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towerofanimus2012-04-23 10:18 pm
detecting) wrote in towerofanimus2012-04-23 10:18 pm
1st Investigation
Characters: Naoto Shirogane and you
Setting: Room 2-03 & various floors of the tower. Please specify which floor in your tag!
Format: Starting with action tags, but I'll be happy to prose it up with you if you if that's what you prefer!
Summary: Naoto is back in the tower and has feels. Most of them are on the unpleasant side.
Warnings: None.
> Room 2-03
[Naoto never thought that she would find sleep paralysis comforting, but that seems to have changed. After spending time in a wasteland, surrounded by dilapidated ruins that she once called home, never knowing what to expect it was... nice knowing exactly where she was and what was happening. She knew it was foolish to feel as such -- she would not consider the tower to be a "better situation" -- but seeing Inaba like that, being so completely and utterly alone was something she never wanted to experience again.
Once the paralysis wore off she wasted no time checking the trunk by her bed, rifling through her possessions to see what was there, finding her clothes and getting dressed. Time to see what's been going on in the tower in her absence.]
> Exploring the tower.
[Interesting. The tower seems to have expanded considerably while she was gone. TIME TO INVESTIGATE.
Approach?]
Setting: Room 2-03 & various floors of the tower. Please specify which floor in your tag!
Format: Starting with action tags, but I'll be happy to prose it up with you if you if that's what you prefer!
Summary: Naoto is back in the tower and has feels. Most of them are on the unpleasant side.
Warnings: None.
> Room 2-03
[Naoto never thought that she would find sleep paralysis comforting, but that seems to have changed. After spending time in a wasteland, surrounded by dilapidated ruins that she once called home, never knowing what to expect it was... nice knowing exactly where she was and what was happening. She knew it was foolish to feel as such -- she would not consider the tower to be a "better situation" -- but seeing Inaba like that, being so completely and utterly alone was something she never wanted to experience again.
Once the paralysis wore off she wasted no time checking the trunk by her bed, rifling through her possessions to see what was there, finding her clothes and getting dressed. Time to see what's been going on in the tower in her absence.]
> Exploring the tower.
[Interesting. The tower seems to have expanded considerably while she was gone. TIME TO INVESTIGATE.
Approach?]
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Kanji brings her in close and the sharp tension in her shoulders seems to melt away. Her breathing evens out, her heart resumes a steady beat and the tight grip she had on him loosens ever so slightly. Under any other circumstances this would have never happened. Physical contact of nearly any kind was still as strange to her as it was to him, but right now she needed this.
Trust was a difficult thing for her -- it wasn't something she gave out freely. She knew she could depend on the rest of the team -- the rest of her friends -- for just about anything. All she had to do was say the word and they'd be there if she needed them, but this was different. They had all watched her face her demons, but not all of them really understood.
After facing her shadow everyone started treating her a bit differently. The way they spoke, they way the acted around her, the way they looked at her had changed because they knew she was a girl. Yu had difficulties for a little while as well, but she knew now that he didn't worry about her simply because she was a girl. It was because he cared.
The only person who never changed, who never treated her differently for even a second was Kanji. He didn't care what she was. To him she was just Naoto. Not a boy or a girl, just Naoto. If there was anyone here she could trust, if there was anyone here who would understand her whether or not she said anything it was him.]
... Thank you. You have my gratitude.
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Even if it was sometimes just standing behind her, congratulating her on a good shot during their numerous battles in the TV World or simply giving her a pat on the shoulder to boost her confidence...it also went for him, really. Seeing Naoto fight for what she believed in and wanted to do, undeterred by the handicaps thrown at her had always made Kanji want to try harder himself, to improve despite his own difficulties. In a way, he realized, her determination was his as well. This was merely giving back all she had given him, even if was probably not realized by either of them. It simply was.
Besides, if he could be of help out once in a while like that, they could at least make it so the tower wasn't completely that bad, right?]
D-don't mention it.
[And now, finally, once the adrenalin rush subsides and he actually realizes he had been touching her for more than a minute, did he quietly start to panic. He felt his face flushing and it was suddenly getting really hot
and I didn't mean it that way.Shit shit, what should he do now? Let her go? Keep holding on? Was there a guide to this?HOW DO I DO THESE THINGS his brain cried out in a quiet panic. All Naoto could see was his lip twitching, if that. Or maybe his reddening face as well.]
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She noticed, but even in this state she was still rather dense when it came to emotions and feelings. Ones that were being directed at her, anyway. If she was observing this, if the person in Kanji's arms was not her, she'd be able to tell, but that was not the case.
He was just acting strange again. He had always been a little odd. Not that she minded.
She pulls away enough to look up at him in concern.]
... Are you alright?