[The recording clicks on to some particularly melancholy sounding koto, apparently it's practice time]

Toshiki.

I know you've been looking for me.

I'm back in the teepee now. Come home.

[From the sound of things, Kazuki is spending New Year's day tuning his koto. As that's something he could do in his sleep by now, it's not much of stretch for him to monologue absently over it.]Growing another year older in this place seems strange somehow. The feeling is bittersweet. I cannot help but think of those I've left behind ( Read more... )

Juubei...


( Read more... )

Some of you are very cute this week...

I can't help but think that Shido would be very amused by all of this.

My mind is clearer now. Apologies to anyone I may have disturbed with the sound of falling trees. I did try to go deep enough into the forest so that it would not be an issue.

It would seem that we're being spared the trouble of a new curse this week...

( [Private to Ukyo] )

I'm as as busy as ever and happy. Really happy with the friends I've made, how this school year is going. And yet...

Lately I find myself missing Jubei more than ever. It's been so long now but the more that time passes, the more I realize that things just haven't been the same since he moved away.

( Private | Hackable )

Fire...

Everything's burning.

[Silence but for the crackling of flames in the background for several moments. When he speaks again, his voice is trembling with barely contained emotion.]

And I couldn't save them- [Sentence ends abruptly as Kazuki sobs]

Juubei...

It has been more than a month now but instead of getting easier, I only feel my frustration growing. I should be happy to have Toshiki here with me and I am, but... it is not enough.

I've never been so long without my bells before this.

It's intolerable. And I am growing restless.

[ooc: Foreshadowing, ho. He's due to disappear into the woods ( Read more... )