[Open Log] Cherry Blossoms, Cherry Blossoms

[gricklegrass]

Who: You!
What: Cherry Blossom Festival
When: March 29th-April 5th.
Where: All over town. Wherever you find a cherry tree.
Rating: Who knows how across the board this'll be <8|




Pink is everywhere. No matter where you look, you're sure to see the signs of soft pink and white blossoms. There's a fresh spark of life filling the air and just beckoning for everyone to come outside and enjoy the sweet scents of spring. Well, except for you, people with springtime allergies. They just want to make you miserable. But for everyone else, it was a wonderful amazing time to be had.



There are wonderful spots for picnicking! Frolic inducing atmosphere and the space to do it! Every so often you will see vendors selling treats for the event! Cosplayers taking advantage of their natural environments for photo ops! Hot date spots! Blossoms! Sparkles! Everywhere! Even when it rains.

This log is completely open! You can do whatever you'd like with whomever you'd like whenever you'd like. Just start up a thread and go!

Have fun! ♥

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[findthepenguin]

Oh, this was really a friendly creature, wasn't it? It was one of those Pokemon or something, right?

Kanji stopped and thought for a second. Who did he know who were Pokemon? There was Eli, but obviously this thing was not Eli. Eli wouldn't be so pleasant with him. There was that Vinnie guy, who said flowers were manly and he had a big flower in Pokemon form. But no, by its demeanor, it seemed like...

"Wait. Are you... Bulba?"

He thought of that big flower on Bulba's back, and how he said it corresponded to his Pokemon form. And Bulba was a genuinely nice guy, kind of like this creature seemed to be.

[rivalsweetscent]

Ding, ding, ding!

"Vyyy!" That was a happy confirmation. The Ivysaur nodded vigorously. That was a very good guess, Kanji, and the Pokemon seemed very pleased with your positive deductions.

He took a seat, nodding his head to the wide space besides him. There was plenty of room there. Did he want to join him?

[findthepenguin]

Kanji smiled in relief to know that he got it right. But man this was so weird. He didn't know anyone who could turn into an animal thing like that. Well, he did, but he had never seen them much in their Pokemon forms.

So, hesitantly, he took a seat near the creature Bulba when he motioned for him to do so. It was still so weird though. This guy was a friend, but now he was like a pet or something. He couldn't wrap his mind around it.

[rivalsweetscent]

It was something you'd get used to eventually, Kanji.

Bulba settled back down besides him, fanning out his leaves with a little puff of pollen. Oh man it was totally a whole lot sweet smelling over here compared to all the other trees, but it wasn't really the same scent as the rest of the cherry blossoms. Oh spring. You were definitely a time.

The Ivysaur looked over at the human, giving him a distinctly inquisitive look. There was a rumble of a growling noise that sounded remarkably like a question all on its own. What's up?

[findthepenguin]

Yep. This was still really weird. But man, it really did smell nice. It wasn't one of those artificial nice smells either, like perfume or air freshener or something. It was a genuinely beautiful spring fragrance, like someone stuck a bunch of hyacinths under Kanji's nose.

Since this was a new environment, though, Kanji may develop allergies later, though he didn't consider that at the moment. And then Kanji became allergic to Bulba.

So when Bulba made the inquisitive growl toward him, Kanji had no idea what to say. The Bulba creature looked awfully adorable, he had to say, like a cute little puppy or something. But this wasn't a puppy - this was the guy he had lunch with a couple weeks ago.

"So uh... nice day, huh?"

[rivalsweetscent]

OOPS... Maybe it was just hay fever okay.

Yes he was a super adorable, bright green puppy. Fall for all of his sparkly sweetness and charm, who could resist. You wanted to give him all of the head pats, didn't you? Didn't you?

WELL TOO BAD because even though Bulba would have actually been all over the acquisition of headpats, he knew that it was pretty weird to have a conversation with a guy that only talked in grumbling noises you couldn't understand. They weren't quite at a point in their newly developing friendship that made it any easier to understand the Ivysaur. Maybe some other time. And so, knowing that, Bulba stretched out again on the grass.

A poof later, it was a very human Bulba laying stomach-down on the grass instead. He crossed his arms under his chin, turning his head to give Kanji a small smile.

"It is pretty nice!"

[findthepenguin]

When Bulba transformed he remained naked oops.

Whoa. Kanji was taken aback. He immediately scooted back when there was a big poof. Then Bulba appeared in his regular form-- no, this wasn't his regular form. His regular form was the creature thing. But this was the form Kanji knew him in.

"Whoa."

Yes, that's all he could manage at the second.

"That's... Wow. Never seen anyone do that before."

[rivalsweetscent]

He has gotten more polite but this used to be the case. Check out the spots on his butt.

"Oh, really? Oops."

Bulba shook some of the cherry blossom petals out of his hair and wiggled his fingers in the grass. "Surprise...! I guess."

[findthepenguin]

Kanji managed to emit a nervous laugh in response.

"Ha ha... It's cool. I always wondered how you guys transformed anyway."

Although all it was was just a weird "poof" so Kanji didn't actually know how it was done. But at least he witnessed it.

[rivalsweetscent]

Yeah it was kind of a cop-out, huh.

"Everybody kind of does it a little differently. Some people use items for it, there's a thing you can get when you're a Pokemon that teaches you a move for it... A lot of people just use the concentration method. Uh, that just means we think about it really hard, haha."

[findthepenguin]

"Huh... okay..."

This was still really confusing. Kanji knew he wasn't a Pokemon so he wouldn't be able to transform, but still.

"So, you think if I concentrated hard enough, I could turn into a Pokemon," he asked with a wry smile.

[rivalsweetscent]

Bulba smirked back. "Maybe."

Then again... "I think there was a class like that at some point, actually."

[findthepenguin]

Kanji managed to laugh at that. Yeah, fat chance in hell. Although... didn't that big burly teacher guy turn into a Charizard or something? Kanji couldn't remember. It was just weird.

"Man, really? I can't even imagine!"

Although, he remembered what Bulba said about switching bodies. Maybe it was more possible than he thought.

"Is there a class for switching bodies too?"

[rivalsweetscent]

Well, Kanji, maybe you'd get your chance eventually.

Bulba wrinkled his nose a little. "No! Or... not yet, anyway. I think people might go wild with power with that one, haha."

[findthepenguin]

Kanji, like any man, would secretly want to switch bodies with a girl just for a day just to see what it was like. But there was no way he was going to bring that up.

"Yeah, everyone would get all mixed up, ha ha."

He wanted to say something along the lines of how it would at least be fun, but he thought it might be a sore point for Bulba, so he refrained from saying so.

"But hey, there's a lot of cool classes here. A lot of stuff you couldn't take back home, like armed weaponry and stuff."

[rivalsweetscent]

It certainly had the potential to be a good time when you weren't switching into your rival that you were having childish feuds with or falling in love with for a day to make out with while you were still in each other's bodies and....

Yeah okay maybe it was a sore point.

Bulba nodded a long. "Yeah! Though... what kind of stuff did you have back home?" Bulba sounded genuinely curious. This had been the only school experience he had ever had so he had nothing to compare it to.

[findthepenguin]

"Huh? You know, the usual. Boring classes like math, English, history... That kind of stuff."

Kanji was a smart guy, but he just hated putting effort into those subjects. Besides, it was so much more fun to put effort into fighting. He wasn't going to bring up how he failed out of his last school because he skipped class all the time and never did his work. Also there was the whole murder thing going on, but nobody needed to know about that either.

[rivalsweetscent]

Don't ever bring that up, Kanji. Bulba would totally be on your ass oh baby if he knew. It was his job. To be on your ass.

"Ohh, okay. All the basic things then."

Bulba rolled over onto his back so he could look straight up into the fluffy pink foliage over head. "This is the only school I've ever been too. It's interesting to hear about other ones."

[findthepenguin]

Kanji nodded, looking down at Bulba. He really blended in well with the springtime blossoms, didn't he? Kanji didn't know why. Well, maybe he sort of did. He had a giant flower on his back, after all, in both forms.

"Yeah? This is by far the most different one I've been to. I always thought all other schools in the world were just like the same kind of boring one I was used to - lots of studying for really boring subjects. So, uh... You're kinda lucky, I guess, that this is the only school you've experienced."

Well. Given the strange things that happen in this school, maybe not. But Kanji hadn't been here long enough to really determine such.

[rivalsweetscent]

Laying amongst the dirt and the grass felt right at home. It was no wonder he looked the part too. Bulba idly curled his fingers through the fresh, young shoots of grass.

"Hmm... I guess so." Bulba might have questioned that, being the one that had been there for a while. At times all he wanted was a breath of something purely normal again. Things had been much simpler before they had come to the school. But if he really thought about it, Bulba couldn't say for sure how much blame he could really put on the school, and how much really came from the fact that they had all developed their own growing pains?

... Yeah, no, all the crazy stuff certainly didn't help.

"... I've definitely learned a lot, that's for sure."

[findthepenguin]

Kanji wasn't sure if what Bulba said had a hidden meaning to it or anything, but he didn't put much thought into it. He didn't know the guy or his past or anything, so he just assumed it meant his classes.

"Huh, that's good I guess. This school seems to have more practical applications than my other one."

He leaned back propping himself up on his elbows. Yeah, math and science barely had any applications in real life, but fighting on the other hand seemed to jive well with him. Especially given that he had to do a lot of fighting in order to save lives.

[rivalsweetscent]

"Yeah, I know what you mean." Even if he had spent a lot of time and effort getting good grades in those other classes as well as the more hands on ones, when was Bulba ever actually going to use any of it? Probably not very often.

He shifted his head a little to look over at Kanji. "I hope you get a good experience out of it." It was a sincere sentiment. Bulba didn't know anything about Kanji's background either, so for all he knew he was just a completely normal guy with a completely normal background. Even while he knew there was a high chance that wasn't entirely the case, seeing who usually attended the school, he just couldn't say for sure. He hoped Kanji wouldn't find himself stuck in a big mess here.

[findthepenguin]

"Thanks, man," he responded, also in a sincere manner. He had a feeling he would have a good experience at this school. Things in his life had already gotten much better, although that wasn't just due to the school. That was due to what happened in Inaba, and of course Senpai. He was relieved that the murders had been solved, not only in Inaba, but here at this school as well.

"I'm glad that the whole murder thing here seems to have been resolved too," he said. "It's not the most pleasant thing just coming to a school and knowing that some murderer's been on the loose."

[rivalsweetscent]

Bulba frowned just a little. "Yeah, it's really not. I'm glad it's fairly resolved too. Things were pretty... tense." That was one way to put it. "It was definitely a weird time for anyone to show up." The Ivysaur bit back the need to apologize for it on behalf of the school or something. No, he didn't have anything to do with that and it wasn't his place.

A petal fell near his mouth and Bulba absently nibbled on it. "I'm still not sure how comfortable I feel with him doing community service stuff in the greenhouse..."

[findthepenguin]

Kanji wasn't sure how he felt about that either. Murdering a bunch of people usually got one at least a life sentence in jail, not some frilly community service.

"Yeah, I don't blame you," he said. "The guy should be rotting in jail."

He thought distantly of [spoiler for P4 murderer] Adachi and how he hoped he would never leave the jailhouse. Ever. Unless it was for capital punishment or something. In many ways, Caim was worse, having killed more people, but Kanji didn't know the exact circumstances.