Today (oops, yesterday, it’s after midnight) is/was “National Coming Out Day.” I already posted some long emotional blar blar on my facebook, so I decided to do something a bit more fun on tumblr.
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Yosuke Hanamura discovers that today is “National Coming Out Day” thanks to the powers of the internet. Being the awesome friend that he is, he tells Kanji Tatsumi about this day, because if anyone needs to “come out” it’s him. Not that Yosuke has a problem with it, the two have been through too much for a little thing like sexual preferences to get to him anymore.
Besides, he had mostly been joking.
And double besides… there’s a certain someone he…
… but this isn’t about him, o.k.?! This is about Kanji and coming out!
So he tells Kanji about “coming out,” how it’s when you stop hiding and… yeah, just come out already, Kanji, he says.
Kanji mentions that, um, duh, he had already done that before. Shadow? Bathhouse? All that flamboyant jazz? He’s been there, done that, and has made plenty of plushies for his mother’s shop to show for it.
But this is different, Yosuke says, that was inside the T.V.
So Kanji takes a deep breath and does it.
He comes out.
… and… tells Naoto Shirogane that he has a crush on her.
He tells her how it’s “National Coming Out Day… or whatever the hell.” It’s a day to stop hiding, and thus, he stops hiding, and nervously waits for some sort of reaction.
The logical part of Naoto wants to explain to Kanji what the day really means. However, the way he shifts from one foot to the other is a bit endearing. She supposes that, deep down, Kanji sort of has the meaning of the day correct. He isn’t hiding his feelings – though, if she thinks about it, had he really been hiding them? The blushing, the stuttering, it was all out in the open.
So perhaps… she is the one who needs to come out.
So she smiles and comes out with him.
Yosuke sighs, once again marveling over how Kanji can be so dense sometimes. But hey, Naoto is kinda a boy, right? So Yosuke considers the day to be a success.