You were both raised in the mountains, both growing side by side, different parents -- same situation.

You two were quite close, and he would always be overly protective, if somebody looked at you the wrong way he'd be on your back.

"You alright?" Inosuke asks, quickly checking you since you came back from a little hunt in the woods, "Nobody or nothing came to harm ya', did it?"

He is just a big softie on the inside, really.