[video] First cut

[smokinfighter]

[he's sitting on a roof. yep. Nice view.]

.. Natsuo? Youji?

No, this is too elaborate of a trick for them...

So, I need information. This isn't where I went to sleep.

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[piercedpainter]

Sou-chan is it really you? [Pause for a moment as he looks at the video.]

SOU-CHAN YOU MADE IT!!!!

[smokinfighter]

Kio, you're going to get wrinkles yelling like that.

[small smile]

You look well though.

[piercedpainter]

They won't be any worse than the ones you get from smoking all the time.

[Smiles back excited to see Soubi again.]

I'm doing great now. You should come by and see the studio and apartment.

[smokinfighter]

You have a studio?

You have to find me, Kio. I just got here, remember? Or have you been painting for too long again?

[piercedpainter]

Well the studio is in the apartment, but there's plenty of room I even have a spare bedroom if you wanted to stay with me. [winks]

And I haven't been painting too long, you have a map on the phone and it's not that big of a city.

Where are you though? I'll meet up with you to make sure you don't 'get lost'.

[smokinfighter]

Where will stumble away to after an interesting night? [said with a completely straight face]

[He pans the phone around slowly to show were he is]

here, is that enough? [he's on a roof of one of he building in the residential district.]

[piercedpainter]

You wouldn't have to stumble away though~

That's actually on the opposite side of the city, I live in the third district at the LaGrange Apartments.

[smokinfighter]

I don't do morning after.

You're going to take a while then? talk to me as you walk. I want to know everything you can tell me.

Oh, and pick me up a pack of my cigs in your way here.

[piercedpainter]

Yeah, yeah, I know.

I shouldn't take me too long, though if I really have to stop for cigs it would take longer. We could just go for a drink once I find you.

So what does Sou-chan want to know?

[smokinfighter]

You'll never learn though. [small grin]

Cigs, then find me. I need them.

Everything. Who's here, who should I know, who are your friends, who to look out for, how I buy stuff, stuff like that.

[piercedpainter]

[mumbles something about being tastier than cigs.]

Well there's the dreamberry, which is the phone thing that you have. It's kind of like one of the phones that you usually see business people with, that has maps and lists of people and places in the city. As for people unless Sou-chan has a secret lover that's here there's no one from school, and the chibi's aren't here, so it's just me and Rit-chan. Though I'm surprised Rit-chan hasn't called you already, but he ignores this sometimes.

[smokinfighter]

[more smiles] I can't hear you, Kio.

I'm sure he will on his own time.

You can show me how to get to all those things when you get here.

[piercedpainter]

Alright~ I'm already on my way so it shouldn't be more than twenty minutes for me to get there. I've learned my way around pretty well over the last few months. Hey, hey, Sou-chan, what's the last thing you remember before coming here?

[smokinfighter]

Months?

We returned home and the kids had just returned to my place. I was going to check on you in the morning since we had just gotten you back from those guys.

[piercedpainter]

Well I guess time is different when you're sleeping, which is why it seems like that. But people keep saying things about people from the past or future showing up.

But I wouldn't have been home anyways, I had a few things I had to do.

[smokinfighter]

What are you talking about?

Hmm, want to show me where to get drinks? [he isn't going to ask if he wasn't going to say]