towerofanimus | Yotsuba and...

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Yotsuba and...

Characters: Yotsuba Koiwai and you!~
Setting: Dorm room 1-03 and the dorm floors.
Format: Prose, but I'll match you.
Summary: A very shaken Yotsuba returns the the Tower and tries to find the people she knew so that she can 'warn' them and get some answers as to what happened to her.
Warnings: Yotsuba will be crying here. Seeing a dead father that you love dearly will do that. Information as to what she saw can be found on her profile.

When Yotsuba woke up, she wasn't expecting to be in a bed. Scared, she sat up and tried to think as to where she was, since she had forgotten a little bit, since so much time had passed, and since she had seen so many terrifying things. Remembering, and not bothering to read the the notes she had been given or look in her trunk, she got out of bed and carefully wandered into the hall. Her destroyed world had been terrible..and lonely. She didn't want her Daddy to be like that! She didn't want it at all..so she had to tell everyone so that they could come up with a plan and help him!

But just thinking about it had started to make her cry, and she didn't stop as she rushed about the dorm hallways, crying out, hoping to find someone she knew. Of course, if she bumped into someone else, that would be nice too, but..right now, her mind was going to the people here she knew and loved.

"L-Luci! Dia?! E..Enoch?! Zett! Romeo?! Mr..Mr Edgey?! Rick?! Are you guys here?! Help!"

Of course, to people she hadn't met, she would just look like a scared little kid that had just arrived. To people that knew her though..this would be a bittersweet homecoming of sorts.

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Roen? Really, Reno couldn't come up with a better alias than that?

"I do know the person you are talking about, and your instincts are correct. He is a good person. He's a good person who I think is hurting and, perhaps, is even a little scared and not sure how to deal with that," Diarmuid sits back a little so he can look Yotsuba in the face again, "Do you know that feeling? The one where you really want to protect people you care about but are afraid that you might not be able to? In fact, you worry if you might end up hurting them instead of helping them? It's a very grown up emotion so I will understand if you don't know it, but I think that might be why he was so gloomy when he talked to you."

Tower dads understand each other...

If he could, he really needed to get on it. Aliases like that were fine when one needed to throw off people like Yotsuba..but they weren't good when one was dealing with someone that wasn't gulliable.

While Yotsuba thought about what Diarmuid said, she frowned a little and..nodded her head. While she hadn't ever felt like she would hurt people when she meant to help them-and thought that if she made a mistake, it could be easily corrected-she had felt scared when she was back in her own destroyed world. She wanted to help Daddy and everyone. She didn't want to see them like that, but of course, there was no way she could help everyone or be a support while she was there. All that was there were dead corpses, fear, and lots of questions.

"I do..and it's really scary and bad! But that doesn't mean you should lie..and he can help out a lot here! I couldn't be a support when I was gone, but now I can! Did he go back home too? And how can we help him not feel scared, Dia?"

Edited (Editing things to make it smoother.) 2013-11-16 08:36 (UTC)

"That's right. It's probably one of the worst feelings you can have," Diarmuid isn't convinced that she does completely understand the feeling, but from her words, she is close enough. "It really makes it easy to want to give up and I think, at that moment, you caught him in one of those times. This place does that to people, as I am sure you are aware. Even the happiest and strongest people can become lost and hopeless sometimes."

Diarmuid pauses here to ruffle her hair, "If you see him, just work on being a good support like we have discussed. Try not to remind him about the lies and how upset he was. I will be talking to him soon, and I will see what I can do to help him. It might take a while, but I am sure as long as we don't give up, we will be able to bring out that good person inside of him."

While it was pretty terrible that both she and Roen had been through terrible things and that he had wanted to give up, Yotsuba smiled a little bit at the hair ruffling and nodded. Since she had decided to be a support for all the good grown-ups, she would do her best to help out Roen too!

"Okay! Yotsuba won't give up either then! And I won't remind him about what happened and I'll try and be a good support! Can you tell Yotsuba what I can do when you talk with him though? I wanna help him too, so he doesn't think he's a bad person anymore!"

Diarmuid is silent for several moments after her question. In truth, he's not sure what to tell her since he has only known Reno a short time. While he has a few guesses about the man from the times they have talked, he could just as easily be wrong about those things. Especially with it comes to the things they don't have in common.

"For now, if you see him, smile at him. Hug him if he will allow it," Diarmuid's pretty sure he won't, but it's worth a try. "And give me some time to talk to him first. I don't know him that well yet and I don't want to tell you to do the wrong thing."

Yotsuba looked a little puzzled as Diarmuid silently pondered. She was never a patient kid, but she did her best to wait while he came up with an answer for her. But, when he did speak up again, she nodded, doing her best to remember all of this.

"Okay! I'll do all of that..but will you let Yotsuba know more once you do talk with him? I wanna know too!"

Diarmuid smiles, glad to see that Yotsuba's time on her dead world--as horrible as it was--hasn't dimmed the girl's enthusiasm when it comes to helping others.

"I promise I will let you know. And who knows, when you see him next he might be in a better mood and more willing to talk to you himself. Wouldn't that be great?"

Well, in the end, Yotsuba was still Yotsuba. Even though she had experienced horrible things and still wanted answers as to how the grown-ups would take care of the dead bodies back home, she still wanted to help out, and since she could help out by being a support and cheering everyone up, that was what she was going to do! Plus, it was fun.

So, returning Diarmuid's smile, Yotsuba pumped a fist into the air enthusiastically as she spoke.

"It would be! It would be super awesome if he didn't try to run away next time! Maybe we can play tag together! Or hide-and-go seek!"

"Maybe! That would be nice, wouldn't it? Everyone deserves a change to have fun and relax sometimes even in a place like this. When I talk to him, I will have to ask him what kinds of games he likes playing..." Though, Diarmuid suspects that Reno's taste in games probably leans more toward pool and cards than hide-and-seek.

"Am I the first person you have talked to, Little One? I know Enoch is going to be very happy to see you. Zett and the rest of your friends as well. We all missed you very much."

While Yotsuba had no idea where Reno's tastes lie, she wouldn't mind playing pool or cards. Even if she would be utterly lousy at them, since she didn't know anything about them.

"It would be! It would be awesome! You'll have to tell Yotsuba what games he likes when you ask him! And you're not the first one! Yotsuba met Zett and Enoch and Luci and Rick and Judas and Romeo and Veronica and Gilles! I'm sorry for making you all worry though! Zo made a mistake and I missed you all a whooole lot!"

"Good, good. I am glad you were able to see them," Diarmuid remembers too well how angry Enoch had been when he had found her tombstone. Seeing her again would bring so much joy and comfort to Enoch's soul--perhaps even more than seeing her again had brought to Diarmuid's--that the last thing he wants to do is delay that meeting. However, since it has already happened, Diarmuid can be selfish a bit longer.

"How about we go and play a game? Or sing a song? Is there something you would like to do?"

If Diarmuid knew what Caster's real name was, one of those names would alarm him a great deal. However, he doesn't know it and so it passes unremarked on.

Yotsuba had no idea how badly her disappearance had shaken Enoch, Zett, Diarmuid, and the others, but she did know that they were all super happy to see her again, even if Enoch did seem a bit sad when she mentioned the bodies.

At the suggestions though, Yotsuba thought for a moment before replying, putting a hand on her stomach.

"I'm hungry. Can we eat something, Dia? Is there yummy curry?"

Considering the bodies were something a child her age should never have seen, Diarmuid can understand far too well why Enoch would be upset to hear her talk about them.

"Curry? I don't know that there will be curry, but I will be glad to carry you down to the kitchen to see," Diarmuid leans forward, inviting her to crawl up onto his back. "Did I tell you I am learning to make cookies?"

Plus, while Yotsuba didn't know it, Enoch had been to his destroyed world and seen the bodies there. For an empathetic person like him, even thinking about those memories was painful.

As Diarmuid spoke and leaned forward, Yotsuba climbed on him and got herself situated so that she was on his shoulders, even if she did kick him in the face once or twice while she got herself situated. The fact that he was learning how to bake cookies was pretty amazing to her. While cake was super yummy and cause for celebration, cookies were tasty too!~

"Really?! Yotsuba didn't know! Can you make cookies now?! Cookies and cake are super yummy though! A luvley red-haired chef made some cake awhile ago, and it was super tasty!"

Diarmuid's smile doesn't fade even with the kicks. He knows they are accidental and with his enhanced resistance, he hardly feels them. Once Yotsuba is settled, Diarmuid reaches back to ruffle her hair once more before standing up.

"Cookies and cakes are very yummy. I am just learning and the flour seems to dislike me, but maybe it will listen to you better. What do you say to making some cookies? They are even yummier when you get to eat them right out of the oven."

If Diarmuid had been hurt or yelped out, Yotsuba would have apologized, but since he didn't, she just laughed a little when he ruffled her hair, and she grabbed onto his neck a little when he stood up, so that she could make sure she didn't fall off.

"They are! They're super yummy! But..Yotsuba would like to be a chef! I'll talk with the flour and we'll make a whooole bunch of yummy cookies!"

..The only problem being Yotsuba didn't know what an oven was, didn't quite know what flour was, and had no idea how to bake.

Thankfully, Diarmuid has gotten a little better at making cookies since his first tries, so as long as Yotsuba helps with the flour and eggs when he hands them to her, things should go pretty well.

And by pretty well, he means there won't be a fire.

"Good! The flour and the eggs won't have a prayer with you helping me out. Lets go make some cookies, shall we! And if things go well, I can give you some for Enoch and the rest of your friends too."

While there might not be any fires, Yotsuba was pretty clumsy sometimes when it came to food, so the bag of flour would probably get spilled a few times, and it was more than likely that an egg or two would lose its life in the line of duty.

Not, of course, that Yotsuba knew any of this. She just smiled happily at the idea of baking yummy cookies and sharing them with her friends and honorary family. It would be a lot of fun, and it would help cheer them up!

"Okay! Everyone will like some yummy cookies to help cheer them up! Let's hop off, Dia!~ Bong!"

While it was unlikely that Diarmuid would actually jump during his fast run to the cafeteria, it didn't mean that Yotsuba couldn't dream about it.

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Yotsuba and...

Not really? It was just a stylistic thing. Sorry if it was confusing!

Oh, it wasn't confusing. Just a tad amusing on my end. Sorry about that. ^^;

No worries. Just making sure!

Alright then!

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This seems like a good wrap up point, yes?

Sure! That's fine with me!