mootpoints | [arrival]

While many had found their way to their new 'homes' within the city, Inosuke has taken to running around in a sense of absolute wonder. Bright lights, strangely pruned trees, whatever those weird gods of the city were that moved on the weirdly hard ground, smooth ground on 4 round things--and then there was the train. He'd just recently seen one for the very first time in his life, so being shooed onto this one had taken surprisingly no effort by the guards.

What did cause the guards to be annoyed with the new Submissive was his insistence to bang and smack on the windows over and over as the train glides along the track... until its eventual stop in the Up.

All the while as naked as the day he was born. Somehow along the way he'd abandoned, tore, or somehow lost the gown he'd been given when he'd been ushered into Duplicity. Even his boar head mask was tucked away at his new 'home' in the Down that he'd not yet discovered. At first he doesn't notice Shu (what with banging over and over on the train window with his nose pressed up against the glass), but when the train doesn't seem to be moving his attention snaps to him. "It keeps stopping! Tell them to hurry up already!"

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Shu is already pressed, well past pressed even. On a day with clearer judgement he might not have even stepped foot onto this train with its decorative but clearly required barbaric man. However, today is different and he has already made the foolish mistake of sitting down. He has one mission - to find and complain to the highest authority with the laundry list of Grievances he has already accrued in his short time here. Yes, Itsuki Shu may or may not carry deceit in his blood but do people not realize he also carries the weight of deadlines as well?

Unfortunately he does not know where this place is, and with little guidance the plan has surmounted to this: ride the train until he finds the building with the most governmental grandeur.

As much as he can, Shu tries to avoid looking at or perceiving Inosuke in any way possible, but being addressed directly is just one more thing on the already large pile of his frustrations. Reflexively, he covers Mademoiselle's ears as she sits on his lap. A lady has no need of hearing that boorish voice.

"Has the thought crossed you, just once, that perhaps you could curb your tongue and stop that incessant noise?"

"Haaaaaaah!?" The window is momentarily forgotten in favor of turning his entire unfortunately naked frame toward the pink haired man. Without any hesitation at all his bare foot dashes out to kick at the idol's leg.

It's hard, but admittedly not as rough as it could have been due to his awkward angle.

"Who're you calling noisy?! I was just stating the obvious!"

"You!" Shu flinches, but takes the hit, trying to process.

Horrible.

It's absolutely horrible.

Nothing in his life has prepared Shu for this moment.

How does one be ready to battle the naked man on the train? You don't if your name is Itsuki Shu.

Deep within himself, Shu knows this is just punishment for acknowledging this naked fool, but the need for victory through validation always rings stronger. That is one of God's curses bestowed upon man, after all.

"Stay there! Sit down! Do not come any closer!" He's brought Mademoiselle up to his chest, shielding her delicate eyes from the depravity this world has to offer.

And the world has much to offer in depravity, but in this case it was just the incredibly buff and nude body of a weird beast of a man.

The foot digs its heel into Shu's thigh even as the SIN guards start to make their move from the other end of the car. Hands tapping their taser sticks as they hurry toward. Inosuke doesn't seem to acknowledge them though as his attention is on the slightly pink-ish haired boy fully now. "You weakling, don't you know who I am----uiiII!!"

He can't even get his entire threat and introduction out before the taser makes contact with his back, eliciting a loud and high pitched screech of agony. He'd been electrocuted before, but there was something about these that were different... but does that stop him from struggling ~~and exposing himself only further~~? Absolutely not.

"Y-Y-Y-You!! This is all your fault, pinky!" Another zap and squeal.

Hah, as if the substratum, the lowest ebb itself of humanity itself were not the full display that man would bring to His table in the most unabashed for-- Oh.

Instinctively, Shu tries to get away from this situation as much as possible, bringing his leg closer to himself. In reality though, there is only so far he can go. In the back of his mind he remembers a bit of the earlier orientation, and one of the laws that this city upholds - violence via Submissive against Dominants is prohibited. Due to the curse of Seeing, and oh how he has seen too much of Inosuke already, it's maddeningly easy to categorize where he got filed away to. Imagining the alternative though, giving higher power to a beast like that--

But that is all irrelevant, because Shu's high priority right now is not following suit for any reason. He is able to make a dismissive wave when one of the guards looks at him, but not much more than that.

Orientation was something Insouke had, unfortunately, not yet been forced to attend due to having arrived truly not that long ago. Released to go find whatever a 'motel' was in the Down to get his belongings. He'd sort of been on his way there, but it was hard to focus with all the glowing lights and attractions for someone with the brain the size of a roasted peanut.

For a moment he twitches on the ground and the guards start to pull away, one pulling out their ticketbook for citations to start writing... and suddenly Inosuke is on his feet and turning toward them.

"A cheap shot... I haven't been struck by someone from behind in some time!" He cracks his knuckles before swinging his arm back---just to get tazed again, though this time in the chest. When he falls back to the ground he's mostly unmoving and silent... minus the occasional twitch of a limb.

Of course, none of this is Shu's problem now. He might as well disengage from the situation as much as possible by minding his own business. Besides, the atrocity that someone might associate him and the feral naked beast? Unacceptable. In fact, this has already caused too much of a scene.

Still, he does have to admit, Inosuke has given him one thing. When he does finally find the building he is looking for, he knows not to push his limits - or at least not that far. But of course, Shu's list is all within reason. And as a final addition, being in possession of a pair of pants will also help.

He spares a modest glance towards Inosuke, mostly in disdain, but also a mild admiration. Shu himself could never take a punch, much less getting tazed three times...

"It is a bit impressive, isn't it, Shu-kun?"

The small voice seemingly comes from the doll resting against him. Of course it does. Obviously.

"Mademoiselle? No, of course not! In fact, avert your eyes! You should never have to look upon such an unsightly unveiling. What a lothesome fate has fallen before you."

"Ah. My apologies, Shu-kun."

The guards eventually decide that the threat is subdued and once Inosuke's first shiny new ticket is written up and placed on his forehead they head off down the train.

For someone who had never been exactly tasered before, one would think that Inosuke would have remained unconscious longer than he does. Unfortunately for Shu, the blissful(?) silence doesn't last long. There's a thud when the younger male leaps from the ground and lands back on his feet. Before he screams though he notices the fluttering of paper fluttering down to the floor of the car.

"..." He kneels and picks it up before holding it up toward Shu. "Oi, what's this say?"

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