IC Voicemail (MoM)

[ktfod]

You have reached the voice mail inbox of--

[Said very seriously and dryly-] Akihiko Sanada

If you would like to leave a message, press 'one', or wait for the tone. If you would like to leave a callback number, press 'five'.

..

[Beep.]

Comments

text; (whatever day is convenient)

[hoboagogo]

hey when do you get off work
i was thinking of checking out the boardwalk tonight
they caught that guy so not like we'd get mauled now.

anyway get back to me

text;

[ktfod]

Yeah.
I was keeping up to date on all that monster business.
This place is a lot more eventful than back home, even with everything that was happening.
I'll go with you.
Meet you at 5pm outside your place.

text; (june second, afternoon)

[hoboagogo]

hey
so i might need some help


[AND ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER, another text:]

before i say what about
first off it's not my fault
so don't hit me

text/

[ktfod]

What isn't your fault.

Midday - > 6/15

[hoboagogo]

[Who would have thought Aki crashing on his floor would actually be some kind of ordeal, ugh... So, while he's out and about, he'll shoot Aki a message.]

hey- I'm sick've you bitching and taking all the blankets
you want me to pick up some more
or like a futon or somthing if your gonna be here a while

Re: Midday - > 6/15

[ktfod]

I don't bitch and take all the blankets.

Midday -> 6/23

[hoboagogo]

hey
stop leaving the kitchen a damn mess
it's gonna piss off the other four guys there if it ain't already

[ktfod]

When did I leave it a mess?

Afternoon -> 8/13

[hoboagogo]

this is dumb but
we got a med kit someplace?
not a big deal just looking for like some neosporin or whatever

[ktfod]

What?
Wait,
what happened?
It's under the bed.
Are you okay?

Early Afternoon -> 9/5

[hoboagogo]

[So with their wildly not-matching schedules, he hasn't really seen/talked to Akihiko in like... a few days now. Time to check in instead of telling himself 'nah i'll probably seen him this evening.']

aki
you doing okay
hows the boxing thing going
also have you been eating stuff that isnt crap

[ktfod]

[They see eachother- asleep usually- going out the door usually... Allright, not much these days.]

Yeah.
Been fine.
It's a slow process but I've been making headway.
How have you been?
Huh?
Yeah, I've been eating.

Whenever -> 9/16

[hoboagogo]

hey we're going to movie night on friday
house 15 heropa
western flicks with jaime and jayden

[ktfod]

Friday?
All right.

9/22 ~*~happy birfday brooo~*~

[hoboagogo]

hey when do you plan on being home tonight
no rush just wanna know when to start putting dinner together

[wow this sounds so fucking domestic.]

Doesn't even remember it's his birthday whoops.

[ktfod]

Somewhere around 9 tonight.
Oh,
all right.
See you then.

Mid-Morning (DURING CLASS LIKE A WINNER) -> 10/13

[hoboagogo]

we got invited to a halloween party
what are you gonna dress as

[whats that bro you wanted to have a choice in this matter? TOO. BAD.]

[ktfod]

A halloween party?
I'm not really interested.

not here

[khajidont]

[Special delivery! Jaime's dropped off presents for both Akihiko and Shinjiro on Christmas Eve. Akihiko receives a Rocky poster and a digital copy of the movies' soundtracks.

Who knows? Maybe Akihiko will accept Eye of the Tiger as his new morning theme song!

(The included note just wishes them both a Merry Christmas from Jaime.)]

Not here

[ktfod]

[Upon getting this Jaime will get a thank you and on Christmas Day Akihiko will leave a gift for him as well. It'll end up being a card and a gift card to Best Buy (or MoM equiv) for 50$.]

Leaving a gift

[anthropophagite]

[ Kaneki doesn't really celebrate Christmas nor he is used to giving people presents, but in Japan there is Oseibu at the end of the year, when people give gifts to others who have helped them. So he decided (since he has heard so much about Christmas of late) to give something to his friends, acquaintances and people who have helped him.

Some time during 25th December to 2nd January, he will leave a small box with three cupcakes (sorry, he didn't taste any so he doesn't know if they are good) and attached to the box there is a green card that says "I hope you'll have a good new year." ]

[ktfod]

[Makes a mental note to thank him in person on one of their many happenstances.]

12/25

[glowsferatu]

[ when sanada wakes up on christmas morning, he'll find a box waiting for him on the counter. inside he'll find a boxer's robe, handmade from red velvet. but it's wrapped around something solid and rectangular. when he unwraps it, he'll find a book, which isn't passive-aggressive at all. ]

[ktfod]

[While the boxers robe has him breathless the book he-

actually doesn't take badly at all. Thanks Kanaya.]

it's been forever omg -> 1/06

[hoboagogo]

hey have you talked to minato in a bit
usually he sends me a picture from work and i ain't gotten one in a while
and my texts aint going through

Christ

[ktfod]

Yeah,
I usually get the same.
And he comes over a lot.
But he hasn't been around at all.

Around lunchtime -> 1/14

[hoboagogo]

hey i need your input
thinking about looking for a job again?
but having time to do shit right now is pretty nice
youre the one with the income whats your thoughts there

[ktfod]

[Lunch yep, he's on a break now so he'll be able to answer pretty quickly.]

Were you?
You don't have to unless you feel motivated enough to.
I've already been looking for a better job myself.
Besides,
I like you at home.

2/07 (Wow he's actually calling for once)

[hoboagogo]

[ringringringeriNgRINGRINGRING-

Weird

[ktfod]

[Fuck.]

[Picks up and a breathy-]

Ha- ha- hello? Ha-

Not here - 2/14

[hoboagogo]

[HEY LOSER your bento has some dorky shaped chocolates put in it today. So. Enjoy that I guess.]

-Action.

[ktfod]

[Aww...]

[When he gets home that day later---]

Hey Shinji. [Walking into- whatever room he happens to be in- still smelling like the gym.]

Evening -> AGE CHANGE EVENT START

[hieroinfant]

[ringringring!]

[ktfod]

[Picks up.]

Hey you. What's up?

voicemail;

[orangehoodie]

[Guess who's been kind of not really but actually kind of sort of skirting around Akihiko? This guy. It's what happens when you happen to be involved in your hero's best friend's death and you don't have a proper resolution following it and Ken's just been very nervous. Minato explicitly stated forgiving him. Shinjiro and he had a mutual agreement for avoidance. But Akihiko...

Still, running away doesn't solve anything. So after about half a dozen failed attempts where he stared at the phone and shut it off before turning the screen on again, there's a voicemail in Akihiko's inbox.]

Hello, um... Sanada-san. Are you free sometime this weekend? I, um, I wanted to do some morning training. Like a jog.

voicemail;

[ktfod]

[Yeah he hasn't really seen much of Ken since he met up with the boy with Shinjiro. He's seen him around, worked with him a bit when Minato was missing, but otherwise? Just never did get around to spending time with him. Akihiko's pretty busy after all, that and he lives with Shinjiro, of course Ken strays from their household a bit more, even if the leader shows there often. Still, he's not going to just dismiss the call, returns it as soon as he hears the voicemail too.]

Hey Ken. Yeah, a jog? That'd be nice. Florida's usually best for it, the beach's a great place to stay cool and get a good workout.

[Good way to get his attention Ken.]

backdated to pre-zombies!

[khajidont]

Okay so Traci's two cents is that these girls are creepy but she says

1. make it really brutally clear by saying something like: I'm not interested in you and I never will be interested in you. Even if I wasn't taken I still wouldn't be interested. Her words not mine

2. get shinji to come in and get super pda in front of them but I kind of have my doubts about that one

judging from the fact that it doesn't work out when you're trying you could also actually try to hit on them but ehhh

[ktfod]

[The first one seems simple enough but what?]

Whats pda?

Famine-event!text (AKA THE SAPPIEST THING I WILL EVER WRITE)

[hoboagogo]

[So there are flowers everywhere around town. It's so hard to avoid them when he's grocery shopping and people keep offering samples of floral tea, or a bouquet to bring home to someone (that he turns down) or anything else- and it doesn't take long for him to really start feeling a sort of need. His thoughts keep drifting to the two years before he'd arrived here- and how even here, he still shut people away, distanced himself, understated his own feelings to people-- he still never allowed himself to broach that distance, or so feel any sort of inclusion.

And it's easy for those linger thoughts to shift into a compulsion- He has to open up, right? Has to actually say things, has to stop denying the friendship of others, and has to start reciprocating. So he ends up stopping, mid-aisle, with that drilling burning need prompting him to text the first person that comes to mind-]

i love you aki
not in a boring obligated to say it way
but you being here and being with me is the best thing that's happened in my life
are you at home right now or what cause i want to see you

[Okay, so it... kind of reads like he's drunk and vomiting feelings all over the text message. But he's ill practiced at voicing those thoughts, and there's an aching devouring void in his chest that yearns for a closing of distance... and the text doesn't really satisfy that, and only serves to make that need worse.]

Yes. Fuck. Yes.

[ktfod]

[Flowers everywhere and Akihiko still remains unaffected some how. Maybe it's all that raw testosterone? Yeah, he'll bank on that, who knows. But nothing's happening to him. Still, he not completely oblivious to what's going around, the network, the news. He knows something up though not the exacts, and certainly not from any direct experience.]

Hm?

[A pause, moving to take out his phone. He's home right now, lounging actually, still winded from a long run with the tv droning in the background.]

[Ah, Shinji-

ro....what.]

[For a while he stares at his phone, a bit thrown off by the reply as a whole. This... is Shinjiro right? Who the hell else would be saying this to him? Still, whenever Shinjiro said anything like that it was always after akihiko already did so it's just really surprising.]

Do you usually say it in a boring and obliged to say it way?

[Like... for real? While he's happy for the first part, that second line still has him a little miffed.]

I love you too.
Yeah.
I'm home.
You
You do?

text;

[hoboagogo]

[Sometime after this dumbassery]

hey man Jaime says we should put a hat on sugar ray and take pictures for him
i said the damn thing might try and bite you
but he said that doing it would prove that your courageous enough
what a dick right?

text;

[ktfod]

[Well his first thought is something along the lines of, Sugar Ray is too manly for tiny cute hats, but then it's not about the rabbit anymore and is is about his COURAGE. Quickly he knows what to do.]

He'll probably try and bite me.
But it wouldn't be an issue.
I can do it.

text; backdated to a few days after the mind-dive with hiro

[orangehoodie]

[Ken always knew Jonathan Crane was a dangerous, harmful man. He had been uneasy about him since the first conversation, and even if it were Ken's own feet who carried him to the train station that night, a part of him was very aware that it was Crane whose words pushed him to make that decision. He told himself it wouldn't do anything to place the blame on him, that it was his choice in the end, but after hearing Hiro's end of things, that feeling has changed. It's not about who to blame for Ken's attempt to kill himself. It's about how Crane had been harmful to more than just him. And it could happen again if they left him be.

Minato had been the most active in looking out for Ken since the incident. Jaime, right after him. But it isn't either of them that Ken decides to message first. Those two would try to take it upon their shoulders too much, in his opinion; they'll feel absolutely responsible for something that isn't their place to be responsible for, and worse of all, they'll try to take care of it themselves as if nobody else could. That's not what Ken needs or wants. He needs to tell (at least some of) the others in SEES first so when it finally trickles up to their leader, they could do something about it together. That's why they're a team, after all, right?

Anyway, all that said, Akihiko's the one Ken's texting first to call him out of De Chima #1 where they can talk without anyone overhearing.]

I need to talk to you. Do you want to run on the beach Sanada-san?

text

[ktfod]

Yeah.
When's good for you?

[It's not that he doesn't care about Ken. Won't fight for him, won't be concerned.]

[It's that he's the type of person that when it comes to his own personal problems? There's only so much other people can do. You have to work at it yourself, you have to make out to change it yourself, you have to want it before others can actually help you. He doesn't truly want Ken to die, that'd be nuts. No, but if Ken's going to keep being a part of all this, keep living, fight for himself and grow, he has to be the one to make that choice first. If he finds himself needing help later after he's made that choice, then sure, help can be on it's way.]

[But he's not going to fight Ken's inner battles for him. And even snuffing out what caused them in the outside world, like Crane, isn't going to fix what the actual problem is anyway. Ken's responsible for that, and Akihiko would be proud to know Ken's starting to think like that himself. And not in the twisted way that leads to shooting people, or jumping infront of trains.]

Oct 31st, Morning (not here)

[runningstart]

[Despite the cuteness of the decorations currently sitting on the front lawn, this is the scariest installment of them all. How did they get those things inflated without waking anybody up?]

[ktfod]

[Having gotten up early as hell as usual, he's still a little tired but not tired enough to think he's dreaming this.]

What are- ...

[Good job at stalling his morning run who ever the fuck did this. Maybe... would Shinjiro put this up?? He's so confused... is it supposed to be funny?]

[dormition]

[Minato leaves Akihiko a neatly wrapped present on their dining table, since let's face it, Minato still has that key. It's wrapped in shimmery royal blue paper with a silver bow, and inside is a DVD of a Sugar Ray Leonard documentary along with tickets to a match coming up. Just a small time one (since he's not made of money) but there's two of them, for him and Shinji, which is what he assumes counts as a date for them.

The note reads: Akihiko-senpai, I'm glad that you're here with us, and that you're part of our team. Merry Christmas, Minato

That's what passes as sentimental for Minato. Though he does truly mean it.]

[ktfod]

[They won't get back till a little after New Years but yes, he's not surprised to see the gift there. It'll be left there till he situates himself back into his room, putting everything away before finally siting in the dining room and sliding it over. A gift from their Leader, he'd be lying if he didn't admit to some excitement. Well placed excitement too, he smiles pretty wide at the gift, glancing over to Sugar Ray who's already found his place under Akihiko's chair (making it very difficult for him to slide it back and get up when he finally wants to).]

[The note's short and sweet, Akihiko's usual style. He feels a little silly thinking over Minato's so long now. Maybe the effort he made for it was pointless... Had it sounded stupid to Minato?]

[Either way, Minato's successfully given Akihiko plans for the day. The watching of this documentary will only be followed with watching more old Sugar Ray Leonard matches online.]

12/24

[khajidont]

[Dropped off on the 24th are Akihiko's and Shinjiro's presents, though they're labeled accordingly!

Inside is a DVD of Muhammad Ali's greatest matches & interviews. The note inside reads:

Merry Christmas, Akihiko! Maybe you'll learn a thing or two from this guy. He's gotta be one of the greats for a reason, right?

-Jaime]

[ktfod]

[He smiles to the gift and card, immediately taking some offense! Learn a thing or two??? What's he trying to say!]

[But honestly- all this boxing stuff he's been getting from people lately has really been getting him thinking.]