Mirage 23

[petronia]

Okay so in the last 100 pages Naoe was chased down the highway by a trailer demon sprouting feet and a face (you know, the boxy living units that hook onto the back of a car?), we are told that Shikoku is actually A GIANT SPIRITUAL PIG, and Reijirou as good as sold Takaya down the river to the ass pirates. :0 IOW canon >>>>>>> fanon once again, and considering the last Mirage doujinshi I read was Iron Chef: Uesugi vs. Hojo!!! with Kousaka in the role of Chairman Kaga... yeah.

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THE CONVERSATION THAT CAUSES TAKAYA TO TAKE A KNIFE TO HIS IMPORTANT BITS

Ushio: It's getting hard to strike up a conversation with you these days, you know that? I mean it's nice to see you rise in the world and all, but clamming up makes a body lonely. If anything happens you should come and talk to me. I know you've got problems.
Takaya: ...
Ushio: Who's "Naoe"?
Takaya: *nearly falls over*
Ushio: Ha, knew it! It's someone who mistreated you from before, isn't it? You kept moaning his name last night.
Takaya: ......
Ushio: "Stop, please, I'm begging you," stuff like that. And breathing really hard, like someone was trying to kill you in your sleep. I could hear you through the wall. I was like dude, is he okay?
Takaya: .........
Ushio: Man, if I could've hopped into your dream to save you I would've, but that's no go. Still, I want you to know that I'll take care of you if any crap goes down. You've got a friend to rely on, 'kay?

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Um I think Naoe just got abducted by Mononoke-hime.

Comments

[chrysan.livejournal.com]

XD That conversation had me snickering away and every re-read of this part has me giggling again~ This part was just too priceless when I imagined Takaya's expression. Lol.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, especially when he's like "...... (as;xsdfjg I wasn't asleep.)"

Man, I'm glad Ushio doesn't find out about him trying to cut himself, though. That wasn't funny at all, except it totally was.

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Ass pirates! ♥

Drink up, me hearties, yo ho! XDDD Ushio really sweet; doing the Prince Lir thing. But ahahahahahaha, clueless.

Takaya: #>_<#

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Dude, the ass pirates thing isn't funny - they actually try for it. ...Okay, so it is funny, but.

Ushio is indeed adorable, and wouldn't recognize a clue if it followed him in the street and called him daddy.

TYPICAL USHIO MODUS OPERANDI

Ushio: Blahblahblah oh by the way, I sent that picture I took of you bathing in the woods to my adoptive dad Mutou-sensei.
Takaya: What?
Ushio: It came out really well! I had to show it to somebody, and I was afraid to show you because you'd've just told me to tear it up, right?
Takaya: ...
Ushio: Don't worry about it, it's just sensei, it's not like it's going to be exhibited in public or anything.

AT APPROXIMATELY THAT VERY MOMENT

Ichizou: *reads blurb* "The Loneliness of Life," by Mutou Ushio... Now that's what I call photogenic. Don't you think so, Master Naoe? .......Master?
Naoe: *tranfixed*

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

omg he put it on the internet. XDDD Ok, probably not, but still. Heehee, Takaya as Hylas, but without the nymphs.

....

..............*dies of HORMONE*

....sooo, did that actually happen, then? Cos EEEEEEE.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Did what actually happen? XD It transpires that Mutou-sensei thought the photo was so lovely he sent it to an amateur photographers' exhibition. Then he read the "P.S.: Don't show this to anyone as Ougi'd be ticked off rather" bit in Ushio's letter and wanted it returned, but apparently it was the hit of the exhibition and the organisers persuaded him to let it stay up.

Naoe was randomly walking down that street with Ichizou when he spotted it through the front window of the gallery and dodged through traffic to get at it.

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

♥_♥

.......oh wait; that means he knows where Takaya is.

Does the book have an illustration of it? Those illustrations you've been posting: do they come in the book? Like in June or BeBoy anthology collections?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he narrowed it down pretty quickly after that. XD It helped that Ichizou has err what you might call a history with the Red Whales. OTOH the Whales also heard through the grapevine that someone was looking for Takaya, and as Takaya turned quite pale when he was told this and begged them not to let him be found, Reijirou took it upon himself to give a standing order that anyone asking around for Takaya should be quietly eliminated. XDD Which causes trouble for Naoe, but then Princess Mononoke shows up armed with some class of prophecy concerning an evil red-eyed beast and claiming Naoe is her "destined warrior" so... uh.

Yes the book has an illo - they don't always - of Takaya bathing in the river, but it's just him and doesn't represent the photo in question which is described in some detail.

[ayatsujik.livejournal.com]

Um I think Naoe just got abducted by Mononoke-hime.

XDDDDDD WAIT TILL CHIAKI SHOWS UP.