Fifty-Ninth Keychain - [Voice]

[perplexme]

Okay...since Axel seems to think it's a bad idea to try and teach the cat to ice skate, let me ask all of you a question. A friend and I are thinking about starting a business. It's something really good, promise.

Think about this. You have an important item but suddenly you can't find it. You think it might have even been stolen. So who would you call? The police, sure, but what about detectives?

[The camera's soon going to get a view of the front cover of a detective novel he picked up from the library.]

Even if it's not something a lot of people would use, I bet at least one person could use a few detectives around here, so I'm volunteering myself and Naoto Shirogane. Need a mystery to be solved? Call us. We all know weird stuff happens around here all the time...just look at last week.

[And with that being said, he's going to wander through KH house to see if Axel's home. He's had a few discussions with the older boy involving another certain bff and a certain redhead replica. And so there's a few minutes' pause before the next bit filters through.]

[Filtered to Luke]

Hey. Axel and I want to talk to you at Fourteen. Come over.

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[perplexme]

Lucky. I don't think I could convince everybody to come outside with me.

[voice]

[menial]

...How's that work, anyway? What are the Heartless, just big floating hearts?

['Gross. Not to mention necessarily temporary.']

[voice]

[perplexme]

No...they're more like little creatures made from darkness. [He'll just be drawing the most basic type.] But they take a lot of different shapes and sizes. Depending on how powerful they are.

[action]!

[squaring.livejournal.com]

[Aaaand the second he gets Roxas' answer, Aoba'll head off for the kitchen; two cups of green tea coming up!

So, when he comes back a minute later, he spots Nea and... let's out a sound that could be described as an 'Awww!!' because kitty.]

[Voice, filtered]

[titango.livejournal.com]

Completely. The Malnosso didn't leave me completely without supplies.

[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

Sure. Jealous that you scared a cat into doing what you wanted it to do. Right.

[lostinmyway]

Oh, but you never know until you try!

[menial]

Okay. And they're not people. Just... the remnants of them.

[perplexme]

[Fff oh Aoba. Roxas was going to reach for that tea as soon as the other boy returns, but at that sound he's just going to grin and reach further into his jacket to take the cat out. He still thinks of Nea as a kitten, but it's been a little over a year since the cat came into their lives.]

This is Neapolitan. Nea for short.

[perplexme]

Okay, you're really going to have to show me this belt sometime.

[perplexme]

What makes you so sure he's scared?

[perplexme]

Trust me, I've tried. Axel's not a huge fan of the cold.

[perplexme]

Exactly! See, now you're getting it. Does that make more sense now?

[menial]

I guess so.

['In the same sense that reading Aristotle makes more sense when you accept that there are only four elements in nature, and also that this is ancient Greece.']

Sounds unnecessarily complicated.

[squaring.livejournal.com]

[It's small and adorable and that's all that matters! He's just going to kneel down a little so it's easier to fawn over him.]

Ah, is that so? Nice to meet you, Nea-san! [C-can he pet it. He's going to try at least.]

[perplexme]

It probably is. I didn't ask for it to be complicated, but that's the way it's been since the worlds were split into light and darkness.

[perplexme]

[Roxas is just a tiny bit amused. Nea, on the other hand, is just going to sit there and meow up at Aoba. Yes, yes, go ahead and pet me, silly human.]

He's been living with us for over a year now...Axel found him wandering around the village last summer.

[personafalsify.livejournal.com]

Why else would he go along with it?

[squaring.livejournal.com]

[All of the petting!]

Ohh, so you were a stray originally, Nea-san? [Why is he talking to the cat again? Oh, right, because it's cute.]

[lostinmyway]

Maybe he just doesn't know how much fun it is. We should show him!

[action]

[fortuneprince]

Yes, I agree.

[flaring]

[Oh. Oh, wow. That's not what Axel was expecting at all. He's quite taken aback by this, surprised at what Luke is and the fact he even just told them. And is kind of hoping they really didn't bully it out of him. Xion might not like that. Jeeze, this conversation got way more serious than Axel was really intending.

He sighs quietly, scratching the back of his head for a moment.]

Puts it into perspective why you and Xion bonded so closely.

[perplexme]

[It's hard to determine if Roxas already knew this or not; this one's been practicing his poker face. He doesn't say anything for a moment, but then...]

...which one of you told the other first?

[fabrecation]

[He glances at Roxas, before he looks down again. He still remembers that moment clearly, both of them out on the bridge... And he thought she would at least think less of him and at most hate him, but he wanted to show her... to tell her that not all futures are told in stone.]

... I did. She told me after that. [After scaring him to death for half a minute.]

[menial]

....Right. And who did that?