Fire and Furniture

[theskyaccepts]

WHO:Tsunayoshi Sawada And Katsuki Bakugou
WHERE: Ikea
WHEN: August
WHAT: Let's go fight a mimic! And maybe bond over mediocre meatballs! And maybe get banned from Ikea!
WARNINGS: Property damage, physical violence and likely some swearing.


[Tsuna is standing off to the side, trying not to be noticed.

He's not entirely sure what he's doing here, for a variety of reasons. He'd seen the request and well, a thousand dollars is a thousand dollars but he also has no idea how to fight a mimic. For all his video game knowledge, it doesn't really transfer over to real life.

But he also can't shake the voice in his head that tells him to just do it. It's a familiar voice, and yet Tsuna is unable to place it. So it just kind of sits and tells him to do things. Things he doesn't want to do and yet ends up doing them anyway. It's annoying.

He looks around. The store should be closing soon.]

Comments

[theskyaccepts]

Yeah. I'm not thrilled with it.

[He's got to start carrying around an extra set of clothes it seems. If this is going to keep happening.]

I think I'll go grab one.

[callmekacchan]

[Katsuki waits for him to do that. When Tsuna comes back, he pushes himself up.]

We're stuck here until they reopen. Let's find the food court. Get something to eat. I'll pay when they open up.

[Or leave money. Depending. He's probably going to eat and go pass out on a couch.]

[theskyaccepts]

[He should argue, or offer to pay half, but he's also tired and hungry after his rampage, so there's just a nod and he toddles off towards the front of the store wrapped in a blanket.

There's probably something they can heat up.]

Hopefully they don't mind the mess.

[callmekacchan]

We just took out a fucking monster. That was probably eating furniture and possibly customers. They better be fucking grateful.

[Katsuki walks right into the kitchen and starts rummaging for the frozen meatballs. Setting to work heating them up. Heating up frozen food isn't usually his thing but when you're hungry and tired...]

Sit down. I'll get this ready.

[theskyaccepts]

[Eating customers? Tsuna can't say he really wants to think about that. But he puts it out of his head as he slumps into a chair and pulls the blanket tighter around him.]

Thanks.

Man, I wish when this town was just sort of weird rather than actually being weird.

[callmekacchan]

[Katsuki doesn't reply to that. Sounded like it was just musing aloud anyway. Instead he nukes some meatballs, tosses them on two plates and returns. Sitting down across from Tsuna and pushing one of the plates toward him.]

You get hurt at all back there?

[theskyaccepts]

I don't think so. I think I'm okay...might be a bit sore later though.

I don't usually move like that.

[Just when he's under the influence of his weird powers. It always comes back to haunt him somehow though.

But he reaches out and grabs a fork to spear a meatball.]

Are you okay?

[callmekacchan]

Nothing that won't heal.

[He shoves a meatball in his mouth. For once not caring about the taste of what he's eating. He's just tired and hungry.]

We're probably not getting out until morning. So I'm probably passing out on one of the couches.

[theskyaccepts]

And we don't need to find a first aid kit or something?

[Just to make sure. They's already made a mess so what's one more thing.]

I've always kinda wanted to lie in one of the room displays they have...

How do you even do those explosions though?

[callmekacchan]

Nah. Nothing is bleeding broken.

[But that sure is a question with a weird as fuck answer.]

I sweat what I'm pretty sure is nitroglycerin out of my palms now.

[Yep.]

[theskyaccepts]

[Meatball halfway to his mouth, Tsuna pauses. He's glad Katsuki's okay but...]

That's really weird.

Just out of your palms?

[callmekacchan]

As far as I know, yeah. Or at least it only ignites there.

[It's a hella weird super power. But hey. He's not complaining about being able to blow shit up.]

I've been testing some shit out since it started happening. You should probably see if you can figure out what triggers yours. It seems useful. If you can harness it.

[theskyaccepts]

[Tsuna seems skeptical about that, since it feels like he's just along for the ride when it happens.]

I don't even really remember how it started. I think I got hit on the head or something.

[callmekacchan]

Maybe it triggers when you're in trouble.

[Hmmm...]

We should fight sometime and see if I can get it to happen.

[theskyaccepts]

Hiee?

[That seems like an extreme response?]

Uh. Well. I mean....maybe? I don't know if I'm any good at something like that...

[callmekacchan]

[It's Katsuki. Of course it's an extreme response.]

You just beat the shit out of a mimic. I think you can handle it.

[theskyaccepts]

[Tsuna has to laugh at that.]

I guess I did. Never thought I'd be doing something like that.

[callmekacchan]

Back at the beginning of the year, I wouldn't have imagined it either. When this Zodiac shit first started, I could barely conjure enough fire to light a candle.

[And now he can blow shit up.]

[theskyaccepts]

So this has been going on this long?

Could you do anything before zodiac?

[callmekacchan]

The Zodiac shit? Since April. The fire thing? A long ass time. I just tried to ignore it until the Zodiac bullshit started. Then in May's realm, someone had to protect me.

[He rolls a meatball back and forth on the plate absently with his fork before stabbing it with the prongs to pick it up.]

So I started practicing with the fire thing. Swore I wasn't gonna let that happen again. Next time I faced a monster, I was taking it down.

[theskyaccepts]

That's pretty wild...

[He eats a few meatballs, thinking.]

Have you always lived here? In Kaisou I mean.

[callmekacchan]

Nah. Grew up in Japan. Moved here for college a couple years back.

[He has something he's been wanting to ask actually...]

You didn't experience anything weird until the app showed up, right?

[theskyaccepts]

I mean, there were always urban legends and stuff. A lot of that floated around town.

[He knew of things, but never actually investigated, being kind of a weenie in that regard.]

When I got the app, I kinda started taking more notice. It was like things became a lot more real.

[callmekacchan]

Yeah. I've heard that from others too. It's weird. Almost like Zodiac predicted you guys would start noticing things. But people like me... I've known about this shit my whole life and somehow flew under their radar until April.

[theskyaccepts]

Your whole life? Seriously?

[Granted, Tsuna's spent his whole life trying to ignore it all. Living with it...that just seems like a lot.]

If Zodiac's trying to figure it out though...maybe that's why? They're looking at things more closely.

Not that that's a good thing.