Y is for Years

Hakkai's the one who notices the gray hair. (It clashes terribly with the red.)

Hakkai finds it funny.

Gojyo doesn't.

Gojyo flirts relentlessly with all the girls when he walks Hakkai to school. Hakkai snickers, undisturbed; wounded male pride.

When he returns, Gojyo is still snitty.

Hakkai simply smiles.

They go out. Gojyo, roaring drunk, tells everyone who's listening he's still an irresistible skirt-chasing sex-god.

This raises eyebrows; Gojyo hasn't chased anyone in some decades.

Gojyo staggers home, stumbles into bed. He's still pissed.

Hakkai whispers in his ear: still beautiful, so beautiful, always.

When he falls asleep, Gojyo's grinning.