[Baren is NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO TRY THIS but that doesn't mean he's not weak to certain compliments anyway. Calling him cute despite constantly arguing that cute isn't his aesthetic... Rude. HE SEES YOU, BAREN.]
Cut it out! I know exactly what you're trying to do, okay?
You tell me all the time that that's not even my aesthetic, you jerk!
[FLAPPING HIS HANDS TO BE FREE FROM THE BAREN MENACE. The worst part about all of this is that he knows he's being played so bad. He knows.
But in his sad little heart of hearts, he's still starved for compliments and easily charmed and this may actually be working so now he's just trying to FLEE.]
[He won't let Baren win this game... But as he rudely shoves at Baren's arm to reclaim his personal space and escape into the darkness, there it is. THERE IT IS. The damning, sparkling petal. Oh right they're not even like normal petals, they're sparkling Twilight petals. That's some real shoujo shit right there.]
[everyone loses when you play gay chicken with baren
but Baren is laughing - careful to keep out the absolutely malicious cackle so it still sounds like a charmed kind of laugh - and he takes the sparkling petal in his fingers and kisses it like it's his favorite thing
[He can just imagine the malicious cackle, too. He's seen this happen to so many people from the other side before and now he understands their suffering.]
From you, dammit! Quit it already, just let me work in peace!
[HE SAYS FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM like that'll save him... Just leaving a little sparkly trail of flowers in his wake, what the fuck is this.]
[He does just assume that Baren's continuing to hit on him for the sake of being a little shit. LITTLE DOES HE KNOW that no, Baren's just naturally that way... Bad gay movie references and all.]
Times like now I reeeally wish I'd been the one to get that electrocuting power instead.
[Thalia got it! His coworker got it!! Why did he get stuck with the shoujo petal storm instead??
On the plus side, his irritation means that there's not a literal flurry happening, and the few petal bursts that do occur taper out pretty fast.]
I wanna finish hemming sometime tonight, so don't distract me, got it?
[Baren's still laughing at that though - the flower bursts made him happy. He also realizes that he didn't fucking get that on tape so now that just means he has to redo that whole thing over again in class.
Good! Geez, the trouble I go through for you, seriously...
[Kashuu will regret this day on so many different occasions in the future that he'll probably wish he could still time travel just to come back to this moment and stop his fool self from sakura fubuki-ing.
A FOOL.
But yes his sword sure is in there, all nice and shiny and... laying on a bed of soft fabrics.]
[time travel is against the cause, kashuu - not that you remember that.
but then Baren is blinking in confusion as he opens Kashuu's closets and. finds that sword there. and there's definitely a long, stunned, judgmental silence coming from him.
he lifts the sword without hesitation and when he turns to Kashuu he definitely looks betrayed
FOR NOW THOUGH strangely enough, Baren might hear a little yelp before he even starts yodeling about betrayal because Kashuu can FEEL THAT, DON'T BE RUDE. It gives him a little heart attack every time...]
Wh— Huh?! Samurai-- [WHAT AND WHY but also more importantly:] Put that down, dammit!
[DON'T DO THAT EITHER BAREN what a big fat jerk!!! Kashuu jolts upright, nearly knocking over his little box of sewing supplies that he really needs to stop precariously setting on the edge of things.]
Cut that out! You're gonna drop it!
[Better than that time Yato punched it for funsies, though...]
[baren's a giant fucking jerk and he watches the reaction - but maybe it's just some prized family heirloom and kashuu doesn't seem to have some kind of weirdass connection to it???]
No, I won't.
[instead he's just gonna
wiggle his fingers almost menacingly (why) before tap tap tapping them against the sword and almost tickling it
But no, instead of just having stashed some secret family heirloom in the closet, he's stashed a sword he's apparently lost part of his soul to. His physical body jerks a little in the same way one would expect of someone being suddenly tickled and he makes an inelegant snorting noise. MIRACULOUSLY he manages to still not knock over the sewing kit...
Even though he's now coming at Baren with a vengeance.]
[GOD, BAREN. Still probably not as much as getting punched, but he doesn't want to experience Fresh New Voodoo Pains, either...
ALSO THAT'S RUDE but totally true. Fortunately it doesn't take a lot of prying to get Kashuu to talk about this, considering nothing about it is too personal. Yet.]
Anyway, I seriously don't know what's going on. I went to a doctor who's on the network and everything and he had nooo idea. He said it might be some kinda soul transfer-y thing or whatever? Someone else said I might be some weird genie? [HE'S EXHAUSTED.] No one knows, though.
[Baren wracks his brain for memories, for weirdo myths that could apply here. He's got a couple of ideas, but none that he's willing to say out loud. Maybe a visit to the library or actually pretending to attend a class will be enough to convince him that he can share with Kashuu. As is, it's not enough to break his weird image of not being studious for the sake of tossing out theories.]
But you feel whatever this thing feels, right? And it's a full on sword? Doesn't feel fake...
[He's actually gonna check, just because he's kept it in the sheath so far?? So sorry Kashuu, he'll go ahead and unsheath the sword out of curiosity.]
[Why is Baren like this, the eternal question with no answer.
Either way, since Kashuu still hasn't looked into it himself (mostly because he's half-convinced that if he ignores it it'll just stop being a thing?! LET HIM LIVE), he doesn't give it any particular mind in this case either.]
Yeah, it's a sword. It's— [Definitely real, is what he's going to say, but then BAREN RUDELY UNSHEATHES IT.
Well, it's definitely a real sword. Very well-made, even! Kashuu's watching with some amount of wariness, though it's mostly because this feels oddly uncomfortable and not because he actually expects Baren to drop it.]
—It's real, yeah. And I've just kinda been describing it as like, an extra arm or something? ...Look, I know it's weird.
[Baren's openly curious in this sense - turning the sword over in his hand and getting used to the weight of it. The hand holding the sheath lets it rest on his shoulder, a movement that's unconscious and distantly familiar. Even though he'd studied kendo when he was in Japan, he can't remember ever laying hands on an actual sword.
Until now.]
Some of these have inscriptions, right? To tell you who made it, who owned it.... Did you do research or did you literally closet the situation.
[can you believe kashuu has to come out as a sword]
Maybe you were cursed by a witch to have some part of your soul locked away in this one and we need to figure out how to break the spell so you can be a real boy.
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Cut it out! I know exactly what you're trying to do, okay?
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That's kinda rude... but even then, it's not like I'm lying?
[HE'S LYING]
S'not like you to deny it? C'mon Kiyo, you're adorable!
[UGH]
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[FLAPPING HIS HANDS TO BE FREE FROM THE BAREN MENACE. The worst part about all of this is that he knows he's being played so bad. He knows.
But in his sad little heart of hearts, he's still starved for compliments and easily charmed and this may actually be working so now he's just trying to FLEE.]
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BUT BAREN'S TACTILE WHEN HE FEELS LIKE IT so snaking an arm around kashuu's waist this is terrible, he's too familiar with this motion sleazy.mp3]
I can change my mind!
I guess that just goes to show how cute you really are!
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I know that's a lie!
[He won't let Baren win this game... But as he rudely shoves at Baren's arm to reclaim his personal space and escape into the darkness, there it is. THERE IT IS. The damning, sparkling petal. Oh right they're not even like normal petals, they're sparkling Twilight petals. That's some real shoujo shit right there.]
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but Baren is laughing - careful to keep out the absolutely malicious cackle so it still sounds like a charmed kind of laugh - and he takes the sparkling petal in his fingers and kisses it like it's his favorite thing
it might be his favorite thing]
Kiyooooo! What're you running from?
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From you, dammit! Quit it already, just let me work in peace!
[HE SAYS FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM like that'll save him... Just leaving a little sparkly trail of flowers in his wake, what the fuck is this.]
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[like not even meant to be hitting on him that time, it's just a fact but coming from baren it probably sounds like hitting on him]
I'm not quitting anything! I just don't know how to quit you, you know?
[okay now that's
that's just a bad gay movie reference]
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Times like now I reeeally wish I'd been the one to get that electrocuting power instead.
[Thalia got it! His coworker got it!! Why did he get stuck with the shoujo petal storm instead??
On the plus side, his irritation means that there's not a literal flurry happening, and the few petal bursts that do occur taper out pretty fast.]
I wanna finish hemming sometime tonight, so don't distract me, got it?
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Tragic.
(Nah.)
Regardless, he'll give a beckoning hand.]
Yeah, yeah. I can entertain myself.
[is he going to poke around in kashuu's closets
did he ever move his sword]
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[Kashuu will regret this day on so many different occasions in the future that he'll probably wish he could still time travel just to come back to this moment and stop his fool self from sakura fubuki-ing.
A FOOL.
But yes his sword sure is in there, all nice and shiny and... laying on a bed of soft fabrics.]
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but then Baren is blinking in confusion as he opens Kashuu's closets and. finds that sword there. and there's definitely a long, stunned, judgmental silence coming from him.
he lifts the sword without hesitation and when he turns to Kashuu he definitely looks betrayed
fucking devastated
because - ]
I can't believe you let Samurai Jack get to you!!
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FOR NOW THOUGH strangely enough, Baren might hear a little yelp before he even starts yodeling about betrayal because Kashuu can FEEL THAT, DON'T BE RUDE. It gives him a little heart attack every time...]
Wh— Huh?! Samurai-- [WHAT AND WHY but also more importantly:] Put that down, dammit!
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because even in his angry yodeling he heard the little yelp and he's squinting at the timing there.
which is why he's not going to listen to kashuu he's just
going to give the sword a
friendly little toss before catching it again
staring kashuu down all the while]
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Cut that out! You're gonna drop it!
[Better than that time Yato punched it for funsies, though...]
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No, I won't.
[instead he's just gonna
wiggle his fingers almost menacingly (why) before tap tap tapping them against the sword and almost tickling it
why is this
why]
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But no, instead of just having stashed some secret family heirloom in the closet, he's stashed a sword he's apparently lost part of his soul to. His physical body jerks a little in the same way one would expect of someone being suddenly tickled and he makes an inelegant snorting noise. MIRACULOUSLY he manages to still not knock over the sewing kit...
Even though he's now coming at Baren with a vengeance.]
Quit it, you jerk!
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this is what gets baren to stop, instead just pressing a hand to his forehead as he closes his eyes as if trying to fight off a migraine]
I don't know where to start with this....
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Look, I don't either, okay? So just leave it.
[NO EXPLANATION NO NOTHING it's fine... He's just become even more of a samurai soulbonder than Yamato.]
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Nope!
I know you're shit at it but start talking, trail mix.
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[GOD, BAREN. Still probably not as much as getting punched, but he doesn't want to experience Fresh New Voodoo Pains, either...
ALSO THAT'S RUDE but totally true. Fortunately it doesn't take a lot of prying to get Kashuu to talk about this, considering nothing about it is too personal. Yet.]
Anyway, I seriously don't know what's going on. I went to a doctor who's on the network and everything and he had nooo idea. He said it might be some kinda soul transfer-y thing or whatever? Someone else said I might be some weird genie? [HE'S EXHAUSTED.] No one knows, though.
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[Baren wracks his brain for memories, for weirdo myths that could apply here. He's got a couple of ideas, but none that he's willing to say out loud. Maybe a visit to the library or actually pretending to attend a class will be enough to convince him that he can share with Kashuu. As is, it's not enough to break his weird image of not being studious for the sake of tossing out theories.]
But you feel whatever this thing feels, right? And it's a full on sword? Doesn't feel fake...
[He's actually gonna check, just because he's kept it in the sheath so far?? So sorry Kashuu, he'll go ahead and unsheath the sword out of curiosity.]
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Either way, since Kashuu still hasn't looked into it himself (mostly because he's half-convinced that if he ignores it it'll just stop being a thing?! LET HIM LIVE), he doesn't give it any particular mind in this case either.]
Yeah, it's a sword. It's— [Definitely real, is what he's going to say, but then BAREN RUDELY UNSHEATHES IT.
Well, it's definitely a real sword. Very well-made, even! Kashuu's watching with some amount of wariness, though it's mostly because this feels oddly uncomfortable and not because he actually expects Baren to drop it.]
—It's real, yeah. And I've just kinda been describing it as like, an extra arm or something? ...Look, I know it's weird.
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Until now.]
Some of these have inscriptions, right? To tell you who made it, who owned it.... Did you do research or did you literally closet the situation.
[can you believe kashuu has to come out as a sword]
Maybe you were cursed by a witch to have some part of your soul locked away in this one and we need to figure out how to break the spell so you can be a real boy.
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[And it'll be a bad time because his physical strength is slowly but surely increasing in a very unnatural way...]
I looked some stuff up with Aki earlier, but that's it... I don't even know where an inscription would be.
[He also doesn't mention that the sword he found when looking things up with Aki was called Kiyomitsu...]
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