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[As it's a lovely, sunny afternoon Raven has finally decided to start growing the seeds he received from Flonne last week. He's been out in the garden behind house 12 for the past two hours digging up the dirt, placing the seeds, watering the ground and generally making sure he's planting them in an area where they aren't going to be destroyed when Repede decides to do his doggy business. As he finishes the last of the seeds his attention is caught when he spots a woman disappearing around the side of the building.]

Casey...?

[He quickly darts onto his feet without hesitation. But as he begins his pursuit he accidently kicks over the full watering can onto his journal. Turning around to inspect what he'd just collided with he notices the soaking wet book lying open on the ground and begins to panic. He picks it up and starts desperately shaking it dry.]

Aaaaaah! Oh geez, is it broken?! I was havin' such a nice day gardenin' too, I didn't mean ta wreck the book! It'll dry out right?

[He continues shaking the pages for a few minutes before finally giving up and sitting on the dry part of the grass, unsure of whether he did actually see her pass by or if he was just going crazy. It couldn't just be a co-incidence that he sees her on the day he's planting her favourite flower could it? He doesn't know what to think about all of this, so he just hopes nobody heard him shout her name through the journal.]

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If ya throw a dictionary at him, try not to aim for the armor on his stomach alright?

[H-hey. Glaring. Sort of.]

Shut up, I wasn't thinking when I did that. [More like he had a ~BRILLIANT PLAN~ that would've actually worked if that armor weren't there. Or were thinner. ... Something.]

I've told ya before how strong Alexei is, if yer havin' trouble fightin' him then I bet even this old man could take ya down.

[Oh no you didn't, Raven. As much of a burn as that is, the fact that Yuri was already mostly worn out by time that fight happened just reminds him that he could've had a chance. ~~Possibly. Maybe.~~ So, your zing is ineffective, Raven -- instead, Yuri's smirking at that.]

Oh yeah? Just so you know, I was already tired out when Alexei started messing with me -- you think you can beat me when I'm not?

Whatever makes ya feel tougher kid. If ya were on Alexei's level ya wouldn't have been tired from all that trainin' anyway.

Who said I wanted to be on his level? [Geez, Raven. If he's going to take that jerk down, he wants it to be a challenge.]

Ah right, ya wanna stay weak then so when he kidnaps Estelle you won't be able to rescue her. I get it now, if that's what works for ya.

Edited 2010-06-10 22:33 (UTC)

That's not what I meant either. [His tone just switched from casual to serious, too.]

Yer too scared of gettin' powerful incase it corrupts ya like it did to him and ya go about hurtin' the people you care for!

Some crap like that?

..... [Sighing a little.] If I were in Flynn's position, maybe. Besides, I don't have to be on his level to beat him.

You don't need to be in Flynn's position Mr. Vigilante. How does what you did ya make any different from Alexei? Let's get a checklist and compare yer reasons for murder!

[... low blow, man. Low blow. Especially since he didn't see this topic going in that direction.]

Drop it. That's got nothing to do with this.

[NO, I MUST PROVOKE YOU. You see this Yuri? This is Raven making chicken noises and slapping his own ass. Only not literally.]

Looks like yer loss against Alexei knocked yer skill down too much to prove a challenge fer me then.

[WHY CAN'T YOU JUST ASK HIM FOR A SPAR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON. Regardless, that's earning you a bit of a look, Raven. Since you're not Alexei and he isn't really raging right now (just ... annoyed), he's starting to see what you're trying to do.]

Not at all. I just don't see some senile old man as a challenge.

[FIGHT ME GOD DAMMIT, HE WANTS TO PROVE HIS WORTH TO THE GHOST OF CASEY.]

Haha, callin' me senile when ya started hearin' voices before I did. That makes us both pretty crazy kid, but at least I can admit it.

[HE'LL FIGHT YOU WHEN YOU ASK POLITELY, THANK YOU. Or maybe he just feels like being a jackass now that he's caught on to what you're doing because you ticked him off a little.]

Who said I never admitted it? So what, I'm hearing things because of some experiment going around -- can you really say it's the same thing for you and not just old age?

[WHEN DOES RAVEN EVER JUST SAY WHAT HIS THINKING?]

Nope, I already went crazy the moment I ended up gettin' stuck travelin' around with a bunch of reckless kids. Just how old do ya think I am?!

[WELL THEN, HE'LL JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH YURI BEING A JACKASS. Until he runs out of witty lines, then maybe he'll go ahead and fight him. Maybe. PERHAPS.]

Not sure. With all the complaining you do, I'd have to say ... somewhere around eighty.

If I'm eighty then you must be about... oh... ya wouldn't even be born kid.

Then again, kids are pretty stupid nowadays. I'd say ya let yer sword do the talkin' for ya but after you got yer butt handed to you by Alexei I take that remark back.

[Let's see, didn't that bastard say something he could use here? Blah blah blah, cloud of raeg, taunt taunt taunt, oh, here we go--]

At least I lasted longer against him.

[You'll have to try harder than that Yuri :( I'm certain you could use something that happened today to piss Raven off.]

Longer than 3 minutes ain't very impressive. Oh and my fight with him was an actual sparrin' session, not a rage driven frenzy because I was in a bad mood.

[Maybe, maybe not. He's not trying to aim to piss anyone off really, but at this point, who knows.]

My point exactly. [Smirking now. He'll let you figure out that you just walked into a door on your own.]

You don't have a point kid so stop pretendin' that ya do. I don't recall you actually comin' close to killin' Alexei whilst I did. How long the fight lasts ain't what matters, it's the damage ya do.

[He totally had a point :( You = doing your best and paying attention, Him = blind rage and not doing his best. Jeez. But oh well, the old man's got a point too.]

True. Can't really argue with that.

[... but he's still smirking.]

[Your smirk is pissing him off. Also, Raven was sooo not doing his best lmao.]

I hope yer grinnin' at your own stupidity.

Edited 2010-06-11 20:16 (UTC)

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