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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]

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!

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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?

[windbreak]

Um. [He clams up again, looking uncomfortable.]

...Look, I didn't mean anything by, by that, either. Everyone's a different person to how they used to be, otherwise you wouldn't grow up... And you've grown up a lot. I don't think that's a weird thing to say.

[No weirder than any other wishy-washy bullshit he doesn't normally talk about, definitely.]

[realmenknitplushies]

[Fine. Not getting an answer. He gives a bit of a sigh through his teeth and calms down.]

Nah. I've just learned what's important and what ain't important.

[windbreak]

[He tilts his head.] So what's the big deal? [Honest question.]

[realmenknitplushies]

[Yet more sighing. Calmly-] Dude, I've had people puttin' me down my whole life. When I was a kid... when I was a kid properly... all I ever heard was people givin' me shit for who and what I was. Tellin' me I was weird or I was doin' things wrong or I didn't belong around 'em.

It hurt, then. Now?

It just ... gets kinda old.

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[This wave of his hand is meant to be pacifying rather than just dismissive, but who knows?] Come on, you know I don't think any of that...

[realmenknitplushies]

[Quiet for a moment.]

Yeah. Guess I do. Still old, though.

I just want to know that my friends don't think I'm weird. Rest'a the world can shove it: but when it's you guys, it's kinda different.

[windbreak]

[He thinks for a moment longer. "Old", huh? Maybe that strikes a different note to him than it does to Kanji, but he hears it all the same.]

Hah, I guess it's not that easy to really change after all. But... everyone's going through the same kind of thing, right? So you're not weird there, either. Maybe you just worry too much.

[realmenknitplushies]

Maybe.

[He shrugs a bit. Old habits die hard.]