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[drivenbyblood]

WHO: Raikou and Gau (Closed).
LOCATION: Hogwarts's gardens.
WEEK: 65
TIME: Thursday morning. Might as well be at that point with how late it is. D8
WHAT: The two are meeting for the first time since Raikou's imprisonment in Azkaban. (Additional Info: Because of a long chain of events (check out both of their histories), Raikou accidentally

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Gau was busy in his mad scramble to the gardens. What Raikou looked like was the least of his concerns so far. Just the fact that Raikou was coming--and much too soon for him...that was enough to send deep tendrils of paranoia into his hardworking little brain.

He robe snagged in a hinge on the way out, stopping him with a jerk. He pulled the thing free, with a grumble. Everything else was fairly ordinary to him in this uniform, except the robe. Long things like that were so impractical. Just traditions at work, he supposed. But...really, he didn't have time for supposing. he took off again at a run, garnering a few stares, and even a snigger or two as he passed.

Gau Meguro was not known for his athleticism after all, and the scar in his chest burned with the deep breaths, the skin around it warping, and twisting with each heave as he tore his way over to the gardens without a scrap of dignity.

Not that it would matter, Gau noted grimly. Raikou was probably going ot kill him. He was probably hurt. And if half of what Gau had read

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While he had lost a few memories, Raikou had been able to avoid the worst of the Dementors' hunger. He had found that if one followed orders and kept out of trouble, they weren't particularly interested in that prisoner. Though he probably had the other, more rowdy, prisoners to thank for that respite.

Even though he walked slowly to the gardens, he arrived way before he expected. Thus he paused at the entryway to the gardens, gathering his courage to face Gau. Any moment now, the boy would surely reject him for good and...

He would be alone again. Nothing would have changed. He had told himself that he would have to accept that Gau would never be at his side again. But.

But...

That little word caused his heart to ache. He wanted to see him again - if only from afar. Gau was much closer to him than his own sister. Regardless of how this went, it would hurt.

Finally, he stepped into the garden and found...

"Gau." he murmured, his voice barely audible.

Pff~ I wrote half of this while you were writing yours. *Gau rubs efficiency off just a little*

[cakebakenojutsu]

There's someone in the dirt, digging feverishly, panting audibly as they do so. Even from behind, it will probably take a while before Raikou will even realize it's him.

Granted, that was the thing with Gau, after all. He was brilliant with housework, and sloughed away at it without complaint, but...find a job that was actually dirty, and there was instant comedy to be had as Gau would try to dispatch his work, hindered by a desire not to get a scrap of soot or dirt on him.

And yet, this person is there, clawing at and digging up the soil with his hands, bent on his knees, working feverishly. And behind him, there's a small, steady, slightly wilty growing row of Red Spider Amaryllis, a crop of the blooms with their bulb-roots exposed right next to him, and his worn-heeled shoes, pathced in the soles with cardboard because even before, Gau was tightfisted with his money as any Scot.

Gau places another in the dirt, then fumbles with a muddied hand for his wand.

"A-Aquaminty?" He ventures. The wand gives a little fizzle, and Gau

You're amazing. Accept it. 8D

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The sight of Gau digging in the dirt might have been comical if it hadn't gone so against the boy's nature. Raikou could tell that the boy was desperate, but he didn't understand why. It was only after he glanced at what Gau was doing that the pieces clicked together.

Amaryllis blossoms. Spider lilies. The flowers of...

The Shimizu family.

He had remembered and...here he was, going through hell to get them planted for him. Raikou realized that what he expected out of Gau was completely wrong. This was...an offering. But for what? Could it be that Gau didn't blame him for -

No. He couldn't allow himself to hope. If one hoped in the presence of Dementors, they would take it away. That was their nature.

I'm not around Dementors. He reminded himself. But, just as quickly as he tried to make himself understand that, he wondered why he felt so cold and empty. There had to be a reason for thatAnd the reason was right in front of him. Gau was the missing piece in his life. Gau was his warmth