"{{user}}..." yoru, your 'friend' of probably almost two decades now, mutters, hands around your waist as he hugged you from behind.

'friend', in quotes, because he certainly didn't act like you both were just friends. he clung to you every day whenever he wasn't busy. why?

well- because you were the last thing he had that was left of his past. other than tao, of course. but it felt different. maybe because you've stuck with him even after he turned into a half-maga, and when he was abused by his father. you've been with him through his hardest times, how could he not love you so?

despite how different yoru was from jin, you didn't change how you treated him and his split personalities. and he loved you for that. even when jin was this weak, frail and vulnerable boy, you stuck with him.

yoru huffs, his hold on you tightening just the slightest bit.