Redemption - A Hanzo / Genji Overwatch Fanfiction

Chapter 37: Returning Home

Shit. Panic seized him. Hanzo stared back at her feeling helpless. Ýri still seemed a little dizzy from fighting Shizuka's sleeping tea, but it was clear she noticed him. He didn't know what to do, but he knew he had to do something. Right now she was just staring back at him clearly in shock.

Say something, Hanzo prayed. Anything.

»You ... « Her voice was just a whisper. »What are you doing here?«

He could not answer. He wanted to. He wanted to say something. Something meaningful. Something to make her understand how much he missed her, but instead he opened and closed his mouth like a fish.

He tried once more. »Ýri ... « His voice was weak and immediately crashed again. Hanzo had never felt that vulnerable before.

»What are you doing here?« Her tone was icy.

Hanzo frowned. »There was the little wolf I found, I thought ... I mean ... if I ... we could ... «

She carefully picked up the little puppy from his lap. »Thank you.« There was still no emotion in her face or in her voice. »Now be on your way.«

»Ýri, please. Hear me out,« he pleaded. She couldn't send him away just like that, not without hearing him out at least. He wouldn't be able to take it.

»What is there to talk about?!« She suddenly yelled at him. »Just leave like the coward you are! And you two,« she now glared at Genji and Shizuka, »that you would go behind my back like that! I can't believe it!« She seized the wolf pup and made for the door.

»Ýri!« Hanzo tried to grab her arm, but she avoided him. »Please, listen to me!«

»What is there to hear?! You left me behind without any explanation, in case you have forgotten!«

»Well, excuse me for trying to make sure you live a little longer!,« he replied. »You have enough people after you even without me adding the Shimada to that!«

»What a cheap excuse,« she shot back at him with a glare that would have murdered everyone in plain sight, if only possible. »The truth is much more simple.«

»It is.« Hanzo said, arms crossed. »I did not want you to get hurt. This is indeed very simple.«

»Not hurting me?!« A pained laugh escaped her. »Seriously?! You couldn't have hurt me more with what you did!«

»With protecting you?!« Hanzo did not understand.

»No! Leaving me without a word!«

»I did and it was wrong,« he admitted. »But I still care about you more than about anything else and that is why I will not take advantage of you!«

»This whole relationship was to your advantage!,« she shouted and then added »Ohhh, wait! In your eyes it wasn't even a relationship, sorry, I forgot.«

He felt close to tears, when seeing her so furious and unforgiving towards him. »I would have loved nothing more than to call you my mate, but I don't even know how a proper relationship is supposed to work! Sooner or later you would have realized too, that I am not what you need nor what you deserve!«

»Now there is the cowardly dragon speaking again!,« she snarled, but her voice started trembling a little.

»Goddammit, Ýri! What is it you want me to say?!«

»I just- why are you still here?! Why don't you just-« She gestured towards the door.

»No,« he replied with a now stern voice. »If you want me to leave, then tell me. Look at me and tell me that you want me gone never to return again and I will.«