[Thread] Let's Conspire to Reignite

[ringrevolution]

Characters: AU!Rhyme Bito and AU!Neku Sakuraba
Where: First apartment building.
When: Earlier today.
Summary: Rhyme finally makes her way to one of the apartments and runs into a familiar face.
Warnings: None~

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[phonespsych]

Neka closed the door to her apartment with a soft sigh. She had gotten lucky that Saya wasn't in. She still needed to get some proper clothing. It was getting rather cold outside and well, what she was wearing didn't cover a whole lot. It left her arms bare and her legs rather cold.

She also needed to get a new set of headphones and find a way to get her MP3 player charged back up. She really missed her music. She paused as she looked down the hall. Was that Rhyme? It looked like her, but older.

"Rhyme?" She asked, blinking.

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Rhyme was beginning to see a pattern in how these apartments were set up on each floor. Each had all the necessities, and a bit of her almost wanted to make herself something to eat but she had gotten off the communicator a couple minutes ago. Her room mates were apparently preparing something for her, so she shouldn't spoil herself.

Rhyme had been looking over her shoulder, considering heading back towards the stairs when she heard her name called out.

She turned forward, surprised. There weren't many people here who knew her name, much less which face to connect it to.

What she saw was a familiar figure. She stopped in her tracks, not sure if what she was seeing was really there. They looked like Neku: spiky orange hair, fairly small and thin with pale skin. There was one distinct difference though, and that was that this person was female.

"...Neku?" she called uncertainly, her feet cemented.

[phonespsych]

"Kind of." She said, walking towards Rhyme. "I'm Neka." She said as she scratched the back of her head a bit. She walked over to Rhyme with a slight smile. It was still good to see the other Player, even if she wasn't really a Player anymore.

"I'm from a different version of Shibuya than you are." She said with a slight sigh.

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She should have figured that out--this Neku, or Neka, rather must be different from the one she knew. Still, it had never occurred to her that one of the differences between people could be gender. It was almost as strange as knowing about the other Rhyme here.

Nonetheless, male or female it was still the person she had made friends with, in some essence. Even if not, it never hurt to make more, right?

She returned the smile and gave a small laugh "Oh dear, this whole different worlds thing gets really confusing."