Chapter Nine :: Accidental Video

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[Lavi is standing in the heavy rain, hair plastered to his head as the PDA somehow manages to catch his entire form from its perch. It's sheltered somehow from the rain, left there so it wouldn't get damaged as he just stands there. His clothes are wet enough that no one would think he just walked out moments ago and the feed itself continues for a

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[he sees the feed playing, but does nothing about it at first. not even when Lavi leaves the screen of the PDA- he sticks his head out the window to watch the other go, everything else that happens along the way.

it's only when Lavi crosses the bridge that Kanda gets up. hair pulled up into a bun, he leaves the sword behind again as he, too, makes his way towards town. he hasn't visited yet, so now's a good a time as any. not like there's anything interesting to look at in the apartment anyway.

maybe he'll manage to catch up with Lavi, if not cross his path at some point while wandering around.]

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[looseleafbook]

[So far that only break is a conversation with Allen that ends with the redhead still leaving, heading down the ruined streets and heading northeast. But at least the bun will make it easier to tell Yuu apart from Yu, he hasn't seen the other enough to really pick up any other differences and the feeds make it difficult to see height.

Town is more interesting than the scribbles on the walls, that's for damn sure. Though Kanda probably ignored them or would have if he could have seen them, like was said, those lotuses get in the way.

By way of taking a wandering sort of path to his trolley car picked out ages ago as his little home away from home his path there is longer. Gives them more chances to run into one another, it's almost like he's sight seeing as Lavi is looking up at some of the ruined buildings and wondering what they must've looked like in their hay-day.

Kanda's footsteps draw him from his thoughts, so deliberately built to try and get the writings pushed to the back of his mind.]

...Yuu?

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[to be frank, Kanda has gotten more proficient at ignoring the lotuses. if anything, he's a bit glad his apartment room walls are crawling with them. from what he can see on the network, these writings are anything but pleasant. the ones that he can see on the relatively bare abandoned buildings are more easily ignored.

hearing his name, he looks in the direction of the voice. despite having heard it quite frequently, living in the same building and all, it still takes a few seconds to place who it is without seeing the owner.]

Lavi.

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[The broken walls make the messages distorted as if they were smudged from the rain or ripped up. He prefers it to the straight forward message, they don't look as harsh this way.

Surprising with all the floors (three) between them, though Lavi did tend to get loud if he was trying to do something that frustrated him. Like mending his clothes. Needles hurt.

That hesitation gives him away as well as the lack of sword and Lavi gives him a weak grin.] Still not so used to hearing my voice again, huh?

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[coldbrokenlight]

[just more eerie, haunting, and broken.. though consequently more easily attributed to some kind of ancient graffiti.]

It's been two years. [well.. two awake and two in limbo. but that's too confusing, so two will have to do. either way, it isn't something Kanda can get over so easily. he's trying, though.] What are you doing out here?

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[At least it didn't move too much.

That gets a startled blink out of him.] Two years? So... [A part of him leaps and clings to the thought that at least in other lives, in other dimensions he's alive and well. Not missing. Not in any supposed pain.

The question has him looking away from Kanda, gripping the bag on his shoulder tighter.]

Just need to clear my head.

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[coldbrokenlight]

I don't know. [if he knew more about Lavi state back home, he'd share.. but. sadly, he doesn't.

silent for a bit, glancing at the building Lavi was looking at.]

Walls getting to you?

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It's alright. [Pained smile.] If a man finds out too much about his future that's all he'll think about and won't do it.

Some things...just hit a little close to home.

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True. [but. hm.] Not that I know anything to tell you, anyway.

[exhaling through his nose, almost like a huff.]

Wasn't that the point of them?

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Like I said, it's fine. [He'll just...keep wondering about Fiddler's weird tongue, Rhode and that weird Tyki's words both.

He lets out a short laugh but even that doesn't sound normal.] Probably, no one knows what her real plan is.

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[coldbrokenlight]

[aksdhg tongue... augh.

well, it's not unexpected.] What kinds of things has she done so far?

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Made the buildings disappear and filled the place with fog, creepy noises played those nights for two weeks. Took our voices away and the text function, sent us home briefly on April first, things making noises and steadily getting closer. I haven't been here as long as the others.

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[coldbrokenlight]

Regular troublemaker, isn't she. [UGH.] Anyone seen her in person?

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Sasuke, but I doubt he recalls the experience any.

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[raising an eyebrow, but not pushing it. 'llujah isn't too particularly interested in her anyway. though he wonders if getting rid of her would let them go home..]

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[Lavi sighs and rubs at his head.]

What're you doing out here anyway, Yuu? And without your sword? [Almost called it Mugen, only it didn't quite look like the familiar sheath from the first time he saw.]