WHO: Kai and Kouki. WHAT: Explainin' WHERE: School rooftop. WHEN: After school, first day Kai comes back. WHY: He has some splainin' to do.
Kai wasn't sure how he was supposed to feel right now.
Relieved that he wasn't dead, certainly, but that only registered in a fuzzy part of his mind. His Shadow had said "I want to die here" but he hadn't meant it, not really. He'd just wanted control for once when everything else in Kai's life had seemed so out-of-control.
And apparently the way he'd exercised that was by hurting Kouki. Kai had made it all the way home before the memories hit him, and he'd promptly sprawled out on his bed and cried his eyes out half from all the pent-up emotion the Shadow had finally exposed, and half from the memories of "breaking up" with Kouki.
It was ironic that it took this to make Kai realize how much he really did love him.
Which was why he was waiting now on the school rooftop, no gift in hand because he wanted to earn Kouki's feelings back honestly, if he could at all.
Sitting on the bench, he huddled deeper into his jacket, scarf, and gloves and waited.