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[ Indeed, how the turns... tabled. Kiryu blushes but doesn't say anything.

He will take Majima's hand, though. ]

See, that's what I mean! Majima special assistance. We'll have ya solid on those skates in no time.

[ hmm you know it feels like they didn't finish their last conversation though. the feelings one? weird. ]

Thanks.

[ Kiryu stops walking. ]

I meant what I said, you know. You don't have to choose.

[ he stops too, but he doesn't turn around to look at him. ]

Yeah, I heard you.

As long as you know.

[ Worst case they can always fight to get their feelings across, but maybe they can ice skate first. Kiryu walks past Majima and pats him on the shoulder. ]

Let's rent some skates.

I feel like you're still wantin' somethin' more of me...

[ he kind of grumbles it, though, and does indeed follow ]

I just want you to know that it's okay. However you feel about Saejima.

[ It's too bad they don't have custom skates or Majima could get the sweet silver tip on his skates, too. ]

Yeah, an' I already said that ain't fair ta ya.

[ he checks out the skates and pays for both of them, and then hands over one pair to kiryu. ]

[ Kiryu grabs the pair and starts putting them on. He wants to have a nice time with Majima, but he also doesn't want Majima to just beat himself up about this. ]

Even though I don't think it's unfair?

I care about ya too much ta have it be a cloud over this.

[ he pulls on his skates too. kiryu if youre going to want him to understand you you're going to have to say more about this tachibana thing. ]

But I...

[ Kiryu thinks back to what he remembers of Tachibana, the way he'd felt in his memories... ]

The way I feel about Tachibana-san is the same. It's not nothing, but it's different from how I feel about you.

[ oh. ]

Then I hope...

[ but what he was going to say dies on his lips, and he shakes his head. ]

If you felt that way about him, if you trusted him...maybe he wasn't the one who hurt Makoto.

[ Majima, no. Kiryu catches that, but he's not a mind-reader. (Maybe that's what you get if you do SSSS rank.) ]

I hope so, too.

I know ya have good judgment.

[ he seems to mean it at least - and seems to be willing to give tachibana the benefit of the doubt, for now. skates on though, he waits for kiryu so they can head out to the rink. ]

So you wanna date him, or what?

[ legitimate, nonjudgmental question. he seems to have switched gears from being down on himself to prodding kiryu. ]

Thanks.

[ You realize that's an indirect compliment to yourself, right, Majima? Kiryu will let you have that one. He follows Majima onto the rink slowly, reaching out to keep Majima's hand gripped in his. Kiryu's gotten a little better at skating, but he's still not the steadiest on his feet. He'll let Majima lead.

And he blushes at the question, but he'll try and take Majima seriously. ]

I don't know. [ He pauses. ] I don't think so. He's really... normal.

[ Like, they're kind of in different places in their lives, realistically speaking here. ]

[ don't worry, kiryu, majima can hold your hand as much as you need. ]

What about back then?

[ Kiryu shrugs, holding Majima's hand tight. ]

He said he remembered running over one of the yakuza that was giving me trouble back then, so he wasn't afraid of fighting them even though he was a civilian.

[ Which is pretty badass, right? ]

Are you sure he was a civilian? You said he had ink.

It was just on his arm, I think. He didn't have anything anywhere else, at least not on his chest.

[ It helps that Kiryu carried his shirtless body and remembers seeing him laying in a bed, also shirtless. ]

Maybe he was in some kind of other gang? He seemed really business-like, though.

To be fair, you were kinda business-like, too.

[ but he won't push it if kiryu doesn't want to talk about it anymore, instead he's having them skate further away from the hand rails ]

[ Kiryu nods. It's a fair assumption to make, honestly. He won't refute it. ]

All I know is that when he died, I was...

[ He trails off, sucking in a sharp breath. He was fucked up, but he doesn't have to say it out loud, Majima will understand. And skating is a good enough distraction, honestly. ]

I don't know enough yet. I think it was when I was young.

[ You're young now, Kiryu. ]

It's alright.

[ he knows. a lot of his memories fucked him up too. ]

Yeah.

[ Kiryu squeezes Majima's hand. See, Majima gets it. That's why he'll always be the most important person to him. No one else could come close to understanding him like Majima does. ]

We got lots of time to sort this shit out.

Yeah.

[ He nods, smiling a little. They can still have a good time ice skating. Majima's in the lead, anyway. ]

We've got time.

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