Carry That Weight [Closed]

[princeofjunes]

Characters: Yosuke Hanamura and Saki Konishi
Setting: Room 2-05
Time: Day
Summary: Having been encouraged by his friends, Yosuke finds the guts to ask Saki about a sensitive subject.
Warnings: Expect tears to be jerked.

[He tried to tell her everything, really! He did! He told her about her death in... an unfortunate way, but still. He told her about what he'd been through. He told her that they caught the culprit, that he was facing justice. He even told her - hell, showed her - the power he'd obtained, the one he'd use to protect her from here on out or die trying. He'd told her how much he missed her, and how happy he was to see her (though really, there was no hiding that one even if he'd tried)]

[But there was at least one thing he was too scared to mention. One thing he was petrified of. He's still petrified, even as he walks up to her door reminding himself over and over that he'll be okay, calling back to mind the encouragement he's been given from everyone he can think of. Even as a shaky hand knocks on it and a voice that tries its damnedest to sound confident and sure calls out]

Hey, Saki-senpai? You in there?

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[princeofjunes]

[She could have told him that he was actually the long lost descendant of the imperial court and it would shake his world less than what she's said. In the long time it's been since that fateful day in the liquor store, it's the one possibility he never really considered. Between what he heard and what those bratty girls had said in the food court, that was it]

[Right?]

[She hated him, didn't she?]

[... didn't she?]

[His mind drifts back to that hug her first day, the one that felt like it lasted forever and he's not sure of anything anymore. He just stares at her dumbfounded, trying to form a word, a sound, anything]

Your... shadow talked about me?

[magiciansempress]

Yeah. She said a lot of things I didn't like. That... Was one of them.

[Really, Yosuke, would she have had such a strong positive reaction at seeing you if she hated you? But either way, now, that knot in her stomach is beginning to dissolve. She needs to talk about this, and with that first bit out of the way, it becomes easier.]

[princeofjunes]

I... you...

[Well, this conversation isn't going how he envisioned it in the slightest. Not even close, and he has no idea how to handle it]

Do... you want to talk about it?

[Because at this point talking about her shadow is going to be way easier than talking about how he spent a year and a half and more convinced that she had hated him]

[magiciansempress]

[Easier for him, maybe.]

...Not much to say. But... I never hated you. I think I was afraid I might, that maybe I was using you... But it wasn't true. Even though I think I started to believe it after hearing it so much.

[She smiles at him, still kind of nervously. It's hard to admit this, but she trusts Yosuke. And if she doesn't tell him now, then she might not ever.]

[princeofjunes]

[He's still staring back at her, his head reeling. Just like that, she's thrown everything he's known out the window. It's like the ladies in his life just have a habit of knocking him on his ass, whether it's literally or figuratively. He manages to at least sputter out a half question, nervous though it may be]

But... even the girls at Junes thought you hated me...

[Yep, world still doesn't make sense]