Nexus Heaven, or at least this part of it, looks a great deal more cheerful than it did before. Mostly it's flowers, all planted in pots rather than cut ones, of all sorts. Lots and lots of them. There's also ribbon and paper lanterns of various bright colors accenting them, and if one looks closely, one might notice what appears to be multi- ( Read more... )

Konzen left Ran to sleep in one of the temple rooms. The monks would look after her, no doubt, even if she did spend a lot of time making them suffer. They were always volunteering to practice with her, despite the bruises. The older ones had plenty to be displeased with, but the fact that she taught the younger ones some humility wasn't one of ( Read more... )

It's unusually quiet around Kanzeon's reflection pool without Kanzeon, Jiroushin, or Nataku around. Which is just as well, because Konzen doesn't feel like talking to any of them about why he's standing there watching it now, frowning in a distant sort of way.

Konzen is minding his own business, walking down the hall towards Tenpou's office with a couple of books in hand, when he almost trips over something fairly small that slithers out a nearby doorway and down the hall at an impressive speed. There's a rather familiar hissing noise, just as Konzen manages to regain his balance, but the dark blur slows ( Read more... )

The Gates to Heaven are... well... surprisingly mundane. At least the ones Tenpou prefers to use are. They're not even gates, really, just a room which somehow connects Heaven to the lower realms. Tenpou could probably explain the physics (or lack thereof) behind it, but few people would ever want to get him started on such a topic ( Read more... )

What a mess. Kanzeon hadn't been by the copy of her palace in the Nexus Heaven for some time, and with one thing and another, it had gotten a bit out of hand. Ah well. It wasn't beneath the great Kanzeon Bosatsu-sama to clean her own house. If Jiroushin wasn't around to do it for her, anyway.So there was Spring Cleaning in a little corner of Heaven ( Read more... )

::There was a lot of bribery involved in getting this present delivered, but Konzen has survived all of the other gifts, and such persistence should be rewarded. This one isn't even lethal. Unless Konzen wants it to be, of course. There is now a nobodys_bunny kneeling on Konzen's doorstep, wearing a biiiiiiiiig red bow...and nothing else.::

::This time, there are two boxes sitting on Konzen's doorstep. One is marked "fragile" and the other appears to have several holes poked in the top.::

::The Nexus is a wonderful place; the postal service even delivers to Heaven. Nii has taken advantage of this (as well as a number of other things which we shan't get into here), and there is now a gift waiting outside Konzen's office.::

Nataku could have gone trick-or-treating, a concept which he'd learned about recently in the Nexus, but he's not in the mood. He's been rather solemn ever since Goku came back.

He's hanging around in the trees near the rooms where Tenpou, Konzen, and Kenren stay, quite literally. He likes climbing trees, and these are very nice ones for that.