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

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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[There have been, perhaps, three prior times in Yagyuu's existence when he has looked as generally silently despondent as he does right now. None of them are fond memories; none of them are days he's proud of. None of them are days he likes to dwell on remembering.

This is day number four, and Kirihara-kun is gone.

The fact that he's come out to the barn in the first place is telling in itself that he's already mostly dealt with his reaction to that. Yagyuu is always one to put emphasis on maintaining a good public face; the flip side of that, naturally, is that he doesn't subject himself to public scrutiny when he knows he can't keep it together. Which is why the past few hours were spent alone, far away, in the stillness of the woods outside Goldenrod, and also why a few of the trees out there are currently missing areas of bark in vaguely fist-sized chunks.

But now he's here, tailed by a smiling, oblivious Quagsire with a bad habit of walking into the back of his legs when he pauses, ready to face the uncomfortable discussion that yet another teammate has gone missing.]

Is he giving you much trouble, Marui-kun?

Clearly, you haven't disciplined him properly.

[Whether Marui notices it or not, Niou has been stood in view of the whole scene for a while. He hasn't gone to help out, no, but he's also not gone back inside either. The whole event has played a little on what he's been thinking and wondering about since he got back here - or at least his body has returned to this world.

It's a little unsettling - even for someone like him.

He knows that he should be taking it worse than he is as well, better than just standing there and watching, but worse than being there too. Besides, it's not like Ace is going to kill him with those bites.

Just maim him a bit.

It just kind of smacks him in the face to see what it's like when someone close does leave, which is why even though he's standing there, he doesn't really say anything either. Nothing but the 'puri' under his breath anyway because of the way Marui is struggling with the Girafarig.]

Oh dear... Is everything alright, Marui-kun? That sounded like it was quite painful.

Oh, that kid's gone. Too bad. I kinda liked him.

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