3rd Report

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

So, it's almost New Years'...

I guess I should be depressed over having no family around, but it isn't like we have any back home beside the Shinsengumi, right Sougo?

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[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

[a long, disquieting silence, followed by some potentially irritated pen-tapping.]

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[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

What abou-- She--

[angrily obliterated with a pen at first.

Then there's another long pause before there's a 'BANG' and large bazooka hole blown into the journal]

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[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

[brb collecting himself; then, recorded in a somewhat strained voice]

Hijikata-san, have you gotten so old and senile that you have to ask me a simple question like that?

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Ask you what? It was a rhetorical question.

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

My my, you are beginning to forget things. Before long, we will have to put you in an old person's home and buy you a hip replacement, Hijikata-san.

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Shut up, Sougo. I am not old.

If you're mad about something, tell me. And if you're just being a brat, quit.

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

Yes you are.

No.

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

No, you're just a kid.

...no to what?

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

Just 'No'.

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, you're pissed. What for?

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

Are you going to forget about her agai--

[another blown-up journal page]

There are two rather big holes in my journal now.

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

[Okay, he saw that. sry.]

Forget who, Sougo?

Hijikata-san;

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

If you do not know already, there's no point in telling you.

Sougo;

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

There damn well is. If I forgot someone important I'd like to know.

...Is this that "loss" thing?

Hijikata-san;

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

It is your job to know what you've lost.

[smears on the page -- pushing the soot on the page around while he thinks:]

Do you remember spicy rice crackers, Hijikata-san?

Sougo;

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is.

...Yeah. I mean, it's food. And I think we knew someone once who was obsessed with them. Kind of nuts, if you ask me.

Hijikata-san;

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

You mean my sister?

Sougo;

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

You have a sister?

Hijikata-san;

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

Had.

Sougo;

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

...Oh. And... I knew her?

Hijikata-san;

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

That is one way to put it, yes.

Sougo; [Dictated]

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

[Suddenly feeling sick; so it'll record him head-desking]

I have a feeling it was more than just a passing acquaintanceship.

Hijikata-san;

[sadistprince.livejournal.com]

You were close.

[D: rather not in the mood to say much more -- have him closing the journal on you, Hijikata]

Sougo; [Dictated]

[eggsandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Sougo...

[OK now he feels bad, so.. he's going Okita-hunting.]