It just takes a while to unravel the knots that make things more complicated than they need to be.
Aki may be a hero to her, but, in the end, all he had wanted to do that night was be the brother he had always tried so hard to be. You can build up someone all you want throughout the years, create a glorified martyr out of them so that every fault is null and void in the face of your own imagination, but when the day finally draws to a close, they're no more of a god than you are. And if Aki could choose between the two titles, Shinjiro would hazard a confident guess that he'd rather just be her brother than someone elevated above the common man.
He moves around the two of them until he's leaning against the sink, listening to her cry. He shoots Aki a look, smiles a little bit—a small crack in his not-so-stable facade that's becoming less reliable by the second. See? the look says, mildly accusing. This is your own damn fault, you know.
"...Think she cries just about as much as you do." Maybe he's already realized who she is, maybe he hasn't. He'll know soon enough. If he has, then Shinjiro will just be confirming Akihiko's assumptions. If not, he'll just be nudging him along to that eventual horizon. "Must run the family."
no subject
For once.
It just takes a while to unravel the knots that make things more complicated than they need to be.
Aki may be a hero to her, but, in the end, all he had wanted to do that night was be the brother he had always tried so hard to be. You can build up someone all you want throughout the years, create a glorified martyr out of them so that every fault is null and void in the face of your own imagination, but when the day finally draws to a close, they're no more of a god than you are. And if Aki could choose between the two titles, Shinjiro would hazard a confident guess that he'd rather just be her brother than someone elevated above the common man.
He moves around the two of them until he's leaning against the sink, listening to her cry. He shoots Aki a look, smiles a little bit—a small crack in his not-so-stable facade that's becoming less reliable by the second. See? the look says, mildly accusing. This is your own damn fault, you know.
"...Think she cries just about as much as you do." Maybe he's already realized who she is, maybe he hasn't. He'll know soon enough. If he has, then Shinjiro will just be confirming Akihiko's assumptions. If not, he'll just be nudging him along to that eventual horizon. "Must run the family."