i apologize forever /goes to shower off the filth

[ahahahahah]

Ahahah! Muuuuuuuuun-san! It's been too long! Not long enough? Ahaha, IT MUST BE that you mean your heart was growing fonder with absence and you wished it to swell further, ahah! Like that old saying.

Ah? What are these lyrics you've used for the icons? Ahah, can I get that as a ringtone? Mutsuuuu! Help me set the tone on my phone, ahah!

I'm as surprised as you are! I didn't expect the series tag to already be used! Ahaha, that cherry was already popped! Don't worry, Dear_Mun! I'll be gentle, hahaha...!

You're worried about the way I act? Ah! IT MUST BE that you think you don't have enough material in that head of yours to work with! Ahahah, don't worry! I've been in your head! It's a dirty place, hahahah!

Kintokiiii! Zuraaaa! Ahah, where are you? I brought my best bottle of sake, ahah! Just bring the ladies!











Ahahaha!

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[itsnotzura]

[sympathetic sounds, and a hand goes up and back to briefly pat the other's shoulder]

I suppose that is the best one could ask for. Your screw was likely relieved.

[ahahahahah]

Let's not mention 'screw' and Mutsu in the same sentence, ah. Hahah, I think she bugged my coat. She's listening, shhh.

[sob sob]

[itsnotzura]

Haa? There are lice in space? Or something worse, to teach you a lesson about picking up strange things you don't know the hygienic state of?

Either way, you could take off the coat. As long as you are wearing something underneath.




[THIS IS A LEGITIMATE CONCERN]

[ahahahahah]

[he actually... tugs his coat aside to look and check]

I am today.

And no, hahah, she's more straightforward than that. Like a monster truck through a nitroglycerin plant, hahah...

[itsnotzura]

[c-consoling pat x 2]

[and then looks at his hand a bit panic-stricken]

[ahahahahah]

Ah? Something wrong?

Hahah, it must be that you wrote yourself a note on your hand about getting me a coming home present but forgot it. Don't worry, Zuraaaa!

[itsnotzura]

It's not Zura, it's Katsura! How can I give a coming home gift to someone who hasn't yet come home?

[wipes his hand off fastidiously (just in case) on his obi]

Hmph. As if the Thor was any home to you, in any case.

[ahahahahah]

A physical place isn't what makes a home.

[was that a subtle shoulder squeeze?]

[ahahahahah]

Hahah! It's easy! You just wrap a nice bottle of sake in some pages from Pl*yboy and give it to me, hahahahah...

[itsnotzura]

Tch, you're too old for those kinds of magazines. You've outgrown l*gos and P*km*n cards.

[he colours a bit, which couldn't have been a reaction to the shoulder squeeze that was only hinted at]

[brusquely]

How shameless are you, begging for gifts? What happened to nothing but 'sake and conversation, Zuraaaa'? It's Katsura!

[ahahahahah]

Ah, I guess you're right, but it's not because I'm too old. Hahah, funny thing about those magazines--the more you read them, the more they just don't do it for you!

[they just don't have the shaved cat chick/sexdroid orgies he needs to get off nowadays]

I don't see any sake. And this is conversation!

[itsnotzura]

[well, he's got him there, on both counts]

[Bunny Lovers Monthly just doesn't have the several baskets worth of cute wriggling bunny noses he needs to kyaaaaa nowadays]

[blatantly ignoring all his missteps;]

Hn. You must have been very busy in your return, catching up with your business...

[ahahahahah]

Business? Ahaha, actually I haven't done any business at all! Unless you count the important meetings at the bar. What about you? How's business?

[itsnotzura]

[he nods without nagging, because most important business meetings happened in a bar -- or so he's been told]

[by Sakamoto]

Ah, well... since you were on the Thor last...

[considers it quite seriously, a little bit at a loss]

[before somewhat carefully producing]

In flux, as ever. Shin -- Takasugi has gone, not a moment too soon. But others have, as well. [like you] ...It is difficult to hold onto people in space, perhaps even more than it was in Edo.

[ahahahahah]

[ah, that trademark laugh isn't really here this time, and thought Takai is on his lips, it never really gets uttered.]

[probably all because of Zura's last statement]

It is. I think it has something to do with gravity and such, ah, Mutsu probably knows what it is. [it looks like he'll just ruin another serious moment at first until he continues]

I think it's the same thing that makes you hold tighter to the ones still left. Is that how it works on the Thor?

[itsnotzura]

[bows his head, snorting softly]

So it would seem. Perhaps it is something to do with gravity, then -- you will have to ask Mutsu-dono for me.

[itsnotzura]

[the subject switched away before he can linger further, burden Sakamoto with his doubts]

[a homecoming was supposed to be a happy occasion (even if he isn't, and even if it isn't)

Ah, would you like dinner? You must have an empty stomach after traveling all this way.

[and having vomited everything else up]

[ahahahahah]

It's funny you mention, ahahah, I feel like I have nothing on my stomach whatsoever! Lead the way, Zura.

[nothing else to say about it if Zura's changing the subject, but maybe he does walk a bit closer]

Are you cooking? Will you make the little rice cake spaceships?

[itsnotzura]

I suppose such a thing would be appropriate... it's hard to deny a visitor their requests. You have lucked out in your occupation, Tatsuma, always being a guest to other planets.

[slides his hands into his sleeves, leading the way]

[ahahahahah]

Ah, ahah... when you put it that way, you make it sound like like I'm a mooch. Hahah, it must be that you mean I'm lucky to have such good friends all over the universe.

You'll have sake too, right? We can drink to reunions!