Shoot for the Moon And End Up Among The Stars [Daichi/ADMIN]

[Daichi]

You know being on campus during summer break wasn't all that bad. Then again Daichi has a Master Key and a Key Card so the whole school was his to explore. For the most of the break he had just kept to his room. Every now and again being forced outside by Taiki, normally leading them to Daichi’s favorite bookstore in town. Other then that he didn’t really have any adventures. You need money to do most fun things during the summer, and well he was broke. The only really notable thing he had done was go to Tanabata, against his will thanks to Ekewaka. Where he had bumped into both Takeo and Miuna of all people. He had tried to talk to both of them, tried being the keyword. Talk them down. He really didn’t want to fight them if it could be avoided. In the end he ran after Takeo and left Miuna with Junko. Takeo had fled and Daichi had lost him, and his chance.
He was thankful he wasn't in the infirmary or hurt at all, physically anyways. 

It seemed like the weeks were crawling by now. He remembered when the day were so much faster, when it was fun and more pleasant than before. Practicing Kendo with Takeo. Cooking with Miuna. The four of them just talking and hanging out and being happy. That made the days faster. Now everyone was split up. Takeo was unreachable most the time. Miuna showed up but then was gone in an instant. Junko was sad, upset, more than he was. The Cooking Club room was empty most the time except for him. It was, kinda disheartening. They hosted events together. He remembered trying to teach Takeo how to be polite and calm without a character change from Ousuke. In a time before Takeo’s second egg had showed up. In return he taught Daichi had to hold a tray, and not lose balance. He could reminisce about the past forever but--

He had to deal with what was happening now. Takeo wasn’t okay and Miuna wasn’t either. Junko was a mess and-- So was he. He would never want to admit that he’s stressed over the whole thing. He wanted just to be able to smile at Junko and the other and tell them everything would be okay. A genuine smile. Nothing fake. Nothing forced. He found it hard to do that now. Maybe he was just in a sad spell. Maybe with time he would be fine. Taiki and him had talked about it. Taiki was still smiling and cheering. Saying that Daichi could do it. Saying that he was strong enough to handle them and his words were good enough.

Daichi didn’t know if he wasn't good enough. He knew, he wasn’t useless. He just wasn't the best they had. He wasn’t smart enough to pick them apart and know how to pierce their hearts with the words they needed. He wasn’t. If he had more time with them- He if was a bit nosier he would have what he needed to make a hero speech for them but- He didn’t have enough.

One thing was certain was that, he needed a break. Sometime, not in his room-- He needed a familiar place to be. Taking his purple notebook from his desk, the keys he needed at Taiki’s egg he set off to the Planetarium.

When he got there he passed through lobby and into the main room. He could have gone anywhere in the school if he wanted. He had the master key and the key-card. He want to be at the Planetarium though. It was, calming. Maybe that was because of the stars. Walking in quietly, he expected no one to be there. It was summer break after all. Walking over to podium he sat down in front of it. Taiki wiggled out of egg and into the the room, plopping himself on Daichi’s knee.

The hero closed his eyes and sighed. 


Juon ))

[Juon]

Just as Daichi would sit himself down, the projector far overhead would whirr to life. It wasn't a loud or alerting noise; it was much like the sound of an air conditioning unit slowly starting to hum as it kicked on, only noticeable once you realized that it made the TV harder to hear. It was quiet, gentle, and the projection that it shot to the rounded ceiling gradually faded into being until the stars had begun to twinkle.

Summer break was of the busiest for the Planetarium; a majority of its shows and attendance were during summer, when it was easy to get interested in stars from seeing them far above in the evenings, and kids were off, and families were looking for something nice to do, and anyone was looking for any kind of air conditioned space to escape into, particularly for only a small fee.

And so Kirishigi was still able to be found in it daily; but today was a slow, groggy day outside, and he had taken the same approach. There weren't any shows until the evening, and he simply had some basic calibration to do to make sure that the show that would start running over the weekend would play out well alongside his presentation.

He hadn't even noticed that anyone had come in until the projector had fully loaded, and he had headed down into the amphitheater to access his computer to resume programming the show. It was almost done.

"Oh; Fujiwara-san."

His voice carried a dulled note of surprise as he'd come into the realization, looking to his Guardians member down in front unexpectedly. Still though, Kirishigi continued up the two small stairs onto the main platform, taking his place at the podium while he booted up the systems.

"Come to see the stars?"

[Daichi]

The boy didn't flinch at the sound, it was just background noise while he found himself a little lost in his head. Thinking about, well, everything he was worried about. That constant nagging in the back of his head he couldn't ignore. He took the notebook he brought with him and opened it up to a blank page, along with the pen from his pocket and quietly wrote. However he worked without really thinking, he just jotted down all the shit piling up in his head onto paper, in a messy scrawl that looked nothing like his normal writing.

It wasn't until Sensei said his name did he re-focused completely back into reality. He didn't really expect him to be here. I was summer break after all, didn't he had family to visit or a vacation to take? " Y-yeah." Daichi stated simply enough, blinking and looking to his faction leader as he climbed the stairs. " Sorry to just barge in like this." While he figured Kirishigi-sensei didn't mind, he still always apologized anyways. He just felt it was necessary because he showed up so unannounced. It's not like he did it everyday, but still... 

He left the talking at that. He didn't know what else to say. Which was unlike him. He should have asked about the show today, how his day was going so far. You know like the nice kid he was should ask. The boy just ended up not doing it. Maybe he was just lazy, or maybe he wasn't feeling up to it. Daichi looked down to his notebook. Reading what he had wrote- Suddenly he felt, really self contentious. He turned a full four pages past what he wrote, as to bury the page so no one would see.

Taiki looked at Daichi with a bit of worry, before he flew up to greet Kirishigi-sensei. " Heya, Sensei!" The fairy greeted happily sitting on the edge of the podium with his legs crossed and hands in his lap. It was clear by the way the Guardian was leaning forward and leaning back he had something to say. He tried to wait he really did, but he couldn't wait much longer. 

Taiki wanted to ask all the questions that Daichi wouldn't or forgot too. Heroes need to be prepared and when in doubt of what to do, look for someone with experience.  " Say uh- Sensei-kun. Could I ask you a few questions? They'll be quick, I promise!" The little hero took out his own notepad from behind his shield and looked hopefully to the older male. 

The egg holder mean while mouthed the word 'Questions', confused as to what Taiki was going to ask. An why he didn't tell him beforehand. While he boy was a bit, out of the loop. He didn't stop Taiki, at least not yet.

[Juon]

"That's quite fine," Kirishigi waved off Daichi's apology. "You are a Guardian, after all." He bowed his head, then, as the system had booted up, to which he pulled out a keyboard from beneath the podium's counter, placing it gently on top. "I used to do the same."

He was quiet as Daichi was quiet; it seemed that he didn't mind at all the intrusion, but did realize that the second year was likely there in looking for his own kind of silence, quiet; he'd noticed that he had a notebook out, anyway, and though he hadn't caught sight of any of the scribblings upon it, he figured that it was best not to look anyway. Writers were particular about that.

As the young man's Guardian Character floated up to see him, though, Kirishigi let his eyes flick up toward him. "Hello, Taiki," he greeted simply in response, plugging away at the keys below him, but still keeping half an eye up toward the floating fairy before him.

As the note of questions--also, 'Senpai-kun'?--was brought up, though, he separated himself from his work more fully, pushing a bit back from the podium to face the other more fully. "What would you like to know?"

[Daichi]

"Yeah?..." Daichi added in acknowledgement. He completely forgot that Kirishigi was a Guardian back in the day, along with the other faction leaders. That was a bit of information the students got awhile back. It was shared and shared, via texting, dm's on twitter. Most people knew, though that doesn't mean they would remember it. Still he wondered how many hours a day he would spend here when he was a student. Well actually, he would have had his own egg back then wouldn't he? Then he might have spent less time then he thought, if he went out a cure eggs and such.

Taiki was quick to bring up something before silence set in again. " Did you ever get that earring?" The paused before he continued. " The one from the west Oto. Student? We tried to get him to you but- Things, uh went south." The fairy didn't think he needed to say anymore really. Daichi tried to help, took him to the wrong place, then Miuna happened, then chaos, then Daichi blew up. Yeah that was, a thing that happened.

" I was going to ask you a long time ago but..." Taiki seemed to lose his positive vibe for a moment. Takeo and Miuna were the reason both he and Daichi got so busy. It was a sad thought to thing about again. Taiki shook his head, to shake off all the bad feelings tide to the memories. They would save them eventually, everything would be fine in time. " Anyways, I was just wondering, if you got it."

The boy on the other hand had forgotten about the whole earring thing. Not that it was really any of his business in the first place.

Taiki would wait till he heard Kirishigi-sensei's answer, before he would bring up one more question.

" How do you cure someone who has gone 'X', successfully?-" Taiki asked quietly. None of what Daichi or Taiki were doing was helping either Takeo or Miuna. Where try just doing it wrong? Was there something they still had to learn? Taiki wanted to know.

Still, Daichi spoke, uneasy about the question. Maybe it was to much information? Taiki was letting on to much, with enough thought the man could figure out that the two were talking about Miuna and Takeo. He could assume they were struggling. Daichi didn't want him to know that, or anyone really. He had to be a brave hero after all.

"Taiki, we don't-" Need to ask? Need help? Daichi wanted to say but Taiki was keen on getting help.

" We do though!" The fairy retorted to his kid.

[Juon]

"Hmm..."

The astronomer paused at the Guardian Character's question, seeming distraught by its nature; his gaze turned downward, but he seemed thoughtful in his consideration, and as Daichi spoke up to try and interject, he waved a hand. "No, it's a necessary question," he pressed, but still took his time in putting together an answer.

"I've never done it myself, but," he opened with, before finally looking back up to the face that had asked the question. "You have to find the root of the problem. Talk them down, find out what it is that's actually bothering them." A slow nod, before he continued. "There's a lot of negativity that spreads from the negative energy, and it influences more statements than would normally be hostile, which may make it difficult to find. Humans are complex.

"This sort of thing is one in which ignoring the problem, or solving it in a roundabout way, won't work. It's similar to..." He waved a hand in gesture, in a flat horizontal line. "When a stream has been polluted with a lot of trash, and stops flowing. You can clean out the garbage and get it flowing again, but will that really solve the problem?" He shook his head. "It will just become blocked up again. The only way to truly resolve the issue is to stop what's causing the pollution."

A solitary nod. "That's how curing works."

[Daichi]

Taiki seemed to light up, smiling from ear to ear. " I knew it!" Before excitingly flying around Kirishigi-sensei then settling back on the podium. " Kir-ish-gi Sen-sei!" The fairy chimed drawing out the characters. " Thats what we were thinking but- we weren't sure, but now- Now we know we were doing it right the whole time!- Well kinda... " Taiki paused for a moment while they had been using as many hero speeches as they could to save the others they still didn't always listen. Either they weren't trying hard enough or it wasn't Taiki or Daichi who they needed a hero speech from at all.

Crossing his tiny arms Taiki thought aloud. "Hmmm. So, Hero Speeches were right along but we still need to..." The he nodded to himself as he trailed off thinking a bit longer on the subject, with a face of absolute concentration.

Daichi meanwhile seemed to be dwelling on something else entirely. Kirishigi-sensei never cured an egg? How could that be? That seemed so, odd to him. Isn't that the first thing you learn after you get to character transform?

" Sensei. What do you mean by you never cured an egg?- I mean I would just assumed you had but- Why we're you able to cure?" Maybe it was different for every generation? However everyone Daichi knew, who had an egg could cure, they had that ability.

[Juon]

"Just make sure a hero speech is well-attuned to the issue you're trying to get to," Kirishigi tagged on in follow-up. "If it's unfocused, it may aggravate them even more, and the words will bounce off and ricochet right back at you." A hand was waved. "And, they may not even be willing to talk or accept any words of solace without being taken down first by force, especially if it accelerates to the point of X-transformation." A pause. "This is what I've seen work in the past, anyway."

Nevertheless, he seemed to carry the shade of a smile as Taiki beamed with excitement and enthusiasm; the astronomer had almost returned himself to his work, before Daichi decided to speak up this time. Kirishigi seemed extra attentive at the question, but he gave no hesitation before answering.

"Oh, I've cured eggs--but never people. Ah, that is to say, Heart's Eggs, but never Guardian Character Eggs," he explained then, glancing back up with a nod. He paused, then, seeming to realize the sound of his words without context, and added, "There were much fewer of those with Guardian Characters back then." ... And so fewer X's to cure, was what he hoped came across unspoken.

[Daichi]

Taiki stopped, then looked up at the old man and began to write down all what Kirishigi-sensei said nodding while he did so. "Got it, got it. So i guess a peaceful approach doesn't all work then... Hm thats troubling but we can deal with it. Maybe. Hm." The little fairy sat down in the air crossing his legs. Still he continued to write. " I think, I get it. We'll have to find a good balance!" The fairy nodded to himself several times reassuring himself that what he had in his head was indeed the right way to go about hero speeches.

Daichi meanwhile nodded slowly. That was- Odd? Well not not exactly, odd. Unexpected, thats what it was. " fewer?" He question quietly, almost to being the point of a faint whisper. There were a lot of eggs around but to Daichi that was, normal. The idea of fewer people with eggs wasnt as welcomed to Daichi as others might think. You would have few people to relate to your struggles, if one of the few were to mess up and break and egg- wouldn't they have been shunned twice as hard? With the amount of eggs they had now, kids could make mistakes and with a bigger community it wouldn't be that bad? Then again you could argue that point from every which way.

" Do you know how many or was it just, a lot less then what we have now?"

[Juon]

The astronomer nodded in response to Taiki's thinking aloud. There were always different approaches to be taken with different kinds of people; he mused that it would probably be too easy if there was simply one direct way, which was often the case with X-eggs, and sometimes X-characters.

He'd started returning to punching away at his computer, plugging at keys slowly, but with intent. It took him a minute before he was able to break focus from what he was attempting before he finally answered, but he still seemed fixated, and didn't look up.

"Only three," was the simple response, before he shifted to turn his gaze up toward the projection above, which was still working on booting up fully, though there were some dialogues that had popped up upon it that he'd begun to sift through. A soft click, click, click, from the speakers as he adjusted settings echoed gently through the space, swirling the auditorium area with a laid-back atmosphere.