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Kaoru had no idea what was going on. He’d just gotten off of work and stepped out into the cold night air. The craving to do something insane or wild was hitting him in the teeth particularly hard tonight. The monotony of his day to day life tend to weigh him down after a while, and it made him long for the old days and the fun he’d had.

It hadn’t really been fun, he reminded himself. He was just lonely.

He did indulge just a little bit, stepping into a convenience store to buy a pack of cigarettes. It was harder than the caffeine he’d been living off of, but it was a lot better than what he would have gotten a few years ago, so he figured it was a wash. Once he got out he eagerly opened them up and placed one between his lips, lighting it and taking a long drag off of it. Too long. He ended up getting too much smoke in his lungs and having to cough it out, doubling over. When he got it out of his system he stood back up to full height, eyes watering, and he realized he wasn’t alone in the parking lot.

A teenager. Familiar, but... Kaoru couldn’t quite place where he knew him from.