[AQ]Spending All My Time [Fuka/Yukiya]

[Yukiya]

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Cancelled plans
+ Description: You were supposed to be somewhere - be it an extra class, an outing with friends, a dinner with family or maybe even a blind date - but it got (or they) cancelled! Now you have all this free time you don't know what to do with.
+ Return home to spend the day away with yourself: +1 Guardians, -1 Faberge, +1 Roost
+ Go somewhere else; maybe the park or downtown: +2 Faberge, +1 Roost
+ Call someone else to make some new plans with them: +2 Guardians, +1 Faberge
+ Visit someone, be it a family member or a friend: +2 Faberge, -1 Roost
+ Requirements: None
+ Submitted by Yukari

Sundays were usually Yuki's days off. And it was like that, originally. He was just going to relax and catch up on hero shows before doing random things like homework and working on his manga. But when he walked downstairs, his grandpa had to show up. Saying that he was visiting or something, when in reality he was probably just checking on the health of his dad's restaurant. As an owner of a bigger restaurant in another part of East Otonoki, he had a good say in what his parents did when it came to their business. It'd be okay, honestly, if he just didn't hate his grandfather so much. He belittled Yuki every time he came, saying that he was worthless and not doing anything productive with his life. He knew it was true. But his parents had always been nice to him, and wasn't used to his criticism, and after a while he just snapped. He basically walked out the door before his grandpa or anyone else could say anything, but now he wasn't sure what to do. He was pretty damn hungry though.

Suddenly, he got a text from an unknown number.
<Since you're out, pick up a pack of smokes. You know what brand I like.>

He wanted to throw his phone. He probably knew he hadn't gone out that much, since the smoke shop was across the street. But...he was underage. How the hell was he gonna buy a pack? He just shook his head. He was gonna just head downtown and find somewhere to eat.

"Yukiya-dono, are you all right?" Kanpa asked. He didn't realize his character came with him. Yuki just nodded in response, and headed downtown. But where to eat? And how long could he stay out until his parents or grandpa asked for him to come back. Kanpa wasn't used to seeing Yuki mad - more often he was scared, due to all the X-Activity - but as Yuki calmed down, Kanpa just became his usual, jolly self, talking excitedly about the developments Yuki had made in making his manga. After a while, Yuki found himself on a bench, trying to find the nearest breakfast place.

Fuka

[Fuka]

For Fuka, Sundays--and weekends in general--were the days he was home. He dormed during the week, and came home for his two days off; though they weren't so much days off as much as they were days on; on his socializing game, that is. Whether he was helping to wait tables at his family's restaurant or going out with a group of people from school or volunteering his time somewhere, he always had on his most charming smile and his perfect socialite airs.

... That is, unless someone cancelled on him, leaving him with an empty timeslot to fill and a complete sinkhole in his usual persona; he didn't like to have to turn it off, but when he was alone and having to regroup, it couldn't help but fall away, even if temporarily.

He needed to restock on cigs, he ultimately decided; especially considering how badly he was craving one right now, but his current carton was almost out; he'd called into the kitchen at the bistro to check if anyone needed any--as, despite also being underage, he often went out to buy them anyway; it was always a stretch, especially what with his height, but with enough coaxing of the cashier he could almost always get away with it; such was the power of speech, especially now that he had the aid of two unusual little fairies--before heading out to go downtown and pick some up.

"Sir, is this particularly wise?" the blue fairy over his shoulder, Thesis, had offered as they went.
"'Course it is! He's following his feelings, isn't he? Aren't ya, pal?" the other in red, Zeal, boasting from the other side.

"I want them, they want them; it only makes sense to get some, doesn't it?" Fuka offered back, trying not to look at either of them (lest it look too much as if he were talking to himself; that would be terrible for his image). "And we'll order breakfast when we get back, and I'll get some leftovers for the week while we're there."

Thesis was quiet after that, seeming satisfied as he gave a slight nod, though there was still a twinge of hesitation in there, too.

"YEAAAAAAAAAAH. Breakfast! That's my jam, pally," Zeal then shouted at the top of his lungs, seeming to have not a care in the world who might've been listening--not that there was, it was assumed.

... Until Fuka had spotted someone on a bench with a similar-looking little sprite floating by his head, seeming to be caught up in just as energetic of an appeal as Zeal usually got into. Taking a quick look as to whether any eyes were on him, he rapidly shhh'd the other down, accompanied by a hand gesture. "There are other people around, you know, small friend!" his words were kept light, but his tone was tight and stressed.

But the message didn't seem to quite get through to the fiery Guardian Character, as he only took this as a hey, there's others around! Go say hello, make relations, to the point where he zoomed over to the other student on the bench with his own Guardian Character, greeting with a booming, "Well hi there!"

[Yukiya]

"A maid...whose master dies and leaves his life's work to her, and it's her job to chronicle the folktales of our land to complete said work...travels with our guild despite how dangerous it is for a civilian...to think I had such a loyal companion!" Kanpa said - well, more like repeated the notes Yuki had written about his manga the day before. Yuki on the other hand was still busy trying to find a breakfast place nearby, when he finally found one. It was about a block away, and he rose up. "Oh. Yeah," he replied finally. He was still dazed from seeing his grandpa still, so he might've not been paying too much attention.

Kanpa, on the other hand, perked up when someone roared at them. Sounded like a roar anyway. And to his surprise, there was not only one - but two guardian characters and a short boy in front of him! "Greetings! To think that there were companions in arms that I've never met before! I am Kanpa, the hero of another world! What's yours?"

Yuki looked up at this - the only people Kanpa called 'companions' were other guardian characters, and he saw the two characters with a boy he had never seen before. "...two of them?" he asked in surprise. He knew only two other people that had two eggs, and they were both experienced fighters. So this guy must be strong too, despite his...lack of stature.

"Hey," he said to Fuka with a wave. Well, he should probably get to know this guy if he wanted to get good enough to protect more people. He looked around. There were people walking around, but not so close that they shouldn't hear them, hopefully. "Must be a handful now that you have two of them. Who's the newer egg?" he asked. Kind of hard to tell just by looks - but it's not like Ai's Nagamasa looked like an older brother to Luciel, or Minji's Paii looked any older than Vaii. "Oh, sorry. My name's Minamoto Yukiya, but you can call me Yuki."

[Fuka]

"Woah, woah there, pally," Zeal offered in response, trying to take in everything that the other Guardian Character had just said. Companions, greetings, another world?! The orange of the two sprites had floated over to drag the blue one up with him, patting him on the shoulder in a, hey, translate what this friendo just said, will ya? kind of way, only for Thesis to sigh and mutter back a response. Zeale had perked up within moments.

"Grrrrrreetings, Kanpa! I am Zeal, and this herein is my arch enemy Thesis, who ... doth... work with ... mine... person in ... aiding our ... human!"

...He'd tried.

Thesis offered a polite bow of the head and a, "Hello. You sound well-traveled; have you come a long way?"

Fuka meanwhile had already noted the interaction, curious at the stranger's own Guardian Character, and the self that came with them--he still didn't quite understand how either Thesis or Zeal was like someone he wanted to be, but he was of course still learning--and figured that it might be more an interpretation, and that each of the small fairies had their own personalities independent of that self ... thing.

"Hello there!" he'd offered in a polite greeting, though, raising a hand in wave and putting on a bright smile for the other. "Eh? Newer? ..." the question had caught him off-guard, though, and he looked up between his two with puzzlement. "... I found their eggs at the same time. Is that weird?" He had only met so far others that had only one Guardian Character, so it was almost embarrassing to have two so far; it made him stand out, and he wasn't yet sure as to whether or not this was a beneficial thing, especially for his image in this new little eggy community ... thing.

"Ohhhhh, it's nice to meet you! I'm Kitaki Fuka. We're in the same year at Seiyo, right? I think I've spotted you before! You're the, uh..." He made a hand gesture to someone writing or drawing on paper; he tried to know the others in his year, even if not by name and only by some base trait. He liked to hear things, and hear about people; though it turned out that this egg business was introducing him to a lot of people he'd never even seen before; like they were all hiding in the shadows, or something (or they just never went to class); but this guy, at least, he could identify as a classmate.

[Yukiya]

Kanpa’s eyes widened as Zeal introduced himself. “Enemies, working together for a common cause, only to suddenly become friends after realizing they’re not so different after all…that’s what’s going on, right? Yukiya-dono, does something like that happen later on in my story…I feel like it does?”

“I…I’m not sure,” he said. Although it wasn’t a terrible idea and he would have to remember to write it down later. He wished that Kanpa wouldn’t mention the manga in front of people…but he always ended up doing so, especially lately, now that he had been trying to work on it. He didn’t want to tell people until he had some concrete pages ready to show.

Kanpa shrugged it off, before turning to Thesis. ”That I have! I have traveled across the universe to help him back to his true path in life, as the chronicler of adventures through art and word! You’re helping your bearer with their wish, are you not?”

In the meanwhile, Yuki approached the other boy. He seemed friendly enough, compared to some other people – well, girls – that he had met in the past. Yuki rose an eyebrow when he said that the eggs were found at the same time. “Really? No, I’ve never met someone who had two eggs at once. Usually one person has one egg, and if they’re really lucky, they find another one later. …there’s only a handful of people who have two eggs in the first place, so you’re pretty special.”

He got off the bench now. Much as he wouldn’t mind talking to him here, he was still hungry. “Nice to meet you too. …are we?” he said. He assumed that Fuka was a Seiyo student if he was in this part of Otonoki, but he thought he might’ve been a first year. Then again, an old friend was rather short, but still the same year as he was when said friend attended Seiyo. But he was surprised to see Fuka trying to draw in the air. How did a complete stranger know about his hobbies? He thought he still had a reputation of being a laidback, unreliable person, not an artist or a manga-ka. But recently he had been sketching in class when he was supposed to be taking notes. Maybe people were starting to take notice?

“Ah. Yeah. I do that stuff,” he said, laughing it off, since he didn’t know how else to react. “Thought most people knew me for hitting on girls, but times are changing, I guess…ah, but enough about that. You hungry?” he asked, “I was heading out for breakfast originally. Since you sound like you might be new to this whole egg business, I thought I could answer a few questions if you had any.”