naru suffers (crau giyuu catchall)

[wisterin]

what flayn wants

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what's canon

episode 21

CODE BY TESSISAMESS

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w0, h0, friday

[wisterin]

[ Well, she certainly kicked him or attempted to kick him. He can dodge, if he wants. He's able even if they're still nerfed. This is the fucking worst.

Her smile is firmly in place. ]

To-mi-o-ka-san. Do you have any more hunches?

[ IF SHE ONLY HAD HER SWORD, IT'D BE AT HIS NECK AGAIN. SHE'S SO ANGRY. ]

[baori]

[ he's not going to dodge, well, he'll dodge some of it out of reflex but once he sees who is coming for him, then there will be less dodging. he deserves this and she's allowed to be angry.

they were supposed to go home and yet— ]

No, I don't.

[ he frowns at the admission and looks away also irritated. well, less irritated that shinobu, maybe. ]

Do you know anything?

[wisterin]

How do I know you're not lying to me again?

[ This trust, wow. Haha.

He was supposed to be free from the island's influence, but now that they're somewhere different, how can she know for sure? ]

If I knew something, would I be kicking you like this? Should I strangle you and be done with it?

[ SHE WANTS HER SWORD. ]

I was ready to back to my family.

wk 0; sunday

[baori]

[ closes eyes....

so once they've gotten dressed, giyuu will be sporting his haori plus something that's a blast from the past. would have shinobu seen him in anything other than his uniform??? anyway, clothing aside, he's going to be on a look out for a shinobu wherever she is.

they "joked" about the rule book changing before and now... he resolved himself to be as transparent as possible. no more secrets. ]

Kocho.

[wisterin]

[ opens eyes....

Shinobu is an outfit that he's seen before, not that she expects him to remember. She probably hasn't seen him in anything other than the Demon Slayer Corps uniform.

He can catch her coming out of her cabin. ]

We've found a few new things, haven't we? Or a few old ones.

[ Both. ]

w0; die day (friday.... again)

[wisterin]

[ While Giyuu went off to inspect the bathrooms, Shinobu went off elsewhere. Later, presumably, she finds him somewhere.

She is, of course, smiling. ]

Well, Tomioka-san. It isn't surprising, but it makes this no less infuriating.

(the worst kind of ground hog's day)

[baori]

[ she's smiling and giyuu's mostly expressionless. there's an edge of annoyance on his face when they finally run into one another again. the worst of it all is the fact that they both estimated that the rules would change again—to include the possibility of death.

surprise, right? ]

I want to see how they explain themselves after this.

[ so much for being tired of murder right? hah! ]

Have you found out anything?

w0; post execution

[baori]

[ well, to say that giyuu would have expected the rain to be a deterrent for people to not be at the director's office would be a lie. after everything that has happened, he expected to see a line if not the whole place on fire.... which it isn't but he does see shinobu and.

well. neither one of them are going to be able to stand still now, huh? she's likely still angry so he proceeds with caution. ]

...Kocho.

[wisterin]

[ She's walked off most of the anger that leapt to the surface. Her smile has come back to play, but it's as sharp as her sword. ]

Tomioka-san. I'm thinking it's better if I wait a day to visit them.

[ It's better if she's calmer and if she doesn't add to the likely bombardment. She needs to arrange her thoughts. ]

w1, friday

[wisterin]

[ Hello, Giyuu?

Where the fuck are you. Shinobu wants to check on you after all of everything that happened. ]

Tomioka-san. Tomoioka-san!

[baori]

[ TRYING TO AVOID HER IN ALL HONESTY.

but for the sake of locations, he'll be escaping the theater while not stopping for a moment for her to catch up to him. if anything he's walking even faster?? from behind, she can notice how something is definitely off about him. he is lacking the "composure" that she would expect from him.

is he spooked? hm. ]

w1, saturday

[baori]

[ he isn't actively looking for her but he is seeking her out, and when he finds her by the forest he approaches her. from last night to the entirety of trial, he hadn't been that useful has he? but then again, he probably shouldn't be bringing that up...all things considered. ]

Kocho...

[ just how angry is she? ]

[wisterin]

[ She is notably upset. When he finds her, she's in front of a tree. She's not punching it or anything, but it looks like she banged her fist against it from how she's leaning against the tree with her forehead pressed against the trunk and her right hand above her head. ]

I hated today, Tomioka-san.

[ Her voice is quiet and raw with anger and sadness and guilt. ]

week 2, friday

[wisterin]

[ Wheremst...

Shinobu honestly isn't going to spend too much energy looking for him because she knows she'll eventually see him, and also, it's a little hard for her to see right now with how much she's blinking and trying to keep from blinking. ]

Tomioka-san.

[ She sounds as placid as ever, if even more placid. ]

Did you notice anything again?

[baori]

[ even though giyuu had an idea of what he should/could be expecting given what she told him having to deal with this for a second time in a row sucks. that said he's not missing how she isn't blinking. ]

Nothing that I can understand on its own. [ hmm... ] At the bonfire there was a certain kind of scent, but I couldn't place it. It didn't smell like the fire normally would.

[ what do fires normally smell like in the first place? giyuu doesn't know...but he's tired and it comes as no surprise to anyone. ]

How about you, Kocho?

week 2, saturday

[baori]

[ that...didn't go as plan, now did it? giyuu can't help but idly wonder if it was for the momentary best that shinobu is under his effect. ...though, it won't spare her from monday.

nevertheless, he's going to look for her and see how she's doing. you know, even if she isn't going to be her normal expressive self. ]

Kocho...

[ again. they missed their target. ]

[wisterin]

[ Monday is going to be a terrible time. I'll just say that right now.

She would've felt strongly enough about this normally that she is feeling something now. Her muted emotions means she's smiling. It's not a smile he isn't wholly unused to, but that must mean that otherwise, she'd be feeling something so much worse, doesn't it?

If she's just smiling with her emotions drained as they are. ]

Tomioka-san, why does it have to happen twice?

[ ... ]

You all but basically told everyone what team you were, too.

[ Like, it's possible that people could think he was speaking for someone he knew on the gray team, but anyone who knew Giyuu well enough knows how stupidly straightforward he is when he's not being cursed into being a filthy murderer. ]

week 3, thursday

[wisterin]

[ Somehow, they're in the nurse's office, and it's just them. Giyuu asked her to spend it with him? She doesn't know how or why he would after how much she tore into him on Monday, but hey, if he wants to be a masochist, that's up to him?

If she's honest, she is a little concerned about the state of him and his one arm. He's been moving around too much and too soon after he had his whole ass arm crushed and removed. ]

This is better than how it was last week when there were eight of us. You should have accepted a healing item.

[ Yeah, she just tacked that on with no preamble.

The probability is she takes one bed, and he takes the other. ]

[baori]

...what did you all do with that many of you in here?

[ which is a question that he's sure will be forgotten given that she immediately goes for him with the healing item. he—he wants to ask who she asked but it doesn't matter. he simply settles more into the opposite bed from her.

thanks for going for his entire life. ]

I couldn't. [ given what happened just before curfew— ] I estimated that there would be people who came out of their "investigations" who would need it more than me.

[ the fact that he was right doesn't sit well with him, but you know. ]

week 3; sunday

[wisterin]

[ Why is he dead? He shouldn't be. Her mind races with the reasons that it could be possibly be.

Once she slows to a stop, she drops his hand. Once she knows they're alone, she asks: ]

Were you targeted because you lost your arm, or is it because you said too much? Do you know?

[baori]

[ hello, she's not allowed to be bombard him with what feels like a thousand questions even though it's just barely three in total. he really... she shouldn't be here, and even though she asked him first, he's turning it back on her.

this was the exact scenario he wanted to avoid. ]

How about you, Kocho? Do you know?

[ he wants to know who did this to her, and from there...? well, he'll get to that part later. ]

wk 4; sunday

[baori]

[ where are they going to run into one another in this camp costco? wherever they meet, it'll be after they both are done speaking with everyone who has freshly arrived to the graveyard with them. it's been an emotional day (for him), but there's no rest for them, right? ]

Re: wk 4; sunday

[wisterin]

[ There's never any rest for them. There's no rest for the weary or for the dead.

Who knows where they are? Any department is the same as another when you're dead. ]

You're close to both Arisato-san and Sanji-san, aren't you?

[ She should have checked up on him on Friday, but things happened. Trying not to get too furious over all the deaths was a thing. Have Taako drop that bomb that may or may not be true was also a thing. ]

wk 5, friday

[baori]

[ well, after that their anger has been vaguely dealt with thanks to ogata being ogata, guess giyuu and shinobu can be found somewhere in the depths of campsco together. it's amazing; after minako dying he didn't think he could feel any more frustration and hate himself more than that.

...but that was because he was so certain that dimitri wouldn't be killed. he couldn't imagine the alternative. no, rather, he didn't want to imagine the alternative. dimitri had made friends. he was so well-liked—

regardless, he's having a lot of emotions. so many emotions.... shinobu feels things even stronger than he does. is she fine? well, is she managing better than him? ]

Kocho.

[ he suppose it's his turn to look far more vulnerable than he has been in his adult life. ]

[wisterin]

[ Is Shinobu's anger ever dealt with? It's something that only grows and simmers and boils over. It's never ending, as deep as the sea—or even deeper.

There's always a possibility that any one person can die; anyone can be targeted. It's something that Shinobu knows logically, but what does her heart know? Her already battered heart that has barely stopped killing itself only bleeds more now. After Zenitsu, it's Dimitri, and it's too much for her to handle. She has never treated any of these deaths like it's nothing, like she could pretend they never happened, but one after another— That Dimitri is the only one this week—

She's not fine. She's barely holding it together. ]

Tomioka-san.

[ It comes out slow and weak like wings barely able to flutter to take flight. She notices the shift in his expression, but she doesn't have it together enough now to address it this moment. Maybe in a minute or two. ]