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[reliesondirtytricks]

⌛ Who: Yu Mingye & YOU
⌛ What: Xiao playing, Exploration, and possible TDM stuff
⌛ When: September
⌛ Where: All over
⌛ Warnings: TBD




Hear the Sound Calling

Even though both Runyu and Xiao Xingchen would prefer to keep his xiao playing from the trees, he liked his high up places. Which was why he'd found the highest tree possible and leaned back against the trunk of it. He stays like that for a while before twirling his xiao, then bringing it to his lips and starting to play.


Exploration

He should probably take someone out with him when he goes exploring the city, but he doesn't think much of it. Why would he? If the immortal and cultivators wanted him found, then they'd find him. Just follow the dark energy or the sound of the xiao. He also has no set destination in mind and might decide to get lost within the city on purpose.


[Fashion Foward - Kohaku, Yokohama]

Of course, what exploration doesn't suddenly land them in some little fashion shop. Even if he's unfamiliar with half the things in there. He's seen people of Nippon wear them, but it doesn't look like something that he, himself, would wear. As amazing as a lot of this stuff was, it didn't really suit him. Doesn't mean he won't go looking around, though.


[Wildcard]

[Want something different, toss it at me and we'll see where it goes.]

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Exploration~

[gentledawn]

His sense of direction is usually quite good, though it isn't impeccable. Today Xiao Xingchen has gotten himself thoroughly lost and as he moves through the crowd, there is a faint, sad frown forming on his otherwise gentle features. He thought having eyes would save him from being in this position again, but clearly not.

The dark energy is what breaks through his concentration and he follows the trail, smiling suddenly when he sees Mingye.

"My friend!"

[reliesondirtytricks]

Getting lost was something that he, himself, was doing on purpose. Exploring the city in that manner. However, he turns slightly when he hears that voice and gives Xingchen a smile. It's one that is reserved for him and Runyu alone. No one else gets those smiles out of him.

"What're you doing out here alone, Xiao Xingchen?" He asks teasingly.

[gentledawn]

The smile bathes him in warmth and reassurance. His steps carry him quickly to Mingye and he takes a breath, settling his nerves.

"I work at one of the clinics and then I went by the hospital to hold the babies..." his cheeks pink and he chuckles, "They're showing improvements!"

[reliesondirtytricks]

"That doesn't explain why you're all the way out here, though," he points out with a shake of his head before falling in step beside the other man. "I'm not surprised that they're showing improvement. They've got you to care for them and just generally be there for them."

[gentledawn]

"I'm not sure where I took a wrong turn..." Xingchen looks perplexed, glancing at the street signs in vain, "Ah... I'm not..."

Well, he might be giving them a little healing energy. How can he resist?

"They are all premature. I have never seen babies so tiny."

[reliesondirtytricks]

He turns so that he's walking backwards beside Xingchen and tries to see exactly where the other might have taken the wrong turn. Hell, he's not even entirely sure since he, himself, has been trying to get lost on purpose. He has an idea of where the other might have lost his way.

He does, however, turn so he's walking normal again and pulls out his xiao, twirling," So, you share custody of me now." His tone is teasing, even though the teasing is what had gotten him in trouble, so to speak, with Runyu and the agreed to custody.

[gentledawn]

They will find out the answer soon enough - or they won't! Either way Xingchen is certain, together, they can get home. Well, to their temporary homes, at least. There is a knot in his stomach. Is Zichen worrying about him?

Only for that comment to bring him to a complete halt.

"What do you mean?" custody? "Mingye, have you met someone you like?"

Please say yes.

[reliesondirtytricks]

Mingye hadn't been trying to find home. Though, he would happily take Xingchen back home, once they found the way, and then come back out probably. He doesn't expect the other to come to a halt like that. He should really stop teasing these men like this.

"There is another I have played the xiao for. His name is Runyu, I don't know if you've met him," he tells him. "He, like you, is someone I find easy to smile around." Which had thrown him. There had been a quick bond between them.

"He mentioned that he would prefer me inside and not up in a tree when playing my xiao. I might have teased that he'd have to share custody of me between himself, the tree, and you..."

See where this is going Xingchen?

"He accepted the right to custody over me. So, you two share custody now."

[gentledawn]

No, no! The teasing is welcome. Xingchen likes jokes and taunts - even when they leave him momentarily baffled! He listens with a growing smile on his lips and the expression easily reaches his eyes.

"I'm happy for you and, yes, I spoke to Runyu. He seems very kind." he blushes, however, at the idea of sharing custody. Bowing his head, he laughs and boldly links their arms together - as if they are on a peaceful stroll.

"Tell Runyu and the tree that I am honored to share custody of Yu Mingye with them."

[reliesondirtytricks]

"He is kind," Mingye tells him with a smile, the same one that Runyu thinks lights up his eyes. His xiao is placed back in his sash when the other links their arms together. He may even lay his head on Xingchen's shoulder. Xingchen was safety. A security for him. Something else he's not overly familiar with in his life, but he's slowly getting used to it.

He smirks," I do not think the tree gets a say in this, unfortunately. Though, I will tell Runyu that you are honored. Or maybe you should tell him yourself." More teasing. He doesn't expect Xingchen to do such a thing.

[gentledawn]

It does! Xingchen would agree with Runyu about that. He hugs the arm he claims to his chest and nuzzles his cheek against the top of his friend's head. Mingye is safe with him and Xingchen has no qualms about facing Lord Demon if necessary. No one should be abused like Mingye was.

"You never know!" he flushes darker and blinks several times, "I...could? Would that be a strange conversation, I wonder?"

Yes. Yes, it would.

[reliesondirtytricks]

Mingye almost wonders when he started going soft, except that he hasn't gone soft at all. There's just a different air to himself now. Xingchen had been the start of that difference. Someone who cared for him and about him.

He doesn't see how dark those cheeks get, not when his head is on the other's shoulder," You should. Weird conversation or not. My two owners should talk, after all."

[gentledawn]

"I wouldn't call myself that." he gently reprimands, turning his head to kiss the crown of Mingye's head, "I'm more...a caretaker? Family?" he grins at the possibility, "I'm someone you can call on any time, day or night, and I promise I will come."

Runyu must feel the same way. Mingye needs a good net of support and protection around him. He deserves it.

[reliesondirtytricks]

The reprimand, gentle or otherwise, throws him off. There's a deeper part of him that expects more than that, but nothing comes of it past that. He also had no problem, obviously, with calling Xingchen or Runyu that. If he had? It would have never left his mouth.

"Caretakers don't usually share custody of someone," he points out. "Family, then." If the word owners bothers Xingchen so much. He gives a soft hum at the last part," I know you would."

Hear the sound calling.

[jc_superstar]

He was having a hard time adjusting here and he knew it. With his mixed feelings for people he had been friends with at one time, the dead here to haunt him, his nephew now a niece, people calling him out like he was a child... It would have been nice to have grown up without being forced into it before he was ready.

No matter.

He would pick himself up as he's had in the past and carry on. No matter what the others said behind his back about him or his rag-tag of a sect. As far as he was concerned, his sect was proud and mighty and didn't require blood to maintain loyalty. There were so few with Jiang blood anyway, with no reprieve in sight.

While in the midst of aimless wandering and thinking about how he shouldn't feel sorry for himself, he heard the notes of that blasted flute. Wuxian really didn't have anything better to do than to play that thing, did he? Scowling just a bit, he wandered to where he thought his brother was and stared up into the tree's boughs.

"Wei Wuxian! Ayiah, do you have nothing better to do than to stalk me and make certain I'm not getting into trouble? It should be the other way around, shouldn't it?"

[reliesondirtytricks]

The trees, for him, were a place of solitude. Somewhere that he could go and no one bother him. That's what he'd done back home anyway. Or spied from up in the trees. He has no clue who this guy is that's hollering up at the tree he's in. The name, however, he remembers. Wei Wuxian was one that he'd talked to when he'd first showed up. Who had even told him that he believed he wasn't this Xue Yang person.

"Sorry, I'm not, Wei Wuxian," he calls down. Why in the world would he be confused for the guy anyway?

[jc_superstar]

Oh. No, that wasn't the correct type of flute. And the voice... "Then stop impersonating him!" The voice sounded familiar but he didn't want to believe that it was who he thought it was. It couldn't be, could it?

[reliesondirtytricks]

No, it wasn't the same type of flute. Mingye's was a xiao and not a dizi. However, he raises a brow at the whole impersonating thing. That? It was a first. He's never been accused of impersonating anyway. "Funny, I didn't realize that I was impersonating anyone." He's keeping calm in the face of the stranger below him.

[jc_superstar]

"I don't know anyone else other than my sworn brother who hides up in trees and plays his damn flute," Cheng sniped, peering back up into the tree. That was when he caught a glimpse of the man's face. There was a flicker of recognition and then he scowled. As much as this man looked like Xue Yang...

"What's your name?"

[reliesondirtytricks]

"Funny, I didn't realize I was hiding," Mingye states with a roll of his eyes. In fact, this was a normal occurrence for him. Trees were a type of solitude. Something that he was comfortable with. Though, he gives a laugh at the question.

"Why don't you ask around and find out. You might get better results."

[jc_superstar]

"You didn't realize you were impersonating my brother, either." He rolled his eyes in return. "What, you can't remember your own name?"

Really, the only people he had encountered such insolence was here. And why was that? The whole place still left a bad taste in his mouth and he wondered briefly just how beneficial it was to goad people here. He'd already upset one person...what's one more?