Talking mood or if he was just going to have to rely on his stamina the same way he did with an irate Hibari.

Edited 2017-08-04 18:50 (UTC)

He's going to need that second hand, as Gojyo isn't done punching yet. He follows the blocked punch with a kick, aimed at Doku's midsection, and another punch, again right to his face. His goal is to get Doku on the ground, and it's a goal that is very near and dear to his heart.

"You thought you were safe because I didn't remember anything, huh? Well guess what, asshole." He attacks again, with fists or knees or a headbutt, anything that he can use to bring Doku down -- or at least bloody his face. "I fucking remember."

He'd considered breaking out the sword for this, purely for self defense. Gojyo's remark makes that completely impossible as a consideration now.

"You remember what exactly?"

Because hoo boy is that 'remember' way too vague for him. He can't possibly have all of the details, surely. Even as young as Gojyo was, he knew what Mom was doing to him. As an adult, when they met again, Gojyo had every right to be mad at him for splitting them up as brothers, but that wasn't what happened at all. So what part had Gojyo remembered? That they were enemies, possibly. That they were brothers and he didn't tell Gojyo, also possible. That they met when Gojyo was young and identified him as a youkai but Doku never followed up, another plausible option.

All he can think of then is to teleport away, several steps down and closer to his own temple, just to get out of range of Gojyo's wild offense. "Because whatever it is you're mad about, you're still a shinki, so I have to be careful not to hurt your angry ass."

There, still angry but just enough insight into an unintentional slight, whatever Gojyo's thinking Dokugakuji's done. He hopes.

He should have brought a gun. Doku teleports away (just like Gojyo knew he would, fucking gods and their fucking teleport powers) and Gojyo automatically brings his hand up (in a strangely broad sweeping motion -- what kind of weapon is he used to using, anyway), tracking Doku's movements the moment he reappears. He really should have brought a damn gun.

Guess his fists will have to do.

"Like I'm afraid of some coward who stabs women in the back," he snarls, heading down the stairs toward Doku, one slow step at a time. "I'm not a kid anymore."

He blanches. That pins him to the spot, his mind reeling. If Gojyo remembers, then, why...? Why would Gojyo be angry at him? Does Gojyo know that they're brothers? He can't assume any of it! Fuck this!!

"Fine, I'm a coward!" He grits his teeth with his own fists balled at his side. "But if you remember that night, and that you were just a kid, then you must remember WHY..."

And he can't even finish that, it just kind of dies in his throat somewhere between anger and desperation to explain himself to the one person he thought he wouldn't have to ever explain that night to.

He frowns at the first remember, and visibly winces at the second. There's only so much of that afternoon he's being permitted to recollect, apparently -- anything else is stirring up that old familiar wrongness that comes every time he tries to think about who he used to be.

But he doesn't need to hear the reason why. He knows the reason why. He's a hanyou, the bastard offspring of a beautiful youkai woman and the filthy human who... he can't even let himself think it. But she'd loved her freak son, despite that. Loved him so much that when her full-blooded youkai son had tried to rid the world of his taboo half-brother she'd stepped between them and taken the blow herself. It’s the only possible explanation for the fragment he’s been allowed to remember.

"Is that your plan?” He’s advancing again, slow and steady, although once he’s within striking distance the punches will come fast and hard, aimed to silence, to blind, to incapacitate. “Now that I remember what you did, you’re gonna turn me into an ayakashi?” He spares a moment’s regret for the blight that will probably cause Sharak – hopefully she’ll be smart enough to unname him the second it happens. “Only one of us is walking out of here, so you do what you’ve gotta do.”

He's actually angry. Partly at Gojyo for misunderstanding whatever it is he thinks he saw because he's not a good enough person to completely ignore the person right in front of him giving him hell. The rest of it though... damn, how many times will he have to relive that night?

"Ever since I found out you were here as a shinki, I have been trying to make sure that doesn't happen to you!" His fists ball at the side but then he just throws them open. "I'm not going to take you out, Gojyo, not after everything I've done already to protect you." In this life and the last.

"I can't possibly imagine what you think I did-" As opposed to what he really did. "And I can't tell you more without risking blighting you."

So it looks like Dokugakuji's going to have to just let Gojyo beat him up if that'll clear the air a bit. He'll give Gojyo a few minutes without fighting back. He can't imagine another way to earn back some trust he managed to lose.

Edited 2017-08-14 01:17 (UTC)

If Doku isn't fighting back, this isn't going to last minutes. Another punch or two may land, but as soon as Gojyo realizes that Doku is just taking the abuse he'll shove him back, hard, both hands on his chest. He's still furious -- that much is obvious to anyone with eyes - but he just doesn't have it in him to beat on a man who won't defend himself. Not even the man who did what this one did.

"I didn't imagine it." But Doku's reactions are making him start to doubt himself. Why is he just standing there? Why isn't he fighting back? A totally innocent man would have just teleported away, wouldn't he? So if Doku's still here, he has to be guilty... but the way he's looking at Gojyo sure doesn't seem to be the look of somebody who'd kill his own mom while trying to kill his brother. It's making Gojyo's head hurt. "You killed my mom." And not just his mom. "Our mom. You stabbed her in the back, don't try to deny it."

Doku's hands do remain in fists at his side as Gojyo wails on him for a bit. A small smirk comes to his mouth after he realizes it's the shove that really hurt the most. How else can he prove that Gojyo doesn't have all of the facts yet, without risking his life. He bitterly thinks about how Sharak or Hakkai would probably have better ideas, but they have the benefit of distance. They don't know how long it took bearing all manner of other pain before he finally had to make that fateful, fatal decision to spare Gojyo's life in exchange for his mother's.

"I'm not denying it," he finally admits, albeit a bit gruffer even than normal while he tries to get his wind back. Yes, she was their mother, but she'd become more to Doku while being less deserving of the title to Gojyo and he couldn't volunteer any of that information, so he just agrees by omission to her being 'our mother.' "I do have regrets about that night..." He raises his eyes to meet Gojyo's. "But knowing what I know now? I'd still make the same decision."

Which is... sort of what he'd had to come to terms with at the damn parade. For all that he hated about that night, there wasn't another way out. She'd acted too quickly for him to talk sense into her or flee with Gojyo, never mind how many times he'd tried talking sense into her before... along with every other placation he'd tried. She'd snapped. He'd tried. He'd done everything a young youkai of little means could.

Edited 2017-08-19 21:15 (UTC)

He can't deny it any longer. The way Doku's behaving, there has to be more to this than he's remembered. But he can't ask -- he can't know, can't even think about anything other than the fragment he's been given back.

Punching Doku isn't going to give him the answers he needs.

"Stay away from me."

But that doesn't mean he has to forgive him for what he did.

"If I see you again, I'll fucking kill you."

He's heard those words before - the kind of thing you say to an opponent on the field. Next time I'll be serious, next time I'll kill you. That was something his prince said.

The tone that Gojyo uses... it's not like that at all. It's more like after the Seiten Taisei damn near killed his prince in the desert - that kind of deep-seated pain at losing someone. In Doku's case, the fear of it. In Gojyo's case now, the impression that he'd lost someone he never truly had. A loving mother. But Doku can't tell him that - that his entire reason for being pissed at Doku was about a romanticized hope, a parent that didn't exist.

So... all he could do was nod when Gojyo says that. Stay away. Yeah... he was going to have to do that now, wasn't he? He'd have to figure out some way to guarantee that gods came back as they were... or find some way to defend himself without hurting Gojyo too badly. Maybe knock him out like that time with Zakuro. Then go dropping him off with Sharak or Hakkai and explain things. Again.

But what did it say about them, about their pasts, that they'd gotten along better before Gojyo remembered anything? He'd known for awhile now that they'd have to live separate lives, but not like this. Not like this.

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