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[Hey, Union! It's that chatty Calderan photographer you all know and love. Hayato appears on the feed with a slight smile on his face. It not his normal humor but it looks like he's trying. Hm.]

Hey, city. Everyone still winding down after that battle? I'm still not quite sure what to make of it, but I guess we'll see what happens.

[That sounded more like a shitty attempt as small talk more than anything.]

So! Day of Fire is coming up! I don't know if you Unionites have ever heard of it, but that's what we call the summer solstice in Caldera. It's a lot of fun. It's basically just one huge party all throughout the night with dancing and singing and the Throwing of the Colors. You guys should go check it out, you won't regret it.

[His smile is much more genuine this time, at least. It honestly looks like he's got a secret he won't tell. Mostly its that he hopes Union comes and they are delighted and aghast at literally everything that transpires for this holiday. But also he feels like you guys need to lighten up and have fun. It's with that he ends the feed.]

[Action, near Downtown. OPEN]

[Hayato was never a guy who stayed at home. He could always be found out doing something.]

[This time it looks like he's trying to train one of his pokemon. He's crouched down with an Aron in front of him. In front of the Aron is two things- a small pile of scrap metal and a nice looking dagger of some kind.]

Okay. So, let's go over this again. This [He gestures to the scrap] is NikonFood. This? [He points to the weapon.] Is not food. It is Thorin's livelihood. We do not eat Thorin's livelihood okay?

[Nikon the Aron nods.]

Now, what do you eat?

[Nikon goes for the scraps! Hayato sighs in relief and just as he's about to congratulate him on being good he looks down to see the Aron has also started munching on the dagger. He sputters.]

Nikon!

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[That's a familiar laugh, and an arm draping over your shoulders.]

Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em, eh?

[He's gotten a lot better at letting Taki do that. It's taken time, and Taki has likely seen it, but he's a lot better about physical contact around him. He tenses just for a moment before relaxing.]

She's lucky she's cute.

[The pokemon in question just kind of looks up at Taki and tilts her head.]

[It's a lot of why he's kept doing it. Knowing that Hayato will relax eventually encourages him to keep pushing him about it.]

[Taki scrunches his face a little at the Aron, wigging his fingers in a wave.] You're being disruptive, little one.

[But do you have food. She wiggles a little and heads over to him in hopes of getting food. Hayato meanwhile just kind of grabs her by the middle and sets her on his shoulder.]

Nope! He doesn't have anything for you, kiddo. You can just wait your turn.

[He stands up with the thing latched to his collar and grins.]

What's up?

[After the investigations on Sanctuary, he'd come back to the house and pretty much locked himself in his room for a solid two days. He'd been really shaken up by it, but being who he was he didn't say a word. When he'd emerged it was like nothing had happened at all, and he liked it that way.]

[Smirking at Nikon, he reached his fingers over across Hayato's shoulders and in front of what looked like might house a mouth.]

You don't want these.

[To Hayato.]

To potentially drag you out for a drink.

[No, she doesn't. You don't smell like metal like her trainer does. She has considered nibbling on him in the case of emergencies, tbh. Hayato is very glad he can't hear her.]

[Hayato pauses, and then gives him a look.]

...Do I have to remind you about what happened last time?

[He does. And the little smile on his face doesn't quite meet his eyes when he's reminded to do so. He purses his lips, and recoils from Hayato's shoulder.]

...maybe not, then.

[He shakes his head, offering him a small smile.]

Relax. You just have to deal with the fact that I can't get drunk. If you want to go have a drink I don't mind going with you. I'll probably just have water.

Just so long as I don't spook you and have to chase you out of the bar again.

That can be entirely avoided by not asking me intrusive questions. Or, I don't know. You could warn me before hand. I don't think there's much else you could ask me that you don't already know.

[He moves his sleeve back to poke at his warp band, sending Nikon home.]

Where do you wanna go? Same place?

[He makes a face at that.]

The intrusive questions could have been avoided if you'd just trusted me in the first place so I didn't have to ask, but I'm not gonna argue about it.

Same place, unless you're against being called butterfingers.

It wasn't that, you know.

[But fine, he can drop it for now. It wasn't exactly his favorite topic, either.]

I think I can handle that.

[He'd like to ask what it was, then, but leaves it be like he said he would, still keeping a respectable distance.]

After you, then.

[Which is fine. He will start off in the direction of that bar. He hasn't been back since that fiasco with the glass. He hopes maybe everyone's forgotten about it.]

[He'll head in and nod to the bartender before finding a place at the bar to sit.]

So, was there any special occasion or did you just want to get drunk? Is the paperwork getting to you that badly?

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[He shrugs upon sitting, threading a hand through his unkempt bangs.]

Eh. Nothing really.

[Hayato's shiny metal ass, nothing.]

[Wow, excuse you his ass is not metal or shiny. But he also doesn't buy that for a second. The look he gives him says as much. He waves the bartender over and orders Taki something hard and unmixed, on him.]

So you just wanted to chat about the weather, huh?

[He sighs at that, closing his eyes and leaving them that way, smiling.]

You didn't have to do that.

Nah. I didn't. But I did it anyway.

[he sips his ice water.]

So, to turn a phrase back on you. How long to plan on telling me nothing's up when that is so clearly not the case?

[The bartender comes back with his drink, and he looks between it and Hayato once, scrunching his face.]

Ehh. I figure probably about as long as it takes me to finish this.

Good. So finish it so we can talk. You wouldn't let me get away from anything even though I ran out of the bar, what makes you think I'm letting you get away?

[And he does this with the best intentions in mind, of course. He knows you locked yourself up in your room. He knows you didn't come back from that mission the same and it's worrying him.]

[He exhales in a half-laugh, shaking his head.]

Why do you think I asked you to come out here with me?

[But he knocks back most of the drink in one go.]

Probably because you had something you wanted to say but you needed to kill half a bottle of Union's strongest before you wanted to talk. Because you don't talk. For any reason. So if you wanted to talk it must be important.

[A beat.]

It's about Sanctuary, isn't it?

[He finishes the glass.]

See this is why I asked you to come along. I don't even have to say anything, you just know by some crazy psychic shit.

[He smiles, but doesn't actually affirm that it's about Sanctuary verbally.]

No, I just know how to pay attention.

[That was enough confirmation, though. He looks over at him.]

So...Sanctuary had a multitude of problematic situations, you gonna tell me what's specifically bothering you?

[He has an idea, but he wants Taki to say it.]

It's kinda funny, 'cause you'd think I'd be more bothered by the homunculus thing. --and I am, don't get me wrong, everything is fucked up and not okay there, too.

[He swipes his hand backward through his hair, sighing.]

...when we split off, and everybody was checking out their own paths. I guess I never really thought about what would happen to a bunch of bonded Pokemon when somebody gets put in jail.

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