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Heizou wakes up in shock, gasping loudly. He doesn't know much of what happened anymore, but it felt really scary. Waking up by Kazuha's side, starting to grip onto him and cry like a baby. Kazuha's brain was telling him the winds thought something was wrong with the man sleeping beside him at the moment, so he instantly woke up.
"Heizou.. Is everything alright..?" Kazuha questions through a mellow, soft voice, starting to hold on to his boyfriend in a way that signaled “You can hold my hand.”
"No.. I feel.. scared.." Heizou replies, sifting through fears and a shocking amount of tears rolling down his face, holding onto Kazuha harder. "Please.. don't leave me.."
“It’s alright. I’m not going to let go, you have me." Heizou was trying to breathe through tears and a flushed face. He knows that Kazuha is a person he can go to when he needs to talk about really just anything. But he also had something on his mind that he really wanted to say, but he couldn't get it out exactly. The detective often saw couples out on the streets, always thinking "Why not me? Why not me and him?". He feels guilty for thinking that way, truthfully. Not for being in love with the Crux Fleet's wandering samurai, but the fact that he felt like he would be judged for that fact. Heizou often has nightmares, but when he does have dreams, it involves him and Kazuha, doing the things he sees couples within the many places in Inazuma doing. Holding hands, kissing, embracing each other, y'know?
“Heizou, if you feel safer with me being here, you know I will always be with you. Really, I won't ever leave." Kazuha whispers into the Doushin's ear. "I love being able to hold you, I really do love everything about you silly. I don't want to see you scared or worried, I wish for you to be comfortable and at peace."
Yup, it spilled out right then and there.
"Holy? He feels the same about me?!" Heizou thought to himself. He looked up at Kazuha, the ronin responding by putting a hand on his head, petting his auburn hair. "I love you.. I love you too.. Kazuha.." Now, Heizou hasn't ever loved before, Kazuha is about to be the first man that he has ever dated. They've both been out of the closet for some time now, but this type of love was a sticky topic on Heizou's end considering he's bad at feelings. , His boss often just telling him to "confess to him already, I'm sure he likes you back due to how often he visits your office." and Beidou giving out love advice to Kazuha.
As the two held each other, Heizou was starting to calm down now. “Just keep breathing. In and out. You’re doing great.” Kazuha says to Heizou in a mellow tone. "Maybe some time, we can go on the ship together and meet Beidou, she's real nice." Kazuha kisses Heizou on the top of his head, making him start feeling sleepy. Heizou has gone nonverbal at this point, mostly because he is feeling mellow and tired, other part of the reason being that he is just.. melting.. he had these feelings for nearly over a year now, and the fact he finally got to tell him, and right by his side too.. it just felt.. indescribably comforting. As Heizou starts falling asleep in his boyfriend's hold. All his worries start to dissolve. Work, having to investigate another messy case, and all other stressors on his mind at the moment. They were all dissolving, and all he was thinking about was Kazuha, and how he was being Held by him. The blanket covering them, the way one hand was on his head. and the other focusing on the rest of his body. He felt truly at peace. He felt so much better than how it felt before.
Heizou and Kazuha both have no regrets from this night, other than the fact they wish they could've snuggled like this earlier. Sure, they've cuddled in his office before on multiple occasions, so this really wasn't a new thing to them, but now they're doing it on a futon, it feels so much different. The two of them felt like they were on clouds. They both knew they'd wake up to pure morning bliss, not an open door and a note on a desk from the Tenryou Commissioner stating "Sleep tight, lovebirds!" with a winky face drawn onto it. Ugh, how out-of-character for the Tengu Warrior. Always so bold and emotionless, Apparently that mask does break when she witnesses types of love similar to this, and even on the Alcor there was some loud ass noises from drunken sailors outside waking the two of them up abruptly. But here, it was pure peace. No noises outside, no doors opening, no annoying notes or drunken sailors yelling and cussing at each other, getting into bar fights, just pure peace. As Heizou fell asleep with a garunteed dream, Kazuha softly whispered
"Sleep tight, honey. I'll still be here when you open your eyes."