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theskytides, when the game reopens - Hijikata is back on duty again after a series of events that happened on hiatus, and he is forced to content with seeing Roy once again after nearly a whole year.
One whole year.
It had nearly been one whole fucking year ever since they had ever last seen each other. Hijikata had thought he had put it behind him, put what had happened in the past at the back of his mind and had resumed with his daily life. But of course, life just had to destroy everything he had been trying to put back in the last year by having the goddamned annoyance by the name of Roy Mustang back into his life. It wasn't as if things weren't as complicated enough as they were already, damnit - the samurai had much more important things to do now then to contend with the alchemist (like punching the frilly asshole and putting him in his place) and - fuck, he really did not need this. At all.
Both Chi and Lucied had made a good decision to be out of the room there and then; the rather newly assigned boatswain was now currently in a very bad mood, pacing around his cabin as he tried not to punch into the wall amongst other things. It wasn't worth getting so worked up over all of this, he knew, but he just couldn't help but be pissed off anything because this was really that last thing that he needed at this point in time.
If he saw the alchemist again now, Hijikata swore that he was going to punch him in the face as well, because the bastard was seriously asking for it.