rakuen | Drinking tea (Attn Shoryu)

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Drinking tea (Attn Shoryu)

Characters: Suzaku Kururugi and Shoryu
Format: Prose
This log is: Closed
Location: Black Dorm common room
Summary: On the evening of rest day Suzaku gets recruited for microwave fixing
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Suzaku was the only one in the Black Halls common room, which wasn't surprising since everyone seemed to be doing homework elsewhere. But it was Japanese and Suzaku hated that class, the teacher had made him sit with those who were learning basic Japanese and there was no point because it didn't matter how much he tried he couldn't learn it. His head just filled with fuzziness and he couldn't even think properly. Every time he saw or heard a word he would forget it and the constant memory loss made him feel sick.

So he didn't go, it was the only class he skipped and so he didn't have the homework and so was sat in the common room of his dorm building drinking a cup of tea. He was planning and going to train after this but for the moment he was enjoying the quiet.

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Oh no. Poor Suzaku had no idea what he'd just done. Giving Shōryū a chance to slack by offering information like that was like the ministers going up and telling him they had everything under control and he could disappear for a few months or something, if he felt like it.

Shaking his head and stifling the sigh, Enki looked over at Shōryū with a frown.
"Behave, you hear?" He only muttered it, keeping it intentionally quiet, but the kitchenette wasn't cavernous, so Suzaku might have heard anyway.

A slow, absent nod was probably not the reassurance Enki was seeking with his comment, but it was at least something. Better was the fact that Shōryū had other places to be and other information to find on his own before he needed to grill someone else about anything. He took one last piece of popcorn, and moved away from the counter towards the door.

"Much obliged," his voice wasn't much louder than Enki's, but when he was walking past Suzaku, it didn't need to be, "I'm sure I can find you if I think of anything."

Suzaku looked confused again but managed a polite half smile as Shōryū spoke and left the room. He looked at Enki again with a confused look wondering if he was going to explain anything. Because Suzaku was so confused and he was beginning to get worried that he had just made an awful mistake.

Enki had been about to jump off the counter and go after Shōryū, if only to keep from any further nose-dives today, but Suzaku's utterly lost and bewildered expression compelled him to stay.

With a last annoyed stare at the now-empty doorway, Enki looked to Suzaku just as the memory-loss kicked in. Something twisted inside and for a moment, Enki felt a burning urge, need to run out and catch up with Shōryū to stop it, but then the reaction was gone and he was just confused over why he'd reacted so strongly to Shōryū leaving.

"Hey, you okay?" So, he concentrated on the teenager instead, who looked like he was worried he'd eaten something nasty. Almost absently, Enki took another handful of popcorn as he waited for Suzaku to collect himself enough to answer.

Suzaku looked at Enki in vague confusion and then smiled trying to look less worried as Enki took more popcorn. "So that was your king then?" He said it in a casual way to see if Enki was prepared to talk, he didn't want to push him if he didn't want to.

"Huh?" Enki blinked, frowned, then looked from Suzaku to the empty doorway and back.
"... That's just Shōryū... right?"

Something was wrong with that statement, because why was he so annoyed the man had traipsed off so soon after he managed to find him again? And, right, Shōryū was important but wasn't--- Wait. He so was---

And there went the memory-loss haze again.

"You were saying?" You'd have to excuse Enki if he sounded pissy, because while he can't exactly remember what it was Suzaku asked, he knew it was something rather... encompassing. Something about Shōryū and the king...

Suzaku blinked for a moment becoming completely confused before he remembered that Enki had forgotten who his king was, which meant that when Shōryū wasn't there he couldn't remember that he was the king.

"It doesn't matter, you will just forget again. Are you alright?" The question was wieghted, hopefully even if he didn't know that Shōryū was the king he would be able to tell Suzaku if he was happy with Shōryū's presence here.

Was he? Well, honestly, no, considering he was here, and then there was something that was niggling in the back of his head, but despite all that? Yeah, it was at least okay. Shōryū was here after all. Not that he'd ever say that out loud, because if he did, the man would step out from where he'd been hiding and be all annoying for Enki 'complimenting' him.

"Of course. I'm relieved it wasn't any of the other kirin that came here..." Enki paused and supressed a shiver at that thought. Sourin, or Taiki, here? Heaven forbid.

"Are you okay though? You looked kinda off before."

Suzaku blinked, was there a problem with the other Kirin, if the Kirin worked for the kings were Enki and Shōryū at war with the other kings of their world. No... Enki had said their country was peaceful.

Now Suzaku was even more confused than before, "What would be wrong with the other Kirin being here?"

Enki grimaced, jumped down from the counter and disposed of the empty popcornbag in the trash.

"What wouldn't be wrong? None of us should be here, but..." he paused to shake his head and turned around to face Suzaku again. "I mean, the kirin of Tai, Taiki; the poor kid was in Hourai... er, Japan, for longer than I was. He only just learned to shift and get a relationship with his nyokai... An' if he got here and couldn't do those 'kirin' things again?"

He was feeling deeply unsettled by the refusal of these things; he didn't want to know how a sensitive kid like Taiki would take it.

It seemed that for every question Enki answered another six formed in Suzaku's head. It was right that none of them should be here, they had been kidnapped and Suzaku did not like the fact that his friends had been kidnapped and brought here.

But the rest of the answer, shift? nyoki? What was Enki talking about? "Kirin things?"

Er, right.... Suzaku wouldn't know. Giving an embarrassed cough, Enki shrugged.

"Er, sorry. I forget you don't know... Kirin are supposed to be able to tame youma... chaotic spirits, as their... uh... 'bodyguards' if you will. Taiki didn't know how to do that. Kirin can also shift between their human form and their actual form, which he didn't understand how to do either."

Enki paused and jumped up on the counter again, resting on his palms. Would Suzaku even get the right picture in his head if he tried to describe what he actually looked like?
"This ain't my real form. Being here, though, I can't shift for some reason," Enki hadn't meant to reveal it, but he could hear the strain in his voice as he said that.

Not being able to shift... it didn't hurt, not really, but something essential was being supressed.

Enki... wasn't human? Suzaku blinked and frowned, that made no sense. But what Enki had said, he could tame chaotic spirits and shift to another form. Was he like the Orphenoch's in Yuka's world?

Suzaku shook his head, he didn't understand at all but he understood the last bit, that here Enki couldn't change to his none human form. "Do you think it's one of the memories they took off you? How to change?"

That seemed a more productive question then, What do you mean your not human? or What is your true form then? or Chaotic spirits?

Enki shook his head and kicked his legs, for the moment actually looking like the child he... well, looked like.

"No. I know how to, because it ain't a question of doing something in particular... it's like breathing, you know? When I want to, it just happens. It's just... here, nothing happens," Enki snapped, frustrated and tired of this. He'd been stolen of so much... At least there was still the ouki--- Eh?

There had been something... Ah well, he just knew that there was still something left. Like the fact that Shōryū had put his palm to his forehead and that had hurt.

"Oh," So this place had stolen Enki's powers. That was strange, but Suzaku didn't know if it was something that it had done just to Enki or to everyone who had powers. Lelouch hadn't mentioned that his Geass didn't work and so Suzaku thought it was probably just Enki. But what would steal away a power that he said was as natural to him as breathing.

"We will get out of here," he muttered, another reason to beat this place and escape.

"I just hope it's soon," Enki said it absent-mindedly, but then frowned. Why did he feel such urgency to leave? Besides the usual of this place not being home, being horrible and having been kidnapped here, there was something else. He couldn't grasp the reason for that worry, though, and scowled.

Suzaku nodded, "I hope so too," but his tone was tinged with helplessness because they had been here a month already and were no closer to knowing who it was who had kidnapped them, what they wanted or if there was any way out.

Shaking his head, Enki gave an annoyed grunt and jumped off the counter.

"It feels like he's deliberately trying to annoy me by wandering off, but I can't come up with why that is..." Enki scowled at the open and empty doorway before walking up to it and pausing there.

"You haven't found anything yet at all?" He didn't think so considering Suzaku hadn't said anything but that he hoped they'd get home soon, but... it was better to ask.

Suzaku shook his head sadly, "No, but we're not giving up, so we'll find a way out soon." He gave a reasuring smile even if he didn't feel that confident himself, there was no point in Enki being disheartened as well.

"What's wrong?" He asked in response to Enki scowling at the doorframe.

Blinking, Enki looked up from where he'd been frowning down the hall, and shrugged.

"Probably nothing. Shōryū lives to annoy me anyway, and I do my best to do the same," he smirked back at Suzaku, pushing down the unease over the lack of solution that he couldn't understand, and ignored the faint spark of warmth that was pointing in one direction.

This was so annoying, being ill at ease over something he couldn't remember, and he wasn't sure about the spark. It reminded faintly of when he was looking for the king and followed the ouki, but---

Blink. A shrug.

Suzaku nodded, Enki seemed jittery and Suzaku guessed that it probably was because Shōryū was there and Enki had forgotten Shōryū was the king, he glanced at the door and shrugged. "I'll be around if you or Shōryū need me." He thought that Enki was probably going to leave and go find the king, that might stop him being so agitated.

The smile Suzaku was gifted with made Enki suddenly look like the very sweet 13 year old he wasn't (in actual years lived, in any case).

"Thanks, Suzaku." Enki nodded and tossed a wave over his shoulder as he left, but he wasn't so far away Suzaku couldn't hear him muttering.

"How did he know I was going to look for a snack after I found him, anyway?"

Suzaku watched Enki go, gave a small wave back and caught the words that the kirin muttered. He shrugged completely confused by everything that had happened, he sighed and wandered back toward the common room mulling over the events in his head. Trying to piece together what had happened with what Enki had told him.

The remains of his tea was cold, but he drank it anyone thinking. Either Shoryu was a really good actor or Enki had been lying, Suzaku could not imagine either senario. After all Shoryu had been nice before he knew Suzaku knew Enki and he could not imagine the Kirin lying.

But there wasn't a third explanation, feeling confused and miserable Suzaku made himself think of something else.

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