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and your Durarararararararararara cast has arrived.

Character(s): Shinra and Celty
Location: Around the Garden
Rating: G
Open/Closed/Finished: Finished.
Summary: Just the new arrivals getting situated.

The school was larger than Shinra expected, the architecture completely different from anything someone could even hope to find in Ikebukuro. Or even in Ireland, Shinra suspected. His eyes were alight, reflecting outline of the Garden as he skipped ahead of his companion to gaze up at vision of it.

"Celty, do you see it?" he called out to her, motioning him after him. "This truly is an entirely different world from ours! Look at the detailing on the spires! And that canopy! It looks like a halo! How do you think it's suspended?"

He beamed at her, fairly thrilled to be on this adventure with her. They were away from Ikebukuro, from the demands of the city, from the meddling of his father. They could try a different kind of life for a little while, at least until they found a way back. And they would. They couldn't divorce themselves from that city forever, but just for the time being, maybe this could be okay.

"What do you think?"

The smile he gave her was hopeful.

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"Well, if you're sure. Where would you like to go, then?" Shinra asked, because even though he could think of quite a few ways to investigate the showers without breaking any rules, if Celty wasn't in the mood for it then he wasn't going to push her. He could always investigate on his own and report back to her. And though he knew that she didn't think he needed to apologize, it was just something he wanted to express to her anyway.

He only continued to smile at her, but then tilted his head a little at the smoke seeping out from her helmet. Hhe brought his hand to the corner of his glasses to adjust them before he leaned in, casually glancing around them to make sure their surroundings were vacant of people. Then he flipped up her visor to get a better look at her smoke, hand coming to rest against his chin.

"Is everything alright, Celty? You seem a little overwhelmed..."

Celty was feeling tense as she stood intimately close to Shinra, though she herself could not figure out exactly why she was behaving this way. Shinra holding her shoulders seemed to be the trigger this time, but for what reason? Was it because his hands were warm? Perhaps because he was so close to her neck? Or... well.

Had it been anyone else, she would have felt nothing, but with Shinra, somehow, it was different. Maybe he was right; maybe she was becoming more human after all...

She pulled her cell up again, wondering at time why she ever bothered to put it away at all. Her quick, nimble fingers moving over the keys meaningfully before stopping cold, her helmet tipping up to catch Shinra's eyes as his fingers worked her visor open, a cloud of smoke billowing out and towards him. Her shoulders shot up as she instinctual cringed to herself, feeling a bit vulnerable having not opened it herself nor invited it. 20 years or not-- engaged or not-- these kind of things were delicate. She squeezed her fingers together and jabbed at his abdomen, aiming to hit his solar-plexus rather sharply twice. She twisted her neck away from him and closed the thick, sun-blocking, reflective cover, knowing he had caught her embarrassed 'face' yet again. She huffed a bit, her shoulders finally settling and falling below her breast bone as she typed a message rapidly, working to give her message a slight bite. She turned the phone to face him while she remained facing away.

"Don't open it so forthrightly, Shinra."

Sure no one was around but it was just the principle of the thing. Though his concern for her was admittedly a bit endearing.

For the written reprimand alone, Shinra would have apologized to Celty for acting so thoughtlessly. He was unused to being outside with her, as most of their time together before was spent in the safety and privacy of their own home. He hadn't recalibrated for their new circumstances yet, and that was his own failing. However, the jabs to his abdomen left him gasping for breath, staggering forward a half step in pain as the muscles there spasmed. He didn't quite manage to correct his balance in time, though, and fell against her with a startled 'oof', finding his fall broken by something... very... soft...

"Ah! I'm sorry, Celty!" he choked out as he reeled away from her as quickly as he could, arms raised defensively out of reflex since violence usually followed these sort of slips. "I really lost my balance, I swear! I won't do it again!"

Celty's vision centered on Shinra, secretly finding a sadistic amusement in his pain-- though this time it seemed to have turned on her. The Irish woman's hands flew up as Shinra's body doubled over and fell forward onto her. Her hand twitched, releasing one of her fingers in surprise. Her cellphone fell out of her trembling hands and to the pavement, clacking on the ground as her breasts suddenly received Shinra's face. Time seemed to stop as her brain tried its hardest to comprehend what had just happened, thinking of what punishment should be doled out. However, once he recoiled back and away from her with such a fevered resolve to apologize, she lost the will to dish out anything, instead sighing hard to herself as smoke continued to collect in and leak out of her helmet from the neck area.

She leaned down and picked up the phone, examining it for damage, once again relieved with her good luck when it came to keeping her phones alive despite abuse. Checking it for damage again, she tested out the typing mechanism and flashed the message to him, obviously a bit annoyed.

"Whatever. Where are we headed?"

She couldn't stop the black wisps from coming out of her headgear, despite herself.

"Anywhere you'd like! We could just do a tour of the Garden, if it's all the same to you?" Shinra suggested as he led her to the directory. Once he was turned away from her to lead the way, he allowed himself a warm, somewhat flustered little smile that she still treated her phone that way. He wondered if it was because it was a present from him. ...he hoped it was because it was a present for him. But yes, the directory. Shinra looked up at the large signpost and scanned over its contents.

"It looks like the Garden's interior architecture is also circular, so we'll wind up back here if we just pick a direction to walk... Oh!" Shinra adjusted his glasses as he caught sight of something that interested him, all but pressing his nose up against the part of the sign that read 'infirmary'. "Shall we start in this direction~?"

Celty sighed to herself tilting her neck to the side some as she forced herself to calm down fully, the circulation of smoke from her neck settling. The Irish female moved behind Shinra, peeking over his shoulder and looking over the directory with mild enthusiasm, not particularly wanting to go or be anywhere. She shrugged him off as she was disinterested in any of the rooms herself, and moved closer to him to allow him to take the lead in a direction of his choosing, interested in seeing what interested Shinra-- though fairly sure she already knew for the most part.

"I have no preference either way since it is a circle, after all." And with that, she flicked her communication device back into her cuff. She paused, still keeping pace with him as she moved in his shadow, the darkness suiting her. Soon enough, though, she slid her phone out again, moving to be by Shinra's side, showing him the message. "Why this way, anyway?"

"It's the infirmary! I want to see what kind of medical facilities they have, as well as their level of medical technology if I'm going to study and potentially work here," Shinra reported enthusiastically, looking this way and that to take in his surroundings as he surveyed the center of the Garden. It was a very well constructed building, and Shinra could see thoughtfulness in every small detail. There was unmistakable ingenuity in the planning and execution of this facility.

"The other way was the library. I think the quad's also in this direction? I'm interested in seeing the quad with you too, Celty! It would be a good place for us to spend our free time. I think you'd like that kind of place."

Having seen the rest of the architecture and decor gave Shinra high hopes for the quad.

Celty's hand brushed his accidentally as she walked next to him and gauged his excitement for the new world around them. The stubborn Dullahan still did not like that she had been taken away from Ikebukuro so suddenly--mostly for the fact that it meant she was away from her head of which searching for had become her life's purpose. However, she could not deny that the reality of escaping the violent chaos of Ikebukuro to be with Shinra was somewhat of a welcomed change, and admittedly she had begun to give up on finding her head at all prior to these recent events, anyway.

'infirmary?' She suddenly felt unnerved, imagining the look of the inside of the room. Bright lights beating down so harshly from the ceiling, the cold and stinging feel of the steel table, the sound and awkward feeling of latex gloves on one's skin... Scalpels...

She abruptly shuddered hard, shaking her helmet left to right as if throwing a thought from her head. 'Rather not think about that...'

She tossed her phone up into her palm and thumbed in "the quad," inquisitively, wondering what it had to offer that would inspire them to spend their free-time in it. "What's there?"

Glancing over his shoulder as they neared the infirmary, Shinra read Celty's body language and immediately stopped in his tracks, expression going from enthusiastic to apologetic as he turned and faced her. Then he smiled gently, offering her his hand as he gestured back at the infirmary with the other.

"It's okay if you don't want to go in, Celty. You can wait for me here? I just want to see what kind of medical facilities they have, and how far along they are in terms of medical science. It won't take me more than a few minutes. After that we can go to the quad," he promised, trying to reassure her. He had only been four at the time, and he hadn't known any better but to do as his father said, but... He still felt badly for that time in both their lives.

"And oh! The quad is... Well, how to put it... It's like a courtyard on most campuses. Often there's some greenery, places to sit and such. At the university I attended, the quad was always my favorite place to study when the weather was nice."

Celty never blamed Shinra for what happened 20 years ago-- after all, she had agreed to it in writing by her own volition. If anything, she pitied him for having had to take on the genes of such a wicked man as Shingen. From Celty's view, Shinra's perverseness was decidedly the fault of an upbringing by Shingen. While she did not hold Shinra accountable, that didn't mean she wanted to return to a similar scene anytime soon. Celty paused and stuttered her movement as Shinra looked back at her, ignoring his hand for the time being, instead using both of her own to type again.

"I will wait here. Don't worry about me. Go on and do what you need to do."

The quad sounded nice assuming it actually had vegetation. Celty had to admit that she did miss the beautiful nature of Ireland--what she remember of it anyway-- for the peace and serenity that it provided. It was something unobtainable in Tokyo.

"Greenery? Understood. I will wait here and then we will go." She moved over to the wall and leaned against it, arms crossed over her chest.

Once inside the infirmary, Shinra gave himself a quick tour, making mental notes here and there as he tried not to let himself yet too engrossed in his surroundings. It was fascinating for something as simple as a school's infirmary, though he supposed since it was a mercenary school, this hardly came as a surprise. Ahhh, he wouldn't mind working here for a while. Volunteering, even, just to get to know the facilities better. Soon enough he emerged again, determined to return here when Celty wasn't waiting on him and have a better look. Celty could probably see the sparkle in his eye and the bounce in his step as he rejoined her, motioning them in the direction of the quad.

"All done! I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long."

Celty sighed lightly to herself and the infirmary doors swung shut behind Shinra, tilting her neck back to check out the ceiling, looking for camera's in the vicinity. Lowering her gaze, she caught glimpse of a bulletin board in front of her and on the other side of the hall. Uncrossing her arms and pushing off the wall, she made her way over to it, looking at the different fliers for clubs and other such opportunities. A thought suddenly occurred to her about a club mention she didn't notice up there, making a mental note to do more investigation later into the matter. Perhaps she should write it down...

She opened her phones note pad and began typing it in. 'Home Ec... make delicious food for--' and then suddenly Shinra emerged from the infirmary, causing Celty to abandon the message and slip her phone into her sleeve hastily.

She flipped around to face him and waved her hands in front of her; she hadn't really been kept waiting for very long. She noticed the twinkle in his eye-- how typical of Shinra to fanboy over something as simple as an exam room. Then again, she was also the one who was too afraid to go into said room, so she was in no real position to talk either.

"No, it was no problem. How was it?" She tilted her head to the side and then tapped her phone again. "Shall we go then?" And she moved to stand next to him.

"Everything I hoped it to be and more~" Shinra all but sang as he pranced on ahead to lead her to the quad, knowing that she would follow. He could tell that she was up to something, since the mood between them had changed slightly between him going into the infirmary and coming back out, but he didn't spare it much thought. Every girl deserved to have her secrets, after all, and he trusted Celty not to keep anything important from him.

...the reverse wasn't exactly true, which Shinra off and on felt guilty for, but he only did was was necessary to protect them. She was more his family than anyone else in this life, and one thing Shinra had developed which he hadn't inherited from his father was a strong sense of commitment to his family. He would protect what they had to whatever ends.

"Ah, here we are!" he exclaimed as they reached the quad, skipping on ahead to do a little spin as the walls gave away to open air. "Ahhh, this is every bit as nice as I imagined! Look, Celty! There's running water!"

Celty couldn't help but feel her own spirit lifted by the boyish excitement exuded from Shinra over his prospective new workspace. She hoped only the best for him, really interested in where this new life would take him. Celty had other things in mind when it came to Shinra's success too: Being a human, his time was limited, and so she wished to see him make the most of it.

She looked around the corner as they rounded it, sunlight reflecting off of her visor and creating dazzling patterns on the walls around them in the entrance. She stood in awe at the beauty contained in the space before them, understanding why Shinra had proposed they spend time there after school. She walked forward behind the skipping and overly-enthused Japanese doctor, pausing for a moment to raise her hand up to her visor, her shoulders twitching once as she laughed silently to herself.

"Ah, this really is nice, Shinra."

Seeing Celty laugh always unfailingly lifted Shinra's spirits. He always imagined that it would sound as beautiful as it looked. Warm and bright like the sun. For all the darkness and grim that blanketed the Ikebukuro underground, Celty was tangible, irrefutable proof to Shinra that there was such beauty in the world. In life. That there could be such a thing as 'perfect'. So he just smiled and watched her for a little while, sighing out his breath in bliss.

"I'm glad you like it. Do you want to... stay here for a little while before we go find the dorms?"

Celty walked towards the fountain, her hand dipping down to touch the water out of curiosity. By touch it seemed the same as back in their world-- in fact, many things did. Yet many things were also different here.

She glanced back at Shinra, flicking the water off of her hand onto the ground as she moved over to approach him. She nodded a few times and moved towards a tree nearby and sat down, leaving a fair amount of room next to her open..

'This is nice. The sun is shining, the wind is so gentle, and I am here with him. No strife, no chaos. I could get used to this,' Celty though as she leaned back against the tree, waiting for her fiance expectantly.

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