[ Just when Cloud is about to take his leave, she surprises him the moment he turns around to say goodbye. Uncharacteristically taken off balance, she pulls him by the collar for a kiss, and he's quick to comply. Feeling her soft lips against his, he can dish it out...but taking it? It flusters him despite the way it makes his heart skip. She was so beautiful...
She's making it very damn hard to want to leave. Especially when she so confidently takes hold of him. He belongs to her. Just the same way he's kept her soul and every part of her in kind. And...something about this side of her was nothing short of exciting to him. ]
Miss you more.
[ Saying that, he brushes his hand through her bangs, lending to it gliding down the side of her head affectionately before he finally nods and lets go. And so, with present in hand and a little extra bound in his step if one were to pay close enough attention, Cloud takes his leave of the Kamisato Estate once more. There's an entire afternoon ahead of him before he's to return here tonight. Yet even with all that time between now and then, as he sets foot inside his home, leaning against the sliding door frame with no one's eyes on him... ]
...
[ He sighs. More wistful than anything as he grips the box tighter. He can't believe it. He still hasn't woken up from this dream yet. ]
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[ After spending the majority of his day between perusing the nearby marketplace to restock his fridge, training in his backyard, and fussing over the minute placings in his house for shelving and the knickknacks that gradually continue to accrue in his home, he eventually returns to the Kamisato Estate as the sun begins its slow descent beneath the horizon. A soft, warm, orange glow sets the scene for the sky above as he texts Ayaka five minutes before arriving, ]
Be there in 5.
[ It's still relatively warm out, which means that the dark-colored yukata set he received in Nara was his choice of attire for tonight's outing. If there's one thing he's thankful for in learning to wield a new weapon, it's that he no longer has to carry the Buster Sword everywhere he goes when wanting a less eye-drawing night out. The odachi sheathed at his side was far more suitable, Tsubaki becoming a familiar and reliable weight to him as he quickly approaches on her household. He decides to wait for her at the front gate this time, in case she was still visiting with her brother inside. Their time together was important, after all.
Family...
She helped him fill even that void with the gift that sits in his living room. A thought that brings his hand to his heart, smiling to himself as he awaits Ayaka's arrival, leaning against the inside of the gate's entryway as he observes the front door. ]
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She's making it very damn hard to want to leave. Especially when she so confidently takes hold of him. He belongs to her. Just the same way he's kept her soul and every part of her in kind. And...something about this side of her was nothing short of exciting to him. ]
Miss you more.
[ Saying that, he brushes his hand through her bangs, lending to it gliding down the side of her head affectionately before he finally nods and lets go. And so, with present in hand and a little extra bound in his step if one were to pay close enough attention, Cloud takes his leave of the Kamisato Estate once more. There's an entire afternoon ahead of him before he's to return here tonight. Yet even with all that time between now and then, as he sets foot inside his home, leaning against the sliding door frame with no one's eyes on him... ]
...
[ He sighs. More wistful than anything as he grips the box tighter. He can't believe it. He still hasn't woken up from this dream yet. ]
[ After spending the majority of his day between perusing the nearby marketplace to restock his fridge, training in his backyard, and fussing over the minute placings in his house for shelving and the knickknacks that gradually continue to accrue in his home, he eventually returns to the Kamisato Estate as the sun begins its slow descent beneath the horizon. A soft, warm, orange glow sets the scene for the sky above as he texts Ayaka five minutes before arriving, ]
Be there in 5.
[ It's still relatively warm out, which means that the dark-colored yukata set he received in Nara was his choice of attire for tonight's outing. If there's one thing he's thankful for in learning to wield a new weapon, it's that he no longer has to carry the Buster Sword everywhere he goes when wanting a less eye-drawing night out. The odachi sheathed at his side was far more suitable, Tsubaki becoming a familiar and reliable weight to him as he quickly approaches on her household. He decides to wait for her at the front gate this time, in case she was still visiting with her brother inside. Their time together was important, after all.
Family...
She helped him fill even that void with the gift that sits in his living room. A thought that brings his hand to his heart, smiling to himself as he awaits Ayaka's arrival, leaning against the inside of the gate's entryway as he observes the front door. ]