Sometimes, he adored Shinya. The awkward pain the other man went through sometimes, unless alcohol was involved to blur those social barriers, provided too many times the best and most convenient of excuses.
Kaoru's smile twitched open again, split into a laugh out loud, and his knees bumped into Ebizo's back.
"We'll get you a drink and let you leave then. Shinya saved your cat," Kaoru said down to Ebizo's shiny head, his eyes caught on the white smeared in faint missed spots. "Mostly from me, since I was on the verge of attempting to heimlich him."