Volleyball League Practice Catch-all

[bluecastleace]

Who: primarily those who signed up to participate in the Void’s new volleyball league, but anyone and everyone is welcome!
What: volleyball practice for the new Void volleyball league
Where: the underground gymnasium
When: early December
Content Warnings: none yet, but will update if necessary!


((ooc: this log is gonna be used for a few practice sessions, as well as a practice game and other such things! Iwaizumi will be sharing his knowledge with everyone and acting as a coach of sorts until the practice game, so feel free to use the TLs to interact with him, or make your own TLs under the sections to start your own threads with your teammates or others participating! also, if you are not a player but want to be in the audience or are playing another role, feel free to make TLs reflecting that! everyone is welcome (walk/ins included!) If you have questions or want to plot, feel free to add me on Plurk at pantheraliam))

Comments

yeah!!

[kimihiros]

(the walk is long, but kimihiro insists that he can do it - he's not into being babied, but alas, there they are.

the room is rather Japanese, or at least, the most Japanese he could make it with the things he found on the beach. he hopes he doesn't have to tell iwai to remove his shoes before he softly takes mugetsu out of his neck and into the cushion he has made as a bed for the fox. it's with the same softness that he tucks him in.) You should rest too.

(and to iwai, he speaks again.) What kind of tea would you like?

(he had bargained for some down at Heavenly Blanc, so hence, he has a few choices.)

[bluecastleace]

[Naturally, Iwa does take his shoes off before entering, just like he would do with any home - just one more thing he’s tried to hang onto in this place of his own world, his own Japan. The aesthetic of the room doesn’t hurt to remind him either, or at least make him more comfortable with doing so (some people react so strangely to the simplest things).]

Whatever’s fine, but you should sleep soon. [He takes a moment to glance around the place.] You find all this stuff on the beach?

[kimihiros]

(whatever is not an answer, but anyways, kimihiro chooses green tea for him. fire, kettle, now they've got to just wait for it to boil, and by doing so, kimihiro sits at a cushion on the center dinner table.)

I did what I could do make it resemble the shop, but it doesn't in the slightest. (he sighs, thin hands moving to his pipe to clean - he didn't bring it to practice. perhaps that's a reason why he's grumpier than usual.)

[bluecastleace]

[Iwa would probably shoot him a disapproving look at the least if he did. He can’t help but wrinkle his nose just a little at the indication Kimihiro might be about to fill the room with smoke.]

You know, I want to say that’s bad for you, but here...[He shrugs.] Who knows, right?

You sure seem to like it either way. Does it feel the same?

[kimihiros]

I don't normally age and if the injury is physical, it heals.

(read: he doesn't care that much. he'd definitely be dead by now if he were any normal, but he isn't. it's fine.

iwaizumi might notice all the care and love he has as he tends to the pipe, removing all residue as he takes it apart.)

It's... Emotional rather than physical, I suppose. You'd find it very out of place had you met me a few decades ago.

[bluecastleace]

Makes sense I guess. [It’s easy to place that Kimihiro is sentimental about the thing, but Iwaizumi isn’t really one to pry about that sort of thing without reason.]

It looks nice, not that that’s really my thing.

[kimihiros]

I hated it at first, but I grew accustomed to it. The original store owner smoked it more than I do.

(forgive him if he looks a little nostalgic, but either way, the pipe is cleaned and he refrains from using it for now. he usually spends a long time outside because of it, though.)

[bluecastleace]

A hand-me-down?

[kimihiros]

... Not exactly.

(yuuko didn't actually give him anything. he inherited her things out of his free will.)

She's not... Among us. I'm waiting for her return.

[bluecastleace]

...Oh.

[Well, this is...awkward - awkward and sad. Iwa’s never really had any sort of loss like that in his life except for nationals rip nationals, so he can’t really relate, but if he’s waiting for her to come back, then maybe...?]

Does that, uh...does that happen pretty often...where you’re from? People...coming back?

[kimihiros]

Not really, but time stopping isn't very common either, and yet.

(by a miracle, the kettle starts whistling - tea time. it's with much love and care that he pours and prepares it.)

Both of us had the same fate there. Communicating with the other side was never an issue for me, but still, I can't find her anywhere.

[bluecastleace]

That sucks.

[Probably the lamest response he could possibly give, but it’s true enough. He can’t relate, but he can imagine.]

That sucks a lot. I’m sorry.

[He wants to say that she could show up here - it is possible, but...he knows firsthand how miserable it can feel hoping every day to wake up and see someone who isn’t there—

[Maybe he can relate a little after all, huh?]

[kimihiros]

Nothing to apologize for.

(as known as he will never leave the shop if it does appear. simple as that. kimihiro pours both cups and back to the center table he is, setting it in front of iwai before he takes his own to his lips.)

I made a promise to wait in the shop for her, so I would like to return to it, even if it's here. Considering I have no idea how to go home unpowered like this, seems like the second choice.

[bluecastleace]

[Iwaizumi frowns a little at the implication, electing to take a sip of his tea before he jumps directly into lecturing a guy he barely knows. He can’t help himself though - confining yourself to one place just doesn’t seem healthy, especially considering the circumstances (even he makes himself leave the would be Aoba Johsai gym sometimes).]

Wait in the shop like how? You’ve got to at least go home to sleep, right? [Right?]

[kimihiros]

It's a house. I've been living there for a little more than a century.

(because well, he did kind of live there when yuuko was around. it can even be argued that it's the only home he has known, considering his lack of memories of his parents and his orphan status.)

[bluecastleace]

Okay, so you live there, but do you ever leave? [Why does it sound like he never leaves?] Like ever?

You’ve got to, right?

[Or does he, being a 100 year old ghost or whatever he is?]

[kimihiros]

I physically cannot.

(aside from the fact that he won't, really, even if he could.)

It was payment for a wish of mine.

[bluecastleace]

Okay, but that wouldn’t be true here, right?

[kimihiros]

I don't know. It's a big part as to why it shocks me I even am here to begin with.

(he takes a sip of the tea, finally, holding it delicately with both hands.)

I usually have Doumeki do things outside for me. I'm not used to this anymore.

[bluecastleace]

Who? [Some other bizarre creature that either drinks heavily, transfers people through dimensions, or both, he has no doubt.] Either way, it must be nice to be able to get out and about now at least, right?

[Please say “right”. He’s concerned.]

[kimihiros]

Doumeki is a pain in the ass who went to high school with me. His great grandson runs my errands now after he passed.

(it's said with mild annoyance, but some tenderness hides behind it, in his eyes. the heavily drinking is definitely accurate there, though!)

I made a promise. I'd like to keep it.

[bluecastleace]

Yeah, but that’s—-

[Not that he’s not all about keeping your word - he is - but come on??? He huffs a little. Why it bothers him so much, he’s not sure, but...]

One hell of a promise. [He’s grumbling a little.] What kind of person would confine you to one place like that just for a wish?

[kimihiros]

It's my choice and my decision.

(he doesn't expect iwai to understand.

the universe asks for a price, powers don't rely on nothing. to kimihiro, this payment is worth it.)

I could see ghosts and I was constantly harassed by them when I was your age. I part-timed at the shop so that eventually, I had enough work put in and Yuuko-san could free me of such ability. When she left, she made my wish come true. I decided to inherit the shop to wait for her, and to do that, I needed my abilities. I traded it for being able to leave.

(full circle. didn't he tell iwaizumi he would be freaked out very easily when he was young? there is the reason why. )

[bluecastleace]

[Iwaizumi can’t help but feel a bit of tightness in his chest at the explanation. He doesn’t know Kimihiro that well, but he knows with that explanation that he’s probably been through more than Iwaizumi can well imagine, and that just sits heavily on him for some reason. He takes another sip of his tea, frowning as he does so. What could he even say to that?]

You’re a dedicated guy, Kimihiro.

I guess that’s not a bad thing.

[He still doesn’t think he should spend all his time sitting around one place waiting for something that it looks like won’t come, but who is he to judge, right? He makes a mental note to get him out of the shop every once in a while if it does show up though.]

Thanks for the tea, but you should probably sleep, right? You were pretty passed out back there.

[kimihiros]

(kimihiro has been through more things than he dares to attempt to explain. from being a time paradox, to having his eye eaten by a spider spirit, he has his fair share of sorrow, confusion and upsetness, all still swimming inside him for the past decades. yuuko is the deepest wound, as one can imagine.

he doesn't know what to say to the compliment, so he just waves a hand. he's nothing much, he reckons.)

I'm fine, Iwaizumi. It happens sometimes, the world mistaking when I should sleep.

(and by now, they can probably hear the little snoring squeaks mugetsu makes. that one is deep asleep.)

He's been less anxious, at least. I guess he came to the conclusion people here don't mean harm.