congratulations:

[koshien]

Who: narumiya mei and miyuki kazuya
What: quieting down a noisy neighborhood through breaking and entering, threatening teenagers and baby care (???)
When: may 21st
Where: the near shore



[ look, mei's a generous guy, especially when it's a woman's voice that comes through to him when he's listening to the prayers of his followers. a woman in need! now that's something mei can't resist, especially when it's some idiots making a ton of noise keeping her baby awake. what kind of disrespectful jerks would do something like that?

he arrives on the near shore with his hand on kazuya's arm, right at the location of the woman's home--right in it, in fact. his aim's still not totally perfect with this whole transportation thing, and when he drops kazuya's arm, it's because the first thing he hears is a baby, staring in their direction out of its crib in the dark home of the woman who made the prayer.

the kid doesn't see them (he thinks), but mei sees it coming--his lower lip starts wobbling and mei hisses ] Kazuya--! [ right as he stumbles forward to try and pick the child up to quiet it down, maybe??? he's not entirely sure, but he's not about to let the baby start yelling when the mother just prayed to him that she couldn't sleep!

please help ]

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[neraiuchi]

[ Teleporting is still a wild thing to Miyuki, honestly. He's not the one with the ability, so he doesn't get to practice it, personally. Just oversee Mei's attempts at it, and suffer through them. So that's how they wind up in the house. At least it's in the baby's room, instead of the mother's, because he's still not sure how the awareness levels of mortals work.

They don't see ayakashi, generally. They don't see them? He thinks? Unless they make themselves known?

He has no idea.

He's just going to watch Mei bolt for the baby. Turning, he goes to make sure the door to the nursery is closed, instead of going to join Mei at the crib. ] Don't drop the baby, and keep your voice down. [ Why the hell did you answer this prayer, Mei, neither of us knows how to deal with babies. ]

[koshien]

What do you think I'm trying to do?! [ mei hisses under his breath, his voice pitching up an octave with the effort it's taking to keep from squawking at kazuya like a bird. what a useless shinki!! now mei has a kid in his arms, which is by far the weirdest thing that's ever happened to him.

he's pretty sure he's going to break it? or drop it. oh god, what if it needs its diapers changed? mei's seventeen, this is not the kind of responsibility he wants right now!!! he looks a little bit like a panicked animal for a brief second, looking down at the child in his arms--

who immediately starts crying.

nice. ] Hey--hey! Shh, shh, it's okay-- [ and he gives kazuya a dirty look from across the room and hisses under his breath ] What are you doing?! Get over here!

[neraiuchi]

[ Wake the entire neighborhood up, maybe??? He doesn't say that, and instead looks back over his shoulder at him with the flattest look he can possibly manage.

This is the worst prayer for them, at least at the moment, because he has absolutely no idea what to do with children, either. Hell, he's barely interacted with kids younger than him. A baby? Absolutely not. But he gets the door shut, very softly, in the vain hope that mom won't notice or wake up. Please. ]

Closing the door so you don't give us away, dumbass. [ Miyuki hisses back, but once that's dealt with he comes over, reaching to take the baby out of Mei's arms because clearly he's not doing something right. Not like he knows what he's doing, either - just that he needs to support the head and cradle the baby's body. Which he does against the broad set of his chest and shoulder, giving the baby a small bounce with a paranoid pinch to the corners of his eyes. ] You just had to pick this prayer.

[koshien]

I'm not going to ignore a woman in need!! [ mei lets kazuya take the baby from him please, god, and steps back a little. he's not really sure what to do with his hands now that the baby is gone, and he watches kazuya lift him up and hold him. ] Anyway, it's not like you know anything better!

[ except kazuya's like...actually succeeding. the baby whimpers, hiccups, and mushes his face in kazuya's shoulder. he's still crying, but.

mei looks over his shoulder, a little furtively, like he's watching out for the mom. ] This isn't even the point. We're supposed to be quieting down the streets so the baby shuts up on his own.

[neraiuchi]

[ The fact that the baby calms down astounds Miyuki, to be honest, because he didn't think that was even remotely possible. But the whimpering and soft crying is a lot better than the wailing, so he just - stands there, holding him, like remaining perfectly still will help somehow. It won't work out that great for when they need to go deal with things, but for now... ]

You're the one that teleported us here instead of outside. [ Basically, Mei created this situation for them. It didn't have to be this much trouble.

When the baby gets a little louder with an increase of noise outside, Miyuki gives him another bounce and pats his back. (He does not think about the fact his entire hand covers his back, no problem. Jesus.) ]

[koshien]

It was an accident! [ thank god. now that he has the baby out of his hands, mei's actually able to think his way through. he runs a hand up through his hair as he looks at the child's room.

the noise from outside sounds like someone kicking around a trashcan. people yelling and shouting. it's annoying, typical downtown tokyo yankees--probably a bunch of dumb middle schoolers, which means it shouldn't be that hard to take care of.] I think they're in the alley next door. Can you get it quiet enough that we can go, or what?

[ it??? so unhelpful, mei ]

[neraiuchi]

We're going to work on your aiming later to avoid this in the future. [ Because they seriously can't keep doing this. But Miyuki ambles over to the window of the nursery, craning his head so that his temple bumps into the glass like he can peer out into the nearby alley. He can't, but it gives him an idea of where they're meant to be going.

It also lets him hear some of the voices from the yankee hooligans probably meandering around out there causing all of this trouble.

The baby hiccups again, and without thinking or looking away from where he's looking outside Miyuki bounces him again. ] He seems fine? Surprisingly.

[ It... smh... ]

[koshien]

Let's get going, then. [ mei just blows off whatever he said about aiming--his aim is fine, thank you very much, you try mastering this trick the first time--and joins him at the window, looking outside. the noise really is coming from right next to the house, which means the faster the take care of this, the faster they've granted a prayer and the faster mei doesn't have to hold a child.

he glances over at kazuya when he bounces the kid, and a smirk works its way onto his face as he leans against the window, watching him move to set the baby back in the crib. ] Cooking, cleaning, baby care... are you sure your future career's not housewife, Kazuya~?

[ lolol ]

[neraiuchi]

[ Looking flatly at him when he ignores his comment, Miyuki heads over to deposit the baby back into his crib, carefully disengaging the grubby little hands that hold onto his shirt. They're like tiny sausage fingers or something. And it's a bread-sized human being that he should absolutely not have any responsibility over.

He pauses from where he's trying to get the baby to settle, glancing back over his shoulder before he finishes up, turning back around. ] It's probably just babysitting in general, considering I'm your shinki.

[burn ]

[koshien]

[ WOW RUDE?!? mei makes a face like he's about to squawk at him, inhaling-- but the baby hiccups and it shuts him up.

instead, he just glowers at kazuya and punches him in the arm when he comes over, mouthing a not very nice phrase, then opens up the window. there's a fire escape off of a small deck, and from this distance, he can easily hear the kids messing around down the way. mei clambers out of the window and motions for kazuya to follow him, carefully getting down the first step of the ladder, then the second.

he probably doesn't need to have kazuya in his weapon form to scare off some stupid middle schoolers, so he doesn't bother, hopping down. ] Shut the window when you're done!