thenearshore | So much to do, and all the time to do it. [Open and Closed Prompts]

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So much to do, and all the time to do it. [Open and Closed Prompts]

Who: Yukine and you! Open and closed prompts.
What: Being idle around the Near Shore, and working hard on the Far Shore.
When: August 18 and 19
Where: Various places on the Near Shore; around the school and Hakkai's temple on the Far Shore.
Warning: None

Stuff happened. And as a result of that stuff, Yukine had even more time on his hands than usual.
So he threw himself into his studies, as well as catching up on some other projects.

--August 18--
Garden
In the morning, Yukine can be found on the Near Shore. Along a particular riverbank is a large lone cherry tree. (Not that it's easy to tell that it's a sakura when it's not spring.) And not far from that tree is a garden. Full of tall sunflowers, hollyhock, and various other bright summer-blooming flowers, it is a strange but welcome sight along the greenbelt of the riverbank.
Among the flowers is Yukine. Tying the sunflowers to poles, clearing away fallen flowers, snagging any weeds that dare appear, it is clear he is diligently tending the garden.
His expression is quietly satisfied as he works, and he won't mind being approached at all, even if it would be surprising to him.

Math class
The afternoon is class. From one until three Yukine studies math with Hakkai and takes advantage of the free study time. Math being one of his better and more liked subjects, he's in a good mood as he studies.

Meeting
[Closed to Chinatsu]
After school he'd arranged to meet a shinki that is having problems because her god is gone, and she's worried about being basically defenseless. He'd agreed to meet with her in person to talk about it, so he waits outside the school, sitting under the shade of a tree in the yard with a notebook balanced on his leg. Might as well get some homework done as he waits. He's not worried about being recognized- his name is visible above the collar of his shirt, after all.

--August 19--
English class
From nine until eleven in the morning, Yukine is forcing his way through English. At least Izumo as a teacher is pretty interesting, even if he can be awfully strict about some stuff.
But English free study... ugh. Save him, please.

Driving!
[Closed to Hakkai]
Yukine cannot escape English class fast enough, especially since he has something good waiting for him. For an hour Hakkai will give him a driving lesson in Jeep!
Yukine comes to Hakkai's temple prepared with a small box of bought cookies for Hakkai-san as the teacher, and a bit of cooked fish to offer Jeep as the vehicle.
Giving up the offerings, Yukine says the traditional "If you would, please..." Please take it easy on him? It's his first time.

[Open, with Hakkai]
Once they get underway, passers-by are welcome to notice the young shinki behind the driver's wheel instead of the adult, and try to make conversation. (Parallel parking is tricky, okay? Maybe don't distract him while he's trying to pull that off-)

Wandering the Near Shore
With a few hours to burn after lunch, Yukine wanders the Near Shore as he sometimes does. He likes window shopping around the clothing stores, and even though he doesn't play any games himself he'll watch people in the game centers. He spends some time at a garden supply store, and as the afternoon gets later he'll work his way back home, stopping at the supermarket on the way to pick up some things for dinner.

[Closed to Yuto]
Even in the busy shopping district, a head of spiky black and purple hair is hard to miss. Waving a bit to get Yuto's attention, Yukine comes closer.
"Hi! It's been a while. What you doin' down here?" And even as he speaks he's trying to think of when the last time they met actually was ... oh. Yah. It'd be during that whole kid thing, wouldn't it.

[[I prefer prose, but bracket form is totally fine too!
If anything needs a tweak or you'd like a specialized prompt, just let me know!]]

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Finding Yata wandering on the Near Shore isn't all that unusual on any given day, as he's often here running errands or just getting out to clear his head. After Nami's unexpected return he's been sticking close to his returned god, as if half afraid if he turned his back, she'd disappear again. Although he's uncomfortable with how anxious that's been making him feel, too, so he'd taken himself out for a run on his skateboard this morning, because he's pretty sure she can feel how he's been feeling and that's just mortifying.

Spotting a familiar figure outside one of the arcades, he slows his board a little before skidding to a stop a few steps away and peering over Yukine's shoulder to see what's caught his attention.

"Yo."

The nostalgic (so far as a few months ago can be nostalgic) and relatively unusual sound of a skateboard draws Yukine's attention out from the fighting game he'd been watching a bit, but the voice at his shoulder still gives him a start.

Whirling around, he's relieved that at least it's a familiar face. His surprised expression gives way to a small smile.

"Yo. It's been a while. How are things going?"

"Well enough."

Which is a nice change, to be honest. Kicking the end of the board up, he catches it in one hand before tucking it under his arm as he grins at the other shinki before gesturing at the arcade.

"How about you? Killing time? I'm surprised you're not in there kicking ass."

Yukine follows Yata's motion with an appreciative expression and returns the grin. But it quickly turns into a pained groan.

"Killing time is right. My god is off being an idiot again, so I can't pin him down to do ayakashi killing like we usually do." Huffing in irritation he turns back towards the video game screens. "I haven't felt like playing video games in a while, but maybe kickin' ass in there would be an okay substitute until I can kick Yato's ass." He grins evilly, completely serious.

"Do you play? Or do you like skateboarding more?" He points at the board.

"I mean. You could always pretend it's your god's ass you were kicking?" Yata just shrugs and snickers with the suggestion, not really seeing it as a big deal. Some gods were a pain the ass, after all.

Although the question gets a thoughtful hum from him. "Both. Either. Do you ride?" he asks as he holds up his board.

There's something about the satisfaction about making impact on Yato with his own fist though...
But he's more than happy to put thoughts of that sweaty jerk aside in favour of this topic.

"It's another thing I haven't done in a while, but yep. I mean, not any fancy tricks or anything, but I like goin' fast. How about you?"

"Same. Although tricks are fun, too." Yata shoots him an easy grin before holding out the skateboard in offering. "Here, you wanna try for a bit? Or do you have one of your own?" He doesn't mind sharing, if not.

“No, I don’t.” His expression is tight for a moment as he remembers the last time he’d ridden a skateboard. Although he still feels bad over what he put Hiyori through, he’s been making amends.
He can’t worry over the past.

“Sure, I’ll try for a bit.” Taking Yata’s board he lowers it to the ground and steps on. From even one push he can tell the board is well-worn. He smiles a bit as he looks over his shoulder. “Skateboarding in front of a game center is bound to attract unwanted attention, so it’d be better to go a few streets over.”

He can see there's something more to that statement from the expression that flits across Yukine's face, but he lets it drop, not wanting to probe into something he didn't want to share when they were supposed to be having fun. Or something like that. Yata wasn't all that great when it came to emotional shit.

Still, he glances back over at his shoulder thoughtfully before nodding in agreement. "There's an alley a block or so down, too. Some of the street kids use it for fun, bunch of makeshift obstacles and ramps out of whatever they found lying around. If you wanna try that?"

....He may have spent a lot of time keeping an eye on this section of the city and exploring it in his free time. Which he still had way too much of.

He appreciates that Yata didn't ask him about the expression he might have made over the skateboard. They should just take it easy and have fun!

"Sure! Lead the way." Yukine figures he can ride the board there, and let Yata have it back to do some tricks if that's what the alley is set up for.

"Say, did you ever end up doing anything with all those prizes you won at the festival a while back? 'Fraid I've never gotten around to playing that one you gave me, myself."

"This way!" Yata beckons him as he breaks into an easy jog down the street, always more than happy to dash head-first into anything.

He glances over at the question though, having almost forgotten about all that. "Hah? Oh, I gave most of them away. I kept one or two, but a couple gods took a bunch and I guess gave them to a bunch of kids or something? They'll get more use out of it than I would."

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"Ah, that's good then. It would have been a waste otherwise!"

He follows after Yata easily, smiling as he enjoys the feeling of going fast under his own power.

"Y'know, I started learning how to drive yesterday. It's difficult, but once you get going it's great! It's so fast! Even so... there's something nice about goin' fast on your own, just using a skateboard."

"You're learning how to drive? Really?" Yata blinks at this, keeping pace beside Yukine on his board. "Are there even cars in heaven? Is that something we're supposed to know how to do?" He's been relying on his board for transportation almost everywhere, but didn't gods just go poof! everywhere they wanted to be?

"Yep!" He preens a little at Yata's surprise. "There's not any cars that I've seen around in heaven, so no, I don't think you don't have to know how. But have you seen Hakkai-san's dragon? Somehow, it turns into a jeep. So I asked them to give me lessons. Kinda as a special favour." That required a lot of fish bribes to Jeep, but shhh.

"I know Hakkai-san, but... a dragon that turns into a jeep?! You're bullshitting me. There's no way that's real." What is this, Transformers?

He frowns at Yata's sharp disbelief, not liking being called a liar, but knowing he's right he just smiles shallowly.

"Is so real. Just ask Hakkai-san next ya' see him. I'll even accept you buyin' me lunch to make up for you calling me a liar."

Yata just snorts. "Alright, alright, I'll ask him. But if you're shitting me, I'm making you buy lunch." Even if he doesn't seem to care either way, and finding a dragon that turns into a jeep would probably even be worth it either way.

He motions up ahead to the entrance of an alley. "Turn down that way."

“It’s a deal.” He’d shake on it, but it’s a bit hard at the moment.
He makes a small noise to acknowledge Yata’s direction, and going through the alley he stops when he sees that they’ve made it to the place Yata had in mind. It’s not much, with junk making up all the makeshift ramps and obstacles, but he gets the feeling that anyone using it won't care as long as it works.

Stepping off the board and stepping on the end to bring it sharply to his hand, he gives the board back to Yata with a small smile of anticipation.

“Thanks for the ride. Your turn now.”

"No problem. Sure you don't want to give it a try?" He hesitates, motioning to the ramps and jumps.

"Heh. Go ahead and show me how it's done, Yata-kun." He's teasing him a little, but he does want to see what the other boy's got.

"Alright, alright." He reaches out and takes the board, dropping it to the ground and hopping on before pushing off. The ramps are the easiest place to start and he takes a couple of moments to get the feel of the distance this one offers, building up speed as he does so before starting to insert tricks and jumps and flips into his movements, gaining a little more momentum and height with each one.

"Hahh! You're able to do all sorts of fancy tricks!" Even though Yata might have said that he likes going fast, it's clear he's pretty darn adept when it comes to the trick side of things.

Yukine gives an appreciative whoop at an exceptionally high and flashy looking flip.

Yata laughs in pleasure before letting his next jump bring him down at an angle and then he's sliding off the ramp to come spin in a tight circle around Yukine before finally stopping.

"I'm still figuring out what I know how to do, and some I had to practice a bit to get the hang of, but yeah. I like it, it's fun. Do you want to try some? I can show you how, if you want?"

Yukine hesitates for a beat, but then grins broadly.

"Sure. Let's do it!"

[[ooc: sorry, could we tie it up here, and handwave them doing tricks all afternoon? ^.^]]

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So much to do, and all the time to do it. [Open and Closed Prompts]

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THAT IS A TERRIFYING ICON

Thank you :3

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sorry for the wait!

no problem! ;)

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