[ Minato closes his eyes briefly, telling himself to accept and not question the whole older brother/genetic father thing, but doing so triggers a memory— not an OU memory, but one with him and Dave and Clover and his eyes snap open again. ]
"Bro just kicked my ass" Bro?
[ That thing we promised never to bring up ever again, we're bringing up again, but it's on Dave. ]
[ His lips press into a thin line, because while there have been plenty of times- innumerable amount of times- that Minako's kicked his ass, he has never, never, never doubted that she loved him. ]
You must've fought back... [ Though, he can't really see it; he knows full well that Dave is capable of fighting back, but he doesn't seem to enjoy it the same way Minato does- for the hunt, the rush. Like when they were back in the forest, Dave had done it to get it over with, so nobody else had to. ]
I never won. [ quietly. not until dirk, and dirk had let him - or maybe he hadn't. dave isn't sure any longer. ] ...I dunno, it was just. Shady bullshit, you know? It was lonely and hard and it sucked and I don't want to live in a house where John ain't these days even when I'm mad because it's so. Different.
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[ which, for all he knows of Dave's family in this life, he has too and it never occurred to Minato that it'd be different in another universe. ]
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"Bro just kicked my ass" Bro?
[ That thing we promised never to bring up ever again, we're bringing up again, but it's on Dave. ]
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You must've fought back... [ Though, he can't really see it; he knows full well that Dave is capable of fighting back, but he doesn't seem to enjoy it the same way Minato does- for the hunt, the rush. Like when they were back in the forest, Dave had done it to get it over with, so nobody else had to. ]
What was it like?
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