He loved my plan. Thought it was the coolest plan ever, actually. He stole cans of spray-paint from a local tagging gang and helped me cut a stencil in cardboard. Then we went to a select number of my parents' billboards in the dead on night, dressed in black, and replaced the ramen shop's usual phone number with the number for my new phone line.
Yusuke loved the clandestine nature of it all. He was also impressed with me.
"How did you know how to make a stencil? How to hold a can right?" Yusuke asked as we blocked out the old number and replaced it with the new one. He'd tried holding one of the rattle-cans at a bad angle and was surprised when I corrected him. "These numbers look super clean. If we'd free-handed them, it would look terrible." He eyed me suspiciously. "You aren't secretly a graffiti artist, are you?"
"In a past life, yeah."
"Ha! Yeah, right, you big liar. You're no tagger."
Little did he know that, for the first time in our shared life, I'd just told him the honest truth about myself. About my past, when I wasn't nearly as clean-cut as Yukimura Keiko.
Shame he didn't realize it.
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Chapter 8 from LC. Its such a fun scene and I’m hoping that we get a scene in the future of Yusuke realizing she was being honest with him for once. Glad you wanted this scene, already had the sketch in mind. So many more that I want to do...
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