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sinemoras09 · 4 years ago

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solatium excerpt: personality

More ficlets: Obito and Kakashi fight over barbecue. Obito deals with Madara, and then zombies. Kakashi makes fun of Obito’s wardrobe. Rin and Obito share an inside joke. Rin helps Obito after a bad day. Fluff and crack. @innovativestruggles

(Series of unrelated ficlets. Obito is Hokage. Rin is resurrected and living with him. Madara is married to fem Hashi and has a boatload of kids. Ficlet #7 references the marriage certificate drabble.)

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She was Obito’s guardian spirit, but sometimes Kakashi would pray in front of her headstone, and Rin would feel her consciousness being ripped away from him. All at once she'd be in the middle of a bright, grassy field, the sun shining on the graveyard while Kakashi laid flowers and an ero book as an offering. "It's a new volume, Rin," Kakashi would say, because she was the one who read ero books first, and he'd set the book down in front of her grave.

Rin would look around and see blue skies and white clouds, birds singing overhead. And then she'd feel Obito calling to her again, and all at once she'd be transported, find herself in dark spaces, cold air and claustrophobic cliffs, Obito having killed another person, blood dripping down his arm as he looked up at the slate gray sky, the rain sluicing down his mask like tears. She followed him all those years because he always spoke to her - when he felt lonely, when he felt uncertain and overwhelmed - and even if she’d start to fade or drift away, she'd feel her consciousness being called toward him again.

They were transported to the gravity dimension. Rin watched, horror-struck, as Obito and Kakashi both fell to their knees, unable to stand up.

A chakra rod shot through the air, moving as if being dragged through thick molasses. She saw Kakashi and Obito running. At least let me be a shield for them! If I could just make it in time--

Rin could hear their prayers.

Her consciousness spread far, able to reach both Kakashi and Obito from across the gravity field. Her hands clasped both of theirs, and she made contact - her spirit, which was weightless and formless, suddenly had heft in this dimension, and as soon as she grabbed their hands she ran, yanking them toward the center, helping them.

I'm going to see my friends again, Rin thought. The chakra rods were hurtling towards them. I'm going to see my friends again and I could talk to both of them!

But the rod heading toward Kakashi started to swirl, and Rin could hear Obito's thoughts, just like she always did.

Rin. This time, when I get there...let's spend some time alone together, just you and me....

The rod smashed into Obito's stomach.

Kakashi would only be in the way. I'm leaving him here.

*****

The three of them are sitting over barbecue, Kakashi in charge of the meat because Obito kept taking it out too early. "That's not ready to eat, you need to let it cook more," Kakashi says, and Rin giggles as Obito grumbles that Kakashi is being a pain in the ass.

The meat sizzles. Rin picks up her glass, taking a drink of water when Kakashi asks, "Rin. Was that really you back there, in the gravity dimension?"

Obito looks up. Kakashi doesn't look at either of them, concentrating on flipping over the pieces of meat with his chopsticks. "Kaguya had launched chakra rods toward Naruto and Sasuke, and Obito and I were trying to get there in time to block them--"

"I was there, I know," Rin says. Kakashi sits back, surprised.

"Really?" Kakashi says.

"You two weren't going to make it on time, and all of a sudden my spirit had weight. I grabbed you both and pulled you there."

"Amazing." Kakashi looks at Rin, awestruck. "So you really were following him?"

"Mostly. Sometimes I'd hear you talking to me, though, and then I'd find myself back in Konoha again." Rin picks up her chopstick, then turns a piece of meat in front of her. She frowns, thoughtfully. "It was always such a change," Rin says. "Konoha was so bright, every time I'd find myself there, I'd think maybe I was in paradise. But then Obito would call to me, and it'd be like we were underground again, everything was so dark and cold and lonely. I wished I could actually be there with him."

Obito gives her a small smile. Rin rubs his arm, scooting next to him.

"Anyway, yeah," Rin says. She plucks out a piece of meat. "That was me."

"Amazing," Kakashi says again. Obito's eyes widen.

"Oi! The meat's burning!" Obito starts pulling the meat up with his chopsticks. "Bakakashi, this is why you shouldn't be in charge of grilling--"

"Wha- if you were in charge everything we'd eat would be raw!"

"Why does anyone have to be in charge anyway?" Rin says, because she was actually paying attention to the grill, her meat is cooked perfectly.

*****

If people didn't know any better - if they hadn't known Kakashi and Obito when they were kids, like Rin did - they would assume that Kakashi is the laid back one, while Obito is the serious one.

Rin watches, growing more and more amused as they slowly revert back to their old personalities, arguing over something as stupid as barbecue.

"No, Obito, it's not done yet, put it back," Kakashi says. He flips over the menu, showing them. "The rules here say you need to let it cook for at least three minutes--"

"You cook it until it's not red, I don't like eating meat that's turned into jerky," Obito says. Kakashi huffs.

"We listen to you, and we're all going to get food poisoning," Kakashi says. "It even says right here that--"

"That's just a guideline," Obito says.

"What?" Kakashi says.

"It's an approximation. The heat varies. The conductive capabilities of the grill can change. Also, the meat's not red." Obito plucks the piece out with his chopsticks.

Kakashi's eyes widen. "Baka! There's still blood on it!"

"It's medium rare."

"You order steak medium rare, you idiot, you're gonna make yourself sick!"

Rin starts giggling. The two men turn.

"Obito, you see that?" Kakashi says. "Rin is laughing because you're being stupid."

Obito grumbles, "You're the one who's stupid."

"You're both stupid," Rin says. She picks up her chopsticks. "I'm putting meat on the grill."

*****

Even with chaperones, Madara still causes problems.

"We're so sorry, Obito-san! But Madara-ojiichan acted so fast, we couldn't stop him, dattebayo!" Naruto says. Gai hangs his head.

"I am ashamed to say it, but even my Dynamic Entry of Heart-Pounding Love wasn't enough to stop him."

"It's alright, Gai, Naruto," Obito says. He glares at Madara. "This isn't your fault." Madara rolls his eyes extravagantly.

"To think that I have sunk so low as to be lectured by my idiot apprentice. There is nothing to talk about. There were no casualties," Madara says. "The only reason why I've deigned to come here is because of Hashirama."

Hashi elbows him in the ribs. Madara sniffs arrogantly.

"Madara: why the hell would you perform a fire jutsu of that size and magnitude in the middle of an elementary school playground? And then activate your Susanoo and then forcibly draw out and ride around on the Kyuubi?" In fact, there were multiple reports of Madara rampaging at the playground, riding on the Kyuubi with Naruto getting dragged along in the background. Madara shrugs.

"The idiot behind me makes it so easy, you should be talking to him," Madara says.

"Why?" Obito says. Madara crosses his arms.

"Uchiha Madara is not just some house husband."

"Oh god," Hashi says.

"That pissant father needed to be taught a lesson, and so I taught it well. He now knows never to cross me."

Hashi clarifies. "His kids were hogging the swings," Hashi says.

"This was over swings?" Obito says.

"A territorial dispute that could only be solved by a display of force." Madara crosses his arms. "I believe I schooled him thoroughly."

"I'm so sorry. They've been fighting over playground equipment for weeks, I didn't think it'd go this far, otherwise I would have gone with him," Hashi says.

Obito sighs. "At the very least, it appears nothing was damaged--"

"Of course nothing was damaged. I was in complete control at all times. And yet you call me in here like some apprehensive school marm."

*****

"Hokage-sama! We have a problem!"

"What is it?" Obito says. The shinobi rests his hands on his knees, breathless.

"There are zombies that have taken over the civilian quarter!"

"What?" Obito says.

*****

"I'm so sorry!" Hashi says. Their neighbors are cowering in Madara's Susanoo while Hashi tries sequestering the undead nin she tried bringing back. "It worked with Izuna and Rin, I thought I could bring everybody back--"

"Raaaaar!" Zombies burst through the fence, making their neighbors scream. Madara knocks them down with his battle fan.

Obito stares. "How many did you resurrect?" he says. Hashi thinks.

"Um, I think the entire shinobi army? And I tried resurrecting Minato's wife, too."

"Ahhhhh!" another zombie says. Madara kicks him in the throat and punches another one behind him.

*****

"YOSH! Who's ready to kick some zombie ass, dattebayo!"

Ino shrieks. "It's Neji! Naruto-kun! Neji's a zombie!"

Minato pushes Kushina back, his hand flat against her forehead. "This is bad," Minato says. Kushina flails, then bares her teeth at him. "This is really bad."

In the middle of it all, Uchiha Itachi stands in the civilian quarter, cracks in his skin and his sclera blackened, looking thoroughly confused.

Sasuke gasps, "Nii-san! You're not a zombie?!"

"No, I am merely undead." Itachi frowns, looking at the chaos around him. "Is the war still ongoing? Are they attacking the village?"

"RAWR!" a zombie smashes through the glass window of a cake shop, then begins stuffing its face with pastry.

"Nevermind, Little Brother, I think I know the answer."

*****

Obito walks through the village, assessing the damage. What was once the civilian square is now a bombed-out waste, buildings crumbling and the streets covered in detritus and broken glass. "Do we have any casualties?" Obito asks. Shizune flips through her notepad.

"74 people injured, zero fatalities. But reports of missing persons are still trickling in, and the damage to the village's infrastructure is quite immense."

"Tch." Obito rubs his head.

It took a platoon of ANBU nin to herd the zombies into the forest, where Hashi sealed them with her Mokuton prison. There, Itachi showed her how to negate the jutsu, and after weaving a few hand seals, the zombie nin crumbled into dust and ash. ("Won't canceling the Edo Tensei affect you too?" Hashi asked Itachi. Itachi shook his head.

"I released myself from that jutsu awhile ago."

"Oh, okay. Cool.")

"Were any houses in the residential areas affected?" Obito asks. The ANBU nin nods.

"Approximately ten percent of civilian housing got razed by the zombie attack. Most of the damage seems to be confined to the commercial areas, but we have a team already mobilizing an emergency shelter in case any residents are displaced."

"Good," Obito says. "Notify the village council. The villagers will need disaster relief. We'll have to figure out how to re-allocate funds to provide adequate aid."

"Yes, Hokage-sama." And the ANBU nin disappears into the smoke.

Outside, the civilians venture out, cleaning debris and sweeping the dust and detritus. Obito and Kakashi stand in the middle of the civilian town center, looking at the smashed up windows and thick columns of smoke.

"Wow, what a shit show," Kakashi says. He glances at Obito. "They're gonna blame you because you're Hokage, you know."

Above them, a piece of roof falls after catching on fire.

*****

"Madara is Hokage?!" Itachi's eyes widen. His hand grips his sword.

"Worry not, Little Brother," Itachi says, and he pulls out his sword in one fluid motion. "I will do what I should have done a long time ago."

"Wait wait wait wait WAIT Itachi NO!" Naruto and Sasuke have to physically block Itachi from leaving. Itachi whips around.

"What is the matter with you two? Are you under his genjutsu? Let me feel your chakra, he may have disturbed its flow--"

"That's not the real Madara dattebayo, that's the real Madara," and Naruto points to a man with a bunch of kids strapped to him, a baby chewing on his battle fan and a toddler walking on a leash. "The guy you thought was Madara is really a guy named Obito."

"What?" Itachi says. Naruto nods vigorously.

"Yeah! Old Man Madara activated the Moon's Eye, but instead of creating a new reality, he grew this giant tree that cocooned everyone and sucked up all the chakra from all the shinobi! And then this biiiiiig alien lady came and I guess she was some kind of goddess or somethin' and we all thought we were screwed but Obito woke up and was like 'what the heck is happening,' and then he HELPED US, Itachi! An' then we went to a gravity dimension and a fire dimension and Sasuke was trapped in this DESERT dimension but Obito found us and she threw these chakra rods at us but then he jumped in front of us, dattebayo!"

Itachi blinks. He turns to Sasuke.

"Can you genjutsu me with the information?"

"Yeah, sure."

*****

"You should dye your hair," Kakashi says, apropos of nothing. Obito furrows his brow.

"What, why?"

"Because for most people, white hair is distinguished, but on you it just looks weird."

Obito frowns.

*****

"Eh? Dye your hair?" Rin looks up. "Why?"

"Kakashi seems to think I look weird. That maybe I wouldn't scare off the delegates as much if I dyed my hair and used foundation on my neck and hand."

Rin looks. It's true, the patches of cloned skin can look a bit off-putting. His hand and neck are the color of an etiolated egg, translucent and criss-crossed with fine, purplish veins. And that isn't even taking into account the scars on his face, which are jarring even on a good day. Rin frowns at him. "Wouldn't the foundation rub off on your clothes, though?"

"I don't know, would it?"

"Here," she says, and she rummages through her makeup bag.

*****

On a whim, Rin goes to the convenience store to pick up some hair dye.

"I got a couple boxes so you can pick out the best color black," Rin says. Obito frowns at her.

"There's different colors of black?"

"Apparently there is."

"I feel idiotic," Obito says. Rin sets down her bag.

"For the record, I don't think you have to do this. I think your hair looks fine the way it is."

They both look at the box. "This seems complicated," Obito says.

He doesn't dye his hair.

****

Obito doesn't wear the Hokage robes.

He doesn't wear the robes. He doesn't wear the cape. He doesn't even wear the hat, even if ceremonial circumstances dictate it: he'll only hold it gingerly and then pawn it off to Kakashi. Kakashi turns the hat over in his hands, frowning. "Obito. You can't tell me wearing this hat is any worse than wearing those masks."

Obito doesn't look up from his papers. "I don't like things sitting on top of my head."

Kakashi blinks. The boulders. Right.

Kakashi leans back, looking at him. He's wearing the standard green flak jacket, but beneath that he's dressed the way he used to dress when he pretended to be Madara - black pants and a black shirt that covers his neck up to the chin, and he puts on black gloves if there's a visitor. All he would need is his orange mask.

Kakashi knows without asking why he's wearing gloves and a turtleneck - half of Obito's neck and his entire right hand is made of Hashirama's cells, so the color contrast between his face and the rest of his body is jarring.

"Obito. What did you do with all those masks, anyway?"

He turns a page. "I burned them."

"Ah."

There's only the sound of Obito's pen writing on paper.

"You really should dye your hair," Kakashi says. Obito sets his pen down and frowns at him.

*****

"EH?! Kakashi why do you have to keep picking on him?!" Rin says.

Kakashi raises his hands. "Hold on a minute, Rin-chan--"

"You're such a jerk! Obito is working really hard and all you do is make fun of him!"

Obito shakes his head. "This is word for word the same conversation we had as kids," Obito says. Kakashi and Rin turn.

"Really?" Rin says. Obito nods. Rin whirls around toward Kakashi.

"Kakashi you grew up into a jerk!"

A sweatdrop forms on Kakashi's brow "O-oi."

"Picking on Obito just because he looks weird! He can't help it!" Rin says. (She said something similar when they were kids: "Kakashi you're a jerk! Picking on Obito just because he cries a lot! He can't help it!")

"This is making me nostalgic," Minato says.

*****

"Why do you have to keep picking on him? Obito is working really hard! Just because he still can't do basic ninjutsu doesn't mean you can make fun of him!"

*****

"Kakashi be nice! So what if he cries a lot? He can't help it! He's sensitive!"

*****

"Why do you have to be such a jerk, Kakashi?! Just because he lost six times in a row doesn't mean you get to make fun of him!"

*****

"Kakashi this is like making fun of a baby, stop it!"

*****

"I mean, it's okay, not everyone gets it on the first try." A beat. "You've been working on this for a month?"

*****

"Don't apologize, Obito, I don't mind treating your wounds. You're the reason why I'm so good at suturing!"

*****

"Ne, Obito. Do you think Kakashi likes me?" (Proceeds to wax poetic about Kakashi for half an hour).

*****

The genjutsu ends. “Sorry,” Rin says.

*****

They're sitting on the couch, watching a movie, when Rin leans over.

"Ne, Obito?"

"Hm?"

"Please deactivate your ninja eyes!"

Obito starts laughing. Rin giggles and snuggles against his shoulder.

*****

It becomes an inside joke: Rin will be walking past him in the kitchen, or sitting next to him on the couch, when she'll lean over him and say, "Please deactivate your ninja eyes!"

Invariably, it makes Obito crack up, and Rin will give him a mock serious look and tell him, "Sir! Deactivate your ninja eyes! This is no laughing matter!" and it's so stupid they both end up laughing.

It's the only time Rin's seen him laugh.

*****

The Daimyo of the Land of Water is demanding reparations, and so Obito dips into his secret accounts, various Akatsuki holdings that he had disclosed to the Five Nations prior to becoming Hokage. "We demand recompense," a Kirigakure representative says. "Uchiha Obito stole from our country, depleting our wealth and lining the coffers of the Akatsuki with our money. It isn't fair that the Akatsuki's war chest be split up among the five nations at Kirigakure's expense. And lest we forget, he murdered hundreds of shinobi under the guise of being the Mizukage."

Obito stares at them, incredulous. "We already paid everything back with interest," Obito says. He gestures to the other kage. "We already agreed that what is left should go to the other four villages, Konoha included. Tsunade-sama signed the pact."

The Mizukage sniffs. "I see no reason why Konoha should profit."

Obito snaps, "The matter was settled, why is this being brought up again?"

The other kages glance uneasily at each other.

Obito sits heavily on the bed, head in his hands, frustrated. If they don't clinch the trade deal with the civilian village, Konoha will be thrown into debt. Rin sits next to him, touching his arm. "Everything okay?" she says. Wordlessly Obito lists sideways, leaning against her.

He genjutsus her and shows her the whole disastrous meeting, and Rin responds by pursing her lips and resting her hand on his head. "They haven't voted on it yet," Rin says. "Gaara and Darui openly said they'd support you."

"Onoki is still afraid I'm acting as Madara's puppet." Obito sighs, heavily. "There's only four of them and I can't vote on this, we're at a diplomatic standstill."

She rubs his back, and she can feel him start to relax. He plops his head face-first into her shoulder.

Rin lets out a startled laugh, "Obito!"

"Would it be terrible if I just genjutsu them?" His voice is muffled by her shirt. "It would be easy. No one would know."

"I thought you were trying to be a good person?" She rubs soothing circles by the nape of his neck. He moves his head to look up at her.

He reaches up, then tucks back a strand of hair that had fallen by her cheek, the tips of his fingers lightly brushing her temple. His eyes are soft. He smiles at her.

Rin gives him a puzzled smile. "What is it?" she says. Obito searches her eyes quietly.

He rests his head onto her lap, and Rin responds by resting her hand on his head, letting her fingers lightly scratch his scalp as he curls up on his side.

"Rin?"

"Yeah?"

"What would you have done if I did this when we were kids?" Obito says. Rin considers, bowing her head downward to look at him.

"I don't know," Rin says. She cards her fingers through his hair. "Probably freak out."

"Heh. I figured."

"No! I mean, I'd think that you were really injured, like maybe you were too orthostatic to keep sitting up."

Obito laughs. Rin responds by wiggling out from under his head and flopping down next to him.

They rearrange themselves so that Rin is lying on the left side of his chest, resting her head against his shoulder. Obito wraps his arms around her, propping his body slightly to the side so that he's not quite flat on his back. Rin fits her body against his, curling up into the concave hollow of his chest. He feels good and warm and she nuzzles her face against him.

"You know, I thought you'd be more upset about this," Rin says. Obito hugs her.

"I guess I haven't had much time to think about it," Obito says, and Rin realizes she's just brought up painful memories again. She sits up and starts to apologize, but Obito hugs her closer. "I tried negotiating with Onoki one-on-one. The Land of Earth is suffering crop damage from a massive drought, so I offered to open up bilateral trade agreements between their village and ours in return for his vote. He refused, and then he ratted me out to the other kage, claiming I was trying to influence him. I can't even be mad, because I was," Obito says.

"What would you do if you were in the Akatsuki?" Rin asks.

"Genjutsu them. Take I want. Maybe install a subordinate to infiltrate them. Start a whisper campaign in favor of our vote. And if that didn't work, I'd probably send one of the teams to kill them. I'd make it look like an accident, of course," Obito says, and he shifts to look at her. "Onoki would be easy. He's old - all I'd have to do is imply that he needs to do something to protect his legacy. 'Your village is suffering, and on your deathbed you will look back and have nothing but regret. Think about it,' I'd say, and then I'd disappear and let him mull it over."

"So what are you doing now?"

"Trying to convince everyone that I'm harmless and that I'm trying to do the best for the village. Ironic, because the village council doesn't trust me, either." He shifts Rin closer to his chest, then squeezes her fondly. "It's one of the reasons why I'm trying to bring the civilian villages into the fold. They don't know me. Granted, they know I have the Sharingan and they're afraid of me, but it's for an entirely different reason."

Rin feels herself start to drowse. His voice is soothing. He feels comfortable and warm and the entire time he's been talking, he's been absently running his fingertips up and down the skin of her arm. She feels him rest his cheek on her forehead. She smiles and presses a soft kiss against his throat, cuddling him sleepily. "Maybe you should listen to Kakashi," Rin says.

"What about Kakashi?"

"Wear makeup and dye your hair."

Obito scoffs. "Bakakashi is a pain in the ass."

Rin giggles. Obito reaches across her body to switch off the lamp, then shifts her weight, pulling the blankets over the both of them.

Like every night, Obito is the big spoon. Rin curls up on her side and Obito cups his body against hers, his arm draping across her torso and pulling her to his chest. He doesn't say it, but Rin knows he takes comfort in this, being able to hold her and cuddle her the rest of the night. Every so often he'll nuzzle his face into her neck or brush a soft kiss against her nape. Before, he rarely slept, relying on Hashirama's cells and sheer willpower to stay awake. He used to have nightmares, dreams where the walls would suddenly cave in, where the people he killed rose up to accuse him. Frequently he dreamt of Rin's death, and it would be as if he'd witnessed it all over again.

Sleep is comforting now, because he can sleep next to Rin, can feel her move and stir against him.

There is another round of negotiations, and Obito is caught off-guard when an Iwagakure representative asks him about the possibility of a bilateral trade agreement. Obito looks up and sees Onoki scowling, his arms crossed and his face pinched. He sees Obito and looks away dismissively. "I'm doing this for my village," Onoki says. His cape flutters as he floats over, scowling. "That's the only reason you've got my vote."

"Thank you," Obito says, and his face brightens. The other kage look and whisper to themselves. They had never seen the Sixth Hokage crack a smile.

#lol okay that was the last one #sorry for the fic spam #i don't normally post all this stuff here #but since i had the other stuff i thought why not #birdsong #solatium #obirin #uchiha obito #nohara rin #my crappy fic

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arcadiianliives · 5 years ago

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@animatedatrophy said: ❝ you don’t have to talk, we can just sit together. ❞ (jigoro @ zenitsu)

soft caring starters || accepting

Through flowing tears, drip drip DRIPPING down his face, Zenitsu sits in the spot he had been training for who knows how long. Palms littered with BLISTERS and the wooden practice sword laid right at his side, no longer able to be HELD in his weak grasp.

He couldn’t do it.

No matter how hard he tried to even get the FOOTWORK down, it ended with failure. He KNOWS. Kaigaku was right, only telling him things he knew. USELESS. A waste of time and effort that Gramps put into. He wants to be brave, to be useful, to be a SLAYER he could be proud of.

It all ends with TEARS. Curled with his knees close to his chest. FLINCHING at the voice of his master speaking. Would he get hit again and encouraged (or rather forced) to keep going? What was the point? He should just run away for good. Master should stop bothering with the likes of him. Does he even care?

Soon after pondering, a few questions answered with a softer voice, and the sound of grass rustling and pushed closer to the ground. The gentle tone alone rung gently in his ears like wind chimes. A side that he doesn’t hear OFTEN. Zenitsu lifts up his head, glancing over to him (a cheek resting against his own arm; he’s too weak to keep it lifted). His master, joining him. Simply sitting outside as clouds glide across the sky midday.

Golden hues remained GLOSSY, as tears continued to spill across his face.

“I’m sorry, Ojiichan... You shouldn’t have taken me as your student..!!”

#005.inbox.//.gяσωιиg ινу #600.demon-slayer.//.киιgнтѕ ιи нσℓу ��ямσя #602.Zenitsu.**.ѕσℓι∂αgσ #I REALLY DIDNT MEAN TO GET IT AS SAD #BUT ZENITSU WANTED COMFORT BADLY #AND WHO AM I TO DENY THIS

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goodlucktai · 6 years ago

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in the interest of full disclosure

@natsumeweek 2018 day 5; yokai & humans

read on ao3

Takashi brings home a cat.

It’s a fat, ugly thing, too big for Takashi’s thin arms, but it seems to be an agreeable creature. It hangs in Takashi’s grip like a toy, blinking lazily at the house and ignoring its inhabitants entirely.

“What a silly-looking cat!” Touko says, crouching in front of him. “Where on earth did you find it?”

“I was playing in the woods with Satoru and Atsushi and we accidentally woke him up,” the boy explains, hefting the heavy cat a little higher. “He’s a special cat. He can turn really big, and he can fly.”

Shigeru and Touko trade knowing looks. There’s a doe-eyed look of longing on Takashi’s face, the same hopeful expression he gets when something in a storefront window catches his eye, or when Shigeru comes home from work a little earlier than usual. He can’t always bring himself to outright ask for things -- they’ve not quite made it that far, not yet -- but it’s never hard to guess.

“That does sound special. Do you think he might like to live here with us?” Touko asks, and Takashi brightens like a little sun.

“Can he? Thank you!”

Smiling, Touko reaches over to card the long hair out of Takashi’s face, and scratches the cat behind the ears while she’s at it. “What’s his name?”

“He lets me call him Nyanko-sensei.”

Shigeru chuckles before he can help himself. “A noble name for a noble creature.”

Takashi beams, but the cat gives him a narrow-eyed stare.

The cat becomes Takashi’s constant companion. It follows him to school, and dozes under his chair at mealtimes, and seems to recognize his friends. It allows Tooru to coo and cuddle it with an air of dignity better suited royalty than a fat housecat, and sits heavily on Satoru when it seems like he’s about to get himself into trouble.

“It’s a very smart cat,” Touko says one evening, while Shigeru helps her clean dinner dishes, and Takashi and Tooru work on their homework in the next room. “I was boiling water, and went to answer the phone when it rang, and must have been distracted for much longer than I thought -- Nyankichi came to warn me that the pot was overflowing!”

“It probably didn’t like the sound of the water hissing on the burner,” he says, and is treated to his wife’s pouting face.

“Don’t make me look silly! One of these days, Nyankichi is going to break down and talk, and then you’ll be the one I get to tease.”

Shigeru laughs lightly, amused, and says, “When that day comes, I’ll deserve it.”

Touko shoos him out of the kitchen with a cup of tea to drink with his newspaper, and he steps into the sitting room in time to hear Tooru say, “We have to take him to meet ojiichan. Ojiichan is feeling a lot better lately, and he’d love to meet Nyanko-sensei. Can we?”

“Sure we can,” Takashi says, happy to agree when it makes his friend light up with a smile. He’s going to be a kind person, Shigeru thinks fondly at times like these. “I like your grandpa, and Nyanko-sensei does, too. He just likes to be grumpy and pretend he doesn’t like anybody.”

“Oh, thank you, Takashi! I can’t wait! Maybe you two can come over on Sunday. I’ll ask mama when I go home tonight.”

The cat huffs, its ears canting to either side of its head, the way a person might look when their shoulders slump in defeat. But it doesn’t squirm or scratch when Tooru squeezes her arms around it or kisses its head, even if it glares enviously at Shigeru.

Touko must be rubbing off on him. A cat glares because it’s a cat, not because it looks at a person with the freedom to sit down unbothered and thinks things like ‘I wish that were me.’

The autumn equinox falls on a Saturday, and with two full days off from school, Shigeru and Touko make plans for Takashi to visit Kaname, where he and his father are living in Yatsushiro.

Takashi is practically vibrating with excitement, twisting around in his seat to look out the window every few minutes, pointing out interesting things as they go by.

He promised Tooru he’d come back with lots of pictures, and the disposable camera in his hands is nearly full already, before they’ve even made it off the train. Touko promises to pick up another at the train station, her face full and bright at Takashi’s obvious joy.

Shigeru paid the extra fare for the boy’s cat to come along, of course, but Nyangoro doesn’t seem nearly as impressed by the train ride. It keeps one green eye on its charge and ignores the rest of them entirely.

They arrive late into the evening on Friday, and Kaito and Kaname are waiting for them at the station. Takashi gives a little shout when he sees his friend and runs the last few steps to meet him, the two of them colliding in an enthusiastic hug.

“Hi, Kaname, Tanuma-ojisan! Thanks for letting me come visit!”

“I missed you,” Kaname says, muffled into Takashi’s shoulder but sincere. He blinks when he notices Nyangoro in the bag hanging on Takashi’s back. “Um?”

“Oh, this is Nyanko-sensei,” Takashi says, drawing back enough to look at his friend more easily. He offers a hand instead, and Kaname takes it with a shy smile. “He’s a monster, sort of. He’s grumpy, but he’s nice. Maybe he’ll take you flying while I’m here!”

As if it recognizes Kaname from all the stories Takashi has told about him, the cat warms to the boy right away. It lets Kaname hold it with a patience usually reserved for Tooru, bright eyes alert and watchful.

By the time they leave for home on Sunday, Kaname talks to Takashi’s cat the same way all of his close friends do, like it’s a person who understands their hellos and goodbyes. Takashi gets a lingering hug from Kaname, and a new omamori from Kaito, and only cries a little bit on the way home.

“You’ll see him again,” Touko soothes, carding a hand through his hair. “He’s too far away for you to see every day, but he isn’t gone.”

Takashi nods, head tipped over onto Shigeru’s shoulder, fingers buried in Nyangoro’s soft fur. Between the three of them, he’s smiling again before they’re even halfway home.

“I wonder what’s wrong with Nyankichi,” Touko says one day, holding Takashi’s hand as they walk home from a restaurant. “He’s been a little tense since you got home from school.”

“Oh,” Takashi says, “it’s because I lost my charm. At school, I think.”

Shigeru blinks at him in some surprise, taken aback by how unbothered he is. Could this be the same boy who refused to leave the house without his omamori? Touko, likewise, doesn’t seem to know what to say to that.

“It’s okay though,” Takashi says, reassuring. “Nyanko-sensei won’t let the monsters get us.”

As if to prove him wrong, a wind roars down the street they’re on -- Shigeru staggers at the force of it, and Touko cries out in surprise, but Takashi is yanked away completely, torn clear out of Touko’s hand.

He lands in a little heap a few feet away -- and the street is empty, thank god -- but he’s struggling now with something Shigeru can’t see. The wind is still -- present, like a hovering creature instead of an act of nature. It snatches at Takashi’s bright blue jacket and tears through his hair, almost lifting him off the ground. When Shigeru hurries forward, it bites at him, too, trying to force him away.

And then, Shigeru feels a weight land on his back like a blow, as Takashi’s ugly cat jumps from the ground to perch on his shoulder. Its forehead lights up, a symbol shining for just a moment before its swallowed up in a white light too powerful for Shigeru to look through.

When the light is gone, the wind is gone with it, blown off to some other corner of the world. Touko is already lifting Takashi into her arms, shaken to tears as she looks him over.

Shigeru is shaken, too. He puts one hand on Touko’s shoulders, the other on Takashi’s, and holds them while he tries to wrap his mind around the last few moments.

Suddenly, a gruff, unfamiliar voice speaks up. “You take that thing off for a couple hours and this is what happens. You’re a magnet for trouble, aren’t you, Natsume?”

Touko blinks wetly, looking up at Shigeru, and then around at the empty street. Shigeru startles when a weight settles against his knee, and looks down at --

“Nyanko-sensei,” Takashi says, reaching for the fat calico with an air of relief. “Thank you. That one was pretty stubborn.”

Touko is covering her mouth with both hands, shocked into stillness. Nyangoro eyes her, and then Shigeru, and finally turns back to Takashi with an air of contempt.

“You said you told them, brat.”

“I did tell them! They’re probably just surprised. They’ve never heard a cat talk before, you know. You wouldn’t talk to them until now because Shigeru-san made fun of your name.”

Touko’s shoulders start shaking while the boy and the cat are immersed in their conversation. Shigeru risks a look at her, and is surprised to find her laughing quietly. She rubs away the tear tracks on her face, and looks around at her little family with so much love it should be impossible to carry and hold.

“He did tell us,” she says, still laughing. “He told us from the very start, didn’t he? And he’s -- he’s okay. And whatever that creature was is gone. And Nyankichi is a very smart cat.”

Shigeru feels himself relaxing, too. Warmed by the relief and love in Touko’s face, and by Takashi, tousled and whole in their arms. He holds them close and says, “You were right. Just wait to tease me until after I’ve had a drink, please.”

“We’ll see,” she says magnanimously, and kisses Shigeru on the cheek, and Takashi on the forehead, and Nyangoro right on the nose. “Let’s go home.”

It's the cat's turn to looked shocked, but after saving their son it will have to do a lot more than simply talk for them to turn it away now.

#natsumeweek #natsume yuujinchou #natsuyuu #fujiwara shigeru #fujiwara touko #natsume takashi #nyanko sensei #taki tooru #tanuma kaname #my writing #the smallest things #natsuyuu fic

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guys-in-distress-database · 3 years ago

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I’ve had several asks in my inbox for a while that I either never answered or never made entries for. I really wanted to make entries, but I didn’t have enough information to justify them. Still, I didn’t want them to go to waste, so here is a compilation of all the asks I’ve received but never extrapolated on.

The Savior’s Champion (novel, bound and gagged)

Criminal Minds (tv show)

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky (video game, tied up)

Ojiichan wa Shounen Tantei (Grandpa is a Boy Detective) (manga, tied up)

#i apologize to everyone who sent me something and got no reply #shitpost

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natsunoomoi · 3 years ago

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Okay, well, now that the housekeeping stuff is out of the way....

Being down the Yuuhaku rabbit hole because of my shopping, and on the way to work today it led me to think about my students. I did a kind of write up when I was at the classroom, but I don't think I'll actually use it and I'll just go over it from scratch.

But like, in particular, of the cast, Yusuke and Kuwabara are the most normal because of the fact that they're human. I have met students with their names. The Yusuke I had in my classes though recently changed classrooms in order to go to juku, and he was a good kid. I know and have several students with the name Kazuma though. I never much cared for Kuwabara mostly because he annoys me about as much as he annoys Hiei sometimes. I've gotten used to him over the years, and when I saw his seiyuu on TV, I thought Chiba Shigeru is like the cutest little ojiichan. He's so jolly and his TV appearance really put an unexpected smile on my face. The kids I've met that share his name though are some of the loveliest. Off the top of my head, I remember four Kazumas I've met.

One of them is now in Jr high school and about the age that Kuwabara and Yusuke are supposed to be in the series. When I first met him my first year in Japan he was in like the 3rd or 4th grade and he was pretty genki in a class that was so out of control like a zoo because the previous foreign teacher at that classroom did really crazy games with them and the previous Japanese teacher working with him let the kids walk all over her. One time him and his friend in the class, Subaru, were imitating this comedian called Akira 100% who has this act where he is completely naked except for a bowtie and covers his private parts with a serving tray. He does some quick movements and a jump in a very particular way where he flips the tray while not showing anything. These kids came into lessons that day talking about that comedian and decided to SPONTANEOUSLY IMITATE THAT ACT and pulled down their pants in full view of everyone. *facepalm* Y'all are not that quick to hide your junk, kids. Everyone saw everything. I had to make a call to report that and tell their parents to please ask them to not do that in a place of learning. OMG. Since that day though, this Kazuma has grown up a lot though and his family generally really likes me. He's actually gotten pretty good at English, but he gets lazy sometimes even though he understands me and will just use Japanese. I have to prompt him to answer in English.

Another Kazuma I know actually doesn't come anymore. He was in a new class that started in my first year, but he only stayed a couple of years because his parents couldn't drop him or his sister anymore because of work obligations and their grandma had been. She was getting old though and wasn't really able to come and get them anymore so they had to quit. This Kazuma doesn't have so much of a colorful story to him though. I just remember him being so chubby cute though because he was in the kindergarten age classes and was just adorable. One time before Christmas he came to class clutching the Toys R Us catalog (there's a store nearby) and was so excited to share it with one of his friends to decide what they want for Christmas. I had to be like, "Hey, we have stuff to do today, so can you put that in your bag and show him later?"

The 3rd Kazuma I remember is in that same classroom, and he's still there but he's like the only boy out of 4 children. Everyone in his family has a name that starts with "ka" too. I remember my first year he was kind of quiet-ish and then he got separated into a different class from his sister and he made friends with another boy and became super genki. When they started grammar classes together during the break they would for some reason play games touching each other and I needed to tell them to stop and ask them why. Now he's in upper elementary school and calmed down quite a bit. He's pretty smart, but sometimes a bit silly.

The 4th Kazuma I actually met when I went to go cover for a coworker in Ehime and he later transferred to one of my classrooms when his family moved prefectures so it was really lucky that he had a teacher he had already met once. The other teacher at his original classroom said he used to live near her house and would see her going to work and say "hi" to her everyday. He's so cute and a very cheerful child. The day I met him though was kind of funny. The lessons themselves went really well, but when we were about to go home he ran to the bathroom at the last minute because he needed to go I guess, but he didn't even bother to close the door. Everyone else went home and it was just him sitting in the bathroom for awhile. When his Mom came I told her that he suddenly needed to use the bathroom. His Mom tried to call him and tell him to wait until they got home, but he was like, "No, I gotta go now." I played with his baby sister at the front and talked with his Mom for a bit, but he was still taking awhile so I yelled toward the bathroom to see if he was okay and he said he was fine. His Mom yelled in too to ask him what he was doing and he said, 『うんこう！』 or "Pooping!" His Mom tried to convince him to wait until later, but to no avail. Eventually his Mom was like, "Come on! Why are you like this?" and he said, 『僕だから！』 or "Because I'm me!" His Mom was so embarrassed, but we just laughed and waited for him. It was a short day and there were no more lessons that day so it was fine. Before April I saw a fax that said he'd be moving to the area of my regular classroom, and I thought, "I think it's that kid," and then when I saw him I was actually really happy to see him because he's so funny. He's really bright and pretty good at English too, but the day we first met was such a delightful memory it was just nice to see him again.

These kids are some of my favorite kids, and not because they share a name with a character I know, but just their personalities and the way they are. Remembering them just makes me smile.

Yusuke and Kuwabara though are delinquents too, and I've met a couple of kids that are "delinquents", but they were actually really nice people to me and like just normal kids. My company has a special high school that any kids that don't fit into the regular high school system can go to and start attendance at any time of the year. I like teaching their because the kids are pretty nice and it's nice to see them try at a second chance where the regular school system left them behind. The school is really flexible with them, but I'm also really shy too and I have a hard time promoting and convincing them to take the optional lessons I usually also have where we go over topics related to travel abroad.

Delinquents that are like Yusuke and Kuwabara are also like...few and far between from what I observed. There might be some, but I think that level of delinquency probably happens more these days in people who are older but in the 70s, 80s, and 90s delinquency among kids the same age as Yusuke and Kuwabara was probably more common. I suspect there's a number of factors for that including the population issues Japan is having so there's less children in general and even some towns becoming ghost towns because there aren't enough young people living there. Plus like, the delinquents of the past also grew up and faced an adulthood with some amount of struggle because they weren't able to prepare enough for life. Like I think Fruits Basket's Tohru and her relationship with her mother, is probably a good descriptor for what is probably happening, and like Kyoko encourages Tohru to be better than she was. I kind of get the feeling that a number of parents who maybe were delinquents in the past are doing that exact thing because they realized how unprepared they were and want their kids to be different. Like in old magazine and newspaper articles and stuff there's like some documentation of what past delinquents were like and I don't really see that except for people who are high school or university age tow the line, and not during the compulsory education years. High school isn't compulsory and university age is more freeing so young people are more able to just do whatever. I met exactly one teenager that was into things pretty similar to the laundry list of sins that Yusuke was guilty of according to Botan's black book. He was in high school, but he smoked, as an underage person he went to pachinko, he got an old motorcycle from his grandfather that he rode around on, and he had some unsavory acquaintances, but he was a pretty nice person and myself and the Japanese teacher as well as his classmates all encouraged him to be better. We'd talk about the lesson content as well, but we'd spend some time at the top usually encouraging him to think about his health and being more responsible. Like when it came up that he played pachinko, I said it was basically like a waste of money because the money doesn't really go anywhere, and if I wanted to have fun playing a game I'd rather get a console game and have unlimited play for eternity and in the long run I'd save more money. He thought it was a reasonable truth, but I'm not sure if that really got him to stop or not. He was pretty kind though and one time he got McDonald's fries to share with his classmates. I had to ask him not to do that because his classmates might have allergies and we're supposed to be studying and not eating, but also thank you for thinking of everyone.

Similar to how Yusuke and Kuwabara had a teacher that didn't like them and was kind of out to get them, this student also had a teacher at his high school who didn't like him and he ended up dropping out. I talked to him a bit though about other options he could take as someone studying English though like the special high school, or even a bit more pricey eventually going abroad because some institutions around the world will take people from any country as long as they can understand the coursework. In Japan high school isn't compulsory as well, so he basically finished the equivalent of US high school already by the end of Jr high so he doesn't need a high school degree.

But his studying with us actually got him out of trouble. He introduced one acquaintance to one of his more unsavory acquaintances for some transaction that eventually fell through. They had worked it out for it to be a wash, but the first acquaintance wasn't really satisfied by that and had gone to the police. The police had actually raided his home in the morning and went through his stuff, but when they found his English textbook it was a shock to them. Initially they thought it was a fake book and it was hiding something inside, but when they opened they saw it was a real textbook and they questioned him about it and him studying and realized that even though he did this thing that brought them to his door that he was still just a kid who was doing stuff to try to better himself. So instead of arresting him, they decided to cut him a deal by just convincing him to stay out of trouble and help them out a little in exchange for his freedom, and all because he was studying English with us. Last time I saw him he was trying to do things more straight, but the pandemic hit and the last month of lessons got cancelled so I wasn't able to say goodbye to him before he graduated from us. I hope he's doing okay and his future is brighter, but my tumble down the Yuuhaku rabbit hole today just reminded me of him.

Another more positive memory actually stems from the impact of the 25th anniversary. The show got put on like all the streaming services and a lot of the parents of my students grew up with the show, so when I wear t-shirts with the characters to work the parents comment on it and we talk about the show a bit, and the parents are usually really happy to know that it's my favorite. The parents though also sometimes introduce the show to their children, and one little girl I remember I guess was watching it with her parents and got SUPER EXCITED when I wore a Kurama t-shirt to class. She was so happy during lessons and then as soon as her Mom came to pick her up she was jumping up and down excitedly and exclaiming, "MOM, LOOK! SENSEI'S WEARING A KURAMA T-SHIRT! IT'S KURAMA!" Most of my t-shirts are Hiei too, but yeah, that day I wore one of the few Kurama ones I have because the color is nice. Part of the reason she was so excited is that Kurama's her favorite character. She was in like the 1st grade at the time, and she's usually so cute and sweet in general and gave me a kiss goodbye one time when she left lessons, but that day of sheer happiness is another precious memory I have from teaching.

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Do you have any ideas on how the new Osafune swords (Daihannya, Koryuu, Azuki and Kenshin) think of their granfather, Mitsutada? What do you think they will refer each other as? (i.e. Koryuu calls Mitsutada Ojiichan/Oyaji/Gramps, etc.)

This one is really up for people to intepret differently, from memory the only time the sword boys refer to each other as family is with different ways to say brother. Jiji calling himself a grandpa doesn't count either but if I remembered wrong someone please correct me. My point being their relationship to Shoku could be seeing him as a brother, a cousin, uncle or grandpa I've seen people deciding all different things. If we're going with grandpa here there's still no saying they would refer to him as that even if they see him as one, I'd imagine they just call him by name. It's just my hc they wouldn't call him anything so sorry to not give you answering. Koryuu maybe sometimes just to joke around but I feel Shoku is more likely to get grandpa comments from Tsuru and Sada. (Even though Tsuru is older than him yes)Sorry this is such a rambly answer below I'll do my guess about how the other Osafune boys feel about Shoku. • Koryuu thinks he's a good guy, he'd admire how stable and reliable he is. He definitely thinks Shoku needs to relax more,, he means well. Koryuu is the type which can make Shoku worry more. • Azuki would find him good company and would like spending time with him. He'd admire him and would see him as a good role model. • Kenshin probably likes him a lot, Shoku wouldn't treat him like a helpless kid and let's him try to help and it'd be easy to be close. • Daihannya wouldn't dislike him but I think its easy for them to be the least close due to lacking common interests, they're fairly different people but Dai would still like him.

#touken ranbu #shokudaikiri mitsutada #azuki nagamitsu #daihannya nagamitsu #koryuu kagemitsu #kenshin kagemitsu #tsurumaru kuninaga #taikogane sadamune #sorry i didnt have a real answer for the first half #i hope i explained it well enough #mun pro

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📱 Madara or Keito for Leo? >_> or Eichi for Chiaki? Or Rei for Kanata? >_> HI I CAN'T DECIDE

Send 📱 for five texts my muse didn't send yours, and one that they did || @awesomeuchuu

To: Leo --- NOT SENT From: Mama

>>>//: I have to go somewhere, but I'll be back soon!

>>>//: Take care of yourself while I'm gone

>>>//: Maybe you should go stay with me instead

>>>//: I swear one day I'll

>>>//: Can you ever forgive me, I wonder

To: Leo --- SENT From: Mama

>>>//: Mama's got some nice apples! Want some~?♡

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To: Leo --- NOT SENT From: Keito

>>>//: Where are you

>>>//: I swear if you left your phone again

>>>//: What am I even doing

>>>//: I'm warning you

>>>//: Incorrigible

To: Leo --- SENT From: Keito

>>>//: Report to the student council office immediately after today's classes. No ifs, no buts. If you don't come, I will hunt you down and drag you in.

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To: Chiaki --- NOT SENT From: Eichi

>>>//: What are you up to?

>>>//: Keito's nagging at me again.

>>>//: I think I want to do something, but what?

>>>//: Do you have work today?

>>>//: It's lonely here

To: Chiaki --- SENT From: Eichi

>>>//: Do you think we can go get some hamburgers again? Forget that I'm in the hospital right now, okay? :)

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To: Kanata --- NOT SENT From: Rei

>>>//: I miss the cup phones

>>>//: You're not pulling people into the pond again, are you?

>>>//: ヽ(｀Д´)ノ　(д´ノ)　ヽ(　　　)ノ　(ヽ´△) ヽ(´△`)ﾉ

>>>//: ‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚

>>>//: Can I speak to you about something

To: Kanata --- SENT From: Rei

>>>//: It's been a while since all five of us have gathered no? We should plan a get-together!

#the ojiichan answers #and a buncha others #songofeveninglight #yourmarkofambition #hymnofheaven #awesomeuchuu

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aoimori · 8 years ago

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02.26.2017 MERRY Morning Live @ Holiday Shinjuku

So Merry had a morning show in Shinjuku. Doors at 7:30am, show at 8:00am. (They also had a fanclub only show that night too, report is over here) As you can probably imagine, it was incredible and just such a Merry thing to experience. Here is my report including VIDEO EVIDENCE of a little something called radio calisthenics with Gara.

PLEASE ENJOY 👏👏👏👏👏

PRE SHOW

I’m amazed that this even happened. But I guess if anyone is going to do a show at 8am, it’s Merry. They actually started a little late but I had a feeling they would lol. It was an interesting feeling standing outside of this tiny tiny venue so early in the morning, in Kabukicho, with a bunch of other fans. I loved it

Before the show started they were playing rain sounds with their own rain-themed songs mixed in. Reminded me of Shinjuku Blues!

I was in front of Yuu for this show, started about 5 rows back and ended up in 3rd.

MORNING EXERCISES !?!?

While we were waiting there was suddenly an announcement over the speakers. Small venues like this generally don’t play that generic pre-performance announcement (honjitsu wa) that lists the rules of the venue etc. So it wasn’t that. It was Gara.

He very politely told us that we were going to do rajio taisou (radio calisthenics - the kind that old people do in the park in the morning lol). He asked if we had a little bit of space to move around in, with mixed responses, so he said even if you don’t have space it’s okay lol. Today’s calisthenics will be led by… Super Merrys’ MAMURASAKI (aka Gara)

So Gara/Mamurasaku comes out wearing his Tenga shirt and rabbit head mask, the music/instructions come on, and we all followed his lead and did calisthenics together at like 8am in a tiny livehouse in Kabukicho…

There’s actually video of all of this (looks like it was livestreamed) so I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you all watch it and have this experience. It was wild. I laughed so much lol. We actually tried our best to follow him!!

THIS VIDEO: https://twitter.com/merry_official/status/835628885647597568

Please enjoy his antics

After he walked off stage he got back on the announcements and asked us to wait a liiittle while longer

THE SICKEST SETLIST

SE: Merry March Oriental BL Circus Charlie TOP

Lost generation Atama ga zakuro Zetsubou Jiishiki kajougata deku ningen Tick tack Heijitsu no onna Kasa to ame stupidxcupid Carnival Japanese modernist Chiyodasen democracy

Encore Touzasareta rakuen Happy life Violet harenchi Kasa to ame (acoustic)

THIS SHOW !!!!!!

I thought that since this was a morning show that they would either A) do calmer songs/acoustics or B) go abnormally hard.

After the SE they immediately came on stage and exploded into Oriental BL Circus. Clearly B was the correct prediction lol

Yuu looked REALLY CUTE. He had his hair styled all crazy to look like bedhead and had heavy black makeup under his eyes to look like he had extreme dark circles from not sleeping. He walked out with this big grin like he was proud of his look

(from his twitter)

Oriental BL Circus is always really fun and I love the call and response parts in the beginning (I finally learned all the words HA) But it was also a REALLY EXTREME way to start a show in the morning – Gara and Yuu yelling, all of us yelling back lol

I GOT TO HEAR CHARLIE LIVE!!! AAA!!! It’s so so so so so fun and super high energy from start to finish. And so is TOP!! Seriously this show was HYPEEE from the very beginning.

Thennnn atama ga zakuro is actually the first Merry song I ever heard and TO THINK I GOT TO HEAR IT LIVE!?

Also lord help me all I did was watch Gara perform this song and I feel full of sin. Actually during this entire show he was a little nastier than usual lol. Putting his mic between his legs multiple times and enjoying himself, having REAL QUALITY MOMENTS up against his mic stand… he is committed to realism tbqh. IS THIS HOW YOU ARE IN THE MORNING ? ? ?

ANYWAY. I also got to hear Tick Tack for the first time!! What an old song!! It’s so nice live, everyone was swaying back and forth. And I’m going to love Heijitsu no onna until the day I die, so. You can probably guess what I have to say about that. Gara putting on lipstick and rubbing it off with the back of his hand with the saddest smile…

I just wanna say right now that I LOVE KASA TO AME. If for some reason you haven’t listened to it, please go do it right now. Both versions are great. I own 5 copies of this single. Listen to it. Buy it. LOVE IT.

I forgot my towel for the morning show so I had to participate in Carnival without one for the first time!! Carnival, Japanese modernist and Chiyodasen are ALWAYS fun though. They just kept hitting us with JAMS.

During one song (don’t remember which) when Yuu had a speaking part he ended up just making comments about the show instead of following the lyrics, it was pretty funny lol

I love Touzasareta rakuen live. The vibe is just so good? Gara said something about this being an older song but it has the kind of energy they want to have as they work toward Hibiya Yaon

And then Happy life gets me EVERY TIME. Gara sang the last line without his mic. I’m always really impressed by how he expresses such raw emotion. He just puts it ALL out there as strongly as he physically can, every time. He had the biggest smile right after this song. Like really genuine. Have I mentioned... that I love this band...??

During Violet harenchi Gara and Yuu were back to back in the center of the stage!!! Yuu was in the center and Gara saw him and immediately rushed over. Yuu also likes to go sit on Gara’s desk lol. Later Tetsu was standing in front of me on a monitor and Yuu came over and was standing against his leg and it was REALLY CUTE. Tetsu is an actual mountain btw

(from gara’s blog)

MC CONTENT BECAUSE MERRY ALWAYS DELIVERS

Gara and Yuu both said good morning to us a few times (and said wow, saying good morning at a live house feels good huh…)

Gara asked each member what they did the night before...

Nero: so worried that he’d oversleep and get a call from the band on stage asking where he was that he could barely sleep at all

Tetsu: eating meat (this is all he said lol, at first Gara didn’t understand him)

Kenichi: Hesitant to answer, but… said he went to Mankitsu (a manga café?) Gara asked what he was reading and Kenichi was just silent… so Gara asked AGAIN and Kenichi still said nothing LOL

Yuu: Nothing out of the ordinary. He went home, then took the first train in the morning to the venue. Gara said he was sorry he asked

Gara: Didn’t sleep at all because if he slept and then woke up in the morning before the show his voice wouldn’t be in good condition. He said he actually went home the night before just… never slept lol . ((He posted on his blog about eating mcdonalds actually... but are any of us really surprised by this??))

He made an extended bandoman joke that continued into the next show... something about introducing himself as “bandoman A” from a tabloid story about a celebrity having an affair. But then said instead of having an affair he actually wants to be served by blonde foreign women... and if the tabloids come to him for an interview, he’ll tell everything.

I feel like I missed something here lol but he said he’d better stop talking about this because there were foreigners in the audience (me?? the most blonde foreigner of all?? lol)

The singing MC was set to the beginning of Kasa to ame (it used to be heijitsu no onna). So each member would start playing as Gara introduced them and did a really short mini solo. Merry has the best MCs.

Gara said that this morning live felt really good so if we liked it, please tweet them, and they’ll show the tweets to their company, and then maybe they can do more events like this. They are always trying to get us to promo them to someone lol

He also wants to do a 24 hour show. The rest of the band did not seem into this idea. He said everyone could have their own little space where they could sit or stand, bring a TV or something, leave and come back whenever they pleased, etc. The band would work in shifts sometimes so someone could sleep. Or go to the onsen. But Nero couldn’t come with them (tattoos) so he’d just have to watch while they rest of them relax. POOR NERO.

They were talking about where they’d be in 20 years? Gara said he’ll still be singing but he might need to sit down… and need someone to help hold him steady as he walked… and to whisper the lyrics in his ear, and tap him on the shoulder when a new song started lol. Yuu just called him an ojiichan

Gara turned the page of his setlist with his foot and it was cute

Between songs Gara said all of us that came to a show this early in the morning must be ACTUALLY crazy. TRUE. During an MC he also told us that we all must be a little atama ga okashii nee… crazy/touched in the head lol. ALSO TRUE.

(@merry_official)

DOKUDOKU TIME!!!!!!!! SPECIAL EVENT FEAT GARA

The band had a dokudoku campaign for this tour. The idea was to create more Merry chuudokusha (addicts) so at each show a certain member was tasked with doing something fun. Giving things away, taking pictures with fans, etc. Gara was in charge of this show.

He gave away his tenga shirt (signed) which he had also worn during the radio taisou spectacle. He was giving it away on behalf of Mamurasaki, of course.

So before the encore he came on stage and said it was dokudoku time, but then found out that the staff still hadn’t collected all the ticket stubs for him to choose one winner from. So he stalled for a while and just talked about random stuff, asked us if we had any questions, and then would occasionally look back to the staff and be like STILL??? STILL NOTHING? Awkward and angry and adorable lol

One of his topics of conversation was his tenga shirt. He read it out loud and explained it lol. He also said that he received an egg type one from a fan for Valentines day, but he still hasn’t used it. He’s thinking about using it in March for White Day…

Eventually staff brought an envelope to him and he chose a winner. While he was looking at the stubs he said these aren’t all Core tickets… they’re not Core tickets~ in this cute irritated singsong voice lol. Anyway he picked one stub and gave away the shirt. Then he gave away the paper Mamurasaki signed (he said it looked like Mamurasaki had written “iwai/celebrate” wrong and crossed it out and wrote it again… and now it looks like it says “Nero”).

Since he didn’t have a photo to give away too, he decided to do something special. So he turned around and went to find his lipstick that he uses during Heijitsu no onna, came back to the front and put some on. And then kissed the paper. And then chose someone to give it to. He understands a fan’s heart so well…

(@merry_official)

AFTER THE SET

After the show I was watching all the members throwing things to the crowd. I think I was watching Gara in the center of the stage when I decided to turn around and face forward again and SUDDEN TETSU RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES!! He was standing up on one of the monitors looking down at us. HE IS HUGE. SUCH A TOWERING MOUNTAIN!! But so kind lol

Gara was standing on a monitor and then jumped up to his desk and did the LONGEST HEADSTAND + FOOT CLAPPING COMBO I HAVE EVER SEEN. He was up there FOREVER. We were all watching and clapping but then gradually starting to think like… Gara… Gara are you okay… GET DOWN FROM THERE GARA!!!

He was SO INTO this entire show lol. The mood was SO good. Maybe the band + the fans were kind of overcompensating for the fact that it was such a strange hour, but we all went REAL HARD.

I then left the show not knowing what time it was, went to Starbucks for breakfast (apparently Gara handed out sandwiches!! But I didn’t know / didn’t see anything even though I waited in the venue for a long time), then went to Shimokita where I spent the rest of the day until the CORE SHOW. Which was really fun, but then turned emotional...

I will never forget this show though 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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