#tunabox

hikari is part of the ku family, who have been fighting with the neighbouring areas to take over more of hinoeuma.. there's also instability within here because of the succession issue with hikari and mugen

smth smth both the yellowil and ku families aren't really Friendly with each other but not outright hostile, but someone (roque and mugen manipulating jigo probably) orders a hit on their respective family's sons (they don't know each other though) and upon arriving at the hit location, they realize immediately that they've made contact before outside of family matters (like, casually) and once it dawns on them that they're supposed to take each other out... idk its kind of a mess. like they're TRYING but once they're steps away from actually killing the other they hesitate too much and its back to square one

SMTH SMTH things go awry and the hit doesn't go off as planned and ritsu ends up interfering, sent by mugen to finish off hikari, that they both have to deal with and when the dust settles, hikari is injured and it'd be incredibly easy for partitio to take him out but. he doesn't and instead inexplicably drags them to an empty alleyway and takes care of his wounds, mentioning that "it's mighty uncouth of yer own family to be trying to do this to you" before leaving him, lest they be seen together

uhhh partitio reports his failed mission and like, roque kind of chastises him for it but ultimately lets him off, not realizing that partitio's kind of intending on sneaking off more and more to try to help out hikari, who kind of can't return back to his family due to everything happening, who has been branded as traitor.

idk gay hijinks where neither of them want to address what's happening btwn them I WROTE MORE THAN I THOUGHT BUT THAT'S P MUCH WHAT I HAVE...