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Akutagawa darted across the room, dodging the weretiger's attacks. They were training again, mostly because his jinko was feeling sad and needed a distraction. They'd only been going at it for maybe…5 minutes or so?
Suddenly, Akutagawa fell, gasping for air and coughing violently. Atsushi immediately stopped attacking, rushing over to his side.
“Akutagawa-!”
“I'm- Fine, Jinko-”
Akutagawa choked out, before coughing more.
Huh. Guess today was just one of the worse days.
Atsushi looked around frantically, finding Akutagawa's bag and reaching his hand in to find Akutagawa's inhaler. Once he got it he ran back over, quickly handing it over. Akutagawa took the inhaler, quickly using it, and stabilizing his breath.
“Jinko, I don't think I can-”
“Relax, I'm not gonna try to keep training. Today was just one of the weaker days, huh?”
Atsushi said calmly. Akutagawa nodded, face burning with humiliation.
Normally, his condition wasn't bad enough that he'd lose breath so quickly, he could usually make it 20 minutes or so without problems, but every now and then, he just felt disgustingly weak, unable to keep his stance for long. Today was one of those days, apparently. He rested against the wall, his breathing slowly beginning to stabilize. Atsushi sat next to him, prepared to help if anything else happened. Akutagawa ‘accidentally’ rested his head against the weretiger's shoulder. Atsushi didn't say anything, just leaned in closer. Akutagawa would never say it, but he was grateful that Atsushi was so considerate of him, and tried to understand.
(Albeit, the others were starting to notice that Atsushi always ‘conveniently’ managed to corner and isolate Akutagawa when his lungs were giving out on him, and yet the black haired man had no injuries when he returned. They didn't need to know that Atsushi was simply hiding him elsewhere until he could stabilize.)
Akutagawa took in a breath, feeling much lighter now. But he made no effort to make Atsushi move.
“Do you like being cuddled after you collapse, or?”
Atsushi teased.
“Only if the affection in question is given to me by a certain weretiger.”
He responded. He couldn't see Atsushi's face, but he knew his Jinko was extremely flustered now, based on how he stammered and almost…Whined?? After hearing that. Akutagawa chuckled to himself, kissing Atsushi's hand just to fuck with him.
“Hey-! I was seriously worried, you know! And now you're teasing me, so I think you're fine-!”
Atsushi tried to get up.
“Rashomon!”
…Aaaaannd Akutagawa used his ability to force him to sit back down. “Don't make me tie you down again Jinko.” Atsushi flushed at the mention of certain… Activities they'd done in the past. But he stayed in place. If Akutagawa wanted it, he knew there was no real point in fighting with him about it. Especially not when Atsushi always loved this.