if you're still breathing

[blindfoldcode]

Who: Izuku and Kido
What: Prayer #18
When: April 24
Where: The Near Shore
Warnings: shrug

Izuku has a habit of picking up prayers that are just about being generally nice to people. Kido has no issue with it, but she can't help but feel a little pointless when it came to things like actually interacting with people.

She's too shy for any of this. She's not good with people. And Deku's so much better than her, if there's no ayakashi, she doesn't see the point in her being pulled along. After all she felt like she made everything worse in their first prayer. She stings him, she's invisible half the time, now. He does well without her.

But she can't deny that it makes her happy that he insists she comes along. It's an interesting back and forth in her mind and chest. So she just stuffs her hands in her pocket, one earbud in her ear.

"You said we're trying to console somebody, right?"

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[fullcowl]

He's not sure if anybody other than Kido's noticed, but he only picks up prayers about helping people. From helping somebody find a job, to feeding the homeless, there isn't a single cruel prayer that he's picked up. He's not the goddess of revenge or war, so he's pretty sure he's doing his best as Aidos' reincarnation- and as himself.

Kido's doing better all the time, she stings him every once in a while, but it's nothing like the pain when she first arrived. He just hopes he can continue being somebody she relies on, she worries over a lot- which he's no stranger to, but he also tends to throw himself into what he cares about so he doesn't have that much time to worry.

"Right. They've lost their best friend recently, and they're having trouble moving on." Honestly, he can understand that.

[blindfoldcode]

"Like... died lost?"

Or just got in an argument forever and now they're not talking and freaking out about it. She knows it could go both way. She knows either way it'd hurt a lot.

[fullcowl]

"Like died lost."

He's only had to deal with it once, but it still weighed heavy on his mind. It's maybe a little worse for gods, who have to watch their shinki's death upon their arrival.

[blindfoldcode]

If Kido had any memories, she'd assure him it's par for the course to feel like that. She is, after all, the crying four year old at her mother's funeral, the five year old who said she didn't want to live after losing her sister, the twelve year old sobbing in the rain after she lost Ayaka, the fourteen year old who had to say goodbye to the person who taught her to be happy again, the sixteen year old who clung to her brother's body until she was killed instead of running away or fighting back.

It weighs. no matter what, it weighs.

"You think we can help with that?" After all, being dead to begin with makes it more complicated. And being a god adds an entirely different aspect of death.

[fullcowl]

"... I think we can." And they at least have to try.

After all, he picked up the prayer, he has to fulfill it now. He fidgets with his hands for a moment before nodding.

"He does want to move on, he said he needs some kind of sign. I'm sure his friend wouldn't want him stuck for so long either." Or at least, that's how he'd feel about it.

[blindfoldcode]

"Nobody wants their friends to feel like crap." She shuffles to the next song on her iPod.

She notices the fidgeting. "You okay, boss?"

[fullcowl]

The fidgeting stops and his attention is on Kido, confused by the... nickname?

"Boss?"

[blindfoldcode]

She turns a little red at that, she's surprised he noticed.

"Thats what you are, right? I mean... I guess?"

[fullcowl]

"Um... Sort of? I guess that's what gods are... I don't mind it." It's kind of a nice nickname when it's coming from Kido.

[blindfoldcode]

She means it both sincerely and in a good way!!! She shrugs like it doesn't effect her, but her face is still pink. "You didn't answer the question."

[fullcowl]

He shrugs, "I'm alright." He's worried over Kacchan, but since he's somehow disappeared from this world there's very little Izuku can do about that now.

"Come on, let's go help this guy out."

[blindfoldcode]

She doesn't believe him for a second, but...

She follows behind him a step. She wonders what you can even say to somebody like that. "... You should knock."

Kido's not sure anyone would be able to hear her knocking. She hasn't gotten that visibility thing completely yet.

[fullcowl]

"Right." He nods, and knocks gently on the guy's door, waiting for him to come to the door.

[blindfoldcode]

It's quite a time before there's any sort of answer. The kid on the other side is not doing so hot and it's kinda obvious.

It's hard to be in mourning and when he eventually does answer the door... he doesn't notice the pair outside.

[fullcowl]

He can understand not wanting to come to the door. He's still in mourning, even after his research told him his friend had died a month ago. Izuku still gets it.

He very gently reaches out and touches the kid's hand.

"Hello."

[blindfoldcode]

At least that gets some kind of reaction. He's startled and he stares at the both of them like he's seeing ghosts.

"Who're you?" He's not a very polite person atm. But even Kido can give him a pass on that.

[fullcowl]

Izuku lets go of his hand once he can clearly see them.

"You asked for a sign, right?" The only people who should know about his prayer are the people who picked it up, after all.

"I'm Aidos, and this is my partner." It's basically his work name, after all, and certainly more recognizable than his own.

[blindfoldcode]

Yeah Deku is getting looked at like he has three heads while Kido lifts a hand in greeting.

"What're you talking about?" You don't expect physical people to answer your prayers, normally, after all.

[fullcowl]

It's too bad, because Izuku's always been hands on in helping. Perhaps a bit too much, considering all the injuries he's sustained by helping his classmates.

"Your prayer."

[blindfoldcode]

Way too much in Kido's very humble opinion.

"My pra--you heard that?" Deku you gotta explain a little bit more.

[fullcowl]

"Yes, you asked for a sign because you've lost so much. Um, I'm the god that picked it up." He probably could have done something else for a sign, but a god helping is... pretty good? He thinks?

[blindfoldcode]

He points between the both of them. "You're a god."

Kids just scowls into the neck of her pullover. "He's a god."

[fullcowl]

"That's right." Honestly, he can't deny it. "I'm sorry about what happened to your friend."

[blindfoldcode]

Kido can't help but raise an eyebrow at him.

The kid just slouches and opens the door. You can't deny a god entry, right? But he still looks very down. "Yeah, I hear that a lot."

[fullcowl]

He doesn't have experience in this kind of quiet, personal thing. When he helps people it tends to be out in various kinds of battle, leaving their hearts out to deal with.

Izuku walks in, looking down at his right hand, scarred up from when he was trying to help Todoroki accept himself. That's a lot different than this.

"It's... been a month since his death, I'm sure your friend cares about you wherever he is now."