Catching Some Z's [OPEN]

[hedgephones]

Characters: Neku H. (hedgephones) and anyone on the Way who feels like dropping in
Content: Zombies after Ryoji's brains Winding Way energy drain--and possibly food.
Setting: Winding Way, Kitchens
Time: Today
Warnings: Sleepy spikyhairs + general fail

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[tiny_tinker_toy]

Crash!

"Hehehe, oops."

Finding Rikku on the ground with something--like a failed project--on top of her wasn't exactly abnormal. She was a hyper ball of doom, after all.

But finding Rikku on the ground, with something on top of her, and someone under her was a little odd. Especially when Rikku was still in her pjyamas.

[hedgephones]

... Well, that was one of the ruder awakenings he'd ever had. Neku rubbed at his eyes (still tired, whyyy) and contemplated just flopping on the floor and going back to sleep (or maybe that was just because he was so dazed from the head-meet-floor side of things)--or he would have, if he'd been able to breathe.

"O-Ow. Watch it, would y--" a yawn interrupted him midsentence and then he finally got a good look at where he was and what the hell was going on.

--There was some random girl on top of him in her PJs. That itself was enough to send him bolt upright and scurrying back--or at least, he would have, but she'd kind of knocked over a bunch of stuff, and she was heavy. Oh, hell.

Slightly more flustered, "M-Move it, I can't--owowow, seriously, you weigh a ton!"

[tiny_tinker_toy]

"I do not! I only weight a hundred twenty pounds soaking wet!" How rude. "You sould have been sleeping on the pots anyway, mister-" A large yawn "-mister grumpy britches."

Rikku disentangled herself from the chaos. "Sorry, anyway. Why are you down here sleeping? The crew room has comfier sofas and a really poofy chair if y'wanted to nap."

[hedgephones]

Well, he shouldn't have, true, but Neku was also so used to being called variations of 'grumpy' it barely registered anymore. The slight on his shorts was going a little far, though. "You'd be grumpy too if you just had a hundred something pounds land on you out of the blue while you were napping." A half-hearted glare. "That's the weight of like fifteen adult sky fish."

He would've continued and snapped into an even grumpier mood if Rikku's one yawn didn't set off a chain reaction. Groggily, Neku tried his poor abused head at remembering why he'd come here in the first place. "... Thought food might help me stay awake. That failed."

He wobbled to his feet and dusted himself down for damage, then looked around with fresh eyes (he didn't even remember coming in here, jeez). It was still messy, but maybe he could actually find something palatable this time around...

[drinkitlovelife]

Milk had had a lot of energy to drain, but, just like everyone else, it was going fast. She couldn't even transform at the moment, and was left to go around performing what duties she could stay awake for in her pink, little creature form. It was her true form, of course, so it wasn't much of an inconvenience, but she did look rather silly dragging her hammer behind her while trying to stay awake.

The kitchens, however, were still too promising to resist, and maybe some sugar would help. She walked in and tilted her little head at the sleepy boy propping himself up.

"Out of the way ~miru." Milk poked him with one of her oversized ears. "I'm tired and hungry ~miru."

[tidesnpc]

From high above Milk, in one of the cabinets typically reserved for storing plates, something moved. The cabinet was eased open only a sliver at first, enough for a tiny eye to peek out and investigate the commotion.

There was a smile, and then a muted rustle, accompanied by a soft clank...

Then the cabinet door was pushed open further, a couple of walnuts flung out of the opening and straight down at her. Both of them missed their mark, instead hitting the ground close to her, the force of the impact partially cracking their shells.

[tiny_tinker_toy]

Unfortunately, Rikku's foot got hit by one of the nuts as it bounced.

"What the heck? Killer walnuts?"

[hedgephones]

This was going to be like one of those awful stories where the protagonist just wanted a drink of milk and ended up having to walk through lava, wasn't it? After falling asleep, getting landed on by a thinly-clad stranger and then--killer walnuts.

You're kidding me, right?

And then he spotted Milk.

"You... You're the one with the walnuts?" Neku could perhaps be forgiven for being a little frazzled at this point. Walnuts and some bunny-squirrel thing went together fine in his brain.