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[He doesn't want to talk to anyone. He doesn't want to see anyone at the moment either. His brother is gone, his other best friend is gone... Soubi is gone. While he knows he'll see Youji again when he gets home... however long... But Soubi and Seimei? He doesn't know. Like so much in his life, he doesn't know if he'll see them again.]

How often do people return after they leave? Is there... some sort of rate of possibility?

[Because if he can have it in numbers, have it in some sort of concrete fact, he can rationalize it better. He can handle the possibility of percentage about seeing his brother again. At home he has no idea when he might see Seimei again, but here, here couldn't there just be something... concrete?

He knew there wasn't. He knew that it was as unpredictable as anything else.

He was just in denial, it was something he was good at.]

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[It's because it's the house for those frequent around death and the macabre. He doesn't want her around that.]

I... I'll come to you.

Ok, I'll wait downstairs for you. [She's have to clean up a little too, Yuiko had already been through Youji's room. But her own had been pretty messy.]

[He doesn't actually want to visit her. Not... anyone, especially not in Freya, where Soubi and Youji used to live. He took a deep breath as he reached the welcome house. He didn't want to be around Yuiko. He didn't want to have to cheer her up on top of his own issues.

But he could rarely say no to her.]

[Really Yuiko didn't need cheering up so much as reassuring that Ritsuka was alright. She might not have gotten the idea that people didn't choose to go home, but she didn't see why it should be a bad thing. Well at least when you would get to see them again.]

Ritsuka-kun. We can go somewhere else if you want, like the park or the library.

[She knew that he probably didn't want to be the house, and could pick up on the subtle body language that he wasn't comfortable.]

[Because Yuiko doesn't understand, and Ritsuka will never be the one to tell her. Instead he merely nods.]

The library... it... will be quiet...

[Going home, getting to be with your family and friends again and do normal things, it sounded pretty good actually. It was just really lonely to be left behind.]

Alright, let's go. There's probably all kinds of books that interest Ritsuka-kun there too. I haven't been to the one here yet, so it'll be good to know where it is now.

[She's trying really.]

... Where have you been, Yuiko? It's been weeks now, what have you been doing with yourself? [He sighed. He had to take his mind off of Soubi, Seimei, and Youji, he may as well focus on Yuiko, right?]

Huh? I've been going to the park and spending time with Ame-kun. He's really nice and helps to take care of the animals there. He has ears and a tail too, so I though he might been from home but he said it's because he's a wolf.

[Yuiko walks with her hands behind her back as she keeps an eye on Ritsuka.]

Everyone else has been really busy or hasn't wanted to do anything so I just kept going there.

[The mention of everyone being busy or not wanting to made his ears droop. That was as much his fault as anything else. What would he do if Yuiko left him too. He glanced at her hands, he couldn't touch her, with a closed-contact sort of action. Besides, she'd blush like made and stutter. He didn't want someone who would think anything of the touch.

It's why Youji and Natsuo were as close to him as it was. Affection was affection and not something to bat an eye at. But for whatever reason, Yuiko always got flustered. He couldn't even imagine being as intimate with Yuiko as he was with Natsuo or Youji.]

I see...

[Holding hands wouldn't have been bad and the only thing that kept Yuiko from asking was that she could tell Ritsuka was already in a bad mood, so she didn't want to annoying him like she usually did.

She wondered what he was thinking though.]

What about Ritsuka-kun?

What about me? [He asked.] I go to school, I deal with the stupidity that goes on here.

Oh, well I guess that is a lot since there's always something going on. We should get together and do something fun more often then to enjoy things.

Yuiko... I'm sorry. I haven't... been a very good friend. I know we see each other whenever I'm over, but I should have been looking out for you more.

[Yuiko looked down a little, her ears tucking back a little. It really wasn't Ritsuka's fault, though it was nice having him looking out for her. She was supposed to be the one that was willing to do anything for him though.]

You don't have to apologize Ritsuka-kun, I'm sorry that I haven't come by more either. I know that you don't like your welcome hall, I should have found more places that would be nicer.

Besides Ritsuka-kun's been really busy dealing with a lot of stuff while I've just been playing around. So I should probably start taking things seriously, like going to school.

It... I would like for you to come to school with me, I worry about what you do all day. I don't want you hurt or getting upset, Yuiko.

It would be like back home, almost. [Before everything.]

But none of the classes are like what we took back home, and the guy over it seems really scary and mean.

[More so that what a teacher usually would, but Yuiko really didn't use her power at all since she would have to kiss someone to use them. She really didn't want to try to learn magic, and spending time at the park was a lot more fun.]

What classes are you taking?

Some of them are, there's remedial stuff you can take, if that's what you're concerned about. It's not like how it works at home though, no. I'm not sure we'd have any classes together besides maybe lunch or nutrition.

Science, math, literature, a language, history, pretty typical stuff. It's the teachers that are the weird things.

I knew that much, everyone else would probably be way ahead of me in things like math since you have good marks on everything.

[Really it was because of how weird the teachers were that she hadn't gone. Some of them were pretty scary and one that she had talked to kept calling her a kitten.]

Ritsuka-kun should come to the park with me sometime though it's really pretty and the lake is really nice when it's hot.

[Well distracting him seemed to be working a little, he didn't look or sound as sad as he had earlier.]

Yuiko... you need to do more than just visit the lake. I worry about you like that. What if... what if something happened to you? [What if she left too?]

I do more than just go there, it's just a special place like back home. I also go to the place where they have games and stuff after they invited me for karaoke. And there's this one lady that gives me an apple when I go by her store each day.

I'm taking good care of myself. Ritsuka-kun doesn't have to worry.

[She would take care of herself so that she would be able to help him, if she couldn't save Ritsuka if something happened then it wouldn't matter what happened to her.]

[He didn't like the sound of it. But then, Ritsuka liked school, he liked expanding his mind and devouring as much knowledge as he could whenever he could. Maybe he was the odd one out.]

I'll always worry about you. You're the type of person easily manipulated and taken advantage of. [It was incredibly blunt and Ritsuka was not feeling inclined to soften the blow.]

[Well that did hurt a little bit to hear Ritsuka put it that way, and her ears folded just a bit flatter.]

Ah well everyone's been really nice, I don't think there's anyone here that would do that.

[Well besides maybe some of the scary people, but she had stayed away from them so far hadn't she.]

I think I'll start classes next quarter though, and take something like cooking or sewing so I can help out more.

You didn't think those girls were mean, either. That's-... [He scowled, angry.] There are bad people all over this place, and I refuse to see you getting used by them. I won't. [He sighed, realizing he was scaring her.]

I'm sorry... I'm sorry, I'm scaring you. You... you are a smart girl, Yuiko. But you're too nice, you're too kind. And people take that kind of kindness and crush it, destroy it, for no other reason than they can. I just... don't want anything to happen to you.

Alright, I'm sure they'll have something like that by then. You're a good girl.

[Yuiko twisted her hands, Ritsuka was scary when he was angry. But she was surprised after a moment too, that was probably one of the only times that Ritsuka had called her smart. She was used to him saying she was a good girl and really enjoyed it, but she had always felt really stupid compared to Ritsuka, Natsuo, and Youji.]

A-ah that's not true. Ritsuka makes grades are a lot better than mine, I have to struggle to pass my classes while Ritsuka always manages to seem so laid back about grades.

Anyways, what did you want to look up when we get to the library?

[His ears perk.]

I like learning. That's why my grades are good. And you wouldn't have to struggle, I would help you, whatever the subject... er... not art. [He sucked at art.]

I don't know. Nothing, maybe. I was sort of just agreeing...

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