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[littlestcloud]

Who: Chuutarou Kumou (littlestcloud) & whoever!
When: Backdated to IC 1/28, though can be after too
Where: All around the city
What: Tenka has been gone for a while, so Chuutarou is putting up "Lost Brother" posters.
Rating/Warning: None!


[ Maybe you were out shopping, or on your way to work, but wherever you are you might notice something out of place. Are those posters taped haphazardly across... well. Nearly everything? It's probably an overzealous pet owner, you might think, or a new store advertising its existence. Then you get closer and--




If you follow the trail, you'll find Chuutarou (and any poor person he may have gotten to help him) taping them up wherever he can reach.


Join him? Question his sanity? Call in to report a tip? ]

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[reprizesal]

[It didn't take long for Sayo to see the posters and realised who might have made them. So he went looking for the one responsible and find him in the middle of putting up another poster.]

Chuutarou-san?

[littlestcloud]

[ One hand is still holding up half the poster from falling and the other reaching for the few inch piece of tape he has stuck to the first hand when Chuutarou turns to acknowledge Sayo ]

Sayo! What're you doing around here?

[journaler]

[ Leia recognizes the face on the posters immediately. Her eyes widen in surprise, since Sousei never mentioned Mr. Crabhead having a brother (let alone two), but nevertheless, she follows a trail that leads right to Chuutarou. Seeing him, everything makes sense--

From where the posters have been taped (low to the ground), and the handwriting on them.

She can't help but smile, expression softening as she observes him... but she'll finally step in when she notices him struggling to tape up one in particular that's not going quite as high as he wants.

She steps behind him and gently reaches for it, but doesn't snatch it out of his hand. That'd be mean! ]

Can I help?

[littlestcloud]

[ Chuutarou blinks in surprise for a moment when a hand hovers near the poster he's holding. He swivels his head a bit to look over his shoulder where the voice came from. Seeing Leia he lights up and smiles ]

Yes please! Ten-nii always said it's funner and easier with more people.

[ So he'll move to the side so she can work without him in the way, and once she has the poster well in hand Chuutarou will grab the stack of posters and tape roll he left on the ground. ]

My name is Chuutarou, by the way. What's yours?

[deontology]

[What is this..............what is this pile of posters, what is all of this mess.......]

What are you doing?

[Ah, Sousei is still so good with kids.]

[littlestcloud]

[ Chuutarou turns and gives the most proud smile ever at Sousei ]

I'm putting up posters, Sou-nii!

[ maybe you need glasses, Sousei... you'd think it'd be obvious what he's doing, what with all the posters everywhere. ]

[floralprophecy]

[Lab studies the poster with interest then he looks up and sees someone putting up more of these poster. He goes up to them.]

Do you need any help, my child?

[littlestcloud]

[ Chuutarou stands back up straight from where he was reaching for another poster at what was probably addressing him. ]

Labrador-san? Do you want to help? I'm trying to help Ten-nii come home!

[finatic]

[Well after the posters are up, Kagami finds one. Or rather, Kagami is skulking around the city, and a poster that has since fallen to the ground finds itself sticking to his sandal. It takes him a couple meters to realize, and he lifts his foot to shake it off only to see Kumou Tenka's face grinning back at him.

Who would do this.... Oh.

Wherever Chuutarou is in the city today, at some point Kagami is just going to turn up. He took the poster with him, apparently solely to wave it lazily in Chuutarou's face.]

Your handwriting sucks. [hi buddy]

/assumes this is just after the intro

[littlestcloud]

[ Chuutarou had been walking home from his courier work, delivering packages, when Kagami just appeared and Chuutarou nearly tipped over into the street. Thanks.

After a quick moment to recover his balance Chuutarou finally looks over at Kagami enough to recognize the poster and who holds it.

Then he lights up (and totally ignores the comment)] Hi Kagami! Did you find Ten-nii?!

[ It's not like you and your fishfingers can do any better--]

[rebelia]

[ With the gardens in mind, IV is on his way to a quieter place when the sea of posters draws his attention. The walls are practically swimming in them. No wonder – he spots the kid taping them up not too far away. So he strides up to a poster nearby and skims its contents with his hands on his waist. ]

"Crabhead"? Does he seriously respond to that?

[littlestcloud]

[ This sea of posters isn't even half of what he's made either! There's a neat(-ish) stack of them by his feet, not to mention the other places he managed to already hit. Chuutarou will just finish this poster and then make his way closer to IV to talk, looking happy at the interest ]

Yeah! Sou-nii calls him it all the time, plus some of his friends call him that too.

[ Not like IV is much better a name, lbr ]

[nostatus]

[ .. ah. Well, now that's a face he recognizes. And it's not like he doesn't already know that Tenka is gone - he's known for a long while now. And it's a little disconcerting that Tenka has been gone for this long. Maybe it means he won't get back at all. (And that means he'll miss a good friend, and that he'll have to worry about Sousei even more.)

But these posters clearly aren't Sousei's handwork. So when he sees someone else putting them up instead, it starts to make a lot more sense. He even vaguely remembers seeing this kid around before, huh..?

Shinpachi squats down to seem a little less intimidating. ]

Yo. That guy.. Do you think he's hiding that well?

[littlestcloud]

[ Chuutarou will pause in his efforts, and turn to Shinpachi, adopting a thinking pose for a second before dropping it for pure exuberance ]

Ten-nii is the best at anything, so if he wanted to hide this good he could! [ a pause, then a more solemn tone ] But all of us tried his phone and looked around for him, and Sou-nii said he must have left for a while. But!! Sou-nii also said he would always come back for us, and the lady on tv said posters help lost family members come home faster, since people can lead them home! So I'm putting some up for Ten-nii.

backdated to after the blind date, if that's not too far forward...

[perfectstrike]

((if it is, please let me know and i can delete no problem!))

[Peko's just on her way to work when she spots Tenka's face out of the corner of her eye. For just an instant, her heart leaps in excitement, before she recogizes it as a picture and bothers to read the text. "Lost brother," is it...?

A glance further down the street reveals just who's putting the posters up, and for a second, she thinks it's Soramaru. Today's a day for being wrong, it seems, as this kid is a good bit shorter, but still clearly related to the older two Kumou.]

Kumou Chuutarou?

[The assumption she feels comfortable making after narrowing down the poster. Don't mind this really intense-looking teenager staring down at him, sword bag on her back as always.]

No, no, that's fine! He'll renew the posters that get ripped down. It's v him too

[littlestcloud]

[ Curse those Kumou genes, even six hundred years and they haven't changed much (let alone from one brother to another).

Chuutarou jolts slightly, the poster he had been sticking coming out crooked now. He'll pout at the less-than-perfect-for-his-brother poster, before perking up because what if she found him?]

Yes, Nee-chan? What is it?

[ Look at all that hope you'll probably crush!! ]

[ailingsoul]

[ he absolutely, positively did not expect to find his little brother doing this. with a city so big and with so many things they aren't used to, soramaru doesn't like leaving chuutarou alone for too long. he's easy enough to track down, but --

the posters. ]

Chuutarou!

[littlestcloud]

[ You left him alone too long Soramaru. He got Ideas. He'll just. whip around when he hears his name.

And totally end up accidentally throwing posters all over the sidewalk. ]

Sora-nii! Did you come to help?

[beaconed]

[ A few weeks after Chuutarou started putting up the posters, someone else has been making copies of the same ones and redistributing them whenever they were torn down. It's as if Chuutarou started a movement, except the only participant was Jaune and neither of them are aware of each other's existence... until today.

It's entirely by chance that they're taping the poster on the same tree, just on opposing sides. It takes him a second to realize there's someone tiny behind that tree... It's a kid...? ]

H-Hey, sorry..... Is... Is this tree taken, or...?

oh my god Jaune you are perfect

[littlestcloud]

[ Jaune you are such a keeper.

Chuutarou had noticed there were extra posters in places he hadn't gone to yet, but he had thought Soramaru had come around to the idea and started to help. He hadn't really expected to find a blonde stranger out here ...also putting up posters....?

What a weird coincidence. ]

Not...not really? Are you putting something up too? [ He'll punctuate the statement with a wave of his own stack of posters, Tenka clear to see on them. ]

[snakebait]

[ ...He hadn't even noticed he was gone.

Look, he's not exactly friends with Tenka or anything, he knows him as a Kumou from the future who also knows his maybe-but-probably-not-descendant. And he finds him annoying, there's that.

He can't help but follow the trail though, and ends up seeing... Another Kumou. ]

How many of you are there?

[littlestcloud]

[ W o w

Chuutarou knew about Hirari!! So nice of you not to know your girlfriend's favorite student.]

Eh? How many?

[fallingsakura]

[The boy is hard to miss, he honestly is, but more so is the poster. Looking at the posters she can only worry a little. So Tenka-dono was still missing, she doesn't want to say things that could upset Chuutarou. There was always a chance he could be around in some way.

Instead she comes behind him, grabbing one that fell the the ground.]

Would you like some help?

[littlestcloud]

[ He's just going to hold on to his hope, Sensei! Just like Ten-nii would have wanted, because he knows (and by that he means "Sousei says") Ten-nii will be back.

Have a special smile, just for Sensei as he turns around ] Botan-sensei! Sure, more help means we can get more done. ["and then maybe Ten-nii would be back faster" goes unsaid.]

[dimidiampura]

[ Kaneki honestly had been on his way home from work when he saw the posters. Something for not a lost pet or anything of the like but for a lost BROTHER which was new and a bit unusual but that seemed to become the norm when it came to living in Cerealia lately.

So perhaps it was a whim or just a moment of simplistic curiosity that lead him to go and find the one in question. Only knowing who was responsible due to having rounded the corner to see the boy finishing with putting up another one, and he looked from it to the boy briefly before exhaling a small sigh. ]

...Ah... How long has he been missing for, exactly?

[ A reasonable thing to ask, right? ]

[littlestcloud]

[ Totally reasonable! Unlike a lot of Cereal, and the Kumou.

Chuutarou is going to smile, pleased to have some interest in the search, before sobering slightly when he answered. ]

Ten-nii went missing the twentieth. We thought he went to work but he never showed up there, or anywhere else.