The Ones Who Shape Us

[madimpossibledreamer]

Hope you had a good Father's Day, or, if that day is not one you celebrate, no judgment here, and instead I will toast you and any Team You/Family By Bond you are lucky enough to have found.

Going to write a paragraph goodbye and unfriend the clingy guy, wish me luck.

Main Points:
Judgment/Judge Eyes; Yagami/Kaito
Between Stumbling in the Dark and Extend Your Stay; I held onto this for almost a whole year because I realized I could post it in a really weird way for Father's Day, so here we are.  If you want a happy one, read last year's.
Chapter Summary: Kaito's missed a lot. Spoilers.
Word Count: 450
Rating: Teen
Spoilers!  Legit, if you care about spoilers and want to play the game you should not pass.  Big Mystery Spoilers!  Death spoilers!  Injury spoilers!  All the spoilers!  Except the Yagami/Kaito relationship, that's at least not explicitly canon.

 

        Kaito wakes slowly to find that he’s on the good shit and there’s a warm pressure in his hand.  He glances over slowly, content, to see Tak napping fitfully on a seat next to the bed.  All he has to do is squeeze the hand a little and Tak wakes up instantly, shivering a little.  “Do you want me to call the nurse?  How do you feel, Kaito-san?”
        “I only want a nurse if she’s prettier’n you,” he slurs a little, but yeah, that stuff’s good.
        Tak manages a smile, but there’s little genuine happiness there.  He’s upset. 
        He squeezes the hand again, keeping eye contact, and when nothing changes that turns to confusion.  “I’m right here, Tak.”
        Tak swallows.
        “I’m not going anywhere.  A little thing like a bullet wound?  I’ll be up in no time.”  He smiles reassuringly, but Tak….Tak still looks upset.  It didn't help, somehow.
        “What did I miss?”  He hasn’t seen his friend—his boyfriend—this upset since he’d actually explained the whole mess with his parents.
        “I’m kind of scared your doctor’s going to stab me if I upset you while you’re healing,” Takayuki jokes weakly, but—shit, Tak looks terrible and he hasn’t even gotten shot.  Hopefully.
        Bullet wound or no bullet wound, Kaito’s breaking some heads if that was the case.
        “Hey, look, it’s hurting you.  I want to help, even if I can’t do much right now.”  Saori said something about Tak really appreciating his supportive nature.
        Takayuki makes an aborted effort to cross his arms—looks like he’s forgot they’re holding hands.  “Well…Hamura told us who the Mole is, and the Mole showed up and killed half the Matsugane family and finished off most of the Kyorei Clan.  Shioya and Murase are dead.”
        “Damn, I go down and everything happens.”  But Tak’s expression doesn’t change.  “So, who’s the Mole?”
        “Kuroiwa.”  For a second, Kaito thinks Tak’s messing with him, but he’s still really serious.
        He whistles.  “No kidding.”
        “Kaito, he…he shot…Matsugane-san’s…”  He doesn’t have to finish the sentence, which is good, because Tak probably couldn’t anyway.
        Kaito feels a burning anger.  “Didja kill him?”
        “If the building hadn’t been collapsing, we would’ve all been dead.”  That’s matter-of-fact.  Yagami’s dead voice, post-Okubo.
        “Damn.”  It's like his voice breaks a spell, because suddenly Tak's bent over, shaking.  Kaito reels him in like a fish (and yeah, that's an uncomfortably close comparison, given how Tak's gasping for air) by their joined hands, pulling him into a careful embrace.  If his doc's got anything to say about this, he can eat shit, because Tak's probably right and they can't just take on an assassin without some preparation but Matsugane-san's dead and Tak needs him.