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thirtieth flame: accidental video; | memory and balance are tricky things

[Some one's SFC got bumped when their hand was moving around looking for something on a desk in a bedroom. It turns on, and when the hand moves away it looks like it's Rin, focusing on something in front of him. Pen in one hand, some sort of snack in the other, he's mumbling to himself in between jotting things down.

He's trying to remember things he's forgotten thanks to what happened back home. Shiro has been giving him medicine to help with that, but it's still slow going. And awkward, given that there are still people that know him that he can't remember himself.

A few minutes in to the broadcast he doesn't know he's sending, he grumbles, drops the pen and scratches at his head with a groan.]

Damn it. C'mon, Okumura...

[This is frustrating as hell to him. He's recalling things, bit by bit, but he has no control over what comes back, when, and how much.

Sighing, he leans back in the chair, tilting two feet of it off the ground as he cranes his head back to stare at the ceiling, arms hanging loose at his sides.

And then, suddenly--]

... hey! Uwaah!

[He jerks his head up sharply, but as soon as he does the precarious balance of the chair he was in is compromised. His arms pinwheel, attempting to keep his chair from going backwards, but it doesn't work and he goes crashing to the ground noisily. The SFC rattles and goes flying off the desk, landing on the floor next to Rin who is left groaning, holding his already aching head with both hands.]

Owwwww...

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... twice?

[Rin...]

Niisan...

No, wait, I got this. Twenty?

I stopped keep track years ago.

... that wasn't the point of what you were sayin' anyway, was it?

[Congrats, Rin, that only took you ten minutes to figure out.]

No, it wasn't.

[If he were anyone but Yukio, he'd be slow-clapping for Rin right now.]

Anyway, are you feeling better. Aside from your most recent head injury.

[You should try it some day, Yukio. It's strangely satisfying.]

Yeah, finally. There's still some weird gaps, but I think it's mostly all there again.

[poking at his head with a finger]

[Slow-clapping, or being someone other than himself? Because option two holds some emo kid appeal.]

Do you remember what happened?

[Slow clapping, but the other option is viable, too.]

Yeah! I do, actually.

[... Yeah, he could probably do slow clapping, but he'll wait until Rin's a little less brain damaged. Maka got on his case for being a jerk (among other things), so that's still on his mind.]

... So what happened?

[It only took you a trip to a different world and a lecture from a girl who wields a person as a scythe for you to actually listen to some one about your brother, Yukio. Geez.]

That little demon I was talkin' about. Usamaro? I think I said somethin' to him about when you got lost at the festival eleven years ago, and how Dad and I found you... I guess it brought up memories of... well... y'know.

[When Shiro died]

and he asked me if those were painful memories. I musta said yes cause... he was tryin' to get rid of 'em.

[Don't expect it to last too long. A large part of it's the guilt trip of knowing how effed in the head Rin was for the last week. And the fact that Yukio had no idea what to do for him. Thank goodness there's a more experienced exorcist around.

Yukio frowns. He's never learned about a demon like that before... though the idea does sound a little familiar. Can't quite place it, but something else has been bugging him anyway.]

Niisan, you said you met this demon before the festival?

[Rin will take what he can get, really. Especially when it comes to Yukio and a fraction of better treatment.]

Yeah. Durin' the set up, we were on the mission to stop the Phantom Train, and when it went off the tracks with me on it, it crashed in to the shrine.

I thought he was just some kid that got hurt at first but that Liu guy showed me he had a rabbit tail.

Why?

[Geez, could they sound a little more like a domestic abuse situation?

Yukio's eyebrows furrow as Rin recounts his tale.]

... I don't remember any of that.

[Only if Yukio has actually physically struck Rin--

ohwait.]

Well, yeah. You're from a different version of things.

[wait what]

[Hey man, it's a two way street.

And you don't get to just say something like that as if it makes complete sense, Rin. It's not okay.]

What?

[In his defense the only time he ever hit Yukio was to snap him out of a slump when their entire city was about to be destroyed.

His was justified. Was yours?]

It's just like Bon. You guys went through things I didn't, and the same goes for me, goin' through things you guys didn't.

[Now that he has his memory back, he actually remembers some of those conversations with Bon. Which incidentally makes Rin sound temporarily smarter than his brother.]

It's somethin' to do with the coral, and how it pulls people either from different times, or I guess... uh what's the shit they always go on about in sci fi... time lines? Yeah I think that's it.

[To be fair, Rin did disobey every possible order during the Impure King situation and scare the shit out of his already mentally addled little brother... but every excuse sounds crappy when you put it next to saving the city. :|

Alright, still trying to be less bitchy with Rin, but some of that oft present anger is sneaking back, laced with disbelief. Is Rin serious?]

... So we're from alternate universes. And no one bothered to tell me.

[Exactly.]

... you never talk about anythin'. How the hell was I supposed t' know? The only thing that even clued me in was when you mentioned the Seven Mysteries and that crap about dressin' up in a girl's uniform.

What? I never told you about that.

Huh... ?

... OH! Right that was when you were here before. You uh. Showed up in the girl's uniform.

[You're not helping yourself, Rin.]

I wonder what else I haven't been told because you can't remember which Yukio I am.

[Okay, so he's getting kinda pissy, but this is kind of a big deal.]

... 'scuse me for comin' back with a concussion and a screwed up memory. Don't get pissy with me just 'cause you can't stay in one place long enough for me to keep track of who's said what!

[Which isn't really his fault but... pissy, meet pissier.]

You knew about this before you came back, and I can't control when I come and go any more than you can!

[... This is not how Yukio intended this conversation to go.]

... every conversation we've had since you got back except for the day you go back has been an argument.

[As irritated as Yukio sounds, and as irritated as Rin was a second ago, that admission just comes out quiet and... disappointed.\

He knew, yes, but Yukio never asked and Rin could never find the right time to bring it up.]

It's not like I can really talk to you anymore.

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