014 | ❝We promised we'd make a snowman when it snowed...❞

[pitiedthefool]

Characters: Yu Narukami and you
Setting: All around the tower
Format: I'll follow you.
Summary: Nanako is sick with that special variety of the flu and goes missing, which equates to the Sister-Complex Kingpin of Steel her "brother" silently flipping all the goddamn tables no matter how late it gets.
Warnings: "Death", all the feelings, inability to can, Yu flipping tables better than Thor, and pissed/far-too-sympathetic headgod.

[So not long after the post (finally) goes up on the network, he begins searching high and low for one bitty whose voice somehow always reached him no matter what happened. She had to be scared right now, wherever she was, and in this place...

He may not ever voice it, but he is, too. There's no Velvet Room summoning to make him stop and calm down, either. Only more flights of stairs and more floors to search. And right now he didn't give a damn about the cold, so long as he could find her and keep her safe like he'd promised. He promised...

Maybe that's why he didn't care about the time, either. Or stop unless told to. Outwardly, he's still mostly calm until a monster shows up and then it is way beyond overkill on any floor where powers aren't disabled.

Suddenly the red gaze of his other self is not so warm and caring...

Though eventually he will tire, sitting on the 25th floor in front of a large fire to warm up before going out again. There is no rest for the weary.]

Comments

[prayed]

Sure. It doesn't get much better than this.

[She deliberates for a few seconds before shrugging and taking a seat near him. Finally, it occurs to her.]

So, ya must be one of Yosuke's friends, huh?

[Either that or this cold's messing with her more than she knows. She prefers to believe it's the former.]

[pitiedthefool]

[Well, if she's sure then he won't push it. Still, he can't help but smirk faintly. Ah right, that's why she seems familiar.]

Yu Narukami. I was a classmate of his back in Inaba. [Okay, more than that, but he doesn't want to say more than that just yet.] You two were body swapped for that experiment, right?

[prayed]

Tch. Unfortunately.

[She folds her arms.]

I dunno how you put up with that guy. He did all kinds of weird stuff while he had my body, y'know.

[Including getting punched in the face, though fortunately she never heard about that little misadventure. Though really, Kyoko doesn't really mind Yosuke as much as she says.]

[pitiedthefool]

[...Sakura-san, please. It's almost funny though, because all he can do when she speaks is smirk. Oh, the memories.]

That's just the way he is, really... but you learn to put up with a lot when you're best friends with someone.

[At least he's good-humored about it.]

[prayed]

That's your best friend? You're kidding, right?

[She stares at Yu, looking as though he can't possibly comprehend how he could possibly make such a poor life choices. Even though she thinks he's cool too, sometimes, just not when the subject of body swaps come up.]

C'mon. Even you've gotta be able to do better than a guy who falls in the toilet.

[Okay, that didn't actually happen, but it probably would have if it weren't for her gentle guidance (read: endless frustration.)]

[pitiedthefool]

Alright, you got me. [He shrugs.] Though why am I not surprised by the idea of him falling into a toilet? Then again, he had crashed his bicycle into a garbage can when we met...

[Yep. Intentionally giving dirt on his best bro. :'D]

[prayed]

[She likes you already, Yu. c:]

Haah? How'd he manage to pull of that one? His brakes go out or something?

[pitiedthefool]

[It's the swag, isn't it.]

Your guess is as good as mine, but he did like imitating a certain hedgehog for a while.

[Then the brakes really did go out.]

[prayed]

[No girl can resist it.]

Jeez. Is he trying to set the world record for most embarrassing moments or what?