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Something other than your company?

[ he doesn't really have anything he wants to do... ]

Do you want to go talk to others? I have a feeling you're going to be popular tonight.

[unsaid]

[he wonders how can he be expected to leave, when tsuru's tenseness underneath his fingers is so recent a memory]

Have I been remiss in my attentions?

For my crane to believe any small request from another might be enough to pull me from him when he wishes for me.

[mikazuki munechika, in the long arc of history, has always faced some kind of popularity.

but he thinks it rather simple now, when he is able to choose where he gets to be]

[preowned]

Aren't I supposed to be spoiling you...?

[ mikazki is the one injured, after all. ]

I won't keep you for too long. But let's find a spot to sit.

[unsaid]

Oh? Is it time for me to be spoiled?

Very well, very well.

[he'll let himself be led along wherever,]

[preowned]

[ they are still at the camp, technically, so tsuru is just going to take him to a spot he knows-- the gazebo. ]

Tell me about friends you have made here.

[ it feels like an easy enough topic to keep him here. ]

[unsaid]

[ah, back to the gazebo.]

Cetus.

[cetus did not agree to this.]

... Shinobu Kocho. Lup Lastname. Claude von Riegan. Sylvain Jose Gautier. Kim Dokja. Aikawa. Mollymauk Tealeaf. Rupert. Yuri Leclerc.

[ . . . ]

Well, I do consider all gathered here a friend.

[preowned]

I do not think that is her actual surname.

[unsaid]

Oh it certainly is not.

[preowned]

Ha ha.

I have not spoken to a few of those though... [ kim dokja remains dead to him. ] But they're all friends, huh.

[unsaid]

[NOT DOJA CAT

mikazuki will go to have a seat in the gazebo once they arrive, encouraging tsuru to sit next to him]

And who are your friends, my crane?

[preowned]

[ tsuru will never speak to him.

but he considers the question. ]

Shinobu Kocho. Rupert. Cloud Strife. Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd. Claude von Riegan.

[unsaid]

I rather like those names.

[cloud and dimitri... jiji likes them too but he can't confidently say they're friend yet.]

[preowned]

[ honestly the only two people on this list who would call tsuru a friend back are like. shinobu and rupert. but still. ]

Oh, but I missed one. There's also Mikazuki Munechika!

[unsaid]

[i'm sure claude and tsuru are friends. they might be kissing.]

Mikazuki Munechika? Sounds like a troublesome fellow.

[preowned]

[ i don't know how to tell you that the only person tsuru is kissing is in this gazebo with him ]

Oh, he is. For an old man, he knows how to wander into the biggest messes. Sometimes I think he is lying about his aches?

[ he reaches over to take jiji's hand ]

But I believe I am good friends with him.

[unsaid]

[for now...........

tsuru can take jiji's hands - though a moment later, mikazuki does interlace their fingers.]

.... what good fortune shines upon him indeed.

To have one such as you.

[preowned]

Do not tell him I said any of this.

[ he lifts their hands so that he can kiss mikazuki's knuckles. ]

[unsaid]

[animal crossing flowers.... happy.....]

I shall take it into consideration.

[preowned]

That is not the same as agreeing?

[unsaid]

It is not.

[to which he just follows up with giving tsurumaru another kiss.

he would also much rather be trading kisses.]

[preowned]

Rude.

[ he kisses him back. and it is really odd, how much attention he has to give to being so very careful. the aching reminder that tsuru was not there when something could have gone wrong is so very present.

oh, how the nation would react if they saw how mikazuki was marred. ]

[unsaid]

[ . . . the gentleness prompts mikazuki to smile against tsurumaru's mouth]

... I wonder why it is that you now seek to treat me as fragile.

[preowned]

Because I do not think I can kiss you the way that I'd like with an injury like that, Mikazuki Munechika.

[ it literally just happened you dweeb ]

So forgive me if I handle this old man with care for the time being.

[unsaid]

[ . . . . . . ]

I am beginning to regret it.

[getting stabbed.]

[preowned]

I will just hold your hand instead.

[ yeah!!!! ]