Dream #2

[gojyo_saaama]

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[monocled]

[While Hakkai is familiar enough with the story and the scenario, it hurts to experience this, to see his role in it. He keeps his hand right where it is, though, doesn't try to turn away from it.]

Gojyo... is Gai around?

[Because Gojyo shouldn't be alone right now, no matter what he thinks, but Hakkai and he are in separate houses now, and Yukari's sleeping form can be seen in the faint lamplight Hakkai was reading by.]

[gojyo_saaama]

[ His breath catches audibly, and it's a curse. ]

You saw that, huh?

[ Damn. Damn damn damn, that was the last thing he wanted. ]

[monocled]

[Hakkai's overwhelmed with guilt. He had, after all, once dreamed about murdering Gojyo. It isn't so surprising Gojyo would see him as a monster.

Naturally, he's smiling reassuringly.]

Ah... it's not as if either of us could help it.

[gojyo_saaama]

[ Hakkai was in the dream, wasn't he? Toward the end, Hakkai was there. Shit. ]

Make me sound like a kid with a wet spot on his jeans, sayin' it like that.

[ Crass jokes make everything better! ]

[ground_breaker]

Hey... are you all right?

[Sakura, the eternal worry-wart. And do-gooder.]

[gojyo_saaama]

[ There's a long pause, like he's hoping he just imagined Sakura having seen that. But no. She's on the line, and he has to talk to her about this. ]

I'm fine. Don't worry about me, okay?

[ground_breaker]

[But worrying is what she does!

Then again, she does have quite a bit of experience with dealing with... difficult people.]

I like your hair color. I think it suits you.

[It sounds like a non-sequiter, but what it means is: you're fine the way you are, and you shouldn't be ashamed of it.]

[gojyo_saaama]

...Don't supposed I could ask you t'pretend you didn't see that, huh?

[thousandbells]

...I don't like nightmares. [She doesn't know how to comfort someone, but she wants to try.]

[gojyo_saaama]

[ Oh, honey. Oh, honey, you shouldn't have had to see that. ]

Me neither. How about me an' you, we never have nightmares again, deal?

[thousandbells]

[The dream reminds her a little of how the village treated her brothers, though she doesn't like to think about it. She wonders if they ever had nightmares like that.]

I'll try. How do you not have nightmares?

[gojyo_saaama]

You need somethin' soft, like a toy, or a little pillow.

[ Or your brother's shirt, bunched up and hidden under your mattress where your mother couldn't find it. Gojyo's smile grew, remembering - Jien had taught him how not to have nightmares when he was about Chitose's age. ]

Somethin' special. An' when you go to sleep, you hold on to it, real tight, right over your heart. It stops th'bad things from comin' through into your dreams, and then you only have good dreams.

[necro_fantasia]

[Looks extremely groggy. Oh, Hakkai. You couldn't have gone in the other room to talk to you "other husband?"]

Everyone likes you here. And anyone who didn't like you there was a weak moron too impotent to do anything about their misfortune other than whine.

[A pause.]

Well. Mostly everyone, probably.

Anyway.

Nnnh.

[gojyo_saaama]

Go back t'sleep, Yukari. You're not makin' any kind of sense.

[necro_fantasia]

Your face doesn't make any sense.

[gojyo_saaama]

[ No, his face makes perfect sense. The scars and the red-on-red... they totally make sense. It's just a really shitty kind of sense. ]

...Go t'sleep.

[windsawakening]

[This scene is kind of familiar; just twist a few things around, though at least Naruto never had to run away. Much. ]

Gojyo…

[Has no idea what to say though.]