”Hitori ja nai” bokura tsunagatteru kara

[serengalen]

[There's a lot of adjusting that has to happen, for someone like Riku to transition to a position that keeps her on the ground more often than not. A large part of this involves the absolute hilarity that is sending her trainees, and it doesn't take long for her to accidentally become a new kind of infamous for tearing a select few of them to shreds for joining up in some quest for glory and heroism. It's likely she only gets away with this and her continued refusal to be even a little less blunt, relationships to diplomats aside, due to just how much she's contributed on the field.

So when, at the end of a long and trying day of kicking one of them up and down the training rooms, some idiot recruit implies she's only advanced in rank because of who she's shtupping, it ends with that same someone tossed out with their newly broken nose and her casually taping ice to her hand in her office. She never did learn how to throw a punch properly.

This cannot at all be a bad time for people to come bother her.]

Comments

[serengalen]

...That's...actually that's a really valid point.

[Well, now she's got a look on her face that says she's plotting something, but true to her word, the flat she theoretically lives in on the occasions she's not in whatever room he's staying in or asleep on her desk isn't more than a fifteen minute walk from the base. The flat itself looks fairly modest, but given it's location, it was probably Lumi's doing.]

[ascendantred]

I know Lumi was anxious to have her best friend back, but I didn't realize that she was going to buy you an apartment to do so.

[But he'll look around a bit as they walk in, since he is curious where she's staying.]

[serengalen]

She bought me this back after Mizuki got here...she thought it was better that we both be kept somewhere it was easy for her to keep track of us, for all neither of us are really ever here anymore.

[It's pretty classily furnished, for all Riku's claims of never being there, and the photos around appear to be mostly ones Mizuki keeps of Rikus of all ages, although there appear to be a few of Riku's old school photos in there, and Lumi's in a couple...

There is also a friggin' gigantic piano which is probably Mizuki's, and about eighteen fuckbillion robot models.]

...His decorating sense never did change from when he was twelve.

[ascendantred]

...You can say that again.

[He just sighs and tries not to laugh more than a chuckle at all of this.]

I assume your room was spared?

[serengalen]

Of course it was, he knows better than to touch my stuff.

[Sometimes it might be hard to remember Riku's the younger sibling. Anyway, she's happy enough to pull him into her room, which is much less...cluttered, her furniture all in sleek modernistic lines and pretty muted colors, with a couple of overstuffed bookshelves full mostly of medical journals and textbooks and cookbooks of every stripe.]

[ascendantred]

[He's happy to be pulled into somewhere a little more serious looking, and if she's going to just stay so close then he's going to loom.]

Woe befall any sibling who would.

[serengalen]

[Can he loom is she causally slides a hand down to his ass.]

He says, as though that has ever stopped Lumi.

[ascendantred]

Well, someone is supposed to be helping me get my revenge on her for a variety of reasons!

[Answer: sort of.]

[serengalen]

[Laughing, and leaning against him.]

And revenge we'll have, this one's just going to take...work. And a convincing excuse to get her to the base. I need to test a hunch.

[Saying this why she's sliding her hand down the back of his pants is mean, Riku.]

[ascendantred]

I don't think you're that interested right now...

[He shudders a bit, but reaches out and strokes a hand back through her hair, to her cheek.]

[serengalen]

I'm not, I'll admit it.

[She leans into his hand, and actually stops groping him to behave for a moment or two.]

I'm not really interested in anything but you.

[ascendantred]

Well, then. Let me oblige...

[He's going to half pull her against him, half pick her up and definitely lean in to kiss her senseless.]

[serengalen]

[She is very willing to go into that with every ounce of enthusiasm she can muster, which is quite a statement. She's using that hand on his ass to cinch him that much closer to her, and maybe grope him some more while she's there.]

[ascendantred]

[Well, he's got her held tight against him so he can't really grope back, but, it does cause him to break the kiss.]

Wow... Maybe I should got lost in my work more?

[serengalen]

[Laughing a bit breathlessly.]

I don't know if I agree with that...

[ascendantred]

I don't know. You're pretty intense, right now... I like it.

[He'll just use that he's got her so close to walk them back closer to the bed.]

[serengalen]

[Well then, she'll lick all the way up his neck.]

I could be intense without you being gone so long...

[ascendantred]

When are you going to admit you've missed me?

[He'll just stick his tongue in her ear in retaliation.]

[serengalen]

Nnngh...[She shudders pretty hard, and leans her head against his shoulder. She's...pretty flushed, and only half of that is his fault.]

I thought it was obvious...I'm happiest when you're here with me.

[ascendantred]

Doesn't mean I don't want to hear it. For someone who's so perceptive, you miss a lot of things sometimes.

[Well he'll just pull her down into his lap while he sits on the bed, then, and ghost a hand down her spine.]

[serengalen]

[She shivers again, and yeah, the red is definitely her being embarrassed. She does marshal herself to stroke a hand down his cheek, though.]

...I...I guess it sounds kind of ridiculous, doesn't it, that I still get shy sometimes, doesn't it? But...I really do miss you, when you're not around. I missed you for a long time without knowing what it meant...so it's still a little embarrassing to admit I was that dumb.

[ascendantred]

Oh wow...

[He just smiles down at her for a second, then. Nothing untoward, just holding her as closely as he can and grinning down at her with equal parts happiness and surprise, of all things.]

You know, I thought I just liked teasing you... but I think it's that when you're really being honest, there's just something about you. You shouldn't have to play a role.

[And then she's getting a short, sweet kiss for it.]

[serengalen]

[She likes kiss! She is happy to kiss.]

I was never any good at pretending...It's not that I'm playing to the script they give me.

I made my own life, and I wanna spend the rest of it with you.

[ascendantred]

Good. I've played other people long enough.. I'd rather just be myself, with you.

[She gets another kiss for this!]

[serengalen]

[Yessss kissing him more deeply this time.] I like the sound of that.