An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Kagurabachi (Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mashiro Shuuji & Shiba Tougo Characters: Mashiro Shuuji, Shiba Tougo Additional Tags: Smoking, Canonical Character Death, Angst, Grief/Mourning, I did not tag "major character death" because I don't consider Mashiro to be a major character but this is your warning. He dies., No beta we die like... well. Summary:
In the beginning, the cigarettes had just been about the job. At some point, they became about the time he spent with Mashiro.
In the end, they never became about anything more than that: the time he got to spend with Mashiro.
Shiba was never going to quit.