More bedninjaing

[hinooo]

[You know the drill. XD]

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[hinooo]

[impulsively grabs your arm]

Stay.

If they're all okay... stay.

[regretnooothing]

[Looking down at your hand and then to you. Not what I expected, but..]

... Okay. I'll stay.

[I know they'll be okay. That place isn't going to do anything too terrible, and Ankh and Kane can protect them better than he can right now anyway.]

[hinooo]

[inhales sharply, delightedly overwhelmed]

[have an armful of me]

[regretnooothing]

[holding you because, well your there and you look like you needed]

Is everything okay?

[hinooo]

Yes! Yes -- I'm just pleased.


[I like helping people, though I have issues with accepting it, so I don't know what the hell just happened, but I'm very happy to help you get out of that place.]

[regretnooothing]

[I'm sure we both have no idea what just happened, but I am moving past it to focus on the future]

I don't really have control on when it wants me to be there and when it doesn't, so if it randomly takes me back I'm sorry. I don't really think that it will happen though.

Will it be weird for me to be here though?

[hinooo]

Okay, I won't take it personally!

[laughing]

I'm sure it will be! But everyone will be happy, too. Ankh will have two of us to glare at.

[regretnooothing]

That's true I guess.

[Ankh will always be Ankh, I guess.]

Is it different for you now? You know, now that he's a human?

[hinooo]

Ah, some things. Many things are the same.

[unhappy little sigh]

We're dating, and it's good. But I worry about him.

[regretnooothing]

Why are you worried? Did something happen?

[I'll be sitting back in the bed comfortably now. Since I'm not going anywhere for now, might as well be comfortable while I listen]

[hinooo]

[swallowing, but if I can't talk to you, who can I talk to]

I think things are easier for him now, but harder, too. He's not driven by needing Medals. But he doesn't know how to be human, and it's... it's eating him up.

[regretnooothing]

He wanted this. He wanted life, so he should deal with everything that comes with it. You're the only person who can help him figure everything out, I bet.

[Reaching a hand to rub at your back gently.]

[hinooo]

[relaxing against you a little]

That's very kind of you.

Thing is, I'm not entirely sure he does want life, any more.


[I'm not explaining this well, but it's distressing me, and how does words]

[regretnooothing]

[That hurts to hear and it's not even my situation.]

He doesn't want it? Is it about being a Greeed again? Is that it?

[Looking at you, concerned.]

[hinooo]

[and I don't like upsetting you, but it's not like talking to a completely different person, I don't feel bad in quite the same way]

Maybe. He'd probably find it simpler. He keeps saying things about how he... ended.

How it was perfect.

[regretnooothing]

He wanted to stay dead?

[Staring at you and then away. It's something to think about. We never really got to ask him his opinion before it all happened.]

[hinooo]

Hearing it said like that...

[hand closes on your shoulder for a moment]

[regretnooothing]

[waiting while frowning and watching you.]

Eiji...

[hinooo]

I... I don't know. I don't think he'd actively try to kill himself. I know he likes some things about being human.

But when he was going to fight with us, fight Maki, he thought it was beautiful.

[regretnooothing]

[Listening and thinking of that fight again.]

I guess all you can do is give him time.

[hinooo]

[ducks head]

[regretnooothing]

Eiji...

[This is almost odd, but pulling you against me, leaning my head against you.]

You know how Ankh is. Let com complain it all out an be a nuisance to himself and everyone else and get it out of his system. Even if it hurts to deal with.

[hinooo]

[it feels so strange but so nice too]

...you're right. I'll give him time. Try not to take it personally.

[regretnooothing]

Things will get better with time.

[hinooo]

[nods jerkily]

[small grin]

And it'll be much better now you're here, too! Strange, I'm sure, but you'll adjust. And it'll be really good!