Dayshift 42: Main Street - Noon

[jokers_wildcard]

[continued thread from here]

Hahaha~ Poor Sheena. At this rate, she was doomed. At least it was a playful kind of doomed. Sheena was her friend after all, and if Harley actually felt the girlie was in any danger, she wouldn't have been as nice to little miss youkai over here. Sheena was so dramatic sometimes, heh.

Harley made an excited Oh!

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[mind_the_sukima]

"Even if it's not much, it's certainly a bit more than our normal playground, don't you think?" Yukari pointed out reasonably. After all, if it weren't for what happened at night, Yukari might have already gotten so bored of the institute as to just go into hibernation until it went away.

"A toy store, huh? I don't suppose there's a candy shop too?" suggested the youkai. Sure, some of their meals at the institute came with dessert, but that just wasn't the same as sweets. "Though perhaps obtaining some real food first would be better? What do you think, lunch or dessert?"

[jokers_wildcard]

Ohhh. Ohhh. Why did she have to make her decide? She was so conflicted. Any place worth existing HAD to have a candy place somewhere. She'd never heard anyone say anything about one though. If she had, there was no doubt she'd want to go there first and foremost. On the other hand, she was kinda hungry, too, and there was only so much candy they could yank before someone caught them and started chasing them down the street. Decisions, decisions.

Suddenly, Harley remembered something. She shoved her hands in her overall pockets, turning them inside out until she found where she put the coupons from this morning. If she remembered right... "Hah! How's about both?" she grinned and held out one of them like proof. "Lookie. This place gives out a meal and ice cream."

[mind_the_sukima]

Yukari smiled at the suggestion and dug around in her own bag, pulling out the little booklet of coupons and flipping to the right one. Tasty Burger, huh? It sounded like it had all the class of a child's birthday party, but there was ice cream.

"Well, then, sounds like a plan!" she agreed happily. Looking around, she spotted the garishly colored sign for the restaurant just down the street. "Shall we be off?"

[To here]

[lady_general]

[For Grell and Luxord]

Celes was still somewhat annoyed with Luxord. Date or not, he'd still butted into a conversation to lead her away. She had cooled her temper some, but her expression remained far away. "Where do you suppose Mr Sutcliff got off to?" she murmured as they walked.

[Notice: will be extremely slow, so feel free to skip Celes as need arises]

[clockmongler]

If that turn of events surprised Celes any, surely she didn't know the Gambler half as well as she might have thought she did. Nobodies could be very petty creatures when it came to something they wanted.

"Hmm..." He brought a hand to his chin, pondering her question. "I'm not sure. He claimed to have never visited this town before, so one can only assume he may have lost his way." Yes, specifically said in a manner as to suggest that if she had done as kindly asked of her, they wouldn't have been looking for the butler now. Must everyone really ignore his requests?

[lady_general]

Celes was relieved that she didn't need to look up to give Luxord a rather pointed look, not bothering to honor his tone with anything more than a singular, "Hm." She felt not an iota of sadness for not immediately tottering off to find the other man. Celes closed her eyes a moment. "Well, he couldn't have gone very far, Luxord."

Two could play this game, and her tone reflect that they would've been better off without the third wheel.

[deadlyjuliet]

And unfortunately for Celes, that third wheel had just managed to pry himself away from the bath and beauty store and was walking her way. The morning had gone so well! The store had been a lovely way to start his day and now he had a beautiful gift wrapped with red ribbon (just how did they know?) and a note to stop those horrid nurses from taking it away from him. Ah~ But if only he could use the lotion right now!

But that, unfortunately, would have to wait. He couldn't very well open the present now anyway. Not when there was the chance that someone could ruin it. Like Sebastian

Starting just outside the sheriff's office

[perfectrecord]

Hmph. So the meeting with this "Sheriff Scotch" had proved fruitless. Of course, why should this have surprised von Karma? From what he could already tell, the townspeople were just as useful to him as the blasted staff in the institute.

He did recall that along the way to this wretched little shack that served as the town's only law enforcement agency, there had been a bookstore. Most likely, he would find little of use there, but at least he could try to obtain a newspaper or something that gave more information about this rustic town than what anyone was willing to tell him. Briskly, he headed westward along this road towards the bookstore.

[Closed to a certain shinigami with a fetish for apples. X3 ]

[bored_todeath]

Ryuk was in trouble. He hated that. Ok, so he was technically in trouble in the Shinigami Realm too, more often than not, but the difference was that Shinigami couldn't be bothered to really do much about it.

Unlike here. Where Ryuk had finally gotten his Wheelie Chair, but at a cost. It didn't move on it's own, so his nurse had stuck with him until his body started seizing up. She ran off after that, to find him sugar and lunch and maybe a cigarette! Like that would HELP? He wanted his damn apple.

Before this, he'd been attacking a tree with his crutch to see if it had any. Seemed like they didn't so he began pushing a wheel and...going in a circle.

He supposed he coul-

"GRAGH!" Ryuk's shoulders tenses and his free limbs began to pull in awkwardly. He managed to wrench his arm free of the pain and grab a passerby. "Hey! Buddy, you gotta help me!"

[perfectrecord]

von Karma had just gone only one block, crossing an intersection and passing by several shops that held no interest to him, when suddenly, he felt someone grab him by his right arm. At first, he thought it was one of the blasted nurses again, but then the person spoke in a masculine voice -- deeper this time than that of his seatmate on the bus

[bored_todeath]

Ryuk's hand started shaking despite the power of the death grip. And then his arm. His shoulder. His entire body. And he was...sweating. It was gross.

But his eyes had turned mean, even through their unmatched strangeness. He was past the point of caring about broken bits of body. he needed an apple as if....he'd die without one. This wasn't what he was used to. Sure it hurt before, his body twisting into a pretzel, but this was a pain he couldn't even define or find the source to. His whole body, inside and out, needed an apple. He felt like he was dying... And Death Gods did not die. Unless they were idiots.

Ryuk pulled the man closer, with strength he hadn't had before, and looked him dead in the eye. "Listen, von Karma," he hissed, "if I don't get an apple real soon, you're first on the Death List."

[lady_general]

[ from here]

Celes stepped back out into the cold and pulled her coat closer about. There was something strange about that weak little butler, and she'd be damned if she could make heads or tails of it. Actually, it made her want to scrub her lips clean of the feeling Luxord's skin had left behind.

Hm.

So strange. Still, now that she'd left Luxord's company, Celes had nothing to do. She started off towards the park. Perhaps she could rest herself there.

[lady_general]

[ this way]

[sasuke_of_sound]

[[from here]]

Sasuke had to focus as closely as he could on the sound of Sakura's footsteps as they made their way down the main street of the town. There was enough traffic in this place that he needed to note the particular sound of her movements and concentrate on making sure he was still on the right track.

In some ways, it was better than groping his way around as he'd had to do the last time he was here -- and yet it was almost worse, relying this heavily on someone he wasn't in the habit of considering particularly reliable.

Hopefully that had changed over the years, although the habit of his former teammates seemed to be consistently maintaining their worst traits.

[see_my_back]

Sasuke kept up, if only motivated by his stubborn pride. Still, Sakura tried to relax and enjoy his company, even if it wasn't easy. She wasn't about to just give up

[sasuke_of_sound]

The fact that Sakura sounded surprised and what she said confirmed it -- she hadn't heard about Itachi. Sasuke wasn't sure whether to be grateful or not for that fact. On one hand, it meant that he wouldn't have to put up with sympathy he neither wanted nor needed (and questions about what came next). On the other, it was clear that Sakura suspected something, and Sasuke had no other explanation for acting differently today.

And telling Sakura was ... Sasuke was hardly going to lie about what had happened, but telling Kakashi yesterday had brought too many things that he didn't have the luxury of dealing with to the surface. He needed much more time before he could handle Sakura's response (or Naruto's, for that matter) in the necessary way.

So for now, Sasuke merely shrugged in response to her comment, choosing instead to continue the second thread of conversation. "What areas are you focusing on besides medical information?"

[see_my_back]

Ugh, why were boys so dumb sometimes?! There was definitely something wrong and even if he thought he was hiding it, it was so obvious! Why else would he shrug of his lifelong goal of revenge as if they were just discussing the weather!? What the hell was going on? And he'd acted even more defensive about her just talking to him or wanting to spend time together than he had anything else! It was so hard to understand what was going on inside his head!

They'd made little progress and already she could feel her stomach starting to grumble at her. Now of all times?! Couldn't it wait? Ugh!

She ignored it for now and focused on the conversation, taking a slightly different stance this time. "Why are you so interested now?"