004; video/action: tennis house; missing one (1) kouhai

[tensai]

OWWWW!

[Anyone paying attention to the network would have been witness to the sudden turning on of Marui's device just before it crashes down, skids across the floor and somehow settles at a nice angle where you can all see the inside of a barn-- the barn in Goldenrod. If anyone is familiar enough with the area, you would know that it is part of the Tennis House, and where Rikkai keeps most of their Pokémon, when they're not in their balls. Heh, balls.

Anyway, getting to the point: a certain Girafarig's darker half is biting at Marui, looking angry or distraught or a mixture of both. The front half doesn't seem to mind what his backside is doing, probably even approving of the biting. The Rapidash nearby don't seem to be paying much attention to the scene, but the Machamp seems concerned at least.]

Owww, quit it, Ace! Let me do my job and-- not the ear! Let me just-- Don't make me put you back in your PokéBall! [Oh, that seemed to work...? It stopped biting Marui, at least, and Ace is letting the redhead pet him now.] You're not the only one upset that Akaya's gone, you know.

[And it is at this point that something big, blue and furry sits(or rolls over) in front of the camera, snores, and makes the feed cut off. But if you're ever in the area, Marui will just be in the barn, making sure all the Rikkai Pokémon are well-fed and warm and totally not sulking, who does that? Sheesh.]

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[usedlaserbeam]

[Really, he has no idea what he's doing, because of the resident team members he's probably the one with the least experience with things of a Pokemon nature, but hey, he knows how to take a cue, and if this is working, well, he might as well keep after it.]

They do. It takes some getting used to, adapting to them that way.

[Like the Quagsire he seems to have inherited, which is incapable of walking in a straight line and likes to introduce itself to walls with its face.]

Settle down, Ace. That's better. You know better than to act like that. That's right.

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[tensai]

It must be hard for them too, though. Suddenly being given to a new trainer when... You know.

[A shrug and a pout. Ace at least, is settling down, with the smaller head on Marui's shoulder and not trying to hit him anymore.

And then he sighs because what is he going to do without you :c]

Man, you're better at taking care of these Pokemon than I am.

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[usedlaserbeam]

And when he was Kirihara-kun's starter, no less.

[He almost regrets saying Akaya's name as it leaves its mouth, cringing inwardly at the way it feels so wrong and seems to hang ominously in the air long after the sound and syllables have faded away. Saying it makes it more real. But someone had to do it.

Yagyuu's used to being the one charged with doing the things no one else wants to.]

I doubt that. In this case, I think it's simply that he's had more time to grow familiar with me.

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[tensai]

[Marui sighs again, and he moves to Ace's other side so he could rub the Girafarig's back. He's stopped biting or bashing his head on Marui now, but he's still very upset. The redhead, too.]

...He had only two badges left. If I've gotten Ecruteak's badge too, I'd have caught up with him, like I promised him when I got here.

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[usedlaserbeam]

He would've been farther still if he hadn't come back to Goldenrod when he did.

[When he was gone, and they all started disappearing in a swarm—Yanagi, Yukimura, Sanada, Niou. When he'd cracked, sent those frantic texts, begged insisted that their junior come back, come home.

Except that's not really helping with the current situation, is it?]

It's not such a bad thing, letting him learn to outgrow us. We always knew he'd have to, sooner or later.

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[tensai]

Yeah... You're right.

[he sighs, a little more depressed than he initially thought he was. but there's nothing helping that; people come and go in johto. at least akaya's where he really belongs now, right...?]

Man, if it wasn't so cold I'd probably stuff myself silly with parfaits. [he's trying to cheer up, really.]