two ☆ sudden inconveniences

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

[Yuuto appears on the plane, looking somewhat exhausted. Not to mention frustrated. There's a rather noticeable coffee stain on his shirt. Either he's really bad at handling his drinks or his girlfriend got mad. It's probably the latter. He mumbles to himself as he's trying to clean it off with a towel, to no avail. White shirts are doomed no matter how you look at it.]

Why won't they understand? And it's not like they'll believe me, either... and I can't go back right now.

Damn it.

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[prince-stupid.livejournal.com]

[Have a massive looming kitty (http://community.livejournal.com/realityshifted/226921.html), Yuuto. He isn't exactly happy at the moment, either--prowling aggressively around, talking to himself, still too tired to resume his journey but not too tired to be royally pissed at the time-passage situation.]

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

[Holy crap giant kitty. He stares, because... last talking cat he saw was small and cute and harmless.]

... Uh... Do you know what's going on, exactly?

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Notices the coffee stain, then frowns at Sakurai.]

What happened? Why won't they understand what?

[prince-stupid.livejournal.com]

[Stops and stares as though he's never seen anything quite like Yuuto. His eyes are almost completely feral--angry, cautious, hungry, nearly overridden by instinct.] Time, it would seem, is passing outside of this place once again.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

[Yuuto takes a giant step back. Just ... to be respectful and all. Yup.] Yeah, figured that one out... but why now?

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

[Oh great. Why does Ryotarou singlehandedly have the ability to make Yuuto look AND feel like the bad guy?]

I was hanging around the Plane for a little while, but when I went back, Airi said I'd been gone all day. She didn't believe me when I said I was busy with my other job, so...

... but it's not just Airi. The Imagin said I'd been gone, too. Something is seriously wrong.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[It's a gift, srsly.]

No, but... That shouldn't be... [A small pause, then he nods.] Something is wrong. ... What's this about another job?

[prince-stupid.livejournal.com]

The whim of the human-things that control this place, I have little doubt. [Rumble of a growl.] Human in shape or human in truth... I am beginning to think that Mousebreath was not wrong in his assessment of your kind.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

[Damn him.]

It's something I tell Airi to explain where I am when I'm fighting Imagin.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

Ugh, they're anything but human.

[Hold on a second. Was that an insult?]

Don't compare the rest of us to them. I don't experiment on people.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Ah... [Looking thoughtful for a moment.] Sakurai... if time is moving while we're here, how are we going to know if an Imagin shows up? I don't like this.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

... Why don't we set up a meeting point or something if one does show up? That is, if our realities are in sync at all...

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

A meeting point? ... and I don't see why they wouldn't be.

[prince-stupid.livejournal.com]

[Contemplating you with a look somewhere between irritation and resignation.] Humans, I have noticed, dislike generalizations only when such things are applied to themselves.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

Would you like to be lumped into the same group as a pet? I don't think it's just a human thing.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

Yeah... last time I checked, you didn't carry a phone.

[prince-stupid.livejournal.com]

I was what you would consider a pet, until a very short time ago.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

So?

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

Fine, do you have an idea? [Beware the temper. He's covered in coffee and his girlfriend hates him.]

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

... You don't look like the lap-cat variety.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

Mm. [Nods a bit.] Actually... I do. One of us should stay off the Plane. If an Imagin attacks, they can come here and warn the other.

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

But what if a day passes by when we're only here for five minutes?

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

There's nothing we can really do about that, is there...? The only other choice is to just not come here until this is over, but we won't know when that will be if we're not here...

[hasarrived.livejournal.com]

[a sigh] I guess you're right. [Though Yuuto almost accuses Ryotarou of wanting an excuse to kick him off the plane for a while, he realizes he needs to be there for Airi.] I'll... go home, then.

[saythistostart.livejournal.com]

[Nods.] Good.