Genkurō/Shūhei. Companion
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actionreactionDay eight of 31_days.
Whenever Genkurō introduced Shūhei to others, or spoke of him, he had a tendency to use the word ‘companion.’ To some it sounded a cold term, one that might have meant acquaintance and not friend or lover.
It was easily interchangeable with ‘partner’ and that to Shūhei meant exactly what they were. Partners. They had been for one hundred years, and Shūhei didn’t see any end to that relationship. They were partners in crime, in plot, in secret, in bed. Shūhei didn’t quite feel whole anymore if Genkurō weren’t around, but he never stopped to question if the kitsune felt the same. He didn’t really have to. It was in the way Genkurō worried when Shūhei wandered off so frequently. It was in the way the kitsune watched a little too closely when someone showed interest in the tanuki, if that someone wasn’t part of their next con.
Shūhei was slow sometimes, and he knew it. But there were things he saw, things people let slip around him, thinking him simple, that he noticed, filed away, didn’t speak of. And he knew how much Genkurō really cared for him, felt the same, and thus never once brought it up. Because he knew the real meaning of companion when Genkurō used it.
Liftetime partners.
Whenever Genkurō introduced Shūhei to others, or spoke of him, he had a tendency to use the word ‘companion.’ To some it sounded a cold term, one that might have meant acquaintance and not friend or lover.
It was easily interchangeable with ‘partner’ and that to Shūhei meant exactly what they were. Partners. They had been for one hundred years, and Shūhei didn’t see any end to that relationship. They were partners in crime, in plot, in secret, in bed. Shūhei didn’t quite feel whole anymore if Genkurō weren’t around, but he never stopped to question if the kitsune felt the same. He didn’t really have to. It was in the way Genkurō worried when Shūhei wandered off so frequently. It was in the way the kitsune watched a little too closely when someone showed interest in the tanuki, if that someone wasn’t part of their next con.
Shūhei was slow sometimes, and he knew it. But there were things he saw, things people let slip around him, thinking him simple, that he noticed, filed away, didn’t speak of. And he knew how much Genkurō really cared for him, felt the same, and thus never once brought it up. Because he knew the real meaning of companion when Genkurō used it.
Liftetime partners.