Heads or Tails
kingfishers' game
Chapter 4: RESURFACE
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Notes: This week's prompt, "RESURFACE", was a hard one! I really had to reach, haha.
Sougo doesn't like the ocean. He's a country samurai, a small-town boy, and the first time he ever saw that vast expanse of endless water beyond the coast was when he moved to Edo at the age of 14. There was something eerie about all that nothing, the way the boats leaving would seem to sail off the horizon into emptiness.
He doesn't think of space in the same way until he falls in love with Kagura.
"It's like dating a sailor," he slurs drunkenly to Kondou one night at last call in the Shinsengumi's favorite cop bar. "Y'know. Like, she leaves to go alien hunting with her dad, and I'm like, fucking waiting at the window like 'when will my husband come home from war?'"
The truth of the statement is pounded into Sougo's head along with his hangover the next morning. He pretends that his head isn't splitting open with a headache so Kagura won't leave him to sleep when she calls at 8 AM with bells in her voice to tell him about her adventures in the world beyond Earth.
Sougo feels sick in more ways than one.
I miss you, he wants to say, but he doesn't. "Alien girl," he tells her fondly, "don't forget me when you're off making trouble in the stars."
"Come with me next time," says Kagura through the receiver. "I'll show you my hometown. You can see where I came from."
Sougo doesn't like the ocean, but that doesn't mean he can't learn to swim.
Notes: Don't you love Okikagu in an established relationship with a healthy dose of pining? So cute!
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Next time, Chapter 5: IMMORTALITY