He's loosened up since his younger days, the flinching and the tension all but a thing of the past, but it's not something for him to initiate with ease. And yet, he holds on as if for dear life.
He's never embraced Shino before. Not as friends and not as family in any capacity. He'd held Eco like this in the wake of Lafter's death, hands molding her body against his as if he could absorb all of her anguish.
It's not unlike this, now.
But he doesn't fully comprehend the severity of Shino's trauma, coming back from the hold of death and harshly expelled into the land of the living. Other people's deaths he'd made his peace with like an old, inconvenient friend.
He can't imagine seeing the sky bleeding its fury above them that fateful day, explosions ringing in his ears for hours afterward compares to Shino's vision of hell.
"Everything is going to be better from now on," he promises boldly, their heads so close that Shino's close cropped hair tickles his cheek, "So trust me."
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He's loosened up since his younger days, the flinching and the tension all but a thing of the past, but it's not something for him to initiate with ease. And yet, he holds on as if for dear life.
He's never embraced Shino before. Not as friends and not as family in any capacity. He'd held Eco like this in the wake of Lafter's death, hands molding her body against his as if he could absorb all of her anguish.
It's not unlike this, now.
But he doesn't fully comprehend the severity of Shino's trauma, coming back from the hold of death and harshly expelled into the land of the living. Other people's deaths he'd made his peace with like an old, inconvenient friend.
He can't imagine seeing the sky bleeding its fury above them that fateful day, explosions ringing in his ears for hours afterward compares to Shino's vision of hell.
"Everything is going to be better from now on," he promises boldly, their heads so close that Shino's close cropped hair tickles his cheek, "So trust me."