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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Rolling his eyes, Enki nodded and walked further into the room, peering at the bag in Shōryū's hands. Was that popcorn?

"He is, even if he tries to act like he ain't, more than half the time." Oh right, he hadn't actually told Suzaku... and Shōryū already knew, or half-knew, at any rate, considering he'd failed to keep his fool mouth shut earlier.

"One of the memories they've taken..." Enki gave Shōryū a stare from out of the corner of his eyes. If he actually said it out-loud, Shōryū would really know. But Suzaku would be confused about their earlier conversation if he didn't... With a long-suffering sigh and a decision that it surely couldn't be as bad as it seemed from here, Enki forged ahead.

"They took the memory of who I chose as King of En. It makes it very annoying now that he's here and he decides to disappear on me," Enki said and gave Shōryū yet another glare for good measure.
"Er, the whole forgetting thing makes me have the revelation each time I see him now, that he is the King." Enki wasn't sure Suzaku would understand what it meant, but...

And Shōryū, he noticed, had already changed into the uniform. Well, it didn't really surprise Enki, but no one would see him in that uniform for as long as he could help it.

Ah, that was almost exactly the reaction he'd expected. That sped things up. Shōryū raised an eyebrow at Enki, both for the admission of weakness and the apparent anti-Shōryū propaganda he'd been spreading.

"I'll ask someone to follow you around, perhaps," he opened the popcorn with a neat tear along the top of the bag, and went back over to the counter as though he wasn't being given a look of angry surprise from a teenage boy. "They could catch you before you fell."

And then Suzaku received his attention, and he nodded assent. "Yes, I'm... his king," he repeated the possessive a little whimsically, then turned back towards Enki. "What have you been saying about me, anyway?"

He'd forgotten who the king was? Well that must have been inconvienient, was there another Shōryū then? Or were they the same person and Enki was just thinking of Shōryū as his friend and as his king as two different people.

He had no idea what 'the revelation' was, and Suzaku followed the conversation slightly confused. If Shōryū was the king then he might make Enki fight, so it was a good thing Suzaku had agreed to be his weapon even if he didn't want to work with someone who would make someone who hated violence too much fight. But as Shōryū's weapon he might be able to convince him to use his weapon all the time and leave Enki alone.

Maybe, probably not, Shōryū was a king and king's did what they wanted most of the time. He stepped closer to Enki giving him a small smile.

Considering the looks Suzaku was shooting him, Enki had the distinct feeling that something had been misunderstood. Maybe he shouldn't have been shooting his mouth off as usual when he couldn't even remember who the king was? But no, that wasn't it, because...

"Hey, I didn't say anything but the usual. You are a lazy jerk, after all!" Enki rolled his eyes, but kept his voice lighter than usual and tossed Suzaku and slightly confused smile back, before he walked up to the counter and jumped up on it. It was a bit cramped due to the cupboards above, but hey. He'd make do. Especially since Shōryū was standing by it, and... well, he wasn't gonna admit it out loud, but yeah. Right now, his presence soothed more than usual.

"Why're you making popcorn, anyway?"

"Oi, is that something you want to say when I've only just arrived? People will only get the wrong idea."

The objection was just as light; he was perfectly happy to run 'damage control' as far as Suzaku's opinion of them was concerned, if Enki wanted to try and climb back out of the hole he'd dug himself into. When the kirin was established on the side, he deposited the bag of popcorn into his lap with no particular explanation other than, "It was easier," and turned back to smile wryly at Suzaku.

"Thank you for looking after my... hm. Incorrigible kirin."

Suzaku blinked in confusion. Enki seemed happy enough despite the fact Suzaku had thought that Enki's king was not a nice person and forced Enki to fight. He blinked at the two of them, Enki's behaviour reminded him of CC and he thought again about the possibility that Enki was a code giver, that would make Shōryū a Geass users and that could be dangerous.

"Er, I didn't really look after him..." He looked at the two of them feeling awkward.

Right, this was getting stupid. What had he said? Thinking back on the conversation, Enki tried to think as munched on the popcorn, but nothing jumped out at him. He'd just been explaining what kings may do...

"We had a conversation... One of the books had a picture of a riboku." Enki then looked to Suzaku with a frown. "What did I say, back then? I mean, sure I couldn't remember it was this particular idiot I was talking about, but something must've jumped out." A pause to scratch his head with the hand not used to scoop up popcorn.

"He may be annoying, but he's hardly horrible."

And that was as close as he'd get within earshot of you, Shōryū, to compliment you. Kind of.

"How kind of you," Shōryū gave him a smile wide enough that it was as though Enki had just praised him to the heavens, and batted the kirin's hand aside so he could take a handful of popcorn himself. Suzaku had apparently shifted from righteous anger to blank confusion, which was at least a safer state for all involved, if a less amusing one.

"You don't happen to know anyone else looking for a partner?"

Suzaku was even more confused, but at Enki's words it occured to him that maybe Enki was trying not to let Shōryū know what he had said. From the tone; Enki was being very informal and so was the king it sounded like he was trying to be light-hearted and so Suzaku decided to play along.

After all, the last thing he wanted to do was get Enki into trouble. "He said nothing bad," he agreed with Enki with a small smile and then turned thoughtful as he thought about Shōryū's question.

"Some of my friends might, I don't know which of them will have found Player's already. I could ask around..."

He hadn't seen any of Sora's princesses on the player list so maybe she would need someone, then again she had a lot of friends so it was likely she knew most the players anyways.

Lelouch maybe, he would probably still need to find a player, and perhaps Euphemia, though Suzaku didn't want her to be used as a weapon.

He wondered vaguely why he was wondering which of his friends could also become weapons to this king when he knew that this king was not a nice person. But he supposed the more usable weapons Shōryū had the less chance Enki had of having to be used as a weapon.

Sometimes, humans were confusing. He couldn't try to fix this unless Suzaku actually said what it was he'd taken such an averse reaction to.

Glacing at Shōryū, he knew he'd get no help from that direction, because he'd just take amusement from Suzaku's annoyance and anger.

"It's preferable to have a Player, from what I gather," he mused, after demolishing his stolen popcorn. The boy looked torn; clearly he knew several but didn't want to reveal them too early. "If you have anyone you'd like to help, I'll gladly vow with them for you. I don't intend to fight more than necessary..."

He looked at Enki sidelong. The kirin would probably mistake his intentions deliberately, but five centuries was enough that he might work out that Shōryū intended to keep a low, friendly profile on campus until he knew enough to make an overt move.

Suzaku nodded, Shōryū was right, it was preferable to have a player then not and if Euphemia and Nunnally were with him then he could protect them. "I'll ask them, they might have already found players."

He glanced back at Enki and then to Shōryū again, "So I guess you arrived this morning?" Unless he had been here as long as Enki and Enki just hadn't remembered, but surely Enki would have remembered if Shōryū was here even if he didn't remember that he was the king.

Enki had to supress an eyeroll at the 'I'll protect them for you'; sure, he man was lazy enough for a whole village, but Shōryū would only fight as little as possible until he found reasons to not do so. And then... Enki briefly gritted his teeth, because, ironically this situation would probably lead to the most fighting Shōryū had done in a long while.

And that was just completely depressing. So he gave Shōryū a narrow stare back; he better at least try to come up with some other way to get out of this than fighting. There would be more than enough pain, anyway, and he didn't...

"He did, an' I had to stand in that lobby for ten minutes wondering why I'd just sprouted roots," Enki muttered, still unamused by that.

"Kirin are entirely faithful creatures," Shōryū supplied for Suzaku, with an air of amusement, in case Enki's complaint had raised questions. "Which is why they spend so much of their time reminding their rulers how inadequate they are. And, yes, I arrived this morning. Hence the need for both partners and information."

Suzaku blinked again in confusion, Shōryū's explanation only led to him being more confused but he nodded. He could ask Enki later he suposed, since it was becoming obvious he acted very differently whilst around his king then he did when not with him. "If you need to know anything I can probably help, I've been here almost a month."

That was a long time, a long time to be away from your own world and Suzaku still did not understand everything but he remembered how confused he had been at first, and with this tournament going on and Shōryū being a player straight away it was probably best to give him all the information he needed.

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.

Drinking tea (Attn Shoryu)

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