higekiri's expression softens at that and he'll settle for simply pressing a kiss to the corner of hizamaru's mouth, he relaxes a bit - ]
... good. Then I don't have to worry.
[he lets his arms loop around hizamaru's shoulders, looping around in a hug and pulling him closer - but also just to have him close.]
I hate seeing that look on your face... It makes my chest tight, even if the pain isn't my own... but the mission has to come before anything else, no matter what happens to me.
So if you have to, please forget me for a little bit if it means you can keep your relationships with others, if remembering me ever becomes too painful.
[it's hard to say what's making him say this - and yet he feels the need to caution hizamaru of it before he tells him anything else about their adventure in the room]
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higekiri's expression softens at that and he'll settle for simply pressing a kiss to the corner of hizamaru's mouth, he relaxes a bit - ]
... good. Then I don't have to worry.
[he lets his arms loop around hizamaru's shoulders, looping around in a hug and pulling him closer - but also just to have him close.]
I hate seeing that look on your face... It makes my chest tight, even if the pain isn't my own... but the mission has to come before anything else, no matter what happens to me.
So if you have to, please forget me for a little bit if it means you can keep your relationships with others, if remembering me ever becomes too painful.
[it's hard to say what's making him say this - and yet he feels the need to caution hizamaru of it before he tells him anything else about their adventure in the room]