Takeru didn't see the need to try to sleep. Humans needed sleep, yes, but technically, he was still a god. He only slept when he was so run down that he stumbled. But tonight wasn't one of those nights. The full moon was out, meaning Bro would be out watching it, like a deer caught in a hunter's sights, and Takeru was practicing his swordsmanship. He thrust the katana forward, following through just as the god of war told him, and damn, but it felt good.
A timid knock came at his door, and he sheathed his sword, sweat dripping from his hair.
"If it's that damn Loki again, I swear I'm gonna run him through," Takeru growled, moving to open the door slowly. One hand on the hilt of his katana, he opened the door to find a red-eyed Yui, looking very disheveled in her pajamas.
"Weed! Why're you here?" exclaimed Takeru, releasing his sword. "I could've run you through…hey, what's wrong?" They had just studied this in class today: different types of human emotion. Yui was some variety of sad, much different than her usual calm, happy demeanor. Yui sniffled, and Takeru felt a pulling at his heart to embrace her until she was her usual happy self again.
"I…I'm homesick," Yui explained quietly, attempting not to cry in front of her sparring partner. "I miss my family and my brothers and I love being here with you guys but I just really, really want to go home!" The speed of her voice had increased as she talked, and at the end, her voice broke, and the tears came. Takeru didn't think her weak in that moment…she was just a girl who had been taken from everything she had known and dropped into some kind of asinine divine conspiracy.
"Yui," he said softly, and she looked up at him. Takeru sighed and opened his arms. "Do you want to be held? Would that help?" Yui nodded, and Takeru gestured to his bed. "I'm pretty tired from practice, but don't worry, I won't do anything you don't want me to do." Yui didn't look worried; she knew what to expect from her gods. Following his gesture, she climbed into his bed and waited for him to get in on the other side.
"I took off my shirt, so if you feel skin, don't be worried," he said carefully, and Yui nodded. He slowly climbed in beside her, and, both of them lying down, he wrapped his body around hers.
"Is this okay?" he asked, and Yui said, "Yes." Closing his eyes, he could smell Yui's hair, always clean but especially clean from her shower tonight, and it smelled like sunshine. He pulled her in just a little closer, hoping that if he could surround her, everything bad could just fade away. He knew all the bad feelings for him were fading away.