#I think I've gotten better at writing Itaru since this piece

[winter-spark]

Starting you off with some of my worst earliest a3! writing so hopefully you won't think this is as poorly written as it actually is.

Setting: SSR Fam, Konomi's wedding reception - Konomi pov (mid conversation because I thought this segment was better)

Itaru went red and started choking on his drink. Konomi rolled her eyes and rubbed his back but honestly she wanted to laugh.

"I–We're not together!"

"You're not?" She leaned on her hand. How much could she make him squirm? "Coulda fooled me."

"How?! Two people playing a couple on stage," and off-stage, "doesn't just make them a couple. Do you know how many relationships an actor would be in?"

Konomi shrugged and looked in her glass. "Not because you guys played a couple, either time, I just have eyes, Itaru."

"And what's that supposed to mean?" He loosened his tie, face still red, "That we looked like a couple when we weren't acting like one or something? Because that's just silly."

Konomi finished off the rest of her drink. "You know Itaru, for someone who's trying to convince me there's not a romance between you two, you still haven't said that you don't like him that way."

"I–It's not that– I just–" he sighed, "I wish I could reload this conversation."

"Sorry, Life includes an autosave feature, no going back." Konomi sat back in her seat as Itaru slumped in his. "Then it's safe to assume you have no plans on confessing?"

"And ruin a good thing?" He gave a short hollow laugh. "Yea no. That'd be NG."

Konomi wished she knew to look for signs of a possible crush when she'd met Citron. There was warmth and love but she couldn't pin from memory if there were any hints of romantic feelings. "Feels like a high risk, high reward mission huh?"

"One I think I'll leave on the mission board."

"I see… Well, can I offer a little advice?"

"You're going to anyway…"

"If you ever do take on that mission, and he doesn't feel the same way, he still very clearly loves you as a person. They all do. You won't have to shut down and isolate yourself."

Itaru was quiet. He looked away. "Didn't you say you'd ask the kitchen staff for a way to wrap this up?"

"Right, 'cause you're looting my wedding." Konomi joked as she stood up. "I'll go see."

"Konomi."

She paused and waited. She started to turn towards him but stopped when he said

"Thank you."

“No problem,” Konomi smiled and continued forth. He didn't always show his gratitude towards her. So she was always glad he has recently. She could feel it, he really did appreciate her. And as a big sister, that was honestly all she could want from him.

What if I used this post to share snippets I've written? Would that be cool?

Even if I never post some of the things as like finished fics or anything I've written I'm really eager to share just about all of it. I'm just a very insecure writer lol

To make it more palatable for the dashboard, I'll reblog it from here each time and use a keep-reading link to hide it. If that's something anyone would want to see I suppose.