rakuen | Waiting for Kallen [Closed]

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Waiting for Kallen [Closed]

Characters: Suzaku, Kallen and Gino
Format: Prose/action (I'm writing prose for this post anyways)
This log is: closed
Location: Outside the tournament ring and probably moving to somewhere with a sofa in case Gino passes out
Summary: Suzaku is Kallen's weapon after she beats Shoryu, Gino gets his memory charms back off Kallen.
Warnings: Angst... and anger and more angst and people being punched and more angst

The battle was over, Shoryu had lost and so Suzaku was waiting for the Guren pilot to come out of the ring. Shoryu had already left with Enki. He didn't mind that Shoryu had lost, but he was a little surprised that the Black Knight could beat someone who had been king for fivehundred years. But he suposed if they had been at peace for even half that time it was enough for someone to be out of fighting practice.

Suzaku had been an 'owned weapon' in all the rounds that he hadn't been a player in, but he hadn't been lost to someone else yet and so he was waiting for Guren's pilot wondering if there was anything that had to be done now he was her weapon instead of Shoryu's. When Suzaku had become Kotarou's player it had happened automatically but Kotarou had been in a coma and so they had not been normal circumstances.

He looked up when he heard footsteps.

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"Told you," it wasn't quite crowing, but it was well on its way to becoming so with a little more experience. Gino had gone on ahead of Kallen, and found Suzaku just slightly earlier. All the better to gloat. "All the pilots together. Pretty cool team."

Suzaku frowned at Gino, he suposed it would be a good team, if Gino hadn't forgotten he hated him. At least he and the pilot had agreed to put their differences aside and work together. "I guess so..." Suzaku felt awkward as he usually did around Gino because he could never let himself forget that Gino's friendship was founded on the fact he had forgotten that Suzaku had betrayed him.

Kallen approached the two males after conversing with Huashi and Kotarou after their win.

"Sorry." She didn't think she would have been that delayed in meeting with the two kids. The teenager reached into her pocket and grabbed a charm, but didn't move it out.

"You want it now?" She asked Gino.

He looked back over his shoulder with a raised eyebrow as the third member of their new Pilot Team made her entrance. She would have gotten a wave, but his hand was still attached to Suzaku's shoulder. "Nah. I should sit down for it, right? Save you guys carrying me if that headache happens again."

A quick glance around proved that the Black building was ever-so-slightly closer than Pale. "Let's go to Seven's dorm! That common room is always empty."

Suzaku frowned; he knew what they were talking about because Gino had told him about his attempt at getting the memory charm back already. But he wasn't too sure how happy he was at Gino getting it back now, though the odds of Gino remembering that Suzaku had betrayed him were quite low since there were ten memories that he had lost.

Even if it was that memory then Gino had the right to get it back, he had the right to know and no one should have had memories taken from them in the first place. "Alright," he murmured and started walking leading the way to Black Dorm.

She took her hand out of her pocket, the charm still lingering there. "Your call," she said, shrugging. She didn't kmow where Suzaku lived so she let him lead the way.

It was weird seeing Gino and Suzaku like this.

And then they walked to Black dorm. It wasn't particularly interesting. More awkward than anything, three pilots who were more used to taunting each other through viewscreens from their cockpit than being in actual physical proximity. In Gino's case, anyway. He didn't look bothered by it, but occasionally Kallen would get a sidelong glance and a grin.

New friends. It was a fun feeling that he'd enjoy while it lasted.

Once they'd got to the building, he lengthened his strides unfairly to reach it before the others to grab the door. After them!

Suzaku almost rolled his eyes at Gino as he walked through the door with Kallen. The walk had been awkward but he led them through to the common room which was empty. He stood awkwardly in the centre waiting for them to sit down.

She muttered a word of thanks to Gino as she walked through the door. "They really do look all the same..." she mentioned on the side. Kallen had never been any of the dorms except her own.

The girl was okay with standing in the common room. Gino was the one who had to sit.

"'Course they're the same. Too much excitement's bad for us!" Gino pointed out, throwing himself into one of the chairs and grinning up at both of them this time.

Suzaku nodded at Gino's words, amused though it didn't really show on his face. "I guess it was just easier for them to make them identical..." He looked from one to another awkwardly, he and the pilot were still awkward round each other even if they had agreed to help each other.

Again her hand travelled towards her pocket and pulled out one of the memory charms. "One at a time. Got it?" She held out one for him to take.

"Got it~" He sing-songed back, smile tilting at her concern. "Y'think it was getting two at once that did it?" He held out a hand, palm up, for a charm.

Suzaku watched with a mixture of interest and trepidation as Gino put his hand out for the memory charm. He hadn't actually seen anyone get a memory back before so he was interested to see what it was like, if anything happened or if it all went on inside your head.

"It might have. I don't know anyone else who got their memories back and I haven't watched them. But that's my best guess." Kallen put the charm into Gino's hand, waiting with uneasiness.

He closed his hand over the charm, and immediately thought two things. The first was something along the lines of, That's a really stupid thing to make a guy forget. The second was, Damn, Kallen looks good in this uniform.

"Nothing important," he reported, expression not shifting from the previous smile. The charm was carefully clipped to the storage bracelet he'd gotten a week earlier. Securely his. He didn't want her to take this one back. "Next!"

"You honestly don't expect me to believe that, do you?" Kallen said, hands on her hips. "Everyone memory recovered here is important no matter how small or stupid it is." Of course she was interested in what it might have been and if Gino said it wasn't something he wanted to share, Kallen would have been less intrigued. But saying it wasn't important, that was your mistake Gino. And now saying that you don't want to share it, Kallen wouldn't believe that.

"I recently remembered how to spell my last name in kanji. May be small, but I wouldn't classify it was 'nothing important'."

Edited 2011-02-26 15:12 (UTC)

Suzaku raised an eyebrow wondering what Gino had remembered, he claimed it was nothing important but the pilot was right, no memory that they took was unimportant. The fact that they had taken them made them important.

"She's right, they are all important, what did you remember?"

Kallen waited patiently for Gino to share his information with the class.

"Man, you guys are nosy!" He didn't particularly intend to say it outright with her within punching range. That was just stupid. "Gimme the second charm first, and then I'll share."

"I'm not being nosy. I just--" ah screw concern right now. She dives back into her pocket and shoved the last charm into his possession.

And bam. He was already sitting down, and this time he made sure to snap his fingers over the charm before the memories hit. Even braced as he was, he almost doubled over as words, sensory information and emotions poured back into their rightful places. Damn, that hurt.

Talk amongst yourselves, guys, this was going to take a few seconds.

Suzaku raised his eyebrows and stepped closer to Gino worried. What could he have remembered that was this painful for him?

"Gino?" He reached out tentativly to touch the knights arm, though usually he was the one squirming away from Gino's touch. "Are you alright?"

Edited 2011-02-26 21:05 (UTC)

"Gino!" It was just like before. She placed her hands on she shoulders and shook him slightly. "Gino!"

And then, as quickly as he'd curled over, Gino straightened. And blinked at Suzaku.

It wasn't the same look he'd been giving them before, not by a long shot. He looked older, for one thing. Not physically, but the way he held himself, the slightly grim set to his mouth.

His eyes narrowed, his arm whipped back with his fist still closed around the memory, and a second later he'd punched Suzaku square in the face.

"Been wanting to do that for a long time."

sup did you bring your lunch money

No! I didn't!

then i suggest you go get it

what the lady said

I brought packed lunch today!

money, kid we want your money

seriously we want new sneakers

You can have jam sandwiches instead!

thats not going to get us any money, kid. how about i give you a fist sandwich?

/just stands back and looks threatening I guess

Go away! Your getting no money!

fine then lemme kick your ass for compensation

she's serious man. get some money from somewhere

Leave me alone!

sorry but i cant do that

I am rapidly running out of material here.

don't worry. I got you, bro. Come here Suzaku. We want to apologize.

/edges closer...

/my fist and your face, best otp

/bestest punchy otp friends hooray!

/continues the beat down

/see above

oi! /runs away again

there is no running

nowhere to hide