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 Who: Rasu (creepface ) and Hokuto (smokingspirit )
When: september 9
Where: apartments!
What: Smoking is an unhealthy and gross habit, Rasu will have you know.
Rating/Warning: None for now.

[ Ever since they started living together Rasu has given Hokuto certain looks. These looks come about every time Hokuto takes out his pack of cigarettes and lights any of them. He doesn't smoke anywhere (he's glad for that), but it's a fact that he's smoking at ALL. And Rasu has always been bugged by that. It's just not healthy! And he doesn't want the only one from his own world to get lung cancer (they're already dead) or die (they're already dead).

So for the past few days he's been lurking there with his big staring eyes, trying to get himself to tell the vice principal off. But it's hard, and it's taken over a week to get this far. But now. Now. He has to say it. So now he waddles over to where Hokuto is standing and smoking in the window, covering his mouth and nose with his lab coat. ]

U-uhm...

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[smokingspirit]

[ It wasn't as if Hokuto haven't noticed the nurse assistant -- though he is a proper nurse here, isn't he? -- fluttering about like a lost and kicked puppy.

But Hokuto isn't the most active participant in activities, mostly doing his work either as a teacher, member of the PTA, the vice president of Sheol Kanto Soul School, or as a fake student, as it turned out. (He never did tell Onigawara about his actual position, did he? oh well) So it wasn't like he was going to prod him into talking. Rasu was his subrdinate through school positions, but they didn't particularly know each other well, even after somehow ending up living together in this peculiar place. Don't try to pet a scared animal, and all that.

When Rasu (finally) decides to gather enough courage (is Hokuto really that scary?) he glances over, still very definitely smoking one of those so by Rasu detested cigarettes. ]

Hmmm?

[creepface]

[ Rasu points his sleeve covered hand toward the offending stick, but when that's not really visible he shakes down the fabric so that his hand is visible. Health is that important. ]

That. You shouldn't. Smoke. It's bad for you.

[ They might not know each other all that well, but he knows that Hokuto isn't stupid. He should know this. ]

[smokingspirit]

[ How surprising. Or perhaps it isn't, Hokuto isn't sure. He glances down at the cigarette between his fingers, then back at Rasu.

And he takes another drag, blowing up the smoke toward the ceiling. He's not so rude as to blow it into the guy's face. If it's someone he detests maybe... but he doesn't detest Rasu. ]

How, exactly, is it bad for a spirit to smoke?

[creepface]

Because we, um. [ Well. They can't get lung cancer, he knows that. But just because he won't get the worst effects from it doesn't mean that he should do it, does it?

He does appreciate that Hokuto doesn't blow the smoke in his face. A meaner person would have done that, so at least he loses half a point on the scary scale. Because he's kind of on it. ]

It's still bad.

[smokingspirit]

[ He would just be confused it he was told he was scary. There are way scarier people besides him, anyway.

But he didn't get a proper answer to his question. ]

How?

[creepface]

[ Yes. Mitamura is a lot scarier than Hokuto is. But he might be getting better too, if he's supposed to trust that guy Hanasuke. He doesn't seem like a liar, just like a kind of strange guy since he's friends with Mitamura. ]

Because, ah, um. You could still get sick. And it's not healthy for people around you either.

[ Has Hokuto noticed that he's speaking in fuller sentences right now? Health is an issue he takes very seriously. ]

[smokingspirit]

[ He's noticed. It's a little impressive, considering he usually doesn't talk in full sentences. ]

I won't get sick from this. [ From other things, perhaps, but not from this. Illness did work differently when you were already dead. ] And then they can just tell me.

[creepface]

[ There's few things he takes more seriously than health. If anything. ]

But you smoke a lot.

[ For once he's not backing down as easily. Hokuto is the only one from his own world, he can't let him do harmful things. ]

[smokingspirit]

No one gets terminated just because they smoke a lot.

[ He knows the rules of Sheol perfectly. ]

Nor does it happen by accident because of smoking, either.

[creepface]

You could put something on fire.

[ Though when he was alive there were people putting things on fire with what they'd been smoking on purpose, so an accident is probably better than that... ]

[smokingspirit]

[ He's put things on fire in the past but that was for reasons. As high-up staff of Sheol Soul School, he took much more responsibility than that.

He puts out the light in the cigarettes (it was almost burnt up anyway) in an ashtray he's acquired somewhere somehow and walks over to Rasu, so they're face to face in a quite close proximity. Probably too close to Rasu, but Hokuto isn't bothered. ]

I'm not that inattentive.

[creepface]

[ He might be taller than Hokuto is, but having him that close is scary, and what scaryness he'd lost earlier comes right back. And Rasu loses the ability to form proper sentences again. ]

Yes. I'm. Um. I know. That's. I'm.

[smokingspirit]

[ Intimidation was not the intention.

He's silent for a few moments. ]

Don't forget to breathe.

[ Said in a bit of his "teacher" voice. They might not need to breathe, but it'd probably help to calm down. ]

[creepface]

[ He gives a few quick nods, trying to take deep breaths that come out shorter than what he'd probably need. But after a few more of them he manages to stop shaking.

Clearly it helps, even if he doesn't need to breathe to stay... not alive. ]

[smokingspirit]

[ It sure is troublesome to try to help someone down. It's somewhat weird to calm down a guy taller than him but he's been a teacher for many many years now so it's not that big of a deal in the end.

He straightens his back, which results in him being not as close to Rasu as before. Even if he doesn't move from his spot.

And he waits. ]

Better?

[creepface]

[ Rasu swallows and looks at Hokuto with wide eyes. This time he only nods once, and slower. ]

[smokingspirit]

[ And he smiles. ]

Good.

[ On the previous note, though. ]

I'm not going to stop smoking though, just so you know that it's not worth your time trying to convince me.

[creepface]

[ Well that smile is... not comforting? But at least it doesn't scare him further. ]

Not at. All? Um. But the walls will. Smell.

[smokingspirit]

[ It's not a smile of ill will. Now those</> are something to be scared of. ]

I'll keep to the window.

[ Best he'll get. ]

[creepface]

[ Don't show him that, he'll cry. ]

Um... Okay.

[ He might try again later. Because it's important. ]

[smokingspirit]

[ Yeah, he bets. That'd be way too troublesome and messy to deal with.

Well, good enough. ]

You managing at your new job?

[creepface]

[ Yeah, he's not very pretty when he cries. He's not a shoujo heroine or anything.

He nods. ]

Yes. It's. Okay.

[smokingspirit]

[ They'd probably run out of paper towels or something in the process.

After a pause. ]

Make sure to tell me if anyone bullies you.

[ Because he looks like the type who gets bullied a lot. ]

[creepface]

[ He did get bullied by his siblings a lot when he was alive and by... others, and there's scary people here too, but for him to ask him like that... ]

Eh- Oh, um, ye-yes.

[ There might already be someone... ]

[smokingspirit]

[ It was sort of an order. Sheol Soul School has a no-bullying policy and Hokuto doesn't tolerate actual bullying. Teasing, maybe, but it's his job to make everyone at school feel comfortable in their job/student life. ]

Good.

[ Then tell him. ]

[creepface]

[ Of course it was, and he's automatically saying yes even though they're not in school anymore. He's technically still his vice principal.

He just nods nervously.

He's not telling, it might pass. ]

[smokingspirit]

[ It's good to know where they have each other in question of status, at least.

If it doesn't, he should tell.

Anyway, he pockets his opened cigarette package that had been lying in the window, and gives a look around the room. ]

By the way, do you have any preferences for in case we got any of those room holograms?

[ You know, that makes the rooms look less bare than they are. ]

[creepface]

[ He quickly shakes his head before he freezes in the middle of moving his head to actually think it over.

He stays silent for a while, trying to make up his mind if he should say anything or not. ]

Um... Something... R-rock. Inspired...?

[ He likes clean, but he likes rock too. ]

[smokingspirit]

[ That's a bit of progress, that he actually stops to consider. Right? Hokuto decides that it is. ]

Rock, huh.

[ He knows of how Rasu and Maria-san act in the infirmary, so no surprise there. ]

Alright, I'll keep it in mind. Or would you rather accompany me to have a look?

[creepface]

[ Well, he does have to practice being braver... but it's so hard to be brave. ]

Ye- No. Ye-yes. I mean no.

[smokingspirit]

Hmmm...

[ He just needs to help him be brave then. ]

Alright.

[ He grabs Rasu by the hand and drags him out the door. ]

[creepface]

[ Did he just-- why did he just--

His face flushes, and he flails his free arm around in a loss of words.

But at least he comes with. ]

[smokingspirit]

[ Hokuto decides to ignore the flailing, because he knows that's just how Rasu is.

He just makes sure the door is locked before they leave and then they're off to wherever holo's happened to be sold. ]