[OPEN] some plants need a bit of water

[ocean_lightning]

Who: Ukitake Jushiro (ocean_lightning ) and you!
What: Watering uhm…firing plants. Literally. All in a gardener’s day of work okay >>;; Stop and watch? Pass a comment? Be the one getting singed on the other side of the bush? Gardener peeps are free to drop in too! /o/
When: Anytime during this month before the Drive event!
Where: Some random patch of public

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[Action] (This guy is ...pinged by fire? Eh? ...Anyways, he's on the other side of the bush.)

[maple_syrup_can]

Canada was taking the long way home from work, passing through one of the gardens. The atmosphere was nicer there, and a bit familiar, dispite the often alien plants.

He'd paused to admire one such plant - a bush, really, that was an amazing red colour. It reminded him of the autumn leaves back home... (sigh~)

Then, his nostalgic rumitations were violently disrupted when the bush burst into flames!

"AHHHH---!!"

lsdfj OH CANADA

[ocean_lightning]

Ukitake had performed this same task, upon this same bush, every other day for a couple of weeks; despite the...oddness of its needs, he'd gotten to the point by now where dousing the fire on it didn't take much thought at all. So, of course, he was hardly thinking about what he was doing as he opened fire upon it now...

Well, until the bush started screaming, anyway.

Why, it'd never done that before!

"Ah!"

Brought out of his thoughts with a start, Ukitake actually jumped a little, on the other side of the bush - and stopped spraying abruptly, quite thoroughly alarmed. The bush continued burning happily, being as highly flammable as it was, but that didn't really help matters much at all; it was hard enough to see through the plant when it wasn't on fire, and now Ukitake couldn't have spotted someone on the other side of it if he'd wanted to

rofl--! OH, UKITAKE ^.^

[maple_syrup_can]

Having backed away from the fire, Canada was pressed up against a leafy tree on the other side of the path. Shocked, he gaped at the bush that was still burning, then glanced around, looking for a fire extinguisher. (Twice in as many months that he needs to use one? What is this?)

But before he could even move to go find help or something, the bush spoke. He thought? (This was all getting massively Biblical. Talking burning bush. Israel would be impressed.) All the same, he gave an instinctive reply:
"I- I'm not Plant, I'm Canada, you know?" Then realizing that he'd been asked if he was all right, he answered hurriedly, "B-but I'm okay, th-thank you for asking? ...Um, are you all right? If- if I may ask?"

...Did he seriously just ask that?

oh my god this is so amazingly terrible lsdfjskfg

[ocean_lightning]

"Canada? I...see..."

It had a name, too? --One that wasn't the strange and alien one his boss had given him earlier? Well, this day was just becoming full of surprises...increasingly baffled, Ukitake straightened completely, still staring at the bush. How was it talking like that? It didn't seem to be moving at all, apart from the flames.

...But such a polite plant! Surprised as the inquiry being thrown back at him, Ukitake blinked a couple of times.

"Oh - no, I'm - I'm quite alright, thank you! ...Though the concern is...appreciated..."

Spraying it with fire again didn't seem like a very good idea yet - but Ukitake was at a loss for what to do otherwise. He couldn't just leave it here, could he? Especially now that it was speaking to him...

"Your name is...Canada, you said? Ah, actually, I think I've met someone else named Canada before! Though I admit, I never thought it was a very common name." Or rather, a name that a plant would possibly take for itself. But then again, this was outer space, he supposed...

yes, so awesomely terrible XD

[maple_syrup_can]

Oh, good, the bush was okay. For all that it was... burning.

He blinked questioningly - there was another Canada?

"You're right, it's not a very common name. It would be... kinda nice to meet another Canada.

Oh- but I'm sorry! May I have your name?"

SO MUCH. Also this is...ttly not the most hideously late tag-back ever. ...At all. 8| 8|

[ocean_lightning]

"My name? Well - of course, I guess. I am Ukitake Jushiro." Lowering the can to his side at last, he smiled, if not somewhat sheepishly. "I'm one of the gardeners for these sorts of areas, but they never told us we needed to introduce ourselves to our charges - so, I'm afraid I must apologize for not giving a name earlier!"

The bush's flames were beginning to simmer down now, with no more fuel being added to it. But Ukitake still couldn't help but frown at it a bit.

"...Ah, if you don't mind me asking, of course - why did you scream, just now? Did I do something wrong this time around, without realizing it? I really am sorry..." Considering how the bush had failed to display this sort of behavior over the last couple of weeks, that's the only feasible reason he can imagine at present.

No worries! I'm just glad you came back to it -^.^-

[maple_syrup_can]

Ukitake... Charges? What?

"Um, sorry. I screamed because I was surprised..." He answers the question habitually, his mind distracted. This is totally not making sense.

Then Canada remembers a brief conversation where he'd recommended Italy to draw a hat for Ukitake Jushiro, and the lightbulb goes on!

"OH! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry for the misunderstanding, Ukitake!"

Peering through the branches of the bush he spots a glimpse of white hair. "Oh, no... How embarrassing... really, really..."

His head ducked in shame, he hurries around the corner so that he can see Ukitake properly.

"I'm s-so very sorry... I didn't m-mean to mislead you..."