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petroniaBecause I realised this is the closest I'm ever going to get to a translation, and I really have no idea how I'm going to write an "objective summary" of book 5.5 at this point, so you get the raw text dump. :D;; This is what it looks like when I am not trying to be intelligent.
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Sabina: It was the greatest conversation of all time, though.
Chrissie: oooh
Chrissie: how'd it go? XD
Sabina: Like what they were doing was travelling around what once was Uesugi territory, pacifying spirits.
Sabina: Just the two of them.
Chrissie: mmm?
Sabina: Naoe discovered that Takaya likes sashimi (which Kagetora also did), so he like feeds him restaurant sashimi all the time.
Chrissie: <3333333
Sabina: And drives him around - like his family refuses to let him use their cars anymore after he exploded the last one, so he just rents whatever car Takaya wants to ride in. XD;;
Sabina: So you know, in the anime where Takaya says he was a total spoilt brat with Naoe?
Sabina: So right.
Chrissie: ahahahaha
Chrissie: *wants a naoe! except not*
Sabina: XDXD
Sabina: And what happened was - to elide over all the history involved -
Sabina: there were some spirits on the Uesugi side who were also called by Kenshin, so instead of just plain haunting
Sabina: they work with Kagetora to keep spiritual unrest down in the area.
Sabina: And Naoe takes Takaya to meet them.
Sabina: Then they drive down to the beach, which is like two blocks away at that point.
Sabina: It's one of those beaches where there's a bit of a wall on a bit of a cliff, and then the water.
Chrissie:
Sabina: So Takaya sits on the wall with his feet dangling off the edge and drinks canned juice and chills, because he hasn't been to a beach in years.
Sabina: Then he attempts to get Naoe to buy him beer.
Sabina: (Actually, if I'd been him I'd have tried that one long ago.)
Chrissie: ahahahahaha
Chrissie: (and omg so cute Q_Q)
Sabina: It is. T_T
Sabina: Then they kind of start having one of those rambly conversations -
Sabina: like Takaya hears motorcycles go past and they're loud, so he's like geez put a muffler on your vehicles stupid delinquents,
Sabina: except he totally was a stupid delinquent when he was in junior high and stuff.
Chrissie: XDDD
Chrissie: (wait)
Sabina: Like he'd steal *other* people's motorcycles and go joyriding. XD;;
Chrissie: (he's not anymore? o_O)
Sabina: Not as *much*. Due to Yuzuru's influence. XD
Sabina: Like now he actually, yanno, goes to school and stuff.
Chrissie: ahhh
Sabina: Or he would if he weren't constantly being taken out and driven around Japan by a handsome older man. But ANYWAY.
Chrissie: XDXDXDXD
Sabina: (Like you can tell this kid doesn't have parents who keep up with his life. =_=)
Sabina: Then Naoe asks him what he wants to do when he grows up,
Sabina: and he says he wants to be - wait for it -
Sabina: a court-appointed social worker. XD;;;;;;
Chrissie: ..............................................
Sabina: Naoe's like, "Um, not... quite the image I have of you, but okay."
Chrissie: AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Chrissie: 'kagetora-sama, how far you've fallen Q_Q'
Sabina: I am like, oh yes, the only OTHER adults who were probably ever nice to you. =_=
Sabina: That's the kind of kid he is, yanno?
Chrissie: siiiiiiigh
Chrissie: somessedup
Sabina: And then they start discussing the spirits, or rather Takaya busts out ranting
Sabina: that he doesn't agree with what Kenshin's doing, and that they should just exorcise them and let them reincarnate, because they're burdened and tied to earth.
Sabina: And that furthermore when you think about it, they themselves are a lot less "natural" than the spirits they're exorcising.
Chrissie:
Sabina: And Naoe says, well, yes. We live in constant self-contradiction.
Sabina: But I'm actually glad Kenshin-kou called me to this, because if not, I'd never have gotten to know you.
Chrissie: ah >"< that part
Sabina: You'd've stayed the enemy I fought during the civil war with Kagekatsu, and that would've been an end to it. So I'm glad Kenshin made me what I am, because it means I get to be near you.
Sabina: And Takaya doesn't know what to say to this obviously. XD
Sabina: Like it's a little more of an emotional response than the conversation required.
Sabina: So he's all, "You know, sometimes when I talk to you I can FEEL the conversation getting hijacked."
Chrissie: ahahahaha
Chrissie: the creepy obsession shining through!
Sabina: "Like that, isn't that something you'd say to a girl?"
Sabina: And Naoe says, "I'm just putting my sincerity into words."
Chrissie: ..............
Chrissie: nice save, but only because it's d-u-m takaya ~"~
Sabina: And Takaya says, "Uhuh. So incidentally, how many women have you sweet-talked with your quote unquote sincerity?"
Sabina: And Naoe's like = =+
Chrissie: XDDDDD
Sabina: So with a totally straight face he says,
Sabina: "That's a good question... Not sure... lost count really..."
Chrissie: AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Chrissie: NAOE
Chrissie: <3333333333333
Sabina: I know. It was like the best line ever.
Sabina: So Takaya's like !!!
Chrissie:
Chrissie: does he elbow naoe in the ribs?
Chrissie: 'you dog, you!'
Sabina: And then he's like, "No, seriously, you *are* single, aren't you? Why aren't you dating?"
Sabina: Like he's all XDXDXD about it.
Chrissie: ..........
Sabina: And Naoe is sort of half like, omg he's so cute when he's boyish and genki like that <333
Sabina: and half like, WHY GOD WHY DO YOU MOCK ME SO
Sabina: What he says out loud is, "I don't have the time for it currently."
Sabina: And Takaya's like, "Ooh, so you must have had a girlfriend before, right? Do tell. : D"
Chrissie: ;alsdfal;skdjfalsdjk
Chrissie: he's digging his own grave
Chrissie: DESERVES TO BE BURIED
Sabina: XD
Sabina: Which I guess is what Naoe figured as well, because he proceeds to tell Takaya
Sabina: about his sad and empty history of one night stands XD;;;;;
Chrissie: ....................................
Sabina: And Takaya's like o_O
Sabina: Would SO not have pegged you as the type.
Chrissie: (but, um. is it true?)
Sabina: Yup.
Chrissie:
Sabina: Like he says basically,
Sabina: Sometimes you and the woman are both looking for the same thing, so you just get it from each other and move on. There's no lasting consequence, but at the same time, there's no schmoopy love story of the kind you're looking to hear.
Sabina: And Takaya's like, "Who's waiting to hear a schmoopy love story? >_<"
Chrissie: us!
Chrissie: the readers!
Sabina: THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT AKI SAID AHAHAHA
Chrissie: XDDDDDDDD
Sabina: But anyway,
Chrissie: we're both diehard members of the happy brigade, obviously
Sabina: Takaya's sort of traumatized by this, like he's all "Whoa, sorry I asked now, that was TMI."
Chrissie: awww
Chrissie: no mommy for takaya
Sabina: And Naoe thinks he's very innocent. Like he's not ready to deal with the idea of how adults have sexual relationships sometimes.
Chrissie:
Sabina: And then, because Naoe is no stranger to the concept of digging his own grave and lying in it,
Sabina: he tries to explain the rationale.
Chrissie: o_o
Sabina: Like why someone would have a one night stand.
Chrissie: about the HOPELESS LOVE etc. etc.?
Sabina: What he basically says is, Sometimes you're looking for something, and you just can't find it, so you end up acting out the form of the thing to forget that you don't have the real deal.
Sabina: And at that point in his life the playacting was necessary for him.
Sabina: And Takaya kind of just stares at him like ._.?
Chrissie: XDXD
Sabina: So Naoe ends by saying sort of self-mockingly,
Sabina: "Of course I always tried to transmit my feelings sincerely to the woman in question."
Sabina: And Takaya just kind of goes - like he's really bothered by the idea of Naoe sleeping around like that, actually, so he's sort of getting all sarcastic on him. XD
Sabina: So he's like, "Yeah, I see you've had a lot of practice in sweet-talking people. But you know, if you spoil a girl too much she just gets all high and mighty and full of herself."
Sabina: And Naoe kind of... freezes?
Chrissie: a;sldkjf;alkjdf;alkdjf;lakjd;flakj
Chrissie: NAOE. LISTEN TO HIM
Sabina: And Takaya notices he's not smiling, and is about to turn around and ask him what's wrong,
Sabina: and Naoe says really low,
Sabina: "It's all right if you're full of yourself."
Chrissie: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Chrissie: and takaya doesn't hear it, right?
Chrissie: Q_Q
Chrissie: doesn't hear clearly?
Sabina: And Takaya's like, WHOA HIJACKING OF CONVERSATION COMMENCES AGAIN
Chrissie: oooooooh!
Sabina: So he stands up and is like, "See, I understand the individual words but not the sentence, because wtf I am not a girl?"
Sabina: And then he loses his balance and nearly falls off the wall.
Chrissie: .................
Chrissie: and naoe catches him!
Sabina: And Naoe catches him. XD
Chrissie: and then they stare into each other's eyes
Chrissie: and an evil spirit comes popping out!
Chrissie: yes?
Sabina: Not quite. XD
Chrissie: (sorry. just have NO FAITH WHATSOEVER in this author)
Sabina: But yes, they stare into each other's eyes, and Takaya notices
Sabina: that Naoe is like WAY TOO CLOSE
Sabina: and holding him by the arms WAY TOO TIGHT
Chrissie: <33333
Chrissie: go naoe go!
Sabina: And he's like, "Naoe...? o_O"
Sabina: And Naoe lets him go, and goes all formal and smiley, and says something like Can't take my eyes off you for a second ahahahaha
Chrissie: ..............
Sabina: And they go back to the car.
Chrissie: .......................
Chrissie: and make out in the backseat?
Chrissie: *hopeful*
Sabina: *sighs*
Chrissie: Q_Q
Sabina: But it goes on!
Chrissie: ........
Chrissie: you say
Chrissie: it gets worse?
Sabina: Because then they go back to the hotel.
Sabina: Where in a spectacular display of bad judgment,
Sabina: Naoe had taken a double room for the two of them.
Chrissie: >_________<
Sabina: So he comes up from downstairs, I dunno, getting a bucket of ice again,
Chrissie: if he's not hoping to get lucky, he should REALLY NOT DO THAT
Sabina: and Takaya asleep on the bed, AGAIN.
Chrissie: !!!
Sabina: Like he'd gone and taken a shower, and come out in his boxers and sat down to watch the sports newscast, and just fell asleep like that. No bathrobe, nothing.
Sabina: And to his credit, Naoe doesn't actually go to the Bad Place right away.
Chrissie: alsfjd;alskdjf;aldkfja;ldkfja;ldkfja;ldfkj;adlkj
Sabina: Like the first thing he thinks is, You mustn't go to sleep like that Kagetora-sama you'll catch cold!
Sabina: So he's like Takaya-san, Takaya-san wake up
Chrissie: ...oh god Q_Q
Chrissie: naoeyouaresoadorable
Sabina: And he sort of picks Takaya up by the shoulders a bit, but Takaya just flops a bit. XD
Chrissie: XDXD
Sabina: And that actually gives Naoe a nasty unexpected flashback to the last time he picked Kagetora up and he flopped.
Sabina: Because he was, yanno, DEAD.
Sabina: So he panicks.
Sabina: And shakes Takaya awake like TAKAYA WAKE UP O_O
Sabina: And Takaya's like, "Wasdf;gsda which team won?"
Chrissie: ahahahaha
Sabina: And Naoe's like, "Don't go to sleep like that. ;_;"
Sabina: So Takaya grumbles a bit and rolls under the quilt and falls right back asleep.
Sabina: And Naoe sits down on the other bed and goes, screw the expense, should've gotten a separate room. T_T
Chrissie: XDDDDD
Sabina: And the fact that Takaya is just SLEEPING there makes him feel guilty.
Sabina: Because he thinks Takaya/Kagetora lets his guard down too much around the people he trusts.
Chrissie: Q_Q
Sabina: Like he doesn't necessarily trust easily, but when he does it's all or nothing.
Sabina: So if he gets betrayed, it's worse.
Chrissie: so get it right this time!
Chrissie: >"<
Sabina: And to Naoe's entirely justified POV, he's very far from being someone that Takaya should just go to sleep in the same hotel room with, if Takaya only knew it. XD
Chrissie:
Sabina: But he just angsts in a really complicated way.
Sabina: Like they started off as enemies, but it's been so long and things happened so gradually that he can't point to a moment and say that was when Kagetora gave him his trust.
Sabina: And he can't point to a moment and say that's when he started to admire Kagetora and give him his allegiance,
Sabina: and he sure as heck can't point to a moment and say that's when loyalty became possessiveness.
Sabina: And now there he is, sitting in a hotel room, TV off, it's quiet, watching Takaya sleep.
Chrissie: Q______________Q
Sabina: And it's starting to occur to him that half a minute before he was actually holding Takaya in his arms.
Chrissie: ...naoe
Chrissie: you are SLOW
Sabina: And in his mind it's like, if it was someone with whom it was "all right"
Sabina: like he could reach out right now and slip his hand under that quilt
Chrissie: asjlasjkldfasjkldf;asl;djkasldfjk;
Sabina: kiss him awake
Sabina: And then he gets up and sort of goes and beats his head against the windowpane for a bit. Not really, but you know what I mean.
Chrissie: sigh
Sabina: Because he was angsting when he couldn't FIND Kagetora, but now that he's found him, it's starting to come back to him
Sabina: what it was like to be with Kagetora every single day and REALLY WANT TO SLEEP WITH HIM.
Chrissie: XDDDDD
Sabina: And he's like, Shit, I'm really a lost case. Like I can't escape this.
Chrissie: so he gives in! <3?
Sabina: Actually, in his fevered mind
Sabina: it's gotten to the point where he doesn't believe it's really "love" or "loyalty"? Like he just thinks, I've lived too long, this is what happens when you live longer than you should and history piles up and your psyche twists until things get *more* than regular human feeling.
Chrissie: o_O
Sabina: One lifetime isn't enough to make him feel like this.
Sabina: It takes several.
Chrissie: ohman
Sabina: And you know, at first he'd thought, hundreds of years of life, surely you learn some wisdom along the way? Maybe you attain satori?
Sabina: But human beings can't help themselves. They're tied to the wheel. There's a reason they need to die and reincarnate and be purified of their emotions and memories.
Chrissie:
Sabina: He's gotten to the point of total exhaustion, even the idea of reincarnation doesn't do it for him. He'd like to die, really die, just be snuffed out.
Sabina: Not have to feel anymore, not ever.
Sabina: 400 years and not only hasn't he attained enlightenment, he's even forgotten what it's like to desire enlightenment.
Sabina: And then he turns around and stares at Takaya and thinks, Shit, the little bastard looks so damned HAPPY.
Chrissie: O_O
Sabina: Are you happy now, Kagetora-sama?
Sabina: What do *I* have to do to be happy?
Chrissie: *wants to know too*
Sabina: And *then* it goes to the Bad Place with a vengeance. XD
Sabina: Once he's sort of worked his way down the list to
Sabina: well maybe if I chained you up and had my way with you REPEATEDLY I'd be happy,
Chrissie: ....................
Chrissie: what
Sabina: he decides with the fragment of logical brain he has left that he really has to go to bed if he wants to be up the next morning.
Chrissie: .......AHAHAHAHH
Sabina: (Oh, he actually thinks it. I was like "NAOE O_O")
Sabina: Actually the way he put it was probably more along the lines of "sex slave"
Sabina: only, you know, prettier Japanese.
Chrissie: hakkai scares you, but naoe doesn't?
Sabina: It's a question of understanding. You don't get a grasp on what's inside Hakkai's head, whereas the inside of Naoe's head is constant TMI. -_-
Chrissie: XDDDDDD
Sabina: So he starts going through the motions of going to bed, all the while knowing in the back of his head that it's a night of insomnia for him.
Sabina: Out of pure sexual frustration if nothing else.
Chrissie: and takaya makes it safely through another night?
Sabina: (Aki interjected here)
Sabina: (That she really hoped the guy jerks off in the shower or something)
Chrissie: XDDDDD
Sabina: (and I said I'm not actually certain he does. Like, I dunno.)
Sabina: (I have a weird suspicion he DOESN'T.)
Chrissie: *nodsnods*
Chrissie: probably the root of the problem!
Sabina: And he's mentally totting up the number of bottles in the mini-fridge,
Sabina: wondering if it's enough alcohol to knock him out,
Sabina: when the long-expected evil spirit makes its appearence. XD
Sabina: Like he starts hearing a woman wailing in the distance.
Chrissie: ......................
Chrissie: ah, well
Chrissie: can't say i'm not glad to see her XD
Sabina: And Takaya wakes up, and sees Naoe's about to go out, insists on coming with him, so they both get dressed and pile out and go investigate this disembodied head
Sabina: of some executed princess once upon a time.
Sabina: And that's where I am. But frankly
Sabina: I am so not surprised anymore that Naoe doesn't make it and snaps.
Sabina: I don't give him more than two nights at this rate.
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Sabina: It was the greatest conversation of all time, though.
Chrissie: oooh
Chrissie: how'd it go? XD
Sabina: Like what they were doing was travelling around what once was Uesugi territory, pacifying spirits.
Sabina: Just the two of them.
Chrissie: mmm?
Sabina: Naoe discovered that Takaya likes sashimi (which Kagetora also did), so he like feeds him restaurant sashimi all the time.
Chrissie: <3333333
Sabina: And drives him around - like his family refuses to let him use their cars anymore after he exploded the last one, so he just rents whatever car Takaya wants to ride in. XD;;
Sabina: So you know, in the anime where Takaya says he was a total spoilt brat with Naoe?
Sabina: So right.
Chrissie: ahahahaha
Chrissie: *wants a naoe! except not*
Sabina: XDXD
Sabina: And what happened was - to elide over all the history involved -
Sabina: there were some spirits on the Uesugi side who were also called by Kenshin, so instead of just plain haunting
Sabina: they work with Kagetora to keep spiritual unrest down in the area.
Sabina: And Naoe takes Takaya to meet them.
Sabina: Then they drive down to the beach, which is like two blocks away at that point.
Sabina: It's one of those beaches where there's a bit of a wall on a bit of a cliff, and then the water.
Chrissie:
Sabina: So Takaya sits on the wall with his feet dangling off the edge and drinks canned juice and chills, because he hasn't been to a beach in years.
Sabina: Then he attempts to get Naoe to buy him beer.
Sabina: (Actually, if I'd been him I'd have tried that one long ago.)
Chrissie: ahahahahaha
Chrissie: (and omg so cute Q_Q)
Sabina: It is. T_T
Sabina: Then they kind of start having one of those rambly conversations -
Sabina: like Takaya hears motorcycles go past and they're loud, so he's like geez put a muffler on your vehicles stupid delinquents,
Sabina: except he totally was a stupid delinquent when he was in junior high and stuff.
Chrissie: XDDD
Chrissie: (wait)
Sabina: Like he'd steal *other* people's motorcycles and go joyriding. XD;;
Chrissie: (he's not anymore? o_O)
Sabina: Not as *much*. Due to Yuzuru's influence. XD
Sabina: Like now he actually, yanno, goes to school and stuff.
Chrissie: ahhh
Sabina: Or he would if he weren't constantly being taken out and driven around Japan by a handsome older man. But ANYWAY.
Chrissie: XDXDXDXD
Sabina: (Like you can tell this kid doesn't have parents who keep up with his life. =_=)
Sabina: Then Naoe asks him what he wants to do when he grows up,
Sabina: and he says he wants to be - wait for it -
Sabina: a court-appointed social worker. XD;;;;;;
Chrissie: ..............................................
Sabina: Naoe's like, "Um, not... quite the image I have of you, but okay."
Chrissie: AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Chrissie: 'kagetora-sama, how far you've fallen Q_Q'
Sabina: I am like, oh yes, the only OTHER adults who were probably ever nice to you. =_=
Sabina: That's the kind of kid he is, yanno?
Chrissie: siiiiiiigh
Chrissie: somessedup
Sabina: And then they start discussing the spirits, or rather Takaya busts out ranting
Sabina: that he doesn't agree with what Kenshin's doing, and that they should just exorcise them and let them reincarnate, because they're burdened and tied to earth.
Sabina: And that furthermore when you think about it, they themselves are a lot less "natural" than the spirits they're exorcising.
Chrissie:
Sabina: And Naoe says, well, yes. We live in constant self-contradiction.
Sabina: But I'm actually glad Kenshin-kou called me to this, because if not, I'd never have gotten to know you.
Chrissie: ah >"< that part
Sabina: You'd've stayed the enemy I fought during the civil war with Kagekatsu, and that would've been an end to it. So I'm glad Kenshin made me what I am, because it means I get to be near you.
Sabina: And Takaya doesn't know what to say to this obviously. XD
Sabina: Like it's a little more of an emotional response than the conversation required.
Sabina: So he's all, "You know, sometimes when I talk to you I can FEEL the conversation getting hijacked."
Chrissie: ahahahaha
Chrissie: the creepy obsession shining through!
Sabina: "Like that, isn't that something you'd say to a girl?"
Sabina: And Naoe says, "I'm just putting my sincerity into words."
Chrissie: ..............
Chrissie: nice save, but only because it's d-u-m takaya ~"~
Sabina: And Takaya says, "Uhuh. So incidentally, how many women have you sweet-talked with your quote unquote sincerity?"
Sabina: And Naoe's like = =+
Chrissie: XDDDDD
Sabina: So with a totally straight face he says,
Sabina: "That's a good question... Not sure... lost count really..."
Chrissie: AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Chrissie: NAOE
Chrissie: <3333333333333
Sabina: I know. It was like the best line ever.
Sabina: So Takaya's like !!!
Chrissie:
Chrissie: does he elbow naoe in the ribs?
Chrissie: 'you dog, you!'
Sabina: And then he's like, "No, seriously, you *are* single, aren't you? Why aren't you dating?"
Sabina: Like he's all XDXDXD about it.
Chrissie: ..........
Sabina: And Naoe is sort of half like, omg he's so cute when he's boyish and genki like that <333
Sabina: and half like, WHY GOD WHY DO YOU MOCK ME SO
Sabina: What he says out loud is, "I don't have the time for it currently."
Sabina: And Takaya's like, "Ooh, so you must have had a girlfriend before, right? Do tell. : D"
Chrissie: ;alsdfal;skdjfalsdjk
Chrissie: he's digging his own grave
Chrissie: DESERVES TO BE BURIED
Sabina: XD
Sabina: Which I guess is what Naoe figured as well, because he proceeds to tell Takaya
Sabina: about his sad and empty history of one night stands XD;;;;;
Chrissie: ....................................
Sabina: And Takaya's like o_O
Sabina: Would SO not have pegged you as the type.
Chrissie: (but, um. is it true?)
Sabina: Yup.
Chrissie:
Sabina: Like he says basically,
Sabina: Sometimes you and the woman are both looking for the same thing, so you just get it from each other and move on. There's no lasting consequence, but at the same time, there's no schmoopy love story of the kind you're looking to hear.
Sabina: And Takaya's like, "Who's waiting to hear a schmoopy love story? >_<"
Chrissie: us!
Chrissie: the readers!
Sabina: THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT AKI SAID AHAHAHA
Chrissie: XDDDDDDDD
Sabina: But anyway,
Chrissie: we're both diehard members of the happy brigade, obviously
Sabina: Takaya's sort of traumatized by this, like he's all "Whoa, sorry I asked now, that was TMI."
Chrissie: awww
Chrissie: no mommy for takaya
Sabina: And Naoe thinks he's very innocent. Like he's not ready to deal with the idea of how adults have sexual relationships sometimes.
Chrissie:
Sabina: And then, because Naoe is no stranger to the concept of digging his own grave and lying in it,
Sabina: he tries to explain the rationale.
Chrissie: o_o
Sabina: Like why someone would have a one night stand.
Chrissie: about the HOPELESS LOVE etc. etc.?
Sabina: What he basically says is, Sometimes you're looking for something, and you just can't find it, so you end up acting out the form of the thing to forget that you don't have the real deal.
Sabina: And at that point in his life the playacting was necessary for him.
Sabina: And Takaya kind of just stares at him like ._.?
Chrissie: XDXD
Sabina: So Naoe ends by saying sort of self-mockingly,
Sabina: "Of course I always tried to transmit my feelings sincerely to the woman in question."
Sabina: And Takaya just kind of goes - like he's really bothered by the idea of Naoe sleeping around like that, actually, so he's sort of getting all sarcastic on him. XD
Sabina: So he's like, "Yeah, I see you've had a lot of practice in sweet-talking people. But you know, if you spoil a girl too much she just gets all high and mighty and full of herself."
Sabina: And Naoe kind of... freezes?
Chrissie: a;sldkjf;alkjdf;alkdjf;lakjd;flakj
Chrissie: NAOE. LISTEN TO HIM
Sabina: And Takaya notices he's not smiling, and is about to turn around and ask him what's wrong,
Sabina: and Naoe says really low,
Sabina: "It's all right if you're full of yourself."
Chrissie: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Chrissie: and takaya doesn't hear it, right?
Chrissie: Q_Q
Chrissie: doesn't hear clearly?
Sabina: And Takaya's like, WHOA HIJACKING OF CONVERSATION COMMENCES AGAIN
Chrissie: oooooooh!
Sabina: So he stands up and is like, "See, I understand the individual words but not the sentence, because wtf I am not a girl?"
Sabina: And then he loses his balance and nearly falls off the wall.
Chrissie: .................
Chrissie: and naoe catches him!
Sabina: And Naoe catches him. XD
Chrissie: and then they stare into each other's eyes
Chrissie: and an evil spirit comes popping out!
Chrissie: yes?
Sabina: Not quite. XD
Chrissie: (sorry. just have NO FAITH WHATSOEVER in this author)
Sabina: But yes, they stare into each other's eyes, and Takaya notices
Sabina: that Naoe is like WAY TOO CLOSE
Sabina: and holding him by the arms WAY TOO TIGHT
Chrissie: <33333
Chrissie: go naoe go!
Sabina: And he's like, "Naoe...? o_O"
Sabina: And Naoe lets him go, and goes all formal and smiley, and says something like Can't take my eyes off you for a second ahahahaha
Chrissie: ..............
Sabina: And they go back to the car.
Chrissie: .......................
Chrissie: and make out in the backseat?
Chrissie: *hopeful*
Sabina: *sighs*
Chrissie: Q_Q
Sabina: But it goes on!
Chrissie: ........
Chrissie: you say
Chrissie: it gets worse?
Sabina: Because then they go back to the hotel.
Sabina: Where in a spectacular display of bad judgment,
Sabina: Naoe had taken a double room for the two of them.
Chrissie: >_________<
Sabina: So he comes up from downstairs, I dunno, getting a bucket of ice again,
Chrissie: if he's not hoping to get lucky, he should REALLY NOT DO THAT
Sabina: and Takaya asleep on the bed, AGAIN.
Chrissie: !!!
Sabina: Like he'd gone and taken a shower, and come out in his boxers and sat down to watch the sports newscast, and just fell asleep like that. No bathrobe, nothing.
Sabina: And to his credit, Naoe doesn't actually go to the Bad Place right away.
Chrissie: alsfjd;alskdjf;aldkfja;ldkfja;ldkfja;ldfkj;adlkj
Sabina: Like the first thing he thinks is, You mustn't go to sleep like that Kagetora-sama you'll catch cold!
Sabina: So he's like Takaya-san, Takaya-san wake up
Chrissie: ...oh god Q_Q
Chrissie: naoeyouaresoadorable
Sabina: And he sort of picks Takaya up by the shoulders a bit, but Takaya just flops a bit. XD
Chrissie: XDXD
Sabina: And that actually gives Naoe a nasty unexpected flashback to the last time he picked Kagetora up and he flopped.
Sabina: Because he was, yanno, DEAD.
Sabina: So he panicks.
Sabina: And shakes Takaya awake like TAKAYA WAKE UP O_O
Sabina: And Takaya's like, "Wasdf;gsda which team won?"
Chrissie: ahahahaha
Sabina: And Naoe's like, "Don't go to sleep like that. ;_;"
Sabina: So Takaya grumbles a bit and rolls under the quilt and falls right back asleep.
Sabina: And Naoe sits down on the other bed and goes, screw the expense, should've gotten a separate room. T_T
Chrissie: XDDDDD
Sabina: And the fact that Takaya is just SLEEPING there makes him feel guilty.
Sabina: Because he thinks Takaya/Kagetora lets his guard down too much around the people he trusts.
Chrissie: Q_Q
Sabina: Like he doesn't necessarily trust easily, but when he does it's all or nothing.
Sabina: So if he gets betrayed, it's worse.
Chrissie: so get it right this time!
Chrissie: >"<
Sabina: And to Naoe's entirely justified POV, he's very far from being someone that Takaya should just go to sleep in the same hotel room with, if Takaya only knew it. XD
Chrissie:
Sabina: But he just angsts in a really complicated way.
Sabina: Like they started off as enemies, but it's been so long and things happened so gradually that he can't point to a moment and say that was when Kagetora gave him his trust.
Sabina: And he can't point to a moment and say that's when he started to admire Kagetora and give him his allegiance,
Sabina: and he sure as heck can't point to a moment and say that's when loyalty became possessiveness.
Sabina: And now there he is, sitting in a hotel room, TV off, it's quiet, watching Takaya sleep.
Chrissie: Q______________Q
Sabina: And it's starting to occur to him that half a minute before he was actually holding Takaya in his arms.
Chrissie: ...naoe
Chrissie: you are SLOW
Sabina: And in his mind it's like, if it was someone with whom it was "all right"
Sabina: like he could reach out right now and slip his hand under that quilt
Chrissie: asjlasjkldfasjkldf;asl;djkasldfjk;
Sabina: kiss him awake
Sabina: And then he gets up and sort of goes and beats his head against the windowpane for a bit. Not really, but you know what I mean.
Chrissie: sigh
Sabina: Because he was angsting when he couldn't FIND Kagetora, but now that he's found him, it's starting to come back to him
Sabina: what it was like to be with Kagetora every single day and REALLY WANT TO SLEEP WITH HIM.
Chrissie: XDDDDD
Sabina: And he's like, Shit, I'm really a lost case. Like I can't escape this.
Chrissie: so he gives in! <3?
Sabina: Actually, in his fevered mind
Sabina: it's gotten to the point where he doesn't believe it's really "love" or "loyalty"? Like he just thinks, I've lived too long, this is what happens when you live longer than you should and history piles up and your psyche twists until things get *more* than regular human feeling.
Chrissie: o_O
Sabina: One lifetime isn't enough to make him feel like this.
Sabina: It takes several.
Chrissie: ohman
Sabina: And you know, at first he'd thought, hundreds of years of life, surely you learn some wisdom along the way? Maybe you attain satori?
Sabina: But human beings can't help themselves. They're tied to the wheel. There's a reason they need to die and reincarnate and be purified of their emotions and memories.
Chrissie:
Sabina: He's gotten to the point of total exhaustion, even the idea of reincarnation doesn't do it for him. He'd like to die, really die, just be snuffed out.
Sabina: Not have to feel anymore, not ever.
Sabina: 400 years and not only hasn't he attained enlightenment, he's even forgotten what it's like to desire enlightenment.
Sabina: And then he turns around and stares at Takaya and thinks, Shit, the little bastard looks so damned HAPPY.
Chrissie: O_O
Sabina: Are you happy now, Kagetora-sama?
Sabina: What do *I* have to do to be happy?
Chrissie: *wants to know too*
Sabina: And *then* it goes to the Bad Place with a vengeance. XD
Sabina: Once he's sort of worked his way down the list to
Sabina: well maybe if I chained you up and had my way with you REPEATEDLY I'd be happy,
Chrissie: ....................
Chrissie: what
Sabina: he decides with the fragment of logical brain he has left that he really has to go to bed if he wants to be up the next morning.
Chrissie: .......AHAHAHAHH
Sabina: (Oh, he actually thinks it. I was like "NAOE O_O")
Sabina: Actually the way he put it was probably more along the lines of "sex slave"
Sabina: only, you know, prettier Japanese.
Chrissie: hakkai scares you, but naoe doesn't?
Sabina: It's a question of understanding. You don't get a grasp on what's inside Hakkai's head, whereas the inside of Naoe's head is constant TMI. -_-
Chrissie: XDDDDDD
Sabina: So he starts going through the motions of going to bed, all the while knowing in the back of his head that it's a night of insomnia for him.
Sabina: Out of pure sexual frustration if nothing else.
Chrissie: and takaya makes it safely through another night?
Sabina: (Aki interjected here)
Sabina: (That she really hoped the guy jerks off in the shower or something)
Chrissie: XDDDDD
Sabina: (and I said I'm not actually certain he does. Like, I dunno.)
Sabina: (I have a weird suspicion he DOESN'T.)
Chrissie: *nodsnods*
Chrissie: probably the root of the problem!
Sabina: And he's mentally totting up the number of bottles in the mini-fridge,
Sabina: wondering if it's enough alcohol to knock him out,
Sabina: when the long-expected evil spirit makes its appearence. XD
Sabina: Like he starts hearing a woman wailing in the distance.
Chrissie: ......................
Chrissie: ah, well
Chrissie: can't say i'm not glad to see her XD
Sabina: And Takaya wakes up, and sees Naoe's about to go out, insists on coming with him, so they both get dressed and pile out and go investigate this disembodied head
Sabina: of some executed princess once upon a time.
Sabina: And that's where I am. But frankly
Sabina: I am so not surprised anymore that Naoe doesn't make it and snaps.
Sabina: I don't give him more than two nights at this rate.
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Date: 2004-11-01 11:22 am (UTC)Ahahahahaha. XD You have no idea how grateful I am for this distraction. XD Thank you very much for the summary. :D
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Date: 2004-11-01 11:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-01 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-01 11:59 am (UTC)No surrender, baby. :D
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Date: 2004-11-01 12:09 pm (UTC)It's just that there's not much to be done within my means, since it's not my election. ^^;
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Date: 2004-11-01 12:24 pm (UTC)Gee, I can't even do that much. My brain just gibbers in horror and tries to distract itself by contemplating reincarnated samurai with relationship issues. XD;;
It's just that there's not much to be done within my means, since it's not my election. ^^;
True - at least I can angst and act. ^_^;; Still, they also serve who only stand and wait. It's good to know we're not alone down here. <3
I know its suppose to be serious...
Date: 2004-11-01 11:31 am (UTC)"Hello, class. Today, your paper topic is to compare this Greek vase of boys in a classroom with another vase of boys in a classroom with some lovin' going on. Compare and contrast." eeh hee hee hee...
Re: I know its suppose to be serious...
Date: 2004-11-01 12:15 pm (UTC)...Actually, he suffers for Kuwabara Mizuna's own entertainment. Also by reading her atogaki I get the impression that during the first few novels (1 thru 5.5, btw, came out at three-month intervals, so for all intents and purposes it was a serial) her readers were having pairing wars in her mailbox, and this is her way of shutting them up for good.
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Date: 2004-11-01 03:44 pm (UTC)This summary practically killed me with the UST, coincidentally. (I ask myself now, why do I always get obsessed with the really frustrating fandoms like X and MoB?)
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Date: 2005-04-11 10:05 pm (UTC)This was hilarious and helpful. XD Thank you.
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Date: 2008-05-09 10:45 pm (UTC)