Week 23, Day 2--Accidental Video

[cursed_vassal]

[A stomach-turning lurch, like the world has been briefly knocked off its axis, and Kurogane falls to the ground in a tangle of steel and bloodied limbs. He springs to his feet immediately, sword held at the ready in one hand. Crimson eyes gauge his surroundings, narrowing in suspicion

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[misfortunesfool]

...so what do you think?

[Waving to the array of cakes and sweets spread out on the picnic blanket before he and Fai, Yuui lifts his teacup and grins. Because while he could plan a menu for their cafe without a problem... it is so much more fun to get his twin's opinion on all of it.

More than anything, he wanted this to be something that was theirs, something they created together, like a jab of defiance to the title they carry.]

Which ones should we put on our me--

[Cerulean eyes widen as Yuui draws a sharp breath, the teacup falling from suddenly nerveless fingers at the brush of an oh-so-familiar life-force moments before that voice drifted up in echo from their Hitomis.]

Kuro-sama...

[But it was that sight of all that blood that had him lurching up to his knees and cutting his eyes over to his twin, something almost like panic or worry tinging their depths.]

Fai!

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[towertwin]

[Fai grinned in reply over his newest sample, a terrifyingly pink confection that seemed more sugar and strawberry than pastry. Yuui was having fun and even if tasting a dozen different kinds of dessert were unpleasant, that infectious joy would have caught him up.

And it was fun, building something together, something that was theirs, and wholly good for it. To create, rather than destroy.

He held up the half-eaten pink monstrosity.]

Let's have all the-

[Something was wrong.]

Yuui?

[Fai ignored the spreading tea-stain on the picnic blanket, already half startled out of his relaxed seat by his twin's expression. Kuro-sama? Kurogane! The man in Yuui's stories!]

H-he's here? [It only took a moment's glance to see why that was a bad thing. He held out a hand to his twin, determined and calm.]

We need to go to him.

[Fai knew what to do.]

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[cursed_vassal]

[It was getting kind of difficult to breathe. That and the way his vision seemed to phase in and out made Kurogane think, at first, that the voice coming from the Hitomi was an auditory hallucination.]

Great. My only companion before I die is a talking box.

[The fact that it was Fai's voice coming from the talking box only served to strengthen the ninja's belief that he was in the throes of delirium. He held the thing at arm's length, peering at the screen.]

Heh. Hey, pictures.

[It reminded him of the moving screens in Piffle. Grimacing, he peered down at the images the Hitomi was showing him and raised an eyebrow.]

…Fai?

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[misfortunesfool]

[Rather than answer Kurogane over the Hitomi, Yuui took his twin's hand firmly into his own and lifted the other. Familiar glyphs spiraled out around them, as he cast one last glance to the Hitomi before they coalesce around the two.

Just a moment, before they're there, standing not but a few feet away from his companion.

And before thought could really catch action... Yuui let's go Fai's hand just long enough to drop down to his knees beside Kurogane, both hands shooting out to press against the bleeding wound, horror and a very real fear sliding down his spine as he realizes just how deep the wound is.]

Kuro-sama! Hey! Look at me, okay?

[A quick command before he's glancing up to his twin.]

Fai? Do you think you can heal him, even a little?

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[mightstealyrcar]

[What the shit--

Matt landed in Kannagara gasping for breath himself, patting his chest down for holes that weren't there anymore. He's only seen someone really arrive wounded once before, and he tries to keep that mental image far, far away from his conscious thoughts.

He doesn't know if he can do much for this guy, but he can at least try to talk him through finding help. He has his goggles pushed up onto his forehead and a cigarette hanging off his lip when he sends his message.]

Hey! Guy! You still with us?

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[cursed_vassal]

[The first thing Kurogane heard after he'd regained consciousness was a disembodied voice.]

Huh.

[The box was talking at him again. With a mental shrug, Kurogane picked it up and peered at the screen. The man who stared back at him had red goggle imprints on his face and a cigarette dangling from his mouth.]

Still alive. Who're you?

[Small talk had never been his strong suit.]

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[mightstealyrcar]

Matt, and I've been here a while.

What the fuck happened to you?

[He seems remarkably lucid for someone Matt would expect to be in shock by now.]

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[cursed_vassal]

Uh.

Might've tried to cut my own arm off before coming here.

[He definitely wasn't ready to get into that right now, so soon after being pulled back from the brink of…well, death.]

Name's Kurogane. The blond bastard found me after I landed here. Fine now.

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[sternitfortem]

[ Holy crap, but that is a lot of blood. ]

Hey! Hey, are you okay? Do you need help?

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[cursed_vassal]

[Why did the box keep on talking at him--]

M'fine. Someone came and picked me up, took care of my arm.

[After a long, grudging pause--]

Thanks for asking, though.

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[sternitfortem]

[ This still doesn't seem like an appropriate reaction to nearly losing one's arm. ]

How the heck did you get hurt like that?

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[cursed_vassal]

Long story. Short story? Tried to cut my own arm off to save a..friend.

[A deadpan stare.]

Same friend found me, patched me up. Or, at least…I think it's the same friend.

[A startled blink as Kurogane remembers basic social niceties.]

Name's Kurogane. Who're you?

[…Remembers basic social niceties and completely slaughters them, that is.]