Out on your own (Closed)

[de_faulty_hero]

Characters: Cloud Strife (de-faulty-hero) & Kurapika (ih8spiders)
Where: Hallway of the 7th Floor
Rating: PG
Time: August 1st
Description: Cloud returns after a hard day of hunting around for Crane, and he finds Kurapika lurking around on the 7th floor searching for something. Conversation ensues.

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[ih8spiders]

Kuroro had been acting really annoying lately - insufferable, even, with his jokes and his odd behavior during morning training. Kurapika could tell that he was slightly distracted, though, possibly thinking of the attacks on Sephiroth and then Rhode, but it was almost as if Kuroro was trying to be even more irritating to distract himself from his distractions. It didn't make a lick of sense, but Kurapika wouldn't put it past the man to rile him on purpose just to draw his reactions. If it wasn't on purpose, then it could simply be because he was thinking of the attacks, and just couldn't be bothered to put up a front

[de_faulty_hero]

Removing the key from the lock, he shoved open the door carelessly and returned the key to his pocket. He was about to enter when his name was called, and he paused to think if he was expecting any visitors this time in the afternoon. No, he was pretty certain that there were few that would seek him out at all, let alone at the room he hardly occupied lately.

Slowly, he turned to look down the hallway towards a familiar face, not certain he had ever seen Kurapika on the seventh floor. His eyes shifted to where Sephiroth's room was unoccupied, and he wondered if the ex-General and Kuroro were having a secret pow-wow in there.

Still, his eyes returned to looking at Kurapika, and he realized this was the first time that they had met face-to-face alone. Was this supposed to be one of those awkward introduction situations? "Kurapika," he finally acknowledged for a lack of anything to say. "If you're looking to Kuroro, I don't know where he is. And Sephiroth... don't know where he is either."

[ih8spiders]

Did everyone think that he and Kuroro were attached at the hip now? It wasn't as if they spent all their waking hours together or acted like they were friends. But trying to explain would probably just make him sound defensive. Kurapika shook his head, deciding to drop the issue for now.

"I'm not looking for Kuroro. I'm--" He couldn't really say that he was looking for Sephiroth, though, when he wouldn't do it even on a good day. He eventually settled for something more general. "I was wondering how you two were doing. It didn't feel right just calling you on the PDA. Now's probably not a good time though..." he added more slowly as a closer look revealed the grime and dirt on Cloud's person.

[de_faulty_hero]

He wasn't? Cloud offered Kurapika a skeptical look before shrugging his shoulders. There was no reason for the kid to lie to him, he supposed, but it seemed odd to see Kuroro and Kurapika not together. All of his encounters in a face-to-face setting had always had the two working or at least traveling together.

"Us two?" He tilted his head to the side to consider the question before it clicked. Like he though Kurapika wandered with Kuroro, the opposite was true of he and Sephiroth. "I didn't get attacked, so I'm just dandy," he replied tiredly. "Sephiroth... who knows sometimes." He shrugged his shoulders and gestured to his apartment. "Come in, if you want. I don't stay here much lately... so it should still be clean."

Now he had to work on his hospitality skills.