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Who: Hajime Aikawa, Randall Lyall, and YOU.
What: Thanks to the magic of Echoes and very special water, Hajime’s human again. He and Lyall decide to celebrate. And somehow they make it to the mall.
Where: The mall!
When: August 2, late afternoon.

Hajime was out and about and around other humans again in the daylight for the first time in weeks. Why shouldn’t he feel like laughing? Because he was still randomly laughing everywhere. He probably should have stayed in, but after that weird card had appeared and he’d run it through his belt, he’d become human again.

Sure, he didn’t know if it was going to stick, and he probably should have stayed somewhere to calm down first, but he was just so relieved to be a human again, it didn’t matter. He wanted to go to the mall; his family had undoubtedly been worried about them, and he wanted to bring them something to make up for it. He was pretty sure he’d be okay--Lyall was with him. Sure, Lyall was kind of giggly too, but they were still both two normal-looking humans. Nothing could go wrong.

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"Hajime!"

That was the only warning he would get before there was a sudden rush of white hair and he would be hit with a oh so brief hug before Bakura pulled back, hands on his friend's shoulder. "Holy shit, I feel like I should say congratulations of something, look at you!"

Hajime jumped a little at the sudden hug. Normally, he might have been a little less than happy about that, but he just didn't care now. He was in the best mood he'd been in for weeks. He was human again. Even the memories of what sort of monster he'd been that kept playing through his mind couldn't get him down.

"Hey! Yeah...yeah, it was...you're not going to believe how it happened." He rummaged around in a pocket, only to pull out a card with a bit of a laugh.

Bakura stared, eyes wide before he gave a small, almost unbelieving laugh. "...Seriously? The hell!" he laughed again, shaking his head. "Maybe I should have thrown more of them at you, might have happened sooner!"

"This one just...it appeared with one of those weird hollow feelings, and as soon as I touched it it was like..." He broke off again to giggle a bit, and he didn't know why. This was funny-strange, not funny-funny, but maybe it was just because he was so happy not to be a giant bug anymore.

At least, he didn't think he was a giant bug anymore on the outside. But he could still change, he felt it, and part of him wanted to change and then change back just to show off that he could...which didn't make any sense because he really did not like that other form...

He stifled the giggling for long enough to talk again. "Instinct. It kicked in, and I ran it through my belt buckle, and then...I was normal again." He looked down at the card. "This one's different somehow..." It was hard to explain the pull the card had for him, but he figured it was partially because the thing had helped him to become human again. That made sense, right?

"Like a card reader? Your buckle is a---" Bakura broke into a fit of giggles, far more than he would have normally. "Aaa, that's too great!" he grinned before suddenly and without realizing swapping languages and continuing on for three lines in Egyptian before breaking off into another laugh.

"I know, it's crazy...but I guess that explains..." He was going to say it explained why he'd been so twitchy with cards in the first place, possibly why he'd started to reach for cards as a weapon--because that's where he knew this one was to be stored in his monster form--but then Bakura's speaking in Egyptian registered with him. He said a few things in his own monstrous language, mostly about cards and belt buckles and things the language actually had words for. He then broke off in a giggling fit that threatened to make him fall over. Even though he'd said nothing funny, it looked like he was laughing at some private joke.

Bakura blinked a few times. The hell was...

...and why was he laughing now? He shook his head a few times, rubbing his temple and trying to regain control.

"Okay, this is starting to get weird..." he half muttered, back to speaking Japanese as he exhailed slowly.

Hajime wiped a tear away from his eye. "Little bit...I...you want to see how this thing works? I think I can change and change back..." Really, focusing on that seemed better than focusing on all the memories that were running through his head.

He was just emotional because he was finally human again, right? Even if he was afraid his human form was more of a disguise now, a false form he remembered failing on him...okay, that was nothing to laugh about, but he was still giggling anyway.

"Whoa whoa whoa hang on!" Bakura exclaimed, reaching out to grab Hajime's wrist before he could do anything stupid like transform in the middle of the goddamned mall. "Are you out of your" unintelligible Egyptian "mind?!"

"I..." Seriously, it made no sense. Why would he want to transform when he'd spent the past two weeks trying to change back? "It's...it's like an itch. Like I need to scratch an itch." That was a really terrible metaphor, but...there it was. "At least to break out the belt...or break something..." Which was kind of alarming, given some of the stuff he remembered. And it still wasn't funny, but it made him giggle anyway.

Bakura wasn't even aware if he was still laughing or not, his brain was a mantra of curse words in three languages.

"Bathroom. Now. Go." The words were clipped as Bakura moved around his friend and all but started pushing him forward.

Lyall finally made it back to where he'd left Hajime, who hadn't been interested in that smell he'd been lured off by, and he looked bright-eyed at the sight of Bakura. He'd managed not to laugh for a couple minutes now. We'll see how long that lasted going forward.... "Hello. Where are we hauling Hajime off to now? Heheh, should I be coming along, too?"

"But I went before we came!" Hajime trailed off in another giggling fit and added something in that monstrous language of his. He let Bakura push him around, but he knew he could have easily thrown the kid off. Both under normal circumstances and with that strength he was itching to use.

He looked over to Lyall, answered again in that monstrous language, scowled, and then answered again in English. "I dunno, but I feel like I need to change." He trailed off in another giggling fit. When it passed, he said, "But I bet I could bring the belt out and no one would notice..."

"If you can get this idiot out of sight before he does something stupid, then yes," Bakura returned, his scowl thrown off kilter by the giggle that escaped with it. "Fuck it, go, go! We all look drunk anyway, move it!"

"Pfft. Oh dear. Yes." And yet, the idea of the panic that would ensue at a giant bug-man wandering around the mall was stupidly funny. Lyall couldn't help but grin, snickering just a little. Which was very wrong of him, and he knew it, but he also didn't really seem to care.

Bakura, though, had the right idea. "Inside." He slung an arm around Hajime's shoulders for additional encouragement. Even if the young man was quite possibly taller than he was.

Odds were that Hajime wasn't the tallest guy there; he was a little on the short side now that he was human again. He could only laugh as Bakura and Lyall manhandled him into the bathroom. As soon as they were inside, his belt popped into view, and the sight of it threatened to send him into hysterics. At least no one else appeared to be in the area. "Seriously, I feel like I have to change, like...now..." At least he'd given some warning before going all giant bug.

Bakura pushed Hajime towards one of the stalls. "Go in and get it over with! Then change back quick like!"

He was just barely managing to keep in his giggles, the mantra of expletives in his head no doubt helping that some.

Lyall and Bakura were about the same height, neither reaching even average, so... it was a toss-up who here was the tallest.

"Best get it over with, then," Lyall said with a chuckle, which was all out of proportion to the situation. If he wasn't feeling so amused at life, he'd be alarmed at all this inappropriate laughter. He'd just seen someone die a few days ago, and just barely managed to avoid being taken away by police. Why was everything so damn funny?

And while he was distracted by pondering that, he asked with a grin, "Can we watch? It's nothing like mine, you said, right?" Or else he wouldn't be asking. Probably. If he were feeling normal, he probably wouldn't have asked at all, that was just rude.

"Sure! It's a lot faster than yours..." Hajime giggled again as he staggered into a stall. He didn't bother shutting the door behind him before the red heart on his belt flashed to green. His form sort of rippled, as though he'd stepped through a black puddle and emerged a giant bug-man. "See? It's really quick..."

Why was he still laughing? Why did he even feel the need to change? He'd spent the better part of two weeks wanting to change back.

"That's great now switch back." Bakura pressed his fingers against his forehead in aggravation, doing his best to hold back the giggles. The aggravation helped, oddly...

Lyall watched with interest and a lop-sided grin. He was used to that expressionless face and antennae by now, so that didn't bother him. "Well. At least you had some control over it, enough to get in here first. So go on, change back, then. We can't hide in here all day. There's more smells out there. And more pleasant ones." His nose wrinkled a little at that comment. While some body odor type smells were now more bearable and interesting, public restrooms were still not the most pleasant places to be.

"Changing back, right, right..." Hajime pulled the card from the card box at his waist. He ran it through the slot in the middle of his belt buckle, causing the belt to intone "CHANGE" in an oddly accented male voice before his form flickered and shifted back into that of a human. "See? Nothing to it!" He staggered out of the stall again, finding it a bit difficult thanks to a sudden fit of laughter. "So...yeah, yeah, let's get back out there so you can smell a few things."

"Let's get all three of us out of this stupid mall entirely before they kick us out for being intoxicated...." Bakura added, a small snort of laughter escaping him despite his best efforts.

The "change" comment from the belt was way too funny, and Lyall had to clap a hand over his mouth to keep in full-on laughter. "Your belt talks. It talks. That's terrible." Bakura's suggestion, for a beat, went uncommented on. He'd get there, really.

"I don't care WHAT it does as long as it lets me turn back into a human..." There was another giggle as Hajime headed for the exit. "Oh, man, this is just--" He broke off in a big laugh there. "Bakura's right, and it's going to look really bad if we're, pffff, coming out of a bathroom." A high school teacher, one of his students, and an ex-student staggering out of a public restroom all giggly for no apparent reason? Yeah, that would go over well.

"One at a time. Mr. Lyall, you first, make sure everything's clear," Bakura instructed, one hand over his chest as he focused his breath to keep the giggles away as if they were hiccups.

"Oh, come off it, Bakura, we came in together, no one's going to be surprised if we leave together," Lyall scolded, but lightly, and he did put his hands in his pockets and head for the door out. "And you don't need to order me around, either. I'm your teacher, not the other way around."

Hajime seemed to think that admonishment was hilarious, and at this point, he was about bent over double laughing and leaning against a wall to support himself. "So--so what are we going to do once we get out of here?" he managed to choke out in between laughing fits. "We should at least swing by the food court so he can get some better smells before we go..."

Bakura's shoulders hunched into a sulk at the reprimand. "Tch. Just trying to help..."

He looked over at Hajime. "We need to get you somewhere else... all of us before Mr. Lyall and I start cracking up again too!"

A small snort escaped him before he refocused his cranky. "Fuck, what the hell is going on here?!"

Pausing on his way out to pat Bakura's hunched shoulder fondly, Lyall said, "If I knew, believe me, I'd do something about it! But with more than just Hajime and I, it is making me wonder. Or it would, if I didn't think everything was too damned funny!" That earned another short laugh, and he shook his head, actually heading out, now.

"I--I thought I was just in a really good mood since I turned back, but--" Hajime broke off in a fit of hysterics. "It's not funny, but then it is, and--" He tried to follow after Lyall, but he was bent over double, he was laughing so hard. He sagged against the wall for a moment, trying to stop himself from laughing so much and so hard. "Ready for--this--pfffff--to stop!"

Despite himself, the tension in Bakura's shoulders leached out at the pat and he gave a soft sigh. "I'm in a shitty mood and still laughing, there's something fucked up going on here," he returned, a small snort of a laugh escaping. "Goddamnit...!"

"Try enjoying it instead," Lyall suggested. "At least laughter releases endorphins, right?" And with that very teacherly comment, and another laugh of his own, he stepped outside and wandered away from the door in search of something with a pleasant, or at least interesting, smell. The other two could come out at their leisure.

Hajime had, by this point, managed to drag himself through the door of the bathroom. His big laughing fit had subsided to the point he could walk again, and he tried to follow Lyall out into the mall. "Hey! Where are you going?"

Of course, his pursuit fell short when he had yet another fit of hysterics. He lost his balance yet again, but this time, he managed to fall into one of those little coin-operated kiddie car rides, which would have been hilarious even without whatever was making them laugh so much.

"I don't want to bloody enjoy it," Bakura half muttered, the effect ruined by a small snort of laughter, which only served to piss him off further.

"Damnit, Hajime! Pull your ass together!" he exclaimed, covering his mouth to keep in the giggles best he could.

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I need some sort of font for his jibbeing :D

That would be great :D

Sadly, there really isn't any that works... T~T

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And then I realized the belt should have said "Spirit" instead of "Change." Different card. Whoops.

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