Forty-Ninth Sunshine [Video Post]

[hyuugahime]

[Hinata is seen leaving the house she lives in. She's carrying a big bag and has put a scarf around her neck and some gloves that have been patched up on her hands.

It is only her second Christmas, so she was a little late making her presents, and is now a little late distributing them, but here she comes now.]


Presents List
Naruto - A pressed orange flower, and his father's ramen recipe that she kept afte he left.
Raven - A small notebook made from scrap paper she found, with pressed flowers and leaves and their names in Japanese.
Hope - A notebook made from the prettiest scrap paper she could find, with some pressed flowers glued to thecover.
Bartimeus - A single, pressed flower. The most exotic she could find here.
Kyoko, Mami and Yuma each get a Starcatcher (small candle holder).
Usagi and Rei also get a Starcatcher.

For everyone else that she is friendly with or has spoken to and likes (even if they're not particularly warm towards her - Kagura, that means you.), you get a small pillow made from scrap fabric and the wool from the rainbow sheep. Feel free to mention your character getting one if you think it Ic Hinata would give one to them basedon past interactions.


((OOC : Offlines are welcome. Also, custom comment page should be turned on, but let me know if it isn't.))

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

[Bartimaeus is hanging out as a gargoyle on top of a building as is his wont, when he spies Hinata walking about. With a flap of his great stone wings, he glides down to her, settling in the snow much more lightly than you would expect.]

Hello.

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[hyuugahime]

[Over the weeks, she's gotten used to the way what she would call his 'chakra' feels. So, she only gives a small start before smiling at him.]

Bartimeus-kun! Hi.

I-I have a present for you.

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

A present? [what is this present-thing?]

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[hyuugahime]

Hm! For Christmas. I-It's ... I think it's something some people celebrate around this time of the year and they give presents to their friends. Just a second ...

[She rummages in the bag and takes out a small, paper-wrapped thing.]

Here.

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

[Bartimaeus looks very surprised and he accepts the gift, touched]

I have never ... [He pauses and looks around. Nothing strikes him as gift-worthy at the glance.]

Then my gift to you will be a wish.

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[hyuugahime]

A wish? W-What do you mean, Bartimeus-kun?

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

What do you wish for? My power is not absolute but I can fulfil most requests.

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[hyuugahime]

[She looks surprised, then hopeful, then a little sad.]

The things I wish, I-I should attain them through my own merit, Bartimeus-kun. That's ... very sweet of you, though.

B-But if I could ... I-I'd just wish for you to be happy.

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

That, I am afraid, depends on someone else. [He doesn't look at her when he says it, embarrassed. Stupid Nat.]

When you know what you want, you tell me.

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[hyuugahime]

I-In that case, I'll think about it carefully.

[Because, she is, after all, well-behaved, and she feels touched that he'd want to reciprocate.]

And in the meantime, I hope you enjoy your present. I-It's nothing much, but ...

[But she did put a lot of herself in it. Pressing flowers is her favorite hobby, and she sorts of feels a kinship towards him, even though he is not human and from a world very removed from hers.]

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

I will put it on my wall. [And that means a lot, he has nothing up in his room that isn't basic. He doesn't even use the bed but he sees no point in removing it.]

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[hyuugahime]

I-I'm not really sure what the flower is, b-but it made me think of you.

... This is a new form, isn't it?

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

It is very pretty. [spirits rather prefer wildlife and countrysides to cities so this is very nice for him]

Not really, but I believe this is the first time you have seen me in it.

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[hyuugahime]

W-What is it exactly?

[She's ... well, never seena gargoyle before. Vincent crouching on rooftops doesn't count.]

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

It is called a gargoyle and they're carved from stone. Mostly from the medieval period in Europe - good form if you need to sit somewhere for a long time and not move.

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[hyuugahime]

Eu...rope?

[The way she says the word, it's obvious it's not just a case of different languages, she's genuinely never heard it before.]

So you're ... made of stone. Right now, I mean.

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

It is a continent on John's world.

I am, solid stone,

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[hyuugahime]

I see.

H-How ... how does that feel?

[Were she less hy, she would have tried to touch, but hse's not that bad.]

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

Like stone. [he seems to be able to manipulate his form just as easily as if it were smoke or flesh, despite the usual limitations of movement in stone and extends a wing out to her]

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[hyuugahime]

I-I meant, for you ... How does it feel to ... be stone?

[She holds out a hand towards the wing. The movements are indeed too smooth for what looks like a stone statue.]

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

It feels like anything else. I select a form and that is that. There isn't any 'feel'.

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[hyuugahime]

... S-So there's no physical feeling? At all?

[She looks ... a little sad. He's a spirit, of course, it's different, but that doesn't feel ... right.]

Can I ... Can I try something?

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

I can feel you if you touch me, but in any form I don't 'feel' the way you do. I only know about it from when I shared John's body.

[Pause. Odd, he trusts her. That doesn't happen often.]

Okay.

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[hyuugahime]

Can you turn into a kitten again? Like ... that last time?

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

[the stone features look curious but without saying a word, the edges shimmer and seem to dissolve, then coalescing again quickly into the form of a kitten]