a good idea

[blizzardrock]

Who: Hinata, Fubuki
What: Prayer #9
When: Apr 23
Where: Near Shore

What, exactly, had been the circumstances of his life (...afterlife??) that lead him to having to consider going into a lady's room? Of course, it was a little more likely that it would be there than in any other place. And they had to start somewhere.

"Hinata... I'm going to suggest something that might make you lose your respect for me."

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[hyuuga]

Hinata's line of thinking was thus: most people who 'lost' something didn't actually lose it, but misplaced it. If Fubuki found the photograph by itself in the kitchen, then good. But there was also a chance it was still in their wallet, hidden behind a different picture or money. That's usually what happened.

Even she would be looking for their wallet in the room, just on the off-chance that that happened. She enters the client's bedroom and is faced with a rather similar situation to the kitchen downstairs: clothes everywhere.

She sighs; this was going to take a while to sort through unless she uses her Byakugan. But that feels a little like cheating at the moment, so she begins sorting through the pile closest to the door hoping to find it hidden away in a pocket.

[blizzardrock]

Eyeballing anything that might look like it might fit into a wallet, Fubuki walks a slow circuit around the kitchen, and then the living room. He spends about a minute just looking.

"Hinata, you there?" he calls, heading toward the bedroom. He stops in front of the doorway. "I was thinking...I thought the thing was a photograph, but..." He hesitates, trying to recall the wording. "The prayer said that it was her only memento of him, right? But normally, wouldn't a couple take a lot of pictures together?"

[hyuuga]

Hinata pauses in her searching of the third stack of clothing, still no closer to finding the photograph, wallet or anywhere it might be hiding. She sighs; really she should just use her Byakugan at this point.

She gets up and goes over to the door, opening it as Fubuki talks. "That... Actually, that is rather strange. I didn't pick up on that, but... I know I would," she says. The only reasons she can think of why someone wouldn't are rather depressing.

[blizzardrock]

"It's not like she doesn't have photos of other things, either." He folds his arms. "What else could it be, though?"

Unless it was a gigantic wallet, Fubuki can only think of a few things. And what would cause someone to only have one picture of their lover, anyway?

"Maybe...it's not a lover?"

[hyuuga]

Hinata taps one of her fingers against her lips as she thinks. It would make sense... "She only said, 'him,' right? Unless I'm remembering wrong..."

She trails off, thinking of other relationships the client could have. "A dog..? No.. Maybe a brother?" Even though that's an option she hopes isn't true. It would be too close to home for her. "And then... Where would a photo be most likely to fall out at?"

[blizzardrock]

"If she were in a rush, it could be anywhere..." And she probably already re-traced her steps, if she sounded that desperate. "Maybe it's at an unconventional place?"

Too bad about not knowing what it was, though. It could be something like a candy wrapper, for all they knew. "It wouldn't be that rare to take pictures with a dog or brother, would it?"

He glances toward the living room. "Although...does she have a lot of pictures in her room?"

[hyuuga]

She looked back into the bedroom. "No, she really doesn't. But I don't think it would be hanging on a wall.. If it's gone missing."

After a moment of deliberation, Hinata sighed. "I had hoped that I wouldn't have to use this, but... Just... Don't freak out too much?"

She clasped her hands together, leaving only her right index finger extended in order to direct her chakra, as it was harder to concentrate it in this world. With her chakra focused, the veins surrounding her eyes became prominent and her (white) pupils can finally be seen. With this active, she started looking throughout the house from her position since she could now see fifty meters in all directions.

[blizzardrock]

The supplicant having photos in the rest of her house but not the bedroom is kind of weird, but—

But...um...

This would be easier to take if Hinata had told him that this thing she was doing would cause her eyes to get like that. It's...not as if he shouldn't already be aware that gods have, er, godly abilities and whatnot.

And...she didn't tell him not to disturb her, so... "What are you doing?"

[hyuuga]

For a moment, she forgot that this was something she didn't mention to other people. Mainly because she was trying to keep it quiet as she didn't want her cousin to ever see or know about it.

"Um... Sorry I didn't say anything sooner, but... This is my byakugan. Why my eyes are the way they are. Um, basically, I can now see everything within six meters."

She paused for a moment, focusing on the house and the outside of it. And...


There.

Just out the front door, hidden underneath a potted plant was the missing photograph in question.

She quickly dismisses her byakugan.

"...That's an odd place to lose something."

[blizzardrock]

Everything? As in...?

Wait, where is his mind going? (Why is his vessel name in such an embarrassing place???) "I-I see."

That's certainly pretty useful. But if she didn't use it earlier, doesn't that mean...? "I hope there aren't any side effects?"

[hyuuga]

She nodded, oblivious to his inner turmoil aside from a small feeling of embarrassment. "That's right. Um, unless there's some sort of magical barrier around it, then I usually can't.."

She sighed and started heading down the stairs, toward the front door in order to get the object in question.

"And not usually. Just, um, chakra exhaustion if I keep it going too long. But since this world is... It's different and chakra doesn't seem to be a thing everyone has, so... I tried not to risk it."

[blizzardrock]

"That's a relief." He wouldn't know what to do if something went wrong. "How do you treat it?"

That and 'this world,' but since that's a common enough metaphor, he assumes she's talking about ways of living and glosses right over it.

[hyuuga]

She sighed as she reached the front door. "You don't. Not really. You have to let it regenerate on its own. And if you go too far then..." She paused because what did death really mean here? Could a god really die from something like that? "Um, well, I won't let it go that far. Which is why I try not to use it."

She walked out of the house and bent down next to the planter and pulled out the photo from underneath it. "This doesn't seem like it was random.."

[blizzardrock]

"Maybe someone returned it," he says distractedly. Then he takes a closer look. From the family resemblance between the two people in the picture, looks like it really was a brother, after all.

"Or maybe she didn't want to look at it for a while?" There were plenty of reasons someone would put a photo underneath a planter and then forget about it...!

Or not. "In any case...should we put it back in her room?"