thenearshore | [Open] They become a part of you

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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[His fingers tighten a little, but otherwise he goes very still. ...Nora.]

...I don't think it was your fault.

[There was an ayakashi, after all...]

...Why would he be displeased? Doing it protected you too, didn't it?

It did, but not everyone is happy about that sort of thing, right?

[And Izumo...Izumo is Mikoto's best friend. It hit a little too close to him.]

[As much as Fubuki would like to deny it...there's a lot that he would do to survive. He wouldn't be sure he wouldn't have agreed to become a nora in a situation like that if it had happened to him, regardless of what he feels about nora in general.]

That's...

[Then again, he has no idea how life-threatening that situation actually was. Maybe he shouldn't judge Izumo's god as harshly as he is right now.]

...What do you feel about it?

[Izumo doesn't blame Mikoto either. He doesn't, but it's just...

No shinki should have to go through this.

Izumo hums in thought.]

...To be honest, I don't have anything against it, but I never really thought about allowing myself to be named by another person either. The situation has called for it, though, since we couldn't let an ayakashi wander free and hurt more innocent people.

[Fubuki blames Mikoto very much right now, but he's trying not to, so he doesn't say so. He still doesn't think it was Izumo's fault, whatever the case may have been; all of his concerns about nora come from considerations on the shinki side of things, and he's never thought about what a god would think of it.]

[And trying to remove a name just seems extreme. Especially if one party doesn't want that.]

[He draws his knees up and pillows his head on his arms again.]

You considered it the right thing to do... I think that's admirable, at least.

[He was really asking what Izumo thinks about the entire thing and not just nora...but maybe that was just too silly a question. People can't compartmentalize their upsets like that.]

[He laughs lightly.] I guess I understand now why you want to burn this poor temple down. [He directs a cautious smile over.]

Do you?

[It does sound like Fubuki has some mixed feelings about this in general.

At the cautious smile, Izumo chuckles.]

It might've been a little too reckless of me to do that, though. It's still public property.

I do. [He looks away.] It's just... I couldn't...do anything when my former god died. I don't think I could be shinki to two gods at once. [So basically, his mixed feelings about nora are entirely on him.]

...I'm guessing that's not why your god was displeased, though. But when you say you did it to take care of ayakashi...that's not a bad thing, you know?

[He chuckles at the public property comment.] No one has to know... It won't be the first reckless thing you've done, right?

[He's just guessing.]

Well, that is how you feel. Everyone has their own feelings about being a nora, after all.

[He shrugs.

He'd rather...not discuss Mikoto anymore.]

No, it won't be. But no one else needs to know that.

That is how I feel... But you can set your borderlines on fire, though. [So, you know. Different shinki have different capabilities to defend their gods with...]

[There is a bit of a pause after that statement, because he thought of "if it's any consolation, I still like you," but that...might sound pretty bad (and not even for flirting-related reasons). It takes him a few seconds to get his mind off of it.]

You won't do anything reckless and dangerous, I hope...

[Which...sounds like the same thing, or that one thing includes the other in its definition, but...it's just different. Somehow.]

Not sure if that's really a good alternative.

[At the pause, he glances over, waiting.

Then he chuckles.]

No, of course not.

Isn't it? It makes it stronger, right? [Someone who can make strong borderlines is already miles ahead of Fubuki in being able to protect his god, so it probably isn't that much of a concern for anybody else to protect more than one... Probably?]

Or do you count it as one of the reckless things...?

So long as I have a reason to be strong.

[So, he shrugs.]

It can count a little bit as both.

[...He can't just tell Izumo not to do anything dangerous, can he? Urk...]

[But he chuckles anyway as he moves his arms behind him and leans back on them.]

...Is that how it works? What reason was it that let you do it just now, then?

Simple: I wanted to.

[He grins at him.]

[Pfft… Though he supposes that if Izumo were doing it strongly, Fubuki wouldn’t be sitting here with just a singed sleeve.]

As good a reason to do anything.

[He glances over.] Do you do it often?

[He laughs.]

Nope. Just once in a while.

[He’s surprised into a chuckle.]

I guess that depends on how often you fight. You told me you’re a brawler, right?

That's right.

[He's never been a big fan of weapons.]

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