the_brightest_sun | 005th Meatbun ☼ Voice / Drawings?

[So guess which kid woke up veeeery early in the morning due nature's call... Only to freak out about the recent experiment. Or rather than freak out, get terrified by it. Guess who gets out of Ukyo's apartment as fast and silently as possible -and for a monkey that's easy- to run away to the forest.

Later in the day, much later, in the early afternoon, after most of the village has gotten out of their "wtf" and such reactions... People flipping pages in the journals may come across an entry with someone doodling in there. They are pretty simple drawings, it's not as if Goku has his color pencils with him or whatever.

There's a girl, with long hair and a bow in the head, she holds what could be from a paint brush to a cooking tool. In fact for some it may be recognizable if they have visited a certain okonomiyaki stall. Her other hand holds the hand of a child, with messy hair and what seems like a hairband or a crown on his head, who looks very, very, happy. And he is holding the hand of a boy, who also has a hairband on his shorter hair and who has lots of interrogations above his head as if he's not sure where he is. On the girl's other side there's another man, older and taller and accompanied by a black dog. The drawing also has a happy sun and happy clouds and happy trees and everyone looks happy there.

There's a record accompanying this piece of art, but it has nothing of interest unless you like to listen to a child crying and sobbing. At any rate, the beautiful drawing is soon destroyed by lots of lines striking it almost angrily. At this point there's a voice being recorded but it sounds far, as if not talking to the journal.]

You guys are lucky... Whenever you get out of there you will have a mom and a dad... I don't have those...

I had them but it was a lie... I also had a grandad...

[Moar drawings, this time it's different though yet a bit similar, there are three "adults" but they are different from before, they are all boys, one has what one could assume is light hair and dresses like a girl and has a dot in the forehead. Another has short dark hair and seems to be smoking -or throwing smoke from his mouth- and holds what is a bottle that has "wine" scribbled on it messily because he almost ran out of space on the bottle. There's another one, with short hair and a monocle and with a kind of dragon or bird on his shoulder. The kid from before he here too, the only one unchanged and still looking happy. Everyone looks happy here.

It gets covered in strikes soon enough as well.]

I want my family back... Both of them.

[And that's all there's to see and hear. Yeah, here's one of the people who's taking this change sadly.]

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[Sheik's had a long day already, but when he does take the time to check the journals and comes across this, he can't help but feel he should offer something to console the boy. He feels about as let down about the whole thing as the kid sounds.]

Goku? [Pause. He's not sure he should attempt to help. He hardly knows the kid, and is barely in better shape himself. He shakes his head to himself, then continues.] It was a cruel joke. It hurts to be given something, only to have it taken away. It was wrong of the Malnosso to tamper with something so precious.

[Another pause. How does he continue...?]

[Nataku is normally an early riser, but sometime after midnight he dashed into the forest and he hasn't returned to the village since. He spent most of the night by the stream where he stopped with Rokuta over a week before. It's his last pleasant memory before... Before all the new ones.

He hasn't looked at the journals at all, or slept, or eaten anything. He just feels tired and empty, and he wishes he could forget how it felt to have a family because all of the carefully constructed lies he's told himself to get by just don't hold up against what he knows now.

After sunrise he leaves the riverbank to get lost in the forest, wandering aimlessly. Eventually, he hears the sobbing, and the voice that accompanies it. He moves without thought, but with purpose.] Goku?

[Ukyo only happens to find this by chance, as she's pensively flipping the pages and trying not to think about the past week. Of all the cruel things- she was pretty and cherished... loved. Not just one girl in a string hopelessly engaged to her friend who wouldn't just choose. She had a family and a happy one.

She pauses, spotting the picture and how it's been angrily scribbled on, then the rest of the message. It breaks her heart a little, no a whole lot.]

Goku? You wanna talk, sugar?

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[Shadow is unsure what to say, if anything. He's even worse with emotions than his counterpart, and just as bad with kids. Since he'd never raised his. They just confuse him. But... it's not like it was such a bad thing. He'd had something he'd turned away from long ago. And doesn't know what to think about it.]

I'm not that old.

[The only think he can think to say to start things.]

Ah - Goku. Are you okay?

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