IC ✦ Voicemail

[uncalled]

[Let's keep it short and simple-]

Hey, hey! Guess I'm doing important stuff but if you think your stuff is important too, tell me what it is and we can flip a coin.

See ya!

[beep!]

[ooc: action tags also welcome! seriously just ram into him or he's apartment 7.1]

Comments

[uncalled]

[CALLS BACK!]

Well.... I mean, Hideyoshi-sama's pretty great, I think. [just not as great as mitsunari, ssshhhh no one needs to know that] But it's not like I told him 'Mitsunari-sama, Sarutobi-san was beat me up!' Like, how uncool is that even?!

I just told him that we ran into each other and we scuffled - but you started the scuffle! [ . . . and he used the word 'abusive' but honestly that's such a detail to sakon's mind that he doesn't even remember it] I didn't think he'd get so mad about it! Normally he lets it go if it's just me.... [and he just makes a face] I guess it's another way that Mitsunari-sama's changed.

[a shrug and he hangs up!!

leave it to talking about mitsunari to distract sakon from questioning sasuke's hair some more]

[aeolian]

[ ... Okay, she's got to snort a little. ]

That's where we're different. You've been able to make your own choices, even when you were too young to understand it. I was created for a very specific purpose. It's just not one I happen to like very much.

[perverses]

Did I...? Of course I did! You already knew that I won!

[ C'mon, Sakon. Keep up! And at least try to believe in him here! ]

Don't know who it was, though. It was pretty dark. Some crazy person who wanted to bite my throat out, I guess.

[uncalled]

Yeah but I thought that maybe you just tackled somebody who wasn't paying attention or something! Desperate times call for desperate measures and all.....

[but then he's just going to nod slowly.]

Wow.... that's super cold, Renzou-kun.

[NOT EVERYONE CAN FIND A DUEL, SAKON]

[uncalled]

Aw, Aria... You're the only one who believes in that anymore!

[And he's just going to press a kiss to her cheek, partially to catch her attention and partially just because he can.]

You can be whatever you want to be! What's stopping you?

[perverses]

[ That's closer to the actual truth, to be honest...

But Renzou isn't an honest person, so! ]

Sakon-san... [ Cold? You're hurting his feelings here, man. ] Don't sympathize with someone who tried to kill me. That's really harsh.

[aeolian]

[ Her attention's still on him, promise. Which is why she'll reach up to ruffle his hair. ]

Myself, probably?

[ Not entirely inaccurate. ]

[uncalled]

[as;ldfjk he sputters in complaint for a moment before a hand of his own reaches up to catch her wrist - and then trying to entwine their fingers together]

That... sounds kind of annoying! Why are you getting in your own way....?

[uncalled]

[oh descendant-kun, why do you have to make things so difficult....]

Nah, I wouldn't do that! Obviously I care that you're alright and all. Still though, didn't think you'd actually get all.... war-minded on me! [killing people in the dakr that you don't even know....] I guess I underestimated you.

[aeolian]

[ she might have made her weaknesses a little too evident here... ]

It's a complicated and boring explanation. You're not very fond of either of those things, right?

[uncalled]

[and because he's pretty honest despite everything-]

I hate complicated and boring explanations about stuff I don't care about!

... but I mean, isn't it obvious that I care about you?

1/2

[aeolian]

[ For as much as she does understand that much (and as much as she doesn't want to dwell on it), her eyes still widen until she's blinking up at him a little owlishly. ]

[aeolian]

... I'm not sure how I could have forgotten that. [ But she says it with a smile, squeezing his hand. ]

I've told you before, haven't I? About what I was born from?

[perverses]

[ Because so many poor life choices. So many. ]

War-minded? I'm not sure I'd call it that, but, uh... [ There's no real need to go into it any further, so he'll roll with it. ] Y-yeah. Guess ya did. Not that I care to demonstrate something like that again anytime soon.

[uncalled]

I dunno either! [And he smiles amiably enough, choosing to ignore her pause even though he definitely noticed it.] But hey, I'll remind you whenever you want.

[because he cares about her. he's not always smart enough to show it all the time but... he knows he does.]

But it's... hatred or something, right? What's that got to do with it?

[aeolian]

More specifically, it's hatred against God-- the demon that's forcibly created other demons from humans, actually.

Well, to put it simply... as much as I'd like to be a defender sword, I still have a very strong impulse to kill that demon... something like bloodlust in general? It was getting even stronger when I came here. I can't say for sure that it won't happen here.

[paycheck]

[ back calls ]

And yet Ishida-dono has the impression that I did and that I did enough to warrant retaliation in the form of him hunting me down and knocking me around with his sword, huh? Maybe that's not "uncool" to you but it's really uncool to me!

[ SHEESH. ]

All I did was grab you to talk to you, since you were running by so fast! A scuffle? Are you serious?

[ UGHHH THIS JERK.

UP HANGS. ]

[uncalled]

[ . . . Hm.]

I guess if you don't want to show off then you really aren't war-minded. Man! What's the future even like for my descendant to be like that?!

[uncalled]

[all of the back calls]

There are easier ways to get my attention, Sarutobi-san - just saying!!

But I said I was sorry! C'mon...! Of all things to hold a grudge over, you pick this?

[HANGING UP.....]

[uncalled]

But... it sounds like this 'God' of yours is kind of a jerk. If you kill him, then aren't you defending other people from being forced against doing something against their will?

I think that's pretty hero-worthy, right?!

[aeolian]

And if that killing impulse turns toward something else? Other people? My partner?

[ a small smile. ]

I'm not a hero.

[perverses]

Maybe one without a war?

[ Said the kid who basically just helped start a war back home. Yep. Totally no war, Sakon. None at all. ]

Although if a pretty girl needed some help, I might show off then! Does that count?

[uncalled]

.... but has it done that before?

[Even the mention of it surprises him. He didn't think that Aria had a bloodthirsty bone in her body.]

[uncalled]

Atta boy!!

Your ancestor gives you many blessing on your romantic pursuits!

[SAKON NO]

[aeolian]

[ SURPRISE. ]

It's been there, when I fought with Cecily. It's gotten stronger. Not here, thankfully, but I can't say it won't ever happen.