[Collegues, allies - that's what Soushi had while maintaining a cool distance with the others his age. They weren't allowed to know the secrets that lay underneath their town and he couldn't say a word about it. Couldn't tell them what was beyond their sky. Not even Kazuki. They who had shared that voice on the radio together, who were witness to something they shouldn't have known of yet.
Of course he'd never blamed Kazuki for the loss of his sight in one eye, never blamed him that he would never pilot a Fafner because of it. Did he want to? Yes, he had. For the sake of everyone else's innocence - to protect them from the danger that searched for them.
Even when Kazuki started to learn more he kept the other at arm's length - to protect him from what he could. To protect them all. Even if it meant sacrificing his own mental health or life. He would carry all of their burdens if only he could. He knows that he's made Kazuki suffer not once but twice. That he's left him behind but Kazuki was alive to feel that pain at least.
One day they'll leave here too. So why shouldn't they make the most of it while they can? Why shouldn't they live happily? One of them could leave overnight.
So he gives in. He lets the last true barrier between them fall and doesn't particularly care where it might end up at the moment. Maybe they'll regret this in the morning or when they're back in the other Dome but he highly doubts it. Soushi's felt that there was always something there between them and it's grown stronger every day.
When Kazuki pulls him by his arm, he goes. Pressing into the other as much as he currently can, trails his fingers through soft, short strands, breathes in the taste of Kazuki.
And then it ends. Not ends, it stills for the moment. Becomes something at rest with the potential for ripples and waves. There are words that cause the upward curve of his mouth.]
Yes, I would. You aren't terribly difficult to figure out.