hakkai bit his lip and ickly anded, despite the futility of it all "kenren"

"you said 'gojyo'"

"i said 'kenren'"

"you ant 'kenren' but it sure as hell didn't e out that way"

the healer had jt to say it, regardless of all pulsion not to

"jealo?" he tilted his head to the side irgly as kenren sird under his gaze until fally, he gathered up his wits to spit out a ft-

"no"

jt for the sake of seeg how uch the general was love with tenpou

the teptation to jt let thgs be was overwhelg this was (theoretically speakg) tenpou's proble, not hakkai's but hakkai was right here, right now, beg stared down by the previo carnation of the an he was love with

there he aditted it to hiself he had grown attached to the half-breed- a habit fro three years past turned to a hunger gnag at hi whenever they were alone together hakkai felt the sa hunger now, but his d kept hi fro it the body scread for it and the heartwhich was not hakkai's heart, but tenpou'sseed to ache ever so slightly fro god-kno-any-centuries of ld iprisonnt by a d nstantly denial who to satisfy? hakkai didn't know, and all he uld do was stare as kenren broke out a pack of cigarettes and lit one up he offered one to hakkai