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and is the flood over yet

WHO: Kuwabara y Solja
WHERE: A dinky park somewhere man idk locations LET'S USE OUR IMAGINATIONS
WHEN: S...ometime. When it's daytime. 8'|
WARNINGS: Idk
SUMMARY: *makes creepily insightful psychic eyes at teenagers
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He took a liking to that park. Small, genearlly quiet as far as population went, and the atmosphere was almost always pleasant. Children had that effect. Their personalities were brighter, louder than the anxiety-ridden passers-by on the sidewalk yards away from the green. It gave Blue a sense of peace that he had a hard time keeping hold of. He would have to bring Jomy here to experience it. It was...almost healing. Comforting. If he closed his eyes, Blue could imagine those children running around the Shangri-La. Safe. Content. He imagined what it would be like if those Mu children were here...

And that anchored him back to dread. As free and wonderful as it all was...there was so much, too much threatening it. Soldier Blue was more inclined to a positive hope than most of his comrades, but all the same...So much danger. So many volatile variables in these many powers. A quiet, bubbling chaos. No wonder there was so much underlying fear in the humans. It colored the city--the living community seemed like one that was holding its breath, allowing a smile but at the same time bracing one's self for something dreadful. A lot had happened in such a short time.

He was there to clear his mind and try to find the right questions to the right answers with the right words. Trapped or not, he was uncertain of his status in this world. Knowing such a thing would be of benefit, but...

A yelp from one of the younger children drew his attention outward, watching the small game of tag. He himself was of hardly any notice; he allowed the minds of the people around him to shroud his appearance to something uninteresting, masking his vibrant eyes and hair for something more sudued. It made people watching easy and without fear. A part of him sat with an anticipation, waiting for another familiar notion to come his way. It was the same bench he'd come across Claude, after all. His...friends brought him solace. It would be nice.

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Kuwabara had decided to kill a little time in the park instead of going immediately home from his classes. This one wasn't far out of the way, smaller... The grass was green and the people who came there were generally the kind of small people that played games and didn't freak out over their jobs, monster attacks, or politics. The place just had a good vibe, in general.

He stretched his arms out while he walked and, having gotten some distance into the park, sat heavily on a park bench. As he was situating his school bag, he realized that he'd sat down beside somebody. He might have flinched in surprise, because he'd... Somehow failed to notice, which was weird, considering that he was a pretty unique-looking guy. After a pause, he held up a hand in an awkward, little wave. "Hey."

Caught up and generally unnoticed as he was, Blue failed to regard the stranger as he approached and sat, only turning his slightly once he'd felt the weight on the bench shift. It startled him, giving the young man a wide-eyed look of uncertainty even as he waved. It wasn't just being caught off-guard, but...there was a flicker of familiarity about him that he couldn't place.

And suddenly Blue noticed was not indistinguishable as he was to others. He straightened up, turning his head fully to regard him, frowning as he looked.

"...Do I...know you?"

He let out a short laugh, which wasn't mocking so much as an over-friendly reaction to the question. "No," he answered, because he was pretty sure he hadn't even met this guy. "No good to sit down and not greet the guy sitting next to you, right?"

Red eyes, though... That was definitely something foreign, beyond even the degree that he, himself, was from another country. Yukina had red eyes. Hiei did, too, now that he thought about it, and he was sure that he'd seen them here and there among the populous of the Makai. "You were brought here, huh? I was, too."

He had this English thing on lock.

Blue's head tilted down apologetically as he was faced with good humor. Regardless of that notion of familiarity, this one had no hostile intentions. A friendly atmosphere. Pleasant. The Mu raised his head slowly as he listened, his expression softening until--

Hiei?

Ah. Blue blinked, eyebrows raised again. It looked as if the stranger's question was what confused him with the timing. "You're an acquaintence of Hiei," he said point blank, as if it were already established. Only then did he shift, backtracking. "Ah...I'm sorry. Yes. I was, as you were. I'm called Soldier Blue." He faintly bowed his head in greeting.

Kuwabara looked openly surprised at the mention of Hiei, and he nodded through Blue's introduction. "Right." There was a short pause, and then he remembered that he had to introduce himself, as well. Good manners. "I'm Kazuma Kuwabara. And... Yeah. I know Hiei."

"Forgive me, Kazuma Kuwabara," the wide-eye stare was dropped and sent to gaze downward. "I don't mean to confuse...You thought of him a moment and I saw it." He looked back up, his eyebrows furrowed with apology, the uncertain smile forced. "That is the familiar notion that I must've detected before."

He raised his chin to nod and then finished the gesture slowly, eying the guy a little warily. That was only for a moment, though, and his expression settled more to a slightly disgruntled confusion. Psychic abilities were something he was used to, but his sort seemed to function differently. He couldn't read people so directly, and he wasn't sure if his sister or father could, either.

Maybe that was just the way this guy functioned, though. Maybe he couldn't help it. And even if Hiei was the acquaintance that they had in common, of all people, he couldn't very well hold it against the fella. He didn't seem bad, after all, and Kuwabara had a good intuition.

Finally, he settled on merely correcting Soldier Blue on a trivial matter. "You don't have the say the whole thing. You can just call me Kuwabara."

The suspicion he had aroused was very apparent beyond the careful looks Kuwabara gave. Another poor first impression, Blue thought to himself grimly, forcing his expression to remain as mild and nonthreatening as he could without it looking forced. To the correction, he tilted his head up a bit in recognition. "I will, then."

He paused, a silence that quickly began to feel awkward before he was compelled to speak up to stop it. "And...You may call me Blue. As the others do."

"Alright, Blue. No problem." He tried especially to look cheerful at that, seeing as how this guy seemed so awkward. Shifting his school-bag again, he attempted to continue conversation on a more friendly not. "You know Hiei, then?" After a pause, he laughed. "I'm sorry. That's too bad."

The aura of good humor helped alleviate much of the concern that Blue had, though not entirely. Kuwabara was unknown to him, and even when he tried, he couldn't conjure up his face in the memories he'd gleaned days previous. He simply hadn't paid attention for it.

A small, pursed-lipped smile tugged across his face at the sound of laughter and the remark itself raised his eyebrows just slightly. This one suffered the scrutiny of the demon, too, then...a common link. "I have managed," he said. "And I believe my presence doesn't make him suffer annoyance as strongly as it had before."

"Don't say it like it's your fault!" To Kuwabara, the last statement had Blue taking credit for Hiei's temper and general disagreeableness. "He hates everybody. Gets a big kick out of it!"

Which was the general truth of it, in Kuwabara's opinion. True, the guy had moments in which he was vaguely redeemable, but exaggerated dislike was the most he had to offer where Hiei was concerned.

It would seem true, Blue could agree. But his eyes could see more than the faces of the people around him. Enjoyment in other's pain, yes, but there was more layered. He'd seen it. For the moment, though, he only nodded, his smile apologetic.

"I only speak as one who has never interacted with demons before now," he said. "It is hard to know what one is to do without precedent."

"Don't get confused about it," he started again, voice boisterous. "There's not much of a precedent. Demons vary a lot. Some are monsters, some are perfectly wonderful people!" Yukina, Urameshi, Kurama... Even his favorite people, the people who he was on the best of terms with, they were all demons. "I guess, in that respect, they're not much different from humans." Because, of course, there were evil humans, as well.

"So." He smiled. There really wasn't much he could enjoy less than assuring somebody that Hiei was just, for the most part, a nasty fellow. "It's just that Hiei spends too much time being angry and unreasonable."

Faces came to mind as Kuwabara spoke, but Blue could only recognize Yusuke and Hiei. But the diversity he spoke of was understandable in a sense; such things would be clearer if he looked harder. He'd much rather have it spoken aloud than taken by force of mind, however. He exchanged the smile, though smaller on his part, noding his head in concession.

"You're a great deal more knowledgeable about such things. I'll accept that reason."

He laughed quickly as if experiencing a small victory, which he was. He so rarely got to be admittedly right about anything, so it was a treat. After the moment passed, he scratched his cheek and tugged the conversation forward with the next, logical question. "How do you know him, anyway? Is he actually being social?"

"He frequents Yusuke's apartment," Blue explained, folding his hands in his lap. "I was a guest there for a time by Yusuke's invitation." Insistance, rather. "Time to time Hiei would enter and look for food or wait for him to return. We have spoken on a few occaisions." Not all of them pleasant, but surprisingly less hostile as time went on.

"Ah. I didn't even know anybody was staying with Urameshi." He looked thoughtful for a moment, and then shrugged it off, smiling again easily enough. "Either way, I'm sorry that had to happen to you."

Blue shook his head. "No, I don't think there is much to be sorry for." He tilted his head a little, his smile warming a bit. This one was easy to speak to. "I hadn't spoke to anyone but my own kind for...a very long time. I think things like this and that are very good. It is a privilage I never had before."

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