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[yaayaa]

Who: yaayaa & you
When: After elemental emotions die down
Where: Shopping district, streets, elsewhere
What: Mostly-aimless wandering around town
Rating/Warning: None, probably

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[So Cerealia's falling apart, weather's invaded the city, Mosley's a robot, Naki's friends went on a murder spree while he was holed up in his room, etc etc....he's tired. He's not entirely sure why he's tired, after a week of doing nothing but mope (emotional exhaustion is still a foreign thing), but. What he knows is that he should get up, go out, do something, stop lying around. Maybe find something to cheer up the others? What would Ichi-nii like....]

around town

[Naki's in his favorite fox coat, with a matching whiskered face mask, peeking in at various shops in the shopping district. Picking out a notepad at the stationary store! Perusing the snack aisle at...some place that sells snacks! Trying on a scary mask at a costume shop! Staring curiously at a toy store display of plastic jumping beans! Getting ushered out of a store with a NO PETS sign on the door!

Why.....]

But I'm not a pet...! [whines the fox around his neck, as he stares perplexedly at the door.]

other

[wild card? Shopping aside, he can also be found wandering around the gardens, feeding a carrot to the horse near the dojo, sitting by the street somewhere just watching people walk by...playing rhythm games on his cerevice, maybe.]

Comments

[gravesite]

You're both small and fluffy, right? You also both talk, even though the dog only knows how to go, uh... bark bark bark.

[ look at that, a flawless explanation. though, if fox is reaaaally curious, tsuru can show him the barking dog afterwards as it goes yip yip yip and cheaply bounces around in a circle. but since smallest fox doesn't seem to be fond of going back under tsuru's coat and seems to be making that fact clear in the saddest, cutest way possible, maybe tsurumaru can offer him some other ideas. ]

Well, if you're that upset about it... maybe Naki can tuck you underneath his coat? Or you can blend in, if you close your eyes and hide your paws.

[ along with wherever else smallest fox has darker markings... quick, quick! it's almost their turn to pay! ]

[yaayaa]

[that description is kinda hard to argue against...but ah, if he has to hide in a coat either way, then.....obviously he'll choose naki's. there's a heavy (tiny) sigh, but he does it! quietly slithering in! his tail's kinda poking out but sshhh it's fine.]

[gravesite]

[ good... smallest fox is cooperative! but after he dashes beneath naki's coat, it's finally their turn at the register — at which point tsurumaru promptly slides eeeeverything onto mikazuki's tab. it seems to work, though, as he accepts their bagged toys from the npc cashier.

after they're outside the store now, he looks through the bag, giving the barky bark toy back to naki. ]

Here you go.

[ because don't kids like to hold onto their toys immediately after buying them... should he even be considering naki as a child... so many questions!! ]

[yaayaa]

[mikazuki sure is rich, huh? even in a fancy future space colony!

i say 'even' but he didn't have any money at the citadel, did he.

aaaanyway naki does in fact appreciate receiving the barky bark toy as soon as possible! he accepts the toy, holding it in his hands, turning on the bark. bark bark bark! and off....and on again! bark bark b-off again.]

Thank you very much, Tsurumaru-dono! You are truly very generous!

[says fox as he comes back out into the open, because naki's a little distracted at the moment.]

[gravesite]

[ look, he has money in a fancy future space colony, ok! the citadel has rough economic times.

but it seems as if he's guessed correctly, given naki's fascination with clicking the bark on and off and on and off and on and off... which tsurumaru doesn't mind, because he, too, is five and would also click toys on and off and on and off and on and off, if he had the opportunity. ]

It was nothing at all, you know? I like buying things for Naki. But now you see, it, right? It can speak, just like you — except that it only knows one word.

[ which is bark... or bark bark... or bark bark bark. but because tsurumaru is full of evil, or he just wants to see if it's possible, he asks another question. ]

What if Naki ends up replacing you with that dog toy?

[yaayaa]

[why must tsuru be so evil...naki stops playing with the on/off switch when tsuru asks the fateful question, leaving the dog silent for once, and - after a very short pause that didn't mean anything at all - (carefully) shoves it in his coat pocket instead.]

No.

We have a bond too strong to be broken by a mere toy, Tsurumaru-dono! It's terrible you'd even suggest such a thing...!

[though the fox probably is actually a little bit relieved, as he moves to nuzzle naki's cheek.]

i was wondering what that was

[gravesite]

[ it's not as if naki's answer comes as a surprise, actually. what would have been more surprising is if naki had chosen the dog toy, but as we've seen, naki won't betray smallest fox. but tsurumaru laughs a little afterwards, if only because smallest fox insists on sounding so dramatic. ]

I was just kidding, you know? There's no way that he'd replace you.

[ after all, how will the dog toy interpret naki's actions and gestures, if all it says is bark bark bark... but he reaches out to try to give smallest fox a reassuring pat on the head — but if he misses, it's fine! and then he walks ahead a little, quickly turning back around, with something of a grin on his face. ]

Let's head back home.

ssshhh there was nothing

[yaayaa]

It wasn't funny!!

[the fox is offended enough for the both of them! by which i mean it totally dodged that pat and burrowed into naki's jacket hood instead. naki's over it already, though. he feels the toy in his pocket, considering pulling it back out again, but...maybe he should wait for fox to calm down. yes.

he nods at tsurumaru. to their cozy comfy home!]