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TAKEMITCHY

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un: songbird ; text - a few days after the prison break

[windsongs]

hey Takemichi-kun can we talk?
preferably in person but I totally get if you're busy!

un: takemitchy

[crybabyhero]

sure! i'm not busy at all!!

[Texts a lying liar who just very much wants to make sure she's okay.]

my door's not very comfortable but it's quiet. or we could meet at the docks again. unless you know a better place?

[windsongs]

[ ...This boy did not just offer to let her go behind his door. ]

if you're comfortable letting basically a stranger in???
I'll stay where you can see me but just for future reference
don't trust everyone here. especially around your tethers
end lecture :)

but that works for me. kinda trying to avoid going into town unless I have to after the whole wrongful imprisonment thing......

[crybabyhero]

[It's like letting a cute girl into your bedroom, right? Gotta hide your porn mags first.]

got it. i'll hide my tethers before i tell kaito i invited you over.

[Badum-tish.]

i'll wait for you there.

[windsongs]

[ He better hide his shame before she gets there! Also ????? ]

why would you need to tell him?

[ She'll get the directions to his door later, she's genuinely confused why Kaito needs to know. ]

[crybabyhero]

because the last time you went missing he broke the floor with some dude's spine???

[windsongs]

he's not normally that aggro I swear!! 😅
that's more my thing tbh

[crybabyhero]

[Is he now imagining Hibiki destroying that prison guard in Kaito's place? He sure is.]

that just makes it scarier!

@mikey

[invinciblemikey]

takemitchy.

kazutora's here. i'm sending him to you. take care of him, don't let him get into trouble or anything that will ruin his recovery.

[crybabyhero]

kazutora? is he okay? what is he recovering from???

[invinciblemikey]

being himself i guess.

he's 15.

[crybabyhero]

[...what?

Takemichi stares at the text, trying to connect dots he can't even see. Kazutora can't be dead. He was the one who helped Takemichi find Bonten's hideout in the present, after all. So for him to be dead at fifteen... No. He can't be.]

you didn't kick him did you? your kicks could give any guy amnesia.

[invinciblemikey]

... no. i didn't. ... i think.

also, i know what he looks like at our age. he's... baby kazutora. like baji is baby baji. like you are baby takemichi.

i'm pissed

why am i the only old one fuck you guys

[crybabyhero]

[But Baji makes sense! He makes sense! Kazutora can't be dead! He can't! He can't he can't he can't!!!





Can he?

Could his death have scrambled everything so thoroughly? Is this some kind of fatal butterfly effect in action?

How do you know any of it was even real in the first place?

Takemichi forcibly shoves the thought from his brain, assuring himself that if he just starts typing, his hands will stop shaking.]

i'm almost as old as you! i know i look like this but still.

so don't be too pissed okay?

i'll look after kazutora. then i'll bring him to baji. i think he'd want to stay with baji more than me.

1/2

[invinciblemikey]

still bullshit, you know.

yeah. keep an eye on both. they're going to need you. i'm counting on you.

(and he knows now that michi would absolutely die for that. he has nothing to worry about.)

[invinciblemikey]

... takemitchy...?

will you tell me? what happened when you went back? why did you ask me about kenchin?

[crybabyhero]

you really want me to answer that in a text?

soulmate radio

[invinciblemikey]

(it's late night, or is it early morning? he can't sleep. fever, rashes, and loneliness. it's hard, being who he is, how he is, and if he's sick, well. that's vulnerability, isn't it?

so, he's hiring. picking up from drop points, and avoiding loving eyes more than he would. takemichi, unfortunately, gets to bear witness to his thoughts.)

... I hate this. I miss him. He'd make me laugh.

[crybabyhero]

[Takemichi doesn't eavesdrop on purpose. Honest. But Mikey hasn't exactly been at the top of his game since he fell ill, and his lax mental restraint might as well be a damn megaphone aimed directly at Michi's brain. Mikey's loneliness prickles at the edge of his consciousness for at least an hour before the first fully formed thoughts penetrate his skull. By that time, he can no longer ignore them.

Finally giving up on the chance of sleep, he sits up in his sad pile of blankets and sighs.]

Mikey? [How does this soulmate thing even work? Does he just have to think really hard?] Are you thinking about Shinichiro again?

[invinciblemikey]

(a rarity, takemichi. he usually hears the dead.

he's too feverish to realize it's not up in his brain solely, anyway.)

No... I'm thinking of Takemitchy.

[crybabyhero]

Eh? Me?

[He blinks stupidly at the crumbling ceiling above him.]

You're the one avoiding me! I should be missing you!

I mean, I am. I'm missing you right now. So there's no problem, right? Did you wanna walk down the docks or something? I saw you working on that boat. Is it anything like a motorcycle?

[invinciblemikey]

Don't act like I'm doing this for no reason.

You know I'm sick, I can't go out like this.

(takemichi the Mind Entity would know!!! he's in his brain!!!!)

[crybabyhero]

It's not like it's contagious!

[He huffs as he hops to his feet, and though Mikey can't hear it, he probably gets a taste of the frustration behind it.]

Fine! I'll come to you. I'm bringing blankets and tomato soup.

[invinciblemikey]

Bring? But you're here, what are you talking about...

(he feels the frustration, accidentally returns coughs, headache, a brain fog.)

[invinciblemikey]

takemitchy

im starving