Room 504, The Arms Hotel, Friday Evening

[raspberryturk]

Damn, it was good to be on the island.

Daaaaaaaamn, it was so good to be on the island. And sure, the room he'd grabbed at The Arms wasn't his dorm room, but he had a real, honest-to-gods bed here, instead of the lumpy couch Reno had been sleeping on for the past little while, and that alone made the whole trip worth it.

Well, the bed and the minibar. He was going to have to coordinate some kind of drinking outing with the guys before he took off again, maybe. In the meantime, he'd pick up his cellphone and leave some handwavey messages telling his buddies on the island where he could be found.

And then? Then he was going to flop backward on that amazing friggin' bed and just sprawl.

Oh, hell yeah.

[Door's open, and if you figure you'd get a call, you totally did. Mmmm, feels like home.]

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[raspberryturk]

"Do you honestly think I'd show my mug around here if I wasn't ready to party tomorrow night?" Reno smirked, pulling himself up to take a seat and giving his head a shake. "Doji, I been ready to get the hell outta Edge for just about as long as I've been in Edge, yoto."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Aw, you mean you didn't come just to help me move?" she laughed. "Red, I'm hurt."

[raspberryturk]

"I came with other motives," Reno said solemnly, and then he had himself another chuckle. "You're movin' soon, huh? Yeah, Doji. If you need a hand over the weekend, you got it. But you're supplyin' Ramen if you got me workin' through lunch, yo."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"You? Can get the cat into her carrier," she offered magnanimously. "I was gonna feed you anyway, you know. It's not a party if there isn't any ramen or bacon."

[raspberryturk]

"Bacon ramen," Reno mused, and then grinned. "I'm sure I can handle gettin' one little cat into the carrier. You got yourself a deal."

Reno's experiences with felines very obviously began and ended with Petey.

And that freakish thing with the mohawk and the flaming tail. But he tried not to think on that one too deeply.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Yurika's grin was pure evil. "Sucker," she said. "I'm gonna stand there with my phone, and laugh when Alea makes you run in circles."

[raspberryturk]

"Well, then at least I get some exercise," Reno smirked.

He was pretty certain that he was faster than the cat when he wanted to be. Fastest of the Turks and all.

But then, cats were pretty nefarious beasts, weren't they?

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"What, you're not getting enough of a workout? Rude given up chasing you when you put bugs in his bed?" she asked, leaning over to poke at his ribs. "I bet we could fix that."

[raspberryturk]

"The bugs we get around Edge are usually the size of big cats themselves," Reno snorted, leaning over to poke right back. "An' bigger, if we're talkin' about worms, or them spidery things. Even I don't get drunk enough to put shit like that into his bed, yoto."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"If you were getting that drunk, then we were gonna have words," Yurika promised. "What else have you been up to, if you aren't short-sheeting Rude's bed with creepy-crawlies?"

[raspberryturk]

"Growin' beans," Reno noted. Because that was totally important. "An' killin' monsters. Mostly, we're doin' odd jobs for the World Regenesis Organization, yo. Ain't really Turks-work, but it keeps me from rottin' where I sit, at least."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Yurika pursed her lips, giving him a look-over. "You don't look rotten to me," she said. "So I guess the beans are keeping you out of trouble, huh?"

Poor Reno sounded like he was bored shitless.

[raspberryturk]

Bored shitless and overworked. Worst combination ever.

"The beans don't do a hell of a lot," he noted. "I water 'em when they're dry an' try to give 'em whatever sunlight Edge gets in that sunny haze that happens sometime around noon, yo. An' then I rescue 'em from Mako."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Well, if your beans start singing and dancing, you've got a problem," Yurika pointed out. "They're beans. They're for eating."

[raspberryturk]

"You been to Gaia once," Reno noted, smirking. "If the beans started singin' and dancin', I'd think somebody let a mad scientist near 'em with some mako, yo. Either that, or it's Fandom followin' me home. Brace yourself, zoto. Seems like it does."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I can't hear that, Red," she groaned, covering her ears. "Hunter? If Fandom follows me back to Tokyo, Romeo excluded, I am screwed. My coworkers will burn me themselves if they think I'm a Witch."

Plus the whole spy-bit. Fandom Strange made a deep cover assignment almost impossible.

[raspberryturk]

"Mostly, it's just been real inconvenient shit," Reno amended. "Nothin' that anyone from the outside would notice right away. There was this span of almost a week that had me up an' planet-hopping because I had to find Rikku right fuckin' then."

Yeah. That week.

"But if it's Fandom, we got no control over it. Keep an eye out, is all I'm sayin'. You want me to call or somethin' if somethin' hits me that you might not have noticed yet?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that week? I didn't notice anything different until someone said something."

Yurika? Insufferably smug? Oh hell yes.

[raspberryturk]

That was Reno's cranky-pouty look. The one with the duck-lips. Because it was completely warranted right now, dammit.

"You probably shacked up with Romeo the whole time and didn't come out for food," he said, and for all that it was cranky, it was still relatively good-natured, too.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah," she taunted, sticking out her tongue. "Don't be silly, of course we ate!"

Food was required for energy. Duh.

"But so long as no fake-children or small animals invade, I should hopefully be safe."

[raspberryturk]

"I ain't seen none of either, yet," Reno stated dutifully after a moment of sticking out his own tongue right back. Because it was his calling in life to report on such things. Or something. "So it looks like you're good to go, yo."

Knock on wood?

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"'Good to go,'" she echoed, letting her head thump back against the wall. "Careful, Red, or you're going to make me sound like a responsible adult."

[raspberryturk]

"Comin' from me, you sure you can take a suggestion like that too seriously?"

Really, it was all a matter of perspective! Reno was planning on avoiding being a responsible adult at least until he was thirty. Assuming he lived to be that old.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Point. Coming from you, that's almost an anti-endorsement." Yurika looked over at him with a lopsided grin, nudging his leg with her foot. "It's been too quiet without you around. No Reno, no Rikku, no Cal, no Sokka... the new kids just aren't any fun."

[raspberryturk]

"You should'a started throwin' shit at 'em, to see if you could at least get 'em scurryin' around like ants," Reno chuckled, clasping his hands behind his head and flopping backward on the bed again.

He fully intended to make good use of that bed while he was paying for it. It wasn't a lumpy couch.

"You gonna be the new kid in Tokyo all over again?"