Lucky for Dende, Hayato is too distracted with the elevator to notice his oversized Namekian friend. The silver-haired teen grumbles something about how inconvenient having only one elevator is when he stops and notices that he isn't alone in the Bio deck.
Usually meeting someone new, -no matter how much taller they are- doesn't phase the mafioso. However, this is an alien!! It looks so much like Dende that he reels back, completely shocked. Wouldn't this mean that maybe Dende's planet hasn't been destroyed, that there's hope!! Hayato looks around in that instance, as though the little guy would be right there following him like he usually liked to do.
"Shit... Uh." What if this guy only speaks Namekian?! All he knows how to say is 'goodnight.' Hayato lifts up a hand, "Stay right there!"
Dende looked confused for a moment, and then it dawned on him... Dende had GROWN CONSIDERABLY since he last saw Gokudera. He rubs the back of his neck rather embarrassed and chuckles nervously.
"Oh, right! I forgot I look a little different now"
Dende taps his shoulders and is suddenly wearing his traditional vest and robe again.
Hmm, well something certainly wasn't right here. With his old attire on he should be much easier to recognize... and then the blatantly obvious hit him in the head like a ton of bricks. It had been about 15 years since Dende had seen Gokudera last... and yet here Gokudera was just as he remembered him. He hadn't aged a day. He brought his hand to his mouth, poor Gokudera! He must be confused out of his poor mind!
"I-I'm Sorry Mr. Gokudera... No time has past here since I left has it? I-It's me Dende!"
"Left?! You were just in my room feeding that stupid fish of yours!" Hayato yells and then frowns.
So... this was Dende. What, had he been hit by some kind of ten-year bazooka or something? He certainly looked like an adult. The teen crosses his arms over his chest and looks up with distaste at the Namekian.
He frowns just a little harder at Dende, "Tch, with as much as you feed it now, I'm surprised it hasn't died already." Hayato walks past him to look in the Koi Pond. How suspicious that he would meet his older friend in the exact spot where they'd met the first time.
"Ah, oh I almost forgot about that... I really didn't know how to care for it did I?" Dende laughs and goes to stand next to Gokudera with his hands clasped behind his back. Oh he is having the hardest time keeping himself from just giving Gokudera a great big hug, instead he just keeps grinning.
The laughing grates on his nerves and he lights a cigarette as he turns to head back to the elevator and up to his room. "What's so funny about that? You killed a perfectly good fish."
"Actually would you believe me if I told you the fish died of starvation?" Dende looks down sadly he rubbed the back of his neck nervously again. He remembered how devastated he was when that fish died.
If the fish was still alive then that could only mean that they hadn't been locked in the clean room yet. Dende looked over at Gokudera lighting his cigarette. Oh he remembered how much trouble those things caused him.
"You know you should really stop smoking those. It will save you a lot of trouble later."
Dende knew full well that he wasn't going to listen to him, but he would have felt bad if he hadn't at least given him a warning.
"I can't." Hayato says. And it's NOT because he's addicted. He is, but he'll never admit it. It's only because they allow him the use of his hands in combat and work to light his weapons with little effort. Without his cigarettes, he wouldn't be able to light his dynamite, and then he wouldn't be able to live up to his title.
"Starvation...?" He looks up at Dende as he hits the call button to the upper level where he can find the fish and check on it, if for no other reason than to make the Namekian feel better.
Usually meeting someone new, -no matter how much taller they are- doesn't phase the mafioso. However, this is an alien!! It looks so much like Dende that he reels back, completely shocked. Wouldn't this mean that maybe Dende's planet hasn't been destroyed, that there's hope!! Hayato looks around in that instance, as though the little guy would be right there following him like he usually liked to do.
"Shit... Uh." What if this guy only speaks Namekian?! All he knows how to say is 'goodnight.' Hayato lifts up a hand, "Stay right there!"
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Dende runs up to his friend and grabs his hands holding them in his own, smiling and giggling like it's nobodies business.
"Oh! Mr. Gokudera! It's been so long!"
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"Who the hell are you?!" He appears beyond creeped out.
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"Oh, right! I forgot I look a little different now"
Dende taps his shoulders and is suddenly wearing his traditional vest and robe again.
"Do I look a little more familiar now?"
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"How the hell..."
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"I-I'm Sorry Mr. Gokudera... No time has past here since I left has it? I-It's me Dende!"
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So... this was Dende. What, had he been hit by some kind of ten-year bazooka or something? He certainly looked like an adult. The teen crosses his arms over his chest and looks up with distaste at the Namekian.
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"Y-you mean Little Gokudera is still alive?"
His hands instantly cover his mouth, if this was indeed the past then he probably shouldn't be telling him about the future.
"Oops...um forget I said that."
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If the fish was still alive then that could only mean that they hadn't been locked in the clean room yet. Dende looked over at Gokudera lighting his cigarette. Oh he remembered how much trouble those things caused him.
"You know you should really stop smoking those. It will save you a lot of trouble later."
Dende knew full well that he wasn't going to listen to him, but he would have felt bad if he hadn't at least given him a warning.
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"Starvation...?" He looks up at Dende as he hits the call button to the upper level where he can find the fish and check on it, if for no other reason than to make the Namekian feel better.
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Dende notices Gokudera going to call someone but decides to ignore it for now and answer Gokudera's question.
"Well I was put in a place were I couldn't feed it for a while..."
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