Notes: I also posted this on ao3 // same user and title ________________________ "Atsushi." Atsushi flinched at the use of his name. "That's the first time you've-" "I don't want to die. Not here." Akutagawa's confession pierced right through the weretiger's soul. Truely, how cruel could this world be? To have barely lived your life, and have it pulled from underneath you like a rug? Akutagawa was undoubtedly not a good person. But that didn't mean he was a bad person. Even so, the thought of him dying, made Atsushi's chest feel uncomfortably tight. "I don't want you to die either. Not here."