He listened in such a way that conveyed he heard even if he didn't react immediately. It was nearly lazy how he held his tea just under his lips breathing in the steam carefully. His gaze shifted to the other once he had finished. There was pain in those eyes from years of trying to hold a mask he didn't feel much less want to be known by. It made his fingertips itch to reach out and comfort those distant storms and bring that fire back to them.<br/><br/>Thinking back on the spark he had seen when Taiga offered him a light to the glare he could feel on his back while he drove them to their current place of stay and even that fight to defend himself. It all made his blood boil in a way he was sure he had been dead to not long ago. He hadn't tried to hard to be attracted to others and they didn't tend to make him want to jump them while they were at in vulnerable situations. But Taiga did. He wanted to touch the high sharp cuts of his cheek bones just to see if the skin felt as smooth as it looked, or his hair as soft as it appeared.<br/><br/>Mentally he slapped himself then yelled in his mind to stop thinking about what it might feel like to have those talented lips on his own or on more personable place. He sighed then moved over carefully to stared down at him, "I don't plan on being worse than your past," He states as he stands on his hands and knees staring down at Taiga, "What happened to you is unforgivable. I'm glad you can't be tortured by him any more."<br/><br/>Oddly he seemed to care, not just to an outsider but to himself. It bothered him in a way that made him stand and start clearing the table, "I'll put this in the fridge encase you get hungry later," He states. Upon returning he leans against the frame to the kitchen, "Are you still addicted?"<br/><br/>He a detox might be worse if the other was still dependent on heroin. Mashi had seen what a detox did to a person. It made them believe they were dying and in the most painful way possible. He trailed a hand through his hair remembering a stash he kept at the house. He never used it but it was around never the less.