Arisa would never call herself a love-at-first-sight kind of girl.
She did a lot of things when she was younger, things that people are generally supposed to do when they're in love, but she hadn't really been. And all that stuff had mostly been with other girls in the gang, a drunk why-the-hell-not kind of groping and touching and softness and just-barely-there cleavage of twelve-year-olds.
Now, though, she's different.
Arisa hasn't had a series of torrid affairs, lesbian or otherwise. She's gone to school dances with one or two guys, mostly because she told them to bring her, and she's gone with Hana and Tohru when even that was too much effort.
She's never really been In Love.
But that clumsy smile, the quiet, thoughtful aura, the expressed desire to help…
Kureno reminds Arisa so much of Tohru.
Tohru, with her smiles and her nursing and letting Arisa stay over and not complaining when she didn't have a house and never asking for anything back even though she's the most self-sacrificing, wonderful, kind, beautiful person Arisa will ever, ever meet.
And all of Arisa's history with Tohru is very easily tacked onto Kureno's awkward shoulders, broad and strong and not soft or feminine at all. His jaw is square, and his hair is short, and kissing him wouldn't be like kissing Tohru at all but it's almost, in a small way, the same if she needs it to be.
It's a way of letting some of the love out, because otherwise it will overflow and hurt too much then.
Arisa's never been a love-at-first-sight kind of girl. She still isn't. It's just that, the first time she saw him, he already had so much history behind him…
How could she help but love them both?