#peachmuses: inui seishu

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❝ what will you do? ❞ emma asks with a frown, using her spoon to stir the contents of her latte. ❝ koko is in mikey's gang, right? you're in takemichi's... ❞ setting her spoon aside, she lifts her mug and takes a sip, offering the waitress that brings them their desired meals a soft look before she leaves. today was emma and seishu's designated shopping day, but the topic of discussion wasn't clothing at all. it was about the fight between takemichi's toman and mikey's new gang. ❝ i heard that mikey even has that hanma guy in his gang... he helped kisaki try to kill me, i don't even know who mikey is anymore. ❞ it's been a while since emma, herself, fell out with mikey. / @peachmuses

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soft laughter erupts from emma, and she can't help but notice it's been a while since she's even laughed. there was nothing to be happy about recently, everything was spiralling downhill so quickly. ❝ oh come on, you kinda look like a cat. like a ragdoll cat or something, i think koko would find it cute too! ❞ the snort she gives once she finishes indicates the opposite, she thinks it might keep koko away even further. while she knows no one in their right mind would wear that top, she knows mikey, if they did wear it, wouldn't even be phased. he's an entirely new person now, and she doesn't like him one bit. ❝ just make sure you give koko a good few hard punches, knock some sense into him. and give that hanma creep a good kick to the balls for me, he deserves something at least. ❞

" you want to fight ? " seishu is surprised / while emma - he knows - regularly hung out around toman but as far as he had known, mikey never allowed her to fight -- then again, the family does run a dojo so, who is he to be surprised really. he takes a sip of his drink, and releases a breath. " you always manage to surprise me, you know ? " muttered, quiet, to himself, more than her. she moves on and he nods his head. he just wants koko back. half of him is gone without him, and seishu thinks he's never missed anyone more. his nose wrinkles, " you won't. that design is stupid. it'll be a cold day in hell before i wear something so ugly. can you imagine koko's reaction to seeing me in it ? "

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@peachmuses : " koko said he was in love with me. " seishu, is currently sitting on emma's bed, holding one of her pillows. " and then got pissed at me for telling him i was in love with him. "

emma only sighs as she finishes putting her nail polish away into her little bag, zipping it up and sliding it under her bed. she used to think her love life was messed up, but inupi's takes the cake. ❝ well, he's a weirdo. ❞ always has been in her opinion, but she didn't know him too well. only a few instances has she met him, but she knows him mostly from the stories seishu tells. ❝ he's all about drama, isn't he? he sounds like he sucks, shu. ❞

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@peachmuses : ❛   company .   silently  sit  with  my  muse  to  comfort  them. / inui / emma.

emma, although with all she's been through, never acted like she had been through half of what she has. when things got tough she put on a smile, when things got tougher she put on a brave face. when her mother dropped her off and left her, she had to grow thicker skin. after shinichiro died emma had to toughen up, for mikey's sake. who would look after mikey now? not her, apparently. for all she's tried it's gotten her nowhere, and after the accident, she felt mikey slipping through her fingers, falling deeper into a darkness emma couldn't quite comprehend. all she knew was that now she was losing a third brother and that weighed quite heavy on her heart. so, for all she's been through, emma liked to escape sometimes to breathe. typically by bodies of water where the air was colder. and, as it turns out, inupi liked to do the same. ( or he spotted her out late and night, and being the best brother figured he was, decided to follow her. )

but, instead of sitting and speaking, they both sat on an empty bench with silence as their blanket. and it was comfortable and cosy, knowing she had someone there for her. she hoped he felt the same way about her.

his life wasn't easy either, he lost so much too, arguably more than emma has. but he was so strong and carried himself so well, sometimes she felt a little jealous. the wind picks up slightly and emma crinkles her nose, shifting on the bench to rest her head against his shoulder, yellow gaze still focused on the scenery before her. although she was comfortable with the silence, she had to know one thing. ❝ i won't ever lose you too, will i? i don't think i could survive that much heartbreak. ❞

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❰❰ MEDIC ❱❱ sender bandages receiver’s wounds / inui / emma.

@peachmuses / self-indulgent meme.

a hiss is forced through gritted teeth as she pulls slightly away from his careful touch, only for her to mutter a quick 'sorry' and relax once again, knowing she's in good hands. seishu would never intentionally hurt her, and he was being as careful as he could whilst bandaging up her bruised and bloody hand. blonde brows knit together as she watches him, one foot tapping against the floor almost as if she's impatient, but she's actually just embarrassed.

her injury was a result of poor timing and underestimating her target. emma had been out, doing something or other when a group of guys approached her and tried to flirt with her. of course, she made it clear she wasn't interested, but of course, that wasn't enough. it never was enough. one guy in particular had reached out to try and touch her, inappropriately at that, and she had turned around, fist balled tightly, and thrown a punch. but the guy had ducked out of the way and emma's fist wound up connecting with a brick wall. fortunately for her, seishu, who she had been meeting up with, had witnessed the entire thing and swooped in, dealt with the perverts, and took her home to help bandage her up.

❝ i can't believe i did that, ❞ she admits after too long of sitting in silence, ❝ that's so embarrassing, shu-shu. ❞ huffing through her nose, yellow gaze averts to the side, wallowing in her own guilt. she knew how to throw a punch! she did judo with mikey and baji! granted, she dropped out after a certain amount of time as other hobbies arose, but she should have been able to land that. ❝ men suck! ❞ exclaiming, she suddenly freezes up, turning to look back over towards the boy, giving him a shy, guilty grin. ❝ except for you, you're the best. ❞ leaning forward, lips press a soft kiss between his brows, just to show how much she means it.

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❛ what are you doing out here by yourself? ❜ / seishu to emma

@peachmuses / various question prompts.

she blinks and turns, peering over her shoulder in mild confusion. ❝ eh? ❞ it's only now she bothers to look around, realising she's not inside the comforts of her own home, but instead standing in the middle of the sidewalk in the early evening, with nothing but a hoodie ( that looked to belong to mikey, or maybe even large enough to belong to draken ), comfortable shorts and a pair of furry slippers on. emma cannot remember leaving the house, the last thing she remembers was craving some ramen, but they didn't have any at home. she thinks. she's confused, again, she's always confused. slowly, emma turns towards inui as he closes the distance, and emma snaps out of her trance as he takes her hand, no doubt to comfort her. ❝ i can't remember, actually... ❞ shifting, the sano girl blinks and looks down, spotting a carrier bag in her hand. lifting it up she opens it and peers inside, seeing a good few types of ramen and some other comfort snacks. ahh... she must have been really impatient and didn't want to wait for mikey to get home. ❝ i guess i was hungry! ❞

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seishu pressing a kiss to emma's forehead. " i'm proud of you. "

@peachmuses / unprompted ask.

throughout this entire process it's been nothing but difficult and confusing, and very, very isolating. no one knew how she felt, they couldn't understand. they hadn't taken a baseball bat to the head on a fast-moving vehicle. ever since then there were blank spots in her memory, times of fear and confusion. one minute she'd be looking at her brother, mikey, smiling, and then the next she'd be looking at a total stranger, not sure who she even was. everyone around her didn't seem to know how to deal with it, they were as scared and confused as she was. everyone except for inui, who always dotted on her whenever he visited and expressed how well she was doing, how hard she was trying. he was one of the few people she got excited about when she knew he was coming over, even when her recovery was almost complete.

without thinking, emma reaches out and wraps her arms around his torso, resting her now fully healed-up head against his chest. ❝ thank you! ❞ for everything. there's so much she has to be thankful for, but she's unable to put it all into words. ❝ i don't know what i'd do without you, shu-shu! ❞ what would she have done without him? it was a scary thought, one that makes her hug him just a little bit tighter.

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❝ i want to fight, ❞ emma mutters abruptly, staring blankly down at her latte as it twirls with the motion of her circling her spoon. it was strange to hear such a thing from emma considering she was not a fighter and never has been. she did learn, but throwing punches and kicks was never her thing, she never quite enjoyed being hit either. ❝ i want to punch mikey right in his stupid face and smash his stupid head against a wall for being so stupid - ❞ but was it his fault though? was it even koko's fault? everything was so uncertain nowadays. lifting her gaze, she looks over at the older boy, a weak smile gracing her lips. ❝ ... so, when do i get to see you in the cat shirt-? ❞

does he want to fight / not particularly. he's tired. it isn't the same without koko by his side either. ( he could lose everyone / and feels like he has. first; his parents, then; his sister, now; koko. ) " it isn't the same without koko by my side. " he says instead of a 'no'. it's more fun when koko is there / it's more fun when koko gives into him because he can't tell him no. " he said i was too dependent on him -- i guess that's true. that isn't anyone's fault but my own i guess. "

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part of her feels like this was her fault. that what happened to her, her 'almost death', triggered mikey's dark impulses to have a deeper hold over him. all the deaths in her brother's life were hard enough, but emma knew what she put him through was no doubt one of the worst things he must have had to endure. she bites her lip hard as memories of her calling mikey shinichiro resurface, the confusion she felt when mikey tried to tell her that shinichiro was dead. her mind was shattered back then. ❝ do you even want to fight? ❞

inupi breathes out when emma questions him. the older crosses his legs, and he peels off a layer of his own croissant. it's not proper to eat the flakes off one by one / but at this point seishu no longer cares about what is / isn't proper. " koko's got it in his head that it's best with mikey. " for whatever reason it is. " maybe i'll just beat some sense into his head when the time comes. " that's the only way that seishu sees it working out. he's still lost about it anyways / about why koko left him. seishu has never been without him by his side / he loves koko but he cannot stand by mickey's decisions. " mickey has fallen off some edge, " he says swallowing another flaky layer. he's got a hot chocolate to dip croissant into / but he's allowing it to cool first. " koko isn't even talking to me. "