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Itsuki hurried down the Durem streets, not stopping until he approached a familiar housing building. His steps fell to a slow walk as he got closer to the apartment building, his hand rubbing the back of his neck.

When things seemed to have just calmed down, everything got complicated again.

Urahara was missing, among others, and he was now on a rescue mission team with Kyoko. It spelt trouble, he knew. She easily distracted him...

But the thoughts of the teen reminded him of another issue that had begun to bother him.

Where had Yeste' been?

Itsuki wasn't sure if she had got the message from the shop, but he suspected she had. She seemed like the type who might want to get involved--or did she?--but either way, he hadn't heard from her in a while. He didn't know what to think and frankly, thinking was a problem in itself.

The simu subconciously traced his hands to his necklace, gliding his fingers over the materials as he stepped towards the elevator. Itsuki stepped inside once the doors opened and pressed the button for his floor.

((Telegram and a Box from... guess who? n_n))

A shady looking figure stands infront of the door to Itsuki and Ian's apartment, it stares at the door for a second before reaching into a bag hanging at his shoulder and grabbing a box wrapped in brown paper and a black envelope with a crimson seal. The figure slips the box and the letter through the mail slot and adjusts his hat and leaves. Oops, it was just the mail man!

Upon opening of the black letter with the blood red seal and nothing written on it except for Itsuki's name in fine caligraphy, one would see old parchment-like paper with the scent of roses coming from it, and words written in a neat and elligant hand. The letter's owner can probably guess who it is from already....


Moving onto the box... it seems plain enough, plain white string holding the paper on, plain brown paper... but thats just on the outside. After ripping the paper off one finds Yeste's signature black box and red ribbon. The box isn't very big though, not like her last gift.

Itsuki really couldn't blame her.

It was in the middle of the night when the doorknob rattled. Out of a sense normality (see: sheer stubbornness), Ian continued sleeping on the couch. Like any worried mother, she slept lighter and less everyday. So when the door threatened to be open, the young woman woke up fairly quickly.

And when the tired boy finally jimmied the apartment door open, he was greeted with a warm thwack in the head with a rolled up magazine. Twice.

Itsuki stood there in the dark silence for a moment, stunned, before rubbing his head and flicking on the living room light.

His odd owner seemed to squeal when his presence was confirmed as something welcome and he didn't dodge the tight hug.

Yeah, he was back home, alright.

"So, it came in the mail after I left?"

Itsuki was sitting on the couch now, observing the brown generically wrapped box and the envelope with his name displayed elegantly on its surface. Ian only nodded in affirmation.

It was no lie that the boy enjoyed receiving mail. Maybe it made him feel important? It was probably just good to reassure himself that he had friends. Once he picked up the envelope and removed the letter from it's grasp, he was quite sure which 'friend' it was. Hm, was that a scent?

Ian's giggles distracted Itsuki for a moment while he glared at her, then he returned to the task at hand--reading the letter. It would have been helpful to have gotten it before he left, as he now knew most of the information it held. However, one word in particular stood out to him near the bottom. He didn't even realize he was staring at the paper until Ian spoke up.

"--love letter?" Was all he caught, his ears checking in when the clue word was said.

"She was just telling me about her travels," he hissed, hoping his caretaker would get the message and stop acting so... girly.

The simu set the letter and it's accompanying envelope down on the table as he moved onto the box. It wasn't as big as the last one but, when he pulled off the string and brown paper, he noticed it was still the same kind of packaging.

Itsuki's gold eyes lit up when he removed the lid.

Ian blinked. "Another necklace?"

"...It's better than just another necklace."

The boy lifted the gift in his hand and felt the shape of the bat with his thumb. A smile developed on the young boy's face and he stood up quickly, rushing to the bathroom with the new piece of jewelry.

Ian just blinked and looked at the empty box and letter. It really didn't seem like such a big deal to her. She never thought of him as much of a bat person before.

Itsuki appreciated the item, however, and took no time in slipping it around his neck to join the other two already there. He was racking up a larger necklace collection than weapons, he mused to himself. It wasn't a problem though... because this one was just perfect to him.

He grinned and examined the way it looked on him pridefully in the mirror. The little simu really owed it to Yeste' this time! He didn't have the damnest clue why he liked it so much, but something about it struck him deep inside.

Who cared? He liked it, did it really matter why? Nope.

"Itsuki? Morning!"

Ian happily opened the door to his bedroom, not waiting for a response. She found the boy sitting on his bed, staring out the window. He didn't even bother to glance at her and she approached the bed.

"Itsuki, today's a special day," she started with a grin.

With this, the Simu turned to give her a bored, inquisitive look. "Let me guess, its the day when people dress like weirdos?"

She blinked and furrowed her eyebrows, "Something like that. ...How'd you know?"

He rolled his eyes and pointed to the window, "Because it looks like people have already started." Itsuki looked back outside for a few moments before asking, "What's this day about?"

Ian grinned and sat down on the foot of his bed. "Today is Halloween. Its a day you dress up in costume and go around collecting candy from people at night! Its supposed to be a day of scary, demonic things... but I've never seen anything like that for myself."

"...Huh."

"It's also the day I got your mirror," she explained.

"...Great. So I'm related to a weird holiday like this." With that, Itsuki pulled himself out of bed and headed towards the door. "I think I'm going to go outside and check things."

"...Kay. Just make sure you eat breakfast first!" Ian called as he headed out the bedroom door.