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.]

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[pitiedthefool]

[His heart aches as he listens, head lowered as if in silent prayer even though he really has no one to even pray to. If there was one thing he hated, it was to hear or see another suffer and not be able to do anything to help mend their tortured soul. Maybe that's why, even now, he can't say anything to retort him. Now isn't the time for it.

It's time to give pause and silent support, as much as it eats him up inside and as much as he wants to dive in and cut down what's afflicting him. However there is no way, and he has no scan ability like his girlfriend, who is also acting rather off. Just like his little cousin, too...

All he can do is offer encouragement.]

Then I'll stay. [He punched out a death goddess and practically erased her existence with the many truths they'd learned that year. He doubts that, whatever it is that Riku is fighting now, would be much worse than that.] I don't know whether it's real, or whether it's a trick by Jason... but you are not alone. You can use the "light" Lucifer once mentioned if you need to.

[Maybe someday he'll tell his full story in return, but right now he needed to focus on keeping Riku warm while he fought "him". It's probably around then that Alice appears in front of him, leaving a blanket at Riku's feet and giving him a playful-yet-creepy look. She reeks of the dark to be sure, but the light of the one who summoned her is still prevalent for however long he manages to keep her called. ...Granted it isn't for long, but still-!

Also no he doesn't fully get why they said that when he first fused them, either. Whoops?]

[justabignobody]

[Riku is very glad that Yu understands... or at least respects his stance rather than to argue - Sora would, Riku just knows that. And well... as far as worse than certain death goddesses goes... at least the goddess had had somewhat good, even though very misguided intentions? There is no such thing to be found with the Heartless.

He is just as glad for the encouragement and the invisible presence of his friend - and even more so for the blanket Alice drops with him; she is a strange creature, dark by herself, yet shining with Yu's light, and he chuckles lightly at the idea of using Yu's light, but drowsily decides that it's better not to mention that it doesn't quite work like that.]

...Thanks. I appreciate it.

[All of it. He really, really does.]

[pitiedthefool]

[The argument could be made that nothing good comes from destroying all of the world because Emptiness was the strongest on its own, but this really wasn't the time for those. It was time to support a friend that was hurting. He'd get Jason for this later, if that was the cause...

And come on; he's been around you keyderps enough to know that friendship equates to bond of light as opposed to truth and trust that it is in his world. At least that's what he's figured. It might be silly, but still.]

Anytime.

[And he means it.]