#snippet from a longer fic im working on

[cryingoversatosugu]

All the art and posts about satosugu's death anniversary are making me want to write again so here's a drabble about infinity

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They've just finished a mission when Suguru notices it. As they stand on the sidewalk, waiting for the driver to come pick them up, Satoru keeps rubbing his eyes, and his shoulders are drooping from exhaustion.

“Are you okay?” Suguru asks.

“I'm fine,” Satoru says shortly.

“Satoru,” Suguru chides, because by now he knows how often Satoru works through exhaustion, and how overwhelming his six eyes can be. “Are your eyes hurting again?”

The way Satoru looks away is an answer in on itself.

Suguru steps forward and raises his hand to cover Satoru's eyes, he has done it enough times for it to be a habit now– until Satoru can shut himself in a dark room this is how they make do on long missions.

But when Suguru doesn't feel the flutter of his eyelashes against his palm, he frowns. “You still have infinity on?”

“We're outside,” Satoru argues, and steps away from Suguru’s hand, as if reminded that he's not supposed to have any weaknesses here, exposed like this.

Suguru understands; the school is the safest and he knows that Satoru would prefer to only drop infinity once they've reached back, but sometimes he agrees to drop it once they're in the car.

Suguru would let it be, but it'll still take the driver some time to be here, and Satoru's eyes are already red-rimmed.

“It'll be okay, you don't sense anyone around right?” Suguru tries to convince him. “And I'll protect you.” He flicks his wrist and the rainbow dragon appears. The curse looks gigantic on the sidewalk, but he knows that it'll work best to make Satoru less wary.

Like most of his curses, it's very fond of Satoru, so it huddles around him, nudging his shoulder. Satoru rolls his eyes but isn't completely successful in hiding his smile as he turns to pet it, finally dropping infinity.

Suguru smiles, a little surprised by the sheer relief he feels at that, at seeing the tension in Satoru's shoulders loosen a little.