End-of-Summer Therapy

[bitten_notshy]

Classes start in a week, so, Fandom, how was your summer? Did you get a tan? Fall in love? Are you still hoping to do one or both of those things before Labor Day?

Any lingering summer trauma, including the omg-island-of-vampires kind? Share. We love it when you share.

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[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Yamanaka, if people are getting you down, just call. We'll have the spare futon cleared off before you finish booking your portal. A weekend in my Tokyo, and you'll forget about any cares or doom or gloom.

And you know I don't ask questions.

[intraspective]

I know. And thank you so much.

But--well, there's Romeo. And he would. And he's one of the ones I'd never explain it to. Lying while trying to get away from the lying seems... broken. I might, once I can do it a bit better, because I believe you that there'd be no room for other thoughts in my head.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

He's Romeo. He's got a big heart, and is painfully honest with his emotions. It's part of what I love about him. You're right, he'd be horrified, but I think the world needs people like that, to keep people like me from veering too far off the path.

To be perfectly honest, if I knew all the details, I'd probably be upset with you too. The people I Hunt have all done something horrible to deserve it. Taking a mission fueled by someone's petty jealousy? That, yeah, I'd have a problem with. But then my problem is with your boss, and not with you.

I know that you Do The Job. It's what I grew up with around my father's men, I accept it about you and Reno, and it's what I am. But that doesn't mean I have to like it, and I might hit you with a pillow for not finding a better plan.

Does that make any sense?

[intraspective]

Maybe the world needs them? But I don't think I can handle it right now. I'm having enough issues with it--I don't need someone who'd either act like I'm the monster, or like my leader is and that it's easy to quit and find a better life. I was born for this sort of thing. Adjusting is--because of Fandom.

I'm a nicer person than I used to be, but not that much nicer.

It does make sense, but that's just--we do what people hire us to do and if Hokage-sama accepts the job. Once it's accepted, it doesn't matter what it is. And I don't know if I want it different.

My plan, though, yes. It might have been different. I'm trying not to think about that. I don't want that on me too.