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[windbreak]

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Hey, this is Yosuke. [He doesn't sound too much like he's gritting his teeth - just don't ask how many tries this recording took.] I'm probably in the middle of something right now, so if you want to leave a message, I'll get back to you. Alright, later.

[Beep!]

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[realmenknitplushies]

[Okay, he actually manages to smile a bit at that.]

No kiddin'. Feels weird just thinking about it.

[windbreak]

Well, weird is relative, yeah? So long as you had fun, that was pretty much the idea. Even if you're gonna act all tough and say you didn't, heh. You really hit it off with mini-mini-Kanji, too...

[Yes, he did finally come up with a name for his rabbit other than "hey, you".]

[realmenknitplushies]

What the hell'd be the point of that? [Shrugging, here-] I did have fun. As far as I remembered, no-one'd ever done somethin' like that for me except my folks. I ain't gonna pretend anythin' else to either of us.

[Pause... Did Yosuke just-]

Wait, you named the rabbit after me?!

[windbreak]

Huh? Well, he learned to respond to it pretty fast, I gotta say. [He's winking. Whether he's joking or not, that definitely implies something.]

[realmenknitplushies]

What does that even mean, man?

[He pauses a moment as something comes to mind.]

...You did remember that I was still me, right?

[windbreak]

Huh? Uh, yeah... Why? [His grin fading somewhat, he rubs at the back of his neck, hardly defensive at all.] Yeah, the idea to not fill you in right away, that was another one of Souji's... But it was weird for you too, wasn't it? You said it yourself.

[realmenknitplushies]

Nah, that was okay. I woulda thought you were talkin' crap if ya said "hey, you're really twice your age" and all that...

[windbreak]

[He relaxes.] I know, right? And if anything, showing him a photo would just make me look even more full of it.

[realmenknitplushies]

Showing "him"?

[windbreak]

[Wait, what's that incredibly familiar glare for? He wasn't even joking just then!] S-Same difference, right? ...Hey, are you okay?

[realmenknitplushies]

I'm alright. Sure. But it ain't "same difference." I get why you didn't tell me.
But it was still me you were talkin' to, even if I was a kid.

[windbreak]

[He holds his hands up in mock surrender.] I know that! Don't get bent outta shape. I had darker hair in grade school too, you know!

[realmenknitplushies]

This ain't about my hair, man!

[windbreak]

Sheesh, do you have to yell -

[Well, he... kind of does. That's just how Kanji is.

Finally, he looks away.] Okay, okay. I'm sorry. ...I still don't really get it, though.

[realmenknitplushies]

You-

[He sighs. He knows where "you know what you did" leads, after all. A spot calmer-]

Do ya remember some'a the things ya said to me? About a friend of yours?

[windbreak]

Huh? A friend of mine?

[For once, he isn't just playing dumb. He says a lot of things! How's a guy supposed to keep track?]

[realmenknitplushies]

Ngh-!

[Groan-]

You were sayin' things to me 'bout the me I am now. At least, thinking 'bout it now, it sounds like they were.

[windbreak]

[He can, however, put two and two together. And sometimes get five due to rushing things, but it's the thought that counts.]

Well, okay, we were all trying to keep that quiet... But either way, you didn't guess, right?

[realmenknitplushies]

Just because I didn't guess then, doesn't mean I ain't worked it out now! Some'a that stuff was kinda harsh, man.

Is that how ya see me? Is that what ya tell everyone?

[windbreak]

[He shrinks back a bit, waving a hand in what is probably meant to be a pacifying gesture.] C'mon, why're you getting all worked up over it now? It's not like I said anything to him I don't say about everyone, you know me...

[realmenknitplushies]

And there ya go again with "said stuff to him!" That kid was me. So was the blond guy, hell, so was that guy in the towel. This is me now.

It's all Kanji Tatsumi.

And I don't appreciate one'a my best friends thinkin' of me as a dumbass. Doesn't matter that ya say it to everyone - ya told it to me.

[windbreak]

I don't think that! Jeez, you flip out over nothing sometimes. Just 'cause you're kind of clueless every so often doesn't mean we're not friends any more, does it? [Does it...? When did this turn into one of those conversations, anyway?]

[realmenknitplushies]

[Siiiiiigh...]

There ain't nothing that could stop us being friends. But when you keep callin' me clueless 'n shit, I wonder why.

[windbreak]

[Yosuke abruptly falls quiet. Man, when did Kanji get so sensitive?

But then, thinking back to that nervous little kid, maybe the better question is when he stopped.]

Well, that's... I don't mean it that way or anything.

[realmenknitplushies]

Then how d'ya mean it?