(open catch-all) if there's one thing that i learned while in those county lines

[invinciblemikey]

Who: a newly updated, curse-free, many years older manjiro sano and ... you...
Where: many
What: picking up the pieces that he left fucked up the past few months. it's set forward-dated to the last week of the month.
Warnings: for once, nothing lmao i will add to the subject line if needed.

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[killjoyprince]

[It was more than Naoto could boast of. But her weak points had been her main causes of failure in the tower. She might have spent a chunk of the morning being bitter about it.]

He doesn't live here anymore... [She pulled a face, wrinkling her nose. What? No time had based while they were in that tower. Had it not been for a few bruises and how vivid the memories were she'd have thought it was a dream. Why hadn't her senpai mentioned anything about their plans?]

Where does he live now? I need to speak to him, it's a conversation best had in person.

[invinciblemikey]

I think he lives with Yosuke, in the same place he did before. I'm not totally sure.

(just because that's where mikey found him, doesn't mean that this is what it is. it's not yu is telling him much these days - deservedly so.

this conversation, however, is not doing great to his nerves, although he remains stoic.)

[killjoyprince]

[Naoto was still frowning. She'd not known of Yosuke having another place. They'd not mentioned it all, since she'd arrived they'd just lived at the dojo. Though...She supposed it made sense. Yu-senpai might have a way of quickly endearing himself to people, but even he couldn't befriend a stranger into moving in with them so quickly.

And if that friendship soured...]

I see. So you had a falling out. [A pretty bad one if Yu and Yosuke had left so quickly, without telling her and not telling Mikey were.

She sighed. But she could work it out once she found them.

But before she left.]

What happened to your hair? It doesn't appear to be a wig. [She might not see him often, but hair didn't grow that fast in a month.]

[invinciblemikey]

(he's not confirming or denying it. whatever yu wants to tell people, he's free to do so. manjiro isn't going to give someone he has no feelings about information that important, that in so many ways doesn't pertain to him.

the latest, however, he can answer.)

Went home for a good 10ish years. It's what I was doing with it then, haven't found someone to cut it so far, I don't trust most of these fuckers around with my hair.

[killjoyprince]

[Her lips just thinned at that. It stung a little, now she was trying trust the others more...

But anyway-]

Couldn't you just find a barbers'? It is their livelihood.

[invinciblemikey]

Finding a barber isn't the problem, finding a barber I trust is another.

(he did say any of these motherfuckers, after all.)

[killjoyprince]

... Under normal circumstances. I'd say finding one whose well-established and has multiple repeat patrons would be trustworthy enough.

[They might have been talking about different kinds of trust.]

Though businesses can just come and go here overnight.

[invinciblemikey]

If they fuck up your hair, then that's on you.

[killjoyprince]

[Look at her hair Mikey. Look at how short it was.]

I don't think I have to worry about that. Besides, it'll grow back. [And she doubted any haircut could be worse than the one she gave herself when she was younger.]

Though you might have to wait awhile. [Given it'd had ten years of growing time.]

[invinciblemikey]

Much more concerned about the roots, anyway.

(it's been growing for less than that, but it can't not be blonde in the end...)

[killjoyprince]

Ah... [She didn't have anything for that. Naoto had never been interested in dying or bleaching her hair. Or really doing anything beyond making it presentable. ]

You may be able to do that yourself. One of my friends does that regularly without aid.

[Kanji. Places to bleach hair was rare in Inaba.]

[invinciblemikey]

I am included in the motherfuckers who can't be messin' with my hair.

(if he knew what he was doing, then he wouldn't look for a place... but the hair is too important, and he has no skills.)

[killjoyprince]

... [Wow, sucks to be him.]

Why grow it so long if you don't know how to maintain it?