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Atsushi has always believed there is something noble about being gentle.
Gentle things don't hurt people. Gentle things don't get abandoned. Gentle things make themselves useful, make themselves small, and know better than to bite the hand reaching toward them.
Akutagawa has never had the luxury of believing any of that.
When Atsushi finds him half-dead and feverish in an abandoned building, helping him should be simple. Bandages. Medicine. Food left within reach. Nothing more.
Instead, Akutagawa keeps coming back.
And Atsushi keeps opening the door.
Somewhere between learning how to touch without hurting and how to stay without being asked, they create something neither of them knows how to name.
Something soft.
Something hungry.
Something that, if held too tightly, might turn around and bite.