Shigetoshi tensed up a little as the other man swam closer. Thankfully it was dark and he was covered by water. Tatsuki was truly pleasant to look at. Shigetoshi, flushing a little at his own line of thought, turned his head with a huge effort of will, to look at the night sky. Though he looked back down at Tatsuki as he spoke. Soon silence settled over them. The young man didn't know how to respond. He wasn't sure Tatsuki was telling the truth, or at least all of it. Then again, Tatsuki also seemed to be going out of his way to reassure Shigetoshi. Perhaps even if Tatsuki was less then an upstanding person, he wouldn't drag Shigetoshi into it.

The warm water lured Shigetoshi closer to sleep than his pallet had. He leaned his head back on the edge of the hot spring and returned his gaze to the sky. Words drifted lazily through his head, punctuated by images of Tatsuki. He could think of a few unsavory activities...

"It's fine. I over reacted." Shigetoshi said finally, if only to focus on something else. "What you engage in is your own business." Shigetoshi looked back at Tatsuki. "I'm sorry for my actions since they caused you unhappiness." Then, taken by a whimsy sense of mischief, Shigetoshi splashed the younger man and swam off his perch away into the middle of the hot spring.