[tri OOM] Odaibananigans with Barry and Cisco

[angry_friendship_wolf]

When Yamato opens the door to the safehouse and ushers Barry and Cisco through, it's not as busy as it usually is, but there are still a few people milling around the main room of the apartment.

Sora and Jyou are both at the kitchen table, Sora carefully working on a flower arrangement while Jyou reads through a medical textbook and scribbles notes. Nearby, on the couch, with a laptop resting on his knees, is a boy who looks almost identical to Yamato, minus a few years and with much more boyish features.

Yamato carefully shuts the door behind them. "Welcome to Chez Chosen, I guess," he says, crossing to the kitchen table to pick up his digivice and clip it to his belt.

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[run_barry]

"Have you pet his wolf ears? He goes on about them a lot," Barry asks Taichi.

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco looks at Taichi and Barry, then leans over towards Yamato and loud-whispers, "Dude, they're both begging you to bite them to prove your fierceness."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"He hasn't let me pet 'em yet. He's shy," Taichi says solemnly. "One day, though."

"They're both begging for a fight," Yamato mutters back to Cisco. "Biting might be involved."

Taichi makes a face. "I don't want to end up with an ear bitten off like Ryusei."

[run_barry]

Barry laughs and finally relents in teasing Yamato.

"It's a great view out there," he says, nodding towards the city. "Taichi showed me your Academy."

[makes_the_toys]

"Dude, you Tyson'd somebody?" Cisco asks, shocked, but clearly in a 'that's awesome' rather than 'ew, gross' kind of way.

Craning his neck so he can look out at the city, Cisco says, "Where? I wanna see."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It was a -- spur of the moment thing," Yamato says, ducking his head. "Since he was trying to kill me at the time."

He eases his chair towards the window a little, pointing to a square island a little ways north-east of Odaiba, with a crowded cluster of buildings on it and what looks like a runway dotted with a few planes stretching down one side.

"Over there, just off the coast of Urayasu."

[run_barry]

"You were fighting for your life," Barry points out, giving Yamato a nod to let him know it's okay.

"When do you start?" he asks about the Academy, looking out towards it again.

[makes_the_toys]

"Were they able to reattach it?" Cisco asks, reaching up to rub his own ear at the thought.

Looking out to where Yamato points, Cisco scans over the city and gives a whistle.

"This place is packed. I see it, though. Looks cool, how long until you get to fly one of those?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I -- actually don't know. Someone could've brought it to the hospital, so maybe," Yamato says to Cisco.

He turns towards the window a little more, tilting his head. "I start in a couple of months. Not long now," he says. "But it'll be more than a year before I fly, and two years before I fly without an instructor sitting in with their own set of controls."

"I'm going to be spending most of that time behind a desk," Taichi grouses.

[run_barry]

"Couple of months, that's cool," Barry comments.

Turning to Yamato, Barry says, "Yeah, but you also get to take in a whole different country. That should be pretty interesting."

[makes_the_toys]

"Well, I guess that's a lesson for all of us. If you don't want to lose an ear, don't try and murder someone." Cisco feels this is a good life lesson.

"Two years, huh? That doesn't seem too long. Then what happens after you learn to fly?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Should be," Taichi chirps. "Last time I was in another country, it was for Chosen business, so this'll be a cool change."

As he talks, someone arrives with, as promised, two large pizzas. Yamato nudges one in Barry's direction.

"After I'm flying on my own, there's another year of training, and then I get transferred to a training squadron for the last year," Yamato says. "After that, transfer to another JASDF squadron. Taichi'll be back in the country by then, too."

[run_barry]

Barry lights up when he sees the pizzas, and gives a thanks to the person who brings them.

"You'll definitely have to do some sightseeing while you're there," Barry says to Taichi.

[makes_the_toys]

"You'll probably be all Top Gun by then," Cisco says, going for a pop culture reference rather than worry about what being in a JASDF squadron could actually mean.

"Do you already have a leather bomber jacket, or should I get you one?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Lots of sightseeing, plenty of taking photos. I'll have to make Yama visit me at least once, too," Taichi says, grinning.

"I don't have one, but that doesn't mean you have to get me one," Yamato says to Cisco, knocking a foot against his shin lightly. "But I'll be sure to give you the academy tour at some point."

[run_barry]

"You'll definitely have to visit him," Barry says to Yamato in full-support of Taichi's idea. "And do all the touristy stuff while you're there."

[makes_the_toys]

"I'm getting you one," Cisco says, knocking his foot back into Yamato. "And the aviator shades."

He'll likely start tinkering with flight suits and parachutes next.

"And heck yeah I want a tour."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Getting dragged around the sights by Taichi doesn't sound like much fun," Yamato says, shaking his head.

"He's totally gonna visit first chance he gets," Taichi says.

Yamato shakes his head, giving Cisco a quick nudge. "I'll have to get you something as well, kid. Fair's fair, after all."

[run_barry]

"Yamato wouldn't let me take him around to the sights, either," Barry laments to Taichi.

Cracking a grin, Barry then nods, "Of course he is."

They knew it, and so did Yamato.

[makes_the_toys]

"I want to be named an honorary colonel," Cisco replies with a wide grin.

"Barring that, a t-shirt or something with the Academy logo on it would be cool."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"A t-shirt I can do," Yamato says, with a quick smile.

"He's the worst tourist," Taichi says. "He's got no appreciation for all the great landmarks he could be shown. Guy's been working at the fight bars in Kabukicho for years and he hasn't even visited the life-size Godzilla head statue. It's like a minute's walk away."

[makes_the_toys]

"Shut your face," Cisco says, interrupting everyone. "Life-sized Godzilla head, What? Why am I not standing there right now taking the most epic screaming-pose selfie ever?"

This is an unacceptable tragedy!

[run_barry]

"Cisco!" Barry admonishes with a laugh. "Dude, you're the one who picked arcade."

And they were having a great time, so there was no actual tragedy happening at all.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Kabukicho's pretty far away," Yamato laughs. "Getting to the mainland can be a pain just on its own. I'll make sure to take you there one day if you really want to see it, just not today."

"Oh, so you'll take other people to see landmarks, but you won't let me drag you around? I see how it is," Taichi says, amused.

[makes_the_toys]

"Hello, personal taxi who can run on water over here," Cisco says, reaching out to grab Barry's arm and shake it.

"Fine then," he relents, good naturedly, "but only because that means I get to come back and it gives me a chance to maybe put together a kick-ass Mechagodzilla cosplay for the occasion."