[Yasusada is not Horikawa, so no, he's never drowned before.
He is, however, intimately familiar with fluid in other people's lungs. He knows what it's like to watch someone choke, and cough, and struggle in vain for air as their body fights against them. It's a brand new sensation, but it's so, so familiar.
(How is he supposed to know this is water, after all? He's a sword--of course his first assumption is blood.)
He wasn't going to fight back anyway, but he certainly can't do it now--not when he's curling into himself, choking and gasping. Kashuu's free to grab his wrists as he pleases; it's hard to focus on him right now, so absorbed is Yasusada in the pressure within his chest.
Is this what Okita felt, every time he'd collapsed?
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He is, however, intimately familiar with fluid in other people's lungs. He knows what it's like to watch someone choke, and cough, and struggle in vain for air as their body fights against them. It's a brand new sensation, but it's so, so familiar.
(How is he supposed to know this is water, after all? He's a sword--of course his first assumption is blood.)
He wasn't going to fight back anyway, but he certainly can't do it now--not when he's curling into himself, choking and gasping. Kashuu's free to grab his wrists as he pleases; it's hard to focus on him right now, so absorbed is Yasusada in the pressure within his chest.
Is this what Okita felt, every time he'd collapsed?
It hurts. It hurts.]