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[harimaya]

Who ⬤ Hizen & you
What ⬤ Catchall for the underground and tdm (funeral) prompts
When ⬤ April
Where ⬤ See prompts.
Content Warnings ⬤ TBA

ABOVE GROUND

(The best way to stop people from getting in is to watch the entrance. He doesn't expect anyone to just waltz in through the obvious entrances and there are plenty of people keeping an eye out there. Instead, Hizen opts to watch a smaller, less obvious entrance that people can use to sneak in past whatever guards might be on duty.

He keeps his distance, preferring to watch from the shadows of an alley and enjoys how slow the job is for the time being… by enjoying a rice ball. It might be a job but he's still entitled to his snack breaks. Not even the government back home can take that away from him.

When he catches someone poking around, he finishes the last of his onigiri and begins to make his way towards his new target, )

It's closed.

(Some oni have thrown some boxes or something in front of to make it more difficult to get through but it's not impossible.)

Try somewhere else.

UNDERGROUND

(When it comes to closed, dark spaces, Hizen has always had an advantage. After all, wakizashi are convenient for assassinations and all wakizashi spirits seem to inherit a natural talent for sneaking around in dangerous places. Being the sword of an assassin only makes it easier for him.

He knows how to walk quietly, making sure he makes as little sound as possible in the tunnels. Let the sound of water below and the streets above drown out most of his sounds so he can sneak around. He keeps to the shadows and knows where to hide or how far back to stay to keep out of sight. There are no special abilities or powers at play here— it's all skill so anyone with a special talent or sharp senses will be able to sense him eventually but he's good at lying low in wait, stalking potential prey.

His eyes adjust to the darkness and he can make out who his allies and enemies easily. When he sees a fellow Shuten member, he makes a point to take a heavier step so he's heard but stays out of sight a moment longer before revealing himself. He's been shot once this month and he's not in the mood to get hurt again because of friendly fire fo all things,)

It's a dead end.

(The direction they're heading in right now.)

(If he sees someone who isn't a Shuten, he sticks to the shadows and just... keeps watching! Eventually, he might yawn and warn though,)

Keep going and you'll be in trouble.

UNDERGROUND: TAMAMO BULLYING EDITION

(You are a Tamamo and you have managed to make it underground. Somewhere along the way, you've called Hizen out for stalking you or just ran into him. Either way, with alliances established and so on, he doesn't look impressed when he realizes he's stumbled onto a Tamamo.

He tugs at the scarf over his face and let's out a short laugh,)

You guys really came? Thought you'd be worried about breaking a nail or something.

WILDCARD

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DAITENGU FUNERAL (OTA)

[harimaya]

BEFORE

( TDM for reference

Hizen arrives to the funeral dressed in his new suit and he hates it. He's uncomfortable being dressed up like this and he tugs at his tie awkwardly, eventually loosening it to the point where it's just hanging there like he's some sort of delinquent (spoilers: he is). It might be a good idea for someone to fix that so he looks right and appropriate again.

Before all of the formalities really begin, he can be found by the food. The Daitengu is dead, he has to wear a stupid suit, but at least the food is good?)

AFTER

(A vaguely familiar voice speaks from the crowd and an even more familiar masked figure rises above them all. Hizen stares in clear surprise like many of the guests in attendance. After their speech, his hand immediately shoots for his tie and he pulls it so it's completely undone. He's clearly annoyed and he growls after they leave,)

I bought a suit for this.

(The Daitengu is (maybe) alive and Hizen is truly offfened he went out and bought a suit and came to this funeral.)

What was even the point of this?!

(He came here for nothing! His priorities might not be in the right place. Maybe its... the shock?)

WILDCARD

OTA! Hit me up with your best!
I'm happy to set up starters if you want, just let me know.

Before

[kikuichi]

[Norimune is already at the funeral, politely chatting with some youkai. When he spot Hizen, he politely excuse himself. And makes his way over to his comrade.

... Oh dear.]

Hizen, come here.

[harimaya]

( He’s normally prickly and dislikes people bossing him around but… Norimune is acceptable. He has the privilege of being the only person he knows from home and a designated senior in Jigoku-cho. Still, he looks annoyed when he comes over, )

What do you want?

( They’re supposed to be representing their own factions here so why is Norimune calling him over now in front of everyone… )

[kikuichi]

[By calling out to Hizen, he knows people will see they know each other. It's just a matter of time before some people find out, anyway. They've been in Jigoku-cho for a while, mingling with the other faction members is inevitable.

Norimune reaches out to carefully grab Hizen's loosen tie, and start to fix it.]

Fixing this up for you. You can loosen this up later.

[Doing this? In front of everyone? The service haven't formally started yet, they have time.]

Let me know if it's too tight.

after

[nemuru]

( Ritsu, who ALSO bothered to dress nicely because it was an important event— )

Want a conspiracy answer or a joke one?

[harimaya]

( Why is he being given a choice. He doesn’t want a choice he just wants answers. )

Whichever one is right!

☆ after

[ahost]

[ unpopular opinion: itadori thought the entire 'prank' is fucking hilarious. the only downfall of it all was the kappa abuse and being forced to rent this black suit, but he will dwell on that later. for now, in contrast to hizen's displeasure, the sorcerer was probably the only one who looked quite amused between an angry mob.

when the crowd starts throwing hands, though — itadori decided he's not sticking around for that nonsense. everyone here is strong enough to defend themselves, so he didn't need to interfere. ]

Come on. You gotta love the Daitengu!

[harimaya]

The only thing I had to do was dress up and show up!

( He doesn’t have to love anyone! Especially the Daitengu who is now at the top of his most hated people in Hell list with Dazai and Chongyun. )

I’m don’t gotta do anything else!

( God now everyone is starting to fight and THIS IS NOT WHAT HE SIGNED UP FOR TODAY )

before

[metafictions]

[Kamui, on the other hand, looks perfectly comfortable in his own suit: the Heinous Crimes Unit has always been typical business attire, so this is par the course, even if he'd also had to shell out to rent a nicer one for the funeral.

Speaking of shelling out-- the funeral food is the best eating he's gonna get while he's post-suit broke, so of course it's by the refreshments that he runs into Hizen. He sets his little plate down on the nearest table, offering Hizen a wave.]

Hizen-san. [His eyes flicker down to that disheveled tie. Really, now... it's a formal occasion... Brow furrowing, he takes a step closer.] Do you want me to fix that for you? Toraguma'll scold you if he sees your tie looking like that.

[harimaya]

(Hizen-san.............

He dislikes being noticed by others, especially when something is wrong and he stiffens, looking absolutely annoyed,)

I can fix it.

(He cannot. But that doesn't stop him from trying.)

... Stop looking.

after;

[kaientai]

It looks good on you since you mention it~

[ ryouma could not be more proud that the daitengu is his boss since this is exactly the same shit he's pulled before himself. ]

And the food's free, right?

[harimaya]

Shut up!

(He is not in the mood! And he's taking his tie, bundling it up, and throwing it at him! Fuck this! This funeral! This suit! The Daitengu! Everything!)

It's not even that great!

(Lies, it was perfectly fine until one minute ago. Now all of the food sucks. EVERYTHING HERE SUCKS.)

After

[enterthe]

Your guess is as good as anybody elses. [Ydris is, likewise, very fed up over the whole Daitengu situation. They like the upgrade in outfits, everybody looks so shabby usually! Aside from that, a total waste of time, more questions than answers.]

Save the suit, though. I suspect there will be more funerals with how all these clans are conducting themselves.

[harimaya]

(He's loosened his tie and unbuttoned his suit so he can move more easily. Since everyone else is pulling out weapons at the funeral then I have decided Hizen can also have his sword but he will be a good boy and try to not jump too fast at drawing it. He is trying to be good?)

If they aren't important then I don't care.

(Blunt.)

Didn't even wanna come to this one.

AFTER

[aceslow]

Maybe it was wise of me to get a rental.

[ Kim doesn't have the money for a decent suit. And he's not about to waste his hard-earned paycheck on a bad one. He has his pride; while he has no problem doing the tailoring himself, anything made of half-decent material will cost at least a month's pay.

For his part, he's staying well out of the way of the fighting, perhaps half because of the rental. He brushes some invisible dust from the front of it and loosens his own tie, so it feels like less of a noose around his neck. That said, the suit clearly isn't the most important thing here -- not that he's going to discuss clan politics with Hizen.

And that is Hizen, isn't it? It's good to see that the boy's here, looking as hale and hearty as he could reasonably expect. ] Hizen, right? Your wounds have healed well?

[ That must be another reason for his anger. Hizen had attempted to pursue the perpetrators, caught a bullet for his troubles and, if the Daitengu's reappearance is to be believed, hadn't even been pursuing authentic killers. ]

[harimaya]

(See, when all of your money goes into buying food and alcohol and not even a futon to sleep on for almost two months... you kind of save a decent amount of money. It's not his fault he literally doesn't know how to live on his own as a human that has to support himself financially. He's never had to worry about real money before? Furnishing an apartment? Having to buy his own clothes?!

That's all to say that Hizen actually has a pretty nice one. It's his first one and he's had people make sure that he got something nice to wear for once. Add in the fact that he refused to let anyone pay for him because of his own pride!! He is very annoyed! Double add the fact that he was shot for this! He'll never forgive the Daitengu.

The Daitengu might be alive but they are dead to Hizen.

He's grumbling and his temper is rising (unsurprisingly) and everyone is still processing and reeling from the Daitengu's reveal. The fighting isn't too bad. There are more verbal altercations than physical ones.... for now but people are beginning to push and shove.

He looks up when he hears Kim and seems surprised to see him again so soon,)

Yeah. (He lifts up the front of his suit. It's not like Kim can see because his shirt is neatly tucked in and everything but he's fine.) Got some more help.

(Stitches just like he was told. And everyone made sure he rested until he was better.)

The boss helped too.

(Thanks for giving him back his self-healing, Toraguma.)

Looks like you made it, too.

tamamo bullying

[ryototsukai]

When you're good enough at what you do, that's not something you need to worry about.

[ Musashi smirked, but didn't quite share his laughter, her gaze narrowing instead as she drew her sword, raising the edge to be level with her eyes. She had her other arm bound up in a sling, clearly already injured... One had to wonder just how much of a fight she could put up. ]

[harimaya]

( This is the tag where I hate everything because Hizen sees a woman with a broken arm and he immediately just thinks she’s weak. Granted, he really shouldn’t be so cocky when he is also still recovering. Regaining his healing was helpful but he could still benefit from a couple more days of rest and self-care.

… Well, he’s worked through worse. )

Good enough ain’t great.

( And he’s confident when it comes to his skill with a sword. He shifts into a ready position, hand on the hilt of his sword and studies her for a moment. There’s the obvious weak point but he’s looking for other points to attack.

He doesn’t have killing orders so he doesn’t have to kill. Seriously injuring isn’t out of the question, though. )

[ryototsukai]

A lot of guys from pretty prestigious dojos had the same sentiment. Didn't help them lead long lives, but that's what happens in duels, right?

[ She didn't intend to kill, either... but she also didn't have to. The fact he was already visibly underestimating her was exactly what she'd been aiming for. ]

So do you want the lady to lead in this dance? Not sure how your boss would feel about that...

[ She just needed to bait him into making the first move. ]

Underground

[bananaoni]

[Iba, in the meantime, really didn't care much for anything that was happening. This is a sewer, this is where gross stuff gets flushed down. It smells, it's damp, it's cramped, it's cold, and not even the snacks she brought along could stave off any of the unpleasentness.

Seriously, what gives?]

Tch, nothing can be more troublesome than all of this.

[Holds her arms out this W I D E! And then promptly takes out a pocky and munches away.] 'Side's, if it's a dead end what's the problem?

[harimaya]

You're just wasting your time.

(Going down a dead end where there's nothing.)

Let's go back. Try another way.

(Maybe they'll get lucky and find a fox or something.)

[bananaoni]

Wasting time? You think I care. The ones wasting our time are those that ordered us down here to begin with.

[Namely the Jolly Blue Giant. Seriously, who would want to build anything inside a sewer? Then again, Ibaraki supposed there was only so much space to go around here, and the tunnels are really extensive.]

Fine, but they're not all going to come out and fight us directly.

[Another pocky taken out to munch on.]

Be better to lie in wait for them instead of wandering around looking for foxes. [Or even better, not and say they did. There was better ways to spend their time anyway.]

pls no bulli, natori says ineffectually

[paperpusher]

[Natori's had the feeling that they were being followed for a while now, but with his senses still limited it's hard to tell if it's a true threat or just paranoia. He tosses a few paper dolls in the air to watch their backs for them, and they take off with a whisper, more obvious than he'd like in the gloom.

Natori's in what he thinks of as his standard exorcist wear, which doesn't look too out of place for an urban environment. Comfortable and unremarkable Western-style clothes, most notably a jacket with roughly a billion pockets to supplement the messenger bag slung over his shoulder, both full of scraps of paper and other exorcist supplies. He has a long, thin stick with an ofuda speared through the top; it looks completely ineffective as a weapon, but if he can say one good thing about the grime on the floor it's that he's able to scratch spell circles into it without having to resort to chalk. He's covered his hair with a bucket hat, which are inexplicably in style despite being hideous. This is a strategic choice, so any Shutens they come across can't do any hair pulling. The glasses he's wearing are... more for his companion's sake than his own; here in the ayakashi realm, his glasses won't make a difference, but he's gotten into the habit of using glasses as another mark of when he's on exorcist business, and also he wants Chongyun to see him wearing them.

Because, of course, he also has Chongyun, who even Natori knows is one of the most effective weapons available to the Lost Souls in the Tamamo Clan. (Four for you, Glen Chongyun) That doesn't stop him from stepping out in front of Chongyun once Hizen shows himself, since he still feels the need to play the protective adult. He plants the pointy end of his stick into the ground, a few dolls hovering over his shoulder.]

Well, hello again. I can't say it's nice to run into you here. [Look, Natori has no illusions about which way the balance of power lies in a straight fight between their two clans.] Would you believe we're just lost urban explorers?

sticky my leggie in here

[cutcloud]

[ Where Natori is paper dolls and an Indiana Jones with questionable eyewear aesthetic, Chongyun is dressed in his usual white and blue thaumaturge garb. The newest additions are the stone at his hip, his Vision, which swirls with icy blue energy, and an iron sword strapped across his back. Its length rivals his own; if it weren't tilted, it would be dragging on the ground. Otherwise, he's dressed light, with a pack of first aid items on the other side of his hip and nothing more. Better to not get dragged down.

Especially when they're working reconnaissance. Early on into the investigation there's someone else's aura; he glances to the side a few times without moving his head and says nothing, wondering if they plan on simply observing or if they'll move to engage. A question answered when Natori steps in front of him—which Chongyun almost protests, because he's the guy with the sword and Natori is the squishy white mage in this party setup—but out of respect for the elder exorcist he closes them.

The image of how easily he slapped Natori off that bridge and his shrill, terrified shriek before splashing into the Sanzu's waters does flash in front of his eyes for a second though. His bone density ... hopefully he's been getting more calcium lately.

Leaning, Chongyun peeks around Natori's shoulder to see who it is, but doesn't say anything yet. ]

bullies!!!!

[harimaya]

(In comparison, Hizen is dressed in different shades of black. The only thing on him with color is a dark red scarf he keeps over his face and the red eyes that peek out from behind his bangs. He's clearly come to sneak around in the dark and he does it well considering how long he'd been able to stalk the two of them.

He'd recognized the two of them easily enough but they were different with Natori's talismans and Chongyun's broadsword. He wonders what that light at his side is, too. He's not familiar with whatever it is he's sensing from it but it's best to be careful. Everyone in this city is more than what they seem.

Lowering his scarf to reveal his face properly, he replies flatly,)

No.

(He wouldn't believe them. From Natori, he shifts his gaze over to Chongyun... and glares. It's clear enough that he's displeased to see him and warning him to stay back before looking back at Natori,)

You know him? (As unamused as ever,) What a pain...

(Annoying. Truly annoying.)

Right. (Anyway,) Make it easy and get lost.