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have you never had a concussion?
how bad it gets doesnt have much to do with how hard you get hit
you get unlucky and youre out for months

Yeah.
My brother gave me a concussion last time I visited home, in fact.

( he's fine now though :) )

We can avoid the face if that's what you're concerned about.

alright
somethings wrong with your family but everybody already knew that

[ i just don't know about that? has sae ever been fine?? ]

mmm
okay then where do you want me to punch you

It's normal for brothers to fight.

( maybe not to the point of concussions, but. still.

anyway! we all know the answer. )

I don't mind the stomach.
If it makes me puke then it's a win for both of us.

mmm idk about that
ness just ignores his and i know for a fact he hates his family

[ kaiser's references for families is godawful... on the one hand, there's the ness family, and on the other hand, there's the itoshi family. ]

alright
where else
anywhere you wouldnt want to be touched?

I don't hate my family.

( rin, maybe, but? he doesn't hate his mother or father so???

that said. yeah these are not good references king. )

I'm fine with anything
Especially since you're clearly more concerned about my well-being than I am.

that honestly makes it worse
ness hates his family so much he would happily sacrifice them to summon a demon if demons were real but you actually like (most of) your family and youre still getting concussed by members?

[ LIKE... DID SAE THINK THAT CAVEAT HELPS...? ]

well apparently somebody has to do it for you
but fine
i will think about this. for your birthday only. be sure to say please and thank you at the time of

Not members. Just my brother?
He doesn't really count; I've been telling mom to disown him for years.

( one day she will cave.................... )

Boo. Fine. ( -____- october is so far away. die )

[ no, well, kaiser actually thinks it's also weird that the whole world knows of the itoshi brothers' blood feud so there's no excuse for their parents to not have gotten involved and put one/both of them in therapy at this point... but he also knows sae is a mommy's boy so he won't be saying anything. ]

am beginning to understand how your younger brother ended up the way he did

well on second thought
itll be for your birthday but itd be better done during the offseason, so...

[ sae's hot girl summer is gonna be pretty crazy! ]

( their mother knows they don't get along, sure, but she also knows the nuances of their fight that nobody else does. also, if she did sign either of them up for therapy, they just wouldn't go, so —

what matters is that she doesn't know about the concussion. )

Because I'm a terrible older brother?
Yeah, I've heard that before.

( like rin's the innocent one here 🙄🙄🙄🙄 )

Right.
In case you "damage" me. ( 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 )

[ oh but she knows about the inc— ]

no not that
well
yes that too but thats clearly only one part of it

terrible seems strong, subpar perhaps but you did the right thing trying to keep him away from europe

[ that was... the goal, right. actually, kaiser wishes he could unsend that now, he isn't sure that was the point on second thought. ]

... look
cant you think about this from my perspective
even if there's almost no chance of something bad happening that means theres still a chance

[ the au timeline in which kaiser has to take care of his crippled wife with no reason to live... ]

( obviously not!!!!!!!!! )

I'd rather take 'terrible' over 'subpar.'

( no comment, but. yeah. he knows he did the right thing? everything he's ever done was justified? nobody understands this????? except for kaiser, his biggest apologist — )

Yeah, well
there's a chance of something bad happening basically any time you move or breathe.
Doesn't mean it'll happen.

( damn... his crippled wife that he crippled himself? that'd be crazy....... )

oh, well, then
youre simply the absolute worst there is, sae itoshi
that better?

[ ok? sae didn't call him an idiot moron so maybe he wasn't too off base with that?? he's not sorry for being an apologist, if it were him, he'd have done the same— ]

you know thats NOT the same thing
youre talking about the off chance that your apartment building catches fire or some shit
but this is more like walking into your burning apartment building on purpose
so fucking sorry if im concerned about it but i cant help it

[ because he... UGH... c......ca.......care...........s......... ]

I'll take it.

( he'd literally rather be the worst ever than just?? subpar???? never use that word again!!! )

... you're so fucking annoying, Mika.
And a hypocrite, too.
You do realize that any time you make me choke you until you're barely alive, I'm at risk of giving you permanent brain damage, right?
And yet I do it, anyway, without any bitching.
Stop being such a damn wuss.

( sigh. )

[ well when he puts it that way... but also doesn't sae call him brainless all the time? smh. but still, he sees sae's point, so. ]

alright, i get youre saying.
i dont like it but youre right

... maybe i have more trust in your control than i do my own

[ EWWWWWWWW he hopes sae pretends he didn't read that. ]

i just mean, you know how i get. [ feral. ]

Of course you do.

( control's kind of his thing? but also. gay. but also? yes tell him more. )

If I wasn't as precise as I am, I could've easily killed you, and you would've let me.
But your task doesn't require nearly as much finesse.

( anyway... kaiser might be brainless but he's not brain-damaged. yet! )

I like you that way.
And if I feel like you're going too far, I can stop you.

[ he wants to point out that technically no, it doesn't require as much finesse? but there's also a lot of possibilities for things to suddenly and drastically go wrong. but sae's point from before is keeping his metaphorical mouth shut... ]

can you?
promise you can and i wont say anything else on the matter

[ he's taller and more built, so he feels like that's just objectively not true... but maybe he just wants sae to say it anyway. like, sorry to be gay, but he'll believe it if sae promises... ]

I can.
You trust me, don't you?

( one jab to the throat and everything's solved, even if kaiser's bigger in every way??

we're just NOT going to touch upon the subject of possibly not being able to also turning him on because that's weird? also the conversation got really gay so we're also ignoring that? so much to ignore so little time. )

[ UUUGHHHHH ooouuughhh uhmmmmm... well... ]

unfortunately yes, it seems i do trust you

[ UUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHH...... that "unfortunately" is going to have to do a LOT of heavy lifting. that "unfortunately" is like the ness and kaiser amidst the rest of BM (the rest of the sentence) right now trying their god damn best but are absolutely doomed by the narrative... ]

Terrible decision.

( only half-joking about this —

but, really. more than gay, he feels kind of bad for kaiser? he's always heard that he's not trustworthy, and rin likes to point out that nothing he says means anything, so look.

anyway, to make it worse: )

... I trust you, too.
That's why I ask you for all of this. ( sigh. )

[ ok but (1) rin is a biased reporter and (2) somehow they are on the same bullshit wavelength so they can have entire conversations where they say many things that don't mean anything yet somehow both of them got something out of it anyway. so. ]

wow
absolutely tragic for both of us, i think
well now im feeling a touch more motivated than before

far be it from me to let the one and only sae itoshi down, you know?

( true. maybe it's fine to trust someone who actually Gets You. scary? but? )

Hmm, lucky me.
Going to work hard to please me?

dont i always?

[ he doesn't always... the majority of the time, sure. but, you know, for the sake of their (his) awful flirting. ]

seems our docket for intriguing sexual acts has filled up nicely, hasnt it
and you said you havent had the time to think about it recently

Well, you made me think about it, so now I'm thinking about it.
If I come up with anything else anytime soon, I'll let you know.

( ... more importantly: )

When can I see you?

mhm
i hope im getting priority on fulfilling your deviant wants

[ making this extra gay by just... sending sae an invitation to share his google calendar. now sae will never need to wonder when kaiser is free to engage in freak shit with ever again, he actually does seem to be very good about maintaining it... ]

next friday if everything gets delivered by then?

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