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[Video/Action] First Stitch, revisited ℵ

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[The journal opens up when Kanji's foot tips it over. The camera shows the tree tops, leaves dark and green with tiny splotches of a blue sky showing through. The voice of an irate male is heard shouting at the top of his lungs at no one in particular.]

Can't believe I'm back here with these dumb ass wings. The fuck is wrong with these stupid bastards that they can't leave me back home where things are finally calm?! It's Golden Week!

And why the hell are these wings so...pink? Do I look like a dude who wears pink?

[And suddenly, Kanji's very angry face is in front of the camera. It's obvious that he's in the New Feather pants and no shirt. He really doesn't look like a guy who should even know what the color pink is, let alone wear it.

His grey eyes go wide before a slight blush shows on his cheeks.]

Fuck!

[And then the journal is slammed shut.]

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[Later, when he's dressed in his normal clothes, Kanji can be found looking for a place to stay, since he already knows how Luceti works. After finding an apartment, he's going grocery shopping and stopping off to get some supplies to occupy his time.

He'll also stop off at Seventh Heaven for dinner and to see who's working there. He stops off at the school and Azalea to check in with his former teacher. He would like to see when the school is back in session.]

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[Oh, yeah, Adachi was the worst. Really. Dojima was pretty cool though.]

Well, the beat cops back home were pretty damn dumb.

Same with mine. I'm guessin' they weren't much help when all that stuff was happenin'?

[The last murder investigation Firo saw by his police used him as bait, so he's not too optimistic about their abilities there.]

It'd be something new if they knew how to be useful, honestly.

[Considering it was he and his friends that had to catch Namatame and Adachi both, the police back home were just the most useless. Except for Dojima-san.]

I hear ya. You can always trust 'em to get nothin' done. Except collect their bribes.

Cops back home ain't that bad, but obnoxious, lazy and incompetent are definitely their strong suits.

[He laughs.]

Yeah? Most of 'em are on the take where I come from. And then they're obnoxious, lazy, and incompetent on top a' all that.

...I mean, I do know a few who are "honest," but they're still assholes.

[Firo, though, is incredibly biased on this issue as only a criminal can be.]

[Kanji groans under his breath.]

Yeah, even the honest cops back home got chips on their shoulders. Seriously, who the fuck eats ramen "suspiciously"?

They got on your case for somethin' like that? Just what did they think you were involved in?

Fuck if I know. Everything, I guess. Beat up one group of dumb ass bikers for being rude shits and get a rep as a troublemaker. Anything bad went down, they were glarin' at me and makin' the old bat apologize all the damn time.

[Firo rolls his eyes in sympathy; that sounds just like them. Edward was always on his case even when he hadn't done anything wrong.]

That sucks. I don't see why they harass people cleanin' up the streets when they won't even do it themselves.

[They should be thanking people like these two, obviously.]

[Yeah, Kanji's surrounded by idiots back home that still try to give him a hard time, even after a year of behaving and not causing trouble.]

Prolly because we "cause more trouble than before". Least that's what the old bat said a few times. But what was I supposed to do? She was sick from not bein' able to sleep and the cops weren't gettin' offa their lazy asses to do their fuckin' job. Someone hadta.

[Ah, someone who gets it. Even though they're grousing now, Firo actually feels pretty good to meet someone who doesn't immediately disagree.]

That's how it's always been and how it's always gonna be. They ain't gonna do anything for you, so you gotta take care a' it.

I'm guessin' "the old bat's" family a' yours?

[Nah, Kanji totally agrees, and it's good to have somebody who actually understands how he feels about the police back home. He was a good kid but his rep was so bad that it made it hard to breathe wrong half the time. And the only person who saw the way he was treated was Yu-senpai, but he isn't here anymore.

So, hi new friend.]

Well, they're good for haulin' the trash off to jail after me and my friends caught 'em.

And, uh, that's my mom.

[And don't you dare call her anything but Mrs Tatsumi. He can call her anything he wants.]

[New friends--and ones who really get where he's coming from--are always welcome in Firo's book.

He laughs at that.]

Cleanin's about all they're good for.

[He smiles; it seemed like she had to be someone close and Firo always loves talking about family.]

Figures they'd try and fault somebody for takin' care a' his family. They just don't get it.

[His mom's a pain, but whatcha gonna do?]

Fuck 'em, honestly. I'd get blamed just for standing outside my family's shop doin' nothing. Cops gotta earn their tax-dollar-funded checks somehow.

Yeah. But even then, they like to get somebody else to do their job when they can. This one asshole back home used me to catch a murderer without even liftin' a finger. Didn't give me a thank you, either.

At least Dojima thanked us when we caught Namatame and fuckin' Adachi. That dude deserved to be punched in the face.

You're damn right he did. I woulda' done it if it wouldn't a' been trouble for my Family.

Yeah, that's parta the reason I stopped my Senpai from gettin' rid of that idiot Namatame. Too much trouble for not enough reward. Wouldn't've made anything better in the long run.

"Senpai"? Is that like your leader or somethin'?

[Firo's not sure he'd be able to stop Maiza or one of his bosses from taking care of someone if he wanted to. And, honestly, if someone had pissed them off that much, Firo'd be happy to let it happen.]

Um, well, Yu-senpai is the leader of our group, I guess. Then, there's Yosuke-senpai, who's his partner and an okay dude. Then there's Yukiko-senpai, who is Yu-senpai's girl and can be kinda scary. And finally there's Chie-senpai... She's, uh, really into kung fu and steak.

Senpai's just someone who's older than you in school or someone who's been at a job longer than you have. It's more like a title, I guess, than a person.

[Well, when Kanji's the one who's not advocating violence, the rest of the group kinda listened.]

Huh...

[So it seems like this guy is one of the youngest in his group and the tallest. Life just isn't fair.]

So this "group" a' yours, is it like a gang?

[He can't help but wonder. After all, this guy seems to think like him and is involved in similar trouble, so maybe they have even more in common.]

[He's the baby. Everyone in the group is older than him. Except for Teddie, but they don't even really know what Teddie is.]

Not...really? We're just a group of friends that met because of this dumb case. We hang out at the local food court.

Oh.

[Yeah, he was way off the mark. This guy even looks a little like he could be an enforcer; he has a face like the very fearsome Berga...]

Uh, sorry. I just gotta wonder, you know? Sucks they bother kids like you.

[Kanji can't help his face. Despite the way he looks, he's definitely a good kid.]

Y-yeah, I guess. I mean, all the rest of my friends stay outta trouble. Cops just bugged me. Not so much anymore though.

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