[In a way, he's honestly relieved by that answer. Tenka's willing to open up to him, to tell him all of the things that he missed while they were apart, and to be sincere with him about things in the future. That's already an improvement from where they were, dancing around these issues and discussing things only when there was no possible way to avoid them. That's not partnership.
(And Sousei knows that to avoid being a hypocrite, he will also have to share what he and the Yamainu went through over those ten years, but for right now, Tenka's story is the more important of the two. Later. It will come, later.)
He'll get mad, Tenka says, which honestly causes Sousei to snort, expression vaguely amused. Of course he will. He had never doubted it. Tenka made dumb decisions all the time, and Sousei got irritated about said decisions all the time. It was their dynamic. It was why Sousei had to be by his side.
So his expression doesn't shift from that amusement, even as he responds easily enough--]
I am already mad at you.
[QUITE FRANKLY--HE IS. Has been for ages. But he's not so angry that he won't talk to Tenka anymore. He's not so angry that he doesn't want anything to do with him. No, he's just mad--at his foolishness, at Sousei's own foolishness, and at their lack of understanding of this whole situation.
...But where to start...he supposes he has to start at the beginning.]
I...assume you began taking that medication after your injury. [He'd never known what the doctors were doing...why hadn't he questioned it more? (He'd just been so relieved...)]
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(And Sousei knows that to avoid being a hypocrite, he will also have to share what he and the Yamainu went through over those ten years, but for right now, Tenka's story is the more important of the two. Later. It will come, later.)
He'll get mad, Tenka says, which honestly causes Sousei to snort, expression vaguely amused. Of course he will. He had never doubted it. Tenka made dumb decisions all the time, and Sousei got irritated about said decisions all the time. It was their dynamic. It was why Sousei had to be by his side.
So his expression doesn't shift from that amusement, even as he responds easily enough--]
I am already mad at you.
[QUITE FRANKLY--HE IS. Has been for ages. But he's not so angry that he won't talk to Tenka anymore. He's not so angry that he doesn't want anything to do with him. No, he's just mad--at his foolishness, at Sousei's own foolishness, and at their lack of understanding of this whole situation.
...But where to start...he supposes he has to start at the beginning.]
I...assume you began taking that medication after your injury. [He'd never known what the doctors were doing...why hadn't he questioned it more? (He'd just been so relieved...)]