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[onerous]

Who: onerous & you
When: 6/10ish
Where: Around
What: Mostly just a way for Yuri to catch up with people and make sure everyone's settling in okay. An for people to catch her for the same thing!
Rating/Warning: None so far.

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[A]

[Being a shrine maiden isn't really tough work. Sure her robes are a little strange and elaborate, but she's getting used to them-- the fact it's the same style of robes worn by the dead shrine maidens in her world notwithstanding. She doesn't even mind the weird headpiece or the cloth over her eyes.

Honestly, it's giving her a way of trying to understand the old shrine maidens, a feeling of connection, but- That's neither here nor there.

If you're someone she ran into in ViViD (however briefly and here's where you're free to handwave that maybe they saw each other in passing), Yuri approaches.]

Excuse me. [How does she see through that thing covering her eyes?? She raises a hand and gently lifts the veil to reveal her face and nods in greeting. Normally she'd also wave with her free hand, but that arm is currently cradling a...bouquet of flowers?? Weird.] Hello. I just... Wanted to know if you were doing well. The first day was a little...

[She trails off, because how do you even begin to describe that? So she decides to skip over it and continues:] Are you settling in alright?

[B]

[Alright so this whole "offering her abilities as a service to people" thing was good in theory, but she's been getting a lot of requests from your friendly everyday NPCs. And mostly it's to find stuff they misplaced and could probably find if they actually put in any effort or something.

'I'm not bitter,' i say bitterly with a bitter expression. Okay maybe she's not actually bitter, but she is a little exasperated.

Currently it's a case of a missing ring. Anyone sensitive to supernatural things (or maybe the city itself is just being weird and letting it be shown) will see a vaguely humanoid shape walking off before disappearing after a moment. Maybe it's even headed right by you when it disappears??

Yuri, assuming most people can't see it, just grips the ring box tighter and nods her head in passing, staring intently at the place the shape had been. She looks around a moment, frowns, then turns to address you] Sorry, have you seen a ring around here...?

[WILDCARD]

[Maybe Yuri's your waitress at the cafe and you recognize her, or maybe while at her shrine maiden gig or around town you recognize her as the girl advertising her ability to find anything and anyone and you want to put it to the test? Anything goes!]

Comments

[onerous]

[She smiles a tad, amused despite herself. No, she really hoped there weren't any suicide-happy upswings anytime soon.]

I can track living people too, but I need something of there's. Something they wear a lot, a picture of them, a note they wrote... I don't have anything of Lee's with me right this second. [There are some limitations, but at least criteria for tracing someone is broad enough.

Yuri's pleased he's curious though-- it's nice to, you know, have an actual conversation] The ability to track things and people down, or getting some kind of impression from objects, is called kagemi. The other ability is... being able to relive someone's death, see their last moments--things like that--that the priestesses used. It's called mitori. [Cheerful.]

[tuishou]

[She had his heart.

Which was a totally idiotic, cheesy thing to even think, and yeah. Neji supposes he's amused too. Why else would he even still be around? He'd only stepped out to explore, anyway, and even with a passing glance now and then at their surroundings, following Yuri's lead through the area, he's certain he's learning.

He files the actually useful information away for later.

So now he'll have to ask Lee for something unmistakably his, because having a sensory type apart from his cousin to pester in trying times (see: Hunger Games Dating) wasn't a terrible thing, though he still felt abhorrently helpless with having to enlist help.]

Mitori is the one that gives you trouble because it isn't as easy to practice.

[Isn't easy to practice.

Is actually unpleasant to practice.

One and the same.] With Kagemi you can hone your skills with your work, by continuing to offer your help to others. I guess that's what you were going for when you began the business.

[onerous]

Mm. There aren't exactly a lot of dead bodies that get left behind here. [Yuri hesitates a little and looks quietly at him, as if debating. She might as well tell him, even if it might damage some of their tentative friendship here. He deserves to know.]

The person doesn't always have to be dead. Sometimes I can access their memories if they're sleeping, and this place has been making the mitori act strangely. Sometimes I can grab memories even when I'm not trying if I touch someone. Not always, it's pretty rare, but it happens sometimes.

[Another moment of hesitation and she continues with a little reluctance:] It's how I knew about you before you came here. Lee didn't really tell me much of anything-- I accidentally saw his memories. You were in some of them. Of course, he ended up seeing some unpleasant memories of mine too, but... [She's not sure seeing her attempted suicide really counters that. Especially since it had given Lee nightmares.]

[tuishou]

[Was that not supposed to be funny? Because it gets that not-laugh of a chuff out of Neji regardless. Then Yuri's giving him that odd glance again and Neji's quick to school himself back into composure. As if it ever took longer than a blink, anyway. Try as he might to remain casual about it, her powers, Neji now found himself solemn.

To see so much of a person- he wondered if this was the unnerving vulnerability opponents to the Byakugan felt. Scratch that, he knew it was.

He wondered if he was good at hiding it. Knew that he must be, because he'd taken missions more difficult than befriending Lee's crush before, and had come out of those in one piece.

His jaw tightens. He lifts his chin a hair's width, as if denying the past. Of course he wanted to ask which memories--] As long as he knows. [Of what she's capable, then Lee can handle those matters himself.]

[onerous]

[Thankfully, Yuri's powers hadn't grown enough that she could fully read someone with her eyes alone, which is probably all that saves Neji from being over-analyzed and his emotions read. Luckily, Yuri isn't a behavioral analyst or anything, though she definitely heard that little huff of his.

She can't help but wonder why he bothers hiding it--then again, she can't really say anything, can she?

Ah-- here it is. She doesn't need mitori to observe that reaction. Daring her to judge him for it, maybe? It's not like she saw all that much--brief glimpses, the emotions that followed... It had painted a curious picture of a younger Neji, but she had reason to believe he'd matured from that.

So, no judging here. For now.]

He knows. It doesn't stop him from hugging me or anything, despite the risk. [Her tone has a little bit of exasperated fondness to it again. Despite Yuri warning him that physical contact could trigger it, it hadn't deterred Lee in the slightest. Typical.

Another moment of hesitation] I can... try to show you, what he saw. You're his friend, so... It's only fair, I suppose. [They're close so she'll open herself up like that if it'll help reassure Neji, somehow. He's Lee's closest friend, so she wants hi to know her as well as Lee does. His opinion might not deter Lee any (nothing short of an act of God could do that, and even then...), but it's still important to her. And hiding things from him isn't the way to go about earning trust.

Something about in order to get trust, you have to extend trust first or something, maybe.] I can't pass on his memories, at least, I don't think I can, but... [She trails off a little. It's something. Maybe even a little bit of an apology for misunderstandings between herself and Neji before and the rather hostile nature of their first meetings. She'll expose her vulnerabilities for this.]

[tuishou]

[Of course it wouldn't deter Lee. Neji internally matches Yuri's exasperation though he figures it's for different reasons. The bushy-browed blockhead would befriend the boulder dropped on him if only its surface had the word 'sorry' scrawled on it.

A totally different scenario than forgiving a dear friend for an intrusion, Neji knew, but it didn't mitigate the fact that Lee was, actually, y'know. An idiot. An idiot Neji had no choice but to trust the judgement of right now.

Because it was for Lee's sake that they were both doing this. There was no convincing either of them otherwise.] No.

[No, her powers won't stop Lee's affection for her and everyone knew and loved Lee for that reason-- that he wasn't afraid to pursue... whatever the heck it was that he wanted. No, Yuri shouldn't go and try to buy Neji's... trust? with something that was so plainly hers to own and see and know. No, he wasn't comfortable at all with the thought that she thought it was so simple to just give away something so frightfully intimate to a proxy.

Then again, his world revolved around information and using it to hurt, gathering it in a way that won't get you killed, and keeping your mouth firmly clamped to ensure it is known by no one but who it must. And dead or not, Neji would like to think he was damn good at doing his job.]

I don't need that much from you. [Didn't need collateral.] You have nothing to prove to me. I'm curious about you and your world because both are foreign to me and I'm curious about what Lee sees in you because he is my friend. That doesn't mean I have to see you through his lens any more than I should see precisely what he has.