Eh? Were we...? [it's hard to say if higekiri has truly forgotten those days - or if he's just teasing. there's a smile in his voice regardless even as he sighs happily under the affection from hizamaru.] Mm... Right. We must've been, I wonder if that's why I...

[he trails off, easing hizamaru's shirt off his shoulders and being distracted for a moment. he lets his fingers run along the curve of his arms, then tracing down the lines of his back, feeling the way that he trembles and unable to hide the way that it makes him laugh a little bit.

he lifts himself up - just a little bit, just enough to let his teeth catch hiza's ear before murmuring into it]

Mm, are you nervous, brother?

[and then he'll just straight up flip them over, aiming to get hiza's back on the mattress as hige smiles down at him]

It's just me, you know?