XXII

[rashness]

[Voice]

[A drawn out yawn before...] What did I even miss... [Rin is up now, for the first time in... a while. He'd been sleeping a lot before then with intermittent periods of being awake for short hours. And now, for once, he doesn't want to sleep more. Not the lead because he's really hungry, having not really eaten for the past three days... or seen Shiemi or Skarmy in the house. Or anything. Really, the thing which immediately stood out when he finally got up and wasn't sleeping was that someone (probably Eleanor) had put a huge stack of homework by his bad.

That said, he's eating cereal now, and isn't feeling the need to nod off again despite being up almost an hour (he even showered) which is why he's using his journal]

Sorry, uh, work 'n school people and Wolverine. My bad - I guess I got really sick or something. Shiemi was takin' care of me most of the time too so sorry to any of her friends. [A pause as he chews his cereal and...] Who wants to do... anything? I've actually been sleeping way too much and I wanna stretch my legs.

[ And anyone can tell him what he missed, win-win.

Which of course means there's sidebar action as he goes to Seventh Heaven, next door, the Dome, the Item Shop and other assorted places to see what's what.]

Comments

[audio]

[notyourutopian]

I was beginning to think you'd never wake up and I'd have carted all those books over there for nothing.

[audio]

[rashness]

You're the one who brought all these over?

[audio]

[notyourutopian]

Yes.

I assumed you would not want to fall behind.

[audio]

[rashness]

Well yeah, I don't! But there's sure a lot of stuff here, is this even all real?!

[audio]

[notyourutopian]

It's...mostly just reading.

[She hesitates.]

...Should I not have brought it?

[Video]

[bantambreeze]

That depends. What do you want to do...?

[Clearly a 9 year old is the best for physical activity. And a 9 year old god? Well, that's probably better...]

[Video]

[rashness]

Everything?! ... I dunno, actually.

[...] Who's this?

[Video]

[bantambreeze]

We met at Naruto's birthday. And I was a lot taller then.

[Guessing games!]

[Video]

[rashness]

You got shorter? Like-... oh, you're Shifted or somethin'. Uh...

[Video]

[bantambreeze]

Yeah. I am.

Think really hard, and remember crows.

[Action]

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki hears the message but decides to not reply to it, instead he will be hanging around Rin's house door waiting for when the other goes out.]

Morning, Sleeping Beauty. Good to see you decided to rejoin us.

[At least this time he bothers with a greeting whenever Rin appears at the door.]

1/2

[rashness]

Sleep Beauty---

[To his credit he doesn't jump that much. Just look surprised and then a bit cross as he processes what Ikki said, before-]

[Action]

[rashness]

-- Wait! Wait, no one kissed me to wake me up or nothing, right?!

[That made him jump]

[Action]

[uccellodifuoco]

What, you forgot already? That will surely hurt them after such a special moment.

[He can't help it.]

[Action]

[rashness]

WHAT?!

[Action]

[uccellodifuoco]

[He just laughs, shaking his head.]

As far as I know the only one around you was your friend, until recently at least. Unless she is the type to try to wake you up with kisses, no one took advantage of you while you were out of it.

[voice]

[first_darkness]

A spar?

[ No Saten get out-- ]

[voice]

[rashness]

[ ... ... ... ]

Really?

[voice]

[first_darkness]

I'll stop before I kill you.

[ She's really good at that "inspiring confidence" thing. Also humility. ]

[voice]

[rashness]

Well gee, that's harsh. [ Jeez ]

[voice]

[first_darkness]

Or maybe you think you've gotten strong enough already?

voice

[hero_of_smiles]

Uh well, you didn't really miss anything special. Just the usual craziness...uh my room mate was gone somewhere for a few days?

[As for doing stuff-]

We could go to the battle dome and do something fun.

voice

[rashness]

Gone somewhere...? Like he got kidnapped?

[ That's sort of a bigger deal than that gosh. He hopes he never sounds that naturalized to it... ] Nothing special in like a month... But uh. What do you got in mind? I'm game for whatever.

voice

[hero_of_smiles]

If it were a kidnapping I'd think my apartment woulda looked more messed. I think he just kind of wandered off.

[It's worrisome, but, he's trying not to get too worked up over it.]

Dunno. Maybe do something like a live action video game. Or race car driving?

voice

[rashness]

But... is he back?

[ That's like. Concerning.]