Look around, look around

[toremainbehind]

Who: Izumo and Open
When: Early August
Where: Far Shore, possibly Near Shore.
What: Post-Ablution stuff. Coping with missing friends and returned memories. Izumo doesn't appreciate haunting season.
Warning: N/A


A. Cnoc Áine - After Shizuo’s Ablution

[After performing the ablution on Shizuo with Chikusa and Goten, Izumo has decided to stick around Yona’s temple to keep an eye on the two. Normally he wouldn’t be around the temple so much, only ever coming and go briefly to visit Shizuo or Yona. He usually sticks to the room that ended up being his, but he’s actually out and about in the temple now.

If he looks a little tired, just pretend that he isn’t instead.

However, anyone around the temple might spot him in the halls or somewhere outside. Come and talk to him? Drink with him?]

B. Double Cross Bar - Memories On A Wall

[The moment he’s learned that Sora and Roxas are gone, Izumo felt a bit—not sad, per se, but something close to it. While he wouldn’t exactly call himself sentimental, he’s decided that putting up a photo wall can be at least one way of keeping memories alive.

So, after a day or two, he puts up a post on the BBS:]

If anyone has any photos of Sora and Roxas, mind if I have a copy? I’m working on a project right now, so I thought it’d be good to start with those two first.

[Anyone who does come to the bar will find Izumo leaning against the counter, focused on a blank wall to the side. He seems thoughtful, though he does glance over at anyone who comes in.]

C. When Will Dreams End? [Closed to Totsuka]

[He sent a text to Totsuka earlier that morning upon awakening. It’s not like how he reacted when he first remembered Anna, but now some things the man has said the few times they’ve met makes sense.

Choosing his bar instead of Mikoto’s temple or Totsuka’s temple was a good place to talk. With it still closed, it gives them the proper privacy they need.

Really, Izumo didn’t enjoy waking up suddenly remembering people from his past life, but it’s even worse now because this time, he’s aware of one fact about the god: he’s dead.

By the time Totsuka comes to the bar, Izumo already has a drink in front of him.]

D. Fade to Black

[It’s August.

It’s summer and it’s haunting season.

So, it’s not surprising that Izumo is being haunted by some ghosts that decides to play with him. Which is why he’s looking fairly unimpressed at a floating lighter, the sounds of childish giggles heard around him.]

E. WildCard

[Feel free to make up your own prompt if nothing here interests you!]

Comments

[mostsuitable]

[Kusanagi hardly seems surprised at the subject change; in fact, it's almost as if he'd expected it. Munakata still remembers their first meeting, when he'd discovered that Suoh was the other shinki's god, it was almost as if Kusanagi had expected him to have a different opinion of the god.]

It appears that you and Fushimi-kun share some measure of his fiery red powers.

[There's a brief silence as he takes another drag of his cigarette, and some part of him wonders what brought about the mood to smoke. It's not really a habit of his, but he occasionally finds himself in the mood on a whim.]

Am I correct in that assumption, and that you and Suoh are familiar with each other?

[Familiar with each other... from Kusanagi's previous life, though Munakata's more than certain Kusanagi knows what he means without his having to spell it out.]

[toremainbehind]

So it seems.

[Ah, so Munakata is familiar with Fushimi, too?

Izumo is quiet for a bit. While he doesn't have any particular evidence to support it, he knows that he and Mikoto have known each other before. He remembers their initial meeting and to Totsuka--

The other god did a good job in cementing that theory.]

We could be, but I'd rather you didn't share that particular information with anyone else. As far as anyone's concerned, Mikoto and I are just a god and shinki who got paired up with each other.

[mostsuitable]

[The response confirms more than one of Reisi's suspicions. First, Kusanagi's answer reveals some degree of certainty that he and Suoh have known each other before. Second, Kusanagi is willing to share information, though to what extent...?]

You have my word. [Just to confirm that:] Your only connection is that he is your god, and you are his shinki.

[Here, he wonders how much information he himself should be prepared to share in the event that Kusanagi decides to be tight-lipped about something.]

What do you know about his powers? or, more specifically, his red flames?

[toremainbehind]

[He eyes Munakata for a moment as if trying to debate on what he should tell him.]

It's the same as mine - stronger. [Izumo knows there's more. Mikoto's flames feel the same as Anna's, after all.] But I don't know the full extent of it.

a million years later...

[mostsuitable]

I see.

[Stronger. This reminds Reisi of something not all that long ago, when he unlocked Enomoto's power.

Is Suoh to Kusanagi what Reisi is to Enomoto? How does Fushimi fit into this equation?

Well, even if he doesn't quite know how that works, Reisi really feels like he's on to something.]

That's quite all right. I appreciate your answers, Kusanagi-kun.

[toremainbehind]

[Fushimi is a snowflake.

But Izumo can tell that Munakata is onto something, a connection that ties them all together into a web.

He smiles.]

Well, I certainly hope that it helps you.

[mostsuitable]

I assure you it does.

[It's an important piece to a puzzle that can cost shinki their afterlives.

He wants to ask more about Suoh, but that last answer seems like more than enough food for thought. So after a long enough pause to end their discussion on that last topic, Reisi moves on.]

I saw your post requesting some photos on the BBS. What sort of project are you starting?

[toremainbehind]

Ah.

[A glance at the wall briefly before he looks at Munakata.]

It's just me being sentimental, but I was planning on making a wall of memories, I suppose you can say. With so many people leaving, I'd figured that the least we can do is have some pictures of them in their memory.