RP Log
Who: Chihaya and Kagetsuya
What: Kagetsuya's protective
Where: Their apartment.
Why: Because . . . we felt like it.
When: Right after this thread on Orochimaru's journal with Chihaya offering to go help cheer him up.
Warnings: Eh . . . none really. There's a bit of cuteness mixed into the argumentness. Oh, there's also some pr0n!spam. >.>
This wasn't the first time Kagetsuya had needed to try to talk some sense into his partner and it wasn't going to be the last. Chihaya really did have an irritating habit of trusting humans and that was what ended up getting him hurt all the time. If he would just listen to what Kagetsuya had to say then maybe he wouldn't ever get hurt in the first place. This time he wanted to meet with someone who Kagetsuya had researched and discovered distasteful things about. The advantage to that strange Brawl . . . thing, was that everyone on there was easily researchable. Or most were, anyway. Kagetsuya was not about to allow the other angel to meet with this Orochimaru person regardless of how much he wanted to. If the black-winged angel didn't care about his own life, then Kagetsuya was just going to have to do it for him. After shutting his computer off and leaving it in the dining room, Kagetsuya made his way to the bedroom where he knew Chihaya was, and saw him sitting by the desktop computer. "Chihaya."
It wasn't Chihaya's fault if Kagetsuya didn't trust anyone at all, and he knew from experience that his partner was very untrusting when it came to the Earthians. Chihaya supposed that it just came with the territory of being a minus checker but, since he was a plus checker, himself, he didn't see any reason not to trust someone who hadn't given him a reason not to trust them. When he heard the footsteps coming towards the bedroom, Chihaya quickly closed the LiveJournal window, leaving only the beginnings of his report for that month that he was slowly adding to. Not that he thought it would do any good since Kagetsuya had been following his conversation with Orochimaru anyway and Chihaya knew his partner was upset. Nevertheless, when he heard his name, he only turned in his chair and smiled at the blonde as if nothing had happened, "Yes, Kagetsuya?"
That innocent little smile wasn't enough to fool Kagetsuya since he had seen it plenty of times before. His partner really was far too trusting and he didn't understand how he could be considering everything the Earthians had ever done. Kagetsuya shut the door behind him (even though they were the only two who lived there it still seemed the best thing to do) and approached the desk. It looked like Chihaya had been working on his report, although when Kagetsuya had been in there about an hour ago, there had been a few lines less. "Not doing your report?" he asked as he leaned over the chair, took control of the mouse, and began bringing up the other windows that had been minimized. There was his e-mail inbox and when Kagetsuya glanced over the subjects he saw some rather . . . suggestive ones. "Ah. Decided you'd had enough of work and wanted to play instead."
"What?" Chihaya blinked at the screen and blushed as he saw the subjects of the emails that he knew his partner must have been referring to. He batted Kagetsuya's hand away without even thinking and checked all of them to be deleted. "I was only checking my emails, Kagetsuya," he said and began going through the other SPAM messages and deleting them. "You know that I would never look at any of those sites; they just send those links to me just like all these people asking me if I want a better mortgage rate or to pay off my student loans." As if he had student loans to pay off or a mortgage rate to make better, or that he was at all interested in seeing hot lesbian on farm animal action. Actually, the mere mental visual was incredibly disturbing alone.
Kagetsuya believed him, of course, since his partner was the last person to ever be interested in looking at those sorts of things. As he watched them being deleted, he set a firm hand on Chihaya's shoulder and gently squeezed. "I'd like to talk to you," he said quietly. If Chihaya tried not to talk then he was going to corner him anyway, but he really would have liked to get his partner to agree first. It would make things easier if he wanted to talk instead of having to be forced into doing it. "Your report can wait a little longer." Not that he really believed the other angel had been working on it anyway since barely anything more had been done within the last hour.
Chihaya tensed a little under the blonde's hand, but he bit the insides of his cheeks, finishing up deleting everything, and then turned around in his chair to smile up at Kagetsuya. "Of course. There's still plenty of time left before the end of the month. What would you like to talk about?" He knew very well what Kagetsuya wanted to talk about, but maybe if he was pleasant enough then his partner would see things his way. It hadn't really happened yet, but Chihaya still held out hope that it was possible. There just was no way that someone could keep hating the Earthians after seeing how kind most of them were.
As if he didn't already know what it was that Kagetsuya wished to speak with him about. It was only obvious, considering what they had just been speaking about over the Internet. It would be better to do this in person, though, and since Chihaya was only a room away, it wasn't difficult. Kagetsuya crouched down and folded his arms over his partner's lap so that he was gazing up at him. Knowing the other angel, this wasn't going to be something solved in a few minutes, and he would have preferred not to stand for the entire time. "You're not going to meet with him," he said bluntly. "He's dangerous."
Chihaya really had known that it was coming, though he'd been hoping that his partner would at least not be so straighforward (but why he'd think Kagetsuya would do anything else, he wasn't sure). At least then he could have had a bit more time to come up with a good argument in his -- and Orochimaru's -- defense. "You don't know that," he objected. "He seems like a very kind person, actually. And he already explained that he used to be bad but he's changed his ways. That has to be worth something." Chihaya knew that the blonde would never buy that simply because Orochimaru was an Earthian and that made him quite sad.
"It could be worth something," Kagetsuya agreed with a small shrug, "if it were true. The man is dangerous, Chihaya. An evil person cannot change his ways. You should know this by now. What he's doing is trying to do is lure you out so he can hurt you. The evilest of men are wonderful at pretending to be kind." As someone who had been around for a while, watching over Earth, Chihaya really should have known all of this. An evil person couldn't change regardless of how much he or she insisted that they had. The last thing Kagetsuya wanted was for his partner to meet with Orochimaru--thinking he was helping--and be killed instead.
Chihaya dropped his gaze to the arms on his lap and he lightly brushed one of his own hands over one of them. "It could be true," he said. "I believe it's true. I know that there are some Earthians who are truly bad people, but there are also some who were only misguided. Those Earthians can change." Chihaya took hold of his partner's hand and laced their fingers together, watching them as he lifted them. "You know that I can't just ignore someone who needs help, especially if they're asking for it. I promise that I'll be careful, Kagetsuya." He smiled slightly at the blonde. "I'm a big boy. I can take care of myself."
Kagetsuya slowly raised an eyebrow and watched as their fingers were laced together. "Remember what happened with Taki and Takako?" he asked smoothly. "Remember how I had to save you? If that was taking care of yourself, Chihaya, then I'm a little afraid to see what you considering taking care of someone else to be." He could still remember it clearly: His partner had been taken as a hostage until Taki returned to the laboratory, but Kagetsuya had ended up needing to save him anyway, and they had both nearly been killed because of it.
Chihaya blushed and dropped his eyes again. "That was different," he objected. "That was an entire laboratory with lots of staff and security guards. This is only going to be one person. If it feels like there's something wrong, then I promise I'll leave right away. I won't even let him see my wings!" He knew that that had to be a big concern for Kagetsuya since it had happened too often, and the fact that Chihaya had done it willingly seemed to upset him as well. All Chihaya wanted to do was help, though, and he didn't quite understand why his partner was always so against it, even if the blonde was concerned for him.
"You're not going," Kagetsuya said and it was as simple as that. "He can let his own friends help him. You don't know him or anything about him and you're staying right here so you can finish your report and eat dinner with me." It really was all there was to it. Orochimaru could find help from someone who wasn't Chihaya because he was sick and tired of his partner always getting himself into trouble. It seemed like getting into trouble was what Chihaya did the most there in the human world, when what he was supposed to be doing was looking for reasons to save Earth.
How could Kagetsuya just order him around like that? Chihaya was an adult, just like him, and he was perfectly capable of making his own decisions and taking care of himself. Sometimes he felt like Kagetsuya thought of him more as a child he was babysitting than his partner or anything else. He did want to eat dinner with the blonde -- it was one of his favorite parts of the day -- but he didn't want to have sacrifice doing something good for someone just to do that. "I am his friend," Chihaya retorted, turning away from the blonde and letting go of his hand. "And as his friend I have a duty to help him when he needs it." With that, he stood and walked towards the door.
Such a defiant little brat. Kagetsuya rose and followed after his partner as he left the room. "Chihaya," he said firmly, beginning to lose his patience. "You are not friends with the Earthians. You are not friends with a man you've been speaking to over the Internet for a day." He'd be damned if he let his partner just fly off and get himself killed because he was an empathizing idiot. "Our job is not to help the humans or come into contact with them. Our job is to watch and report. Michael will not be happy with your actions, Chihaya, and I am already disappointed."
That hurt so much and it showed clearly on Chihaya's face as he turned to Kagetsuya. "You're wrong," he said. "Lord Michael loves the Earthians too! He would be supportive." And he wouldn't tell Chihaya how horrible all of the Earthians were and forbid him from even making eye contact. "And it may be our job to just watch them and report back to Eden, but it's not right to just let people in need keep on being in need when we have the ability to help them, whether they're Earthians or not. You wouldn't let one of the other checkers go unhelped if they needed it, would you?"
Kagetsuya pulled his partner into a tight embrace to keep him from leaving and to calm him. "The other checkers aren't like the Earthians," he pointed out. "They don't kill each other over money, they don't cause wars over a piece of land, and they don't leave filth all over their planet. Our kind is worth saving, Chihaya, but the Earthians are not." How could Chihaya not see that? The Earthians were selfish, greedy, and absolutely disgusting. Their planet had once been beautiful and now it was destroyed because of everything they did to it.
Chihaya stiffened slightly for just a moment when he felt those arms around him but he didn't struggle at all since he knew that Kagetsuya would never hurt him. "No," he said quietly, "our kind only thinks we have a right to decide the fate of a people perfectly capable of deciding their own fate." It was incredibly arrogant of the angel that had made the decision, and it was part of the reason that Chihaya was a plus checker. If they were able to gather up enough pluses, then they would leave the Earthians alone and the Earthians could continue along towards their own destiny, as they had the right to.
So Chihaya wasn't going to listen. It really was something Kagetsuya should have seen coming considering Chihaya never listened to him--it was, in fact, Kagetsuya who normally ended up doing what it was that his partner wanted. This time, however, the other angel was on his own. He released his partner from the embrace. If Kagetsuya couldn't talk some sense into him then he was going to need to learn the hard way about things. One day something big was going to happen and it would open Chihaya's eyes to the atrocity that was the Earthian race.
That day hadn't come yet, though, and Chihaya believed firmly that it never would. How could it when there were so many kind Earthians worth saving? Chihaya stood there for a moment after he was released, not quite sure what he was waiting for or expecting, but when it didn't come, he took a deep breath and left the bedroom. He'd known that Kagetsuya wasn't going to agree with him on this but he would have liked it if he had anyway. Now he was upset and unsure how much help he would really be to Orochimaru. Still, he had to try, so he grabbed his jacket and left the apartment, part of him hoping that Kagetsuya wasn't right.
What: Kagetsuya's protective
Where: Their apartment.
Why: Because . . . we felt like it.
When: Right after this thread on Orochimaru's journal with Chihaya offering to go help cheer him up.
Warnings: Eh . . . none really. There's a bit of cuteness mixed into the argumentness. Oh, there's also some pr0n!spam. >.>
This wasn't the first time Kagetsuya had needed to try to talk some sense into his partner and it wasn't going to be the last. Chihaya really did have an irritating habit of trusting humans and that was what ended up getting him hurt all the time. If he would just listen to what Kagetsuya had to say then maybe he wouldn't ever get hurt in the first place. This time he wanted to meet with someone who Kagetsuya had researched and discovered distasteful things about. The advantage to that strange Brawl . . . thing, was that everyone on there was easily researchable. Or most were, anyway. Kagetsuya was not about to allow the other angel to meet with this Orochimaru person regardless of how much he wanted to. If the black-winged angel didn't care about his own life, then Kagetsuya was just going to have to do it for him. After shutting his computer off and leaving it in the dining room, Kagetsuya made his way to the bedroom where he knew Chihaya was, and saw him sitting by the desktop computer. "Chihaya."
It wasn't Chihaya's fault if Kagetsuya didn't trust anyone at all, and he knew from experience that his partner was very untrusting when it came to the Earthians. Chihaya supposed that it just came with the territory of being a minus checker but, since he was a plus checker, himself, he didn't see any reason not to trust someone who hadn't given him a reason not to trust them. When he heard the footsteps coming towards the bedroom, Chihaya quickly closed the LiveJournal window, leaving only the beginnings of his report for that month that he was slowly adding to. Not that he thought it would do any good since Kagetsuya had been following his conversation with Orochimaru anyway and Chihaya knew his partner was upset. Nevertheless, when he heard his name, he only turned in his chair and smiled at the blonde as if nothing had happened, "Yes, Kagetsuya?"
That innocent little smile wasn't enough to fool Kagetsuya since he had seen it plenty of times before. His partner really was far too trusting and he didn't understand how he could be considering everything the Earthians had ever done. Kagetsuya shut the door behind him (even though they were the only two who lived there it still seemed the best thing to do) and approached the desk. It looked like Chihaya had been working on his report, although when Kagetsuya had been in there about an hour ago, there had been a few lines less. "Not doing your report?" he asked as he leaned over the chair, took control of the mouse, and began bringing up the other windows that had been minimized. There was his e-mail inbox and when Kagetsuya glanced over the subjects he saw some rather . . . suggestive ones. "Ah. Decided you'd had enough of work and wanted to play instead."
"What?" Chihaya blinked at the screen and blushed as he saw the subjects of the emails that he knew his partner must have been referring to. He batted Kagetsuya's hand away without even thinking and checked all of them to be deleted. "I was only checking my emails, Kagetsuya," he said and began going through the other SPAM messages and deleting them. "You know that I would never look at any of those sites; they just send those links to me just like all these people asking me if I want a better mortgage rate or to pay off my student loans." As if he had student loans to pay off or a mortgage rate to make better, or that he was at all interested in seeing hot lesbian on farm animal action. Actually, the mere mental visual was incredibly disturbing alone.
Kagetsuya believed him, of course, since his partner was the last person to ever be interested in looking at those sorts of things. As he watched them being deleted, he set a firm hand on Chihaya's shoulder and gently squeezed. "I'd like to talk to you," he said quietly. If Chihaya tried not to talk then he was going to corner him anyway, but he really would have liked to get his partner to agree first. It would make things easier if he wanted to talk instead of having to be forced into doing it. "Your report can wait a little longer." Not that he really believed the other angel had been working on it anyway since barely anything more had been done within the last hour.
Chihaya tensed a little under the blonde's hand, but he bit the insides of his cheeks, finishing up deleting everything, and then turned around in his chair to smile up at Kagetsuya. "Of course. There's still plenty of time left before the end of the month. What would you like to talk about?" He knew very well what Kagetsuya wanted to talk about, but maybe if he was pleasant enough then his partner would see things his way. It hadn't really happened yet, but Chihaya still held out hope that it was possible. There just was no way that someone could keep hating the Earthians after seeing how kind most of them were.
As if he didn't already know what it was that Kagetsuya wished to speak with him about. It was only obvious, considering what they had just been speaking about over the Internet. It would be better to do this in person, though, and since Chihaya was only a room away, it wasn't difficult. Kagetsuya crouched down and folded his arms over his partner's lap so that he was gazing up at him. Knowing the other angel, this wasn't going to be something solved in a few minutes, and he would have preferred not to stand for the entire time. "You're not going to meet with him," he said bluntly. "He's dangerous."
Chihaya really had known that it was coming, though he'd been hoping that his partner would at least not be so straighforward (but why he'd think Kagetsuya would do anything else, he wasn't sure). At least then he could have had a bit more time to come up with a good argument in his -- and Orochimaru's -- defense. "You don't know that," he objected. "He seems like a very kind person, actually. And he already explained that he used to be bad but he's changed his ways. That has to be worth something." Chihaya knew that the blonde would never buy that simply because Orochimaru was an Earthian and that made him quite sad.
"It could be worth something," Kagetsuya agreed with a small shrug, "if it were true. The man is dangerous, Chihaya. An evil person cannot change his ways. You should know this by now. What he's doing is trying to do is lure you out so he can hurt you. The evilest of men are wonderful at pretending to be kind." As someone who had been around for a while, watching over Earth, Chihaya really should have known all of this. An evil person couldn't change regardless of how much he or she insisted that they had. The last thing Kagetsuya wanted was for his partner to meet with Orochimaru--thinking he was helping--and be killed instead.
Chihaya dropped his gaze to the arms on his lap and he lightly brushed one of his own hands over one of them. "It could be true," he said. "I believe it's true. I know that there are some Earthians who are truly bad people, but there are also some who were only misguided. Those Earthians can change." Chihaya took hold of his partner's hand and laced their fingers together, watching them as he lifted them. "You know that I can't just ignore someone who needs help, especially if they're asking for it. I promise that I'll be careful, Kagetsuya." He smiled slightly at the blonde. "I'm a big boy. I can take care of myself."
Kagetsuya slowly raised an eyebrow and watched as their fingers were laced together. "Remember what happened with Taki and Takako?" he asked smoothly. "Remember how I had to save you? If that was taking care of yourself, Chihaya, then I'm a little afraid to see what you considering taking care of someone else to be." He could still remember it clearly: His partner had been taken as a hostage until Taki returned to the laboratory, but Kagetsuya had ended up needing to save him anyway, and they had both nearly been killed because of it.
Chihaya blushed and dropped his eyes again. "That was different," he objected. "That was an entire laboratory with lots of staff and security guards. This is only going to be one person. If it feels like there's something wrong, then I promise I'll leave right away. I won't even let him see my wings!" He knew that that had to be a big concern for Kagetsuya since it had happened too often, and the fact that Chihaya had done it willingly seemed to upset him as well. All Chihaya wanted to do was help, though, and he didn't quite understand why his partner was always so against it, even if the blonde was concerned for him.
"You're not going," Kagetsuya said and it was as simple as that. "He can let his own friends help him. You don't know him or anything about him and you're staying right here so you can finish your report and eat dinner with me." It really was all there was to it. Orochimaru could find help from someone who wasn't Chihaya because he was sick and tired of his partner always getting himself into trouble. It seemed like getting into trouble was what Chihaya did the most there in the human world, when what he was supposed to be doing was looking for reasons to save Earth.
How could Kagetsuya just order him around like that? Chihaya was an adult, just like him, and he was perfectly capable of making his own decisions and taking care of himself. Sometimes he felt like Kagetsuya thought of him more as a child he was babysitting than his partner or anything else. He did want to eat dinner with the blonde -- it was one of his favorite parts of the day -- but he didn't want to have sacrifice doing something good for someone just to do that. "I am his friend," Chihaya retorted, turning away from the blonde and letting go of his hand. "And as his friend I have a duty to help him when he needs it." With that, he stood and walked towards the door.
Such a defiant little brat. Kagetsuya rose and followed after his partner as he left the room. "Chihaya," he said firmly, beginning to lose his patience. "You are not friends with the Earthians. You are not friends with a man you've been speaking to over the Internet for a day." He'd be damned if he let his partner just fly off and get himself killed because he was an empathizing idiot. "Our job is not to help the humans or come into contact with them. Our job is to watch and report. Michael will not be happy with your actions, Chihaya, and I am already disappointed."
That hurt so much and it showed clearly on Chihaya's face as he turned to Kagetsuya. "You're wrong," he said. "Lord Michael loves the Earthians too! He would be supportive." And he wouldn't tell Chihaya how horrible all of the Earthians were and forbid him from even making eye contact. "And it may be our job to just watch them and report back to Eden, but it's not right to just let people in need keep on being in need when we have the ability to help them, whether they're Earthians or not. You wouldn't let one of the other checkers go unhelped if they needed it, would you?"
Kagetsuya pulled his partner into a tight embrace to keep him from leaving and to calm him. "The other checkers aren't like the Earthians," he pointed out. "They don't kill each other over money, they don't cause wars over a piece of land, and they don't leave filth all over their planet. Our kind is worth saving, Chihaya, but the Earthians are not." How could Chihaya not see that? The Earthians were selfish, greedy, and absolutely disgusting. Their planet had once been beautiful and now it was destroyed because of everything they did to it.
Chihaya stiffened slightly for just a moment when he felt those arms around him but he didn't struggle at all since he knew that Kagetsuya would never hurt him. "No," he said quietly, "our kind only thinks we have a right to decide the fate of a people perfectly capable of deciding their own fate." It was incredibly arrogant of the angel that had made the decision, and it was part of the reason that Chihaya was a plus checker. If they were able to gather up enough pluses, then they would leave the Earthians alone and the Earthians could continue along towards their own destiny, as they had the right to.
So Chihaya wasn't going to listen. It really was something Kagetsuya should have seen coming considering Chihaya never listened to him--it was, in fact, Kagetsuya who normally ended up doing what it was that his partner wanted. This time, however, the other angel was on his own. He released his partner from the embrace. If Kagetsuya couldn't talk some sense into him then he was going to need to learn the hard way about things. One day something big was going to happen and it would open Chihaya's eyes to the atrocity that was the Earthian race.
That day hadn't come yet, though, and Chihaya believed firmly that it never would. How could it when there were so many kind Earthians worth saving? Chihaya stood there for a moment after he was released, not quite sure what he was waiting for or expecting, but when it didn't come, he took a deep breath and left the bedroom. He'd known that Kagetsuya wasn't going to agree with him on this but he would have liked it if he had anyway. Now he was upset and unsure how much help he would really be to Orochimaru. Still, he had to try, so he grabbed his jacket and left the apartment, part of him hoping that Kagetsuya wasn't right.