minato.

[nonbelligerent]

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[nonbelligerent]

Open it. It's for you.

[compendiem]

[ .......Minato opens the bag with his arms extended like he expects it to blow up in his face, punishment for WHATEVER he did wrong. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[IT'S JUST BREAD. very normal-looking bread except for where the top has sprinkles on it in an attempt to look festive.]

You seemed like you wanted birthday bread, so I tried making some. Sorry, I don't know when your actual birthday is.

[compendiem]

[ Oh my god. Holy shit, it's birthday bread.

Minato picks off one of the sprinkles and chews on it first before turning his eyes up at Shess. ]

That's okay, I don't know when my birthday is either.

[ aka Card doesn't know and doesn't want to give an answer, but whatever, it's not like Minato's ever celebrated his birthday in the past 10+ years so what's the point of knowing it ]

But thanks, for making it for me. Can I set it on fire and make a wish?

[nonbelligerent]

[............... he should just say no because it's minato. but you know what, even if minato manages to set more on fire than he should, shess has water, so it should be. relatively fine. he can do damage control. no one has to know.]

The entire bread? Or should we get candles?

[compendiem]

[ Minato is somebody who would eat soggy bread too, so it'll definitely be fine. Thanks for being an enabler, Shess. ]

I was going to set the entire bread on fire... but candles work better, if you know where we could find some?

[nonbelligerent]

Maybe the gateway? If we can't find any, then it's your bread, so you're free to do what you want with it.

[compendiem]

[ Oh, that's a dangerous promise, letting Minato do anything he wants with his bread. Honestly, he just wants to eat the entire thing and take a nap, but then Four would murder him, so he sets the bread back into the bag and nods. ]

Sure. Have you been inside the gateway yet?

[nonbelligerent]

[setting the bread on fire is not an improvement.]

I've taken a look around. Though, thinking about it, the kitchen might also have some?

Ookurikara should be busy with the gateway right now.

[compendiem]

[ Shess gets to Minato's hesitation about the kitchen before he even says anything, and he's really grateful for that, because then he doesn't have to explain why he's avoiding the kitchen as long as he can help it. Good. Great. Kara, stay there and don't look for them. ]

Alright. If we think hard enough, maybe they'll show up. That's sort of how it's been for the kitchen, right?

[nonbelligerent]

[he lets out a silent laugh.]

No reason not to try, right?

[compendiem]

[ "No reason not to try" is what Minato tends to live by, just doing whatever he can because he can and there's nobody here to stop him— it worked before, at least, but people here keep trying to stop him...

He and Shess are on the same page about this, though, so he nods and starts off for the kitchen, frequent glances over his shoulder to make sure Kara hasn't come out of the hall. He doesn't breathe easy until they're actually in the kitchen and he can stand facing the door at all times with the counter in front of him just in case. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[you do that, minato. shess will go about searching for the tiny candles that apparently exist in the kitchen.]

[compendiem]

[ Yeah, Minato will hide behind the counter being useless while Shess finds those candles. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[minato........

good thing that shess eventually does, then!!]

Found them. We should be good to go now.

[compendiem]

[ Oh thank god. Minato nods and slips out of the kitchen faster than he should be able to on a gunshot foot.

His hands are safe, for now. ]

Thanks, Shess. Let's light it up in my room?

[nonbelligerent]

[.......... well there's a bathroom and shess will not hold himself responsible for anything that happens.]

Will Xion mind?

[compendiem]

...Do you think she'll want to celebrate my birthday?

[ Like. Would she mind not being invited, or would she mind them setting something on fire in their room? ]

[nonbelligerent]

Well, that too. But would she mind us lighting something up in the room?

[compendiem]

..................we'll be very careful.


[ Shess will be very careful. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[yeah, he thought it might be like that.]

All right, let's do that.

[off they go to minato's house! on the way, though:]

By the way, Minato, do you know who had the partner role last week?

[compendiem]

[ Off they go!

Minato looks a bit confused at the question though; he looks at Shess with his usual dumb face. ]

Does the partner role change every week?

[nonbelligerent]

[...]

Yes.

[compendiem]

[ ... ]

Really?

[nonbelligerent]

Do you have reason to think it doesn't?