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I don't care. I kinda like it, I guess? I dunno.

[he does, but the words escape him. It's new, yes, but somehow it's... familiar? Familiar as the way their breathing falls into synch just when they're near each other. Familiar as each other's heartbeats, somehow.]

Mmmh. It's fine - you're fine. And if I tickle you with mine, I'm sorry.

We should figure out how to drive these things - if we can drive these things.

[The wagging seems to intensify.] Yeah, I get it. Yours is fine, too. I like yours. It's a good accessory. [A fanged grin spreads across his face, not scheming or playful. Just simply happy. They can be different but everything about Kaoru still feels familiar.]

If you can figure out how to move yours...what if it's like a monkey tail? And you can grab things?

You have your boas - I guess I have this. Though it seems too fluffy to be able to use like a monkey's tail...

[screwing up his face a moment as he tries. Mmm - no. Maybe with time and practice, though?]

I guess it would be fun to have an extra hand? I already have twice as many as the average person, though.

[the perks of being a twin - sometimes he barely even needs to explain what help he needs]

I'll practice every day, how about that? I really just wanna freak Tono out with it.

You could make him think the place is haunted! This place is so strange as it is, you know? I bet you could figure out how to do it!

[There's a laugh that comes from Hikaru but it sounds more like a barking kind of chuckle. Not too distracting since he's not laughing a lot.]

It's totally long enough that you could do it.

Oh my god if we could...!

[Then he definitely needs to practice!]

We need to start seeding it early, then - maybe we can tell him we heard some kind of ghost story among the Prismals? I'm not sure we can get away with the house being haunted but we might be able to pass if off as Tono being haunted himself...

I mean, Halloween's coming.

[THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH SO MUCH.]

[Oh no, this is scrounging up all kinds of good ideas...]

We can say there's ghosts of prismals past who are attracted to good-looking people to moonlace with. [It's getting Tamaki right where it hurts: his vanity.]

Some ghost followed him home or something. Or maybe more than one did. [Maybe it's pushing it but come on, this could be amazing.]

Naughty and Nice! [that could work with both their tails!] The devil and the angel on his shouder, so to speak - or the back of his neck...!

We have to work on this - we need as many options available. But that could be fun...

Yes! We can say his mind invited them. He must have been thinking of something that invited them in...

[He's such a pervert that it would work. Even if he pretends he isn't.

He looks back at his tail.] Might be harder with my tail. It's shorter than yours. We'd have to do it when he's sitting. Or brush it along something else?

Smack in the ass?

[that could work - if they could both be subtle about it.]

He would probably believe that, too, if we told him he invited them accidentally! It could be that he was thinking ~bad thoughts~ or-- what if he invited them trying to do good?

[Either would confuse him, he considers himself such a bastion of virtue...]

There are totally yokai like that - I bet Tono would even tell kuchisake-onna she was beautiful...!

You think he could feel that? [Is his tail still wagging? Looking back, he sees that it is. Probably because he's excited about their schemes. He puts his hand in the way and it is enough to be felt. If they can learn to control these appendages then maybe this could work!]

You know, you're right. He would. Smack in the ass would work, too, because look at this weird perverted place! We could say he did tell some yokai they were attractive. He probably tells any girl he runs into how beautiful she is at any given time.

And the best part is he probably wouldn't know yokai at all! He's pretty blind when it comes to this stuff!

So for his toying with people's emotions, he gets toyed with in return - that's definitely a better fate than bifurcation! And this continues until, what? Does he have to carry out some kinda penalty or is it just until the spirits are appeased?

[read: until the Hitachins get bored.]

The spirits are appeased, he's learned his lesson, et cetera et cetera...[He waves a hand carelessly which means that yes, it's until they just get bored.]

But that means controlling these things? [He looks back again and he's still wagging his tail. Trying to stop it hardly does anything.]

That's the harder part probably.

Indeterminate time period, got it, got it...

[and it's more fun that way - easier to string along if there are no clear-cut conditions to be filled. Lifting his head to look where Hikaru is, resting it back down with a chuckle when he realises why he looked]

Well, maybe there will be some times they can't be controlled. But even if they can't be controlled at all, we won't know without practicing?

[Hikaru rolls his eyes and his tail stops wagging. Not because he actually wanted it to but it just did. It was still affected by his own emotion and he's mostly just exasperated by tails and how they seemingly have a mind of their own.]

Well you definitely want to get your tail under control. It's so long. Who knows where that thing could end up? [And that's kind of amusing and he grins, making sure not to laugh because he doesn't want to do that weird hyena laugh thing he does when he's like this.]

As long as you don't roll onto it in the night it shouldn't be a problem.

[there is a slight shudder at the thought of being knocked off the bed with his tail pinned under Hikaru. That could only be uncomfortable...]

But if worst comes to worst that can be our excuse? "Sorry, Tono, my tail just went and moved on its own, it must be possessed!"

[He's envisioning a similar thing and wincing.] We need a bigger bed. [So they have both said a few dozen times now but will they get the new bed?

Who knows because there's still sewing machines and more fabric...]

We just have to be careful and say it's some other yokai or then we'll be hearing more about how immoral we are. [He rolls his eyes because:] But we're the ones with all the chroma here.

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I'm sorry I was slow to get round to this X'D

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