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[anpan_tan]

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Characters: Yamazaki Sagaru and whoever wants to beat talk with him

Location: Somewhere in DC. He doesn't know either.

Rating: PG-13 cause you can never tell for sure.

Time: March 31st all day

Description: Yamazaki wants to discover the city with a map, but the map is not too helpful.







Here comes the guy, wearing a pair of black jeans and a t-shirt with the picture of a waving alien on it and he's staring at a map which he holds in his hand. He looks distracted and lost. Do with him what you please.

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[anpan_tan]

Did you notice you're talking of a machine which flipped itself on? What kind of machine do something like that? Machines must be turned on by humans or pets, they do it accidentally, though...

[Zaki lets himself lose in his thoughts for a moment before he takes a kind of scared look at Mello.]

You don't want to say that BREW is just a malfunctioning machine, do you? It's...

[want_the_world]

Blasphemy? [Mello asks, with half a sly grin.]

Death the Kid activated BREW accidentally. Technically, I suppose it was on ever since it was created.

And what if I do say it's malfunctioning? It's not going to send me home for insulting it. I can't hurt its feelings; it hasn't got any.

[anpan_tan]

If blasphemy means badmouthing of a god then yes, it is.

[For some reason Yamazaki feels he's mocked by Mello.]

Would you bet on this? Would you risk your staying with saying that BREW is just a lame, broken machine?

[Yamazaki could never do something so brave and reckless thing like that! Mello's really on a different level if he's not afraid of calling out a...god?]

[want_the_world]

What I say about BREW doesn't have a thing to do with whether or not I stay here. But even if it did, I'd still say it.

[He sounds almost indignant at the idea he could be intimidated into silence by something that would fit in the palm of his hand.]

You shouldn't be afraid of it, either.

[anpan_tan]

Why?

[No, this is not what he meant to ask.]

Why do you think the world is against you, Mello? Just because some people and some notebooks and some buildings hurt you in the past, it doesn't mean that everyone and everything exists only to torment you.

[want_the_world]

I never said anything about people hurting me.

[He realizes as he says it that this instinctive denial is wrong; he did say people he cared about died.]

All right, maybe I did. But I don't think the whole world's out to get me. It's not like I sit around being fucking miserable all the time.

[Does he seem like that? He'd be genuinely shocked if that were the case.]

[anpan_tan]

[No, actually Mello does not look like someone with bruised soul, but Yamazaki kind of wished for it. If Mello was like that he had a reason to comfort him. But since Mello is Mello, he has not a single little reason to do so.]

No, you...you're just very different from everyone I've known. And it's...a bit frightening.

[Yamazaki looks at the map and wonders if he ever find the way back to CasCom.]

Mello, I'm really glad we've met but you know I'm a bit busy with being lost and I kind of try to find my way home, so if you don't want to join me in hunting for the Casualty Communal, then...

[He nods reluctantly like saying a "Good bye!"]

[want_the_world]

[Why the hell would it be frightening?

Yamazaki definitely has the ability to confuse Mello more than just about anyone else he's ever met. But he takes it as a compliment that the kid doesn't know anyone like him.

He leans in to look at the map, and taps Casualty Communal's approximate location.]

There.

[anpan_tan]

[Hopefully Mello will never ever ask Yamazaki why he thought that their meeting was frightening. He couldn't tell, and if he can, he wouldn't want to. He steps back as Mello leans closer and uses the map as a shield between himself and Mello.]

Thank...thank you. Take care.

[want_the_world]

[All right...]

You too.

[He wouldn't normally say that, but the silence feels awkward. Mello turns to go, since Yamazaki clearly seems to want to get away. What an odd guy.]

Alright, this is my Christmas gift to myself!!!

[anpan_tan]

Wait!!!

[Yamazaki just doesn't want to end this conversation like this. He doesn't understand himself, either, but he grabs Mello's wrist and forces him to turn back. He looks into those dark eyes, and for a moment he feels the words struggling in his throat to come out before he could tell what he wanted to.]

I don't want you to leave. I don't want to leave me ever. I...I'd like to infiltrate the library with you, I'd like to protect you from that dangerous guy who had that notebook, I'd like...to know you more. I'd like if you liked to know me by your side. But I don't think you want this, too. And that's why we can't meet again.

[He's almost crying as he turns away and leaves Mello behind.]

I won't look for you again. But I can't tell you not to look for me if you want to.

[And with this the most confused guy in the town runs away.]

Oh Zaki, why so cute?

[want_the_world]

[What the fuck just happened?

For all that Mello's made his share of impassioned speeches, he's still at a loss when it comes to other people's emotional outbursts. Especially ones as confused as this, with Zaki saying he doesn't want Mello to leave, then doing just that himself. He either doesn't know what he wants, or doesn't think he should want it, a concept Mello would claim is completely foreign to him.

(And it sounded a lot like what he wants is Mello, but as long Mello doesn't have to do anything about it, he doesn't particularly care.)]