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thenearshore2018-07-11 10:01 am
mostsuitable) wrote in thenearshore2018-07-11 10:01 am
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Missing Kings
Who: Reisi and Tatara.
When: Following Mikoto Suoh's disappearance.
Where: Minerva's Temple.
What: When a King goes missing, he leaves behind a void.
[Reisi knew it and felt it even before seeing the familiar Zippo lighter with the HOMRA symbol on his nightstand. There was an emptiness that only another like themselves—himself and Suoh—could understand. And while he knows many things with his power, Reisi wasn't completely certain to make of this predicament.
Suoh... is gone.
Their bond had already been broken months ago, further isolating Reisi more than usual. But his rival's abrupt disappearance left a huge void inside the King of Order, along with many conflicting feelings he wasn't certain how to process.
It's after some time contemplating that Reisi decides to contact Tatara:]
Did anything of Suoh's suddenly appear in your temple?
[Although some receive items from their home worlds, and it doesn't always mean someone's gone missing, Reisi knows...]
When: Following Mikoto Suoh's disappearance.
Where: Minerva's Temple.
What: When a King goes missing, he leaves behind a void.
[Reisi knew it and felt it even before seeing the familiar Zippo lighter with the HOMRA symbol on his nightstand. There was an emptiness that only another like themselves—himself and Suoh—could understand. And while he knows many things with his power, Reisi wasn't completely certain to make of this predicament.
Suoh... is gone.
Their bond had already been broken months ago, further isolating Reisi more than usual. But his rival's abrupt disappearance left a huge void inside the King of Order, along with many conflicting feelings he wasn't certain how to process.
It's after some time contemplating that Reisi decides to contact Tatara:]
[Although some receive items from their home worlds, and it doesn't always mean someone's gone missing, Reisi knows...]
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Although, a distraction might be nicer. ]
We can go out somewhere, if you're up for it! [ He sounds his chipper self here; but in the next sentence, his voice shifts. ]
...You'll stay tonight, won't you?
[ The exact weight and gravity of what has just happened will hit sometime later, if at all. ]
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Of course, I will. [Barring any emergencies that may crop up, there aren't any matters that require his immediate attention. This, however, is urgent business of a more personal nature, but not the sort of thing Reisi can or would entrust to anyone else.] In fact, I'd planned on staying the night to begin with.
[As to what to do for the rest of the day...]
In any case, would you like to visit Osaka, perhaps?
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Especially when all Shun would manage to say about it is surely something along the lines of “good riddance”.
But of course, Tatara being who and how he is, he can only smile a bit more broadly and offer--] Good.
[ It’s been a while since they’ve spent a night, after all -- let alone gone on a proper date! Which is absolutely what he’s counting this as, breaking away from Reisi momentarily to find his red winter coat and favorite scarf. In case that doesn’t answer the question already posed, well... ]
Osaka it is~!
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It really has been a while since they'd been on a date, and Reisi was more than happy to just be with Tatara. Holding hands and taking pictures... Making new memories. It's always something special seeing Tatara light up with interest at one thing or another, and Reisi's more than happy to indulge him so long as they don't get into trouble.
After having some of the best specialties Osaka has to offer for dinner, the two finally return to Tatara's temple. As warm as it had been during the day, the night air is much cooler. So once they settle down a bit, it's time to prepare for bed, and the two get into the shower together.
Although Reisi had seen the HOMRA mark on Tatara's back before, seeing it now reminds Reisi of their most recent loss. Averting his gaze, he can't help suddenly growing quiet at this unexpected reminder.]
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By the time their dinner concludes, they can see their breaths hanging in the air on the journey home. It’s nothing a warm shower won’t fix, of course -- and the god is, as always, happy to share one without issue.
Things are going about as routinely as to be expected, conversation light but ongoing... until it isn’t. The sudden silence in place is sharp enough to call attention to itself without assistance, and given where Reisi is standing at the time it happens, Tatara has some assumptions about the cause. Glancing over a shoulder first, (as though to check), he turns fully back to the shinki not long after. ]
Sorry...
[ It’s habitual; he has nothing to apologize for, and they both know it, but contrition is so reflexive for him that he can’t help it. Regardless, with any suds rinsed clean first, he’ll move to wrap arms around Reisi’s neck. Internally, he knows it has to be lonely -- and not just for one of them. Tatara himself is a clansman with no King now, after all.
But that’s a very negative way of looking at matters, isn’t it? So he’ll avoid the topic entirely as best he can, simply letting them enjoy a quiet embrace, skin-to-skin. ]
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[He'd hoped Tatara wouldn't notice since he didn't want to concern the god. But while the emptiness won't go away, there's some measure of comfort in Tatara's arms. Letting out a small and quiet breath, Reisi relaxes before reciprocating with an embrace of his own.]
So am I.
[Whatever other thoughts and feelings he has on the matter, he doesn't express because voicing them would only solidify the loss they're both still processing and coping with.]
Apologies for falling silent so suddenly. Would you rather that we skip the bath?
[Getting into the bath would aid in relaxing, especially after a day of wandering around. But it might also make them even more somber, presenting them time to contemplate and reflect on things...]
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At least, in this situation, being caught is none for the worse. ]
It’s fine; you don’t need to be sorry for that.
[ It’s a reminder, he knows. Right now, one he can’t help, either. ]
...Eheh. [ An awkward sound escapes before he releases Reisi enough to meet eyes with him again, smiling half-sheepishly. ] Maybe.
[ As noncommittal an answer as anyone could have expected. Hopefully Reisi didn’t anticipate anything more. ] It might be better if I put some clothes on, I think.
[ He’s not the type to wander around -- or even sleep -- without them, anyway. It’s no great loss. ]
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Still, he'd like to assure Tatara that none of this is his fault.]
Then allow me to first wash your back.
[He suggests it because he needs to confront this since he's never fully resolved it for himself. And he doesn't see why he shouldn't face it head on when he's capable of doing so.]
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By now, one would think he’d be able to divide the two -- that man, and the Reisi Munakata who stands with him here and now -- evenly from one another, but... apparently that’s still difficult, from time to time. While the leader of the Blue Clan would see the disappearance of the man he knows to be most antithetical to himself one way, to this Reisi, losing Mikoto was likely more akin to losing a piece of himself than an adversary.
That’s a gap that... really, Tatara can only try to bridge, and hope it works. Then again, that’s kind of been his strategy from the beginning, now hasn’t it?
So, he’ll honor that request with little more than the momentary perk of a brow, turning on a heel to bare that side to his partner. Just one caveat, though: ]
You’ll allow me the same when you’re done, right?