OTHER SELF.

                         “ i do try my best! ”  she chirps,  visibly getting more and more jittery and excited as the conversation continues.  there’s enough to keep track of now that her thoughts are only half making sense,  but she  does  manage to put them together enough to be understandable,  pulling out her phone to search for materials she can order.  “ i’ve made a few cosplays for fun in my day,  but i prolly can’t make a couple of whole outfits from scratch.  so i’ll find a lobster costume and a featherman costume and we can just make a couple of additions? ”

       it’s lunch time and he is THANKFUL to god that sakura sojiro crossed his path because this man has been feeding him so much he already feels like he owes him the world. the bento was full as well as the cafeteria area and even when he didn’t mind eating elsewhere for some reason he was PERSISTENT about eating there. as all the tables were full, he started searching in hope of a FAMILIAR face and certain someone called his attention. sure, he doesn’t know her that well but he helped her once and... that counted right? 

                          futaba leaned in close to watch the video on yusuke’s phone,  her head tilted a little;  she is absolutely  DELIGHTED  when she looks up at him again,  mauve eyes sparkling as she bounced.  “ INARI! ”  she really didn’t need to be  so loud,  he was  right there,  but her mind was working a mile a minute.  “ this is just surreal enough to be your kind of thing,  but even aside from that!  we should put  YOU  in a lobster suit!  like you’re the almighty father of tommy and larry and you have to come collect them so that they stop messing with the feathermen!  oh my god  –  you’re the  LOBSTER GOD! ”

          ❛ did i say something? ❜  it’s not unusual for his attention to wander elsewhere at any given moment, but now when yusuke asks him what exactly he meant, minato can’t furnish a suitable answer.  ❛ oh, ❜  &  he watches yusuke’s brush drag along a pristine canvas, bright colors a contrast from his previous works.  ❛ i guess i just meant that everything’s moving faster than i can keep up with. feels like some choices are made for me and there’s nothing i can do about it. ❜

          ❛ hmm? ❜  perhaps it’s too unintelligible a response to be taken seriously, but it’s clear enough that minato is unaware of where his concern stemmed from. in fact, the only reason he’d noticed that yusuke was speaking to him at all was because of his pacing around the room in order to gather the things necessary for their apparent…  fishing  excursion.  

          ❛ worrying about me somehow lead to a fishing trip? ❜  —he won’t ask if yusuke even knew the basics of their new hobby or not. minato couldn’t crush his spirit.  ❛ why fishing? ❜

   “   i’m  doing  much  better  now  that    you’re    here !   ♡   ”       tsunoda  smiles  sweetly  with  the  small  tilt  of  her  head   ,     lifting  her  entangled  hands  higher  so  that  he’d  have  an  easier  time  untying  her  from  this  rather  unforgiving  mess.       then  once  she’s  free   ,     she  lets  out  a  wistful  sigh  alongside  the  melodic  hum  of    ‘  my  herooo !   ’

   “   what  do  i  owe  your  chivalrous  effort   ,     a  kiss ?   ”       she  teases   ,      not  really  meaning  it  aside  from  wanting  to  see  if  it  might  bring  a    certain    hue  to  his  cheeks.

          still with delicacy, we made the last efforts to untangle completely the net from her hands. after he was done, he decided to take it over and fold it before handing it to her, as he supposed that was the main reason why she got stuck on it. at the same time, he could tell this was definitely a CHEERFUL person, thing that didn’t matter to him but the things she said were kind of WEIRD for him.