6th Joke [ Action | Voice ]

[cuteobsessed]

[He woke up that morning to a weird feeling. The house was quiet. Usually he heard Tatsunosuke or Yamanami moving around when he woke up, but today there was nothing. And it felt...different. It isn't until he's searched the house and realized the truth, seen the letter and hidden it among his things forever, that the fact that he's alone in here sets in. He hasn't been alone since coming here and it...disturbs him. Still worse is knowing what Yamanami went back to, what Tatsunosuke will have to live through. Unsure of what to do, he leaves the house and sits on the front steps, hugging his knees to his chest, face hidden behind his arms and his journal in his lap. He's like that for awhile before he makes the announcement, his voice wavering.]

...House 40's empty now. ...They went home.

...They... They left. They were here just a few hours ago...and now he's gone again.

...he's gone again....

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[action]

[ayu_nee]

[Not too much later Ayumu joins him, sitting down on the steps without a word and setting her work basket on the ground at her feet. As though it's an ordinary day and she simply chose to set to work here through some coincidence, she simply pulls out some clothing that needed mending and sets to work in silence.]

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[cuteobsessed.livejournal.com]

[Hearing someone come near sets him on edge, but when he realizes it's Ayumu, it hurts all the more. What if she goes next? How many other people who can't ever come back will leave this place? She isn't saying anything though and Heisuke doesn't much feel like talking. Instead, he just grips his knees a little harder, trying to hide a little more.]

[action]

[ayu_nee]

[Ayumu is all right with not talking, especially since she doesn't really have anything to say just yet. Another one of them has vanished, someone else she doesn't know if she'll ever see again, and she doesn't think it's right to let Heisuke just sit there by himself even if there's little she can do. So she just sits there and works, in a silent reminder of her presence, letting him acknowledge it or not as he wishes.]

[action]

[cuteobsessed.livejournal.com]

...It ain't fair.

[He's acknowledging her, but it sounds like he's talking to no one in particular. He's afraid she'll go next and then what? What would happen to them all then?]

...Don't go nowhere, Ayu-nee. I don't know if we can take it.

[action]

[ayu_nee]

I don't intend to go anywhere, Toudou-san.

[Her voice is entirely calm as she responds, not even pausing in her work. She will return eventually, she knows— at some point she has to go back and finish what she'd started. But until that day comes, for now it's enough to keep watch on those she'd once left behind.]