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[natzoom]

natsume takashi

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[natzoom]

Well, I'm going to make a concentrated effort NOT to, but I don't know how much control I really have over it.

Maybe I should lock the door somehow? Or post a guard or something?

[zgok]

Maybe something for you to trip over, so it wakes you up enough to make you go back to bed?

[natzoom]

Like a box? I could move a box...

I might get a concussion, though. I'd ask Sensei but he's already laughing about the whole thing, so he's not going to be any help.

[zgok]

Maybe you can con him into sleeping where you'd walk
He'd wake you up as soon as you tripped over him I bet
He seems like he'd want the chance to troll you either way

[natzoom]

I don't know whether to be amused or horrified that you already know him that well, because that's EXACTLY what he'd do.





You could sleep over.

If you felt like it.

Maybe.

Just a thought.

[zgok]

After everything you've told me about him and the others like him
I mean I have friends like that even without being tapped into that side

I mean I could
Would you like that?
Maybe you could stay here too.

[natzoom]

You'd do pretty well there. The "other side", I mean. If that isn't too weird to say.

Well.
Yes.
I wouldn't have suggested it if I didn't want to.
Maybe yours is better. Less questions.



Not that we'd
do anything worth questioning!

[zgok]

Mine might actually be safer
Less chance of actually wandering out and hurting yourself that way right?
Since you can't just automatically go

I have never done anything questionable in my life /s

[natzoom]

Is that okay with you? I move around a lot when I sleep. I might wake you up.

Don't you "/s" at me, I know when you're being "/s", you don't need to indicate it.

[zgok]

If it becomes a problem we can make you a nice futon roll beside the bed right?

Sometimes it's hard to tell with you whether you know I'm joking or not!
It's not like you can hear me over text.

[natzoom]

I do like a nice futon roll. You're right.

I tend to default to assuming you always are. And I'm usually correct.

[zgok]

That's fair I guess
You're not a very jokey person so it's hard to tell sometimes.
Not that there's anything wrong with being serious but you could use a little more lightness I think.

[natzoom]

No, you're right. I could.

But that's why I have you. [A sincerely tender moment??? What???]

[zgok]

[Guarded as Natsume generally always is, actual tenderness feels kinda...monumental?]

I think I can give you that
As long as you want that at least.

[natzoom]

That's what I want.

And I also
Don't want to sleep on the futon. I want to stay close to you.

[As long as we're being genuine gonna go! All the way!]

[zgok]

My bed is definitely big enough for that.
Maybe you could stay the weekend. Take a break from being on spirit business.
We could go have lunch somewhere. My treat.

[An actual date! Incredible!]

[natzoom]

Oh! Like -- like a date?

[The blushing! The dokis! Inconceivable!]

[zgok]

Like a date

[Which seems real weird to think about asking now considering everything else they've kind of experienced so far.]

[natzoom]

I'd really like that.

[So they're doing this a little backwards! Whatever, he's still excited about the date!!]

[zgok]

We can figure out where to go when you're here.
Do you want me to pick you up?

[natzoom]

Ah, I'm already on my way.

[He was excited. Shut up.]

[zgok]

[He just smiles at his phone. Yep that's still cute as hell.]

I'll leave the light on for you.
At least you won't have to climb in through the window.

[natzoom]

[Shhh, he's not cute. He's mean and scary and intimidating. And politely knocking on the front door in like, 5 minutes.]

No more windows, no.

[zgok]

[So intimidating, this skinny blonde guy that took a trip into the city to see his boyfriend.

The door opens after a minute to show Kusakabe framed there, from the lazy smile to the low-slung jeans and loose shirt dripping off one shoulder. He steps back to allow Natsume inside, gesturing vaguely to where the family's shoes all were then leading the way through the house to the stairs leading up to his room.]

Come on, before my sister comes home and decides to smother you.

[Because she absolutely would if Natsume let her. She liked meeting Kusakabe's friends and always had big shiny opinions about them later.]

[natzoom]

[There's always a moment, every time they see each other, where Natsume's stomach does a giddy little flip-flop of there he is and he has to consciously remember to breathe. It's very silly and he knows it's silly, but it also feels...nice.

The loose shirt off the shoulder thing: also nice. Natsume manages not to trip over his shoes as he toes them off, mumbling some vague polite nonsense about thank you for having me before breaking off into a huffy laugh.]

Smother me, really?