| All the King's Horses and All the King's Men... [closed] |
[Jan. 22nd, 2009|08:58 pm] |
[Takes place March 13th, the day after Connect the Dots, and two days before Ryouma gets off his crutches in The Weight of the World]
"What are you doing?" Tsume watched her familiar warily as he gathered up his puppy plushie and trotted toward the door, tail waving behind him. It had been only two days since he'd been discharged, evidenced by the bandages across his face and head, and she wasn't thrilled at the idea of letting him out of her sight.
"I told Ryouma he could have this puppy back at the hospital, but he forgot it. I just saw him outside." His tail wagged again. "I'll be right back."
Glancing out the window of their apartment, Tsume just catching sight of the tall, dark-haired shinobi as he crutched out toward the training fields. "Kuromaru--" She remembered too well his panic at Ryouma less than a week before.
"It's fine," Kuromaru said with great exasperation. "I was just wounded. I'm okay now. Discharged and everything." ( And then he was gone down the hall, a shadow slipping along the corridors. ) |
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| Pay It Forward [closed to Tsume and Genma] |
[Jan. 22nd, 2009|11:07 pm] |
[Takes place March 14th, five days after Would You Bite the Hand, two days after Connect the Dots, and one day after All the King's Horses and All the King's Men...]
"You're cheating."
"I am not!" Kuromaru shuffled his cards in his human hands, lips pursing together as if that might help him think.
"You are, too! If you have two aces, that means there are five in the deck." Tsume shuffled her stack and glared at her familiar, who was currently wearing her face--if horribly injured. In human form the scabbed injuries should probably be bandaged, but bandaging through a body-change was almost impossible, and they fell off his fur. She looked away again quickly. The hitai-ate he'd pulled down over his missing eye did little to hide the twisted, oozing flesh around it, raw skin that coursed across his temple, smearing over his forehead and writhing around the mangled flesh of his missing ear.
Her nausea was from the jutsu that had given him human form, a jutsu she probably shouldn't have done. ( His appearance wasn't helping her guts any, though. ) |
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