Kūkaku Shiba

“Greetings, Kūkaku-dono.” He gave her a small, courteous bow, noting the case clutched in her prosthetic hand. “One moment, please. I will fetch Tenchō.”

With that, he excused himself to the back rooms of the Shōten. Moments later, the shoji that partitioned the dining room from the main shop slid open, and a gangly, slightly stooped figure clad in green stepped out, slipping into geta at the genkan and clacking his way through the shop. “Ah—Kūkaku!”

The shopkeeper paused before her, eyes dancing with amusement and warmth. “What a lovely surprise! He didn’t invite you in? Apologies—an oversight, I’m sure. Please, by all means, make yourself at home.” He nodded back to the interior dining room whence he’d come, a hint of a smile gracing his lips as he led her to towards it. “After all, you’ve come all this way—”

The irony would not be lost; it was a short journey by Senkaimon, to be sure. A small leap in transit; a much larger one socially... But he was nothing if not a gracious host—and as always, a curious one.

Kukaku took his invitation to take a seat at his dining table, careful to place the suitcase on the table in front of her. "This is a gift I made for you. I know your birthday isn't for a while but I figured..since you deal with more weird shit on the daily than I do, you could use these." She would slowly slide the suitcase across the table towards Kisuke, "Do be careful with it. I wouldn't want the whole case to blow up in your face..literally."

Inside the suitcase was a set of grenades with rainbow fuses and a pack of matches. "I was experimenting with my fireworks earlier this week while doing my usual test runs in the morning and somehow managed to make explosives that make a flash bang that can blind anyone within a ten mile radius. Could come in handy if you find yourself surrounded or need to create a diversion somewhere down the line. Each of them do the same thing, the smoke that comes out after they explode is randomized though. Once you light them, you have one minute before they go off. Hopefully that will give you enough time to get out of range."

[ send +reverse for the roles to be swapped, when applicable ]

🎃: for our muses to carve jack-o-lanterns together

👻: for our muses to go to a haunted house

🎉: for our muses to attend a Halloween party together

🔮: for my muse to invite your muse to a Halloween party that they're hosting

🍬: for our muses to go trick-or-treating

🍎: for our muses to go bobbing for apples

🎩: for our muses to try on costumes

🔞: for your muse to greet my muse wearing a sexy costume

🕸 : for our muses to put up spooky decorations

🎪: for our muses to go to a spooky carnival

🍿: for our muses to watch a scary movie

😈: for my muse to scare yours

👯: for our muses to have coordinating costumes

💅: for my muse to help your muse apply costume makeup

🍫: for our muses to gorge themselves on Halloween candy

🧛‍♂️: for our muses to enter a costume contest

💀: for our muses to be volunteer scare actors

🍭: for our muses to pass out candy to trick-or-treaters

👹: for our muses to make DIY Halloween costumes

🔥: for our muses to tell scary stories around a bonfire

🚗: for your muse to help my muse decorate their car for trunk-or-treat

🌾: for our muses to get lost in a corn maze

🍹: for our muses to get drunk at a Halloween party

🎭: for our muses to meet at a Halloween masquerade party

🃏: for my muse to compliment your muse's costume

💀: for my muse to play a trick on yours

🍂: for my muse to push yours into a pile of fallen leaves

👗: for our muses to brainstorm costume ideas