Uh... I'm back. Again. At least I didn't fall in the river again.

I guess I should go check the damage. What exactly happened while I was gone?

( Private to Kyouya )

Hello?

[the sound of fumbling as the camera feed flicks abruptly on. Kaoru doesn't look that much different aside from that he looks... quite terrified, really]

Is this... [recording? He hopes so. Takes a deep breath, trying to compose himself, moving his communicator to pan around his apartment]

Can someone tell me where I am? Whose stuff is this? ( Read more... )

[Kaoru's come along to check out the carnival - although after his chat with Temper Vale, he's staying wary of anything that could potentially land him in trouble. He's had enough of that, thanks very much.

He's pretty much recovered from his time in the catacombs, though his hair's still long (there's absolutely no way he can cut it straight ( Read more... )

[This is not the usual polished-and-put-together Kaoru that you know and love - nearly two months in the catacombs will do that to a person. His hair's grown longer than usual, his clothes are spattered and in some places saturated with red from slipping into the river a few too many times. And he's limping. He twisted his ankle somewhere along the ( Read more... )

So I guess I can say I've finally had my initiation into this place. [stifles an ironic laugh] Not as fun as I'd hoped. In fact it was pretty awful

Is everybody all right?

[as an afterthought, still not very sure about the network or how it works] ...this is Kaoru again, by the way.

[the post comes in the dead of night. There's a long pause before Kaoru speaks, and when he does it sounds like he's making a great effort to keep his voice steady. Even then, he sounds scared]

How... do you keep from seeing things?

[there are little handwritten notices posted here and there around the city, focussed mainly around places people are likely to congregate]

An invitation to the young, and young-at-heart~♥

I will be sending wishes off the wall after sunset tonight. If you would like to send one too, just follow the lights~!

(The cynical, the jaded, and any who only ( Read more... )

Is it true that it's June already over here? It's just that when I left home it was November, so I can't figure out whether I've gone back six months or forward...

Oh, by the way. I was so busy running around like a lunatic when I got here, I never got a chance to introduce myself. So hi, I guess. My name's Kaoru. I guess I'm stuck here, huh?

[There's an angry redhead all up in your city, doing laps as if he's either looking for something, or trying to tire himself out. He might be dressed a little oddly in green trousers and a white rollneck shirt with billowing sleeves that are far too long to be practical, but don't let that put you off. His outfit was a lot worse when he got off the ( Read more... )

Kaoru! Never let them take you away from me again! [Hugs on him!]

Hikaru! [ clings! ] That train ride was so scary! I thought I had lost you forever.~

I'm still fuzzy as to how this all happened, but- [Holds Kaoru's head up by his chin] I promise I won't let it happen ever again, if it's the last thing I do in this... this place!

[ blush blush! ( Read more... )