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1176 Double Fudge Dale

Date: 2018-05-01 07:58 am (UTC)
aibolition: (fifty)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
He doesn't know this feeling, a silence like a held breath, like something's going to spill and he won't like it. But he knows she's holding her tongue only for the sake of others and that aggravates. His teeth are still ground tight and his mind darts back to things he should do and places he should actually be.

There's even a traitorous whisper that maybe he just doesn't belong on the outside anymore. It sounds like Ichigo's voice and he wants to scream.

But he doesn't, and he lets her guide him to her home, lets her put on her display of stupid privacy so they can tear at each other in peace. Ha!

He turns on his heel once inside and leans back against the table, arms folded over his chest. "I don't know," He says. "I think it would be pretty obvious seeing as you were there."

Date: 2018-05-01 07:02 pm (UTC)
aibolition: (fifty five)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
"Why not? It shut him up didn't it? Besides, I might not have disemboweled, I might have just kicked his ass." He hadn't decided. It's just what came out at the time. The point was a promise of hurt. "But that's still only if he kept going." And he didn't, so, whatever.

He doesn't see what the big deal is.

Date: 2018-05-01 09:50 pm (UTC)
aibolition: (nineteen)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
"All he did? All he did!?" He repeats, anger coming back fresh again and making him stand up straighter. She really doesn't get it. "It wasn't his name to have! He shouldn't have said a damn name at all! Do you know what it took us-- both of us! Ichigo and I!-- to figure that name out?! Do you know what the Quincy spirit and I went through over it?! And Ichigo still doesn't call me it! It's been ages and he doesn't have a single clue! You don't just know a Zanpakuto's name, you have to earn it! You have to earn their trust, you have to earn that partnership, you have to fight for it! And I'm supposed to let some asshole, who doesn't know me, the old man, or Ichigo, make a joke of it?! You want to apologize for me?! I don't think so!"

There's a growl on each huff of breath that leaves him. He leans back once more against the table, hands gripping the edge. "I don't care what's too far for everyone else. That's not my problem."

Date: 2018-05-02 01:19 am (UTC)
aibolition: (eight)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
He's fooling himself. Ichigo's never going to figure it out. Ichigo would never understand if her did. He shoots himself in the foot no matter what he decides to do, and even all that misses the raw and simple fact that he doesn't know what name he's earned right now, if any at all. He's lost Ichigo and he's lost Zangetsu and despite himself and all his efforts before, he's not sure if he's ready to take back either name right now. She's only calling him Zangetsu because it's the only thing she knows-- calling a name but not her son's.

He barely resists screaming into his hands, instead hiding his face behind bangs and a bowed head, gripping that table edge tighter.

"I'm not made to be anybody's friend," He says. "I'm a weapon, I'm not going to soften my edges. And either way you'd be wasting your time. When we go home you're never going to hear from me again and these people will never see me. What I do or don't say to them literally doesn't matter. It's not as if they're thinking less of you because of me. If Ichigo could get away with me living in his soul you're not going to get any pitchforks sharpened on my behalf."

Date: 2018-05-02 01:57 am (UTC)
aibolition: (disdain)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
She cuts herself off. That much is a surprise enough. But he doesn't look up until after she speaks again. His head lifts, expression hardened, cut off and cold.

"Is that it? I'm your burden, the curse on your family, so it's your responsibility to tamp me down? You know I'd wonder but, no, you probably could do it couldn't you? Try and kill me if it really came down to it, I mean. Key word being try of course, but it wouldn't be much of a family tradition if you didn't attempt. And hey, maybe third time's the charm."

At all that, he's not surprised. He shrugs his shoulders.

"That won't change anything. Try it if you've got to. I'm still going to set everything the way it should be. But if it makes you feel better, I only went to that stupid thing to get information, which I got. I don't need to deal with anyone else again and I have no interest in trying. You and Ichigo are the only ones that matter."

Date: 2018-05-02 02:29 am (UTC)
aibolition: (Hold)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
The cold blankness of his expression falters. His brows pull and furrow with a sort of confusion.

A team. His throat feels strangely tight.

He can't trust it now. Maybe that thought should hurt more. Thinking his words might still be true, once she's finally had enough, it's almost a comfort with it being familiar ground. He can't be let down if he remembers this fact. Those words can't hurt him down the line.

He's worked with people who've wanted him gone before.

He looks down and away. "My goal hasn't changed. It's not going to. And I just told you I have no interest in getting involved with anyone else again. Theoretically, there shouldn't be an issue, if a team is what you still want."

Date: 2018-05-02 07:15 pm (UTC)
aibolition: (thirty nine)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
"I can't."

It sounds more helpless than he'd like. He shakes his head, folds his arms, and looks down.

"I am a weapon," He repeats. "I'm Ichigo's destructive power. Fighting is everything I am. I couldn't even tell you about starting it cause I still think he did! I can stay away from everyone. I can stay in that house or go to the very edges of this world. It's not like I need anything. But that's the best I can do. Whether you condone it or not, this is what I am."

Date: 2018-05-02 09:12 pm (UTC)
aibolition: (im fuckin chill with it)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
It wouldn't be that bad, he thinks. It's still more than the inner world could ever be. He's not interested in people, so, being near them isn't really a priority. He can just live, on his own, without ever having to deal with them.

It's a better solution than being told his time with her is up already.

He's never seen her this stressed. He doesn't know what to do with it.

"Fine," He says, mildly. But she soon follows up her words. He frowns. "You could try and trust me when I say have no interest in talking to anyone and won't seek it where I can? I don't like people. And I'm well in the practice of not speaking to anybody." He's the one who offers it, but it sounds sarcastic even from him. Trust? Ha! That was unlikely.

He adds, unhappily, "I'm not just going to hunt people down in the night and cut throats for the hell of it. That's not a fight. And I've never eaten anybody so it wouldn't be for that reason either."

Date: 2018-05-02 11:17 pm (UTC)
aibolition: (Frown)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
He wouldn't count that. That was just a fluke, something brought by the fact that they went there for a purpose. One of them he got information out of. Even if it did count, even if he had sought them out-- which he hadn't-- it wouldn't change that none of it's going to matter. He's not going to be paling around with anybody in the inner world.

She gives her confession, and it's not as if he couldn't have guessed. But she actually says the word "hollow" and that, well, it's something even with her looking away like that. She doesn't bring up the third ingredient there. Neither does he.

"...Alright. So we're fine then?" He says it like a question. He keeps talking. "It's not like you've been doing anything particularly wrong. The rule book on hollows is "aim for the head" and it's not like Ichigo or I went to some shinigami school or had a chat with any other zanpakuto. We just figure out as we go. All of us."

Date: 2018-05-03 12:09 am (UTC)
aibolition: (Quiet)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
It's good enough, is what he gathers. Not good but good enough. And as far as he's concerned, that might as well just be good.

There's nothing she could do to fix anything. That fact that what's here works at all is enough.

His own shoulders relax a little. He breathes a sigh.

"I got some things you might like to hear, in that case," He says. "A lady there, calls herself Miwa and says she's Zephyr's aunt. According to her, helping Zephyr is the only obstacle. We won't have to worry about any other gods getting in the way. I've also learned of something a little further from the goal. A tree here in town which lets people live memories. And share them. I was thinking I'd test it out and, if it worked, then maybe..."

He'd meant to present it as more of a surprise, but things still feel rather rocky at the moment.

Date: 2018-05-03 12:36 am (UTC)
aibolition: (Quiet)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
"Everything," He says. "All of it if you wanted. That Ichigo was around and conscious for, anyway. You could see what I've told you about for yourself. You could see what he's like. And Karin and Yuzu too."

A whole string of life after her and before himself. He wonders how it will look, how it will feel.

"The only parts I don't have are when we were separated in that other world. I don't know what he did when we were apart." He doesn't know what Ichigo's doing now. It surprises him how much he dislikes the disconnect.

"So, if you have something particular in mind, I can show you that first. Once I've worked it out."

Date: 2018-05-03 01:57 am (UTC)
aibolition: (Quiet)
From: [personal profile] aibolition
He says everything but he probably wouldn't enjoy reliving life in its entirety. It's more that, he can't think of anything to hide. Ichigo probably wouldn't want all his memories spilled, but Ichigo could get over himself.

"I guess we could think about it," He says. "Probably nothing to do with Shinigami stuff, you seemed pretty nervous about that before. I could show you highschool or something. Middleschool sucked until Chad was there but I could show you that too. One of Karin's soccer games. One of those shows Yuzu likes-- we went to see one once, but it was stupid and we kind of crashed it when a hollow showed up."

He shrugs. "There's time."

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