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Tweak says, "WHERE ARE THE CHEETOS??"

Ikeda Kiriko | 池田妃凛子 (apathyisboring) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-01-10 17:55:00

Entry tags:

open thread, renju

Obon Obon Obon Obon Obon
WHO: Everyone
WHAT: Obon
WHERE: The Shrine
WHEN: Obon
WHY: It's Obon!

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GRAVE CLEANING

giantfruitbyday
2010-01-11 12:31 am UTC (link)

Maeko was, she liked to think, a dutiful granddaughter. Every year since she'd started school she'd walked up this same path just as the air started to cool in the evening with the wooden bucket and bags filled with offerings and cleaned graves and arranged flowers and burned incence and spoken to people she'd never meet in her maiden tongue (maiden hands? The phrase didn't quite fit). Then she'd go home and light lamps in the appartment and put out a small feast and be careful not to let the whole thing burn down and generally succeed.

And as the years passed she'd stopped struggling under the weight and having to leave the bags behind and run back for them before someone took them or dragging the bucket along, losing most of the water before she reached the graves. Her arrangements of the flowers were still nothign appoaching artistic but they were carefully calculated, not haphazardly placed wherever. She didn't catch her fingertips or the sleeve of her yukata with the matches any more when she tried to light incence, nor did she lose flames to the wind over and over again until she ran out of matches. She didn't knock over lamps or accidentally make the wrong sign and change the whole meaning of the word and apologise over and over and spend the rest of August fretting over whether she'd caused offense because it was difficult to read someone's body language when they didn't have any.

She was, all in all, now pretty good at going through a festival she really had no right to be in.

She placed the bucket down by her grandfather's grave and started to work.

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Re: GRAVE CLEANING

zealousemperor
2010-01-11 12:40 am UTC (link)

A rather tall man could be seen walking through the graveyard with his own bucket and bags, as well as, oddly enough, a sake bottle. Quite honestly, he doubted this was what he was supposed to do, but he had been coming down here for years now. He wasn't sure why (he never appreciated tradition or religion), but it just felt like something he should do. No one else could do it, and he doubted that his friend would appreciate spending Obon alone, so...

With his black hair and loose, dark clothing, it was rather hard to tell who he was. That was, of course, the point. He wasn't sure why he was hiding his identity. Maybe he just got tired of people staring at him and wanted an excuse to change, just once. Maybe he just wanted to make sure no one could know who he was doing this for. Either way...

Kanaye Satou blinked a bit as he approached his ex, briefly wondering what she was up to before noticing she was doing the same thing he was. Before he could help himself, he said "Maeko-san?"

Whoops.

	Re: GRAVE CLEANING zealousemperor 2010-01-11 04:10 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, whoops! I meant dependable! I screw up like this all the time, don't worry!" Kanaye laughed. "Oh dear! That's a problem.Are you alright? Did you get burned?" Kanaye was suddenly worried, like a father over his children. "Yeah, I knew him. He came over a lot." He sighed, depressed. "I liked him, but..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: GRAVE CLEANING giantfruitbyday 2010-01-11 04:25 am UTC (link)
	Maeko shook her head, laughing again. "I put my arm in the bucket and then overbalenced and spilt it everywhere, didn't get hurt, though." "Oh..." Maeko decided she probably didn't been to inquire about the 'but', given where they were. "I'm sorry for your loss. Are you okay?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: GRAVE CLEANING giantfruitbyday 2010-01-11 04:41 am UTC (link)
	"I'll-" Maeko started, then shook her head. "Sorry, I was kind of in the middle of talking to them, so...besides, it wouldn't be proper for me to go with you. Unless you want me there then I'll wait by the buckets once I'm done, okay?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: GRAVE CLEANING zealousemperor 2010-01-11 04:45 am UTC (link)
	Kanaye nodded. "Yeah, I do kinda want you there. So...wait, alright?" He smiled. "Have fun talking. I hope they know what a wonderful granddaughter they had!" Kanaye skipped off, giddy. He stopped after he almost spilled some water. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)