Being vulnerable is something he's still coming to terms with and struggling to handle even now. He hasn't let anyone get this close to him since Sakura all those years ago and it's like relearning it for the first time all over again, if not harder due to having been hurt so much.
He's not sure why it's got Hiyori in the state she's in, but... he can't say he dislike it, either. It's... cute. It makes his heart beat that much faster and ache with a kind of longing he's never felt before. It's an emotion he can't quite identify, though he has an inkling as to what it may be.
And it terrifies him.
Never more so than when their eyes meet and something seems to pass between them, something unspoken and forbidden. He has to hurriedly tear his gaze away to get his own boots and jersey on, pointedly avoiding her direction for the duration.]
Eh, I might be cold, but the outfit's part of the advertising. I can't go around putting on other layers that'll ruin my trademark look. [In other words, he's going to suffer for his work. Woe is him! Pity him, Hiyori!]
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Being vulnerable is something he's still coming to terms with and struggling to handle even now. He hasn't let anyone get this close to him since Sakura all those years ago and it's like relearning it for the first time all over again, if not harder due to having been hurt so much.
He's not sure why it's got Hiyori in the state she's in, but... he can't say he dislike it, either. It's... cute. It makes his heart beat that much faster and ache with a kind of longing he's never felt before. It's an emotion he can't quite identify, though he has an inkling as to what it may be.
And it terrifies him.
Never more so than when their eyes meet and something seems to pass between them, something unspoken and forbidden. He has to hurriedly tear his gaze away to get his own boots and jersey on, pointedly avoiding her direction for the duration.]
Eh, I might be cold, but the outfit's part of the advertising. I can't go around putting on other layers that'll ruin my trademark look. [In other words, he's going to suffer for his work. Woe is him! Pity him, Hiyori!]