On Your Doorstep

[onlycareaboutshipping]

On Your Doorstep

They ended up on your doorstep, quite literally. Bloody, possibly. Bruised, most definitely, though the wounds may be mental. You probably don't know them from Adam, yet you couldn't find it in you to turn them away - whether they wanted you to or not. So you opened up your home, just for a little while.

But it's getting to be more than a little while. Both of you are finding a comfort zone, because you didn't simply open up your home. Admit it or don't, but you've opened up your heart all the same.

Their's is slowly following, if its reluctant at all.

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[punchesyu]

[He'd managed to drag himself from the fight, and his back falls heavily against the door of a house that he didn't recognize or even knew was a house to begin with. The blood in his eyes obscured his vision, stumbling towards the first big huge shadow that he could see. The rest is needed, but instantly regrets falling against the door as hard as he did. A loud thump rings out, teeth gritting with the pain.

Would he die here? The fighting had only gotten worse, and he was lucky to escape. He's not even sure where his gunman was. Probably destroyed. He doubted that anyone even knew about the attack yet. It had been so swift, there was no time, and with his inexperience he hadn't even lasted that long.

This is what he gets for trying to be a hero, he guesses....]

[useddig]

[Simon hears a thump up against his door, and he immediately looks up. It’d been a few years since the fall of Lordgenome and the Spiral Throne, but that didn’t mean things were completely over with the Beastmen. Holdouts, followers of Adiane and Cytomander especially, had been raiding human settlements, and the fledgling Kamina City was no exception. Which meant that he had to be wary, of course. You never knew when something crazy could happen and suddenly a gunmen was just rampaging down your block, after all. That was just the way of the world, since he and the others had burst from the underground.

Carefully, he opened his door and the sight before him drew a faint gasp of surprise. Yosuke, the new recruit, sprawled out on the doorstep. He looked bad. Real bad. Bruises, cuts, blood, a real mess. Not stopping to think, he stooped and got an arm under the youth, pulling him inside.]

Hey, Yosuke! Wake up! No sleeping on me! You’ll be okay. Just hang in there.

[punchesyu]

Yeah, sure-! [Wincing in pain, he gladly lets Simon drag him inside. He can't even manage to pick himself up anymore, letting the Supreme Commander put him wherever he wanted.]

They came out of nowhere dude, damn Beastmen! I thought this was all solved, yet they still gotta attack us!

[useddig]

Where are they?

[Simon's expression is rapidly darkening as he leads Yosuke to the couch. A snap of his fingers summons Boota, and the little pig mole comes charging into the room, buu-buuing seriously, with a little medical kit in his mouth.]

And how many did you see?

[punchesyu]

[He almost falls right onto the couch, sinking into it as pain sears through his body. He's determined not to bleed out and die here, but he is down for the count at the moment.]

It's just a little outside Kamina City, to the west. Bastards punted me all the way over here. There isn't much, maybe a dozen or so, but they ambushed us on a patrol. [He eyes Boota, helping to administer first aid, managing a small laugh.] What a freaky little pig-mole.

[useddig]

[Boota Buus indignantly as he scampers over to them, dragging the medkit.]

You've never met Boota?

[Scooping up the kit and the pig-mole, Simon pulls out bandages and starts cleaning injuries. He knows, without a doubt, that Kittan and the others will deal with the problem, and that while he'd like to get out there and fight, Yosuke needs his help more.

Damn responsibility.]

[punchesyu]

[Responding to the indignant buu from Boota first, he looks down a the little helper-]

Hey, I'm just saying you don't see a pig-mole with sunglasses very often-! Argh! [He cries out as some of the dirt and blood is cleaned from his arm. It stung, but he'd have to endure.]

I'm afraid we haven't, or I'd remember something like that!

[useddig]

[Simon presses on. Yeah, it probably stung. But don't be a baby. Overcoming pain is the first step towards becoming a real badass leader type, after all.]

Buu-Buu!

[The Supreme Commander chuckles, hoping to diffuse some of the tension in Yosuke. Just like Kamina used to do.]

Well, this is Boota. He's been with, Yoko, and my bro since the beginning.

[The pig-mole stands up, his little arms going to his waist as best they could, and he Buu's again, proudly.]

He's as much a part of Team Dai-Gurren as anyone, you know.

[punchesyu]

The beginning? I'm surprised you guys didn't eat him. [He'd probably be pretty tasty. Yosuke isn't young enough to be born on the surface yet, so he remembers.]

You look like you're ready to take on a Beastman, little guy. How many'd you beat up? [He asks, teasing the little pig-mole, as if Boota could possibly beat up a Beastman.]

[useddig]

Well...[Simon rubs the back of his head.] Boota's actually the reason we won some of those early battles. Because we did eat him.

[Buu! Buu!]

Well...mostly just his tail, but that grows back. so you could say he's taken down at least three Gunmen.

[punchesyu]

[Even through the pain, he's got to say:]

That's kinda weird, dude.

[useddig]

[Simon laughs, happy and bright, tearing more of Yosuke's shirt off to get at the wound better.]

Boota didn't mind. And you can't fight on an empty stomach.

[punchesyu]

Hell no! Man, a juicy steak sounds really good right about now... [He whines, feeling the emptiness of his stomach. As Simon continues to dab at his wounds, he cries out-]

Yaaaah! Dude, watch it! [But he's just being a whiner.]

[useddig]

Relax, don't whine.

[It's not sharp, it's definitely a gentle reminder, but coming from Simon? Well, he knows what sort of effect he has on people.]

Pain is weakness leaving your body. And d'you want this to get infected?

[punchesyu]

[Yosuke looks up, defeated, knowing Simon was right on that one.]

Yeah, well... [Breathing out heavily, he guesses he owes an apology.] Sorry, Supreme Commander. As soon as I'm all bandaged up I'm going back out there to kick their asses.

[He doesn't know the progress of the battle, or anything- he'd been jumped first.]

[useddig]

Good! That's exactly what I wanted to hear.

[Not that he thinks there'll be anything left. By now the Grapearls have gotten there, and the worst of the fighting is over, he's sure of it. But...you never know.]

Now, hold still, I'm going to have get to that cut on your cheek. It looks deep.

[punchesyu]

[He obeys, holding still and wincing at the touch on the cut.]

Where else did they get me, man... [But it sort of dawns on him as Simon is cleaning, that well, why is Simon here?]

Doesn't it bug you to be here and not out there helping the others?

[useddig]

Nah, Kittan, Gimmy, Darry, and the others can handle a few Gunmen. Right now, I need to make sure my newest recruit isn't too badly hurt.

[Confident, faithful. He's got a job to do, and while a medic could handle it, this is less frustrating for him than getting suited up and having nothing to do when he gets there.]

[punchesyu]

They were part of Team Dai-Gurren against Lordgenome, weren't they? [He appreciates the concern, giving a smile back accompanied by another wince from the cleaning job.]

Why'd you guys decide to base Kamina City here?

[useddig]

That's right. Basically since the beginning too, once we left Littner.

[Here come the bandages.]


And why here? Because it's where we beat the Spiral King. We had a ready-made city, really.

[punchesyu]

I was still a little kid when that all happened. I heard about it back in my village before we moved here, but hearing right from the Supreme Commander's mouth is something else! Guess that explains the big spiral building in the middle of town.

Dude, is that place a palace or what? Come on, you gotta tell me about it!

[Ow ow ow bandages]

[useddig]

Hah, it was. Now it's the command center. Rossiu mostly takes care of it, and there's lots of paper-pushers. Honestly, it's not as cool as it used to be, but we did need an administrative building for the New Government, so it worked.

[Ugh, paperwork so boring!]

[punchesyu]

Laaaame, that's what you get when you leave it up to that guy. He's as stiff as a board!

I'd sure hate to get on his bad side though. I just think he needs to lighten up a little.

[useddig]

[Starting to bandage it up nice and tight now.]

Heh, he has his reasons, Yosuke. And he is right. A government is necessary. And they do need the space, more than we do anyway.

[punchesyu]

[Ow, that hurts too, and even through pained noises, he manages to keep his mouth shut.]

Still, you coulda been really living it up in there! It's not like you don't deserve it.

[After defeating the Spiral King? Anyone deserves to live in luxury for that one, in his book.]