"You dyed it."
The silence after that single sentence hung over the room with a thickness that belied its lack of actual substance. Jay and Izumi were the only two in the room, but at that moment, it felt more like two opposing armies staring across the gap that separated them just before marching to battle. And it didn't look like it was about to lighten up any time soon, not with the way Jay was glaring at his now blue-haired lover.
"So?" Izumi asked, shrugging. "I was getting tired of having dark hair, like almost everyone else around here. It was time for a change."
"But it's blue!" Jay exclaimed.
"And yours is green," Izumi shot back.
Jay didn't really have anything good to say back to this. Instead, he just pouted. It wasn't that blue bothered him...he was pretty sure that over the years at least one of his many partners had had blue hair, even if he had only been one of the short-lived flings that he hadn't really cared about. Rather, the problem was that he didn't want to see Izumi with blue hair.
He liked Izumi's hair black. Black was a classic color, that went well with Izumi's violet eyes. And black was the color that Izumi's hair was supposed to be, as that was the color it had been when Jay first met him. Not blue.
Besides, there was just something wrong about seeing Izumi with a pair of furry electric blue ears sticking up out of the equally blue hair. He figured that, using dye, it would have been more trouble than it was worth to try and keep the ears their original color, black like the rest of his hair, so he had just gone and done them along with the hair. But it looked wrong...so very, very wrong. Not that it would have looked any better had the ears stayed their original black in that shock of blue hair.
And then Jay came up with a retort, after a pause so long that Izumi looked like he was about the sigh and walk away. "Mine's been green since I was sixteen," Jay commented. "And it's not dyed. You know that."
"Do I care?"
"But it's blue!" was all that Jay could say.
Still, the look that Izumi gave him, a flat one that indicated that there was no way in hell that he would ever back down on the issue, told Jay that he had lost. Like it or not, Izumi had decided to dye his hair a bright neon blue. And Jay wasn't about to dump him over this, since he was pretty sure that Izumi would eventually get sick of it and go back to his original black, he hoped.
"But," Jay thought as Izumi stalked out of the room, done with the conversation whether Jay liked it or not. "At least he could have done his tail to match..."