[Open] They become a part of you

[toremainbehind]

Who: Izumo and you
When: September 17-19
Where: Double Cross Bar, abandoned temples, or every other temple
What: Aftermath of the Moon event, possible Welcome Center things, and Izumo just needing a huge break from this all.


[A. Double Cross Bar - Morning]

[Anyone who decides to come to the bar today will surprisingly find it closed. There’s no sign that states the reason why, but it is.

Until Izumo walks up to the bar, eyebrow raised upon seeing whoever might be waiting outside.]

Haven’t been waiting long, have you?

[B. Training]

[It’s been a while since he’s actually done any sort of training with his borderlines, so he’s taken up a spot at an abandoned temple. He doesn’t really seem to be focused on doing the regular borderline casting spell, but is instead working on the offensive type.

Which is why anyone who’s walking by should immediately backtrack the moment an offensive borderline surrounded in flames flies by their face.

Izumo looks somewhat apologetic.]

Did you get hit?

[C. Temple Hopping]

[Due to his injuries from Grell, healed by Mikoto, Izumo has mostly taken up residency at Yona’s temple. There are some days where he would suddenly disappear without a word to the main residents there, often being at either Aymeric’s or even somewhere near Nari’s temple. Since he’s still recovering, he’s trying not to move around too much, but he also hates staying still as well.

It’s why it’s not surprising to see him around Cnoc Ainé, Neptune’s Compound, or even Forseti’s Temple. Anyone who runs into him at or near these places are free to bother him or convince him to get some more rest. Being hurt by a chainsaw isn’t exactly the best, after all.]

[D. Wildcard]

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Comments

A

[redstray]

[ It took awhile to finally decide to talk to Izumo and exactly where to go to talk. He figured Izumo's bar was better than the temple so he walked over to it, surprised to find it closed. But, that just meant Izumo was coming to open it soon...right?

Only one way to find out.

Eric had made himself comfy on the stairs, just sitting and waiting until Izumo finally came around. He shakes his head, standing up and brushing himself off. ]

Not long...at all.

/slips in a tag

[toremainbehind]

[If there's any surprise at seeing Eric, he doesn't show it. He steps around the other shinki to open the door.]

So, what brings you around these parts?

[He can take a guess, but after everything that's come after Mikoto's gathering, it's been a bit to handle the aftermath of it. But once the door is open, he gestures Eric to enter first.]

A

[death_glare]

[ Izumo had been quite difficult to track down. Perhaps merely because he'd been bouncing around from temple to temple. William could have simple contacted him via his inbox or a network call-out, but he wanted to speak with him in person, and see what damage had been done first hand.

So when Izumo finally returns to his bar, there will be a properly dressed, rather stoic looking man trying the door. It's locked and the building appears dark inside. He huffs rather loudly, muttering something to himself and is about to try yet another location when he hears someone address him. ]

I just arrived. Should I assume you are Izumo Kusanagi?

[toremainbehind]

That's correct.

[He can't help but study William curiously. The outfit the god is wearing and his eyes briefly makes him think of Ron, but he could be mistaken. It's been a long time since he's spoken to Ron, anyway.]

Can I help you with something?

B

[revolutionfalcon]

[Thankfully, Shun has the reflexes to backflip as soon as he catches sight of flying fire out of the corner of his eye, and the flaming borderline passes harmlessly in front of him. He initially moves to scan the area and find out the source, but Izumo speaking up saves him the trouble, and he just sighs slightly, as if having flaming projectiles almost hit him is little more than a mild annoyance.]

No. You should probably be doing that inside.

[He is eying Izumo a little critically, though. He's Mikoto's shinki, so one would assume he was present the night of what happened between Mikoto and Reisi the other day. But he's not sure how badly that night might have gone for Izumo either, since he is a shinki despite being part of Mikoto's crew.]

[toremainbehind]

Offensive borderlines doesn't work too well indoors.

[But even so, he gives Shun a smile.

However, there is some sort of curiosity brewing inside of him, mostly due to the fact that he'd admit to being curious about Shun's reaction to whatever happened at Ra's temple. There's no mistaking that Shun might be aware now of Munakata's involvement in that, considering how Munakata acted the last time he's seen the other shinki.

The way he's being critically eyed doesn't help either.]

...You look like you have something you want to say.

B for borderlines

[fony]

[In Luke's opinion, the Far Shore is generally safer than the Near Shore. Fewer people and crowds to deal with, less overall traffic, fewer ayakashi (in most cases). That doesn't necessarily make the abandoned temples any safer, but the couple he's checked out before haven't had anyone hanging around in them.

This one apparently does. A streak of fire flies by his face, missing him by inches, and he jumps backwards. Are there more?

No?

But there's a voice.]

You almost hit me in the face!

[toremainbehind]

[The apologetic expression on Izumo's face briefly flickers to one of bemusement before it's back again.

He sends Luke a smile.]

Sorry about that. It can be a little difficult to aim.

B - Training :D

[forsakens]

[ Usually, people would get rather upset with flamed borderlines being thrown their way but Ichiru seemed rather calm about the whole thing. He should be upset but he wasn't. Normally, he'd get annoyed with anyone who almost gets him in the crossfire, but it was Izumo so he didn't seem to care, only because he trusted Izumo to be someone who wouldn't do such things on purpose.

At least, the almost getting a bystander part. He offers a pleasant smile in greeting to his friend (?). ]

Ah-- Izumo-san. It's very rare to see you so-- aggressive.

[ He mused. ]

[toremainbehind]

[Izumo chuckles at that.]

I wouldn’t exactly call it being aggressive. It was just an unfortunate misfire. Good thing you haven’t gotten hit.

[He doesn’t think that’d be a pleasant experience at all.]

B!

[flamebearer]

[ Alibaba had been wandering and exploring mostly - he's pretty sure if he'd stuck around the temple today his god was going to develop a twitch and he was starting to get a little worried that maybe he'd been being a little too much underfoot.

Although not really sure what else to do with himself in the meantime, he'd taken to exploring, poking around the surrounding area with a curious expression.

Poking his head inside an abandoned temple when he heard noise and movement, he very nearly gets hit with.... whatever that was and yelps as he tumbles backwards to land on his ass in surprise. ]

What the hell?!

[toremainbehind]

Sorry about that. I’ll work on my aim better.

[But he does come over to Alibaba, lending him a hand.]

There’s usually a lot of abandoned temples around here so I wasn’t expecting anyone to be exploring this area.

A!

[thevanguard]

Forever!

[ The dramatic response comes from the redhead currently sprawled across the steps on his back, skateboard propped up nearby, one arm thrown over his eyes to block out the sun overhead. ]

I think I'm wasting away. What day is it?

[toremainbehind]

Don’t be so dramatic, Yata.

[He walks around the redhead in order to open up the bar.]

Should I bring Fushimi to give you a kiss to revitalize you?

C!

[darkestbefore]

[ She's trying not to hover. She really is. But when first Shizuo had been injured by the chainsaw and healed by Hakkai and then Mikoto had shown up to drop off a newly-healed Izumo in a similar condition...

Let's just say Yona's spent a good deal of the past few days torn between worry and overprotective anger for whichever god was going around and injuring shinki this way. Especially since both of hers had fallen victim to it. That it could lay SHizuo low with his strength and immunity to most pain was one thing - she worries about him regardless, but Izumo has none of that and it's a different note of worry that she checks on him as he rests and recovers at her temple. Potentially a little more frequently than is actually subtle. ]

[toremainbehind]

[He’s not oblivious to Yona’s hovering, though he’s politely said nothing about it. She has a right to worry, especially since Shizuo has fallen victim to the perpetrator not too long ago, but eventually it does slowly begin to get to him.

So, when she checks on him again, he gives her a look of bemusement.]

Would you like to sit with me, Yona?

B

[blizzardrock]

[In the face of a flaming borderline, reflex kicks in and he finds himself doing two things—draw a defensive borderline, and, simultaneously, move aside. Which happens to be a good thing, as his line collapses right away.]

No... [He glances at his sleeve.] Just a little singed.

...Did I interrupt something?

[toremainbehind]

You weren’t. I was just doing some training.

[At least it’s good to see that Fubuki has escaped relatively unharmed.]

It’s a good way of dealing with frustrations at least.

C - Whichever day before movies and stuff

[bartenderizing]

[ Apparently, at some point during that damn moon viewing, Izumo had gotten injured. He's not sure how, having had the gut feeling and knowledge that something happened between them that was going to be like a mountain to get passed, but still so fuzzy on the details... Though in reality, that would be because he was refusing to remember. It was too awkward to think of, after all. However it meant that even a week after, despite Izumo being at the temple, they hadn't really crossed paths. Or they saw one another and continued doing what they were caught up with.

Yona was getting increasingly fussy, however. It meant that whenever the pools were active, she wanted them to bathe in one to heal faster. There's really no meaning when Shizuo says that he feels fine, and even he realizes that. The temple had more than one pool, too, making it possible to continue avoiding a potentially awkward conversation.

It's why, while he pauses in having chosen the same pool as Izumo. Shizuo had went there with a towel and was wearing just the swimshorts, making it easy to see the area he was impaled. It'd always look a little messy, and was going to stay as a scar running from his hip to the bottom of his ribcage, on both sides, but it wasn't that bright and sensitive pink color anymore. Izumo looked... Well, that's what happens when you can feel your injuries, huh? ]

I'm, uh... Just gonna stay with you, instead of dealing with Yona if she sees me just walking around.

[ Her fussing has really gotten worse since Izumo got hurt as well. Ah, but he's pretty much taking the opposite side of the pool as his lookalike. There really wasn't a way to make this less awkward, right ]

[toremainbehind]

[In a way, he does feel a bit bad for worrying Yona to such an extent that she's gotten fussy. Especially since Izumo doesn't have quite the healing factor Shizuo possesses and she's taken to hovering over him a bit more than the other shinki. It is good to see Shizuo again, given how he hasn't seen the other after the...incident at the bar.

When Shizuo joins him, there's a flicker of surprise before he nods.]

Feel free to. We wouldn't want to have her fuss anymore.

C

[handsome_genius]

[ Yoon didn't know Izumo well at all. His only impression of him was his participation in that network post.

So when he shows up at Yona's temple, Yoon takes notice right away. After about an hour and Izumo hasn't left yet, Yoon finally approaches with all of the bravado of thinking he knows what's going on. Aymeric and Leo were both gods, and the tone of the post had struck a nerve with Yoon, so obviously that meant... ]

What's a god like you doing spending so much time here today?

[ Even as he says that though, he's eying Izumo up and down as he does to everyone upon first meeting in-person, taking stock of the sort of person they are. ]

[toremainbehind]

[Ah, this is the boy Leo's been talking on the post, isn't he? Izumo recalls him briefly from the time they've talked about Goten, but he's never really gotten to know him.

However, there is some bemusement on his face upon the question.]

Really, I wonder how rich I'd be if someone keeps mistaking me for a god. [He keeps his tone light, showing Yoon how Izumo doesn't seem to mind it at all that he's been mistaken for one.]

But to answer your question, I'm staying here for a bit. It hurts if I move too much.

B

[pure_radiantics]

[ Kairi would've just been hovering around on Nimbus but today she thought maybe it would be better if she didn't call for it. She'd been getting a little too comfortable just calling out to it any time she wanted to travel halfway across the Far Shore. So today she's out walking. That's why she hears Izumo practicing with his borderline before trying to walk closer.

Ah yes, she remembered that sound!

She gets close and puts up her own borderline as his comes close, deflecting it like a dagger throw as his comes close to her face. To be fair, she had made up her mind to do just that, so she wasn't nearly as surprised as Izumo was. ]

Nope! It's been awhile since we practiced with your special borderlines though, Izumo. How are you?

[toremainbehind]

[Upon seeing Kairi, he immediately gives her a smile. It has been a while since he’s last seen her.]

Not bad. How about yourself? It’s been a while.

A

[heartshutter]

[ Hm. The bar is closed... but there’s no reason given? Sounds to Tatara like Izumo’s just running a little atypically behind, that’s all. Of course, he can’t be sure; but he’s willing to stake a bet on it.

However, rather than coming back later like most would, instead he does the most ‘Totsuka’ thing of all: He waits. Sits outside in the weather, (which is temperate, all things considered!), and passes the time by watching bugs make their transitory migration across the pavement, until finally, he’s approached. ]

Aah, Kusanagi-san!

[ He knew you’d come. ] No, no -- it hasn’t been that long at all.

[ Pushing to his feet, he’ll dust himself off and prepare to follow Izumo inside. ]

[toremainbehind]

[After being injured by a crazed god with a chainsaw, being late was reasonable. However, considering how early it still is, he wasn't really expecting anyone to be waiting.

When he realizes it's Totsuka, he arches an eyebrow and heads inside the bar.]

What brings you around, Totsuka?

A

[sing_for_me]

[She was staring up at the temple when Izumo spoke up, catching her attention.]

Izumo—No, not really. I was just ..wondering how you were doing.

[toremainbehind]

[He quirks an eyebrow upon seeing Alex, somewhat surprised.]

I wasn't expecting you to stop by. Would you like to come in?