Day 48: Courtyard

"I could tell you some stories," Yuffie suggested brightly, "of unquestionable legality." Illegality, that was. Petty little things like the law didn't usually mean very much to her, except for the times when she had to uphold it. Always fun for the breaking, though, the law, and messy for the clean-up. Just the way she liked it.

Her nurse looked like she wanted to rub her temples. With sandpaper. "No, thank you," she said instead. "Why don't you run along, now?" Please!, was the unspoken request. Before I spontaneously combust. Or commit various acts of violence that would have me arrested, or placed in a loony bin. Like this one. Yuffie had quite a bit of fun filling in the blanks other people left. Sometimes she did it outloud, just to see the reaction; sometimes she kept it to herself. It really, really depended.

"Don't mind if I do!"

She took off, bolting out into the Courtyard. The weather was dour, overcast and threatening rain, but Yuffie didn't care. She'd refused a coat on principle, and had found herself bargaining: Fine, fine, Plucky had conced she could go without a coat, but unless she had at least a sweatshirt on, there'd be no outside-time for her. She ran a little ways down the dirt path, then toppled herself into a series of cartwheels. Straighten, run. Cartwheel. Straighten, run, just for the sheer sake of movement, and the whip of the wind. She laughed a little giddily, checking her gait down to a jog. Gawd, Leviathan, she'd needed this. Right from the get-go, she'd needed this. Every day she spent cooped up in side, the more nervous energy she had.

Nanaki had helped, she realized. Sort of. He'd…helped. In a way. His presence and everything that was wrong with it weighed on her, for sure, but he was still Nanaki. He didn't deserve to be here, didn't deserve to be stuck in a body that he hated and couldn't use, but all the same, she found herself glad to have him.

Yuffie started to hum, as she jogged leisurely around the Courtyard. A cheery little tune, one of her favorites; no, it was her favorite. A Wutaian walking song, with the roughly translated title of Pathway After the Rain. The pace stayed even but the tune picked up, and she found herself half-singing snatches of the lyrics to herself. It felt like ages since she'd last said anything in her native tongue, at least outloud; she wrote in it all the time.

[The Doctor]

[identity profile] bitpartgod.livejournal.com 2010-03-12 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Remy. Right! Silently, Kibitoshin made a promise to commit the name to memory and this time not lose it. It wasn't his fault there was so much to think about here, but constantly forgetting people's names really was just outright rude- not to mention embarrassing. If he was going to be taken seriously at all he really had to work on that.

But maybe now that the introductions were out of the way he really could relax. Remy hadn't bolted for the Institute yet, and with how twitchy and nervous and downright strange he'd been so far that really had to mean something. Unless, of course, Remy was even stranger than him. But he didn't like to think about that preferred to see the best in people.

Even people who picked up on his all-but admission that he was an alien and didn't seem to think it was weird. Kibitoshin blinked, looking surprised and giving him a curious look. Maybe he was used to aliens, wherever he was from. Or maybe he'd been here a long time? Not that he'd seen him around a lot, but he was hardly the observant sort. Well, what could it hurt to answer? If Remy wasn't bothered by it, neither was he!

"That's right!" He laughed awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck. "I guess I'm not so good at the whole 'being human' thing. What about you?"