~♥THIRTY-FOUR♥~

[generalflirt]

[Action]

[It's later than he expected to be back from his mountain sojourn, really, when he comes into the town on Wednesday night. Shikamaru, let alone Silver, probably came back before him, but he finally makes it back then, goes to his apartment for a much, much needed proper shower and goes to bed.

So it is on Thursday that Masaomi's properly back in down, Linda on his shoulder. He's skipped class for... well, a long while now, so when he gets up surprisingly early, one of the first thing he does is actually go to school, possibly with an ear to speak with the professors or anyone who missed him from that. After that, House 11 to see how all the people he knows from there are doing. Once that's done, he heads over to the Battle Dome for a few reasons. One of them is to try to see Law, one of them is to ... well he decides to test out the training in the Battle Dome, preferably with Silver or Gold or someone else who knows Pokemon to see if he can run them before going back to the plaza. In the plaza he has some intention of lurking around the Smithy and the library. But also just trying to integrate back into socializing with people, maybe break into some light flirting, if he can muster the gusto? Trying to normalize. And once that is done, well, if he didn't run into some people he's of the mind to run into after all that in order he'll be going to Mikado's apartment and then the Avatar House on the south end of town. And then, of course, back to his place at night.

tl;dr options in order:
A) School (also includes getting lunch in the break period)
B) House 11 (after school)
C) Battle Dome (either lurking in its clinic or fighting digital pokemon in the rooms or getting refreshments between bouts
D) Plaza (in particular smithy and library - will be chatting up people, might hit on girls)
E) Community Building 7 (in particular Mikado's apartment)
F) House 56
G) Community Building 1 (in particular his and Shikamaru's apartment and kitchen on that floor)

You can also run into him in transit for any of these locations, naturally. Oh, right, and he'll be wearing something akin to this, so no soulpatch or whatever he was wearing int he experiment. With a small bag and Linda's luridly yellow pokeball in his pants pocket]

Comments

[mischiefbreeder]

Things. [Typical Masaomi issues, no doubt. Gold's realized by now that there's a lot of shadows under that bright exterior Masaomi puts on.

After a short walk, the duo arrive at the living room, arranged with several couches and chairs and an entertainment set-up that Masaomi should no doubt find familiar. It's his, after all.]

[generalflirt]

Oh wow, I like what you've done with the place. [Nice Wii. He goes to run a finger on the TV before he rolls his shoulders and slowly paces the edge of the chair area]

[mischiefbreeder]

[Gold gives a shrug of his shoulders as he goes to plop down in a chair.]

Gotta do what you can to make a place feel like home, right? Most of this stuff is new. Didn't really wanna bother hauling all the old stuff over. You know how hard it is to get furniture into a new place? Turns out it's even harder to get it out!

1/2

[generalflirt]

I've never really had that problem, but I can imagine! [He runs another finger on the top of one of the charts, smiling. He keeps pacing though, and after a while more of that-]

[generalflirt]

...Why do you think I was in the mountains, Gold?

[mischiefbreeder]

[Ahh, here we are at the serious part.]

Knowin' you? There's no one answer. But if I had to give it my best shot...

...I'd say you were tryin' to get away. From everything.

[generalflirt]

Mm~ I'm not going to deny that. Why?

[mischiefbreeder]

[What was this, Twenty Questions?]

Frustration. With how things. With how things are goin'. With yourself. I on the money at all with this?

[generalflirt]

Mmm hm, that's all true.

[He stops pacing now, to lean to the side a bit, watching Gold]

[mischiefbreeder]

[Gold's eyes remain trained on Masaomi, watching his movements.]

And? [That's said in a "did your trip help?" way.]

[generalflirt]

And... I owe explaining something to you.

[And now he leans against the wall.

[mischiefbreeder]

Oh? [Well, now this was something he wanted to hear? Masaomi was hiding something from him?]

[generalflirt]

Well... I'm in love, Gold.

[Quietly. He'll just begin there]

[mischiefbreeder]

[What? Masaomi, in love? Impossible! Masaomi could never be in love! Perish the very thought!

...Yeah, Masaomi, Gold already knew this. You've really been kind of obvious about this. But whatever, he'll humor him.]

Wait, really? No way.

[generalflirt]

You don't need to sound shocked. [:I But he sighs, hanging his head a moment before he shrugs]

I'm telling you directly because I've told Shikamaru before now. Thus, you deserve the same information. [...] It's Katara.

[mischiefbreeder]

Oh, so I was right, then.

[generalflirt]

...C-come on. I haven't been that obvious, and even if I was you should show more excitement

[mischiefbreeder]

Dude, you declare to the whole village that you're head-over-heels for some chick, and then you start spending all your time with Katara. Anyone who doesn't catch on after that's pretty dense.

[There's a pause.] ...Besides, I'd like to think I got a pretty good idea what goes on with my Bro sometimes.

[generalflirt]

It's not all my time! It's barely even most, do you know anything about her schedule?! It's insane!

[mischiefbreeder]

She's the only girl I ever really saw you with lately.

[generalflirt]

You mean aside from my partner, right?

[...Coy smirk as he goes to take out his hideously yellow pokeball]

[mischiefbreeder]

[Man, that's such a gaudy yellow, Masaomi.]

I think that's a given at this point. [Gold sees your coy smirk and raises you one of his own.]

[generalflirt]

[What no, it is pretty okay okay. But he smiles]

So it also is a given you won't interfere with my love life.

[mischiefbreeder]

That's... gonna depend on you, bro.

[generalflirt]

I'm telling you not to.

[But he does invite Gold to explain]