fifth breath ✧ voice / action

[musubi]

[Isamu steps out of his apartment this afternoon with a lollipop in his mouth and immediately checks to see if anyone else is in the area before sliding a wrapped package containing a small number of the same treats under the door to Naoki's (with some difficulty). There, see? You couldn't say he didn't care about his friends.

He pulls out his notebook as he's headed out the door from community building 7. It's time he checked up on a certain someone. Sadly, he'd forgotten to get Raphael's name...]

Oi. So I'm looking for a giant talking turtle guy.

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[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

Can't say I have. [He could argue that there are worse things to wake up to, but he won't.]

Tell you what. You keep it alive for another week and I'll take it off your hands.

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[Oh, he's woken up to worse. Trust me.]

Yeah, and what if it dies before that. I don't think these things live that long.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

Some of them do. Especially the larger ones. Haven't you ever seen anyone keep a tarantula for a pet?

If it dies before that... [He shrugs.] It'd be disappointing. I'd think you could manage better.

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

I don't know many people. [Would explain the lack of social skills, eh?] So no.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

[What, people aren't flocking to be friends with a giant talking turtle?]

Well, anyway. Like I said. Give it another week. Maybe you'll start getting to like it! [He's just amused this guy's listening to him to begin with.]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[More like this guy's near impossible to get along with. But he finds you entertaining, so he's humoring you. Plus, he is so not a wuss.

He snorts his disdain, glaring into the jar with a look of disgust.]

Doubtful.

Feel like I should be gettin' paid for this.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

[Isamu shrugs.] Do they even have a form of currency here?

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Favors, I guess. I work down in the smithy in exchange for usin' the forge and tools for my own stuff. People find a way.

So how long you been here, newbie?

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

Uh... Two weeks, maybe? I think. [It felt like longer, but that first week had been hell...]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Hm. [And that's all he's gonna say. He was just curious. Not gonna ask you for your whole life story or nothin'.]

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

So... There's three of you, huh? Are mutant turtles normal where you're from?

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

There's four. Four and only. We ain't aliens or anything.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

[So one of them just wasn't there, then. Probably a sore subject.]

Genetically engineered? [Because that subject was so much better.]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Uh... I guess you could say that. Was kind of an accident. [He shrugs.]

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

...Huh. [Some accident.] So those other guys are like your brothers or something?

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

Huh.

...Well, I guess my job here is done.

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should get a hobby.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

Are you saying I have nothing better to do with my time than pester you?

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Sure seems like it.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

I'll have you know I have plenty of things to do - such as picking up one of those magic skills you're so afraid of.

[Granted, he's had incredibly little luck with that, but he IS trying.]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

I ain't afraid of 'em. I just don't like 'em.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

Right, right. They probably go against your ninja way or something like that.

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Eh, maybe. But I ain't the one you should be talkin' to about the codes.

It's more like...people abuse the hell outta that kind of power. It's inevitable.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

Aren't powers kinda cut back here anyway, though? I wouldn't think anything you could learn here would be all that powerful to begin with.