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ah for fuck's sake OKAY HERE WE GO

raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by tenka kumou

So I'm not going to rehash canon, because nobody wants that. But it's definitely necessary to say that at the canonpoint Sousei's from, he did think Tenka was dead, and couldn't forgive him for dying, or for lying to his face and then dying. He died with a fake grin and a joke, and Sousei hates that that's the case. And for that reason, Sousei couldn't take Tenka seriously all of the times he told him that he had no intentions of dying. Sure, he doubted Tenka would go out there and try to commit seppuku, but he also didn't think Tenka would try that hard to stop it if something bad happened to him. It was an attitude that honestly hurt Sousei, because Tenka had always been family, and some of his most important family at that, and then it felt like he didn't even care.

Things have since improved on that front--sort of. The event where Tenka was turned into a ghost helped. He believed Tenka then when he said that, having gotten a taste of what it would be like to have to sit back and not be able to be a part of peoples' lives, he no longer wanted to die. It was a huge weight off of his mind there.

Unfortunately, Tenka is still as reckless as ever. He embraces the most questionable of people, like Kaoru, and refuses to cut ties with people like Shirasu. So no matter how much Tenka says he doesn't want to die anymore, Sousei knows that the chances are still very, very high, and that both bothers him and frightens him. If Tenka wasn't cautious one day around some random person who wanted to take advantage of him, there's nothing Sousei would be able to do about it.

Basically, as much as they've been getting back onto the same page, there are things that aren't the same yet. They're not the same as they were as kids. Slowly, they've fixed things like the weird physical distance between them, and the awkward lack of knowledge about each other. There are still things they have to talk about, but Sousei knows now that they'll get to it. He doesn't have to worry about Tenka hiding things from him anymore--because admittedly, that was too much for him to handle. They've grown from who they were as children, but they are still partners, and some things need to stay the same.

In a way, Sousei is unbearably relieved that it still feels as natural as it does to be partners. Tenka is dumb sometimes, and loud and obnoxious, and Sousei wants to smack him and tell him to shut up and the like, but it's always been that way. It was that way long before their fight and long before they broke things off. In a way, Sousei is relieved that Tenka hasn't really changed. He's more broken than he was before, and sadder. But he's still Tenka, and that's good enough for Sousei. He's not going to question the Orochi thing any further. It is what it is, just like Tenka's decision to leave the Yamainu was what it was.

Because...Tenka is still the person who inspired Sousei to take his life into his own hands and make more of it. Tenka gave Sousei dreams and hopes, but Sousei is the person who took them and continued to allow them to shape his life. He knows Tenka is inspiring and grand. He just also knows that in a way, he's fragile, too. So Sousei will be his support, his right-hand man, and also the captain of the Yamainu all at once. He doesn't intend to hand over his captain status, and Tenka has given it up to him properly anyway, but it means that, in a way, their relationship is more even now. They are on the same level as partners, and that's good enough for Sousei. The rest will even out as they go; they'll talk about the rest as they do as well, and he never intends to allow their partnership to break again. It's simple, like that.

Of course, Shirasu is a little niggling point in things for them, but only subtly. Sousei admittedly doesn't want Tenka to pick between them, because he's not sure how Tenka would choose. He had to make the choice before, and he chose his family--he's made it clear that Shirasu, too, is family. Basically, Sousei wouldn't make him choose anyway, but he's going to be trying his very hardest to avoid making Tenka choose even more so. That's why he's so reluctant to talk to Tenka even about Shirasu--because he does hate him, but nonetheless his partner cares about him, and there's no guarantee that if worst came to worst, Tenka wouldn't make an unfavorable choice in favor of someone else.



okay whatever i'm stopping there i'M DONE YOU CAN'T MAKE ME TYPE MORE