[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

[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.

[bartenderizing]

[ It... Really didn't help that the attack occurred less than a day after that incident, which he's refusing to be able to recall. ]

Especially when she finally stopped worrying about me so much... Ah, sorry.

[ He's apologizing because they both know why she stopped focusing on him. Even if he reopened his wounds the same day Izumo was injured. He got it mostly handled the following day. ]

How're you feeling, anyway?

[ It did no good asking Shizuo that, but it actually came with real answers when normally asked. It's not like he's forgotten that other people would feel those kinds of things. ]

[toremainbehind]

[Instead of saying anything about the apology, Izumo just makes a bit of a face.

He simply sighs, the sound of it tired as if staying still has been too much for him. In a way, it might've already since admittedly, Izumo isn't good at handling people fussing over him, but he's never outright complained since he's very much aware of how much he can do it himself.]

Tired, mostly, and some pain, but that's gradually fading.

[Mikoto did do a good job in healing him before he left again and the spring's powers did work. Izumo just has to usually be confined to bedrest since he really didn't have a proper doctor looking after him.]

[bartenderizing]

[ Except Izumo was definitely the type that wasn't used to being taken care of in general. Yona was already stressed over friends being injured before, so having them both injured from the same thing just meant that the one who actually felt their injuries, and was the newest hurt, was going to get the brunt of it all.

Unfortunately, there weren't any proper doctors here in the Far Shore. Hakkai, being the closest that was around, had recently disappeared as well. So they were all winging it. It's why, despite a couple of weeks passing, Shizuo was still doing these soaks.

How did you know whether your insides were good enough to be healed up? ]

I guess there's always painkillers until then. They're supposed to heal up completely, yeah?

[toremainbehind]

They are.

[But he also doesn't know how bad his injuries actually are either. At the moment, he can feel aches and how moving too much also means he is likely to reopen a few of them.]

Yona told me you've reopened your own wounds, though.

[bartenderizing]

[ It really sucks when the skin's apparently so tight and fragile that it seems possible to do exactly that. For dumb reasons, too.

Shizuo's counting his incident as a stupid reason. ]

Ah... That was about a week ago. I did some stupid things that night, so it's not a big deal.

[ They were justified, and so that makes it not a big deal. ]

[toremainbehind]

You say that, but it's certainly helped in getting Yona to be even more fussier, too.

[Since she's been going back and forth between them ever since Izumo's been dropped off here.]

[bartenderizing]

Yeah, she did for a few days. Then I told her about how someone healed that with magic.

[ Which certainly got her to focus more on Izumo, once she had been told. Because at least he had that taken care of. ]

[toremainbehind]

Which is how she began to focus more on me, I suppose.

[Ah, well.

He sinks a bit lower into the spring.]

[bartenderizing]

[ Well, that's how the spring works, Izumo. You actually need the area to soak for it to heal. Which is why Shizuo's resting his arms over the edge, though now he turns his back to Izumo to rest his head on his forearms. Which just gives the other blond a good look at how well the back side matched the front scar. ]

Now I'm just doing this until Hakkai returns, or someone else that knows about this kinda shit, just to say it's good enough.

[toremainbehind]

No word on Hakkai then?

[He looks a bit...disapproving of the scar on the backside, but his eyes doesn't linger too much.]

[bartenderizing]

Nah, not since talking with that brat.

[ Shizuo, you know Chikusa's name. You've put him through an ablution.

Actually, that's probably a good enough reason to keep calling him a brat. ]

... Odds are that we'll probably get a doctor here at some point, yeah? A real one, I mean.

[toremainbehind]

I saw on the network that there will be a clinic opening soon at Hakkai’s school. Likely to find a doctor there.

[bartenderizing]

That, uh, seems to have more people with practical knowledge or magic. Which is still better than nothing, but...

[ He shrugs a little. ]

It's where I got healed after reopening the injury. So I met the one that was setting it all up.

[toremainbehind]

Never know until you actually go and check it out. We can't really depend on Hakkai all the time.

[Even if Hakkai is Shizuo's primary doctor.]

Oh? How'd that go?

[bartenderizing]

With Sakura? She was able to close what opened up during that moon viewing.

[ If you're surprised that he remembered her name, there's a few reasons for that. She's cute, she helped him out, and when she uses magic it actually smells like sakura in the air. He'd also prefer to remember her name far more than he would the whole moon viewing thing. There were so many mistakes that night.

Also, Hakkai's a primary something, but they really can't count him as a doctor. Even if he shoved Shizuo's guts back into his body and closed him up. ]

Her magic's good for smaller things, but using it too many times in a row'll probably tire her out for bigger injuries. Which is why I only let her help with using it once. We're gonna need something more if that person starts attacking people again.

[toremainbehind]

[Look.

He can suggest Mikoto - his healing fire does work wonders - but given the situation, he doesn't want to talk to his god right now. Not to mention, if he told Shizuo why, it wouldn't go well either.]

I'm hoping that would be the last case. [He runs a hand through his hair.] I've had a talk with her...'keeper' so to say.

[bartenderizing]

[ Also, Shizuo was already psychologically scarred from the last time Mikoto used his healing flames. There's a lot of potential for things to go completely wrong. ]

Didn't realize she had one. Whoever it is is doing a shitty job.

[toremainbehind]

Agreed. Though, he seemed more irritated of how much of a mess she made.

[bartenderizing]

... Those are some priorities.

[ Obviously he hasn't come across this 'keeper.' Otherwise he'd know exactly what Izumo meant. ]

[toremainbehind]

[You usually meet a lot of people, Shizuo. It's odd he knows the one called William.]

You're telling me. But they're from the same world, apparently.