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[I know the way this story ends]
It's in the cross-catch, the ebb and flow. The hang of Die's chords along his melody. A trademark now, even when it's whole note after whole note and Kaoru is not the one who should be bending.
All habit now. Part of their sound, he tells himself. Then he makes excuses - sometimes there's offbeats, and now and then a spiked glissando - but the thing is, the thing is that he wrote it all to be well within Die's --
They wrote together.
...he wrote.
It's a train of maniacs; all breathless and fumbling once, but now aren't they just so cool and jaded? Well, with a lapse or so into clowning. Few drinks and the stiff wears off. The point is harnessing the ever present tension into the edge laid along
They've rehearsed every second til it's beyond muscle memory. Their children if they ever get around to them will have 304 Goushitsu, Hakushi no Sakura coded in their mitochondria. Fingers move, (the weight of attention still draws sweat through layers of acrylic and cotton and threaded vinyl) and
It's thick over every choice, every twitch. Shinya is unflappable, even as he still claims he's flying by the seat of his miniskirt and lobbies to be fired in favor of someone more worthy, but then there isn't anyone, is there (but Yoshiki, and they have quite the collective ego but). Toshiya's only flaw is needing a leash when drunk, offers for which utterly swamp demand. Kyo's affair with the muse of pitch is ever slippery, but that was never why he was (and he gets past the self-consciousness with ease now, truly, he does) theirs, no, not at all
Die strikes a grand power chord. Poses. While Kaoru...
He beats away briskly at the acoustic, listening hard and,
And there's offbeats; harmonic glissandos. There's wavering stretched notes bent high and a thousand countless hundredth-breaths of elaborate hesitance, the decision was made and there's no going back even if it means he must compensate (beautifully, with no word said) forever and
And all he can think is:
I hope he's not this fucking codependent in five years.