twenty-fifth breath ✧ voice

[musubi]

[When Isamu speaks, his voice is incredibly shaky.]

You motherfuckers.

You fucking win. Are you happy?

[He doesn't clarify who he's speaking to, but the answer may be obvious.

Wanting to visit Naoki as often as he could get away with without being shooed off, the teen had headed up to his friend's apartment. But he wasn't there. It didn't look as if he'd ever been there.

He wasn't at the house. He wasn't at the New Feather lodges. He wasn't anywhere.

Naoki would have told him if he was leaving again, right? Things had just been starting to work out between them again...]

You can't... You can't do shit like this.

DO YOU HEAR ME? YOU CAN'T DO THIS.

[Filtered to Raphael, Richard, and Sanji]

He's gone.

I have to get out of here.

Just... don't look for me, okay?

[Unspoken: He'll be back. Maybe.]

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[ingrate.livejournal.com]

Like not human messed up.

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[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[You get a hard, flat stare for that one. Don't forget who you're talking to. You gotta describe it better than that.]

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[ingrate.livejournal.com]

I was... I think the term was "pseudo-fiend". The only way to survive in the Amala Network where I'd secluded myself off was to become something more than human.

I developed the ability to absorb the energy there, just like the demons could. When we first met here, I was still recovering from the change back into a regular human.

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[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[Well that's a lot to take in. He was some kind of demon? Give him a second. He's kind of freaked out about how little he actually knows you even after practically a year of hanging around each other. What the hell.]

So it's happenin' again.

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[ingrate.livejournal.com]

I don't think so... I don't feel any different. [Aside from being exhausted and hungry, but he brought that on himself.]

There's no magatsuhi to absorb here.

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[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

If you say so.

[He really has no idea what he's talking about, but he's not going to make the kid explain today. He's been through enough. The only thing Raph knows for certain is he does not want to lose another friend to something like this. He's already lost Derek to his vampirism, and watching Isamu go through something like that would be so much worse.

But for now, maybe that's something they shouldn't dwell on. There's more immediate worries at hand.]

Maybe you should go home, clean yourself up. You look like crap.

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[ingrate.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'll bet.

[He moves to stand up slowly, limbs aching.]

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[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Iodine works for the knuckles. Keep'em wrapped 'til they quit splittin' open again when you move your hand. [He's done that to himself more times than he can count. And he likes the iodine because it stings.

He claps Isamu gently on the shoulder.]

You gonna be all right?

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[ingrate.livejournal.com]

I can heal some, you know. [Once he gets a little more energy back. He stands, leaning against the tree as he makes sure his legs will still work.]

...Yeah. I'll be okay.

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[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

That works on yourself? Huh. [Yeah, he doesn't know shit about magic.

He shakes his head.]

Whatever. [If Isamu starts walking, he'll follow. And if he's having trouble walking, he'll offer some help.] Well when you're feelin' better, swing by my place again. We always got crap goin' on.

[Read: Even though Naoki's gone, you don't have to sit around by yourself. Raph'll even share his house full of brothers with you. Any time spent in there is impossible to be spent alone.]

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[ingrate.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

[And that's in reply to... about everything.

He starts walking then. It's slow, and it's painful, but it's walking.]

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[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[Raph just nods. He'll follow Isamu until he gets where he's going.]