| [Apr. 20th, 2009|11:00 pm] |
"They don't deserve you, anyway." Ryouma laid a gentle hand over Shiba's back, and her fur-feathered tail beat lightly against his stomach. He could feel her tiny chest fluttering against his legs, the gust of Hoshika's warm breath over his bare feet, the comforting weight of Kakashi's hand on his thigh. Kakashi had been right about his dogs making better family. But sometimes people did all right, too.
"We made a pretty damn good team," he said, watching the play of tendon and bone in his hand as his fingers flexed into Shiba's fur. "I mean, three other pairs failed that mission, right? And we did it. Just like we've done everything else. So we're not just good ninja, we're really hot good ninja."
He had no idea what he was saying. It didn't really seem to matter.
"Of course, the porn video we didn't do would've proved that, too. Might've been easier. Problem with a video is you never know where it's gonna end up, and if somebody like--like Matsuda got it, I might have to spend the rest of my life taking showers. Which wouldn't be so bad. Can you please make me shut up?"
Talking himself off the edge really wasn't going to work if he kept talking himself back to it. And then falling off the other side. |
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