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[deadly_garden]

[Green eyes peer over the top of a box, older than they should be and curious before child-sized hands reach out and pull the box down, smiling brightly.]

Shuichi! [Kurama, making the face that all seven year olds with their hands caught in the cookie char make, winces and peers down from his place on a ladder to look at a small, gray haired older lady, her foot tapping.] What are you doing?

Just looking, Obaasan.

Looking where you shouldn't, in your elder's things. [Her voice is stern, but her eyes, brown and not unusual like her grandson's, are fond.] What are you doing with that old kimono?

I like the colors, they're pretty.

[She sighs, shaking her head and taking the box from him.] Of course. Well, if we're going to relive my younger days you should have someone who knows how to treat them with respect.

[Kurama smiles and all but leaps down from the ladder, coming to rest at her side] Thank you, 'Baasan!

Go wash your hands, you've been eating enough azuki bean paste to make a kitsune content for a year.

[Kurama nods and makes his way towards the kitchen, and the daydream fades out with him]

Comments

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

You was a cute kid.

1/2

[deadly_garden]

Pardon?

2/2

[deadly_garden]

Hakuba-san! You've come back!

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

Yes, a few weeks ago. This place must like me.

There'a another virus going on?

[deadly_garden]

It must, Kuroba-kun and I were even speaking of you and Koizumi-san a month or so ago.

It... would seem so, though I'm not sure what this one is supposed to be.

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

Koizumi-san? Is she in the comm?

I'm not sure either, but that kimono looked good on you.

[deadly_garden]

...Oh dear, you've forgotten her. Well, yes she was, but she left shortly before you did.

Thank you, they're from my grandmother's old days as a geisha, before she retired.

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

I did not, she's my classmate. And she's hard to miss and forget, just ask the other guys. Ah, you mean here. She never mentioned it.

A geisha? Oh, that's not an easy job.

[deadly_garden]

Well, she's been gone quite awhile, I suppose she forgot.

Indeed it's not, but she was quite talented, or so I was told as a child. She only retired because she wanted a family; I suspect had she not she would have continued on until she developed her arthritis.

[hippie-hacker.livejournal.com]

Shuichi, you're still here?

[deadly_garden]

And Langly-san! I look away for a few days and suddenly everyone's started to come back. Yes, still here. This place seems to like me.

[hippie-hacker.livejournal.com]

Believe me, if I had a choice, I wouldn't have come back.

How have you been? Seems to be a pleasant dream you had.

[deadly_garden]

I beleive that's what most of the returners say.

I've been well, and yes. It was. Yourself?

[hippie-hacker.livejournal.com]

[Smirks.]

Glad to hear that the community hasn't gotten to you!

Eh, same old! Nothing new to really report.

[deadly_garden]

Well, I seem to have a higher tolerance for the strange and potentially traumatizing than some others do.

Really? No new mass cattle deaths or strange circles in corn fields?

[hippie-hacker.livejournal.com]

Please, you should know by now that such occurrences like those are normal for me. However...you are more then welcome to try and reason with the theory that stoned wallabies are the culprits behind the crop circles in Australia...

[deadly_garden]

Stoned... wallabies.

[hippie-hacker.livejournal.com]

Have fun! (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/02/crop-circles-stoned-wallabies_n_916196.html?icid=maing-grid7|aim|dl3|sec1_lnk3|83234)

...HuffPo needs to either *get* editors or retrain them. Because. What did I just read?

[deadly_garden]

...Is this a respected newspaper in your world?

They seriously need to. I had a really hard time believing that someone actualy posted this bs.

[hippie-hacker.livejournal.com]

It's one of the many newspapers out there. It just saddens me to see such nonsense posted. There's hardly any proof to this.

I'm not sure if I'm more surprised that they reprinted this or that the *BBC* printed it first.

[deadly_garden]

((Or that the BBC took it seriously in any way at all))

Do wallabies even weigh enough to force the plants down in the way of crop circles? Are there even enough of them in one place at one time? Because they must be amazingly coordinated even when high to pull something like that off.

Either way it's kind of pitiful!

[hippie-hacker.livejournal.com]

The answer to this is....that they're alien wallabies!

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You were adorable.

[deadly_garden]

I was seven.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

That doesn't mean you weren't adorable.

[deadly_garden]

I should think it would mean quite the opposite, that since I was seven I would of course be adorable.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Especially, then.

[deadly_garden]

Kaasan would certainly agree with you there.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I would like her if we met.

[deadly_garden]

She would like you as well. As Baasan would have, I should think.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You have a lovely family.

[deadly_garden]

I was lucky, even without my tousama. And even when Kaasan remarried she found a good man.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I hope you treasure them, Minamino.

[deadly_garden]

I would give my life for all of them, Ryudo-san. [And he very dearly did! Twice!]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I can't say 'that's good' because I want you alive, but I'm glad they inspire such loyalty.

[deadly_garden]

Of course they do. Kaasan is my mother.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You would think that would be enough, but some people don't feel that way.

[deadly_garden]

And that is to their detriment. Mothers, the good ones, are rare and wonderful things, more important than any jewel or precious stone.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Parents are indeed like that. No one should argue.

[deadly_garden]

And yet there are those that do. Sadly one of the constants of the multiverse.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

There are so many parts of the universe that frustrate me. I'm just glad to have people I can understand.

[deadly_garden]

Sometimes I think the universe is made to be frustrating.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You may well be right.