049 [Voice | Action]

[ahappylie]

Okita Souji - Cancer
• You will be asked to dance by a stranger wearing a sandwich board.
• Adopt a chicken.
• Your next Career: Pet Therapist
• Run! For God's sake, RUN!

[Well, that's odd, but if the journal says this is his new career, then so be it. Still!TinySouji will be wandering around with a normal chicken on a child harness leash. Talking to it. Like it's normal. Listening to its chickeny problems. also:]

If anyone has a pet who needs advice, my name is Okita Soujirou. Bring them to me.

Comments

[Voice]

[consultmybooks]

[...Okita Soujirou...

...okay, then, Luceti, fine. Autumn is apparently the season for small children.]

I don't suppose you can manage cats, can you?

Re: [Voice]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

....I could try so long as the chicken [cue said chicken clucking] doesn't mind.

[godbent]

[Soujirou. My chicken is much bigger than your chicken. Well okay Sekai is a rooster and a jersey giant so therefore the size of a small turkey with black plumage, but still. Someone else with a chicken??]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[Yup and a chicken on a child-harness leash. Soujirou stops when he sees Haruhi, staring up at her.]

....Do you need something?

[godbent]

What's with the leash?

[Well, that comes to mind first. Yeah :I]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

It tried to fly away.

[The chicken clucks and Soujirou sighs.]

And ran into a tree. It's better this way.

[godbent]

...Wow, what a dumb bird.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

...It's a bird. All birds are dumb.

[godbent]

Some birds aren't dumb - parrots, and Sekai.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

...What is a parrot?

...Sekai?

[godbent]

A parrot's a type of bird?

[AS for Sekai, she waves at her chicken]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[Oh. Sekai...Soujirou can handle. He looks at the chicken and tugs on his chicken's leash to keep it from going over that way. Because it certainly seems to want to. Dumb bird.

As for parrots...?]

...I've never seen one. We must not have them in my country. ...Why do you say they are smart?

[godbent]

Because they can learn human speech.

[Really...]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[UUUUUGH chicken. Why did he feel like he needed one of these. Soujirou leans over and presses its neck against the ground where the chicken goes prone and stops moving for a bit.]

I suppose that's smart. ...but it depends on what they have to say.

[Random subject change.]

How long have you had your chicken? ...and how do you teach them not to be so stupid.

[godbent]

Since he hatched.... I think it's been a year?

[She considers that and then looks down at Sekai. Sekai looks back up, densely. It's not necessarily that he isn't stupid, he's just ... obedient, as chickens go. With more dog-like behaviors]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[Soujirou sighs. There is no hope for his chicken then. This thing was just something he picked up off the farms because the horoscope said he had to.]

Oh, so you must be like his mother then. No wonder he is well behaved.

[godbent]

[...She beams at that. she should not be as proud of a little kid saying that than she is]

Y-you'll get there, I'm sure!

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[Get there? Wait, what? Soujirou stares up at Haruhi confused.]

....Do I have to get another chicken now?

[godbent]

No. Just make that one loyal!

[Suuuuh yeah that's what he meant clearly]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

...How do you breed loyalty in an animal that can barely remember not to eat itself to death?

[Also his chicken is trying to get back up so he's going to press it back against the ground again. The chicken flails for a moment, then goes quiet.]

....Or has a reaction like that.

[godbent]

[...Okay the kid has a point. She narrows her eyes and then looks at Sekai as if seeking his counsel. the bird cocks his head to the side and then looks at the other, smaller chicken. He considers going over a moment, it seems, and then thinks better, instead heaving into the snow nearby to see if there's anything to peck at in it]

...Point.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[Soujirou sighs and the chicken gets up, fluffing itself up and clucking before trying to wander off toward the trees. It gets partway there before the leash catches and then the bird starts making a lazy circle around them.]

....Perhaps it was unwise to listen to the journal and get a chicken. ...but abandoning it now would be rude.

[godbent]

Well where'd you get it? You could just give it back.

[But man, listening to the journal? Poor kid]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

...I found it alone on the farms. No one was there and the animals seem to be left to fend for themselves.

[godbent]

Oh, fair enough.

[...]

Well, maybe you can train it yet.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[Maybe. He crouches down and gets on the chicken's level, tugging the leash so it comes over.]

I've never had a pet before. ...are they difficult to train?

[godbent]

Well, you see people do it on TV all the time, and any idiot can train a dog, so how hard can it be?

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

...[TV? What...is that. He'll just skip over that part and...] I guess. ...Did you train Sekai?

[godbent]

A... little, I guess. I taught him about walking around with people and generally which rooms to stick to in the house.

[But that isn't much in her book]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, that's more than this chicken can do. Admittedly, Okita just went to the farm and stole it that morning, but still. Chicken is not that smart.]

....I wonder if this one will ever learn that.

[truthhides.livejournal.com]

A pet that needs advice?

GUESS WHO JUST GOT THIS NOTIF.WTF

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Yes. Pets need advice, too.