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Taking some down time [Open]

Hana's walking about the City again.

He's not sure why he likes it so much. He could come up with some dumb reason about always being close to citys, growing near Tokyo and all, and how it 'feels like home', but that would be stretching the truth. Plus, it sounds cheesy.

Besides, the City's not like a real city. The buildings are too mismatched, not in that 'built during different eras' way, more like 'built in totally different universes' way, (which they are) and in some places they were too far apart. There's not enough people crowding the streets. Electronic billboards are an oddly rare sight, even more so if they so much as flicker. And there's a distinct lack irritating construction work.

No, not a real city. In fact, much cooler than a real city.

It's the place he's staying the most since arriving back.

Kicking up dust. Sitting on crumbling walls. Perching on unsafe ledges. Leaning against filthy buildings.

Thinking about what happened back on the mission, among other things.

Allowing himself time to go through the things buzzing about in his head.

He doesn't talk to himself during these times of thoughts, that would be strange. He's just silent. But with every rare passer-by he doesn't shy away, instead he smiles slightly and nods to, socially.

Well, it's boring to be alone and pensive for long periods of time, isn't it?

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The young woman smiled at him, putting both hands behind her back. "Nice to meet you. I'm Zouichi's partner, Fuyu."

"I might have mentioned you once or twice," Zouichi admitted. "Anyway, I usually can't bring the bike along with me on missions. So how have you been holding up?"

"Hey, Fuyu." He waved cheerfully, mentally putting Fuyu down as Zouichi's 'spirit partner', or at least the spirit of his bike, before turning to Zouichi again. "That sucks. It'd be alot easier for you to get around."

Hana gave a noncommittal shrug. He'd gotten away from the mission with superficial injuries, most being caused by moving around in rubble and broken glass. For the most part they were healing quickly and did nothing more than add to the collection of scratches and wounds he had concealed under his clothes.

If anything, Hana was irritated he'd played pretty much an inconsequential part in the whole thing. And pushing that aside, it'd started him thinking about other issues that had been nagging him for some time.

But these were minor things, pointless really. The mission had had no real ill effect on him. It'd just been a weird, more-hassle-than-it's-worth vacation.

None of this he voiced though, in fact, he was more concerned about Zouichi. "What about you?" His friend had suffered much more than scrapes and bumps on that planet.

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That was actually pretty close to what Fuyu was. She waved at him cheerfully. "Yes, and I'd be able to support him a lot more easily, too."

Zouichi smiled a little at Hana, although this time the expression was more strained. "I guess I'm alright. A lot happened on that mission. And we never did end up finding out what was going to happen to that planet after we left."

He fingered the bandage around his forehead almost absently. "At least I got that stupid brand off."

Hana quickly decided he liked Fuyu. "Ha! I bet even Zouichi needs help sometimes!"

Although Hana and those with the same powers as him faced some prosecution back on his own planet, he doubted he would ever truly know fully what the events on their mission had meant to Zouichi. All he knew was that it'd upset his friend and he could understand somewhat why. Hana hoped he would be able to help his friend in some way, without it seeming like he was taking pity on the older guy. Zouichi seemed like the type who rejected pity. Hana liked that about him. Proud, but nice.

"Well, we can't change anything now. Besides, we got even with 'em, pretty much, got rid of that dumb thing and got their stuff. I'd say we did pretty good."

He thought it best to switch the subject. "You seen Cassandra since you got back?" Hana never did use Sandy's much more preferred alias.

Fuyu smiled at him. "He does. He tends to be terribly reckless, too, so I try and look after him."

Zouichi nodded. "Yeah, I guess you're right. We can only hope for the best from now on." No one had really directed much pity in his direction, really; he was generally cool and competent at his job. If anything, pity would probably feel more alien and puzzling to him than anything else. "But if anyone offers to kidnap me again, I think I'll have to refuse."

"Sandy? No; did something happen with her?" Now Zouichi looked a little concerned.

"Aha! I knew it!" He looked at Zouichi, grinning cheekily like he'd just gotten one over on the guy. "I knew I couldn't be the only one called reckless." He pouted. "I bet you don't get scolded for it though."

Hana chuckled. "Or maybe just punch them in the face and tell them not to be so stupid?"

The teen tilted his head slightly. "Huh? Oh, nothing, man, nothing. At least, I haven't heard anything. Don't worry." Hana shook his head, smiling. "Just wondering if you've spoken to her."

"Well, not often," Zouichi said. "It's kind of in my job description to take risks. Although... I admit I'm more impulsive than most."

"By a wide margin," Fuyu agreed.

Zouichi blinked once at Hana's answer. "Oh. In that case, no, I haven't really seen her around since I got back. But I'm sure she'll be happy to see you're all right. Are you planning to go to the prom with her?"

"Yeh, a wiiiiiide margin." His eyes flashed playfully as he extended the word.

Hana smiled at the mention of Sandy being happy to see him before he raised his eyebrow. "There's a prom?" Proof that Hana truly paid rigorous attention to the current events on the ship.

Zouichi blinked. "Huh? Yeah. At least there were some messages on the Omnicomms about it."

Well, Hana did look a little young to be going, but it wasn't like he was quite the right age either. "Starfire's throwing one. I figured you and Sandy might end up going together."

"Proms are like dances and stuff, right? I dunno if Cassandra likes stuff like that. I suppose if there's food we could go eat and see if we can hang out with anyone we know." He shrugged. "Are you going?" Zouichi's implications hung just out of Hana's reach. It seemed he was thinking more along the lines of some kind of casual get together or party were you go with a friend or a group.

"I think so. At least, that's the impression that I got." Zouichi had never actually been to a prom, but he did know it was a sort of semi-formal dance.

"And yes, I think I will. Starfire mentioned the possibility of duels breaking out there, too, so I think it would be a good idea to show up and make sure things don't get too out of hand."

He paused. "She did promise to arrange for refreshments. Of course, Starfire also enjoys drinking mustard, so."

"Duels?" He smiled. "I'll go then. It'll be fun to fight some new people. I'm sure Cassandra won't mind coming and watching, she likes watching me training so it shouldn't be too different for her."

Hana blinked, pulling a face. "Wait, mustard? Like, the stuff you put on hot dogs?"

"That's what she said. I thought it was a little odd to have fights break out at a dance, but I figured she must know what she's talking about." He frowned a little. "By the way, are you interested in a training fight or two?"

He nodded. "Yeah. I thought it was kind of bizarre, too, but she seems to like it. I saw her drinking a glass of it at the beach party." But then, Starfire was an alien.

Hana stopped pulling a look of disgust at the idea of drinking mustard to look up at Zouichi, slightly surprised. "You mean like, against you?"

"Sure. You said you were looking for new people to fight, right? Same here."

As long as he held his strength back, he should be able to have a practice match or two with a human. Besides, it might be fun.

"Awesome!" Hana eyes shone with excitement and even his hair seemed to puff itself out proudly.

"Do ya use any weapons?"

Zouichi paused in thought. "The ones I usually use are guns, and they don't really have a setting that I'd use for a practice match. But I can use a fairly wide variety of melee weapons, too. Do you fight hand-to-hand?"

"I use swords. I think I told you once." He shrugged. "But I can fight okay unarmed. I'm not the greatest ever but I do well."

He nodded. "All right, how about this? I'll use a police baton; it's about as long as a short sword. That would make our reach about even, right?"

"Sounds great!" He was starting to bounce a little from giddiness. "When are you free?"

He smiled. "Anytime, really. Just give me a message on the Omnicomm when you want to do it. My schedule's pretty flexible."

"Yeah, yeah, I will!" He was like a happy child now. "Thanks man!"

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