towerofanimus | o3 [He is not amused]

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o3 [He is not amused]

Characters: Itachi in Romeo's body, and you!
Setting: Room 1-02, floor 38 (the lounge), floor 25 (the meadow), and floor 1 (the cafeteria).
Format: Action to start, but I'll match you.
Summary: Suddenly, Itachi can see! But he's also very short, and not very powerful. Yeah, it's not worth it. He sets off to find whoever got stuck in his body.
Warnings: None so far, but will update if needed.

[When Itachi wakes up, he's small. Very small. He's child-sized, and the incredible difference in body type puts him on immediate alert. He sits up, looking down at himself, and confirms that he's not just imagining things. The more he examines himself, the more he comes to realize that he hasn't been aged down. He's in someone else's body entirely. There are orange bangs hanging in his eyes, and speaking of his eyes, he's unable to activate the Sharingan. But far more noticeably is the fact that he can see. His vision is so clear all of a sudden that Itachi can't bring himself to move for a few moments; he can't remember the last time he's had such good vision.

Eventually, he forces himself to get out of bed. Despite the improvement to his vision, he feels awfully sluggish. It's a consequence of being without his Sharingan, and it leaves his muscles tense. He exits his dorm cautiously, attempting to figure out how he'll handle any threats in this body, and takes a look at the name screen outside of the room. Gamzee Makara, Romeo, Virgil, and Veigar... He's never met any of them, but he figures he's in one of their bodies.

No use in running around and panicking. Itachi sets off to find whoever has his body.]

[He avoids the more dangerous floors and starts to check in the ones he knows are more populated. The lounge is one such place, and he enters with the intent to ask whoever's there about his body. If you're relaxing there, prepare to be approached by "Romeo," who looks decidedly more stoic than usual.]

[The meadow is a nice place to go to get some fresh air. Itachi knows that many people like to enjoy its relative calm, so he takes a seat on the grass and casts his eyes (eyes that can see clearly, he still can't get over that) toward the entrance. If he's lucky, he'll see himself walk by after a while. If not, he'll take a break in the meadow and continue searching later.]

[Finally, he makes his way to the cafeteria. He's not particularly hungry, all things considered, but the place is huge and constantly filled with people. He cranes his neck and stands on his toes to look around, then scoffs when he realizes how he must look. Being so tiny is incredibly inconvenient.]

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Romeo on the other hand couldn't see, not very much at all and that added to his new size and the strange things that kept happening meant a lot of stumbling was happening.

So with the fact he couldn't see Itachi would probably spot him way before Romeo saw his own body.

Sure enough, Itachi did. When he first spotted his body, he felt the instinctual confusion that comes with seeing, well, yourself. For a moment he stood there, transfixed, as he watched himself stumble into things haphazardly. The body he was in had excellent vision, so it wasn't surprising that he wasn't doing well in a body that's just short of blind, but it was still an embarrassing sight to behold.

He poised himself to body-flick over to himself, but remembered at the last moment that he could no longer do that. So, with a solemn look on his face, he began to cross the room, pausing every now and again to stand on his toes and make sure he hadn't lost track of his body.

Eventually, he wormed his way between the people in the cafeteria, coming to a stop in front of "himself."

"Excuse me," he said, and he winced because he still wasn't used to the sound of someone else's voice coming out of "his" mouth. "I believe you have something of mine."

Romeo blinked down at person who was in his body. He was so small! Romeo didn't feel that small usually but looking down he was surprised. He bit his lip though.

"I'm sorry sir!" It felt weird saying sir to himself, but since it was actually the person whose body he was in and that person was an adult...

"I don't know how to switch back! I didn't mean to steal it!"

Hearing those words coming out of his mouth, in his voice, sent Itachi for a loop. He had always been a respectful person, but never to the point where he'd sound like that. And there were subtle differences in the boy's mannerisms that, when piled on top of each other, made the differences between the two painfully apparent.

"Don't apologize," Itachi said. "If you didn't do this on purpose, let's focus our energy on trying to find a way to switch back."

He's the type to get straight to the point with things like this. He supposed that waiting wouldn't do much in the Tower; if anything, it could make things worse. And besides, he wanted to get back into his own body as soon as possible.

After a beat, he added, almost as an afterthought, "...Which one are you? Gamzee, Romeo, Virgil, or Veigar?"

He hoped that they just swapped bodies, as opposed to several people all changing around at the same time. That would make things far less complicated.

"Okay sir..." Romeo nodded, he had no idea how to switch people back from each others bodies. This had never happened before. He knew that when he was a deer it was Molly killing him that had turned him back. But when he was a moose Sayaka had died and came back just the same, not like she normally was. So it might work and might not but he didn't want anyone to get hurt!

"Oh I'm Romeo sir! What's your name?"

"My name is Itachi."

Itachi wasn't exactly energetic - he never was - but he couldn't make himself sit down when all he wanted to do was to focus on getting himself back inside his body. So he shifted a bit to be out of the way of any passers-by, but remained standing, craning his neck to look up at Romeo.

"Romeo, has anything like this ever happened to you before?" he asked. If this boy had been in the Tower longer than him, he could have some valuable information to share.

"It's nice to meet you mister Itachi!" Romeo on the other hand was very energetic, and was finding it a little difficult in this body. He frowned for a moment, "Not like this, I never actually was a different person before. But mister Jason turned me into a deer once; with sharp teeth. And a moose. And then he put bug legs on me. Then I was attached to lots of other people with slimy things."

He took a breath, "And then I was a wooden rocking thing and couldn't move except to rock. But I've never been an adult before! It's probably mister Jason's fault though, he's the baddest bad person."

As Itachi listened to Romeo list off all of the different things that had been done to him, he found himself picturing those things in his mind. No... Not picturing. He could actually remember those things, albeit not clearly. He got little flashes of imagery, he suspected as a side-effect of hearing those things described while he was in Romeo's body. His eyes narrowed slightly, but otherwise, he didn't say anything about it.

Instead, he said, "Mister Jason..?" He hadn't been in the Tower for long enough to have any personal encounters with Jason, or any of the Tower administrators, for that matter. And the flashes of memory he was getting from Romeo weren't nearly strong enough to tell him anything of value.

Romeo nodded, "He's one of the bad people. How long have you been here sir? The bad people are... well bad and they brought us here. There's mister Dax, he's okay even if he's a bad person. Mister Riki who likes making people explode and crushing them. Mister Jason who is the baddest and does experiments all the time, miss Ruana who acts nice but is actually really mean. And Zo, he's just a kid, and they aren't very nice to him. So he's not really a bad person."

Itachi listened intently, filing all of the names away in his memory (he hoped his memory was still his, anyway). Once Romeo was finished, he spoke up.

"I've been here for about three months," he said. "I've never seen any of them. Dax, Jason, Riki, Ruana, and Zo... Is that all of them?"

Romeo nodded, he wasn't sure how long ago three months was, but he guessed Itachi hadn't been in the bad things that had happened when they were all taken away. "They don't come to this bit of the tower sir, they either speak to us on the computers or they take us to them, and make sure we can't fight them."

Itachi blinked, and his gaze wandered around the room as he attempted to come up with some sort of plan. As it stood, he was drawing blanks, and chose to continue questioning Romeo for more information.

"And what of the people who serve our food?" he asked. "Do they know anything of value?"

It was obvious from their movements and their voices that they weren't normal residents of the Tower, and every conversation Itachi had tried to initiate with them had fallen flat. He hadn't asked anyone else if they've had better luck until now.

"No they don't know anything. They don't talk to us at all, even if you try and make friends with them." Romeo had tried, in his first few months at the tower, "And you got to be careful of the ones with red collars because they can hurt you and also are the ones who take you when the bad people want to play games."

He paused for a moment. "When you were in my room did you see a weasel? If you do his name is Piccolo and he's my friend so you got to look after him okay sir!"

"Thank you for the information."

He thought back to when he was in the room, but he was paying more attention to his new body than to his surroundings, for the most part. It's funny that it would be a weasel, though, considering Itachi's own name translated to "weasel." The tower administrators must have some sort of cocky sense of humor.

"I didn't see him, but I'll be sure to care for him," he said finally. It wasn't an ideal situation, but he supposed it was the least he could do for inadvertently taking the boy's body.

"Thank you sir! I would but he might be a bit scared of me... He doesn't like adults very much."

He shuffled his feet and smiled again, "Mister Gandalf says there's got to be a way to get back to normal, we just got to work it out!"

Itachi was about to point out that he's an adult, but then he remembered that, mental age or not, he was stuck in a child's body. He looked down at himself for a brief second and frowned, then looked back up at his body. His body was... it was smiling and shuffling its feet, and even though he didn't enjoy having to play the part of the stoic, emotionless murderer, seeing himself act in such a way was still a little irritating. By some miracle, he managed to keep his - Romeo's - eye from twitching.

"Hn. Is 'Mister Gandalf' stuck in the wrong body, too?" he asked. He knew at least a few others had been switched, but he was still trying to grasp the full extent of it.

Romeo was seemingly unaware of Itachi's annoyance, he nodded, smiling again. "Yes sir, he's in the body of his friend. I met one of my friends as well who is in his friends body, even if he looks exactly the same..." He frowned, he still didn't understand that but he knew people who looked the same were common here. Even though Ven had told him his friends name was Roxas so they weren't the same person from different worlds.

It was a bit confusing to take in, but Itachi made a mental note of the information anyway. Everything he'd learned about the tower and what happened inside of it was carefully filed away in the back of his mind, and he hoped that at some point, all the pieces of the metaphorical puzzle would fit and he would be able to find a way out.

But as it stood, he was far more concerned with getting out of this body first.

"Have all of your friends been switched, then?" he asked.

Romeo shrugged, "I don't know sir, I haven't seen many of them yet, I was looking for you and for Piccolo."

Itachi was silent for a moment as he attempted to process and make sense of all the information he'd been given. He stared Romeo down, then, abruptly, glanced at all of the people in the cafeteria.

"Well," he said, "if you'd still like to see Piccolo, perhaps we can go to your room? You can show me how to take care of him."

That was really the lowest thing on Itachi's list of priorities at the moment, but at least being away from the crowded cafeteria would give them a quiet place to continue their conversation.

Romeo nodded, "Okay!" He was glad that Itachi was happy to look after Piccolo while they were in each others bodies, that made him feel better.

He led the way out of the cafeteria with a smile, "Thank you sir!"

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