005th Meatbun ☼ Voice / Drawings?

[justonename]

[So guess which kid woke up veeeery early in the morning due nature's call... Only to freak out about the recent experiment. Or rather than freak out, get terrified by it. Guess who gets out of Ukyo's apartment as fast and silently as possible -and for a monkey that's easy- to run away to the forest

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[eternallysinned]

[That was one hell of an experiment. Hakkai didn't know they were capable of altering their train of thought to that extent. Knowing people as if he'd know them his whole life, when in reality he knew nothing about them. It was discomforting. That was the least of his problems though.

Hakkai was more concerned with where Goku ran off too. He's was sure that the boy was no exception to this experiment. He wondered if he was okay.

He already checked all of the village. Calling out Goku's name, and to no avail. He saw the doodles in the journal, so he knows Goku is somewhere and next was the forest. Sure Hakkai could have contacted Goku through the journal, but after this kind of manipulation he thought it would be more appropriate to talk to the boy in person.]

Goku!

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[justonename]

[He doesn't want to go back home. He doesn't know where's his home. He just knows that back at Heaven's things weren't as great as here but he had a "family" but it's not complete anymore. And that just yesterday he was in this great place and had a family... But he doesn't anymore. Both families were "fake", both aren't with him anymore.

Why can't he have a family? What is it that he has done that's so wrong that means he can't have a mama or a papa like the other kids?

Hearing Hakkai only makes him shift but he doesn't move or call back. He's not here, Hakkai. Ignore the suspicious leaves falling from the top of a tree, they haven't fell because a monkey shifted in his hideout among the branches. Ignore the gleam of gold among the leaves at the top of the tree, it's not a golden crown attached to a monkey.]

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[eternallysinned]

Goku. [When said hints did come into view he didn't make it blatantly obvious that he knew where the boy was.]

Goku, please come out.

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[justonename]

[Still up here, hiding. But he answers in a pouting and sad voice.]

No...

[Voice]

[justonename]

Jokes are supposed to be funny...

[Sobs.]

It was fun but it's not now... I don't like it being a lie.

[Voice]

[justonename]

But everyone is upset because they didn't like it. Aren't they?

Is it really okay if I still want it back?

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[stringless_doll]

[Nataku is normally an early riser, but sometime after midnight he dashed into the forest and he hasn't returned to the village since. He spent most of the night by the stream where he stopped with Rokuta over a week before. It's his last pleasant memory before... Before all the new ones.

He hasn't looked at the journals at all, or slept, or eaten anything. He just feels tired and empty, and he wishes he could forget how it felt to have a family because all of the carefully constructed lies he's told himself to get by just don't hold up against what he knows now.

After sunrise he leaves the riverbank to get lost in the forest, wandering aimlessly. Eventually, he hears the sobbing, and the voice that accompanies it. He moves without thought, but with purpose.] Goku?

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[justonename]

[Hearing his name makes him shift, trying to hide more for a second, until he realizes who is calling for him.]

Nataku...

[Calling from the top of a tree, hidden among branches and leaves, Goku leans forward a bit trying to make himself seen for his friend.]

I'm up here. Come?

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[stringless_doll]

[He can hear the shifting, and he looks up. There's a glint of gold in the treetops, and he hesitates only long enough for the invitation before he's scrambling up the tree after his friend.

Once he's on the same branch, he pulls Goku into a desperate hug. This is real. What he remembers about Goku isn't something the Malnosso made up so they could have fun.]

...I heard you crying.

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[justonename]

[Goku returns the hug tightly.]

It hurts. Everyone is upset and angry, but I'm just sad because it's over now... I want it back.

[Kind of, he doesn't want to not know Konzen or Ken-niichan like during those days, he wants both families, he's selfish.]

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[cutefiancee]

[Ukyo only happens to find this by chance, as she's pensively flipping the pages and trying not to think about the past week. Of all the cruel things- she was pretty and cherished... loved. Not just one girl in a string hopelessly engaged to her friend who wouldn't just choose. She had a family and a happy one.

She pauses, spotting the picture and how it's been angrily scribbled on, then the rest of the message. It breaks her heart a little, no a whole lot.]

Goku? You wanna talk, sugar?

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[justonename]

[It's ma- no, it's not mama, it's not family. It was all fake and he wasn't a wanted child or anything. He wasn't in the world because someone had wanted him to be, he's just someone who woke up in a mountain, all alone and was brought to Heavens and put under Konzen's care... He hadn't ever stopped to think about that except now but... Konzen and the others, they hadn't wanted him there, right? No one had asked for him to exist or anything.]

I'm sorry...

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[cutefiancee]

For what?

[Ukyo's a softie, for all that she beat Ryoga within an inch of his life when she woke up this morning, and she really just wants to hug this kid.]

Where are you at?

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[justonename]

[For what?]

For what I did wrong, it was wrong that I was your son, right? I'm sorry.

[As if he had any control over that. He's... Not going to answer to where he is yet, he is hidden for a reason, if he wanted to be found he wouldn't bother to hide.]

But... I liked it. Even if it was wrong, I really liked learning martial arts cooking and making okonomiyaki with you and helping you... I liked being your son, even if it's wrong.

[Should he apologize for that too? But he doesn't want to. He doesn't want to think that it's wrong that he liked or likes it.]

[Voice]

[shrouded_reaper]

[Shadow is unsure what to say, if anything. He's even worse with emotions than his counterpart, and just as bad with kids. Since he'd never raised his. They just confuse him. But... it's not like it was such a bad thing. He'd had something he'd turned away from long ago. And doesn't know what to think about it.]

I'm not that old.

[The only think he can think to say to start things.]

[Voice]

[justonename]

[Families confuse Goku. He only really learned about the term and such upon arriving to Luceti. Only now he has come to understand that Konzen and the others are his family, not just his friends, or at least he wants them to be... But they aren't, no one is his family. He doesn't get it.]

I don't get it... I don't understand ages, they don't make any sense.

[No, really, they don't, for him at least. So he has no idea what you mean by "I'm not that old".]

[Voice]

[shrouded_reaper]

Not old enough to be your grandfather.

[His father, sure... Shadow isn't too sure what he means by it not making sense, but he figures he'd clarify somewhat anyway.]

[Voice]

[justonename]

Aaah. Is there a set age to be a grandfather?

I can't have a grandfather anyway, I don't have a mama or a papa.

[He would love to, specially after tasting how it's like for ten days but...]

It was still fun, spending time with you and Interceptor and all. I liked it a lot.