-There was a pregnant pause between them that seemed to last a full movement of the stanza playing in the distance before Tojiko stepped up, hesitantly lifting her arms and placing her hands at Futo's shoulders, not to push her away, but to hold her there.-
We... are us. Together. More than all of that, and yet nothing more at all. Because it's what all of those mean together, and how much you mean to me... that is what matters, in the end. I love you, Mononobe no Futo.
-She left 'family' unsaid, but there was something of an implicit meaning there. She was Miko's wife, but... She also had a deep connection with Futo. And when everything had come to light...- Back then, when you confessed to everything, I panicked... because I thought it meant I was losing you. That everything I had believed about us was a lie. But here you are... your voice as gentle as it was when I was a child.
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We... are us. Together. More than all of that, and yet nothing more at all. Because it's what all of those mean together, and how much you mean to me... that is what matters, in the end. I love you, Mononobe no Futo.
-She left 'family' unsaid, but there was something of an implicit meaning there. She was Miko's wife, but... She also had a deep connection with Futo. And when everything had come to light...- Back then, when you confessed to everything, I panicked... because I thought it meant I was losing you. That everything I had believed about us was a lie. But here you are... your voice as gentle as it was when I was a child.