Backdated to the 30th

[pengeen]

Characters: Kidou, Haruna, Sakuma, and Genda
Setting: Aquarium and also around the Tower as he rounds up his bffsies
Format: Action tags because I'm sure none of us want to do prose
Summary: Party with the Inazuma cast
Warnings: Adorable sibling fluff and also penguin fluff and other cute stuff you'll die

{Kidou decided when he woke up today that he had given Sakuma long enough to calm down over the events that had happened upon Genda arriving. He had a plan, a plan to get Sakuma to forgive Genda or at least talk to him again.

After getting changed, he notices Sakuma still asleep and walks over, crouching down so he can be face-to-face with him and gently shaking his shoulder]

Sakuma, wake up.

Comments

[whatpenguin]

[The penguin just squawks a bit at Sakuma, before taking his finger in its beak to inspect it. Not biting or anything - its trying to decide if his finger is food or not.]

I am too. Who knew there were animals like this, here?

[He's still wondering if there are cats or something, here...]

[kickspenguins]

At least there's something in this tower that isn't dumb.

[He lets the penguin keep hold of his finger. Doesn't look like he's going to move any time soon unless asked to.]

[whatpenguin]

[... Eh? He can't tell if that's a crack about his intelligence, or if he's just mad at the tower...]

... You really love penguins, don't you, Sakuma?

[kickspenguins]

Why not.

[He gives a half shrug.]

I guess it's like how you like cats.

[whatpenguin]

[That penguin seems to like Sakuma now, apparently -- it's waddling over to pull at and chew on his hair.]

I guess so, but I don't just like them. Next to my team and my family, cats are my favorite things in the world.

[kickspenguins]

Hey, stop that.

[He waves his hand at the penguin a little to stop it from eating his hair. Nothing touches his hair. When it lets go, he spins it around so that now it's facing Genda instead.]

I think my comment is still accurate.

[Okay, maybe not his family isn't included but close enough.]

[whatpenguin]

[Squaaawk!
Now that it's facing him, Genda reaches out to let it play with his gloves, giving it a smile.]

Ah, you really must love penguins more than I thought, then!
It's a good thing we can get so close to these ones then, huh?

[kickspenguins]

[Sakuma grins at Genda.]

Yeah, especially since normally you can't have them as pets but this is almost as good.

[Sure he has his koutei penguin but it's not exactly the same.]

[whatpenguin]

Almost. I still think you'd enjoy it a lot more if you could give it a little place to sleep on your pillow or something!

[Like him and his cats. c8]

[kickspenguins]

Maybe.

[He scoots a bit closer then picks up the penguins and deposits it on his lap.]

Is there anything else you wanted to look at, by the way?

[whatpenguin]

Well... I wanted to go see if there are cats or something here, but I don't want to take you away from the penguins if you don't want to leave.

It just feels odd, not having my pets.

[He can always go by himself later, no big deal!]

[kickspenguins]

It's fine, I can always come back. You're probably getting bored of penguins anyway.

[whatpenguin]

I could never get bored of any animal.

[What kind of animal lover do you take him for, Sakuma??]

But if you don't mind... I do want to look more than I want to play with penguins.

[kickspenguins]

[And with that he lifts the penguin out of his lap again and still holding onto it, stands up.]

Okay. Let's put him back then.

[whatpenguin]

[He nods, and hops over the divider so he can take it and put it back - when Sakuma's ready to hand it over, anyway.]

... It's nice that you actually want to do this with me.
I don't think I would have wanted to alone.

[kickspenguins]

Here.

[Sakuma holds out the penguin to Genda, even though he's a little sad to see it go. But he's glad that Genda actually wanted to do something with him. Honestly, he doesn't mind spending time with the other boy and besides, he wanted to make up for what a jerk he'd been.]

[whatpenguin]

[He takes the penguin carefully, and pokes its beak into the water - letting it dive in and swim away on its own to go join its friends.]

We can come visit him again later - I'm sure he'll remember us and will want to say hello!

Animals are neat that way.

[Again he hops the divider, moving to put his jacket and shoes back on now that he's done diving back and forth through the water.]

Where do you think we should look? You've been here longer than I have, after all.

[kickspenguins]

Only by about a week. [But he considers none the less.] There's a forest. Maybe there are more animals in there. I'm not sure though, I haven't really checked it out.

[whatpenguin]

That sounds like a good place to start to me.

[Let's go check the forest, Sakuma!! C:]

[kickspenguins]

Okay then. Let's go.

[He turns to lead Genda towards the stairs. Thankfully it's only a few floors down.]

[whatpenguin]

[And he'll follow along! Which you can timeskip if you want, ahahaha, I'm bad at timeskips.]

[kickspenguins]

[After trekking down several flights of stairs, eventually the reach the floor that houses the forest. Thanks to the power being out, it's a lot spookier than usual. ...Not that it wasn't before or anything.

Sakuma stands just on the edge of it as he waits for Genda.]

[whatpenguin]

[He's right here, as always! And he looks up at the forest, in wonder.

... Spooky.]

It's much darker than I thought it would be.

[kickspenguins]

Well, it's an indoor forest and there's no power.

[He shrugs as if it's obvious. Not expecting anything to be wrong, he steps inside the forest. The aquarium had turned out to be normal so why not the forest?]

[whatpenguin]

I guess so.

[And he follows after Sakuma, looking behind him at the staircase. It's making him a little uneasy.]

... It's still a little bit spooky.