[Yusuke wasn't just being snarky when he said Blake looked bizarre standing so far above the screen. That said, he quickly discovers that the old man doesn't look any less bizarre sitting down. If he wasn't sure there was something off about Blake before, he certainly is now. After all, it's not every day he sees Blake wearing any expression other than a scowl or an annoying sneer.
The amount of relief he feels when Blake doesn't yell at Steve or otherwise show any kind of aggression towards her pales in comparison to how perturbed he is by the situation in general, but the smile he gives the little dog when she inches back into view is pretty convincing nonetheless. It's okay, he finds himself thinking as he looks at her, as if thinking those words could somehow make her hear them. It's going to be fine, I promise.
His smile fades when he meets Blake's gaze again. He's not usually one to obey commands, but Blake did do as he asked him to. Might as well hold up his end of the deal.]
All right.
[He clears his throat and takes a moment to get back into story-telling mode. Well. Here goes nothing.]
So, uh, where was I... oh yeah.
So the guy ran all over the city looking for the girl. He didn't know how the hell he was supposed to find her in just an hour - I mean, the city they lived in was huge, so she could've been anywhere. Still, he didn't exactly have a lot of time to sit around bein' pissed off about it, so he decided to start with checking her house first. That didn't work out - not only was she not there, but her folks got pissed off at the guy when he told them who he was. Not a big surprise, considering he was wearing some other dude's ugly face, but he still probably coulda lived without having a butcher knife waved under his nose.
[Oh, Mr. Yukimura. What a card.]
Anyway, after the girl's parents kicked him back out onto the sidewalk, the guy went looking for her in other parts of the city. That's how he learned the hard way that he wasn't the only person his rival picked fights with. While he was taking a short-cut through one of the neighborhood areas, some big-nosed jerk with a stupid accent suddenly approached him, talking about how he and his gang owed him a punch in the face. The guy was like, "get off me, ya bleached asshole, I'm not who you think I am", but Big Nose wasn't buyin' it, so the guy had no choice but to get him and his groupies out of his way by kickin' their asses.
Obviously, since the guy was way tougher than just about everybody, he took 'em out pretty easily. But then he got jumped by another gang, and another gang, and another gang after that... he whooped 'em all one after the other, and it was actually kind of a good stress reliever, but by the time he was done, he only had a couple minutes to find the girl. "Dammit," the guy said. "Does this dumb bastard have nothing better to do than start shit with half the gangs in the entire city? If I don't find the girl soon, I'm gonna be dust!"
But then, like something out of a damn movie, he looked across the street and saw the girl's friends standing in front of one of the stores there. "Great," he said to himself. "Maybe they know where she is." He tried to say somethin' to 'em, but his face - that is, his rival's face - looked more messed up than usual because of all the fights he'd been in, so they ended up screaming and running away before he could even get a sentence out.
"Shit," he said. "That's it. I'm done for. This was all just a friggin' waste of time."
Then the door behind him opened, and the girl walked out.
It took a minute to get her to realize who he was. But once he convinced her that it really was him -- [by doing something he knew she would immediately associate with him, which in this case was sneaking up on her and copping a feel - he's just gonna leave that part out] -- he told her, "Look, I know this is weird as hell, but I borrowed somebody's body so I could talk to you and I've only got about a minute left to do that, so listen up. I wasn't lying when I said I was coming back. I need you to tell my mom what's going on. Tell her to stop the funeral and that we're going to be okay. I know I've been a jerk to you in the past, but please wait for me."
And the girl said...
[That she'd wait forever.
Something in Yusuke's expression shifts, just a little. He wonders, for a moment, if that's still true - if Keiko would still wait for him, even now. Then he promptly forces the thought back to the back of his mind where it belongs. Now isn't the time, he thinks. Either way, there's no way in hell he's saying something that mushy in front of the old man, so after a pause, he coughs and says:]
The girl said, "Yeah, okay. Cool. You got it, man."
[#NAILED IT. Yusuke quickly moves on.]
After that, the guy was booted out of his rival's body, and the girl ran all the way to the guy's house to talk to his mom. When she got there, she found out from his mom that when she reached into his coffin to give him one last smack upside the head for leaving her -- [THANKS, MOM] -- his face had some color, and his skin was kinda warm. So he was already on his way back to being alive again. Don't ask me how the hell that happened. It was probably part of the resurrection trial, or something.
Anyway, after that, a couple weeks passed. The guy did some good stuff, like helping his rival outsmart some teachers who were tryin' to screw him and his gang over by messin' with their test scores so they'd have an excuse to kick 'em out of school, but it still felt like he wasn't getting any closer to completing his resurrection trial, and by that point, he was getting pissed off. He said to the Reaper, "Y'know what? Screw this. This stupid Spirit Beast egg's not gettin' any warmer, and I'm still stuck floating around in the sky with nothing better to do than keep an eye on my mom and my friends. I bet the only reason I'm doing this is because the Prince of the Spirit World wants to watch me squirm. He's just like every other asshole in authority. He doesn't want to help anyone, he just wants to use 'em to show off how powerful he is."
Then the Reaper said, "You'd better watch your stupid mouth, jerkface, 'cause the Prince is probably gonna send investigators out to check on your progress!"
And whaddya know, as soon as she said that, some little girl popped out of the sky and introduced herself as a Spirit World investigator. The guy said, "Dammit, doesn't anybody in Spirit World look old enough to drink something other'n juice from a sippy cup? What the hell exactly are you investigating, anyway?" The investigator then asked about the girl, and told the guy that she needed to find out more about her to figure out whether or not a girl as good as her really liked a guy as bad as him enough to want him back. And, well...
[... is Yusuke turning a little pink? He's certainly not looking straight at the camera anymore, that's for sure. SHUT UP, LEAVE HIM ALONE.]
Considering the girl shot down somebody who tried to ask her out by saying there was already someone she liked, and then went to the guy's house and cleaned him up after his mom practically buried him in dirty dishes and laundry and all other kinds of crap she was too drunk to clean up, I guess that meant she did.
[Yusuke's not going to mention the part where she almost kissed his comatose body. NOT EVEN GOING THERE. Instead, he's going to focus on forcing his gaze away from the ceiling and back to the screen. Who was blushing? He wasn't blushing. Shut up.]
Anyway. It was really hot that day - so hot there was a heat advisory in effect. Apparently, the heat was so bad there were fires poppin' up around the neighborhood. That's what everybody thought, at least. The truth was, there was an arsonist going around torching peoples' houses. And guess whose house was next on his hit list?
Yeah. The guy's. The good news was that the girl left before the arsonist showed up and the house caught fire.
The bad news was that the guy's body was still inside.
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The amount of relief he feels when Blake doesn't yell at Steve or otherwise show any kind of aggression towards her pales in comparison to how perturbed he is by the situation in general, but the smile he gives the little dog when she inches back into view is pretty convincing nonetheless. It's okay, he finds himself thinking as he looks at her, as if thinking those words could somehow make her hear them. It's going to be fine, I promise.
His smile fades when he meets Blake's gaze again. He's not usually one to obey commands, but Blake did do as he asked him to. Might as well hold up his end of the deal.]
All right.
[He clears his throat and takes a moment to get back into story-telling mode. Well. Here goes nothing.]
So, uh, where was I... oh yeah.
So the guy ran all over the city looking for the girl. He didn't know how the hell he was supposed to find her in just an hour - I mean, the city they lived in was huge, so she could've been anywhere. Still, he didn't exactly have a lot of time to sit around bein' pissed off about it, so he decided to start with checking her house first. That didn't work out - not only was she not there, but her folks got pissed off at the guy when he told them who he was. Not a big surprise, considering he was wearing some other dude's ugly face, but he still probably coulda lived without having a butcher knife waved under his nose.
[Oh, Mr. Yukimura. What a card.]
Anyway, after the girl's parents kicked him back out onto the sidewalk, the guy went looking for her in other parts of the city. That's how he learned the hard way that he wasn't the only person his rival picked fights with. While he was taking a short-cut through one of the neighborhood areas, some big-nosed jerk with a stupid accent suddenly approached him, talking about how he and his gang owed him a punch in the face. The guy was like, "get off me, ya bleached asshole, I'm not who you think I am", but Big Nose wasn't buyin' it, so the guy had no choice but to get him and his groupies out of his way by kickin' their asses.
Obviously, since the guy was way tougher than just about everybody, he took 'em out pretty easily. But then he got jumped by another gang, and another gang, and another gang after that... he whooped 'em all one after the other, and it was actually kind of a good stress reliever, but by the time he was done, he only had a couple minutes to find the girl. "Dammit," the guy said. "Does this dumb bastard have nothing better to do than start shit with half the gangs in the entire city? If I don't find the girl soon, I'm gonna be dust!"
But then, like something out of a damn movie, he looked across the street and saw the girl's friends standing in front of one of the stores there. "Great," he said to himself. "Maybe they know where she is." He tried to say somethin' to 'em, but his face - that is, his rival's face - looked more messed up than usual because of all the fights he'd been in, so they ended up screaming and running away before he could even get a sentence out.
"Shit," he said. "That's it. I'm done for. This was all just a friggin' waste of time."
Then the door behind him opened, and the girl walked out.
It took a minute to get her to realize who he was. But once he convinced her that it really was him -- [by doing something he knew she would immediately associate with him, which in this case was sneaking up on her and copping a feel - he's just gonna leave that part out] -- he told her, "Look, I know this is weird as hell, but I borrowed somebody's body so I could talk to you and I've only got about a minute left to do that, so listen up. I wasn't lying when I said I was coming back. I need you to tell my mom what's going on. Tell her to stop the funeral and that we're going to be okay. I know I've been a jerk to you in the past, but please wait for me."
And the girl said...
[That she'd wait forever.
Something in Yusuke's expression shifts, just a little. He wonders, for a moment, if that's still true - if Keiko would still wait for him, even now. Then he promptly forces the thought back to the back of his mind where it belongs. Now isn't the time, he thinks. Either way, there's no way in hell he's saying something that mushy in front of the old man, so after a pause, he coughs and says:]
The girl said, "Yeah, okay. Cool. You got it, man."
[#NAILED IT. Yusuke quickly moves on.]
After that, the guy was booted out of his rival's body, and the girl ran all the way to the guy's house to talk to his mom. When she got there, she found out from his mom that when she reached into his coffin to give him one last smack upside the head for leaving her -- [THANKS, MOM] -- his face had some color, and his skin was kinda warm. So he was already on his way back to being alive again. Don't ask me how the hell that happened. It was probably part of the resurrection trial, or something.
Anyway, after that, a couple weeks passed. The guy did some good stuff, like helping his rival outsmart some teachers who were tryin' to screw him and his gang over by messin' with their test scores so they'd have an excuse to kick 'em out of school, but it still felt like he wasn't getting any closer to completing his resurrection trial, and by that point, he was getting pissed off. He said to the Reaper, "Y'know what? Screw this. This stupid Spirit Beast egg's not gettin' any warmer, and I'm still stuck floating around in the sky with nothing better to do than keep an eye on my mom and my friends. I bet the only reason I'm doing this is because the Prince of the Spirit World wants to watch me squirm. He's just like every other asshole in authority. He doesn't want to help anyone, he just wants to use 'em to show off how powerful he is."
Then the Reaper said, "You'd better watch your stupid mouth, jerkface, 'cause the Prince is probably gonna send investigators out to check on your progress!"
And whaddya know, as soon as she said that, some little girl popped out of the sky and introduced herself as a Spirit World investigator. The guy said, "Dammit, doesn't anybody in Spirit World look old enough to drink something other'n juice from a sippy cup? What the hell exactly are you investigating, anyway?" The investigator then asked about the girl, and told the guy that she needed to find out more about her to figure out whether or not a girl as good as her really liked a guy as bad as him enough to want him back. And, well...
[... is Yusuke turning a little pink? He's certainly not looking straight at the camera anymore, that's for sure. SHUT UP, LEAVE HIM ALONE.]
Considering the girl shot down somebody who tried to ask her out by saying there was already someone she liked, and then went to the guy's house and cleaned him up after his mom practically buried him in dirty dishes and laundry and all other kinds of crap she was too drunk to clean up, I guess that meant she did.
[Yusuke's not going to mention the part where she almost kissed his comatose body. NOT EVEN GOING THERE. Instead, he's going to focus on forcing his gaze away from the ceiling and back to the screen. Who was blushing? He wasn't blushing. Shut up.]
Anyway. It was really hot that day - so hot there was a heat advisory in effect. Apparently, the heat was so bad there were fires poppin' up around the neighborhood. That's what everybody thought, at least. The truth was, there was an arsonist going around torching peoples' houses. And guess whose house was next on his hit list?
Yeah. The guy's. The good news was that the girl left before the arsonist showed up and the house caught fire.
The bad news was that the guy's body was still inside.