GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[divus]

That's correct. But I suppose it no longer really matters. I'm not the one he's going home with, and so it may be better this way.

[That doesn't mean it's still a little unfair and sad, but that's not Taka's problem and he knows that.]

[bakaomi]

Mm... maybe. I still kind of did steal him from you.

[ because there is no way senri was going to confess to taka. ]

[divus]

[There's a quiet laugh.] Taking what you want is the appropriate thing to do in a game like this. That, and you would not be the first person I've bowed to.

[...like...it took him until this very instance and becoming a god to realize he had actual feelings for someone, but. He tried.] I had my warning in my previous life and I didn't understand. I still don't, I think, but I wouldn't really call it stealing. Stealing would have been if he didn't wish to go with you willingly.

[bakaomi]

Nah. He just would have rejected me.

[ senri is needy and wants romance but if he would have truly been unhappy with it, he would have said so. ]

... I do have to admit you kind of helped.

[divus]

[Odd. For a moment Beauty doesn't reply, but there's a little sigh as he straightens up again.]

How so?

[bakaomi]

Talking to you last time really annoyed me.

[ it was a combo of takaomi realizing he had a crush, and then realizing beauty also most likely had one, and senri going on a fucking date with sasuke. ]

[divus]

...so you acted out of jealousy?

[bakaomi]

Sort of?

[ he pauses as he tries to. figure out how to word this. ]

It's more like, I don't think I would have said anything because... that's not the kind of thing I'm... good at. So he kind of annoyed me into doing it.

[divus]

I see. [...Takaomi made a mistake, because Beauty ponders again.]

...a boy I considered a friend liked a girl. He told me he didn't want me to come on a trip with them because he liked this girl, and he was planning to ask her out. I wasn't even aware of it until then, and so they went.

She rejected him, but he came back to me and said that I was to give it everything I've got and stop holding back. I suppose he, too, was annoyed into doing things and tried to annoy me as well.

[Thanks a fucking lot, Hikaru.] Shishimaru-kun. Annoyance or not, I believe your feelings for him are stronger than anything else you feel, yes? [Not necessarily positive ones all the time, but in general.]

[bakaomi]

[ oh... rip beauty

but takaomi doesn't respond right away as he considers all of this. ]

... yeah. They are.

[ absolutely nothing annoys him as much as senri does, but. the only other thing that makes him as happy is music. ]

[divus]

Then...I wish you nothing but happiness. [Even if this continues being hard on him. But it's whatever, he'll get over it.]

[bakaomi]

... if you're nice about it you make it hard to be annoyed at you.

[ taka you literally just said you're not mad ]

[divus]

...would you prefer a reason to be annoyed? [Beauty no.]

[bakaomi]

...

Do you have a reason?

[divus]

[...he just takes off the mask and looks at Taka? Apparently his face is his reason.]

[bakaomi]

[ HE FUCKING CHOKES ]

[divus]

Nice to see you, Shishimaru-kun. [This bitch. But he's genuine all the same, giving Takaomi a smile.]

There's a reason we have masks.

[bakaomi]

[ this is the worst unmasking of all time. his face is slightly red but whether it's from annoyance or something else is a mystery. ]

I've heard.

[ BITCH ]

[divus]

[♥]

Would you feel more comfortable if I put it back on?

[bakaomi]

I don't care.

[ he........ he won't lose...,,,,, ]

[divus]

[In that case he'll leave the mask off and pleasantly sip his tea.]

Then I suppose we'll keep it off for now. I really don't like wearing it anyway.

[bakaomi]

[ he hates this ]

Too stuffy?

[divus]

Yes. We don't have to wear them when it's just us, or when we're with those of you we've built enough of a relationship with, but otherwise it's always the masks and the cloaks. They're not exactly flattering either.

[bakaomi]

That's what Ambition and Disorder were complaining about...

[ right before sasuke went feral on them ]

[divus]

I hate to say this, but I agree with them. No one ever said that becoming a god would mean nearly suffocating.