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丸井ブン太 ([personal profile] volleygenius) wrote in [community profile] synergetic2025-02-15 11:39 pm
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Drunken Confessions

The day was already impossibly long at 2. By the time he puts Yukiko to bed, it's felt like a small eternity. But the kitchen is clean, everyone has bathed, the toys are put away, the homework is checked, and the foreheads have been kissed. He even got in a good conversation with Keita about becoming a big brother after bedtime story.

Frankly, he's so tired he could go straight to bed, but drinking with Yukimura on the couch has become a cherished nighttime ritual, and he isn't about to start skipping something so hard-earned and enjoyable now. Never mind the value it had in maintaining good rapport; that was never something to take for granted.

So to the couch he goes, where Yukimura is already waiting with Hima tucked comfortably in her bassinet by his side. For a moment, Bunta is struck all over again with admiration for this man who generously opened his home to them and who has given Yukiko and Keita the same patience and care that he gives Himawari. He didn't have to come home and straight from the genkan target handling the crying toddler instead of the snuggly and content infant he'd missed all day. He could have taken Hima and left Bunta to juggle Keita's meltdown and cooking dinner. Instead, he went to the fire. He's a good father and a good person.

"We made it....!" Bunta says with as much celebration as fatigue and flops down beside him.
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-16 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Soft classical music is playing to lull Himawari to sleep (and because it's never too early to begin cultivating good taste). Yukimura hands Marui a generous glass of something bright and golden.

"We keep doing that somehow," Yukimura agreed. He's already halfway through a champagne flute.

A second champagne flute.

"Don't worry, I'll choose Keita over the boy any day."
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-20 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yukimura breezed past that compliment.

"Do you think he realizes this is my job...? We should leave out some pictures from when we were in school. You could be a cool dad."

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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-20 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yukimura offered Marui the bottle.

"Easy to say after one day... but maybe he won't think we're too strict if he's taught early how we do things. Imagine it, though. You could teach him all of your tricks. And all of mine. But maybe we don't want him to learn mine, his opponents won't be able to appreciate tightrope walking if he's already taken their senses..."
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-20 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Are you too rusty to play with me? Do you want to show off for him a little bit?"

Yukimura won't go easy on you, of course, but... On a whim, he selects a strong whiskey for Marui and fills his glass with all the hospitality he can muster as his own sobriety slips into the night.

He started giggling. "You wouldn't mind losing in front of your kids, would you? I wouldn't feel bad about beating you, I love winning, but I'd feel bad if they felt bad. Does that make sense?"
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-20 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds like you want to lose!" But Yukimura was more than happy to facilitate, of course. "We can show off for all the little girls, only they'll be our daughters and not cheerleaders. It won't be the same. Nobody's going to be hoping we ask them out afterwards."
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-21 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yukimura nearly choked on his champagne, giggling. "No, no... no. Absolutely, no."

He finished his glass quickly, spilling just enough to clarify to himself that, yes, he was getting drunk. If not already drunk.

"I don't. If I was sober it wouldn't even cross my mind, but it's funny how different it is, maybe? When I'm working with the boy, people hardly notice me anymore. I haven't been gone that long, have I? But he hates the attention more than I do, so that makes up for it somewhat."
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-21 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yukimura is immediately ready with a refill-- this time, no spilling.

"I'm lucky the people who know me have stuck around as long as they have," Yukimura acknowledges, raising his glass in an uncoordinated kind of toasting motion. "Especially since I've been away from home so much. All of you have gone on and started real lives, while I've still just been doing what I've been doing since I was a kid, but... at least I'm catching up now."

Himawari seemed to smile in her sleep.

"Somewhat. Out of order."
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-27 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yukimura's hand hovers over Marui's face for just a second, before he brushes Marui's bangs out of his eyes. Takes the opportunity to study his face somewhat.

"I don't think it'd be too homelike without you and the kids," he said ruefully. "So... I'm glad you missed me somewhat."
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-27 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
He wonders if he'd feel that way, if their positions were reversed. He thinks about Akaya's career, or the boy's. He takes pride in their accomplishments, but that's more because they wouldn't have reached their apex without his influence, he thinks. Nothing as altruistic as what Marui is describing.

And he hadn't thought much about the lives his friends were building back home. He'd come home briefly, take his turn as the out-of-town uncle, and while he'd enjoyed it, he'd always been planning his next match.

"Ah, how drunk are you? Your face is as red as your hair," he says bluntly, train of thought derailed at the sight. He must be pretty drunk too, what with the inability to say that more delicately, and laughs at himself.
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-27 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yukimura giggles again.

"After the baby spit up on me twice? If you want to flatter me, put some effort into it."
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-27 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yukimura playfully shoves him off his shoulder.

"I should charge you rent for using me as a pillow. Four out of ten on that line, too. And Himawari probably spit up on that shoulder. I don't remember which one she was on. Cuddle at your own risk."

He settles down into the couch, every word still infused with a giggle.

"But you change as many diapers as I do so maybe not. Maybe you should charge me rent, or something. A prenup. Something. What's left to drink? Or have I had enough?"
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-27 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yukimura holds his glass out expectantly.

"Isn't that a funny image? Usually you get someone drunk so they'll sleep with you right? I'd have to be... to be more devious than the average man to wring a whole marriage out of it. Or more handsome. One of those. Both, probably."
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[personal profile] senselessness 2025-02-27 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yukimura drinks deeply.

"Mm, only... only in physical things. Emotional things, that's you and your magic. I have no power there."

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