Our hearts, covered in patches and stitches, are in a state of instability.

[generalflirt]

Who: Masaomi (and Linda), Shikamaru (and a deer), and much later Silver (with some pokemon?)
What: A hike through the mountains
When: The 10th onwards (ending...17thish?)
Where: The... Mountains. Including a fertile valley.
Summary: Masaomi is really depressed and really needs to get away. So he goes to hunt down Shikamaru (and later makes good on a bet)
Rating: Vegas

[To say Masaomi Kida was in pain would be the understatement of the century. It wasn't just what happened the day before. It wasn't just the trip home which he now remembered. It wasn't just the sweetness of the lie which made it hurt. It wasn't anything else to do with the AU experiment either. It was all of those things and more - his own weakness, his own pain, his own frustration with the person he was now. And frankly, he couldn't take it anymore. As he promised the Error Katara on the 9th, he was gone by the tenth, marching out of the village by mid-day in his ninja flack vest and carrying a decent sized backpack of food with him. ...

It seemed like a better idea then. He got the mountains's base by the end of the day, made camp a ways up, and then began his hike in the morning. He kept this up (with isolated meditation attempts and "training Linda" attempts until about the morning on the 12th, at which point, well. He concluded he was lost.

...It was then that he ran into an enormous deer. I will let Pi decide if that is threaded or we just cut to the chase]

Comments

[tsuntrader]

You really like being evasive, don't you?

[generalflirt]

[You know what fine] Then what about you, Silver? Have you been in love?

[tsuntrader]

This isn't about me.

[generalflirt]

You said I'm being evasive, so shouldn't you be open!

[tsuntrader]

This isn't about me.

[generalflirt]

Well then it's hardly fair!

[tsuntrader]

Not really, unless that experiment around Valentine's Day counts. [Not that he seems particularly torn up about it.] Happy?

[generalflirt]

Hoh. That's a shame that's a first love.

[tsuntrader]

[...Shrug.] It's no big deal.

[generalflirt]

Ahahaha, I'd say it is! But I suppose I'm not you.

[tsuntrader]

I get how important that kinda love is for other people, but it doesn't really matter to me.

[generalflirt]

Acha.... is that is that so, Silver?

[tsuntrader]

Yeah.

...But this still isn't about me.

[generalflirt]

Sorry, but to keep it on you, I disagree completely!

[tsuntrader]

[...But he just said he doesn't care. What else is there to even say?]

[generalflirt]

[Closing his eyes with a smile-] All I need to do is look at how you handle that bird there, how you value Return. How you interact with Gold, how Gold trusts you in return. How you handle every time time we so much as mention Blue-chan. How that Sneasel of yours acts, and how you act with him. How you're handling me, right at this moment.

Mm, if you ask me, everything you are is filled with love.

1/2

[tsuntrader]

[...What?

That's...]

[tsuntrader]

[...] You've got it all backwards.

[generalflirt]

Nope.

[And he opens his own now, laughing to himself from his shoulders]

[tsuntrader]

No. You've got it all wrong.

Blue and Sneasel have been taking care of me since I was little. Murkrow still managed to open up to me even though I ignored him and his feelings for a long time. Gold taught me about trust. When I first met you, the only reason why I figured I could trust you at all was because Gold did.

If I'm "filled with love," it's only thanks to the people around me, not the other way around.

[generalflirt]

Ah, does that change anything, Silver? Humans aren't born alone, and it's only really evil people who die alone.

[tsuntrader]

[...He falls silent at that. How... How is he even supposed to answer that?]

1/2

[generalflirt]

[generalflirt]

Ah, but you don't need to answer that. So, should we get back to the advice now?

[tsuntrader]

[...] Does being evil leave someone alone, or does being alone make someone evil?