dear_mun | So easily enabled...

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If you don't plan on sticking me anywhere, why the fuck did you let me out, huh?

[Because you're loud and obnoxious and apparently that's my type of character?]

That still doesn't answer my question! Wow, can you be any more pathetic? Where's your pride, huh?! Who would really give in so easily?! Mikoto-san sure as hell wouldn't!

Keh, at least you chose me over that damn monkey. And you don't talk shit about Mikoto-san. You get off easy this time.

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Misaki.

[Hi.]

Anna-chan!

[Well there's someone he's happy to see!]

You're here! The Princess is okay, right?

[She nods then comes over to sit next to him. Because she's missed her Misaki.]

[The Princess is sitting with him? That's okay! He just blushes a little because well, it's the Princess!]

What has Anna-chan been up to? Getting into trouble?

Mikoto and Tatara came to where I am.

[That's what she's been up to!]

[He blinks.]

But...But I thought they--

[They were dead.]

Totsuka-san...I was there, Princess. And Mikoto-san--

Mikoto?

[...Uh oh. She doesn't know. QUICK, YATA, CHANGE THE SUBJECT!]

I-Isn't your birthday coming up, Princess? You better be having a big party!

[Nope, he's NOT going to tell Anna Mikoto-san died. No way. No how.]

[She stares at him a bit then...]

Only Mikoto and Tatara know when it is.

[Oh, good, she's not asking anymore about that.]

Well, it was suppose to be a secret buuuuuut...?

[He says as he get a conspiratorial smile on his face.]

The secret's out. You can blame Totsuka-san for that.

[Her eyes go wide.]

Really?

Yeah! We were going to have a huge cake and everything, but Kusanagi-san was such a party pooper and wouldn't let us have a cake.

No cake?

We were wanting to take you somewhere nice. And we were each going to give you a rose so that when you got all of them, you'd have a huge bouquet! And I seriously doubt that you'd get away with no cake! Tatara would have made sure you had one! Just not five-meters tall! Though that would have been awesome.

Five meters?

[SO BIG]

[SO VERY BIG!]

Yup! But Kusanagi-san didn't like that idea, so he said no.

[Buzzkill.]

That's bigger than me, Misaki!

That's bigger than me, too!

[Even if that means very little since he's...not all that tall...]

But you see why Kusanagi-san didn't want a cake? Totsuka-san really wanted it, though.

[Secretly, he wonders if Tatara would have gotten his way. After all, this is Totsuka-san they were talking about. He could get away with just about anything with just a smile, the lucky bastard.]

Maybe if Misaki comes where I am we'll have cake too.

[She misses her Misaki okay.]

[Cue the blushing vanguard.]

I-I don't know if the mun will let me be there with the Princess. Not because she doesn't want me to! She just doesn't think she can handle it. But I would like to be there with the Princess and Mikoto-san, and I can give Totsuka-san a piece of my mind.

[Because what is dealing with emotions in a healthy way?]

Haa, cutting your mun just a little bit of slack, I see. Are you sure you aren't going soft?

[....

It's a ghost. He's seeing a ghost...

Right?]

T-Totsuka-san...?

Yes.

[smiling brightly as ever. ...looking awfully solid for a ghost, too. that reaction kind of hurts him, but then, he figures that's just what gets left behind, when all these people wound up caring about him, too.]

[Carefully, slowly, he reaches out to grab at Totsuka-san's sleeve. There's no blood. He's solid. He's. alive?

Yata's hand clenches tight as he shakes his head quickly back and forth.]

You can't be...how? How can you be...?

[You? You get a hug. A very careful one, but still a hug. Nobody's dying this time, how about it. So. Yeah. Also, you know, he's really not all sure himself how that happened.]

[He's too much in shock to do much of anything else but simply let Totsuka hug him.]

...You're really him? You're really Totsuka-san?

[which is a good thing, because totsuka may need something to hold on to, too.]

It's really me.

[Finally, Yata moves, his other hand coming up slowly before slamming against Totsuka's chest.]

You...

[He shakes his head again.]

You're an idiot! You're a fucking idiot, Tatsuka-san! You...You should have just gone home! Or taken someone with you! Anyone would have, and you fucking know it!

[He's yelling now. Yata's never good at dealing with his emotions in a healthy way, after all.]

[His voice is quiet as he answers, and he never backs away. He's never been one to raise his voice, or to get angry to begin with, and anyway, this... is more sad than anything else.]

I went to that place often. No-one I'd ran into there ever wanted me any harm.

[And he really just wanted to make Anna's impossibly big birthday cake.]

Besides. I wouldn't have wanted any of you to be hit in my stead.

I'm the vanguard, remember? I could have done something if you just spoke up.

[Something other than watch you die in his arms.]

No one would have hit me, and you know it.

Yata.

[Not as if it's not all said and done anyway, but there's still a point to be made here.]

No matter how good you are, and how strong you are, you can't defeat a king.

...All I would need is enough time to get you out of there...

[Not really. There was likely nothing he could have done. But he clings to that thought that he could have, should have done something...]

[Totsuka sighs. ...and he can't say it, that it was going to happen anyway. one way or another. sooner or later. maybe it only happened because he believed it? but in the end, does it matter at all? it happened. ]

I'm sorry.

It doesn't matter.

[The mun can say what she wants, have one Red King who does not care.]

M-Mikoto-san! King, it's you!

Ha, yeah. Let the muns say what they want, it keeps them occupied.

[Easier than trying to deal with them because as much as they claim to like you they sure put you through a lot of hell he has learned.]

Yeah, this one doesn't seem to know how to make up her mind. It's pissing me off.

[Well screw you, too, Yata.]

They have mental issues, that's why.

[Mikoto is just convinced Mun's are insane, simple enough.]

Keh, sounds about right. Just like Mikoto-san to pick up on something like that.

Ha, see why you don't need to worry about what they think.

[Just remember your pride Yata, it is in that mark on your chest.]

...You're right! But Mikoto-san is always right...

[Keep your fangirling to a minimum there, Yata.]

Ha....[Well, mun's may kind of suck but it is nice when they bring more HOMRA around.]

Don't let her keep you locked up there. [Anna needed more family after all, didn't she?]

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