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ʀᴏsʜᴏ ᴛsᴜᴛsᴜᴊɪᴍᴏʀɪ 👨‍🏫 ᴡɪsᴅᴏᴍ ([personal profile] glossophobia) wrote in [community profile] isleofavalon2021-07-30 05:07 pm

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🧙 WHO: Rosho and Sasara
⚔️️ WHAT: Sasara finally has a talk with Rosho about Rei's mysterious disappearance
🕒 WHEN: July (pre- monthly event)
🗺️ WHERE: the sasaro house
⚠️ WARNINGS: n/a

[ Rosho wipes his brow then removes his glasses in order to wipe away the heat of the noodles he's just finished removing from the strainer. After a quick once-over at the stove and everything he's prepared, he decides that food is finally ready. He can only hope it tastes as good as he wants it to. Meeting up with Hifumi might have been a bit of an agonizing experience with the exuberance of two annoyingly loud and chipper people with his company, but at least he was able to get a lot of good cooking tips from the meet-up. He's more used to making budget ramen back at home, so this tonkotsu tsukemen he gave a whack at is way out of his usual comfort zone, but its hard to mess up ramen in any form, right? Even if he knows he made a bit too much in terms of noodles.

Picking up his phone from nearby, he checks his messages and finds no reply. There's also no sign of any attempted call. He frowns as he looks at the overabundance of what he made. If Rei doesn't come, at least he knows Sasara has a big enough appetite to go through everything, but still...

While not a mind-reader, Rosho's kuda-gitsune catches on to its owner's actions seeing as he's done this same song and dance over the past few weeks, and chirps up eagerly.

REIREI? REIREI COME?

Rosho looks at him and his wagging tail and can only shake his head. ]


No... I don't think so. Not today.

[ He puts the phone into his back pocket and decides he'd might as well stop trying to expect some sort of response for the rest of the night. He doesn't know how long its been since he last talked to Rei, but it feels like its been forever. From what he's heard, the Roost is staying pretty active, so at least he knows Rei is working. He must be around doing something. He just... won't speak to him or Sasara. And he still doesn't understand why.

Rosho sighs heavily as he speaks to his familiar again. ]


Can ya go get Sasara and tell him dinner's ready?

[ Unfortunately, Archimedes decides it doesn't want to take care of this favor, and even just the mention of Sasara makes him bristle. At least instead of the slew of insults it'd normally make it decides to just disappear in a poof of smoke, leaving Rosho alone and frustrated. ]

Honestly, how long's he gonna keep holding on to this grudge for? [ He grumbles quietly then just gets to work on starting to move the noodles over to the dinning table, calling out to Sasara who he has left waiting in the living room. ]

Sasara, come help me set the table! I'm finished!
whosaysdajare: (79632874 01)

[personal profile] whosaysdajare 2021-08-17 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Not saying anything to protect Rosho, that's a noble thought Sasara hasn't had. At least, not in such simple terms. Sure, he'd even said that, insisted that there'll always be the two of them, not excluding Rei but not counting him in either. Knowing, after all. ]

It's my fault!

[ That's all he gets out, and sticking around to see the emotions change across Rosho's face, he finds out this time, is worse than them splitting without the thought of ever seeing each other again. Coming up from their re-reunion up on Tsutenkaku tower, that sort of height is a way to fall. The steps back down are cracked, left broken behind him. Sasara stumbles over the edge. ]

Even if I wanna be, I'm no good as a leader. Rosho... [ How could accept that, Sasara failing him again? ] Rei, he– [ And it ain't just Rosho.

With his eyes down, just staring at the noodles swimming in the soup and his chopsticks dropped, Sasara's shoulders shake suddenly. He draws a trembling breath to match. ]
He lied to us—! [ Hah... to get tricked by some big scam artist like that, it shouldn't come as a surprise. It oughta not hurt like so and feel like as much of a betrayal. ]

He's using us!

[ Being on the same team, though, it's not how it's supposed to be. ]

He made the hypnosis mics and he's with Chuu-oku...!

[ Up until now, Rosho has surely never seen Sasara cry in a miserable way, with a hopeless feeling on every forced breath, with a desperation that doesn't just find a quick quip for an answer. There's only guilt to come washing over his words. ]

There's not a thing I know to do to stop him! [ Even if he said to Rei that he couldn't, wouldn't just let him. He lied too. ]
whosaysdajare: (79481279 01)

[personal profile] whosaysdajare 2021-08-18 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He knows what that means, Rosho getting up in just such a way, all riled up, and if it wasn't for the chair legs scraping on the ground to barely keep the footing, Sasara would still have kept his head down. Come trouble and danger, he can take it, but Rosho has a way with raw emotions that he doesn't.

It's no relief to have told him. What Sasara's been thinking that whole time, wanting to go back to, is that some things oughta stay unsaid. How come his partner is the one to try and comfort him?

As a leader... he looks up at Rosho. ]


No, I— [ As a leader, Sasara wonders if by now he even still has a team behind him. His hand, come up to Rosho's chest, meant to push but instead his fingers curl into his partner's sweater. This little team he'd brought together is splitting apart, isn't it? As much as Sasara now tries to hold on. ]

I did something and I oughta not have, just to find out. And then I never told ya...

[ Some leader, who feels like he's the one betraying his teammates now, one after the other. Even that promise they made, to be more truthful with each other, he broke that too. ]

Sorry, Rosho.
Edited 2021-08-18 16:04 (UTC)
whosaysdajare: (81324574 26)

[personal profile] whosaysdajare 2021-08-19 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
But I...

[ It doesn't even need to be said, that finding Sasara at a loss for words is a rarity. That his thoughts and what he's saying aren't getting him where he thinks he should be, either. He screwed up, totally. He wants Rosho to take the apology, even ask him for more than that if he needs to, just to hear it from someone else that he did wrong.

He's only still trusted Rei for this long because of it, just kept silent because he thought that trust meant he owed it.

Even if his partner doesn't wanna hear it: ]
I really screwed up.

[ Even if that'll fail to lead Rosho, too, Sasara clings to him as much as to the idea that he'll have to make it right. He hasn't got a clue how, but he doesn't want Dotsuitare Honpo to break apart again. Confidence lingers, as weakly as it does, in that last admission. ]
whosaysdajare: (disturbed 04)

[personal profile] whosaysdajare 2021-08-21 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A hiccup on set, or getting hung up on a line during a show, that's small stuff. Mistakes are bigger things to Sasara, like letting go of a friend or even pushing them away altogether. Mistakes are something Sasara thinks of the way Rosho does not. More than a mess up that just happens and you move on, more like, something you're not allowed to move on from unless you've done your all to fix it.

Fleetingly, he doesn't just think about the moment and Rei.

There's nowhere else to look but Rosho's face. To hear these sorts of words and find the wisdom not just in what he's saying, but the look in his partner's eyes. Hah... he can laugh about that one later, maybe. ]


Rosho...

[ If not for some mistakes, things wouldn't have went the way they did. After all, he's said it himself, as for the two of them they would've split anyway, and then what? They wouldn't even be here. Being the one looking up at Rosho, right now, he can't really picture it the other way around—

Sasara suddenly snaps out of it with that thought: How many times is he going to make Rosho say it? That ain't fair. ]


It's on me.

[ His fault... but he isn't saying it to feel sorry, now. Rosho looking up to him, he should have someone worth looking up to. They've come clean about all that, up on the tower, but maybe the meaning of it wasn't there yet. It's not just about the D.R.B., this is about life.

You've gotta be the one to change things yourself.

You can only trust someone else if you decide so yourself. ]


Maybe I thought ya couldn't take it, even though you showed me that ya did. I got it wrong about trusting the old man, so I... [ He finally lets one hand go to wipe his face. ] I got confused, I didn't know what to tell ya. I still don't know what to do but— But I can't do anything on my own!

[ He needs to, despite it all, finally confide in someone else. Right now, there's only one person of that sort. ]

I've gotta rely on you.

[ With the old man's part in all that, it's about Rei having been in their lives, too. An idea Sasara doesn't like is that there ain't a way back... but, the way Rosho says, there oughta be a path forward. ]
Edited 2021-08-21 19:30 (UTC)