Dance this new creation It's the new sensation
Characters: whatsacliche aaaand anyone and everyone
Setting/Location: In the halls of the caravan
Date & Time: Noon on Day 11
Warnings: Public humiliation (for Finn)
Summary: Finn's making things up to Kurt for everyone's amusement
( Hop hop hop! )
It was just so...undignified! Brave! Useful! Efficient! Supportive! Strong! (Aah~ He'd do anythign for someone to think of him as strong...)
Any of those! But nice?!
"Well they shouldn't be laughing!" Gau retorted trying to disguise how warm-faced affected he was by compliments with a veneer of anger.
He was a bad actor even at the best of times, though. Much too straightforward--even when being complimented on niceness by a huge person in a bunny suit.
He hoped nobody saw him, on gut reaction, then...asked himself who would possibly be there to see him? Or care? This wagon if interplanar refugees all forced from their homes into a place like this? How could any of them bother to do something against one another?
"A bet is like a promise!" Gau affirmed loudly, with the air of serious hair-trigger fire normally reserved for his rants on justice. (He also noted for about ( ... )
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"Well he was on Ogre-san's back, and just had to wait." Gau replied with narrow eyes. "Inspecting backdated posts to the network makes clear that the Leader wasn't expecting people in the forest, but he stopped in the ghost-town anyway. With technology like the junogram available, he should have known there was nobody in the town, and he would have stopped there even without people like me in the woods."
He tied a knot in the ear, and cut the remaining thread with his kunai, dropping finally off his tiptoes. "It's increasingly more unlikely Raikou-san's even here with all that...but with the leader acting suspiciously, all members of the caravan should band together to find the most efficient and safest way home ( ... )
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He shook his head, looking a little worried. "What if something goes wrong and we get stuck here? What if the giant just eats all of us or something? I mean, yeah, it's kind of really damn fishy that he did that, but...you know. None of us knows this place. We could get seriously lost."
And if they were lost, then forget ever getting home. Ever seeing Lima again. Or his mom. Quinn.
He just didn't want to take any risks he didn't had to.
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"I just think that the caravan's something-! We don't know how long things will take! That's all!"
He gripped at his notebook as thoguh it could transport him home single-handedly. "So we need to look at any other options we can find. Some people...need to get home fast. That's all." He was chewing his lip now, nervously, hunched in.
Thinking of Yoite, and trying to calculate how long the other boy had--how long before his limbs began to turn to dust beneath him. The awfulness of the death provided as consequence to the kira technique...
"Hudson-san should be looking at those too, even if he doesn't need the speed. It's...certainly something nicer."
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Man, the way Meguro was going on about this seemed...well. Personal. And they were roommates after all. They ought to get to know each other, right? "Um...what do you have to get home to so fast?"
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Ugh. And to think he'd have to explain this to a person from the outside world... It had sounded so bizzare the first time he'd heard it. He gritted his teeth, notebook against his chest.
"There's the inside world and the outside world, right? The outside world is...normal stuff. Day to day things like going to school and worrying about things like that." he swallowed. So far so good. Even if Hudson was American, that had to be something he'd know between gun battles and riding horses and herding cattle ( ... )
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Man. That sucked. What could he even say to that?
Well...he had one idea. "Um, back home, I have a couple friends who are...not sick but-- but disabled, right? And I think they're some of the strongest people I've ever met. They deal with the worst crap every day but they get through it so well that you forget they're not just the average kid." He waved his hand. "And you know, they're not. They're amazing. I spent a week in a wheelchair and it sucks. Artie does that every day..."
He was rambling. "M--my point is...people are stronger than you think. Everybody is capable of so much more than anyone expects until something happens and they have to pull through. ( ... )
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Right, he hadn't beleived it either. He'd been much worse to Yoite, in fact. The trick is just not to overuse the kira technique! He'd said that. He hadn't known anything, and he'd thought he was a real expert, he'd thoguht he was impressing the chief with his knowledge, with his eagerness to work under him. He'd been an embarrassment to Raikou, and embarrassment to everyone, and hadn't even realized...
He didn't blink, solemn, "If you met Yoite-kun you wouldn't say that. If you saw him-" He remembered the house he'd been hiding in in the town. "I could show you a house in the town that he used the Kira technique on. The door's been blasted away!" He paused. Right. But that wouldn't do it. Even Gau could see it in Finn's half-weirded-out, half-earnest expression. He wouldn't be convinced unless he saw Yoite himself. Unless he smelled the blood and death around him. Gau knew that with the empathetic assurance that only came from experience, and certain idiocyHe doubted anyone could be as genuinely hard-headed as ( ... )
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Acting the way he had been was dangerous and selfish. This reality check (of sorts-- the ninja part was still a little confusing) made that clear.
Shaking himself slightly to clear his head, he said, "W--well. I mean, we'll be rooming together so I'm sure I'll meet him eventually." He ran a hand through his hair. "And...there's a doctor here. He was the one Kurt was joking around with on the computery-things. Maybe Yoite-kun could go to him and get some help?" He hoped he wasn't totally off-base with that suggestion.
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"But...even if a normal doctor looked at him, there's nothing they could give him here, and none of them would understand why he's dying." Gau shrugged. "It's a horrible way to die, really..." He murmured, holding the notebook a little closer to his chin. "His...lifeforce is broken. It's...it's like a teacup." He looked up a little anxiously. Hattori's analogy. He didn't have a full tecup to break, but he'd have to try to explain anyway.
"It's...full of tea, and you drink it until it's empty. But if you pushed it off the table, it breaks, and the tea disperses. Using kira...it's like that. Even fixing the cup doesn't give ( ... )
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He sobered up as Meguro continued, however. "Yeah...I-- I'm going to do everything I can. I just hope we can all get home safely. After what happened yesterday..." Finn bit his lip anxiously. "It's scary to think that maybe we're actually being led away from our way home..."
Finn clapped his hand over Meguro's. "Thanks, man. Um. For you know. Talking to me and stuff. This was...nice." Talking wasn't Finn's thing, to be honest, so he always appreciated when it went well.
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He certainly didn't miss that the giant bunny-man had clasped his hand.
Gau went beet red, and panicked.
He wasn't spectacular at social things himself, as it turned out.
Another guy! Holding his hand! (Well...Raikou sometimes did things like that, but he always let go right after and did it out of nowhere, and that was RAIKOU! This was different!)
A whole slew of questions poured throught he poor kid's head: Was his roommate gay? Was that his way of telling him?! Was it because he'd grabbed his costume like that?! Had he somehow sent the wrong signals ( ... )
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Okay, that was exactly why, but he wasn't going to say any of it out loud.
At least food was something he could talk about pretty comfortably. "Um, well, I'm not too picky. Like, I'll eat just about anything on a pizza. Just no brussel sprouts or anything like that." It took a moment for Finn to realize what Meguro was getting at. "Wait, you're going to make me food? You-- you don't have to do that, man. I can live on PB&J forever, really."
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All of his suspicions about Americans and their taste in cuisine were just confirmed.
"That's...horrible for you. Peanut Butter may be a good source of protein, but you're probably not oging to get it around here! And Homemade jelly takes hours! A person of Hudson-san's apparent stature and athleticism should have a fulfilling and nutritious diet!"
"I bet you live off frozen food..." Gau grumbled like it was a sin. "I'll give you a portion like Yoite-kun's though I still don't know how he can stuff a whole piece of cake into his mouth without making himself SICK and make sure it's something healthy and delicious." Gau started scribbling notes to himself erratically in his notebook, muttering a little ( ... )
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