Nothing exciting every happens here.

[hammerspace_head]

Character Name: Naota Nandaba
Character Series: FLCL
Tamer Class: Soul Tamer
Post Type: Log
Player Name: Tsumi

Naota was walking along the streeth, the Kokuwamon that followed him everywhere close behind. He felt like the taser bug was his babysitter or something. He didn't need anyone there to protect him. What was the worse that could happen here? It wasn't like anything interesting was going to happen. He went to school, went back to the apartment, did his homework, watched TV, went to bed and repeated the same cycle day after day.

There was the occasional difference. He'd post on the network, someone else would post and he'd answer. Tiny deviations at most. Again, nothing horribly interesting. He hadn't even gotten his digimon to digivolve yet and he didn't care. What would happen anyway? It'd be different for a while and just turn back into the same bug-taser thing it always was. Nothing interesting would ever happen here for him. Just like it was back home.

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[downednightfury]

That might not be true for today. Toothless had ventured out on his own, something he generally didn't do, and was snooping around. Mainly, he was hungry and Paulo was gone.

Elecmon sat in his usual place on the dragon's head, bored and not too interested in helping. "It wouldn't kill you to have waited y'know that right?"

[hammerspace_head]

Naota wouldn't have paid much mind to the giant lizard coming towards him had his partner remained silent about it. Instead the taser bug cried out and pointed with one of it's pincer arms. The boy looked up and stared at the giant dragon walking towards him. Was that...? It couldn't be.

"Is that...a dragon?"

[downednightfury]

Hearing him, Toothless' head swung around to stare before it cocked curiously, sending Elecmon sliding off to land on the ground where he dusted himself off.

[hammerspace_head]

Naota's eyes slowly widened when the dragon turned at him and stared. It was. It was living breathing dragon with a digimon. Why did a dragon need a digimon? Was it a tamer? Why was it here? It made no sense. Could it talk? Maybe it could. After all, aliens and other strange things were here. Why not dragons? He stood still though, his mind racing a million miles an hour.

[downednightfury]

"Oh look a guy who's not pointing excitedly because it's a dragon. That's a first and it's about damn time." Elecmon's comment got him swatted with a disapproving growl from Toothless which laid him out flat.

Then he looked at Naoto with a questioning grumble. Elecmon sat up and rubbed his nose. "Jerk."

[hammerspace_head]

Naota slowly stepped forward and then looked down at Elecmon. He could talk, obviously and seemed to know the dragon. Maybe he could get some answers from him.

"This dragon your tamer or something?"

[downednightfury]

"Yeah, Toothless is my Tamer." Giving the dragon one last sour look, which was ignored, the little digimon turned to face Naota, giving him a once-over.

Then he glance at his digimon and back. "New or something?"

[hammerspace_head]

Naota shrugged. "Kind of. Never seen a dragon before. What's it doing wondering around out here?" The boy looked from the dragon back to Elecmon. The Kokawamon walked over and shook it's head.

"This is Naota and I'm Taser. Nice to meet you Toothless and...what was your name, sir?"

[downednightfury]

"Taser? Fits. I'm Elecmon."

Toothless sniffed Taser, unfamiliar with machine digimon. "Anyway, who knows why he's a Tamer. He's flightless and just easts and sleeps if he's not playing with our friend." The dragon huffed in a way that said that was not true. "He'd try to tell you different though."

[hammerspace_head]

"Try to tell us different? Does he talk at all?" Naota looked the dragon over, his eyes setting on two things, his D-Comm that's attached to his arm and to his damaged tail. That would explain why he was flightless.

"Nice to meet you Elecmon..." Taser said after he grumbled. He really didn't like the name his Tamer picked out for him but at this point he had little choice. Everyone was calling him it so why not go with it?

[downednightfury]

"Not in any way you can understand." While he still had the attachment for his tail, it was useless as it was.

Elecmon noted the other digimon's reaction to his name and scratched his head. Not much he could do either.

[hammerspace_head]

"So why is he wondering around? Looking for food or something?" Naota asked, his eyes on the dragon's now. The digimon fell silent and just let his tamer do it instead.

[downednightfury]

"That's exactly why he's out. Apparently waiting at the house was out," Elecmon griped. Toothless shuffled his paws, rumbling quietly.

[sakedrinking]

Rather suddenly, there was an umbrella over the boy's head.

"It's going to rain, you know," a sweet, almost motherly voice said from behind him. Haku had seen him recently, walking the same route every day, and though she'd never made to bother him until today something about the boy had caught her attention almost right away. It wasn't that he seemed lonely or anything. Just... not all there.

But with the storm clouds from Neon's coast rolling in, she figured today might be a good day to try talking to him.

[hammerspace_head]

Naota stopped when he heard the voice and slowly looked up at the woman holding it. He'd heard of her and seen her around on the network. They'd never talked and he hadn't really had a need to talk to her specifically. Though his eyes moved to the sky and then to the umbrella.

"Looks like it. Don't you need the umbrella though? You're going to get wet if you just give it to a total stranger. Isn't that a bit irresponsible?" It came out like most of his dialogue did, aloof and kind of distant. He wasn't really trying to be mean or critical but he had to ask. It really didn't make much sense to him if that's what she was doing.

[sakedrinking]

"It'd be silly to not be prepared for that, wouldn't it?" she said, handing over the umbrella insistently. If he looked down, he might actually notice there was already another folded one in her hand.

"The weather's been a bit odd this year. Probably because of the reset a few months back. We just haven't quite gotten warm enough for true spring."

The way he spoke didn't bother her at all, and she simply kept making small talk, waiting for him to take the umbrella just as a few droplets started to fall.

[hammerspace_head]

It was slow but his hand moved up and took the handle. He looked down and noticed the umbrella under her arm too. She came prepared but why? Why have two umbrellas? Maybe she was just a concerned person? He'd had a few people say they were but he wasn't just going to buy it at face value. This place was a bit strange and he wasn't about to fall for anything.

"Thanks. I heard about that over the network. The world ended huh? Had to be interesting." In some part he was disappointed he didn't get to see it. It had to be exciting to live through the end of a world. He stopped Medical Meccanica from flattening the Earth right before it all started so in a way it was crisis averted before the iron could even be grabbed. He did wonder what it would have been like if a part of the Earth had been ironed flat. Now he'd never know.

[sakedrinking]

Concerned and prepared! If he hadn't noticed the motherly vibes from her yet, it would become apparent soon enough.

"Interesting?" Haku echoed, looking thoughtful. "I suppose in a way it was... terrifying, though. Even people who weren't involved in the battle got wrapped up in chaos."

She paused to pop her own umbrella open, stopping the raindrops from hitting her with it.

"Are you here alone? You don't have to answer any questions if you don't want to. I'm only curious."

[hammerspace_head]

"Alone...?" It was his turn to echo. He looked away for a moment, his mind wondering to one person. The robot-taser-bug digimon sighed slightly and was about to answer when Naota cut in, his voice having a bit more of an edge to it.

"Yeah, I am. There's one person here from back home but she's unreliable and a complete idiot. Might as well not count her at all."

[sakedrinking]

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that..." Haku said quietly. She could relate, with everything that had gone on with her brother. Idiot wouldn't have been what she'd call him, but what he'd done certainly was stupid, and he'd pretty much proven to be unreliable and selfish to boot.

So much for family, right?

"Well... I can't help you there, but I can at least offer you a warm meal and maybe a dry place to wait the rain out, if that's alright?"

[hammerspace_head]

That got the boy to blink. He stared up at her for a moment, his eyebrow raised. She was offering to take him in until the rained stopped? Why? They help him when they had just met. She didn't even know his name. Though she did seem genuine overall. Maybe it couldn't be such a bad idea. He opened his mouth to answer when his stomach growled loudly, obviously impatient with his mind. He blushed and chuckled a bit.

"I guess I am a little hungry. ...Okay. My name is Nandaba Naota, nice to meet you." He gave a bow to the woman. He knew to mind his manners, unlike the rest of his family.

[sakedrinking]

That earned a smile in return, along with a bit of a giggle. She returned the bow as well, as much as she could with the umbrella and the grocery bag on her arm.

"Onizuka Haku. It's very nice to meet you, Nandaba-kun."

[hammerspace_head]

Naota shook his head and held up a hand. "You can call me Naota. It's fine. Can I ask...why you're being so nice though? I don't get it. I mean, we've never even talked to each other before today. It just doesn't make sense."

[sakedrinking]

"Alright, Naota. You can call me Haku then."

The question took her off guard a bit, and for a moment she actually had to think about it. Funny... hadn't Ratchet had a similar reaction?

"Ah... well... I suppose I remember what it was like, those first few months in a new world. Even if you're not scared, it's still nice to have a friend, isn't it?"

[hammerspace_head]

Naota swallowed and went quiet again. He really hadn't tried to make any friends here so far. He was just wrapped up in his routine. It kind of just became a habit. Maybe breaking it wouldn't be so bad. She hadn't come out of nowhere and smacked him after all. He gave a nod finally.

"Yeah, I guess. Friends aren't a bad thing to have."