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[superordinary]

Who: The Dangans who happen to be in the area
Where: Goldenrod City
When: October 6th
Summary: Naegi finds out they have a house. Also it's Kirigiri's birthday. General house/birthday shenanigans happen.
Rating: Mondo's mouth is a thing so PG-13?
Log:


[ Needless to say, Naegi didn't expect any of this; who would expect finding a key and a note that indicated that an entire house had been left to Asahina - who wasn't with them anymore. Still, a house is a house and winter is drawing closer with each passing day and it would be nice to stay somewhere that isn't an inn or hotel room. Naegi's not going to look this gift Ponyta in the mouth.

Kirigiri and Naegi are the first to go there, to make sure it isn't some sort of trick or scam before informing the others. It looks nice despite the busted window on the first floor and the...door seems to have been left wide open.

Better start investigating, then. ]

[ Some time later, Naegi's encountered at least twenty-four Eeveelutions, a ton of food and pillows scattered all over the floor and he's concluded that no, it's not a trap. It just hasn't been taken care of and has been ruled by the Eevee Kingdom for some time. So he sends out the following text to the others: ]

Guys, I have good news! Come to the following address when you can, all right? It's the house next to the breeding center so it should be easy to find.

[ Pretend the address is included. :| Shortly afterwards, a second text message is sent out: ]

By the way, it's Kirigiri-san's birthday today.

[ ...Naegi has no idea why he knows this. He's pretty sure she hasn't mentioned it. At any rate, by the time the others get there there will pizza, cake and party hats but not much else because there's only so much you can do when you just remembered her birthday. Here's hoping the Eevees won't eat everything the second you turn around.

Also, floor plans for future reference. ]

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HOUSE EXPLORING SHENANIGANS

[freshprints]

[It's a fairly suspicious thing, this prospect of a gift...house turning up for them out of seemingly nowhere, but fortunately Kirigiri's prior experiences with Johto have been just weird enough that she's not about to automatically write it off as a trick or a veritable impossibility; she's received Pokemon as unprecedented gifts in the PC before, of course, and those were from people she'd never even heard of. This one was from Asahina, which made things at least a bit more plausible, even if she'd never mentioned any mysterious benefactors leaving houses to her before. It was still improbable, but those considerations tipped it into the arena of "just improbable enough to be theoretically possible, and therefore absolutely worth checking out."

Despite the open door and the broken window, which are fairly sketchy, the house seems decent enough; despite being a little overgrown, the yard was obviously once well-kept, and there are clear signs that someone put care and thought into the upkeep of the place. The furniture and accoutrements are all on the nice side of sensible, and there are the usual signs that this really did belong to a group of children about their age — the pool table in the game room, the choice of food in the kitchen cupboards.

The big gaping hole in the upstairs bathroom door.

At the moment she's in the library, surveying the Very Nice Couch™ and the literature on the walls. There are a lot of detective novels, and she finds herself mildly approving of whoever it was that owned this place last.]

[superordinary]

[ When Naegi realized that it's her birthday, he quickly excused himself and said he had to go to the Goldenrod department store and buy large quantities of Pokémon food for all the Eevees in the house; after all, they must have been on their own for a while so the sooner they're properly fed the better.

He buys a lot of food for the Pokémon, a cake and two pizzas for what's going to be the most awkwardly thrown together excuse for a party in the history of mankind. He tried, all right, and it's the thought that counts. Finding her a suitable gift takes time, but eventually he settles on something he hopes she will like.

When he returns to find finds Kirigiri in the library, he's carrying a box wrapped in brightly-coloured paper. Time to announce his presence with the most cheerful voice ever. ]

Happy birthday, Kirigiri-san!

[freshprints]

[She hears the footsteps coming a few seconds before the voice rings out, so she's not startled by his arrival and return; rather, the advance warning leaves her content to finish up what she's doing, perusing the last few books on the shelf she's examining before beginning to replace the knickknacks she'd cleared aside to allow for a better look at them.

The remark on her birthday, however, does give her a start — not because it's not her birthday, of course, because it is, but she's certain she didn't tell anyone, and yet somehow...could he have guessed? — and she whirls, surprised, just in time to see —

Naegi-kun.

Cheerful paper.

A box.

His saving grace is that it's not nearly as big of a box as it could be (as she remembers), but all notions of rationality aside, a cacophony of memories hit her like a fire truck —

Try not to scream when you look in there, Naegi-kun.

Is she staring?

She doesn't even know if she's staring. Or if she's standing there looking like a deer in the headlights. Or much of anything, really.

She's a little preoccupied trying to fight down the inability to breathe with the plain and simple fact that there couldn't possibly be a skeleton in that box.]

[superordinary]

[ Is Kirigiri staring?

Is Kirigiri staring at him like he grew a second head and a new set of arms?

What the gently caress is going on here. ]

...Kirigiri-san?

[ He's utterly clueless because he has no idea that glossy gift wrap with cyan and yellow dots could possibly cause any sort of distress or unpleasant feelings. So he just stands there, holding out the gift for her to take. ]

[ardent]

[Kirigiri, you are probably the only person who approves of whomever it was that owned this place last, as everyone else's opinion seems to be somewhere in the vicinity of "compulsive hoarding maniac."

But so it goes.

Either way, he's not going to avoid her forever; he's unsurprised to find her in the library, though he isn't expecting the interest in the detective fiction, of all things.]

...Kirigiri-kun.

[Let's just. Get the "talking to the birthday girl" thing out of the way, shall we? He's not particularly displeased with her at this point, but it's not exactly his idea of a good time, either; however, in some ways it's...good to see her in person still, particularly after losing Fujisaki and Asahina.]

[freshprints]

[Well, it's better than a rampaging stampede of adorable fuzzy creatures, at least. She takes awhile in glancing over at him, but eventually she gets around to it.]

Ishimaru-kun.

[How verbose they are.]

[ardent]

[He'll just get the formalities and general shouting about concerns out of the way, then.]

I take it you arrived here without too many problems?

I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE WHEN YOU WALKED IIIIIIIIN

[shslasshat]

[Togami had not been window shopping at the Department Store. That would be absurd and ridiculous for a man of his good breeding to even enter a place so plebeian as a Department Store.

...But they had quite the impressive collection of TMs, and even if he was in the frugal stage of not spending anything more than he had to (even with the extra funds from his venture at the Azalea gym), if he was going to become a true contender he couldn't just rely on the moves that his pokemon learned naturally.

Then he got the text from Naegi, and while the factoid about Kirigiri's birthday wasn't particularly interesting, well. He was already in the department store, it wasn't like it was that big of an inconvenience for him to pick up something for her before heading to this alleged safe house.

Checking the address a second time, Sho at his side and The Complete Works of Nuzleaf Holmes (wrapped in simple lavender paper and tied with a black, curled ribbon - done at the department store) under his arm, he tried the door and opened it, rolling his eyes at Naegi having left it unlocked.

Stacked on top of each other, it would only take six Eevees to almost equal Togami's height.

He was not expecting twenty-four Eevees and their evolutions to stampede him upon entry, and he can only keep his balance wading through them for a few seconds before he topples with an indignant squawk and is buried under the fluffy horde of yipping fox-things. No amount of tsun-ing at them will deter them. They are determined little fluffballs.]

[superordinary]

[ What on Arceus's green earth is even going on here anymore. Naegi heard the door opening and he leaves the kitchen just in time for...this. Twenty-four fluffballs are climbing on top of Togami and burying him in what can accurately be described as a giant ball of fluff; or perhaps a multi-coloured giant ball of fluff if we want to break out the adjectives to describe the different evolutions.

...At least it's only twenty-four. Naegi's pretty sure there are a few more somewhere in the house, but a headcount will be done later. ]

Togami-kun? Do you need help?

[shslasshat]

[By this point, Sho is growling and holding one of the struggling Eevees by its waist, but given that she's only 8 inches taller than an Eevee, she isn't very effective at actually helping her trainer.]

Naegi, where did all these things come from?

[superordinary]

They were already in the house when Kirigiri-san and I got here, so I guess they belonged to the person who previously owned this place.

[ He says, bending over to scoop up two of the Eevees in his arms. ]

They've probably been on their own for a while.

[freshprints]

[And as per usual, here's Kirigiri being the most helpful person ever by standing quietly a short distance away and watching in silence as her classmate gets mauled by a stampede of adorable fuzzy things.

Happy Birthday, indeed.]

Persistent, aren't they?

[shslasshat]

[AUGH THEY'RE GIVING HIM KISSES THE INHUMANITY

He manages to get his head above Eevee-level, and braces himself to resist the assault of the bouncing fluffballs trying to continue bathing his face.]

Persistent isn't the word for it.

LOUNGE ROOM/FLUFF EVASION

[ardent]

[Well, Ishimaru has spent the better part of the day mentally screaming because why does no one tell him these things (oh my god guys we need to start scheduling things and if someone is having a birthday can we have a couple of weeks' advance warning so this shit doesn't keep happening please and thank you), and the better part of the hour after he walked into that house mentally screaming because wow, do we ever need committees appointed to organize all this...

...this...

...this crap, tbh.

Admittedly, the reign of the Eevee Dynasty does not seem to have been a kind one and that's likely what's accountable for the trainwreck; it's not exactly easily remedied, but it's workable. At the very least he seems to have evaded the veritable boatload of fluff for the time being, though lord knows how long that's going to last; he's managed to find that lounge room, however, and while he's not playing for now, he's checking over that pool table again.

...He imagines he'll have to find Kirigiri eventually, as it is her birthday and all, but for the time being he's content to take his time on that.]

[superordinary]

[ Did someone order a protagonist? No? Well, you're getting a goddamn protag anyway because why wouldn't you want one. After Naegi's done cleaning up the worst of the mess in the kitchen (there's still a lot left to clean; how the Eevees managed to get food on the ceiling is beyond him) and feeding the Eevee dynasty a truckload of Pokémon food, he decides to go to the lounge for a bit. ]

Hey, Ishimaru-kun. How're you liking the house so far?

[ardent]

[It's likely a testament to how well both Naegi and Mondo have been doing with getting Ishimaru to react...sort of like a normal person when Ishimaru doesn't just fly off the handle immediately; his kneejerk reaction is still to get snappish, to rattle off a list of everything he's found unacceptable (and there are a lot of things he finds unacceptable, it'd likely be quicker to list the things that are acceptable to his standards), but he actually manages to bite it back. Albeit with a lot of twitching.]

Ah, Naegi-kun! It's...

[...okay. What can he actually...say here...]

It's fortunate we have this place, especially with winter due to set in - it's going to take some work, but I think it'll be good, overall!

[shslasshat]

[True to form, Togami has done nothing in the way of actual work, and has been sitting in the study all day reading (with his chair covered in Eevees and a Flareon draped over his feet).

However, as the evening wears on, he decides - not knowing or caring where the other residents of the house were - to move to the lounge and take advantage of the fireplace, since his Flareon friend has sought greener pastures.

If he's surprised to see Ishimaru there, he doesn't show it.]

Hmph. I would have thought billiards beneath you.

[ardent]

[Ishimaru straightens up quickly, though the action doesn't come with the odd, awkward sense of guilt that it had back in Violet City; it wasn't the billiard table there so much as it was the location - honestly, at least this one is convenient and doesn't come with a bar and all its implications attached.

So. Just Ishimaru being Ishimaru, then.]

Likewise, Togami-kun!

[...he says, with no sense of shame or self-awareness at all; to his credit, though, it's not pointed, just a statement.]

NO MY OUTFIT

[divinitea]

[If you're lucky enough to be standing near the entrance, you'll be treated to the sight of the beautiful, classy and incredibly stylish Celestia Ludenberg....

....flat on her butt, legs splayed out in front of her and a rather disgusted look on her face.

She's found the Eeveelutions - put it that way.]

Ugh, get away!

[Even though her Gothita is doing a marvelous job of keeping the boistrous beasts away from her ever-so-delicate trainer, it's little comfort for Celes. Could she have been tricked? Was this a trap?]

Naegi-kun!!

[That scream will likely echo throughout the house; enjoy yourself everyone, Miss Ludenberg has arrived!]

[shslasshat]

[Guess who's going to stand here and not help.

this guy

He even puts down the Eevee he's been carrying around for the last half hour or so just so it can join in the fun. Go for the drills.]

They only lack discipline. I'm surprised you're not better with animals.

1/2

[divinitea]

[Managing to get on her feet, Celes furiously straightens her clothes and whirls around to face Togami, rage not...quite under control yet.]

Do I look like some sort of zookeeper to you?! Get these little fuckers away from me!!

2/2

[divinitea]

[.............ahem.]

And how are you, Togami-kun?

[superordinary]

[ Uh oh, this...is not going to be pretty, is it. When Naegi hears her scream he sort of just freezes for a second before he leaves the kitchen, arriving just in time to see Celes on her butt. ]

C-Celes-san...

1/2

[divinitea]

Naegi-kun.

[C:]

Would you, perhaps....

[C:]

...explain to me....

[C:]

2/2

[divinitea]

What the fuck is going on here?!