[ conan look up at the stage, chewing on a piece of tempura.

had he still had his body, that would be him up there receiving praises and applauses and not the old man. just look at him, face smug and that splitting grin...

why does he have to be here again? oh right, because ran insisted. ]

[ Sugata is in a particularly good mood ( Read more... )

[It's movies like this that always gets him. Caught off-guard, his sleeve is acquainting itself quite frequently with his eyes, trying to make it look like he has nothing to hide. It doesn't help that this is the first time he's seen it - heard about the story, sure, who isn't familiar with the statue of Hachiko near Shibuya Sation, but never in ( Read more... )

[ The tent was comfortable for him when he traveled alone, and a little cramped when Touya joined him later in his journey. But he's not complaining. It's already heart-warming when he has a friend, a companion who travels with him, someone with whom he can talk to, and share feelings which otherwise would only be heard by Reshiram. Don't get him ( Read more... )

[ It'd been a long time since that day. Since then, there is not a single day that N doesn't think of Touya, think of their battles, of the last confrontation, of what he was taught. Never does he stop feeling grateful for Touya after having lifted the curtain of lies before him, showing him that humans are not as he thought they were. And even ( Read more... )

[ tedium began long ago, when he was years younger than still held the title of Prince, his crown nowhere as heavy as the one placed on his hair every morning now. now, he still wakes up to the call of his servants, but the bath he slides into is one of his late father's: vast and thick of perfume. soon, it wouldn't be his servants who accompany ( Read more... )

[ the hot chocolate was warm while it lasted, but the comfortable feeling didn't remain that long before the cold gets to him again. not that he's complaining, of course. not when he's on his way to the bath with touya. he's happy, in fact. spending time with touya at all, being with touya in general is enough to make him happy ( Read more... )

[ his heart is beating fast in his chest, almost too fast for him to control. and when he feels his feet plant back down on the earth, grinding the blades of grass beneath his shoes, it still doesn't feel quite real. their fight in Zero Time was real. he felt their fists collide then, he felt the resonance between them, the echoes that still ring ( Read more... )

[ dinner with a friend really is different. all the dinners he'd had before he spent by himself. a king never eats with commoners, geechisu told him. and there were no laughter at the table, nothing after he grew up from the child he was into the king of team plasma ( Read more... )

[ he could practically feel Tieria's angry glares on the back of his neck ( Read more... )