The Lawn Outside the Dorms, Tuesday Afternoon

[raspberryturk]

There was a very large black bird outside of the dorms today, looking a little bit proud and a little bit cranky as he stomped his way back and forth across the lawn, looking for all the world as though he wanted to go inside the building

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[the_merriest]

It was like she had a homing beacon. Because no way could Rikku miss the enormous chocobo out on the lawn.

"Chocho!" she squeed, bouncing up to it. She had to have greens somewhere in her leg pouch. She had everything else in there, after all, right?

[raspberryturk]

Rikku! Reno couldn't think of any one person on the island he would be happier to see, just then. She knew what he was! She was Rikku! She was...

Digging for... greens?

"Kweh."

Reno was thrilled.

[the_merriest]

"Who's so pretty?" she cooed, reaching up to scritch under his chin. Awwwww, chocho. "Do you want some greens? Greeeeeeeeeeens? Who's such a pretty chocho out on the lawn?"

She hadn't realized they had black ones. Had Reno mentioned that? He must have. Blue, she remembered, and green.

Awwww. Why was there a chocho on the lawn, anyway?

[raspberryturk]

Dammit. It was difficult to be a proud, indignant beast when there were such pleasant under-the-chin scritchings going on. Reno half-shut his eyes and let out a pleased little warble without thinking too hard on the matter.

He was a pretty chocho out on the lawn. Oooh, yes he waaaaaas. Hiiiii.

[the_merriest]

"Hey," she grinned, feeling thrilled with the entire world and especially, an adorable chocho out on the lawn. "Who's such a good boy? Who is it?"

Right, greens. She had them in here somewhere. "Okayyyyyy," she said, waving a few tantalizingly in the air. "Who's been such a good chocho and wants some food-food?"

[raspberryturk]

Oh, hey, the scritching had stopped, that was hardly- Ooooh. Oooh, there were greens, there. Really, really good looking greens. They were all... green, and...

Well. Food-foody.

Reno was not going to give in. Not. Dammit. He would resist. Resisting would be easy, because he'd been eating cereal off of the ground all day, and therefore his appetite was somewhat satisfied already, see?

... Dammit.

He warbled happily and fluffed up his feathers, making a reach for the greens. They looked tasty, okay?

[the_merriest]

"Nom nom nom," Rikku giggled, holding her hand still to let him take the greens. "How did you get here, cho-cho-cho? Did you fly on a spaceship VROOM? Is someone looking for you?"

[raspberryturk]

A spaceship?

Reno tilted his head at her quizzically as he worked his way through the greens. And they were damn good greens, at that.

Why would he fly in on a spaceship? Chocobo didn't pilot spaceships, and Reno wouldn't be caught dead in space knowing the kind of freaky shit that was out there anyhow.

Soooo he shook his head. No. No, he did not fly in on a spaceship, and he was pretty sure nobody was looking for him, unless she'd been hunting for a Reno.

[the_merriest]

"No, it was a portal, huh?" Rikku said, frowning as she reasoned it out. She was idly scritching under his jaw again. "Did Tseng bring you here? Tseng-Tseng? For Reeeeeeeeeeno? Reno's gonna show Leto some chochos. Is that how you got here?"

[raspberryturk]

Oh, gods. If Tseng found out that Reno had done this voluntarily, Reno would never, ever live it down.

Noooo, it wasn't Tseng. Reno blew a somewhat negative raspberry at the thought.

Bleh. Pbbbbbth.

[the_merriest]

That got a surprised laugh from Rikku. "I've never seen a chocho--"

Blow a raspberry?

Those red marks around his eyes almost looked like tattoos.

No way.

She was laughing harder as she scritched. "So, you wouldn't want Tseng to get footage of this?"

That would answer her question pretty clearly.

[raspberryturk]

Ooooooh. Sooner or later she would have to stop scritching. And when she did, he was going to give her such a look. And maybe an angry warble or something. Yeah. Angry chocobo warble. That'd show her.

Or else it would be stupidly cute and she'd laugh more.

He'd forgive her if there were more greens involved, maybe. Yeah. More greens. And less talk of blackmail. That was the ticket! He'd even lean down to nudge his beak against her leg pouch to see if there might be more. He'd been eating breakfast cereal all day, and that stuff really didn't manage to hit the spot at all.

[the_merriest]

Rikku cracked up. "You get more greens if you answer the question, silly," she said, scritching harder. "Do you have two more tattoos that didn't show up? Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeno?"

It was him, wasn't it? Duuuuuuuuuuude.

[raspberryturk]

That was a heavy chocobo sigh right there, as Reno moved away from the soooo nice attentions in order to preen at his right wing. And then a reeeach to nudge at his tail, too.

Yep. Two more tattoos that didn't show up. Yep. Reno.

Question answered. Moar scritches nau plz.

[the_merriest]

And now the laughter wouldn't stop as she wrapped her arms around his neck and nuzzled her nose against the side of his face happily. "You look so adorable," she giggled. "You're a chocho? Is that what happened for your class thing?"

[raspberryturk]

Reno looked at her for a moment and then gave his head a nod before nuzzling right back. Rikku-snuggles never ceased to be awesome, really. He would snuzzle and burble and this wasn't so bad, right here.

And then, after a moment, he got a beaky sort of gape-mouthed grin and looked at her again, bending down.

Wanna ride?

Hey. There was little point in having a chocobo for a boyfriend if you couldn't ride him around the island in a completely not-dirty manner.