Night 56: Main Hallway, 1-West

[poorexample]

[From here.]He had reached the meeting point in less than a few minutes and there was still not another patient to be seen. Castiel paused, standing near the wall as he moved his flashlight up and down the corridor. There was nothing, not the sound of a shadow slipping through the dark; not the whisper of something less than human

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[tsunagari]

[from here]

Now in the main hallway, Sai stopped. He didn't immediately see anyone else from his group meaning he'd either missed them (which was highly unlikely) or that they had yet to arrive. He just needed to stand out of the way of the main crowd now, somewhere his fellow ninja would still be able to see him, and wait for the others to arrive. Any spot along the wall would do, so he picked a spot and stood to wait.

As he waited, he watched the others passing in the hall. There were some familiar faces, but many that he just didn't recognize. How many new patients had come and gone while he hardly noticed, he wondered. The ninja had been focused heavily on his own goals recently, which was probably good in many ways but still meant he wasn't learning as much about others as he used to. Perhaps he should change that in the near future.

[promisedawhale]

[chasing from here]

The young man was able to beat him out by a hallway, but thankfully for Brook Sai held up in the larger hallway, giving the musician time to catch up.

"Hey, Sai-san!" he tried from down the hallway, hand waving once again as it sent the flashlight beam back and forth. He dropped it once he was close enough and huffed from the quick sprint he'd just managed. "Are you always so quick in the evening?" he wondered aloud, then smiled at his friend, "Not that it's a bad thing. Do you need any help for the evening?"

Brook would leave if Sai wanted him to, of course, since he never wanted to impose, but that didn't mean he wouldn't worry over his friends. Those were so important in a place like this.

[tsunagari]

"Ah... I apologize." Sai blinked at Brook, wondering why the taller man had come from the other hallway and then realizing that going around the field would probably be a shorter distance for him. Or would have been if he'd actually been in his room. "I had assumed you would come through this hallway. Apparently that was the wrong assumption."

It would certainly be safer to come this way. It was rare for any monsters to appear in the main hall, and yet it was commonplace for them to appear in the rec field. The pirate was taking a risk for the sake of speed, but he supposed the distance wasn't all that long.

He nodded in greeting. "You were coming along anyway, correct?"

[promisedawhale]

"Oh no, it's fine no need to apologize!" Brook held up a hand and laughed, "I usually take the path through the field. And with it snowing, I just had to take care of something I'd forgotten during our trip to town!"

While his snow angel had been a matter of spontaneity, he thought it was a good thing to blame his pathway on. He didn't want Sai feeling bad just because Brook had needed to catch up with him. His speed was supposed to be a good thing, especially in these hallways.

"And I didn't want to impose if you'd ended up with other plans. Some things tend to change after the... er... field trip..." Memories of the walking undead caused Brook's smile to nearly fade completely before he shook his head of them. "But I'm always happy to help if you need me!"

[see_my_back]

[from here]

Sakura hurried down the hall to the meeting point, immediately spotting Sai and his much taller companion. That strange man again. Brook, wasn't it? She flipped her hair once more, thoroughly enjoying the feel of well-conditioned hair beneath her fingers. Would they notice? Perhaps Sasuke wouldn't be able to see the sheen in her hair to appreciate it, but surely he'd be able to appreciate the scent. And- Sasuke wasn't even here yet! So she wasn't too late after all.

"Did I make you wait?" she asked, partly curious, partly in apology.

let's get this thing moving ;;

[tsunagari]

"Not long." Sai nodded at the girl as she approached. It was good that they were all meeting up now. If she was along, then the other... two? would hopefully be following shortly. With any luck, they might actually make it to their destination in a decent amount of time this go around. After their past few tries, it would be a nice change of pace.

If not, they'd simply have to keep trying until they were successful. The powers that be, as it were, seemed determined to keep them, or perhaps just Sai with the way things had been going, from making any real leeway. He wasn't going to halt his attempts just because of this.

Re: let's get this thing moving ;;

[promisedawhale]

"We'd only just gotten here ourselves, so you've got excellent timing," Brook assured the pink-haired girl. He did, however, take a look around once she was present to see if any of the others might have been in sight. He'd seen the young man - Sasuke, wasn't it? - the night before, but the other young woman he'd not seen since his first descent into the basement with the group.

"Will any others be joining us?" he questioned to either of them, "Do you know?"

SORRY FOR THE LATENESS SOBS

[sasuke_of_sound]

[[from here]]The usual sweep of the hallway with that precious second's worth of Sharingan revealed that everyone else had already gathered. That might have been a relief were it not for the fact that the hall looked empty enough to suggest that it was already later in night

ON YOUR MARK, GET SET... Also, hi, guys. :D

[blood_and_pocky]

Aidou supposed he should have been grateful the “everyone” who constituted the group had managed to come together and weren’t wandering the halls, or being attacked by monsters, or being experimented on, but it was a thin gratitude at best. He looked over the three assembled. Sai and Sakura he already knew of, linked to Sasuke as they were, but the third one…

How the hell did that guy fit in?

His appearance was an offence from across a cafeteria, but in close proximity the vampire had to fight back a groan. He didn’t think he’d ever warm up to the abrupt changes in company he was keeping while in Landel’s, or the prospects of untried blood magic

[see_my_back]

Good, it sounded like they hadn't waited long. Sakura nodded once to show she understood and was about to open her mouth to explain that yes, of course Sasuke-kun would be coming, but it seemed it wasn't necessary. He and another boy had only just arrived, a few steps behind her. It was that Aidou person, wasn't it. She greeted him with a smile and just a twinge of jealousy; wasn't this the same person who'd given Sasuke that mark? Seriously, did Sasuke have a thing for blondes or something? Maybe she should've used her money to get herself a bottle of bleach instead.

She'd really only seen the guy from a distance and... okay he was pretty freaking hot. Not as hot as Sasuke of course, but he definitely had a good shot in the running. Sakura chose to ignore the the words he chose; Sasuke was usually just as abrupt and to-the-point, but the important part was, he wanted to hold her hand. In front of Sasuke? Was she just a pawn to make his lover jealous? Or perhaps an interesting new addition to their

[tsunagari]

Sai nodded his greeting to everyone, though Aidou received a glance perhaps not so friendly as the others. There was no jealously involved in this instance, simply the memory of an uncomfortable conversation from weeks prior. That was all the blond would get for now by way of hello.

As a grasping of hands appeared to be necessary for whatever method of transportation Sasuke was using (one that involved the rings from before, presumably), the ninja didn't hesitate to grab Brook's and pull him toward the others. He took Sasuke's other hand in his free one, the one Sakura wasn't making obvious moves toward. This wasn't to avoid holding Aidou's hand, of course. That would be making an unnecessary preference.

[promisedawhale]

Asked and answered. Brook looked as Sasuke and someone he'd not met before joined their group, explaining that all that would be there were. Though he might not have known the young blond haired boy, he had always followed the concept of "the more the merrier". So then, they were all there and ready to head for the basement, but there was one thing Brook wasn't quite understanding of the whole thing.

"Transport, you said?" he asked, only to suddenly get grabbed and pulled near to the rest by none other than Sai. "Eh? H-hold on a minute...!"

[sasuke_of_sound]

For all that Aidou had unexpectedly become one of Sasuke's more dependable allies in the Institute, there were times that he was forcibly reminded that he'd met the vampire while Aidou had been chowing down on cake in the middle of the night, in a room that had turned out to be infested with lizards made of fire. Now was one of those times, when Aidou's 'demanding' came just short of 'whining', and Sasuke had to resist the urge to roll his eyes at the pointless request