Everything [Day 7, EN, Closed]

[Kuni Koyuki]

Searching her a moment, brushing her thumbs along her hands she considers deeply the way to express what she means. Which was something Koyuki did normally, but now it had that extra focus and need. After all, the embarrassment for having said something stupid was warming the back of her neck.

"No, I do not want to go and see a Spider world. I imagine they would be unwelcoming, and I would be as equally difficult of a guest. I understand the difficulties, as the odds such a thing could ever happen are beyond what one could ever reasonably hope to achieve. Yet.." she hands on that idea for a moment, taking the time to let herself breath and assure herself of her own footing. "This place you speak of is important to you. It has built you. I would be lying if I said I did not have some interest in seeing what it is you hold dearly, that I might understand it myself. With enough will, grit, and focus you can always find a way to push yourself toward your goal. If you wanted it enough," she lingers on that thought, looking down and away from Yakumo. It was the logic that got her here, the planet where she had hoped to die.

[Susumu Yakumo]

Seeing Koyuki look away, Yakumo freed one hand away from their interlocked hold and brought it to Koyuki's chin, gently nudging her to look back to her with the manipulation of her fingers.

"Hey..." the word was soft, comforting. "... You don't need to see where I was born and grew up to get to know me. Besides, by that logic, you'd have to go the Kakita as well, and I think that you might hate that more. I was raised by the Crane as much as the Spider, you know." While Yakumo laughed softly at the little joke to lighten the mood, the statement was no less sincere because of it.

[Kuni Koyuki]

Responding easily to the touch Koyuki comes up, meeting her back. Soft half-smile working its way up from those depths. Leaning gently into the hand that was gently nudging, and almost invites it to stay by that intent. Shaking her head with a mindful effort of not disturbing that.

"You misunderstand," she says just as softly. "I do not feel compelled to. Just that my desire would be to learn of this place in the way you see it as best I can. That being back there has importance for you, I would want to feel that if I could. Much as I would hate the Crane, I would endeavor to see it once as well if it meant something to you." Struggling a moment, she feels compelled to look away by the tugging at her heart. Revealing this bit that was perhaps already so obvious. "You have come to mean a great deal to me, that is all. More- more than I think I would prefer to admit."

[Susumu Yakumo]

Yakumo's shoulders rose gently as she breathed in deeply. Perhaps she had been blind to see it, but now it felt like she saw the roadsigns of where this conversation could go... and she wasn't ready to go there herself. And yet she did not want to hurt the woman before her.

"Perhaps I don't understand..." she murmured, eyes glancing carefully down Koyuki's face. "... But I don't consider myself formed by the locations, as much as by the people I am around." Her bare fingers tapped Koyuki's cheek. "... You should finish your routine though. Your skin will dry out."

With the hands that were still connected, Yakumo brought it up to her lips, gracing Koyuki's fingers and knuckles with a few tender kisses.

[Kuni Koyuki]

Watching the action more than feeling it, Koyuki forces up a smile that looks pretty similar to the one's she wore before but lacking that oomph. Nodding along with the words, "I should," she says, softly. Glancing around the room for anything that might tell the time around them but finding nothing she just turns back toward the mirror. Taking to the routine with the memory from what she'd seen Yakumo do earlier.

"Pizza is probably here. Might be a good idea to split our focus?" she asks, tone affected with the change as much as all those little details. How the nerves were wound up a little more, shoulders tightened a little. Breaths taken less smoothly than they had been prior.

[Susumu Yakumo]

"Mm, they usually ring the bu--" at that that moment, the buzzer did ring, followed by a cheerful voice from the hotel employee announcing themselves outside.

"Honor guest-sama, your food is ready. As it pleases you, it will be deposited on the cart outside your door, as always. Please have a good night, and we are always at your service. Fortunes blessings upon you." One could practically hear the smiling and bowing and endless praises service workers praised upon their customers.

"The buzzer," Yakumo completed the sentence, then gave Koyuki a smirk. "You know, the thing you never use." With a soft chuckle, she turned... and paused just to turn back and give Koyuki a playful tap on the rear before she continued out of the bathroom to pick up the food, leaving Koyuki alone for the time being in front of the mirror.

[Kuni Koyuki]

Pulling her back in with that smirk, the chuckle, "It's more personal," the quick response came. It wasn't, it was only an excuse. Pausing with the tape to the rear with that incidental gasp followed up with a smirk over her shoulder as Yakumo made her exit toward the door for the pizza. Watching her go she waits a moment or two to let it all sink in, and the heaviness to take her. Sighing with that weight like it might overtake her.

Looking back to the mirror she put a hand to the cleanser and mechanically repeated the process from Yakumo before. Spreading it out over her hands, pausing to look down at them with a thoughtfulness. Breathing in she looks up to see herself in the mirror, and isn't quite sure who she sees. Following again, applying the spread of it across her features watching how it changed those colors nearly the same. Focusing so much on the task she doesn't notice at first that Rikako is standing behind her.

You're falling apart, Koyuki. Piece by piece. Just a matter of time before you wake up from all this and find yourself bleeding again. Can you do it again if you fall? When she abandons you? Pick yourself up? Survive? You barely did it the first time.

Glaring daggers back at the mirror, she takes that moment to feel satisfaction in ignoring her completely. Burying her face in joined hands full of water.

---

By the time Yakumo might return, Koyuki was freshly stepping out of the bathroom area. Returned somewhat back to the energy she'd carried from earlier in the night.

[Susumu Yakumo]

While Koyuki was finishing up, Yakumo had put the pizza out on the table along with some chilled drinks. Beer, soda, both available depending on what either of them might fancy.

Yakumo herself was lounging on the mound of pillows on the couch, legs kicked up behind her as the feet lazily moved back and forth, while she was scrolling through the menu of movies available to watch on the hotel's vid-selection.

Hearing Koyuki come out of the bathroom, she perked up and smiled. "Hey, what kind of movie should we watch, dear?"

[Kuni Koyuki]

Padding along the wooden floors toward her intended destination. Standing by Yakumo's side she looks over her for a moment, just appreciating the fact that she was there. Voices held in her head quieted by the focus. Watching the legs sway a bit she finally turns focus toward the screen for only a second before coming around the couch, "Any good horror movies on there?"

Finding her way around, she comes down near the side of the couch close to Yakumo trying to figure out a way to orient herself best with the other woman. Getting comfortable, and close.

[Susumu Yakumo]

"Mmm I'm pretty sure there is, yes," it wasn't what she usually watched herself, but it could be fun. As Koyuki joined her on the couch, she sat up on her knees... and once Koyuki was settled into a seating position, Yakumo laid herself down across the Kuni's lap.

Using the remote, she continued scrolling through the selection of movies, now narrowed down to horror.

"Do you want the scary ones, or the cheesy ones that just make you laugh? Because they have some of those, and they also have some that are rated high as good horror movies. Like The Rancour, or The Halo, classics according to the synopsis." Judging from how she spoke about them, it didn't seem like she had seen them.

[Kuni Koyuki]

Right where she wanted to best be, Koyuki's hand rests down on Yakumo's back gently and idly brushing along the skin in small thoughtless patterns. Glancing over the screen she takes a quick gauge of the listings before turning back to Yakumo. Just admiring her as idly as she brushed her back, "Pick one of the classics. Everything on there is good," she says, that bit of fondness in her tone that lingers.

"My mom loved The Halo."

[Susumu Yakumo]

"We'll let mother's recommendation decide then," she said with a chuckle and selected the movie.

As it would be dificult to eat, drink, and try to watch a movie at the same time, Yakumo sat up right again but close to Koyuki. A pillow was grabbed and placed in her lap (knowing she'd need it), and her hands soon were occupied with a slice of pizza and a soda as the opening sequence began.

"I'll warn you now... I get scared easily from good horror movies."

[Kuni Koyuki]

Bringing her arm around Yakumo's shoulders, Koyuki still pulls her in close as she can without disturbing the process of snacking on a bit of pizza. Something that was tenable enough for now and left plenty of room for her to shift Yakumo more into her embrace as the movie went on.

"Good," she says, the slight edge of tease there. "Thing that you're watching it with me then. I'll be sure to keep you safe from all the spooks and scares, as a Kuni should," it was silly, and Koyuki smiles just a bit at the suggestion of it.

Reaching, disturbing the comfort a bit, to grab a slice for herself Koyuki expertly bend it so as to not have anything drip or fall off over them and holds it to the side in that one hand. Leaning in to just nestle against Yakumo's head for a second before the movies kicks in proper. Koyuki hasn't had a night like this since she was pre-gempukku, and it would likely be one she remembered till the day she dies. However soon that may or may not be.

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