[Maybe twenty minutes later, Fai shows up at Kiryu's door bouncing like an excited four year old. He's dressed in ratty jeans and an old Bon Jovi t-shirt (and his pink Chucks as usual) and he's also sporting a very fresh black eye.
...which is probably the first part that's visible when he knocks, then cracks the door open and pokes his head in.]
[ My goodness, Fai. Rather unfortunately for Kiryu, with added muscle mass came added clothes sizes. So while he's bought himself a new suit for work by now, the rest of his clothes haven't quite caught up yet. He's wearing sweats and a t-shirt that clings tightly to his new physique. It's either this or go shirtless...
Of course, when he sees Fai, he doesn't even bother with worrying about any of that. The black eye comes first. ]
After a moment he lets out a kind of strangled laugh.]
I could ask the same of you! [He slips through the door and closes it, so he's having a proper conversation instead of just peeking in the doorway.] Ah, this is nothing. I got caught up in a bar fight yesterday, if you can imagine that! Wrong place, wrong time.
Right, it's not so bad. I have a bit of a headache and it hurts to touch, but other than that it's fine. I probably should have covered it but I was really excited to come see you!
[...yeah leave it to Fai to get distracted from his awesome, life-altering revelation by muscles. /facepalm]
Hyuu~ You're definitely a sight! Not that you were bad before, of course! [The slightest of pauses, then nonchalantly:] Has Majima seen you, since all this happened?
Ah... [Fai's smile fades a bit. Kiryu's probably right.] Do you have any you can spare, maybe? I mean, after I show you my new trick? If not it's fine! I think I have some frozen veggies at home.
[...Kiryu is getting a very sly, very suggestive smirk now.]
[He pauses with the spoon stuck in the ice cream.]
The really weird bit? Right before we got outside, the guy who said the fire was to erase us, he got grabbed by these people in gas masks. Like, what the hell were these people involved with?
Okay, now bear with me! I've only been able to do this since last night, so--
[After a few seconds a soft, warm glow pierces through the darkened room. Fai is cupping his hands together, and the light is held between them. And it's not coming from anything, just... a little glowing ball, resting in his hands.]
I'm still not quite ready to accept this guy as some past version of myself. Maybe a parallel version existing in another dimension, but not a past version.
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