[ IF YOU TELL HIM NOT TO LAUGH, he's just going to laugh more... but a cup of water does sound pleasant right now, so he'll wait, seeing a scene of a smaller hijikata with far less stress wrinkles, standing with someone else unfold before his eyes; listening to them discuss aspirations, hopes, and dreams.
but it's true to say that he doesn't understand entirely. like how hijikata doesn't understand what it's like to be a sword, tsurumaru doesn't understand anything about the classes below the one of a samurai family. he doesn't understand what "wanting to be a samurai" means, he doesn't understand the reasoning behind his goals, but there's one thing that he does understand — and that's hijikata's determination.
it's the shatter of glass that shakes him out of the sight, and he's already up and running out of the room, possibly fearing for the worst... only to see hijikata there, with shards of broken glass around his feet. thankfully, the shards are still big enough to step around, which tsurumaru is trying to accomplish as quickly as possible, since he's worried and what if hijikata accidentally cut himself and well, he could've just asked that from far away...
but it's hijikata! he'd lie about things like that to keep him from worrying! anyway, he's here now, shaking him a bit, because shaking a nauseous person is the best thing to do, obviously. ]
Hijikata! Hijikata?
[ although, it's not tsurumaru's style to just tell him what he saw. so he pauses.... thinks... how can he tell him creatively?
and then he comes up with a great idea, considering how he's never called hijikata by anything other than his last name. ] Toshi? Are you okay?
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but it's true to say that he doesn't understand entirely. like how hijikata doesn't understand what it's like to be a sword, tsurumaru doesn't understand anything about the classes below the one of a samurai family. he doesn't understand what "wanting to be a samurai" means, he doesn't understand the reasoning behind his goals, but there's one thing that he does understand — and that's hijikata's determination.
it's the shatter of glass that shakes him out of the sight, and he's already up and running out of the room, possibly fearing for the worst... only to see hijikata there, with shards of broken glass around his feet. thankfully, the shards are still big enough to step around, which tsurumaru is trying to accomplish as quickly as possible, since he's worried and what if hijikata accidentally cut himself and well, he could've just asked that from far away...
but it's hijikata! he'd lie about things like that to keep him from worrying! anyway, he's here now, shaking him a bit, because shaking a nauseous person is the best thing to do, obviously. ]
Hijikata! Hijikata?
[ although, it's not tsurumaru's style to just tell him what he saw. so he pauses.... thinks... how can he tell him creatively?
and then he comes up with a great idea, considering how he's never called hijikata by anything other than his last name. ] Toshi? Are you okay?