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Hundred Fifth Explosion

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[OH and this is probably backdated to sometime in the earlier afternoon.

So Haruki has been in hiding since the end of the AU event. To be fair, he thinks he has good reason. What he doesn't suspect, or perhaps is still in denial about is the the other night... (which is a much longer thread in full and totally work safe and such if you're curious even if it's not quite done yet) and the deadly consequences of these actions. So now, coming out of the woods (he took to checking out some caves... quietly... the other day) he comes across-

His doom. From a distance, you might have heard him SCREAM in pain and horror, but by the time any character arrives, the deed will have been done. Do feel to find him at the edge of the forest in... the follow state:

Haruki is frozen solid. Yes, ice coats his entire body. His face is frozen into a face of terror and there's some minor cuts on his face and arms. His shirt looks like it's been partially ripped in a few places as if by a sword. His journal lays to his side with a hole stabbed through it by... something. But perhaps what is more shocking than him being frozen solid is that... the whole tree around him is also frozen solid. Yes, the whole tree (which also has a few chips and such in the bark) is all frozen along with him, leaving him quite stuck.

So yes, you might have heard the scream! You must just be here by chance! But either way come and marvel at the amazing frozen Haruki. Maybe talk to others who have rushed to see this scene too. And perhaps help him out of concern because, y'know, frostbite isn't a good thing

Or if it suits your fancy perhaps you can run into him after he starts to recover ~~I just need to figure out... where he ends up~~

EDIT Oh but feel free to break time and find him twice if you want. Free him twice too. It's all good]

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[The syndrome... The syndrome? The Hinamizawa syndrome...

If you see a dot at the wall and hate bugs you will think it's a bug. It's the same with Satoko, just worse. The syndrome doesn't let her see anything else but what she is terrified of, no matter how clearly different the reality is.

Keiichi snaps, he had stumbled back after the punch. Falling sitting to the ground, still in a daze, his hand went back to his neck almost immediately because it still itched. But now it doesn't. It just hurts. Stings.

Keiichi looks. With a scared and worried expression, but his pupils are normal now. And he sees... Haruki on the ground before him. Minato standing. Haruki breathing. Minato breathing.]

Minato-kun... [But... But the gun... Was that an hallucination too? But it was real...

It doesn't matter. That's right. What does that matter. Just as his slightly wounded neck or his hand with a bit of blood on the nails. There's something more important.]

Haruki!!! Damnit, now is not the time to lose it Keiichi!

[Keiichi crawls to the other, taking him in his arms to make sure that's alright. He had been trapped on ice, damnit!]

[He's talking again. That's good... Minato quickly slips the knife into his bag also before kneeling beside the other two boys.]

Are you all right? [this is mostly to Keiichi. Haruki seems out of it.]

[Strange question. Is he alright? He... He still feels a bit out of it himself. It had really seemed so real. But he has to focus. Focus on helping Haruki.]

I'll manage. First we should take Haruki to the clinic- or somewhere to rest safely.

I'll... I'll be okay.

[He won't lose it again. Not now. HAruki's alive. Minato's alive. Rena, Hanyuu and Rika aren't there but they are home. And everyone is alive.]

[he nods, then shifts to pick up Haruki's legs so they can carry him.] I'll need your help.

[Haruki's a big dude, much too big for him to manage alone. But after he's safe - they need to talk.]

[He nods again. He will help. He's not that stupid boy he had been in so many worlds. The stupid boy who smashed Rena's and Mion's heads. He'll help.

He takes hold of Haruki's upper body, careful to not hurt him. To not cause any problem.]

Where are we going?

[Haruki's weigth. It's warm. Despite having been in the ice, to Keiichi it feels warm. Yes, they are alright. He will be alright.]

[he's about to say 'clinic' but Haruki doesn't like that place. so -] Let's take him home.

[Another nod. Haruki doesn't like the clinic anyway, and he was there not that long ago. Let's leave him rest a bit. If it gets bad they will get him to the clinic anyway.

He moves slowly, backwards, so Minato has to kind of lead him as to where to turn and such.]

[However, as they go... they might notice as they start to near his house he starts to mutter... incoherent words. Yeah he's still out of it but he's getting back there!]

[well wake up and walk on your own then, you big lump. Or at least don't struggle while they walk you up to the front door.]

[Keiichi agrees on the "don't struggle" part. Though he prefers Haruki being still out of it. How is he going to look at him in the face now? As if he didn't have enough with how he had been with Haruki during the experiment, now he failed against the syndrome. How is he going to even look Minato in the face?

He just can't, and he avoids doing so the whole time. Using the carrying of the Suzumiya as an excuse to not to. And once he is safely in his bed... Keiichi finds another excuse in getting tons of blankets. He had been frozen, he needs to recover warm to try to stop him from getting too sick. Blankets. they need blankets.

And he needs to avoid both Haruki and Minato.]

[As Keiichi's off in lala land though once Haruki's inside... he opens his ears, blearily. He recognizes the smell first - this is his house, right? His home? He blinks once or twice more before... focusing on Minato, who one can only assume is still there. ...Or maybe on that thing which looks sorta like him in the corner. Hm]

[keep it together, dude. It was just execution.]

Haruki-kun?

[All your blankets are belong to Keiichi now.

Only to be promptly put over Haruki once he returns to the room, arms full with every blanket he has found. He left alone the ones in Shiki's and Neku's rooms thought, he actually makes a point of not enter there... Neither in Rena's previous room but as it's unoccupied and he needs the blankets he may have peeked at it to see if there were any. At any rate, Keiichi busies himself in making sure that Haruki is perfectly tucked in bed and warm... Still not saying a thing and trying to avoid eye contact, kthx.]

[During this Haruki silently observes Keiichi for now... because hey he just punched him in the face. ...And snuggling in he blankets. That's good too]

[okay, no one wants to talk to him. Minato just focuses on helping Keiichi tuck Haruki in like he's some little kid who got himself hurt doing something stupid.

Which he is.]

[It's not as if he doesn't want to talk to Minato... But he doesn't know what to say. Or to Haruki. He's busy on a small self-pity trip for being useless in helping Haruki and losing it. But he has been quite stressed since Rena left and what has been going on wasn't helping and... He just can't help but shudder at the fresh memory of Haruki in an ice coffin. His blood had ran cold in a way it had never done before. It had felt almost as in those other worlds in which he found Rika's corpse being devoured by crows... But this had felt even worse even.

He notices Haruki observing him... And puts a hand over his eyes and forehead, another hand, the one still with his own blood from the small injuries in his neck, on his own forehead.]

I think... It won't be too bad...

[He will probably end with a cold anyway. But maybe nothing worse.]

[...Pfft whatever you losers he's going back to sleep for now. That had to be a nightmare... totally. He's going to just. Close his eyes and try to nod off even though it's not really coming and he knows it]

[Minato can see this is going nowhere with Haruki. Keiichi, though...]

We should let him rest.

[Keiichi just nods. Honestly he had been avoiding Haruki to begin with before... Now he wants to do it even more. Not that he wants to be with Minato either but... At least he can run away from the sick one.]

Good idea.

[He will be going to the living room now. To the couch where he has been sleeping for a while now, still not wanting to look at Minato. But he can't just remain silent either, can he?]

Thank you, Minato-kun.

[For saving Haruki when he was unable to do anything himself.]

[He follows into the other room. Minato's the one who nearly drove him crazy. He should be thanking Keiichi for snapping himself out.]

I'm sorry.

[He doesn't want to talk about it. He doesn't want to remember the sight. But he can't avoid it, right? He can't just turn around and deny it, he knows himself, he knows the syndrome.

Keiichi sighs and rubs his eyes with a hand.]

Why? I... I already knew you had something you didn't want to talk about but...

[Why didn't he mention that before? Long before.]

You didn't close your eyes.

[okay so he's a little put out about that even if he couldn't have really expected Keiichi to listen. ...] ...It looks worse than it is. But it's not something I want to have to use.

[Minato gets a punch directed to his face with all the strength Keiichi can put on it -and it's a lot- for that "reminder".]

You fucking shot yourself in the head!! How would have me closing my eyes changed that!? You never even mentioned you had a fucking gun!

I tell you everything I frigging know about the syndrome! About Rena, about my world! And you didn't even consider once that it could have been a good idea to at least mention that?!

[well he wouldn't have known it was a gun, for one... The punch catches him off guard and all he can do is throw up his hands to block. The fist slams hard into his arm instead. It's going to leave a bruise.]

I'd just met you then, Keiichi-kun. You had other things to worry about.

[As if he wouldn't have opened his eyes in confusion upon hearing the "glass shatter", just in time to see Minato with a gun pointing to his temple. Minato has an awful sense of choice for when to shut up and when to talk though. Keiichi tries again to punch him.]

We met in fucking April!! That was four months ago! And in all this time you really never considered it worth mention??

I thought we were friends!

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