Fuda #33 . reaching out [video]

[idealism]

I don't suppose anyone here is good at chopping wood? And heaving lifting.

[If anyone thinks that's a loaded question: it definitely is. For a couple of days now he's been working on a campsite, and it's a lot more work - and a lot less fun - than he expected. It's great at keeping his mind off of less pleasant thoughts, however. Working out usually is.]

[Later in the day, he makes a post that he hasn't looked forward to. His little Luceti family has shrunk so much lately. Tsuzuki knows that it's for the best - that going home is good for them - but he still can't help missing them.]

Link's gone home. He's left letters for some people.

I just felt like some people ought to know.

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[idealism]

Is hiding it really important to you, 'Soka?

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[cynicism]

Public displays of affection are unseemly.

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[idealism]

I don't think so. Not all of them.

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[cynicism]

Then we will agree to disagree.

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[idealism]

Who taught you that they were unseemly?

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[cynicism]

Tsuzuki, don't start this again.

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[idealism]

I'm just curious! It wasn't anyone at Meifu, I think.

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[cynicism]

Didn't you grow up in Japan?

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[idealism]

Yes, but I don't remember anyone being teased for getting bentos from their crushes.

Was it your dad?

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[cynicism]

We're not children, Tsuzuki.

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[idealism]

Not anymore, at least.

At least tell me which ones are the unseemly ones.

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[cynicism]

All of them.

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[idealism]

You really don't like any of them?

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[cynicism]

What is this obsession you have with showing off? Why isn't privacy enough for you?

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[idealism]

I guess because I'm not ashamed to be seen with you. [He ruffles his hair.]

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[cynicism]

[OH FOR THE LOVE OF--]

Stop it.

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[idealism]

What, no hair ruffling either?

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[cynicism]

No, Tsuzuki. I mean. This. What you're trying to do here.

Are you trying to make me hurt you?

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[idealism]

No, not exactly. But if that's the only way you'll speak your mind...

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[cynicism]

The only speaking I need to do is to tell you that you're being stupid. If you want someone to frolic in the forest with you like an infatuated child, I'd suggest you look elsewhere.

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[idealism]

[Blinks.]

I wouldn't have asked you to frolic.

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[cynicism]

[This face.]

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[idealism]

[He doesn't really want to have this conversation any more than Hisoka does. It's making him all kinds of queasy. Tsuzuki picks up a pebble and tosses it into the lake, watching the ripples.]

So that's your solution to it? Deal with it or look elsewhere?

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[cynicism]

If you want things I can't give to you, what other choice is there?

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[idealism]

All I wanted was to know why you can't be the one. Why can't you just answer me that?