@palmatums sent: gentle hands, one wrapped and one in his usual bracer, tug lightly at the white garb adorning the other's features, carefully straightening the collar with dexterous fingers before smoothing out invisible wrinkles along the garment. digits linger near the pristine glow of his anemo vision - but kazuha does not touch it. rather, he peers up at him through thick lashes, and moves two digits around the item - reverent, but undisturbing. it is something that belongs exclusively to kunikuzushi, after all.
the smile that splits his face his warm, vermillion eyes soft in the dappled morning light. he leans forward, beneath that large hat, and places a fleeting, anemo-infused kiss upon his lips.
" it looks good on you...
wanderer. "
head tilted downward at just the slightest of angles, indigo eyes follow the movements of kazuha’s fingers as they adjust and fix his outer layers. admittedly, there’s a quiet tightening in his chest when those same fingers venture CLOSE to the vision he wears so proudly over his chest and, were it anyone else, he’s certain he’d SLAP the hand away. the item means too much to him to allow it to even come close to being grazed by hands not his own. kazuha though... kazuha, who has somehow found it in himself to forgive him — to some extent, at least — for all his horrendous actions... who has returned to touching him in that same gentle, caring way in spite of EVERYTHING...
kazuha, he trusts. it’s TRULY the least he can do.
the ronin leans in closer, drawing the wanderer’s gaze upward once more, though his eyes close just before their lips meet. there’s something more exhilarating to the touch of anemo mixed into the kiss now than there used to be, something that feels... strangely comfortable. RIGHT.
one hand raises to tilt back the wide brim of his hat, the other to brush fingers faintly, almost hesitantly, over one of kazuha’s own. he’s still... readjusting to such shows of affection, though it IS coming back to him with more ease than he’d have expected. in the next moment, his hand closes over kazuha’s, still so close to his chest, as their lips part and he finds himself staring once again into those deep, kind vermillion eyes.
“ doesn’t it? ” a proud response, but one which carries less vanity and boastfulness than it might in the face of anyone ELSE. before kazuha, there’s a genuineness to his tone, something almost... soft, as his gaze lowers to where the vision sits so openly over the place his heart should be. “ i wasn’t certain it would, at first. but now... it feels almost natural. ”