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]

[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.

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

People find a way to throw it around somehow. Trust me.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

I suppose you have a point.

[He tilts his head.] What about me? Do you think I'd abuse it?

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[Raph grunts a mixture of annoyed amusement.] Lemme ask you this: Why do you want it so bad anyways? What're you gonna use it for?

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

[Because he doesn't want to be powerless, hiding behind Naoki, when just a couple weeks before he'd been...]

Well, you know. It's something to do. And I mean, look at me. I'm not exactly much of a fighter. What if someone dangerous tries to mess with me?

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

There's other ways of self-defense, yanno.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

Against some of the crazies we apparently have here? I'm not gonna learn kung-fu within any reasonable amount of time.

Besides. I'm... more of a caster type.

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, he has no idea what a "caster type" is.]

So what're you gonna do once you learn these magic tricks?

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

[He shrugs.] I dunno. Show them off to Naoki, probably. He's already done this whole thing already. Like I said, it's just something to do with my time that has the added benefit of being useful.

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[He snorts in disgust at the words 'show them off'.]

Predictable.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

What? I figured that was a pretty non-destructive choice!

The guy's tons stronger than me anyway, so he'll probably just congratulate me the way someone's mom pats their kid for learning to ride a bicycle.

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[He tucks the jar under his arm and starts heading back in the direction he came.]

Yeah, have fun with that.

[causeblocked.livejournal.com]

Whoa, hey! [You can't just walk away from Isamu like that! That's his move! He starts following.]

Does it really bother you that much? [There's a bit of laughter in his voice.]