rp log
Characters: Ohtori and Saeki
Date: Today
Rated: PG- tops
Summary: Saeki and Ohtori go Christmas shopping. Ohtori needs to get away from the house for a while, and Saeki agrees to come. There is some talk about current events, Christmas gifts, and other goodies. Enjoy!
Ohtori needed to get away for a while. That meant he had to find someone he could be trusted with. Ryou had stepped out, understandably- and he had been avoiding Kite, finding the whole sex thing very very uncomfortable and awkward. Sighing, the tall teen draped across his bed and drearily poked at his cellphone, looking over the names of his contacts and trying to find someone who would willingly humour him and take him out for at least a few hours. Clicking through the list again, he stopped and pondered two names on the list, as he did not want to bother Oshitari again for a while since he'd been kind enough to visit.
And really, Christmas shopping was the perfect reason to go out. It was dangerously close to the holiday, and the very idea of having not given his friends and family something was just ridiculous. He remembered talking earlier to Saeki before finally taking a deep breath and sending him a short text message.
-Saeki-san,
Want to go X-mas shop with me for a while today?
Ohtori-
When Saeki's cellphone beeped at him, he turned to look at it, pondering who it could be. Kamio usually ran for him in person, finding it faster than keying in a message. Oshitari found it amusing to send sensory illusions (Saeki had lost count of the number of times he'd jumped when Oshitari's voice sounded as if it was right behind him).
Putting down his DS, Saeki flipped his phone open and read the message. Then he grinned. "Probably fun," he said to himself, keying in a response. He then grabbed his keys, left a message for Kamio and Oshitari about his whereabouts, and headed for Ohtori's place.
Smiling at the response, there was a flurry of motion as Ohtori rushed about the safe house to first straighten up and make sure everything was in its place again. He'd been raised to never leave his room until his bed was made and the floor was clean, and now, he had a whole house to fuss over. Once that was completed, he wrote a note explaining who he was with and where he was going- sort of.
The last thing Ohtori did was get ready himself, finding a clean shirt to put under his comfortable gray jacket. He'd all but given up on his hair behaving for any length of time and settled for quickly combing it into some semblance of order. Now all he had to do was wait...
It didn't take too long to get to Ohtori's place, all things considered. Thirty minutes later, Saeki punched the apartment number into the intercom panel of Ohtori's building, pushed the button, and waited. It was a little nippy, but not too bad. Nice weather if one liked it a little on the chilly side. Would have been perfect weather to be a tiger, but unfortunately, humans tended to get panicky if they saw one. Oh well. Saeki could use the leg-exercise.
A beep-
Ohtori blinked at the flashing box by the door in mild confusion. No one ever used that, they just knocked or came right in. Shaking his head, he walked over and pressed the intercom button.
"I'll be right out, Saeki-san."
Choutarou darted across the room to fetch his wallet from the small table by the sofa and stuffed it into his pocket before all but racing down the stairs and out the front door, only stopping once he stood in front of the older male. "Thank you so much for agreeing to hang out with me. I was getting claustrophobic in there."
Saeki shook his head with a laugh. "Yeah, that's okay. I'm a housecat myself, but I can see the attraction of fresh air. Come on--Shinjuku okay with you? Lots of things to see and do, and enough people to hide us if we need to make a break for anything." And if they got bored, it would be fun to give his fingers some practice; Kamio's knives were going to be pretty pricey.
"Yeah- Shinjuku is perfect. I need to get a lot of things, and it'd be a good spot to find most of it. I was afraid I'd have to online shop or something- it's so impersonal." He was rambling. He had done the same thing to Oshitari-san when he'd come over to visit- perhaps it was an affect of staying with just the same two people for as long as he had. "Are you ready to go?"
"If you are," Saeki replied. He grinned. "Online shopping isn't fun at all. I like getting our ... toys ... in person sometimes. You get the best looks, heh. Too bad the staff aren't the best lookers, but oh well." He headed off back towards the station. "What are you going to buy?" That was the nice thing about Shinjuku--you could get pretty much everything.
"Toys?" He had a hard time imagining the trio playing with toy water guns or little building blocks- but who was he to judge- he talked to his anatomical model sometimes when he was frustrated with remembering bone names. Trying not to think too hard on the subject, he quickly followed Saeki. "Well- honestly I usually don't have a plan until I get to where I'm going. Then I just let the things tell me what I think everyone would like. You?"
"Toys," Saeki confirmed, grinning, refusing to elaborate. No point burning Ohtori's cheeks out before they'd even gotten on the train. Bolt was fun to tease, but Saeki didn't want to break him. "Oh, you mean for Christmas? Mmm, probably boring things. Kira'll probably appreciate some knives. Gotta get Fuji some weird foods, bet he likes that sort of thing. Yuushi's going to be difficult, though, and I haven't decided what to buy. Maybe something'll stop me on the way, too. Need to buy Wings something, too, but I figure he'll like grapes. What are you getting him?"
At the mere mention of his boyfriend Ohtori knitted his brows and frowned. "Something good. He's been staying out lately..." He didn't want to explain the mess with Kite, or need to explain his desperation to get away from the house, but if he had to he would. "I might get him his own pool stick thing. He loves to play billiards."
Ah, right, there was that. Maybe Saeki could get him some membership to pool club or something. By the look on Ohtori's' face, though, things weren't going well. "Difficult having to share him with the other you?" he guessed.
"Heh- I don't think he'd mind that so much...but-" He remembered his face getting clawed for being stupid ages ago, before he and Shishido had even started properly seeing each other and closed his eyes, mentally preparing to dodge. "More like the other me decided to tie up and sleep with Kite-san..." He waited for the slashing sensation with his eyes still clenched shut.
"He what?" Saeki stopped mid-step, turning to Ohtori. "Wait, this just sounds like deja vu all over again. Every time I hear something about that guy I have to ask people to repeat things. So. Run that by me again, kid, because I met you in the other world, too, and even though you were different, I didn't think you were that kind of guy."
"Had sex with Kite." Ohtori filled him in, sighing and looking down. "I think the truth of it is, we were all feeling a little frustrated there. Kite wanted his me, Ryou wanted to have just me. But since it was dangerous all around, Ryou wouldn't even sleep in the same room with me, Kite wasn't allowed to- I think it was some weird impulsive thing..."
It all sounded incredibly messed-up to Saeki, but he could probably bet Yuushi's money on top of his own that no one was more confused than Ohtori. "Damn," he said, shaking his head with a sigh. "At least over there I didn't have to worry about relationships, heh. I ever tell you that? Or the other Ohtori?"
"If it were for anyone but Ryou I would have just given up and walked away." A fond smile started to form as Ohtori just thought about his lover. "I know I hurt him badly- it's not like I meant to...but he came back- and he swears he isn't mad- and the holiday plans are still on." Ohtori gave a slight shrug to Saeki, "if you did, I don't really remember it. I'm sorry."
"No sweat," Saeki said, shrugging too. "But you said Wings came back, so I'm going to assume you're both working on it?"
"Yeah- with all that we've been through it would be almost ridiculous to end it over something that was beyond either of our control...but it's going to be hard." He could still hear Ryou's voice cracking and the pain in his eyes. "I never want to hurt him again."
Laughing, Saeki shook his head. "Don't make promises you can't keep, kid. Life likes doing weird things to people just for the fun of it. I'm glad you guys are working on it, though, or Wings'd lose a few feathers." He shrugged. "S'difficult enough dealing with unwanted memories you can't tell head or tail from. Or finding holes in them. Sharing a head's gotta be even tougher. If Wings couldn't even stick around through peacetime when all he's gotta deal with is a rival for your affections--okay, the other you, but you know what I mean--then if things went south, both of you'd be pretty darned near useless, don't you think?"
"I guess." He tried smiling, hoping Saeki was right. Their ride pulled up and they boarded, Ohtori starting to chew his lower lip. "They think we can have things normal soon though." He hated the idea of spending the holidays with more than just his family and his boyfriend, and of course his boyfriend's family as well. It was complicated enough planning around just that, and no doubt Kite would want to see his family as well.
"They?" Saeki asked as the train doors slid shut. "Who's they?"
"Ryou and Kite. They've been trying to figure this out. I keep thinking Oishi-kun can help me, but they don't think this is an illness or injury."
"Probably not the kind a healer can fix," Saeki said, shaking his head. "Probably need someone more powerful, or someone who can deal with dimensions or whatever that stuff does. But if you guys are going to do that, give me a heads-up first, okay? Don't want to get pulled randomly like last time." Saeki's mouth set in a straight line firmly. "Where I go, Yuu and Kira go, and the same for them too."
He shook his head, and then smiled at Ohtori. "Enough of that. What're they planning? And you know ... who is this Kite dude anyway?"
"I understand. I'll let you know as soon as I know. I'll text you. Promise." He wouldn't want to be seperated from Ryou, especially by some other universe. "They haven't really let me know what they are planning, I can ask. I should be allowed to know anyway. Kite- is..." Really- who was Kite exactly? "Kite came from that other universe, where he was my boyfriend apparently. He's a bartender and has like this ability to not get killed. He adjusts to everything. I could shock him as hard as I wanted and it wouldn't harm him."
"Useful skill," Saeki said. It was useful to know, too. "Doesn't bleed when cut and all that? Or more like the X-Men's Wolverine?"
"No- he'd bleed. Like uhm-" It was hard to think about, and harder to explain. "Okay- let's say you clawed his face clean off- it would heal right back up like he didn't have a scratch at all, and then the next time you did it, your claws wouldn't have nearly the effect they should."
"Like a cockroach that keeps coming back?" Saeki asked wryly. "That's wonderful." Not really; Saeki couldn't see any way of removing Kite if that were true. They'd have to get inventive, or Oshitari would have to step in. Everything came back to Oshitari--Saeki was so tired of having physical powers good for nothing but fistfights. "So he's basically immortal, then? Should send him to do all the dangerous things in the future. Bet the Brotherhood wants him pretty bad, too?"
"He's actually a very nice person." Besides that, Ohtori really did not like to see innocent people hurt. The only thing Kite had done wrong was being in love with someone who died, and no one could fault him for his heart. "But I guess he would be pretty helpful on dangerous missions. He ended up saving me when we went to rescue him. I almost got shot."
"Probably nice to you because you're ... well, you," Saeki said, giving Ohtori a meaningful look. He couldn't really say, though, and it was probably unfair to judge a fellow mutant merely because Saeki was unhappy with the way the other had wormed into the HFC. He shook his head. "No, don't mind me, Bolt. No one could really help being nice to you."
"It's a mess. The other me got shot to death apparently and he found him dying...so it sort of freaked him out a lot." He watched various things fly by as the train rushed along its tracks. Turning to look at Saeki, he shook his head and smiled. "No, trust me on this one. People might sometimes be nice to me because I'm nice to them, but you can always tell the sincerely nice people from the ones that are just doing it to be polite."
"Huh," Saeki said, filing that point away. "I'm sorry to hear that. I liked him. Good kid like you. Tried to help me out, too. Didn't exactly have the best taste in guys, perhaps, but that's neither here nor there." Their stop was coming up soon, Saeki thought, checking the display. "And sure," Saeki said, shrugging. His instincts had always helped. "Personally I think it's the puppy thing," he said, grinning at Ohtori. "Maybe you should get one for Wings."
"Puppy thing?" Ohtori righted himself quickly as the train stopped and quickly stepped outside, looking for Saeki and returning to his side immediately. "Get what for Ryou? A puppy? I don't know...do you think he'd like that?"
"Maybe," Saeki said, shrugging. "Better check to see if he's allergic, first. You don't want to make things worse. So long as your dog doesn't try to think he can take me on, I don't see a problem," he said, grinning, ignoring Ohtori's first questioning remark.
"I'll call his mom later on this evening and find out-" A pause, "wait! Are you sure Oshitari-san would be okay with it too...and I doubt a puppy would want to take you on." That would definitely be poor judgment on the canine's part, and would undoubtedly end poorly.
Looking at the stores around them, Ohtori took a deep breath and smiled excitedly, it was so good to be out! "So- where do we begin?"
"Pet store," Saeki said, thinking about cats as well as dogs. "Come on, I think there's one over here."
Date: Today
Rated: PG- tops
Summary: Saeki and Ohtori go Christmas shopping. Ohtori needs to get away from the house for a while, and Saeki agrees to come. There is some talk about current events, Christmas gifts, and other goodies. Enjoy!
Ohtori needed to get away for a while. That meant he had to find someone he could be trusted with. Ryou had stepped out, understandably- and he had been avoiding Kite, finding the whole sex thing very very uncomfortable and awkward. Sighing, the tall teen draped across his bed and drearily poked at his cellphone, looking over the names of his contacts and trying to find someone who would willingly humour him and take him out for at least a few hours. Clicking through the list again, he stopped and pondered two names on the list, as he did not want to bother Oshitari again for a while since he'd been kind enough to visit.
And really, Christmas shopping was the perfect reason to go out. It was dangerously close to the holiday, and the very idea of having not given his friends and family something was just ridiculous. He remembered talking earlier to Saeki before finally taking a deep breath and sending him a short text message.
-Saeki-san,
Want to go X-mas shop with me for a while today?
Ohtori-
When Saeki's cellphone beeped at him, he turned to look at it, pondering who it could be. Kamio usually ran for him in person, finding it faster than keying in a message. Oshitari found it amusing to send sensory illusions (Saeki had lost count of the number of times he'd jumped when Oshitari's voice sounded as if it was right behind him).
Putting down his DS, Saeki flipped his phone open and read the message. Then he grinned. "Probably fun," he said to himself, keying in a response. He then grabbed his keys, left a message for Kamio and Oshitari about his whereabouts, and headed for Ohtori's place.
Smiling at the response, there was a flurry of motion as Ohtori rushed about the safe house to first straighten up and make sure everything was in its place again. He'd been raised to never leave his room until his bed was made and the floor was clean, and now, he had a whole house to fuss over. Once that was completed, he wrote a note explaining who he was with and where he was going- sort of.
The last thing Ohtori did was get ready himself, finding a clean shirt to put under his comfortable gray jacket. He'd all but given up on his hair behaving for any length of time and settled for quickly combing it into some semblance of order. Now all he had to do was wait...
It didn't take too long to get to Ohtori's place, all things considered. Thirty minutes later, Saeki punched the apartment number into the intercom panel of Ohtori's building, pushed the button, and waited. It was a little nippy, but not too bad. Nice weather if one liked it a little on the chilly side. Would have been perfect weather to be a tiger, but unfortunately, humans tended to get panicky if they saw one. Oh well. Saeki could use the leg-exercise.
A beep-
Ohtori blinked at the flashing box by the door in mild confusion. No one ever used that, they just knocked or came right in. Shaking his head, he walked over and pressed the intercom button.
"I'll be right out, Saeki-san."
Choutarou darted across the room to fetch his wallet from the small table by the sofa and stuffed it into his pocket before all but racing down the stairs and out the front door, only stopping once he stood in front of the older male. "Thank you so much for agreeing to hang out with me. I was getting claustrophobic in there."
Saeki shook his head with a laugh. "Yeah, that's okay. I'm a housecat myself, but I can see the attraction of fresh air. Come on--Shinjuku okay with you? Lots of things to see and do, and enough people to hide us if we need to make a break for anything." And if they got bored, it would be fun to give his fingers some practice; Kamio's knives were going to be pretty pricey.
"Yeah- Shinjuku is perfect. I need to get a lot of things, and it'd be a good spot to find most of it. I was afraid I'd have to online shop or something- it's so impersonal." He was rambling. He had done the same thing to Oshitari-san when he'd come over to visit- perhaps it was an affect of staying with just the same two people for as long as he had. "Are you ready to go?"
"If you are," Saeki replied. He grinned. "Online shopping isn't fun at all. I like getting our ... toys ... in person sometimes. You get the best looks, heh. Too bad the staff aren't the best lookers, but oh well." He headed off back towards the station. "What are you going to buy?" That was the nice thing about Shinjuku--you could get pretty much everything.
"Toys?" He had a hard time imagining the trio playing with toy water guns or little building blocks- but who was he to judge- he talked to his anatomical model sometimes when he was frustrated with remembering bone names. Trying not to think too hard on the subject, he quickly followed Saeki. "Well- honestly I usually don't have a plan until I get to where I'm going. Then I just let the things tell me what I think everyone would like. You?"
"Toys," Saeki confirmed, grinning, refusing to elaborate. No point burning Ohtori's cheeks out before they'd even gotten on the train. Bolt was fun to tease, but Saeki didn't want to break him. "Oh, you mean for Christmas? Mmm, probably boring things. Kira'll probably appreciate some knives. Gotta get Fuji some weird foods, bet he likes that sort of thing. Yuushi's going to be difficult, though, and I haven't decided what to buy. Maybe something'll stop me on the way, too. Need to buy Wings something, too, but I figure he'll like grapes. What are you getting him?"
At the mere mention of his boyfriend Ohtori knitted his brows and frowned. "Something good. He's been staying out lately..." He didn't want to explain the mess with Kite, or need to explain his desperation to get away from the house, but if he had to he would. "I might get him his own pool stick thing. He loves to play billiards."
Ah, right, there was that. Maybe Saeki could get him some membership to pool club or something. By the look on Ohtori's' face, though, things weren't going well. "Difficult having to share him with the other you?" he guessed.
"Heh- I don't think he'd mind that so much...but-" He remembered his face getting clawed for being stupid ages ago, before he and Shishido had even started properly seeing each other and closed his eyes, mentally preparing to dodge. "More like the other me decided to tie up and sleep with Kite-san..." He waited for the slashing sensation with his eyes still clenched shut.
"He what?" Saeki stopped mid-step, turning to Ohtori. "Wait, this just sounds like deja vu all over again. Every time I hear something about that guy I have to ask people to repeat things. So. Run that by me again, kid, because I met you in the other world, too, and even though you were different, I didn't think you were that kind of guy."
"Had sex with Kite." Ohtori filled him in, sighing and looking down. "I think the truth of it is, we were all feeling a little frustrated there. Kite wanted his me, Ryou wanted to have just me. But since it was dangerous all around, Ryou wouldn't even sleep in the same room with me, Kite wasn't allowed to- I think it was some weird impulsive thing..."
It all sounded incredibly messed-up to Saeki, but he could probably bet Yuushi's money on top of his own that no one was more confused than Ohtori. "Damn," he said, shaking his head with a sigh. "At least over there I didn't have to worry about relationships, heh. I ever tell you that? Or the other Ohtori?"
"If it were for anyone but Ryou I would have just given up and walked away." A fond smile started to form as Ohtori just thought about his lover. "I know I hurt him badly- it's not like I meant to...but he came back- and he swears he isn't mad- and the holiday plans are still on." Ohtori gave a slight shrug to Saeki, "if you did, I don't really remember it. I'm sorry."
"No sweat," Saeki said, shrugging too. "But you said Wings came back, so I'm going to assume you're both working on it?"
"Yeah- with all that we've been through it would be almost ridiculous to end it over something that was beyond either of our control...but it's going to be hard." He could still hear Ryou's voice cracking and the pain in his eyes. "I never want to hurt him again."
Laughing, Saeki shook his head. "Don't make promises you can't keep, kid. Life likes doing weird things to people just for the fun of it. I'm glad you guys are working on it, though, or Wings'd lose a few feathers." He shrugged. "S'difficult enough dealing with unwanted memories you can't tell head or tail from. Or finding holes in them. Sharing a head's gotta be even tougher. If Wings couldn't even stick around through peacetime when all he's gotta deal with is a rival for your affections--okay, the other you, but you know what I mean--then if things went south, both of you'd be pretty darned near useless, don't you think?"
"I guess." He tried smiling, hoping Saeki was right. Their ride pulled up and they boarded, Ohtori starting to chew his lower lip. "They think we can have things normal soon though." He hated the idea of spending the holidays with more than just his family and his boyfriend, and of course his boyfriend's family as well. It was complicated enough planning around just that, and no doubt Kite would want to see his family as well.
"They?" Saeki asked as the train doors slid shut. "Who's they?"
"Ryou and Kite. They've been trying to figure this out. I keep thinking Oishi-kun can help me, but they don't think this is an illness or injury."
"Probably not the kind a healer can fix," Saeki said, shaking his head. "Probably need someone more powerful, or someone who can deal with dimensions or whatever that stuff does. But if you guys are going to do that, give me a heads-up first, okay? Don't want to get pulled randomly like last time." Saeki's mouth set in a straight line firmly. "Where I go, Yuu and Kira go, and the same for them too."
He shook his head, and then smiled at Ohtori. "Enough of that. What're they planning? And you know ... who is this Kite dude anyway?"
"I understand. I'll let you know as soon as I know. I'll text you. Promise." He wouldn't want to be seperated from Ryou, especially by some other universe. "They haven't really let me know what they are planning, I can ask. I should be allowed to know anyway. Kite- is..." Really- who was Kite exactly? "Kite came from that other universe, where he was my boyfriend apparently. He's a bartender and has like this ability to not get killed. He adjusts to everything. I could shock him as hard as I wanted and it wouldn't harm him."
"Useful skill," Saeki said. It was useful to know, too. "Doesn't bleed when cut and all that? Or more like the X-Men's Wolverine?"
"No- he'd bleed. Like uhm-" It was hard to think about, and harder to explain. "Okay- let's say you clawed his face clean off- it would heal right back up like he didn't have a scratch at all, and then the next time you did it, your claws wouldn't have nearly the effect they should."
"Like a cockroach that keeps coming back?" Saeki asked wryly. "That's wonderful." Not really; Saeki couldn't see any way of removing Kite if that were true. They'd have to get inventive, or Oshitari would have to step in. Everything came back to Oshitari--Saeki was so tired of having physical powers good for nothing but fistfights. "So he's basically immortal, then? Should send him to do all the dangerous things in the future. Bet the Brotherhood wants him pretty bad, too?"
"He's actually a very nice person." Besides that, Ohtori really did not like to see innocent people hurt. The only thing Kite had done wrong was being in love with someone who died, and no one could fault him for his heart. "But I guess he would be pretty helpful on dangerous missions. He ended up saving me when we went to rescue him. I almost got shot."
"Probably nice to you because you're ... well, you," Saeki said, giving Ohtori a meaningful look. He couldn't really say, though, and it was probably unfair to judge a fellow mutant merely because Saeki was unhappy with the way the other had wormed into the HFC. He shook his head. "No, don't mind me, Bolt. No one could really help being nice to you."
"It's a mess. The other me got shot to death apparently and he found him dying...so it sort of freaked him out a lot." He watched various things fly by as the train rushed along its tracks. Turning to look at Saeki, he shook his head and smiled. "No, trust me on this one. People might sometimes be nice to me because I'm nice to them, but you can always tell the sincerely nice people from the ones that are just doing it to be polite."
"Huh," Saeki said, filing that point away. "I'm sorry to hear that. I liked him. Good kid like you. Tried to help me out, too. Didn't exactly have the best taste in guys, perhaps, but that's neither here nor there." Their stop was coming up soon, Saeki thought, checking the display. "And sure," Saeki said, shrugging. His instincts had always helped. "Personally I think it's the puppy thing," he said, grinning at Ohtori. "Maybe you should get one for Wings."
"Puppy thing?" Ohtori righted himself quickly as the train stopped and quickly stepped outside, looking for Saeki and returning to his side immediately. "Get what for Ryou? A puppy? I don't know...do you think he'd like that?"
"Maybe," Saeki said, shrugging. "Better check to see if he's allergic, first. You don't want to make things worse. So long as your dog doesn't try to think he can take me on, I don't see a problem," he said, grinning, ignoring Ohtori's first questioning remark.
"I'll call his mom later on this evening and find out-" A pause, "wait! Are you sure Oshitari-san would be okay with it too...and I doubt a puppy would want to take you on." That would definitely be poor judgment on the canine's part, and would undoubtedly end poorly.
Looking at the stores around them, Ohtori took a deep breath and smiled excitedly, it was so good to be out! "So- where do we begin?"
"Pet store," Saeki said, thinking about cats as well as dogs. "Come on, I think there's one over here."