nothisbrother | Fifth Fall - [Action for house 40/Voice]

[This can't be real. None of this can be real. It's just some sort of bad dream, right? It has to be.

Staring into his room, Naoi just stands there in the doorway, looking around at everything that's visible. All of his things are gone. His bed sheets are folded in a way Otonashi wouldn't do, no clothes hanging about to be washed. There's nothing.

He charges into the room, dropping the farewell present that he had been holding so tightly in his hands to search about the room for something--anything to prove that he really isn't gone. He practically flips the mattress on it's side, nothing. Flings open the closet door, nothing. Searches through the desk drawers, nothing.

It's as if... he never even existed in this world.

Before he can stop himself, he starts to yell, to the point where neighbors might hear]

I am God!! God is the only one who decides when someone can leave!! I did not ... I didn't... [The words get caught in his throat as the tears that had built up in his eyes this whole time start to flow over. He doesn't make any attempt to stop them either. He simply falls on his knees and begins to sob.

Just this once, God will cry.

How could he have let this happen? Both himself and Otonashi? This was their second chance... weren't they supposed to make the most of it together? ]

Otonashi you promised... you promised you wouldn't leave me.... [so why? Now he's all alone again...]

[A little while later, when Naoi has his anger and tears under.. decent control, he opens his journal]

Yuzuru Otonashi is gone. [Then he closes the journal. He has nothing left to say. There is nothing else to say.

His best friend is gone and that's that.]

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I am God. Keep that in mind when you speak to me. [Jeez so rude. Better watch your attitude.

INTRODUCTIONS ASIDE.]

What, are you deaf? I've said it twice now, Otonashi was sent home.

No you're not God...! Shut the hell up kid! I've already had to deal with witches I'm not dealing with someone that claims to be God of all things...!!

Tch.... so he's gone for good then...?! How can you be so calm...?!

Battler, shut up already. Naoi is and Otonashi was from the same afterlife as me. Going back means Otonashi's dead again and I'm pretty sure he was about to disappear if what he told me was true. I'm the only one from our world who has to go back and actually do something, the two of them just are off to stop existing if they do. So don't yell about that.

...Hah...?

[WHAT THE HELL YURI! DON'T GET IN THE MIDDLE WHEN HE'S ANGRY.]

I get it, I get he's from the same afterlife- even so... I'm not about to let someone talk down to me just because he's claiming to be something he isn't. When did this turn into a discussion about you? I was just asking about Otonashi-san and then this kid tries to talk to me like I'm an idiot.

I'm telling you what's going on because you're acting like a moron and yelling at someone while he's upset at losing the person he was closest to. Not everyone screams as much as you do when they're upset, and Naoi's always like that about the God thing and everyone else being an idiot so just ignore it.

You can't tell me what to do Yuri...! [YOU CAN'T TELL BATTLER TO SHUT UP HE'S TOO STUBBORN.]

He's still way too calm... I don't like it-! I'm sorry, I can't just trust someone who gets so goddamn high and mighty even after someone they're close to is gone. I've had to deal with that pain of continuously losing my family over and over- his attitude reminds me of Beato!

He's not calm. [ He was crying when she and Yotsuba came in, after all. ] You've never put up a brave front before? I'm telling you to stop harassing him because he's got it hard enough right now. What good is breaking down and crying every time something goes wrong..?

...Of course I've put up a brave front before- when I had to deal with different theories as to how my family died... it hurt every time but I did it anyways. Tch- watching a damn witch jeer and laugh when your nine year old cousin and your aunt are repeatedly drown or crushed...

...Well at that time I was still yelling at her to stop but... breaking down and crying might not be good- but it's better than holding it all in.

He's already done enough, so stop yelling at him unless he actually does something to deserve it. I don't remember the exact details since I was barely conscious at the time, but you're not the only one here with a dead family and Otonashi was the closest that he had to one. Just give him a break.

Oh, and the whole God-is-better-than-all-of-you thing is just his personality all the time, by the way, that's not just because of right now. He's just a brat.

[he clicks his tongue again. He doesn't like being talked down to at all- it reminds him of all those times in purgatory where Beato would jeer at him.]

He is a brat. I don't like him.

That's all I have to say.

That's fine. By the way, he's the guy I told you about with the hypnotism so try not too tick him off too much.

[ Like she listens to her own advice even. ]

Yeah yeah whatever. [he's still in a foul mood.]

[ Good Battler. ]

I'm sorry you didn't get to say goodbye to Otonashi either, Battler.

[A small sigh.]

He was a fun guy to talk to...

I'm out of a second-in-command, too.

[ Which in translation means she's going to miss him because she trusted him. :| But psh. ]

Why don't you just nominate Naoi? [no honorifics just to be rude... Battler why..]

My second needs to be able to communicate people without being rude. [ She's rude enough on her own, she needs someone to balance it out. She needs to be able to trust him too, Naoi's not exactly high on that list considering that he appears to want her to die in a ditch or disappear most days, especially so now that Otonashi's gone. ] And generally have some intent of listening to me.

[...Well, too bad Battler hardly ever listens to her!!]

Ah.... sorry- for getting angry. Naoi should see this too- so he should know I'm sorry as well.

[ That's why Battler's not getting any nominations either. 8| ]

He will. It'll probably go straight to his head, but he will.

[AND SO NAOI COMES BACK FROM HIS RANDOM WALK TO SEE THIS. And he does notice a part of the conversation is locked away from him. He tries to hack into it but can't.

God/Naoi dammit Yuri what did you tell him...

IF YOU TOLD HIM THAT HE CRIED YOU'RE GONNA GET A BEATING WOMAN.]

Are you two finished?

[ Stop being such a wife beater Naoi, sob, she didn't even tell him that. ]

Sure, you can have him back now. I'm out of here unless anyone needs me for anything.

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