Forty-Fifth Explosion

[deusexhormones]

[Voice]

[There's some fain sound of rain in the background of this. Clearly if not outside, Haruki is sitting somewhere which isn't entirely indoors or anything. He's most likely hanging out somewhere like the clubroom, checking out Walter's repairs and such]

The rain is kinda lame. I mean three days? Summer showers are one thing, but this getting stupid. I mean it made the Brigade tour yesterday a nightmare! Jeez! Stupid aliens, I bet they're controlling the weather or something. Damn aliens. Almost makes you wish there was school or something; you can't go out jogging or anything like this.

[...Grunt. And then he pauses before he goes on to the important part]

Oi Luceti! Anyone got some kinda good way to play music which isn't straight out of the seventeenth century?! Because I mean, come on guys, it's SUMMER and a lot of us are Japanese teenagers! What should be be doing?! That's right, a karaoke night! That's why we, the SOS-Brigade, are officially going to host one soon!

Anyway! Rena! Shiki! I've picked up a lot of stuff for dinner this morning, so we're going to make some cornbread!

[There's a drawn out pause before...] Oh yeah... Tanabata is in two days... SOS-Brigade! We're having a special meeting for it! Be sure to show up with two wishes you want granted in respectively sixteen or twenty-five years!

Comments

[Voice]

[so_shik]

Karaoke?

[Voice]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Duh. Come on, that's like a staple of any proper summer! Right there with going to a public pool, fireworks, park-time jobs, the works! Tanabata too!

[Voice]

[so_shik]

I guess you're right. Can you believe it's July already? Though the rain kind of makes me forget about it.

You're really going to try holding a Tanabata festival?

[Voice]

[secondinnis.livejournal.com]

Aliens?

[Voice]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

...The "Malnosso." They're totally aliens.

[Voice]

[secondinnis.livejournal.com]

How do you know?

Voice

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

I don't think they're aliens.

Voice OH GOD YES WINRY

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

What the hell else would they be?

Voice OH NO SHE'S BEEN SPOTTED

[crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com]

Alchemists? Some of the screwed up ones like testing on people.

[flower-of-hell.livejournal.com]

That sounds fun! I've never made cornbread before~!

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

You haven't?! Jeez, it's awesome.

[Action]

[so_shik]

[so sometime after dinner with Rena and their cornbread experiment, Shiki's in the kitchen kind of cleaning up just for the sake of having something to do really, so she's hobbling around putting things in the sink and putting things in the fridge]

[Action]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[Haruki, meanwhile, is leaning on the counter, glare-watching this. ...Really, what is she doing? Kyonko did stuff like this too, and now Shiki is...? That's vexing, but perhaps more vexing is that an injured girl is cleaning his kitchen while he's just sitting there. Not that he minds that much, but even so, when the hell did she get so domestic?]

[karatebunny.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'd almost forgotten about Tanabata ne~ Is there going to be a celebration~?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Well we need to do something. Otherwise we aren't proper Japanese.

[/taking a holiday way too seriously for personal reasons]

[emp3thy]

[Pinged by karaoke. It's a good way of raising Courage, not that he needs it anymore. ...He recognizes Haruki's voice, though.]

I have a MP3 player. But there's no speakers.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

...Seriously? How'd you pull off that?

[voice]

[herotypical]

What exactly is this....Tanbata thing, anyway? Because wishes? They never end well.

[voice]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

It's a stellar festival. Orihime and Hikoboshi meet in the night sky for the only time that year and as a result you're supposed to make wishes to one or both of the deities because the fact they get to meet their love makes them all happy or something.

[themoonuplifts.livejournal.com]

Karaoke? Really? Oh! That sounds so awesome! If only we had big speakers, and flashy lights, and giant televisions to display the lyrics.

Tanabata. Wow. How could I forget about that? Can I decorate the Brigade building, Haruki?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

I know right? The lack of stuff here in Luceti is annoying.

Damn straight! But I've already got the bamboo shoots. Go for it!

[pileof-ashes.livejournal.com]

You're actually going through with this?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Why not? It'd not a bad idea.

[im-the-cute-one.livejournal.com]

You're Japanese?

...Can I hang my wishes, too?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

What else would I be? Jeez.

...Sure, but two per person.