Rai had gotten up early, today. And started to bake. And cook. His and Ren's apartment smelled like chocolate cake and gyudon now ( Read more... )

When Rai woke up after another of his blackouts gasping for breath and blind, he panicked. He felt like something was crushing him and tearing him apart at the same time ( Read more... )

Rai wakes up some time later with a massive headache, like some cosmic sadist is driving nails into his temples. Ow.

He vaguely remembered what happened--oh. He'd been at Aya-chan's party, and got up on stage to sing...then...

Great, he'd blacked out. Ren must have PINed them home.

Such a nice day outside, Rai was definitely not going to stay inside to do his homework. Not that there was much of it being done. In fact, he was dozing, Kaida curled up by his side. His backpack made an impromptu (and rather hard) pillow, and one of his textbooks was laid open on his chest. He'd been making an attempt at it, at least? :D ( Read more... )

It'd been a while since Rai last went into the Nexus proper--he'd been sticking around the apartments more often than not, half out of a desire for isolation and half out of paranoia. However, he was healed from his encounter with Nebiros physically, and while his speech still lapsed sometimes, he wasn't jumping at shadows (at least during the day ( Read more... )

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( Figures, not even back five minutes and I'm already in trouble... )

Rai didn't take much with him when he left. His coat, gloves, a few things he'd recieved in the Nexus--a PINpoint, set to return him here if things went south, a charm to prevent possession--he had no desire at all to repeat the experience with Nebiros--placed on top of a single change of clothes in his rucksack. Kaida whined and bumped against Rai ( Read more... )

Rai had hoped that the puppy from the vending machine (how the hell had a dog gotten in a vending machine anyway? Or in that little red and white ball?) would somehow go somewhere else before he got home--but no luck. The little tiger-striped dog-thing had happily followed Rai back home, up the stairs, and was now sniffing every inch of the ( Read more... )

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