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owo who's this (the day after their arrival/meeting)

[bombdemon]

[ The following morning, there's a knock on Gintoki's door. It is, surprisingly, a somewhat reasonable time rather than ass o'clock early. ]

[ There appears to be some sort of a housewife or cleaning lady behind the door (just kidding, Gintoki is probably the one person who has seen too much enough of Katsura's bullshit to instantly recognize him in any of his disguises) and she seems to be holding a... pie? ]

oh no

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[ Given that it's only the second day, he of course doesn't know exactly how the whole free food system works. For a very brief moment, he thinks maybe that's what this is about, although it seems doubtful that they'd actually have waiters bringing food to them when they could just hand out vouchers or something instead. Vouchers would be more sensible, right? Anyway--

All he needs is one look at the person to see that it's Zura, of course.

And he'd ignore him, of course, if ... that didn't look like pie.

So he opens the door just a smidge, enough to look outside, squinting with suspicion. ]

Whaddya want, Zura?

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[bombdemon]

[ Ho ho ho just as planned. Of course Gintoki is not going to leave the door shut in his face if he brings a sweet offering! ]

It's not Zura, it's Zuree van de Lamp.

[ Guess they're in D*sperate Hous*wives now. ]

On behalf of the HRA*, please accept this token of welcome to our neighborhood.

[ (*Home Renters Association) ]

[ Apparently the very convoluted purpose of this visit is to let Gintoki know they're neighbors?? And also that he can always call on him for whatever reason, not that that's anything new. Speaking of which, Katsura has, in fact, discovered that the Otherworlder phones seem to have all the other Otherworlders' contacts in it automatically, but he'll let Gintoki discover that by himself. ]

[ The pie is actually real! It's got apple jam and everything. It's also not very big and fairly low in sugar, because of course it is, but it's still unmistakeably a dessert. ]

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..........................

[ It is way too early in the day for this bullshit. ]

Huh? Van de Lamp? The hell you on about? And how the hell did you have time to join the HRA already? Or are you trying to be some sorta one-person HRA?

text; un: little.radish

[deferences]

So, I have a message I'm supposed to relay to you about your opinion on furries.

“If that's how they are, all the hot furries here don't want them anyway and they can die horny.”

un: parfaitsamurai

[permboy]

[ What ... ]

what you do??

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All I did was ask what a furry was!

And I might have mentioned that you made it sound like an insult. I'm sorry.

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oh thats all? i dont want the furries either so thats fine they can keep their disgusting kinks to themselves

[text] un: midnightrose | after their first meeting when they go into their apartments

[infernaltouch]

Looks like we're neighbors! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

Let me know if you ever need anything! I'll do my best (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

You're seriously cute when you blush, by the way.

[text] un: parfaitsamurai

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[ Of course this asshole would do this. ]

go die

[infernaltouch]

[Koro sighs. Voices play over and over in his head.]

THE FUCK DID YOU SAY? IM GONNA KILL YOU!!

DUMB HORNY DEMON, GO DIE!

WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? CIVILLIANS AREN'T ALLOWED! SHITTY SEX DEMON!

[Koro has a type doesn't he? With a chuckle, Koro responds, before getting dressed for his night job.]

never~

Sweet dreams, Fluffball. (⁠っ⁠˘⁠з⁠(⁠ಠ⁠益⁠ಠ⁠)

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[ Not responding to that. What an asshole. ]

text; un: fruitpunchsamurai

[bombdemon]

[ It's going to take at most a few minutes after this happens and Katsura receives an update from Sonia before Gintoki's phone is buzzing with a new text. (Zura can hardly contain his excitement to texts, really, but considering that Gintoki is in the middle of a confrontation with the police, it's best to send him something that he can respond to in his own time!) ]

Ha ha ha Gintoki!! [ yes he typed out his obnoxious, smug laughter. texts u can hear truly ] I was not aware that you were back to being a thorn in the side of the rotten system. It brings me great joy to see you in action again.

Please call me when you have the chance. We have much to discuss.

The Jouishishi are thrilled to have you back! XOXO ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

[ what Jouishishi... ]

[ the message will be followed by a few short calls that get hung up as soon as it connects, just to make sure to get his attention <3 ]

[Surprise action]

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[ The spamming had at first been incredibly annoying, and once he'd picked up his phone and realised who it was, it became incredibly concerning. Zura was nowhere near the scene, or he would have made his presence known by trying to further besmirch Hijikata's reputation or trying to 'rescue' Gintoki.

So he must have found out about it some other way.

Which is absurd. They've only been here a couple of weeks. Who could he possibly have on his side spying on Hijikata? And what's even the point?? What rotten system is he fighting back against???

AND WHAT JOUSHISHI IS GOING TO WELCOME HIM BACK ANYWAY????

So, no, he's not going to call Zura. Instead, when he returns to the apartment building that evening, he's going to march up to Zura's door and knock. ]

owo who could this be

[bombdemon]

[ Does he need to be rescued? Because fear not, he will get right on that! ]

[ Never underestimate his ability to network, Gintoki!! (It's pure dumb luck that the one princess he somehow managed to charm into believing Hijikata is the villain of his life happened to be at the scene. Please don't expect this to happen consistently.) ]

[ Katsura cracks the door open with his usual blank expression, which lights up when he sees Gintoki, and he pushes the door wide open. ]

Ah, Gintoki! Come in, come in. I bought cupcakes for the occasion.

[ ARE THEY EDIBLE??? MAYBE, ACTUALLY. It's supposed to be a positive reinforcement after all, and luckily it sounds like he didn't make them himself... ]

[ Look on the bright side, at least there's no balloons and he's not working on a Welcome Back Shiroyasha party banner... yet. ]

your doom

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[ NO HE DOES NOT.

He is going to come in, but he's also going to aim to kick Zura down onto the floor as he does. ]

THERE AIN'T NO OCCASION!

call; sometime during Frozen Hearts event

[bombdemon]

[ Once Katsura has finally been wrangled to one of the support stations by a lovely, blood-sucking young lady, he's told that he should call someone he'd like to keep him company while they wait for the missing ingredients, and, well. ]

[ If they don't make it in time and he tragically dies, who else would he entrust the Jouishishi to? ]

[ ring ring ring ]

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[ Now that he's no longer freezing cold, Gintoki's been enjoying the fact that he can fully relax again. He's been lazing around all day, and is about to fall asleep when his phone rings, jerking him out of it with a start.

He fumbles for the phone for a second and finally manages to get it. Maybe, if he had the time to look at who was calling, he would have first hung up just to be a little shit about it. But he's tired, so he only peeks enough to remember how to even answer this stupid thing, then closes his eyes again as he brings it to his ear. ]

Yeah?

[bombdemon]

[ clears throat awkwardly ]

Greetings, Gintoki. I'm afraid I'm in a little bit of a pickle and could use your assistance.

[ the unfortunate part is that this could apply to anything from him running out of shampoo or getting his hand stuck in a vending machine to him bleeding out on the roadside somewhere in the middle of nowhere while hunted by aliens for sport ]

voice / un: princess

[assent]

{ after seeing this hot mess she is honestly immediately trying to call gintoki because is this behaviour normal??? should she be worried???

she's at work at the moment since it's the day time, and unfortunately working in two departments means she isn't free to run out as she'd like.

besides... a few ducks would be pretty normal but this was not a few ducks. }

Please pick up. { her eyes go to the clock, then the pile of books in front of herself. she knows gintoki is useless with his phone at this point so it's up in the air whether this will get answered. }

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[ Don't worry, he'll pick up. Although he might not actually browse on his phone, he does bring it with him (if he doesn't forget) since that's where his money is (what's wrong with cash anyway). Although, right now, he's just draped on his couch and relaxing after literally going to hell.

And since it's just Sonia, he practically just grunts: ]

Yeah?

[assent]

{ she's fine with this right now, if only because she doesn't have much time on her hands either. }

Have you checked the network recently? It seems... Katsura-san may be ah. What is the best way to phrase this? He may be having an early life crisis.

{ he is too young to have a mid-life crisis but lbr it isn't far off the mark. }

action 10/10

[bombdemon]

[ On rare occasions, Gintoki's tendency to sleep in is actually a good thing. Today is one of such days, because it means Katsura has time to prepare a surprise for him (and also to clean up the kitchen which looks like a bomb went off in there by the time he's done baking. (Maybe it did, but he's got a silencer spell now, so it's all good!)). ]

[ Normally, he probably would have just bought a cake. That tends to be both faster and better, what with his limited cooking abilities. But Gintoki had just invited him to live with him, and he wants to put in the extra effort to show his gratitude. ]

[ He's staring at the result a little suspiciously with just half his face visible over the table. It's not terrible, but it's also a far cry from the picture in the baking book. It's really just cake base, whipped cream, jam and strawberries, how hard could it possibly be? And yet somehow it came out taller on one side, with a batter-bubble-turned-lump at the top, and the visible strawberries are smeared with cream because he rearranged them three times. Still, he thinks, it's a respectable effort, and it probably tastes fine. He hopes. ]

[ (He's even pretty sure he didn't add anything he wasn't supposed to, at least not in quantities that would make a difference for either of them. A miracle!) ]

[ He shoves it in the fridge to settle (and to hide it from the ever-growing amount of furry would-be-eaters sharing their space), and heads back to the spare room which is now "his" to get the presents that he'd hauled from his old apartment earlier in the morning (now he can finally return that key, he supposes). ]

[ Then he's tiptoeing to Gintoki's bedroom and setting two neatly wrapped packages down on the side of the bed with available space. The big one contains the ice cream machine he won at an auction over a month ago for this very purpose, which apparently (slowly) makes icecream out of thin air, and the small one hides a dreamcatcher from Riki's shop that's supposed to ward off (most of) nightmares. ]

[ Then Katsura fluffs Gintoki's hair a little and finally settles at an available spot at the foot of the bed himself, apparently intending to stare his best friend awake. He's got a dumb smile (and possibly a smear of cream and/or flour somewhere) on his face. ]

...

[ Okay, this is taking too long. ]

Gintoki.

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[ For the time being, Gintoki is perfectly content lazing around most of the time here, which obviously also means sleeping in every day. If he doesn't need to be up at a 'reasonable hour', there's no reason to be that, and this place seems very happy to just let them all set their own pace.

Especially if it comes to his birthday, sleeping in is only reasonable.

This fact would make him more annoyed about waking up. In true Gintoki fashion he has absolutely no idea it's his birthday, though, so when Zura's voice breaks through his sleep, he grumbles and rolls over and buries his face in the pillow.

...

Actually, he'd definitely do that even if he did know it's his birthday. ]

[bombdemon]

[ Which is extremely adorable, in fact! But also, right now, Zura wans his efforts to be Noticed, and that is obviously not happening. ]

[ His expression falls into the usual vacant stare. ]

Gintoki. [ more insistently. ]