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[Somehow, despite not having her Werewolf fatigue - and thus not needing to be nocturnal at all - Ibuki answers this message near instantly.
Sleeping's a little hard for her, apparently.]
(° o°)!!!! cerberus-chan!
what's up my blood-drinking homie? (Г・ω・)г need to jam about something?
ibuki's here for whatever you need!! ( ´∇`)ﾉ
Sleeping's a little hard for her, apparently.]
(° o°)!!!! cerberus-chan!
what's up my blood-drinking homie? (Г・ω・)г need to jam about something?
ibuki's here for whatever you need!! ( ´∇`)ﾉ
[He can get rrright behind that!
Especially since this is, well... a matter of...]
I got a body right here. Do you want it for breakfast or lunch or whatever???
Because you know I can't eat the whole damn thing by myself, I already got the blood
foxes like you eat meat right??
Especially since this is, well... a matter of...]
I got a body right here. Do you want it for breakfast or lunch or whatever???
Because you know I can't eat the whole damn thing by myself, I already got the blood
foxes like you eat meat right??
a body???????
[Hang on a second, there's a moment of instinctual "oh, shit, who died" feelings that she has to shake -]
oh haha like a foodbody, right!! ヾ(;´∇`)ﾉ buuuuuuuut while ibuki is all about eating meat, she doesn't really need to eat humans just yet? 〜(꒪꒳꒪;)〜
of course ibuki isn't gonna say no!! because its really nice of cerberus-chan to offer like this!!
but this means we should probably put it somewhere where it won't go bad, and while ibuki's fox brain is telling her to bury it where it's cold, her human brain knows that is not a good idea. ( ｡_｡)
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (ʃ-`_-)ƪ
[Hang on a second, there's a moment of instinctual "oh, shit, who died" feelings that she has to shake -]
oh haha like a foodbody, right!! ヾ(;´∇`)ﾉ buuuuuuuut while ibuki is all about eating meat, she doesn't really need to eat humans just yet? 〜(꒪꒳꒪;)〜
of course ibuki isn't gonna say no!! because its really nice of cerberus-chan to offer like this!!
but this means we should probably put it somewhere where it won't go bad, and while ibuki's fox brain is telling her to bury it where it's cold, her human brain knows that is not a good idea. ( ｡_｡)
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (ʃ-`_-)ƪ
[It's not niceness, at least not per se, rather than it is Lucas liking two relevant things: one, Ibuki, and two, blood and meat a-spillin'. Put 'em together and what have you got?
Also what do you mean "what".]
HA HA HA maybe my mom's cooking wouldn't have been such complete shit if there were one of those at my folks' place, they still sound like fucking losers but at least they're smarter than my mom and dad ever were.
[Seriously, why didn't they have one, substantial amounts of remains do not keep that well in a fridge!]
Ok Ibuki she's all yours then, you don't have to starve the whole way you're getting a feel for hunting the good hunt dog style!!
Pleasure doing business with you sister!
Also what do you mean "what".]
HA HA HA maybe my mom's cooking wouldn't have been such complete shit if there were one of those at my folks' place, they still sound like fucking losers but at least they're smarter than my mom and dad ever were.
[Seriously, why didn't they have one, substantial amounts of remains do not keep that well in a fridge!]
Ok Ibuki she's all yours then, you don't have to starve the whole way you're getting a feel for hunting the good hunt dog style!!
Pleasure doing business with you sister!
Don't worry about working until next Wednesday.
Do not show up at the castle until then either.
-- Rohan
Do not show up at the castle until then either.
-- Rohan
[Well that's...
... worrying.
Usually when someone tells Ibuki "don't come over", they really mean it. But why? Just as usually, it's because something bad's happened.
Something bad enough that they don't want to be seen. And Ibuki, being a SHSL club member, knows that's usually the exact opposite of what someone needs.
Her talent is literally friendship, Rohan. You can't expect to send something like this to her and have her obey.
That is to say, about an hour after that's sent, she's scouring Castle Luvchaque for the Naga in question - using her supreme lock breaking skills in one particular instance, sorry - before the door to the basement is opened.
And she comes barreling in, landing face first on the ground, trio of tails comedically flopping over her head, not expecting it to be unlocked.
But she pops right back up onto her hands and knees, shaking her mane of hair out, before hopping to her feet with claws clicking against the stone.]
Rohan-chan! [A dramatic point in his direction -] Finally, Ibuki found you!
What're you doin', trying to tell Ibuki she can't come over like that!? She knows better! Ibuki is a specialist in the world of friends and friendships, she knows what that kinda message is for!
Even Ibuki has times where she tells people not to look for her, if you can believe it!
So - what's wrong? Why do you wanna be alone like this? What's the wallowing for?
Ibuki won't stand idly by while her important friend is upset like this!
[
]
... worrying.
Usually when someone tells Ibuki "don't come over", they really mean it. But why? Just as usually, it's because something bad's happened.
Something bad enough that they don't want to be seen. And Ibuki, being a SHSL club member, knows that's usually the exact opposite of what someone needs.
Her talent is literally friendship, Rohan. You can't expect to send something like this to her and have her obey.
That is to say, about an hour after that's sent, she's scouring Castle Luvchaque for the Naga in question - using her supreme lock breaking skills in one particular instance, sorry - before the door to the basement is opened.
And she comes barreling in, landing face first on the ground, trio of tails comedically flopping over her head, not expecting it to be unlocked.
But she pops right back up onto her hands and knees, shaking her mane of hair out, before hopping to her feet with claws clicking against the stone.]
Rohan-chan! [A dramatic point in his direction -] Finally, Ibuki found you!
What're you doin', trying to tell Ibuki she can't come over like that!? She knows better! Ibuki is a specialist in the world of friends and friendships, she knows what that kinda message is for!
Even Ibuki has times where she tells people not to look for her, if you can believe it!
So - what's wrong? Why do you wanna be alone like this? What's the wallowing for?
Ibuki won't stand idly by while her important friend is upset like this!
[
][ Instead of being in his room, Rohan has holed himself up in the basement-- mostly to escape the heat that has him just a tad overwhelmed because the floor is stone and he can coil up against it.
Anna and Lorna need not see him like this anyway and wouldn't check on him down here. ]
GET-- [ The werewolf barrelling through the door causes him to coil into himself tighter and rather than puff up, Rohan drops his jaw open and snarls.
Her speech falls short as he deflects it. ]
I told you not to come here. Leave.
Anna and Lorna need not see him like this anyway and wouldn't check on him down here. ]
GET-- [ The werewolf barrelling through the door causes him to coil into himself tighter and rather than puff up, Rohan drops his jaw open and snarls.
Her speech falls short as he deflects it. ]
I told you not to come here. Leave.
Nope.
[Speech deflected or not, she's still worried about him. And, as usual, she's not frightened by him at all, either.
In fact - hearing him snarl just gets her to stand up straighter, her own mane of hair unintentionally raising a bit with the motion.
... And she's going to walk right up to him, too.]
Ibuki knew you had to be upset - [Said as she wags a claw in his direction -] and snarling at her just proves it! So... why?
What happened?
[At least she's not going to climb on him or anything.
Yet.
But after only the shortest pause, she does tack on something else.]
... You've never told me to go away, before.
[Speech deflected or not, she's still worried about him. And, as usual, she's not frightened by him at all, either.
In fact - hearing him snarl just gets her to stand up straighter, her own mane of hair unintentionally raising a bit with the motion.
... And she's going to walk right up to him, too.]
Ibuki knew you had to be upset - [Said as she wags a claw in his direction -] and snarling at her just proves it! So... why?
What happened?
[At least she's not going to climb on him or anything.
Yet.
But after only the shortest pause, she does tack on something else.]
... You've never told me to go away, before.
[ He's been short with her before but she is right in saying that he's never told her to leave until now. However, he knows that she won't go anywhere no matter how much he shoves at her.
She'll only keep prying. He can be short about it still. ]
Jotaro and Josuke are gone. I need a break. I don't want to be around anyone.
When will you listen, Ibuki? When will you just shut up and listen?
She'll only keep prying. He can be short about it still. ]
Jotaro and Josuke are gone. I need a break. I don't want to be around anyone.
When will you listen, Ibuki? When will you just shut up and listen?
... I'm always listening.
[Said with a deep frown, crossing her arms. She's just about a foot from him.]
All Ibuki does is listen, y'know? But that doesn't mean she's gotta agree with what she hears, too.
Friendship's really important to me. ... You could kinda say it's Ibuki's fatal flaw. [A joke at her own expense, though she does know better to laugh right now.]
But - you're a really important friend to me, too. So... even though you said not to come here or to work or any of that, Ibuki's here nonetheless.
[... He's right about her talking too much, though, and she knows it - so instead of saying anything else, she uncrosses her arms and gently places her paw-like hands on his tail.]
[Said with a deep frown, crossing her arms. She's just about a foot from him.]
All Ibuki does is listen, y'know? But that doesn't mean she's gotta agree with what she hears, too.
Friendship's really important to me. ... You could kinda say it's Ibuki's fatal flaw. [A joke at her own expense, though she does know better to laugh right now.]
But - you're a really important friend to me, too. So... even though you said not to come here or to work or any of that, Ibuki's here nonetheless.
[... He's right about her talking too much, though, and she knows it - so instead of saying anything else, she uncrosses her arms and gently places her paw-like hands on his tail.]
Sometimes, friends don't want to be bothered.
[ He doesn't swat her paws away if that means anything. ]
Do you understand what's going on now?
[ He doesn't swat her paws away if that means anything. ]
Do you understand what's going on now?
[That means a lot, actually. She actually does smile a bit at it, though she obviously tries to stifle it.]
Mhm. Jotaro-chan and Josuke-chan are gone, like you said. Like how Ibuki's classmates all left before she got here, too.
[She doesn't know much beyond "they're not on the peninsula anymore", though.
But she does pause for a second, her ears going back as her gaze drops down to her hands on his scales.]
... U-unless, um - unless they're gone like Gundam-chan and Fuyuhiko-chan, you mean. But...
You'd be a lot more upset if it was like that, right?
[Hopefully he knows what happened to them, or at least understands her tone, because it's exactly as she's implying.
They're dead. Very much so.
She's kind of unsettlingly blasé about it.]
Mhm. Jotaro-chan and Josuke-chan are gone, like you said. Like how Ibuki's classmates all left before she got here, too.
[She doesn't know much beyond "they're not on the peninsula anymore", though.
But she does pause for a second, her ears going back as her gaze drops down to her hands on his scales.]
... U-unless, um - unless they're gone like Gundam-chan and Fuyuhiko-chan, you mean. But...
You'd be a lot more upset if it was like that, right?
[Hopefully he knows what happened to them, or at least understands her tone, because it's exactly as she's implying.
They're dead. Very much so.
She's kind of unsettlingly blasé about it.]
[ Rohan doesn't go into the semantics of it because he doesn't want to, nor does he have to. He'll go pray later or something. ]
I don't know, Ibuki. How or what isn't what I'm having to parse right now.
They are all I had left from home.
[ like, even Jotaro TECHNICALLY even though he was Weird Busted Timeline Jotaro. ]
They weren't the only positive things I had. Obviously. [ He motions VAGUELY to her. ] We worked... Really hard.
I don't know, Ibuki. How or what isn't what I'm having to parse right now.
They are all I had left from home.
[ like, even Jotaro TECHNICALLY even though he was Weird Busted Timeline Jotaro. ]
They weren't the only positive things I had. Obviously. [ He motions VAGUELY to her. ] We worked... Really hard.
...
[Even though it was vague, it was still at her - and though she doesn't let herself smile, her tails still start to sway a bit to show that she caught it.
Still looking at her hands, though, she rubs one against his tail a bit... before climbing over the loop of scales, settling with her arms around his stomach.
For once she doesn't know what to say. Well - she knows what she wants to say, but at the same time, she really, really doesn't want to get deep and philosophical with him.
Sure, maybe it'd be impressive, but it took a long time to trust Hinata with that side of her, and Rohan's not... there yet.
So, instead.]
... Ibuki's sorry you're the one who's gotta deal with all this. I... I know it probably really seems like Ibuki doesn't understand, or maybe doesn't care, but, like - I do!
Ibuki gets what's going on here, and...
I'm here if you need me.
[Even though it was vague, it was still at her - and though she doesn't let herself smile, her tails still start to sway a bit to show that she caught it.
Still looking at her hands, though, she rubs one against his tail a bit... before climbing over the loop of scales, settling with her arms around his stomach.
For once she doesn't know what to say. Well - she knows what she wants to say, but at the same time, she really, really doesn't want to get deep and philosophical with him.
Sure, maybe it'd be impressive, but it took a long time to trust Hinata with that side of her, and Rohan's not... there yet.
So, instead.]
... Ibuki's sorry you're the one who's gotta deal with all this. I... I know it probably really seems like Ibuki doesn't understand, or maybe doesn't care, but, like - I do!
Ibuki gets what's going on here, and...
I'm here if you need me.
I don't think that you don't understand. [ He shakes his head, surrendering some of the icy edge in his voice. ] I wouldn't insult you like that. You aren't stupid. Just strange.
[ That HAS to be a compliment??? Right?????
He brings up a hand and pats the top of her head. RUFFLING HER HAIR A LITTLE... ]
I will be fine. Having setbacks get me down has never been my style. [ Yet he hasn't said that he can't draw. ] You believe me, right? Of course you do. You're one of my biggest fans, aren't you?
[ That HAS to be a compliment??? Right?????
He brings up a hand and pats the top of her head. RUFFLING HER HAIR A LITTLE... ]
I will be fine. Having setbacks get me down has never been my style. [ Yet he hasn't said that he can't draw. ] You believe me, right? Of course you do. You're one of my biggest fans, aren't you?
[To Ibuki, that's a huge compliment. So, yes. It's also got her tails thumping against his with some sort of cheer or excitement.
And she can't help bonking her head against his hand with that hair ruffle, her expression stretching out into a big smile.]
BZZZZT - wrong!
Ibuki's not just "one of" your biggest fans! She is the biggest of Rohan-chan's fans!
After all... Rohan-chan is one of Ibuki's best friends!
[That's said without an ounce of hesitation, even followed with a little, fox-like laugh.
Almost like he's instantly drawn all that cheer she's been trying to stifle right out of her. Huh.]
And she can't help bonking her head against his hand with that hair ruffle, her expression stretching out into a big smile.]
BZZZZT - wrong!
Ibuki's not just "one of" your biggest fans! She is the biggest of Rohan-chan's fans!
After all... Rohan-chan is one of Ibuki's best friends!
[That's said without an ounce of hesitation, even followed with a little, fox-like laugh.
Almost like he's instantly drawn all that cheer she's been trying to stifle right out of her. Huh.]
[ He's still upset and very tired but Ibuki has her way of bringing these things out of him. By the tiniest of margins. ]
Ah... My mistake. [ His lips do pull into a little smile. ] I won't forget that next time. Forgive me.
Ah... My mistake. [ His lips do pull into a little smile. ] I won't forget that next time. Forgive me.
[Honestly, Ibuki can't help blinking a bit in confusion at that question. Like... what does he mean??
It takes her a moment to remember-]
you mean like how in the states you guys shoot off fireworks and stuff for tonight only? yeah, we totally have stuff like that!! o(≧ε≦o) it just totally depends on where you live yknow?
there's festivals all summer all over japan, and a lot of them have fireworks! but also a lot of other, more EXCITING things too!! .+:｡(ﾉ･ω･)ﾉﾞ
It takes her a moment to remember-]
you mean like how in the states you guys shoot off fireworks and stuff for tonight only? yeah, we totally have stuff like that!! o(≧ε≦o) it just totally depends on where you live yknow?
there's festivals all summer all over japan, and a lot of them have fireworks! but also a lot of other, more EXCITING things too!! .+:｡(ﾉ･ω･)ﾉﾞ
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU TOTALLY JUST REMINDED IBUKI THAT TANABATA'S COMING UP Σ(‘◉⌓◉’)
oh man oh man oh man is ibuki gonna have to miss it?? what'll she do if she doesn't get her wish????? ibuki's wishes are so important, but if this place doesn't have tanabata, then she can't make her wish, and that's just totally noooooooo bueno!!! o(´･д･`o)))三(((o´･д･`)o
oh man oh man oh man is ibuki gonna have to miss it?? what'll she do if she doesn't get her wish????? ibuki's wishes are so important, but if this place doesn't have tanabata, then she can't make her wish, and that's just totally noooooooo bueno!!! o(´･д･`o)))三(((o´･д･`)o
[He has zero experience with taking any holiday this seriously, 'scuse him as he snorts into laughing out loud on his end!]
Yeah that's what someone said.
[Hence him coming here to ask her what the heck that's all about!]
Calm down girl!! Do whatever the fuck you want!
I mean it's not like not being in Louisiana anymore stopped ME from setting some DAMN PRETTY fires tonight if you hear!!!
[HOLD THAT THOUGHT.]
You know I'd be up for setting more bigger ones too if that's part of the festivities
Yeah that's what someone said.
[Hence him coming here to ask her what the heck that's all about!]
Calm down girl!! Do whatever the fuck you want!
I mean it's not like not being in Louisiana anymore stopped ME from setting some DAMN PRETTY fires tonight if you hear!!!
[HOLD THAT THOUGHT.]
You know I'd be up for setting more bigger ones too if that's part of the festivities
Hi Ibuki!!! :D
This is a good time right?
I hope so!
The thing is I'm getting married. <3
[...?]
I mean I know this might be weird to ask because you're a girl but you're my best friend and I love you and all so I wanna ask you do you wanna be my best man??? ^_^
[?????]
It's ok if you have other things to do, just asking is all!!!
This is a good time right?
I hope so!
The thing is I'm getting married. <3
[...?]
I mean I know this might be weird to ask because you're a girl but you're my best friend and I love you and all so I wanna ask you do you wanna be my best man??? ^_^
[?????]
It's ok if you have other things to do, just asking is all!!!
[Wow, okay, hang on.
She has to stare at this for like, half an hour.]
ibuki would do anything for you of course, but but but???
who are you getting married to???? and where???? and why???? and of course ibuki would be honored to be your best man but but but????????
????????????
there are only so many question marks ibuki can use to express her confusion!!!!!!
She has to stare at this for like, half an hour.]
ibuki would do anything for you of course, but but but???
who are you getting married to???? and where???? and why???? and of course ibuki would be honored to be your best man but but but????????
????????????
there are only so many question marks ibuki can use to express her confusion!!!!!!
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