Bakemonogatari, Part 1 (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 1)

by NisiOisiN

You don’t need to bother with gratitude and that kind of thing. It’ll only make it harder for us to get along from here on out.” “To get along,” Senjogahara echoed without changing her tone one bit. “I─Araragi? Is it all right for me to think of us as close?” “Of course it is.” Each of us had revealed our own problems. We weren’t strangers any longer, nor simple classmates. “Yes…yes, you’re right,” she said. “Each of us has the other’s weakness in our hands.” “What? Is our relationship that tense?” She made it sound like it’d be strained. “It’s not about weaknesses or anything, think of it as feeling close and being able to take it for granted. If you can look at it that way, I will too.”

true intimacy

“Could you be thinking of the idiotic law that people fall prey to love more readily in a crisis, which makes complete light of human reason and utterly fails to take into account the thorny situation two friends are put in when their true natures are thereby revealed?”

a different take on trauma bonding