To keep a secret
"How long?" She asked him while sipping a herbal tea.
"A while," was his short answer as his gulped down his coffee whilst trying not to look at her, "since your wedding, when I gave you away. When it happened I felt pain and it wasn't fatherly, I thought you were just a dear friend, I thought that is what you meant to me. But when I left you standing at the altar with Yamazaki I didn't feel like I'd left you as a father to your husband. I felt like I was a husband giving you away to another. It was unfair that I had to discover my love for you, my true feelings and give you way all the same hour."
"As perturbed as I am by it I am thankful you kept it inside unlike Touga."
"I didn't keep it inside well."
"Yamazaki will never know, I care about you too much and it took me a long time to discover it too. I'd say you kept it inside very well."
"No, I kept it from you." He picked up a katana and swung it around expertly without seeming to even think before flinging it towards a wall where it was buried to the hilt. As soon as he let go he picked up a pair of nun-chucks and wielded them as naturally chopsticks, creating another show before flinging them to a corner of the dojo too and reaching for a broadsword and a long sword, the two which she had been certain did not work together were melded into something gloriously united and artistic before they too were cast aside. He impressed her with a display of hand to hand combat without a partner before ending his show and sinking to his haunches mere inches to her face, breathing heavily.
"I simply find other ways to let it out," he explained, "healthy ways, one does not harm the pack, whether that is physical or emotional, the consequences are dire, as you know by what I did to Touga when he hurt, almost killed Yamazaki." He looked down at his shaking hands, "I'm sorry," he muttered. "I wish I had more to offer but you know how it is with Daiyoukai, we always want the best, and most of the time we refuse to go for someone different, which is why I never managed to settle with another. I wish things could have been simpler for you, I just plead that you don't let this come between our close friendship, please don't stop coming by to visit, and I give you my word that I shall not come between you and Yamazaki."