capeandcowllogs | This isn't creative...

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: everywhere

This isn't creative...

WHO: Kiryu and this huge list of people (please tag yourselves if you post)
WHERE: Everywhere
WHEN: Weds. Jul. 15, maybe the next couple days too
WARNINGS: Uh, probably nothing
SUMMARY: Souvenir/present delivery! maybe helping out, who knows, he probably won't.
FORMAT: whatever

Kiryu checked over the contents in his bag one more time before starting the engine and driving off. He'd have to make a couple trips, since there was no way he could carry everything with him on one run. That was fine; it gave him more opportunity to check out the damage.

He supposed he should probably feel bad for almost ignoring what had happened here and going about his business. Especially since his business involved handing out presents to people. He could almost hear the Signer brat sniping in his ear now.

Well, too bad for her. She could just hate him some more then. He had friends to give presents to.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

About a short distance away from the hotel that he and Kiryu shared, Sho could be spotted with a rather small pile of trash. Considering his signature artwork often towered over several feet high, it was lacking. But he started working on it only since yesterday when that huge stupid lizard monster attack stopped.

Oh well, he could always push his roommates into assisting him.

He was however, too far to pick up Kiryu's vibes or notice that he was leaving.

Aki is feeling listless and is as a result doing what she's been told to do, which is rest, without putting up much of a fuss. She's also thinking quite a bit. The events of the past few days sort of demanded that and so she did so, considering ideas from all sorts of angles. It was hard and it was easy because it was right and horribly confusing.

In any case she won't be difficult to find.

Aki wasn't the first one he went look for, but he tried not to make her wait too long. He wasn't sure why he even still liked Aki, since she had beat him up and obviously didn't like people. But...somewhere, she reminded him and himself. And even deeper down, he didn't like that.

At least she's easy to find when he does look for her. He pulls up and waves with a faint smile.

"Hey."

Oh believe her, Aki herself had no idea why Kiryu still liked her. She wasn't used to people liking her at all; this sudden flood of people who seemed to was very off putting. Everything was at this point, really.

He's slightly unexpected, pulling up like he does, and her head jerks up in a motion that's a mix of a whole bunch of things.

"... hello."

He grins and gets off the bike long enough to prop it up and sit down again, using it for a temporary chair.

"How are doing?" he asks, pulling off his helmet. "Better than the last couple days?"

"I suppose so. It's been confusing, the last few days." She closes her eyes for a moment before looking back at him, her gaze calm but slightly curious.

"Kiryu, what are you doing?"

Kiryu frowns a little at that question, shrugging and looking equally curious.

"You're going to have to elaborate a bit more for me to answer that."

She shrugs slightly in return, then gestures to what seems to be everything. Things. Things in general.

"This. All of this. Why are you doing this?"

"Do I need a reason?" He looks away, his expression tightening. "That's a really hard question to answer, you know."

He hadn't really thought about it. Just that he wanted to do it. Which was really how he ran his life; if he wanted to do something, he'd do it. Usually that something benefited him in some way. Even buying things for people benefited him a little.

But he doubted Aki wanted to hear that.

"I wanted to. If you mean you specifically...'cause we're a lot alike. And Rudger isn't here breathing down my neck, telling me what to do. And you're an interesting person, Izayoi-san."

Aki, meanwhile, wanted explanations for his behavior, which was as far as she was concerned bizarre. After all, the world had just exploded; she wanted to be able to make sense of something. What, exactly, seemed somewhat irrelevant at this point, she just wanted - needed - something to fit into the place she had assigned to it, and nothing was. Not even this was because why did he still like her, she'd been nothing but antagonistic. Mind you, this was true of the vast majority of the people in the City, but Kiryu was the one there at the moment.

His answer left her unable to find an answer for what seemed to her an age. "But you... I....

"I don't understand." She really didn't - or she did, in a way, and that just made things worse.

Well...that didn't help. It was hard for him to explain what went on in his head anyway, but he certainly needed more direction than that.

And Aki wasn't exactly the person he was most comfortable spilling his secrets to. As for being antagonistic...well, he lived with Saitou Hajime of all people, and had lived with Jack before too. Antagonistic was nothing new.

"But me what? Haven't you ever done something just 'cause you wanted to, without worrying what someone else might think?"

Aki smiled without humor. It really was rather funny how similar the two of them could be. It's not exactly something you'd expect, after all.

"What I did never really mattered, I knew what others would think. Only... only Divine was different, except then I came here and.... Nothing makes sense anymore and nobody acts like they're supposed to. So I don't know. I don't understand."

Kiryu frowned at that. that was probably the farthest from his beliefs a person could get, unless that person's name was Ruka.

"What you do always matters," he said, actually looking completely serious for once. "You only have one life; you have to live it to the fullest. And what you do will always matter to someone. And it should always matter to you."

Of course, he couldn't keep that expression for long and started smirking again. "As for everyone acting different...there's a lot of people around who can do cool stuff. Some of it isn't that great if it isn't controlled. Obviously, if Godzilla's any indication. But I think a lot of them are used to dealing with it."

And here she'd meant that people's reactions would be the same no matter what she did - though honestly the alternate interpretation wasn't entirely off either.

"What I did mattered, but only because they wished that I wasn't doing it. And as for it mattering to me - I'm... not used to that." What he said next made her stare some for a second. "Wha- no, not that way. That's odd, but... oh.

"It's... Yes, but...." Aki really, really wasn't used to being accepted and wasn't quite sure how do deal with the fact that she was. It was... confusing.

"Yeah, I know that feeling pretty well." That was why he was dead, after all; his supposed trusted team-mates disagreeing with what he was trying to do. "And you'll just have to slowly get use to it mattering to you, I guess."

Kiryu's quiet for a moment, thinking about all of that. Obviously, they weren't thinking exactly the same way.

He didn't think the same way as a lot of people. How had he ended up being the counselor for two people in two days? He really didn't know how to deal with it. That had been Yuusei's job.

"I can't read your thoughts. You'll have to say a little more than that. What way did you mean?

Misao liked the bench right outside her apartment building. It was a good place to sit and think, to meet Aoshi-sama after work, to rest groceries while she searched for her keys. And it was in full view of WhathisnameRedSoxFan, the building's security guard. There was always an empty soda bottle or something underneath it, in case she ever needed a weapon--which was always good to know.

In short, probably one of the safest public places she could be, and her favorite one, apart from the rooftop and Central Park.

Edited 2009-07-16 01:11 (UTC)

Kiryu almost drove by without spotting her...almost. Misao wasn't hard to spot, especially right out in the open like that. He still had to backtrack a bit to pull up nearby.

"Hey! This is a nice place~"

Misao heard the motorcycle long before she saw it. She couldn't quite stop the wince at the noise. Onmitsu hearing was less and less useful in the City. She laughed as Kiryu passed her. Looked like he hadn't seen her.

She smiled, waving. "Hello! I really like it! And having roommates is fun."

She stood and made her way toward him, braid flickering behind her. "So how was the trip? I want to hear all about it! Did you find what you were looking for? Was it good to be home?"

Kiryu got off the motorcycle long enough to prop it up before sitting back down on the seat, grinning a little.

"Hey, hey, I can only answer one question at a time." He shrugs a little. "It was fun, and it was really great hearing Japanese all over the place, but it wasn't really home."

"Sounds like you can answer more than one question!" She grinned back at him, but at his last comment, she looked down a moment. The way he phrased it sounded really sad. "I'm sorry. I guess you didn't find your hometown in Japan? Ryou-san said he didn't find his."

Kiryu shakes his head, looking a little frustrated at that. It wasn't just that Domino wasn't there.

"I'm from the future of this time, so I didn't think I would anyway." He runs his fingers through his hair, tugging at it, just looking more frustrated. This had been bothering him since they'd arrived there.

"The tech level of Japan wasn't right for it to exist when it should anyway. We had stuff in 2009 that they don't. It was weird."

She was beginning to understand the feeling. Misao had yet to tell Bakura this--though she intended to--but she doubted Kyoto would feel very much like home. Even if she could go back there. Even if the Aoi-ya was there. That didn't mean it wouldn't be nice to visit.

But it wouldn't be going home. It was kind of a disheartening thought, so she shoved it away, thought about the difference between Kiryu's 2009 and today.

"I've heard people talk about being from other versions of the same worlds. Maybe yours isn't as much like this one as you thought?"

"Yeah. It seemed that way when I first got here. I was just hoping it was only here. That Japan just wasn't sharing technology, and it'd be the way it should be."

He shrugged, still a little frustrated. "It's probably better this way, though. Satellite doesn't need to exist in even one universe."

In fact, a part of him was a little relieved every time he had to explain his universe to someone. It just meant that was one more universe where Satellite didn't exist.

"But it was nice to visit. Everywhere we went was beautiful. I took a ton of pictures."

It was hard to imagine a Japan that was more advanced than the rest of the world. Western sciences were more advanced when it came to things like electricity and firearms. The thought of a Japan that had not only caught up but had surpassed the West made her happy--even if it wasn't sharing.

At his comment about Satellite, Misao nodded. She filed away his dislike of his hometown to remember in the future. It sounded like a topic not to mention again.

"Beautiful, really? But I thought it looked like the City now?" And it was hard to imagine anyplace that looked like the City being beautiful.

Kiryu grinned and dug into his bag. It took a bit, since it was a rather large bag, and something plastic and shiny ended up poking out a couple times, but he finally found what he was looking for: a slim digital camera he'd bought just before the trip.

"There are a lot of places that do," he said, turning it on, "but they built around a lot of the older structures, so even in the cities it looks nicer than this."

He flicks through a few of the pictures before finding one he'd taken of Yakushima for Aigis.

"And there are some places that haven't really been touched," he added, turning the camera around so Misao could see the picture.

Misao nodded. That made sense. And it certainly would have been far prettier than this awful-looking City. The buildings all still looked like awful teeth to her.

"Oh, that does sound pretty--"

But her train of thought completely derailed at the sight of the camera and the picture of Yakushima. She reached out to touch the camera, staring at the photograph. She made a soft 'ooh' sound, staring wide-eyed.

"That's so beautiful! Where is that, is it in the Ryukyu somewhere?"

Delirium was playing in the park Kiryu said to meet in. She liked the park really a lot. The children there didn't really know her, but they knew her anyway and sometimes it was nice to spend a little time playing with them. The children had moved on and Delirium was contenting herself with playing on the swing set.

He made sure to park his bike somewhere it wouldn't get bothered before heading off to find her. Delirium wasn't too hard to spot, even from a distance, especially when he was looking for her.

He still couldn't help the small amount of bitterness he felt toward her as he approached, but it was much less than it had been months ago. He liked her a lot more now, even if it was difficult sometimes.

"Del!" he called, waving.

Delirium looked up and the characteristic crooked smile quickly crossed her face. She hopped up from the swing set, sending several bright colored frogs hopping away, and did a sort of dancing skip up to him.

"Hello, hello!" she said, cheerfully, "Did you have a good trip? Welcome back! I haven't been to the Japan in here yet."

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

This isn't creative...

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject