The Icklest Koala, Alcove A2, Sunday Night

[the_merriest]

Okay, so, Rikku had finally moved into her cabin. Hooray, cabins! And now she had a chocobo in her lap, and it was kwehing at her and pthhhhbbting and awwww. Way too cute.

She had to use this for evil. It was like a law.

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[dojima_hime]

Okay, Yurika was mostly done hiding in her room, mainly because she'd been forced to move to the cabins. Stupid stupid radio squirrels.

If there was a particular boy in her cabin, well, she still wasn't sure how she felt about that. Yurika liked having her personal space.

It took a bit of handwaved asking around, but she finally found what she hoped was the right cabin. "Rikku!" she yelled, banging on the door, "wanna go hit Caritas?"

[the_merriest]

"I can't," Rikku sighed. "I have to watch Stupid here or he'll get hurt."

Reno warked at Doji. Hi! Hi! Hi!

Reno was lucky he was so damn cute.

[dojima_hime]

Dōjima took that as an invitation to enter, and came bouncing in to try and bribe convince Rikku otherwise. "Oh come on, if he's hungover, just leave him. We'll be back later..."

She was going to need a moment to boggle.

"Please tell me that isn't who I think it is?" she asked faintly, reaching out a hand for the - Reno? - to investigate. "What did he do now?"

[the_merriest]

Reno sniffed Dojima's hand happily, and nipped affectionately at her fingers with a roo-ki-roo cooing happy noise.

"Goggles and his tattoos," she said, nodding to him. "I think that's why one of his feathers is bright blue, 'cause of the ... other tat? We, uh, we were trying to have a date. Huge mistake."

[dojima_hime]

"Do all your dates end in Red turning into something strange?" Dōjima asked, ruffling his feathers affectionately. "Hey, cut that out, dweeb. Boys only get to bite me if they ask nicely."

[the_merriest]

"No," Rikku sighed. "The first one was on the roof when there was that huge storm 'cause of the volcano? And the second one, the ferret got into the food, twice, and I ended up talking to his boss. We figured we couldn't mess it up too badly this time. I think maybe we shouldn't date any more."

Reno nuzzled happily against Dojima's fingers. Pettings! He loved pettings! They were the bestest things ever.

[dojima_hime]

"Maybe you just need to take the dates off-campus?" Dōjima mused aloud. "There's this fantastic suite at the Arms, it has a jacuzzi." Which was probably TMI, but she didn't really care. "Or you can take the picnic to the beach, and leave the phones behind."

"So you've got Birdbrain here, and Petey, and the ferret to deal with right now?" Dōjima whistled and shook her head. "Let me know if you want me to take one of them for an afternoon, so they don't all gnaw on each other. Alea doesn't seem to mind Petey too much."

[the_merriest]

"I've got the whole trifecta," she nodded. "That might be nice, actually. It's, uh. It's starting to feel like a zoo. They all seem to get along. Um. I mean. They all chew on each other? But it looks like playing and not anybody trying to eat anybody else, so I'm gonna call that good."

So did Petey, who had just decided that Dojima's anklet looked like it might be fun to attack.

Anything Petey could chew on, he usually did. It was like his hobby.

[dojima_hime]

"Petey!" Dōjima laughed, trying to disentangle the cat from her leg. "Rikku, help!"

"You could always be bad and dump Reno on Romeo for a bit," she suggested. "They can have boy-bird bonding time or something, if you need some sleep. Somehow we ended up in the same cabin, this time."

[the_merriest]

"Petey," Rikku said, facepalming as she hopped up and grabbed at her errant cat. "Why are you so bad? Why? Why are you so bad?"

Petey mrowled happily at Rikku, letting go of the anklet in order to rest one of his paws on her face. Hi! Hi!

Which earned her a wark from the abandoned chocobo on the bed.

Which earned him an interested look from Petey, who hopefully thought of him as a playmate and not a snack food.

Rikku shook her head. "You see what I deal with? Okay. I'll let you play with Reno, but you be good, Petey." She plopped Petey down onto her bed, where he began sniffing Reno with some curiosity.

"You really don't think he'd mind? I don't mind watching Reno or anything, it's just kinda ... pet city around here."

[dojima_hime]

Dōjima sat down on the bed to make sure the babies played nice. "Pass up the chance to tease Red? Are you kidding? Romeo would be hurt if you didn't show him this."

"Which reminds me, you have taken pictures, right?" Clearly, Dōjima had her priorities.

[the_merriest]

"Oh, I got some excellent blackmail footage in exchange for these pictures," Rikku grinned. "Having his best friend on speed-dial is never a bad idea. Remind me to show you sometime, I got tape of him being a drunken idiot. I mean, more so than usual. Reciting bits of some poem he hates and messing it up."

Reno peeped happily at Petey, who began chewing on his neck. In a friendly-like manner, so it seemed okay.

Thank goodness the ferret was asleep?

[dojima_hime]

"The mysterious Rude? So he's not a figment of Reno's imagination?" she teased, flopping over to scritch Petey behind the ears. "Reno doing poetry. Wow. I'm guessing he was being more of a drunken idiot than usual, then? I mean, he didn't even start spouting poetry when we were getting our tattoos."

[the_merriest]

"He kept shaking his butt and going 'wark'," Rikku giggled. "See? This was totally his own doing. He tempted fate."

As if putting a giant chocobo on his ass wasn't punishment enough.

"Rude's pretty cool. He's the one Reno usually works with. We chat, sometimes. I met him back at MercCon, when Reno had to beg him for the chopper."

[dojima_hime]

"He doomed himself the moment he let us pick the tattoo," Dōjima agreed. "Although if that means I'm going to turn into a lily-flower, I hope I turn back to a Dōjima-shape before I wilt!"

[the_merriest]

"Hey, at least yours is a shape!" she laughed. "Mine's kinda ... a swirly thing? I'll just be laying on the floor and you'll all think I'm graffiti."

Reno warked his agreement. Which meant Rikku had to scoop him up and nuzzle him. It earned her a said yowl from Petey, but he'd get over it. When he forgot it ever happened. In about four seconds.