@godsand roared: [ hold ] – for the sender’s muse to hold the receiver’s muse by the face / neck gently and brush their thumbs along their cheeks to get them to focus on them. / gay | ACCEPTING. the intimacy of hands.
❝ I NEVER WANTED YOU TO SEE ME LIKE THIS. ❞ it’s been almost three weeks after gaara had found out lee’s little secret , gai has been over multiple times. && after gentle, well meant urging, lee began to take this. . . THERAPY. lee still feels like a raw wound. he quietly weeps on a daily basis, trying to keep the tears in until gaara was preoccupied with duty. lee’s been told the tears are normal that change is everything how brave he is for confronting what he denied all his life. well, lee doesn’t feel very brave. and after the orphanage follows konoha’s abuse, being a jinchuriki, the time he had spent in the root. how will he ever be done?? is he not allowed to rest?? lee MAITO LEE is tired. so tired.
tonight gaara caught lee cry. naturally lee’s first instinct was to hide his wounds, changing the subject didn’t work. the way teal eyes held him in place. onyx gaze wanted to both linger && dart away. as tears continue to flow lee wants to at least move his head away, but gaara reaches out to hold his face in place, thumbs caressing through the salty streaks of tears.
lee doesn’t understand gaara’s patience. this new medial ninjutsu for the mind, using words instead of chakra. he had a few sessions already so why isn’t he healed?? gaara deserves a better lover, gai deserves a better son, matatabi deserves a better host, tenten deserves a better team mate. neji deserves a better rival. but they’re all here, waiting for lee. how strange for something to make lee feel both so abysmally sad yet vitalisingly happy. eventually the jinchuriki leans into gaara’s touch. ❝ I’M SORRY. ❞
❝ FOR CRYING. FOR FEELING SORRY. FOR REPEATING MYSELF ALL THE TIME. ❞
