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Date & Time: 26th-29th December
Location: Japan during the late 16th century!
Characters: A whole bunch of people!
Summary: Saving rice, fighting insects!!
Warnings: None yet!

Summer at its height: a middle-sized village on the outskirts of a province in the midst of a famine with almost wilting half-grown rice crops after their river for some reason ran dry.

With taxes to pay and war nearing or already at their borders, the people of the village though friendly are weary and in despair over their future.

For now.

Comments

[battering]

I'm not some little kid!! [ ssssshoves him, not too harshly. ] Go sing to Eric, he's a baby.

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[ laughing! ]

To me, both are you are babies.

[battering]

No way. Take it back! [ huffs. ]

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I speak only the truth!

[battering]

... stop that, it's weird! [ shove, shove. really specific there, yata. ]

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[ shoving back!! ]

You're one to speak, Yata!!

[battering]

[ whoa!! tiny totsuka fists were shoving him, watch out, world! ]

What? What'd I do?!

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Kou-chan.

[ does he know? is he bluffing?? who knows? ]

[battering]

[ oh-- well, that certainly shifts the atmosphere. yata's blushing in 2.5 seconds. ]

W-what about her?!

[ wow real smooth there slim shady. ]

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Hmmmmmm.

[ in the tones of someone who knows and is watching somebody else dig their own grave. ]

I wonder.

[battering]

It's nothing! What did Kusanagi-san say? Did he tell you I had a-- a... [ oh my god say it ] a crush on her?! Because I said it wasn't true!

[ covers his faaaaaaace. ]

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[ ...no, you just said it. ]

It was very obvious. ...Well, Kou-chan's such a cute girl after all so it can't be helped.

[battering]

It's not true! I promise!

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Yata, Yata, Yata... There is no hiding it.

[battering]

[ GROANS and since his hands are covering his face, he stretches out his leg to kick totsuka. ]

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Ah!

[ moving!! ready to keep dodging if need be. ]

Ahhh, our Yata has grown up!

[battering]

I was already grown up! I'm an adult! [ since when. ]

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The first step to adulthood is love!

[ no it isn't. ]

[battering]

L-love?!

[ he just thought she was cute and nice and easy to be around, when did that escalate into a love situation? ]

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Love.

[ he's teasing, someone stop him ]

[battering]

... No. [ It was too much. ] I'm going to sleep, Totsuka-san!! Don't tell anyone anything!

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[ chuckling as he waves ]

Good night~.

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[ ...it's only after Yata leaves that his expression drops a little as he gazes back up into the sky and stars. ]