vatheon | [Open] What...what just happened?

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[Open] What...what just happened?

Who: Kanji and you
Where: All over the city
When: July 11th, all day
Style: Action to start, but can match to you
Status: Open!

[He'd woken up near that strange coral thing, but he was pretty sure that he was dreaming still. Kanji wasn't a panicky kinda guy though, so he'd take his time and figure out what was going on.

This was a pretty strange place, even for one of his dreams. An underwater city? He tried to remember if he watched any strange movies about Atlantis the night before, but he was pretty sure the last thing he watched on TV was a samurai drama with his mother. And the sight of the strange fish swimming by his head as he walked around was just a bit too much for him.

He sat down near the carnival entrance and took out the Starfish Communicator that had been beside him when he woke up and the stupid paper brochure as he used the towel around his neck to dry his hair some more. The brochure called this place Vatheon and said that he was stuck here.]

What a load of shit. This's gotta be a dream. I'm gonna wake up in my bed and Mom's gonna nag me to eat before school. It's just another fucking normal day, like the others've been since Senpai left.

[He scrolled through the list of foreigners and almost dropped it when he saw familiar names. His friends were here! Sure, some were missing, but Yu-senpai, Yukiko-senpai and Naoto were here! He saw their address too and nearly dropped everything again as he jumped up and ran towards where they supposedly were.]

Yu-senpai! Yukiko-senpai! Naoto! [His voice went before him as he ran through the Nostalgia Nook to where this detective agency was situated.] Oi, where is everyone?!

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[Okay, so, Kanji trusted Yu, a lot. The older boy had saved his life, accepted him for who he was, befriended him and helped get the assholes responsible for both kidnapping him and the others in Inaba and the killer cop that had killed that TV announcer and their senpai at school. But, dammit, this was his mom he was talking about, the only family he had left.]

Don't take this the wrong way, Senpai, but I ain't gonna rest easy completely until I see her again.

[Hey boys, guess who is coming out of the agency door at this very moment? If someone guessed Yukiko then you're right. She was coming out with some tea when she spotted their friend and newcomer to the city.]

Kanji-kun?!

[Whoops, there went the teapot. Need to get a new one now.]

Yukiko-senpai? You're here too?

[Ignore the fact that he saw her name listed with Yu's and Naoto's. Nope, that's the first thing out of his mouth when he sees his childhood friend and senpai standing there with a teapot in tiny shards at her feet.]

H-hey, are you okay?

[Naoto had thought this going to be an ordinary day, much like she had veen accustomed to for a while. She would get up, work around the agency to get it ready and then go to her patrol duty. After that she would go to one of the cafes nearby and get some food and drinks for the three to share so that Senpai wouldn't always have to cook.

At least that's what she had originally thought. That was before she had a nagging feeling as she was ordering the food. She ordered some extra food and a few more drinks. She wasn't sure why, but she felt she should.

As she was a few blocks away from the agency, she heard the yell. Her heart almost stopped. there was no way, was there? Not three months in a row...

She couldn't exactly run with the food in her arms, but she walked faster. As she drew closer, she saw her two senpai talking to a very familiar tall figure in black. She silently made her way into the building, being sure not to bump against Yukiko-senpai or Yu-senpai. Putting the food on the largest table - where maps and things would be spread - she made her way back out and silently observed for a few moments.]

[Oh Yukiko... Yu shook his head ruefully, bending to help pick the pieces of the broken teapot up. Good thing most things were free in this place...]

[It was hard to miss the little shadow that slipped by them and into the agency; nice try, Naoto, but he chased around toddlers in a day care for the summer. You had to be a little shorter than that to escape his notice.]

[Still, he picked the conversation back up as he gathered the pieces, letting Kanji know what they knew of how the dome worked. He waited, listening for the soft sound of her slipping back out, before he interrupted himself.]

Well, we should take care of this. We'll be back.

[Without a word of explanation, he grabbed Yukiko by the hand and bolted with her into the agency, right past Naoto.]

[She was about to ask why Kanji couldn't come in because if he was here, he should be welcomed in the agency. But Yu had his reasons like maybe he wanted to show him around later and just get the mess cleaned up first.

In other words: she didn't notice Naoto.

Nonetheless, she followed their leader inside.]

[Instead of hurrying to the garbage to dispose of the teapot, however, Yu dumped the mess onto the table by the groceries, before going back to the door, leaving it open enough of a crack for him and Yukiko to peer out of.]

[Naoto had been here for months, alone. This ought to be good.]

[Of course he noticed her when she first appeared. And he knew exactly what their senpai thought they were doing by disappearing so quickly. But, his attention was on her, completely.]

H-hey, Naoto. H-how ya doin'?

[No, he wasn't blushing and his palms were not sweaty, okay? Stop asking him things like that, conscience!]

Edited (So hard to switch between Kanji and Hinata. Oops) 2013-07-18 05:24 (UTC)

[Naoto really felt awkward now. One of her two crushes from back home left her here with the other one. This SUCKED and Senpai was going to pay for it later.

She pulled her cap down over her eyes. He didn't need to see that she was year older now. He didn't need to see how much she'd backslid before their senpai had shown up. He didn't need to see...

At least not yet.]

Hello, Kanji-kun.

[Yep, same old Naoto. Still hard as hell to talk to her. Fuck his life. Gets kidnapped to a strange place and still has difficulty talking to the girl he liked.]

So, uh, you're here too, huh?

[Yeah, same old Kanji. Loss for words and everything. It felt like just yesterday that she had seen him last when in truth...]

Yes. I've been here a while now.

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[Did she really expect him to change at all? Kanji is always going to be Kanji, after all. Especially around Naoto.]

Uh, so, do you...like it here?

[No, Naoto hadn't expected him to change much. Especially since he had arrived so soon after their senpai had left.

Did she like it here? She hid her eyes under her cap's visor.]

It's... been alright. There's been much that's gone on... as well as not much that has gone on.

[She wouldn't tell him yet about how she almost died a couple months ago. She hadn't even told Yukiko-senpai yet.]

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[He noticed the way that she kept trying to hide her face from him and it annoyed the hell out of him. What did she have to hide from him of all people?]

That ain't no answer, Naoto. Just what's been goin' on around here that you think you need to answer me so ambiguously.

[Yes, he knew what that word meant and how to use it, okay. Not dumb.]

[She looked up at him, revealing her new age to the taller boy. She was older than when he last saw her.]

I can only explain what I know... And what I've been through... We're all still trying to piece this world together...

[When she finally looked at him properly, he could see what it was that she'd been trying to hide. Everything about her face looked just a little sharper, more mature. It wasn't a huge difference and only someone who'd spent a lot of time around her would even notice it in the first place.

When it came to Naoto, Kanji noticed though.]

You don't look too different, so you ain't changed genders or something suddenly. Anything else is just cosmetic, yeah?

[Oh if only Kanji knew what she'd been through.

Her eyes fell. Cosmetic... If only that was the only case. She'd been through hell and back: curses every monthish, a kidnapping/murder case that reminded her of back home, emotional rollercoasters...

And she had backslid to where she'd been more like she had been early on...

Hiding her real gender from Vatheon.

Her eyes stayed on the ground to the side.]

Cosmetic... Of course... Let's go inside. I'm sure you're probably hungry.

[He reached out hesitantly to grab her arm, face flushed from the bold action. God, he'd never let himself do that with her back home and it was strange to do it now.]

I...I only meant physically. I...dunno what's been going on here, but I doubt that it's been easy. That's all. I, uh, [he rubbed at his neck with his free hand, still unwilling to let go of her elbow] I wanna know what's happened though, Naoto, if you, uh, wanna tell me.

[Naoto makes a soft noise as she's grabbed. What was he doing? He'd never done this before. Why now?

She looked up at him, eyes pained slightly.]

No, it hasn't been easy... Especially since I've been here for nine... almost ten months. And what I came in on wasn't an easy start either.

[Well... This was a start to a long story.]

[Yeah, he'd never touched her like that before, but he didn't have to be a genius with girls to know that if he'd let her go before without trying to stop her that it would have ended badly for him in the long run.

Not if he...wanted her to relax around him.

Yep, didn't have to be a genius to know that at all. Especially not with a girl like Naoto, who was hard to get to know in the first place.]

Wh-what happened?

I came in on a kidnapping murder case. No one knew what was going on or who was doing it. The only thing truly consistent with each case is that the victims never completely remembered who it was until the last victim... And The Tower tarot card.

[Naoto swallowed, looking away.]

I came in too late... It ended when the person doing it gave himself up. No one knew who it was. People got hurt... I could do nothing. It's why if anyone ever dies here, there are punishments in place now for the victim when they are returned to life and the person who did it.

And then there are the curses...

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Don't mind her for now, she's a fly on the wall. ^_^

icyu

NOW KISS /shot

Don't do anything he wouldn't do.

I hate you both!

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