for @doggonemad

[throughbamboo]

just bros being bros

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[doggonemad]

What, ya think yer seventeen with a complete dumbass in bed with ya?

[throughbamboo]

[his lips twitch]

You said it, not me.

[doggonemad]

Wow.

[throughbamboo]

Heh. But that's what I mean, it feels like we're a couple'a dumbasses figurin' it out all over again.

Almost.

[doggonemad]

Almost. Some things're a lil' different.

[throughbamboo]

Some. Ain't too much that is.

[doggonemad]

[ reaches up and taps at his eyepatch once. ]

[throughbamboo]

[fuck Shimano!! His expression sobers a bit, but he nods]

That'd be one of the differences.

[doggonemad]

Heh. I'm kinda likin' yer shaved head look. Suits ya.

[throughbamboo]

[he doesn't reach up to touch his head, though his hand does twitch like it might]

Dunno if it suits me, but I'm too used to it now to try an' grow it back out.

[doggonemad]

Take it from me — ya look a hell of a lot better.

[throughbamboo]

Implyin' I didn't look good before.

[but because this has erred into lighter territory - ]

Yer not as scrawny as ya were.

[doggonemad]

[ gives him a playful smirk. ]

'Course I did. Put on some muscle.

[ thank god saejima did not see him in the late nineties. ]

[throughbamboo]

[he grins back]

Y'look good. [and less like shit] But I thought y'did back then, too.

[doggonemad]

Ehhh, s'like ya said, I was real scrawny.

[throughbamboo]

Yeah, but ya were strong as hell.

[doggonemad]

'Course I was!

[throughbamboo]

An' ya still are.

So the differences ain't bad.

[doggonemad]

'Course they ain't. I got hotter.

[throughbamboo]

Y'mean the rest of ya? Yea, lil bit.

[says with a straight face]

[doggonemad]

Eh, we can't all be perfect.

[throughbamboo]

[he snorts softly]

Perfect is pretty borin'.

[doggonemad]

Right?! Fuck that.

[throughbamboo]

Mhm. I like ya the way ya are anyway.

[a beat]

Y'did get hotter, though. I'll give ya that.

[doggonemad]

Ha! I knew it!