Finally Free

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Who: Kaito Watari and YOU! Open of all the people
Where: The Cancer District
Summary: Kaito is finally feeling better and he's out wandering the town, but mainly in the Cancer district. Backdated to the 20th.
Warning: X-treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme silliness



It was a little warmer, and Kaito was feeling less sick, so clearly this was his chance to go outside and get some fresh air. Yes.

This was clearly the best time to window shop in the Cancer district instead of going to, let's say, somewhere more outdoorsy. Like a park. How about it, Kaito? Feel like going to a park?

...No? Just going to press your face against the glass and stare at all the cool shit?

Alright then!

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Yamato was quiet for a long moment. He couldn't - he wasn't sure what to do. He felt frustrated. Not that he actually expected his feelings to be reciprocated, but the thought that one of the main reasons why he was being rejected was due to something beyond his control-!

He couldn't even smack his other self for doing this to him! He had no one to blame but himself, even if it was an alternative version! His frustration had no target and- Yamato shoved it down into a poisonous little ball. Ignore it. Deal with it never.

"...I understand," Yamato said dully. "Is there nothing I can do to change how you feel?"

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"I don't...know. Maybe I just need more time. I...do like hanging out like this, though. Even if we fight sometimes."

There's nothing you can really do to stop pants-wetting terror, bro.

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"Fine."

Yamato's not looking at Kaito at his point, his posture stiff and bordering on formal. He hated feeling helpless. Leave it to time, huh? And what if it stayed the same after a lot of time...?

"Ha...hahah," Yamato suddenly chuckled, pressing a hand against his forehead. "Ah, it doesn't matter. I doubt you would have reciprocated anyway. It's no loss, I guess."

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"...Don't say that. It's never a bad thing to be honest."

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"I am being honest," Yamato lowered his hand. "What would I have done with it, anyway? I'm not suited for such things."

He still felt upset, but he kept it squashed into that tiny ball. He refused to touch it. He refused to even acknowledge it.

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Not suited? He didn't really believe that, and that showed on his face, but still...

"...If that's what you think." He wasn't going to argue, but it still sat wrong with him. Someone not suited for romance was such an alien concept to him that he didn't know how to process it or convince him otherwise.

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"It is."

The more Yamato thought on it, the more he thought himself foolish for that brief flicker of hope he had held when confessing. He hadn't the slightest clue how romantic relationships even worked - and his forays into those things ended in disaster when he had been young and arrogant, dragging in his poor tutors and discarding them as easily as useless trash when it didn't live up to expectations. He'd have surely ruined whatever twisted form of romance this would've spawned.

Yamato just wasn't suited for it.

"This is for the best," he said calmly, and he pushed his coffee away with him. "Well. This chat was pleasant. It is always nice to catch up with you, Watari."

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"...Wait." Was he leaving? Now? But their social link ranked up! he was finally opening up a little!

"You don't have to leave. Like, I'm sorry it got all weird, but you don't have to leave yet..."

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Yamato paused, staring at his coffee cup. "Is there something else you needed to discuss with me?" he asked. His tone wasn't cold, but there was a notable distance in it - a sharp contrast to the subtle, warm familiarity he normally regarded Kaito.

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"...N...Nooo, but that doesn't mean we can't hang out, right?"

You know, hanging out like normal people, experiencing ~~common life~~.

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"..."

Yamato didn't really feel like 'hanging out', especially when he felt unpleasantly strange. It was like a very sharp rock was resting in his guts, and he wasn't entirely sure how to deal with it.

"It doesn't, but, I don't...feel like hanging out now," he said quietly, still staring at his cup. "I don't feel well."

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"...Oh." He didn't ask further, seeming like he understood what this implied, and he nodded. "Alright. ...Feel better, okay?"

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"Mm," Yamato rose to his feet, smoothing down his coat briefly. "Goodbye, Watari."

And then he strode away without another word, stiff-backed and shoulders tensed. Although they had parted on amiable terms, and prior to this, Yamato had been wishing selfishly to enjoy Kaito's company as much as possible without the heretic hanging about, right now he wished to stay as far away from Kaito as possible.

Guess he was right then. Time was the only solution for this.