(open) can't hold on or life won't change

[forethinking]

Who: ren-chan & you!
What: as per usual, a bunch of prompts in the comments!
Where: literally everywhere
When: through the month of ooc october.
Content Warnings: for now, nothing. will be warned in the top level!

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lessons;

[bachagain]

[ in true leo tsukinaga glory, ren will find a piece of paper slipped underneath his apartment door with the following:

It's time!!!!
Yumenosaki Shibumenosaki or whatever! That one room with the piano!
I'm waiting, Ren ♪

gasp. it's a shoe locker love letter... surely ren won't leave this mysterious admirer waiting, right? whenever he does make his way there, leo will have candles and dinner waiting--

--no, no, ren's just gonna hear the sound of skillful piano music playing through the hallways if sound decides to work properly. and when ren opens the door... surprise, there's leo, sitting at the piano, his hands dancing along the keys and singing along to his song.

who knows how long he's been waiting? time doesn't matter here, after all.

either way, leo doesn't quite notice ren's entrance, so he's still playing away regardless. sorry for his rudeness, phantom thief. ]

[forethinking]

(He has been getting all sorts of note as of late, most of them rather inappropriate, so he instantly rolled his eyes upon seeing a piece of paper under his door. Surprise! It was not a "health tip" from Blue, but instead, an invitation.

Ren makes his way to the place - it feels like the more Phantom Thieves and related they get, the more familiar the Void gets, like their influence was getting stronger each time... And yet, it's never completely theirs. It's frustrating, somehow that blends into curiosity, much like everything does here.

He follows the sound of the piano, even if it leads him to different rooms with the inconsistency of it and finally, after almost feeling like he's partaking in a treasure hunt, he finds the other boy.

Ren beams, almost as if he was proud to see the skills he keeps hearing about and well, this is Leo in his natural habitat, isn't it? He doesn't mind waiting and listening until Leo is done.)

[bachagain]

[ then ren sat there for hours (?), ignored and alone....... okay no. he will have to wait a while though -- however much a while might mean in this place -- because leo tends to ignore absolutely everything when music is involved. with one song done, leo moves to the next. there's no vocals paired with this piece, just a whole lot of piano keys, but when that's done leo is absolutely turning towards the door as if looking for something.

... and then he jumps a little, as it's found. briefly, his mind brings up the painful stuff he knows about ren now, shocking as it still is, but he shakes that away. the present is the present, and the past is the past, so maybe he'll just focus on the former-- ]

Woah! Whaaaat, Ren, you really live up to your name! I was expecting you and I still somehow ended up surprised!

[ PHANTOM THIEF, ]

Didja just get here? Sorry, sorry, I get waaay distracted when I'm doing music, so I didn't even hear the door open!

[forethinking]

(It would be fine had that been the case! Ren finds a wall to lean his side against, arms crossed and the smile on his lips stands strong. He doesn't mind waiting when he's watching Leo have what seems to be the time of his life - basically what he envisioned it would be like when the other gets in contact with an instrument.

Ren himself jumps, just a little, when the other does - he didn't exactly come in stealth, hiding behind a piece of furniture and waiting for that precise moment in which he could make himself known.

So instead, he quietly laughs, shaking his head.)

I got here two songs ago.

[bachagain]

[ hahaha, wow. if ren was an assassin come for his head, he'd be dead by now!

but, like, he's not. he's just a dear friend come to learn, and leo's fully prepared to help him out. well, after leo's done pausing over that little statement... time might be all messed up, but it does help to keep track of things in the length of a song, the span of a note -- this, definitely, he can't forget.

so. ]

You're a patient one, huh. Most people cut me off midway into the first, or at most when the first one's finished! They'd never let me slip into a second while they just stand there! [ haha. ] You practicing your listening ears for our lessons? Getting ready to sit still all quiet-like and take in some new knowledge...? That's what I called you here for, by the way! Surprise!

[ obviously. and nowww he's pat pat patting the space on the piano bench beside him, so come on over ren-- ]

[forethinking]

You looked passionate.

(Simple enough, isn't it? Ren wasn't going to take that from him!

He sees no reason to explain it further, so instead, he does what he is invited to do, walking towards the other and letting his eyes take note of the instruments... And he does snort a little when he hears 'surprise'.

Leo, there was no surprise there.....!!

Ren sits, a little out of his element for now. For now!)

How are we doing this? (Should he take notes???

Leo, Ren wasn't great at school......)