Then we'll "watch each other's backs", in that case. [Mouthing a memory, repeating the words as if he's traced them, his arguably most important lesson locked in mind and carried closest to him. His answers seem quiet too often, far more used to keeping his thoughts folded away at least.]
But I'd been wondering for a while now.
[About his name.]
I think... maybe I'd hoped I'd find you again, so I could ask these kinds of things myself. [Having taken all he's offered, trading him honesty for his answer at first; then, glancing up to exchange his next with weary, shy suppressed exhaustion still—his smiling warming though he's tensed so much. And still he murmurs.]
Shoto. [But just that.] I can heal you if you're injured at all.
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It's just as sensei's said.]
Then we'll "watch each other's backs", in that case. [Mouthing a memory, repeating the words as if he's traced them, his arguably most important lesson locked in mind and carried closest to him. His answers seem quiet too often, far more used to keeping his thoughts folded away at least.]
But I'd been wondering for a while now.
[About his name.]
I think... maybe I'd hoped I'd find you again, so I could ask these kinds of things myself. [Having taken all he's offered, trading him honesty for his answer at first; then, glancing up to exchange his next with weary, shy suppressed exhaustion still—his smiling warming though he's tensed so much. And still he murmurs.]
Shoto. [But just that.] I can heal you if you're injured at all.