[open]

[badguise]

Characters: watanuki and anyone
Setting: dorm hallways/floor 87/cafeteria
Format: brackets
Summary: watanuki being dumb after waking up in a weird place
Warnings: none???

[Dorm Hallways]

[Watanuki trots through the halls with purpose. He's on a mission to find out what the hell happened and he's not giving up until he finds the answer. Sure there was that note he found but he's not dumb enough to believe something like that.

Maybe.

Okay, he's not ruling out that it can be true just yet but he'd like to get some confirmation first. Besides, he needs to find his friends the other residences of Ayakashi Hall, especially Karuta and Zange, to make sure they're okay.]

[Floor 87 (Poppy Room)]

[Watanuki's pretty sure he's gone down about half a million floors already and there's no end in sight. He's not even sure there's a bottom anymore. The entire way down, he's stuck to the stairway but what he sees on the floors he passes through makes him consider the letter's telling the truth because he's not sure what's real anymore. Either that or a demon's put some kind of spell on him. Or he's dreaming. Everything's confusing and he hates it. He just wants to be home or to see his friends or something.

He lets out a frustrated groan, and finally too tired to move on, he flops down onto right there in the middle of a stair. He lays there on his belly, all four legs stretched out, not really caring whether or not he's in anyone's way. Besides, he's too busy being angry at himself for letting some stairs get the better of him. How pathetic.

Which is why, if anyone were to walk by him, they would hear what appears to be a small raccoon dog mumbling to himself, obviously disgruntled.]

I'm so done with this stupid place.

[Cafeteria]


[It took him travelling down twenty floors before he realized that there were elevators. Twenty floors of odd rooms that can't possibly fit indoors. Twenty floors of slowly getting more and more weirded out by the tower. Not to mention twenty floors of hopping down countless flights of stairs in his tiny tanuki form.

Nevertheless, when he did, he took the elevator straight down to the bottom of the tower. He figured if anything, that's where the exit would be. What he found instead though was a cafeteria. While he's extremely wary of the place now, the smell of food makes his stomach grumble. He stands off to the side, conflicted over the fact of whether or not he should trust the food here.

Eventually, unable to take it anymore (because going down those stairs took a lot of energy) he makes his way over to where he noticed other people picking up food. When he gets there though, he realizes he has another problem. The window is much too high for him to reach.]

Goddammit.

[Watanuki tries to stand up on his hind legs but that doesn't seem to help at all.]

Shit. You've gotta be kidding me.

[He's much too low on energy now to even consider transforming back into his human form so all he can do now is resort to leaping up, in attempts to reach the counter.]

Comments

[badguise]

[He's recoiling away from her as best as he can while having the spell on him. Which isn't very well.]

Touch me and I'll bite you.

[His threat would be more effective if his voice isn't shaking slightly. This is bringing back some bad memories for him, to be honest.]

[midnightblackandgold]

[She does actually stop, sitting down on the ground since she knew he wasn't going to be getting away from her.]

But I want to pet you. You look fluffy.

[badguise]

That's not a good reason at all! What do you think I am? An animal in a petting zoo?

[Wow, he wished he could transform back. That's why he hates being in his tanuki form longer than he has to but nooooo he has to have shitty control over his powers and now some strange girl thinks it's acceptable to treat him like a bunny or something else equally pathetic.]

[midnightblackandgold]

I think you're a tanuki, which means you're full of good luck. I just need a little of it.

[badguise]

[Oh. Well. She's kind of right but he'd rather get out of this situation without his dignity going down even more.]

You'll probably need a real tanuki if you want good luck.

[midnightblackandgold]

You're real. You even have the tell-tale leaf, ze.

[badguise]

[That gives him pause for a bit.]

Yeah but the fact that I can turn into one is more bad luck than anything.

[He's pretty sure he's all bad luck, now that he thinks about it.]

[midnightblackandgold]

Oh hoh, trying to confuse me now. Can't trick this witch, ze. People don't turn into tanuki; tanuki turn into people. Like kitsune.

[badguise]

Don't ever compare me to those fox bastards! Tanuki and kitsune are nothing alike. [Wait, he has another problem to deal with first.] And why would I try to confuse you? I'm a person. I just can't prove it right now.

[midnightblackandgold]

You're both shapechangers. [Argue that, tanuki.]

You're trying to get away from me, ze. But now that I got you, I ain't gonna let you go until you become my shikigami.

[badguise]

[He doesn't think it's possible for him to become a shikigami but hearing her say that makes him frantic nonetheless.]

Don't be stupid! Yeah, okay, I'm trying to get away from you but only because I'm not actually what you think I am. I only look this way because something happened earlier and I got surprised and lost control of my power. That's all. It's not like I want to be like this. So let me go.

[midnightblackandgold]

[She pokes lightly at the leaf on his head.]

So what are you?

[badguise]

A person, obviously. [Well. Mostly.]

[midnightblackandgold]

Duh. 'Person' means a whole lot of things, ze. Be more specific.

[badguise]

Human then. Ugh, why are you being such a pain in the ass.

[midnightblackandgold]

Because I can be. So how did a human like you end up like a tanuki like you?

[badguise]

[He doesn't want to talk about it but it seems he's backed himself into a corner and he doesn't know how to get himself out.]

One of my ancestors from ages ago was a tanuki and I just happened to inherit his ability to transform.

[midnightblackandgold]

So you only... look like a tanuki. No luck or anything?

[badguise]

Like I told you earlier, no. You gonna let me go now?

[midnightblackandgold]

I dunno, ze. Even as a not!tanuki, you are pretty cute.

[badguise]

You've got to be kidding me. C'mon, I don't have time to play around and be someone's pet.

[midnightblackandgold]

Being mine would be pretty awesome, though. I'm really powerful and I like booze and having fun. Oh, I'm a witch and I hunt vampires, ze.

And I won't eat you. I know a lot of people here that would eat you.

[badguise]

Isn't there some sort of rule against having another person as a pet?! I'm not sure how those other things you said would make it okay.

[Watanuki grunts as he tries to move again.]

[midnightblackandgold]

Nope. No rule against it at all. And, hey, if you're my pet, I'll let you have your freedom. I'm not much of an indoor pet witch anyways. I think it's silly to keep one trapped in a house or a room.

And, well, if anyone messes with my cute tanuki, they'll have to deal with me. And I can summon a giant laser of DOOM.

[badguise]

[Ughhhhh how much longer will this roundabout conversation go? Watanuki isn't willing to budge from his place and he's pretty sure this girl isn't, either.]

I'm not willing to be anyone's cute tanuki but maybe if you let me go I'll think about it.

[He isn't really confident that this will work but it's not like her spell can actually last forever anyway. They've been here for quite awhile.]