Fuda #39 [video]

[idealism]

Just how long can someone stay dead here? Draco has been gone for over a week and he still hasn't come home.

[He sighs, running his fingers through his hair. It's worrying. Hisoka won't take it well if Draco doesn't return soon, and he doesn't know how much his sensitive partner can take.]

[Already regretting he put his thoughts in the journal, he changes the subject.]


Anyway. Welcome to town, new people. I'm Tsuzuki. If you need any help finding a place to stay, or just want to find a temple, I'm always around.

[In fact, if anyone is out to find him, they will be able to find him just where he'd sending the video from, the Tsukino Shrine. Later in the day he will take a walk in the woods to clear his head.]

Comments

Worst part of this late is I actually had the post bookmarked on my faves bar. I hope this is okay!!

[tenminutes]

As long as the Malnosso don't feel like reviving them, right? I mean, it's them who does that, isn't it? Or if the people finding the bodies can't find the body to bring it back to town. Maybe he's stuck in a tree somewhere.

it's always okay. :)

[idealism]

Really? I thought whoever ruled the otherworld would be in charge of when they returned.

Yay! :D

[tenminutes]

I don't think for most people the gods in charge of afterlives really want a bunch of random people going back for no good reason.

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[idealism]

It's not like they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. They get paid.

[tenminutes]

Maybe in your world. In my world dead people are on their own. Though if it's like your world, can't we all just do some missions, ask for a ton of money, and pay them off to get us out of here?

[idealism]

They don't ask for money, Yuri.

[tenminutes]

What are they paid in then?

[idealism]

When you die, what's the only thing you have left to bargain with?

[tenminutes]

The only thing I had left when I died was my memories and there's not anyone to bargain with in my afterlife. You either fight or you get erased. So I'd have to say that the only thing they could offer me was a way to fight back, personally, and I don't think getting their asses kicked is very high on anyone's priority list. What about you?

[idealism]

No one gets to fight. Either you agree to work for them, or they send your soul along to the next life.

[It's only then he realizes he admitted to being dead. Fuck.]

[tenminutes]

Sounds like you've got it a lot worse. That's just them telling you to act as slaves in exchange for existing.

[ Yuri isn't going to make a deal out of it, at all. She has no problem telling people she's dead, but unless Tsuzuki wants to make a big deal out of it, she's not going to point it out. It's not like it's a 'congratulations' moment or something she can tease him about. It just is and she knows that for her, she hates it when people apologize. What are you supposed to say to that? "I'm sorry I'm dead too?" So at the very least, she won't bring it up unless it's important or it's an off-hand comment that doesn't really matter. ]

When I get back to being dead, I'll put in a few good hits for you and Hisoka.

[idealism]

Someone's got to do their dirty work.

[Tsuzuki has a lot of feelings about that subject, so he tries to avoid talking about it.

He notices that Yuri apparently knows Hisoka's dead, too. Huh. Just how much has his partner told her?]

Thanks, Yuri. But I hope you're not in a hurry to go back to that.

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri smiles. It's a little.. bittersweet, almost. She wants to stay alive, she really does. Living here, she's had to try so hard not to get attached again but she knows she's failing. Even if she doesn't want to get attached, she has to go back. So she just has to hope that somehow part of her remembers if she ever does get back to the afterlife so she'll have something else to hold onto. ]

I want to get back there no matter what the cost is. There's something I need to finish. If this place wants me back after that-- [ She shakes her head. ] I still don't know that I'd be able to accept that.

[idealism]

[Oh, that sounds intriguing. In another life, another time, perhaps she would have been a shinigami herself.]

It's no wonder Hisoka's so fond of you. What do you need to finish?

[tenminutes]

Fo-- we're just two people who talk to each other, it's not like he's fond of me. [ That sounds embarrassing saying it that way, Tsuzuki! ] In the afterlife, I started a mission to take down God with a battlefront. Right now, everyone who's still around in the SSS there that hasn't moved on already is in danger of having every single memory suppressed, their personality taken away from them, and being forced into becoming basically nothing. This place took me when I was in the middle of trying to save everyone. I know time doesn't flow here but I can't.. I can't just sit back and be okay with how things were left. I can't let them down. [ Not again. ]

[idealism]

[It's almost kind of cute how flustered the two of them get when he teases them about it.]

I understand. I would be anxious if I was in your situation, too.

What kind of god do you need to fight? Maybe there's some way to practice here, until you get home.

[tenminutes]

I practice everything I can think of during my spare time. I don't have hobbies besides sports or things to make me stronger because I don't stop to do things like that. I don't own anything besides clothes and weapons and the various things I get to annoy one of the people I live with. The only thing I can try to do here is be strong enough to protect the people here and so far, there's nothing anyone's been able to do about that. If I knew anything about God then maybe I'd be able to fight better. The only person from the future of my world is someone who I fight so much with that Hisoka automatically hates him on the grounds of him existing, so he doesn't actually know anything about what I did when it came down to it or even who or what I went up against.

[idealism]

I wish I had had your strength at your age. You're going to make a difference, I just know it.

[He can't help but feel like Yuri's not being treated fairly by fate, though. She deserves some time to live, too.]

It sounds like a very hard life. You don't get a lot of time to relax.

[tenminutes]

That's because it's not a life, it's just time.

[idealism]

Sometimes we just have to make due with what we have.

[tenminutes]

Easier said than done.