generalflirt | ~♥NINETEEN♥~

~♥NINETEEN♥~

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[This morning Mikado is gone.

More pressingly, his computer and most of the things in his room are gone too. Masaomi stares at it for a long while through the hole in the wall (covered by a sheet) dividing their two rooms when he went to check on Mikado today. As it stands... well. Well. There's a few possible conclusions, and they all fly into his head: kidnapped, kidnapped by someone else? Seduced-? all of them leave a foul taste in his mouth. Thus, eventually, he flips open the journal. His tone is flat, with an unhidden hint of threat in it-]

Have any of you seen Mikado Ryuugamine?

[... But he's too antsy to focus on just that. Instead, he's going to hit up all the likely hang outs- he's going to hit up all of the friends of Mikado's he knows the house/apart numbers of. Archie Kennedy, Anne, Shuri, Selphie. For good measure, he then will go to people he wonders might be useful - the clinic to see if he can't find Law-san or someone else there and then around to look for Shikamaru, even though he doesn't know where he lives. By the end of the day, he's just going to be looking in the windows of all the houses he can, and then going to the apartment doors of everyone he can and knocking on their door... progressively feeling more and more like hitting someone or something.

SO UH. Run unto him wherever ! He's feeling insane]

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[Masaomi is being EMO. But he also is looking in all the houses - so when he spires Shikamaru walking past, he's going to try to waltz over and grab his shoulder. Then again, ninja]

[Considering it's Itachi he's looking for... yes, ninja. At the same time, Shikamaru picked up on Masaomi's presence earlier, so he wasn't taken off guard. He just wasn't expecting to be stopped.

He frowns, but doesn't move to brush his hand off. Yet.] Masaomi?

[There's a 'What is it?' somewhere in that.]

You're good at finding people, right?

[The hand remains there on the shoulder, and he keeps his expression as neutral as he can manage]

[...irony. He nods though.]

It's not my specialty, but better than some. Why?

[He's watching for clues in his body language now. Masaomi has a good poker face, but the subject matter already suggests this isn't just a friendly visit.]

Well, we're comrades, right? You can do a favor~

[The hand remains there. He's resisting a squeeze and instead his gaze just hard even though he bordered on sing-song with the last sentence. There's a brief pause before-]

Do you know Mikado?

I met him once. [He's heard more about him over the journals though, and he remembers Kida telling him that Mikado is his best friend.

Sing-song all you want, Masaomi. That alone is a tip-off.]

What's the situation?

[Straight to the point. He's not dumb enough to miss the point here - either Mikado is missing, or someone they know is.]

[Huh, so he doesn't need to pretend? He hangs his head a little and then sighs. The tone drops after this-]

He was gone this morning.

[...he needs more than that, Masaomi.

He almost asks if his things were gone; opens his mouth to, but thinks better of it. After another moment:] What do you think happened?

I wouldn't know, I'm not a ninja.

[...] He was just gone, you know. I didn't hear anything.

[Nothing? Yeah, this is sounding a lot like he was sent back to his own world - or a kidnapping. The Malnosso's doing, either way. Which is troublesome, because if that's the case, he already has a good idea of where this is going.

This said, he shouldn't bother. Then again, he's looking for Itachi despite the same shitty odds of actually finding him, so he's not one to argue either.

Shikamaru sighs, then raises an arm to nudge Masaomi's gently with the back of his hand.]

I'm gonna need to know where you've already looked. I'll circle back and double check, but I may as well hit up the places you haven't been to first. [Once his shoulder is released, he'll reach for his journal, kept away inside of his flak jacket, and rip out a page to hand over to him.] Write 'em down. I'll check in with you regularly on the hour to keep you updated, or sooner if I find him.

[And then because it needs to be said - because Shikamaru isn't one to sugarcoat things:] And Masaomi.

[He agrees? When he's nudged he actually goes to tighten his grip but then when the paper is given to him he almost instant breaks it and removes his arm. He stares at the paper blankly once its in his hand and then looks back up at Shikamaru. He can only guess what the last note is, but he cuts it off in the form of-]

I don't have a pen.

[Avoidance. It makes him wonder how many times Masaomi has already heard this today - he has a long list of friends, and Shikamaru knows he can't have been the first person he went to, regardless of his skill set.

This is really hitting you hard, isn't it? It makes him wonder what he'd be like if Chouji just vanished from the village one day. He likes to think he'd be glad, but he knows he'd be a mess. So he can sympathize.

It doesn't give him pause though, as he reaches into another pocket to pull out a pen. Because at the same time, he knows he wouldn't ignore the reality of the situation if it was staring him in the face.]

I might find Mikado, and I might not. Either way, you need to prepare for the possibility that he isn't in Luceti right now.

Ah, maybe. [Quickly. He takes the pen and then looks around - he takes a seat somewhere and puts the paper on his knee as he begins to list some places he's been - the houses on the northern part of town, the school...]

That's not for you to decide though, Shikamaru-kun.

[His eyes go a bit wider as he says that before narrowing again. Tense. So... tense]

[He doesn't even blink at it.]

Do you think making it makes you a bad friend?

[His gaze gets harder. He doesn't blink either, just... tenses a bit and stops writing]

What do you think?

[You don't want him answering that one, Masaomi.]

I think that you're avoiding the question.

Well, leader, it doesn't matter. If Mikado can be found, I need to find him.

[...]

Kidnapped? Sent home? Both of them could have happened, but so what?

[this is all said with what he intends to be a neutral, placid, factual tone... but there's fury here. There's so much anger that part of him - foolishly - wants to pick a fight right here just so he has someone to punch. And his eyes probably show as much]

[And there it is. He's breaking past the surface now, and he can't help but find it troublesome that he didn't really have to dig that far.

He recognizes that anger. It'd be hard to miss it, with the type of kids he grew up with. So really, that makes the decision for him.]

Good effort on your part. But the thing is? Needing something doesn't make it happen. [He doesn't look away as he says this, and even steps closer as he does, within striking distance.] One of those scenarios still ends with Mikado gone with nothing you can do about it, and you having to figure out what you're going to do without him.

[If he could, Shikamaru would gladly spend his life not wanting to fight anybody, but he recognizes a barrier close to breaking when he sees it. Masaomi's not the most stable guy around; if he doesn't lose it here, chances are he could with someone else.

So it may as well be him.]

[He grits his teeth here, hanging his head a bit. One of his hands balls into a fist. He's not going to punch him - not yet - but really this is all things he knows, but has no desire to think about right now, no desire consider all of them. Don't screw with him]

Are you afraid? Are you going to avoid the problem even then?

[Another step closer.]

[ . . . he hands off his sheet of paper now - he's only written half of it, but it's roughly pushed into the ninja's chest]

[Like a bullet, Shikamaru moves to grab his wrist before he can withdraw his hand.]

[...]

Let go, leader.

[His grip doesn't loosen.]

What are you going to do, Masaomi.

I'm going to keep looking for my best friend.

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