damned_institute | Day 69: Male Showers

Fai was pleased at the concept of getting clean. He wasn't sure why so many of the other patients seemed to be so upset about them. Fai even hummed a little as he washed himself up. He wasn't sure how long he was allowed to stay in the shower, but this was far more pleasant then wandering around aimlessly or something. He had abandoned his hair tie and eyepatch with his clothes to make sure they didn't get wet. So now he positioned his bangs so that they would cover the missing eye. He would prefer no one asked any questions about that because he would rather avoid trying to explain it.

He set to work getting clean, continuing to hum some random tune as he washed up.

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Edited 2013-03-03 02:44 (UTC)

By some miracle, Kurogane had managed to keep to himself throughout the day without being bothered. No one had been forced to sit with him during meals, and he'd been able to rest in the Sun Room without interruption. He had needed a slow pace for the day after having that flower, and used the time to gauge just how the cure was affecting him. Admittedly he was feeling better, and with the oncoming showers he'd be able to inspect better how his body was responding.

He spent a little more time than his usual in preparing, focusing on his left arm as he undressed. While it still retained some red patches close to the hang, the majority of the rash had faded away. He could once again see the darkened skin and tattoo of the arm they'd forced onto him. If nothing else, it was a much better sight than the rashed-over limb he'd been suffering with for the last week's time, however much it still annoyed him.

"Staring won't get anything clean, Mr. Cross."

"Shut up," Kurogane snorted at the orderly that was trying to make him hurry and entered the shower area, paying little attention to who else was there as he found an empty shower head. He'd been there long enough to know that very few patients wanted to have a conversation in this place.

Kurogane might not have noticed him, but Fai knew that his prey was close. He stopped humming and looked over his shoulder as he waited for that familiar voice to reach his ears. With the sound of the water muffling sound it was too hard at first and then he spotted him.

Concern flickered across his face briefly at he got his first real look at the differences in Kurogane's body. That arm brought a familiar ache to his heart that made him turn away very briefly. Reaching up to casually smooth the hair over that eye, Fai tried to push those thoughts of Celes away.

Since it seemed he hadn't been noticed, Fai slid his way down until he was right next to the ninja. He was silent for a moment before that sing song voice called out, "Make sure you do a good thorough job, Kuro-tan. No one wants a stinky ninja."

Thought the ninja didn't pay close attention to others when in the showers, he kept enough of his senses to know when someone was coming close to him. He caught the magician in his peripheral long before Fai got beside him and although he knew better than to think the man could keep his mouth shut in this situation, he had hoped Fai would watch his words a bit better than that.

He kept a curse to himself and chose to focus on the water that had finally gotten to a decent temperature, testing how it felt on the still reddened areas of skin. "Focus on yourself. They don't let us in here often."

"I've already been doing a very good job. I'm enjoying the shower. Are we not allowed to do this every day?" That is a shame. Considering how active everyone was around here, Fai would think showers would be mandatory. But he did resume washing himself again once he was settled in next to Kurogane. He was going to enjoy it to the fullest while he could. He intended to stay in there until he was either kicked out or became a human prune. The warm water felt good against his typically very cool skin and he intended to soak up as much of it as possible.

With the water warm enough and the sensation of it on the rash tolerable, Kurogane ducked under the shower head. "Twice a week, if that," he answered as he continued to check certain pains over washing properly.

He rubbed a hand over his left shoulder, rolling the joint back to be sure. The wound there had still been healing when the rash had spread, so he hadn't been able to tell if it had healed or not since then. That doctor hadn't helped with shocking the thing either. Except for the memory stinging his pride, he didn't feel either the injury or any resulting pain. Like most taken in this world, this wound had healed cleanly.

When he was satisfied, he took his hand away, grabbed the soap and finally started washing himself.

Edited 2013-03-03 08:21 (UTC)

Fai wrinkled his nose a little at the thought of very little shower time. "Lots of stinky ninja time then." Because clearly he wasn't going to be stinky. That would mean doing actual work or something. And Fai was more likely to merely lay around. His concern was definitely all that hair..only being washed once in awhile could leave that to becoming quite a mess.

He reached up and covered the missing eye as he ducked his head under the water. Slowly he moved those fingers away from it, still aware that the hair would probably be washed aside by the water. He had already done a pretty good job of washing up but decided that if this was it for awhile, he might as well do a double dose and enjoy it.

Picking up his own soap he resumed his humming as he washed.

Why was Fai stuck on that? It wasn't as though they hadn't been to worlds where they weren't able to wash frequently. Where Kurogane was from, he would only wash whenever he felt he needed to or when the Princess ordered it - the latter reason had likely been just to annoy him as well.

He snorted, choosing not to answer, and instead wiped the water from his face back through his hair so he could see what he was doing. The soap stung against his left hand as he rubbed the bar between his palms. "Damn..." he hissed, but put up with the pain since trying to wash with only one hand would have been an even bigger pain.

Edited 2013-03-03 08:36 (UTC)

Fai looked over at the hiss, forgetting himself for a moment as worry flickered across his face once more. "Does it still hurt?" Fai couldn't smell any blood so he didn't figure there was any open wounds but the smell of soap and the interference from the water could be making that difficult.

"I could wash you if you can't~" Fai was only mildly teasing in order to cover up that concern as the one eye looked at that hand.

The continuing questions caused Kurogane to realize that this was the first Fai had seen of his arm since the rash had started, meaning that neither this version nor the other had seen the rash over that time. Kurogane had been too much in the habit of keeping his arm covered even before getting sick, using his cloak at nights so he wouldn't have to be reminded of what was done to him. The only change now was this this Fai hadn't seen his replacement arm at all until this point, leaving him with no knowledge of how it should have looked.

"It's better than it was," he muttered, "And I don't need help."

Fai nodded and pulled his eye away from it. He held up his hands and cupped the water as it showered down in front of him. "When I left..you had just gained a metal arm from the Piffle world." Fai had paid the price to get it. He knew he wouldn't die by giving up his magic, but it was still a high price. It meant all he had was the vampire blood to keep him alive. His whole life really did depend on the ninja from that point on.

"I hadn't really gotten used to seeing that yet." Because soon after they had traveled on..and he had ended up here. Even though it had only been a couple days it felt like much longer.

"You already told me," he reminded.

Though this was the first time he was hearing about the timing. So this had only just happened in Fai's time, him losing his arm. Kurogane hadn't asked for those kinds of details when the magician had explained. Those things hadn't happened to him yet, and possibly wouldn't since some version of them had already gone on here. He wasn't sure, and asking wasn't likely to change anything either.

How he'd been able to get a new arm from Piffle, of all places, had been bothering him, and the fact that he'd lost an arm in some way. He knew the circumstances here, but not what they had been in the Celes country Fai had spoken of. If the reasons had been too similar...

"This isn't metal, so it's not the same," he said, wanting to keep the comparisons to a minimum. He was already aggravated enough how similar the things were that had gone on between their times in different worlds, and keeping his and Fai's circumstances silent meant they didn't have to feel anymore helpless about their lives than the place already made them feel. "I'm not used to it either."

There was so much more to the story about the arm, but Fai was cautious about how much he should reveal. If he told this Kurogane of the events, would it change anything of their future? Fai doubted it..but it wasn't something he could be completely certain of.

"It's not the same..neither are the circumstances. But it is a bit ironic isn't it? As if this place is able to read your future.." The mismatched eyes were unusual though. Unless that was something even Fai hadn't experienced yet. It was still strange to be from Kurogane's future. But he felt this Kurogane should know why the arm was so important and why it bothered him.

"You gave it up..your arm. You gave it up to save me. We were on my world and I was prepared to be destroyed along with it, but you wouldn't allow it. You cut it off and left it behind along with your sword."

Ironic was not the word Kurogane would have used, and whatever he did want to say in regards to what Fai knew, he wasn't about to do so in she showers. There was a reason he'd kept his words short in the room, wanting to get finished and out before something came up as it was sure to. By the time Fai had started speaking about what he'd done, Kurogane was already reaching to turn of the water.

More questions had arisen now, as had a sting of shame that the ninja couldn't ignore with his left arm so visible. With the stream ended, Kurogane turned to leave. "I'll be in the Sun Room," was all he said in parting.

If the magician wanted to talk, then Fai could come and find him.

[retreating]

Fai watched the ninja retreat, surprise etched on his face for a moment. It was like he was running..that was Fai's trick. Fai tilted his head up and let the water wash over his face, debating on his choices. Kurogane had told him where he was going..which meant he could follow if he wanted to. Reaching out he turned off the water but he just paused there for a moment as he considered retreating somewhere else. But he felt he had started something and to just leave the ninja to dwell on those words was probably not wise.

Finally turning away, Fai went to dry off and get dressed.

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Day 69: Male Showers

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/oh lord, I can't resist...

No peeking, Kuro-pii~

Who would want to?

So mean ;_; /dies a little inside

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