Who: OU!Joshua, OU!Neku, other!Joshua
When: two weeks after Neku's Game in Shibuya's time
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: ...Joshua/Neku/Joshua, because clearly, that's how we all roll. And probably variations of the aforementioned pairing. Swearing will be involved, and sex, and the like.
Summary: How about I get back to you on that?
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What clever text? Kat is incapable of that )
Still, no one belonged in the Room of Reckoning save for the Composer, and a Composer they both were. The same one. And this had happened before, coming face to face with himself. Another Joshua had never landed into his Room of Reckoning, but he was a welcome guest.
So Yoshiya smiled and tilted his head at the newcomer.
"Mishap?"
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"Something like that, I'm afraid," he began with a cordial smile, taking a step forward. "You'd think by now they would have worked out the... quirks."
Or made it impossible to pass between planes unless you were of the Higher Plane status. This was getting old. Fast. Nonetheless, a smirk took form. "I hope I'm not interrupting anything too important?"
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"Nothing important, no. Shibuya's voice is as chaotic as usual."
It was impossible to set it right, at the moment; Neku's Soul was bright enough to upset Shibuya's entire balance, and the Composer was working overtime trying to keep the harmony. It wasn't working out too well, and the fact that Yoshiya refused to wipe his existence from his ex-Proxy's mind to assist the process was a key factor in Shibuya's discord.
"Jumping dimensions on your own?"
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Subconsciously, the Composer licked his lips, more so out of nervous habit than anything else. His posture was as proper and casual (how that was possible at the same time would always be an enigma) as usual, refusing to betray his inner most turmoil.
"I don't suppose you could tell me about this...Plane while I wait for my ride back?" he suggested, reaching into his pocket for his cell. It was still odd to see the orange device instead of the other device he had grown accustomed to. Strange, strange things.
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"I'm not sure how mine would be much different from yours. This is Shibuya two weeks after Neku Sakuraba's last Game. It's Sunday."
Sunday, which meant that Neku would be waiting by Hachiko for Yoshiya to show up. Which he wouldn't. And he didn't offer to bring this Joshua to Sanae, either, because he was refusing to speak with his Producer at this time.
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"You'd be surprised," Joshua giggled, opting to keep the information to himself, if only to save time. He nodded, though, as if to acknowledge the information.
"Tell me: How did he do? Considering you're still here, he didn't shoot, but that doesn't mean he won." It was a careful game of Chess, because he was fully aware that in many Planes, many Places, he hadn't returned Neku Sakuraba back to the RG. It was a weakness, a sort of attachment, and it wasn't something he would reveal to another self when he wasn't on hometurf. That'd be suicide.
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Not at his best? Worse than he was before he was killed? Yoshiya trailed off, unsure. Violet eyes blinked twice before focusing on Joshua, and by now, the smile was gone.
"He won't move on. I didn't show up at Hachiko when he invited his friends, and he's been waiting for me ever since. He doesn't realize that I'm not going back."
Even though he would.
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"I never knew him to be of the sentimental variety." Either that, or he had never really given Neku a proper chance to express anything apart from hate. It wasn't too bad of a conjecture. He had done everything in his power to upset the teen in order to get him to develop as a person, as a Soul...
"Then again, people change. Or, that's what they say~"
This topic wasn't too much to his pleasure. "I never saw him as the type to get attached. The thought is strangely intriguing, I must admit..."
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Yoshiya shivered silently, watching his other.
"Intriguing isn't the word I'd use. It's disconcerting. And it's...troublesome."
It made him lonely. And with Yoshiya not on speaking terms with Sanae any longer, he found himself oddly pleased with talking to himself. That was a terrible sign, for many reasons.
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A Neku who was so caught up in the past that he clung to the chance of seeing the Composer again. It was a strange thought, really, but not a displeasing one. A Neku who was appreciative, even.
"I say...it's rather rude you haven't given him the guilty pleasure of visiting yet," Joshua decided, a devious and all around mischievous smile appearing out of thin air. "You know how impatient he gets."
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"Tempting. Very tempting. But I figured I'd draw out the process."
He knew it was going to happen eventually. One of the two of them would cave sooner or later, no matter what. Yoshiya giggled, a slender finger weaving into silver locks and moving his bangs out of his eyes.
"What's going on with your Neku, then?" Perhaps he should share...
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"Funny you should mention that," he started, arms rolling into a shrug, "I honestly haven't the faintest. The last I knew, he was expanding his horizons, just as he was told to."
Independent. It was what he had wanted for Neku, right? To be strong and to grow and to stop relying completely on others. So why did it sting.
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"Still worshipping CAT with every fiber of his being?"
That was one level of cruelty Yoshiya would never allow himself to reach. He'd never tell Neku what Hanekoma had done. Never.
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"Of course. He's such a fanboy, really," Joshua all but cooed, mockingly pressing the back of his hand to his forehead, as if feeling faint. He couldn't help but snicker at it.
"If only he put that much passion into other things."
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"Other things? Like getting himself a pretty little girlfriend?"
Yoshiya giggled, pressing the bridge of his index finger to his lips in a display of fake modesty.
"What a cute thought."
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"I never saw him as the type to actively pursue anything." An indifferent shrug that was not entirely indifferent.
"Then again, I could be wrong. He is full of surprises."
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