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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]

[ 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!]