六 · rude awakening · voice post || action post

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[Kagehisa takes her into their bedroom, turning down the sheets for them.]

[With a kiss to her in passing, he begins to shed his clothes, readying for the evening.]

How are you feeling, Rin?

[She stands behind for a while, just lounging about.]

I'm feeling well. Why?

You had quite a day.

[When he returns, he is in his yukata[A slight rustle

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[revengeisalie]

[She's a few feet away from him, on the floor, and looking at him in horror, shielding herself with her hands somehow.]

WHAT -- ahhh, WHAT -- ?

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[He's almost reeling from everything that has happened, and he braces himself on the sheets. To have been Asano Kagehisa--a student of the Mutenichi-ryu? And married to this girl, whose parents he had murdered in front of her eyes?]

I--you--

[A hand clenches in his unbound hair, and he stares at her in disbelief.]

The curse!

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Uuuuuuhhh...

[With halting movements, Rin curls up where she's sitting.]

... y-yes. Curse.

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[to_turn_away]

[Obviously, he has to be the calmer one in this situation. He watches her for a brief moment before rising from the futon to fetch her kimono for her. Her reaction is completely as expected, and a brief reminiscence of their second meeting by the riverbank flickers into his mind. She is very much the same girl then, forced to see the killer of her parents right before her eyes and to be bound helpless to him.]

[Stoically, he approaches her.]

Here, girl.

[He hands her her familiar red kimono and sun-yellow obi.]

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[She lifts her head from where it's buried in her arms, just so that through strands of her hair, her eyes become visible. They are almost spilled over from sheer revulsion.

Then, an arm all but snaps outward and grabs the garments forcefully.]

Th... thanks.

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[He has seen that look of revulsion many times, many times over as he spills blood by his axe and his sword and the thrust of his Itto-ryu.]

[Anotsu Kagehisa knows what he has done, what atrocities he has committed, what carelessness and what mistakes he has made. Asano Kagehisa may have known differently, but that is not him, and never will be.]

[While this is clearly not his doing, to have taken advantage of her like that was without class.]

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[Slowly, Rin's jumbled thoughts take on form, take on meaning, even if the meaning is the sheer outrage of the situation.

Married to that man. If her parents had never been killed. In another lifetime, another line of events.

In this lifetime, this man has murdered her parents. There is no undoing that. No, City.

A part of her, she becomes aware, is through the settling of her whirlwind-thoughts eerily calm. It is this part she now makes use of; as she stands up and, without any haste, puts on her kimono neatly and properly.]

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[Anotsu follows suit, donning his familiar green kimono and ensuring that he is properly clothed before he faces her again.]

[He leaves her to dress by herself. He has been in close quarters with her before, in the madness of tetanus and the pain of death creeping up to strangle him. However, this is vastly different.]

Are you finished?

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[revengeisalie]

[Inwardly, she scoffs upon seeing him before her fully dressed. Good to know he has that much decency, even if he is sorely lacking any such thing in other areas.

Her face, though, stays locked in a neutral expression.]

I am. I don't suppose you mind if I -

[A deliberate pause.]

- take my leave now.

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[He regards her calmly, no sharp words coming to rest upon his tongue. He knows he deserves whatever curtness and anger she will direct towards him, even if this is not of his entire doing. He is human enough to understand the impact of this on her, on them, on the strange relationship they have as rivals and as two individuals who traversed a countryside together in some sort of mutual understanding.]

[This incident brings back to light things that lay unspoken between them.]

Will you be safe traveling at this time?

[Rage or otherwise, he is not callous enough to dismiss her so simply.]

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[revengeisalie]

[She almost wants to laugh out loud at his words, and is not entirely sure if his ostensible concern makes it better or worse.]

Why, thank you, but I'll be fine.

[That's it. She can't stay here any longer or something is going to break. She feels it, crawling beneath her skin.

And so, she swiftly turns toward the door, starting to leave.]

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[Anotsu lets her walk away, his mind both strangely clear and yet murky with thoughts and blunted emotion. He has nothing to say in protest, and will not say anything to protest..]

Alright.

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[Rin doesn't answer anymore. Instead, she picks up her bag, slings it over her shoulder and leves, slamming the door.]

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[He is left in the silence to think, his mind a jumble of thought.]

[In quiet anger, he stares outside the window, watching the stars and their mockery of history and fate.]