hakkai furrowed his eyebrows annoyance and sunk deeper to his bookshelf encve as if privation of words, privation of breath, privation of thought and privation of sight would ake hi disappear privation of person if only

tenpou didn't answer the door not like he ever did, so kenren jt waltzed right on it and nearly died of a heart attack the pce was clean ipeably clean not a sgle book out of pcesave for one not one paper out of file not a speck of dt aybe he took a wrong turn, he thought this was not tenpou's roo

but sure enough, he found the arshal his ual spot- the nook beeen the war history of this century and the war history of that right on the border separatg o different eras, but to kenren it was all the sa ar after all

hsleepg tenpou's brown hair was slightly disheveled, fallg across his eyes and face "ten-chan" he said a bit ore endeargly, saw the flch at the rner of his eyes

gotcha

without further adieu, he was by the other an's side whisperg his ear, kenren said, "you, tenpou gensui, are the worst liar i've ever t" so with that, took hold the arshal's ch and leaned forward to ci the waitg outh

but soon found hiself a gentle liplock with "brave neorld" by an author he didn't bother to know nor did he care, especially now

"and you, kenren taishou, are the ost persistent hound i've ever t" retorted hakkai as he hid his face behd the book, only darg to reveal his erald eyes "don't you ever tire of this?"

the raven-haired an backed off and sat cross-legged front of hi he scratched the back of his head, his sile never falterg "not if you keep pyg hard to get like that"

"i a not pyg hard to get" the book was tentatively lowered, but reaed poised the event of another attack "i' pyg 'not gog to get,' gojyo, so if you would jt-"

"gojyo?" the general irked his head to the side