so this is what happens. ( klosed )

[fadedaway]

Date & Time: Late on March 1st
Location: All over the place, really.
Characters: Mikoto Suoh, Izumo Kusanagi, Tatara Totsuka, Anna Kushina, Yashiro Isana and Kuroh Yatogami.
Summary: The King of the Jungle finds the guy who, supposedly, killed his cute hipster boyfriend. Comedy ensues.
Warnings: Language, burning, violence.

So this is what happens when core members of the Red Clan, Homra, appear at once.

This is also what happens when the Red King thinks he's finally found the man that killed his #3.

And this is what happens when you get a lot of interesting reunions.

This is a story full of happiness...!

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[skilful]

[ Searching is too mild a word for a man he knows as his King, too gentle a word for the people and the clan that he's surrounded his King with.

Ignoring the intruding thoughts of what Homra would be like after his death, Totsuka slants his head thoughtfully at Kuroh's words and considers both what he knows and what the other has now confessed to: keeping the suspect away from Homra. The thought amuses him -- that the man before him is one who dares to stand up the Homra -- even though a part of him knows he really shouldn't be.

It can't be helped; there's just something very admirable about the person in front of him. ]

You don't think their suspect is the criminal, then?

[nikubaka]

[ If someone had asked Kuroh that when he first arrived in Exsilium, his answer would have been different. But they had barely known each other then. After months of separation from their hectic lives back home, though, it was easier to observe Shiro, to watch carefully for him to slip up and do something, anything that would give himself away. ]

He's air-headed, annoying, and genuinely incompetent. [ This all said with a smile, nonetheless. Kuroh shakes his head. ] I don't think he is a murderer, no.

[ Of course ultimately what he thinks may not matter. But there it is. ]

[skilful]

[ No stranger to words used affectionately, Totsuka smiles and wonders if Kuroh realises his camera is still recording. Well, whether the other realises it or not, there's no harm, and it makes an interesting memory.

But the person Homra thought to be his murderer, huh. The description already makes him curious. The fact that Kuroh seems particularly taken with them makes him even more interested. ]

Is he here? [ The way Kuroh talks, it feels like they are. ] I'd like to meet him, if that's possible.

[nikubaka]

...He is. [ For everything he just said, and for how relaxed Totsuka has been so far, the other man's question still makes Kuroh a bit wary. Or even protective.

But their meeting was probably an inevitability in this sort of place anyway. ] I'm sure he'd like to meet you, too. To insist on his innocence, if nothing else.

[skilful]

[ He chuckles at that, smiling and seemingly not paying attention that edge in Kuroh's words. ]

What's his name?

[nikubaka]

He goes by Isana Yashiro. I'm sure you could...

[ But then he trails off and shifts his gaze far behind Totsuka, because he feels...Something. Something foreboding, and vaguely familiar. And is it just his imagination, or is the air way over there beginning to distort...

Where's Shiro. ]

[skilful]

[ Only half because of Kuroh's staring (the other half is because he feels it too), Totsuka turns to stare as a large sword materializes in the air. He knows that sword, he knows it too well. The familiar stinging-like pain rises in his chest as he looks upon the sword, holes and flaws and all visible even from this distance.

-- King was here, his King was here. It had to be his King. The small amount of joy he feels at that knowledge is immediately lost to the questions racing through his head.

He starts running in that direction.

Totsuka turns back, smiling apologetically. ] Sorry, Kuroh-kun! I have to go to meet with my King. Let's hang out together later, alright?

[nikubaka]

[ Where's Shiro.

His hand moves to Kotowari in some subconscious grasp for reassurance. When the sword begins forming, he feels his stomach drop. There's only one reason for something like that to happen.

Totsuka is forgotten. As before, he's not even listening, and he springs forward, heading for the sword's location as fast as he can go. There will be plenty of time to feel apologetic later, assuming that time comes. ]