7th side [accidental video]

[masukukunai]

[The feed flickers on, immediately showing Yousuke's troubled face. He looks confused and frightened, and anyone who knows him knows just how uncharacteristic this is. He's feeling at the back of his head obsessively, between holding a hand on his chest to feel his own heartbeat. Several times he closes his eyes and takes deep breaths. This whole

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[eatsyourscience]

[For the first time in several days, Souji's asleep. Not that he chose a comfortable position: sitting on the floor with his back against the side of Yousuke's bed, and his sword propped against his shoulder with his head, in turn, propped against the sword's hilt.

He can't have been too deeply asleep, though, because he jerks when Yousuke speaks and looks up, bleary-eyed.]

[masukukunai]

Souji...

[It's strange. It feels like just a second ago he was having his face smashed into the ground and was choking on his own blood while Adachi said things he didn't remember at all. He touches his face this time to confirm that his nose isn't broken. There was still a weird sensation of phantom pain, and he didn't want to move for fear of setting off his knee, which he's still too frightened to check.]

What happened?

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji rubs his eyes with the end of his sleeve to try to make them stop stinging. He's looking--and feeling ugh--kind of grimy, or at least his clothes are.]

...You died.

[masukukunai]

[Died.]

[Yousuke feels like back of his head again. That was where the shot was, that he felt for the slightest fraction of a second before everything went black. It's weird... He's not mad, or sad, or upset. He doesn't feel much of anything at all. His wires aren't connecting.]

[He looks up, and his stare fixes on a spot on the wall again.]

[video]

[jivitadana]

[It's him. It really is. Minato reached for his comm device once he heard and saw him alive again. There was some slight hesitation given Yousuke's understandable reaction to what had happened, so Minato gave him a second or two before speaking.]

Yousuke...?

[video]

[masukukunai]

[Yousuke jumps in his seat at hearing a voice, even a familiar one. He looks around the room in dazed confusion. It takes a minute for him to realize where it's coming from. He finally looks towards the device, and then picks it up.]

Minato?

[video]

[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded, then smiled just a little, if just out of relief and the fact that he was really glad to see him.]

... How're you feeling?

[video]

[masukukunai]

I'm. Uh.

[Still in shock. Feeling the back of his head, again.]

I'm okay. Alive.

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[last_liar]

[There's a little while between that initial recording and Yuu's reply. Where ever Yuu is, it's kind of dark. That doesn't seem to bother him though.]

Yousuke?

Are you--

Did you--

[This is not easy. 8(]

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[masukukunai]

[asdfjkl; Yuu my bro this is definitely... Difficult.]

Uhh-- hey, Yuu.

[He looks up, and gets stuck staring into space again. Yousuke shakes his head roughly.]

That was. Uh. Is that what happened to you?

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[last_liar]

...Yeah. A lot like that.

Um...I didn't die there. I died a few days later, in the hospital.

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[masukukunai]

Ah. Right.

[Well.]

...You're strong, to get over that.