十九 (Text/Voice Post, Japanese)

[onikui_tengu]

Celebrating the new year in this city... what an unusual feeling. It feels like there is so much that has fallen out of place from being away from our own world like this.

Old habits, and traditions. ...Hm. My kimono was left behind, wasn't it.

It doesn't even feel like that much time has passed, and I'm still not used to the cold here either.

Though it looks like I have some seeds to plant now... I don't think that I will. I have no reason to trust something that arrived so suspiciously. Better to give them to Kantarou to do with them as he likes.

[...]

Why is that plant still here anyway? It's gotten hard to work like this...

[[ooc If anyone has gone to the bar recently, Haruka has a small white bandage on his right cheek. It's from getting sucker punched by Kantarou in a recent spat. If asked about it, he will say that he tripped and fell. (It's actually not that bad. He's just embarrassed by it.) Italics are spoken Japanese.]]

Comments

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

Are you going to the party?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't I have to try to be there in the first place?

It's where I work.

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

No, no, it's different. To be somewhere because it's your job to be there, and to be there because it's a party.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

That's some stupid reasoning.

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

Is not.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Sorata-kun, even if I was interested in being there because of the party, I am still the bartender. I'd have to work.

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

You could ask for the night off.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Is there someone who could take my place if I did?

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

Nah, probably not. People can just make their own drinks or something.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

...

I think that I'll just continue working.

[kan_chyan]

I planted mine, maybe it will prove to be something interesting?

Don't be such a downer! The new year is upon us soon! You can't go dragging all of last years baggage with you.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

If you think so, then you can go ahead and plant my share too.

Hmph. If that is your belief, then shouldn't you be worrying more about yourself than me? I could just be dragging you down with my good sense.

[kan_chyan]

Oh I already did. I planted them next to mine! They can grow up together!

Hey! I'm already letting go of the previous year!

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Spring should be interesting then. I wonder if we'll still be around...

You seem pretty eager.

[kan_chyan]

Time will only tell.

Hmm, well... it's not like I had no worries this past year.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

There doesn't seem to be any other way of finding out.

I see...

[7th-warrant.livejournal.com]

-He's not laughing. I promise-

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

[Not buying it.]

[7th-warrant.livejournal.com]

A glass of wine, if you will. I'm in a good mood.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Shinjiro must have told you about it.

[7th-warrant.livejournal.com]

Brothers rarely keep secrets from one another.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Hm. It seems like your family is growing, or else I'm still learning more about you.

It's a nice change.

[7th-warrant.livejournal.com]

In this case, it's the latter.

...hmmm

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

I see.

[He makes a quick glance upward toward the mistletoe hanging from the rafter above, before going to fetch a bottle of wine from the storage and a glass.]

So... what's the occasion, Testament? The new year still hasn't had enough time to arrive yet.

[7th-warrant.livejournal.com]

Well, nothing too much, just...some stress at home, that's all.

Bridget is moving out. I admire his independence, but...hmm...