I think I cheated the prompt for today (read: two days ago). Anyway. Written for OkiKagu month day 19 - meeting place.
Maybe if they had met under different circumstances, they wouldn't hate each other so much.
Maybe if their first meeting hadn't been at a sakura viewing. Maybe if they hadn't been pitted against each other in a stupid hammer-rock-paper-scissors game just for a stupid spot to view sakura. Maybe if they hadn't wrecked that meeting place.
Maybe if they hadn't wrecked all of their meeting places.
Maybe if he didn't provoke her each time they met, and maybe if she didn't let herself get provoked so easily.
Maybe if she hadn't compared her strength to his and seen that she didn't need to hold back as much because he could keep up like no other human could.
Maybe if he wasn't so strong.
Maybe if she wasn't so strong.
Maybe if he wasn't a tax robber.
Maybe if she wasn't being raised by a lazy ass who influenced her attitudes towards Sofa-kun.
Maybe if he didn't plan her sun tanning funeral.
Maybe if she didn't feel her heart sorta-kinda jump when he offered to take her hand.
Maybe if he didn't ruin it by mentioning the iron bars.
Maybe if they weren't so immature about things.
Maybe if there wasn't so many things wrong with him, with her, with them. With it.
Maybe things would work out. Maybe they would even be the strongest duo to kick ass since Sa*ji and Z*ro.
Maybe.
But no, things were the way they were. All of those were maybes, nothing more, nothing less.
And, frankly, Kagura wouldn't have it any other way. Who cared about the stupid sadist when there were still things to be done and sukonbu to be eaten?