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[ Hey Chizuru. Are you up early?

Well, regardless of whether or not she is, Souji's gonna be knocking on her door. Here's to hoping that no one else finds him before she opens the door, eep. ]

[Well, Chizuru supposes this is better than him sitting over her bedside like a creeper like he did that one time...]

Coming! [She keeps her voice low, and only cracks the door a bit--there's only so many people it could be, though--and peers out.]

Okita-san?

Hi.

[ He gives her a small smile. ]

Do you have a sec?

[Chizuru opens the door wider and takes a step back, gesturing in with a wave of the hand.]

Please, come in...?

[ And he does just that. Except before he says anything, he throws a glance at the door.

close that gurl ]

[She has a habit of closing the door behind the captains anyway. Usually if they seek her out it's something they didn't want to bring up over dinner, so a little privacy was in order.]

Is everything alright?

I'm fine. [ And it's very implied that he won't take any prying about himself. don't even try!!! ]

I need to ask you something. What year was it before you came here?

[Chizuru blinks at the suddenness of the question - seemingly out of nowhere.]

Fourth year of the Keiou era...why?

[ ...The fourth. Already?

He never asked Heisuke when he was from or what happened, mostly because it just never came up. But now, with Hijikata so drastically different...

Giving her a wry smile, ] That's pretty far in the future. [ Especially considering he doesn't even know if he'll be able to live at home for another 3 years ] So you'd probably be able to explain what's up with Hijikata-san, then?

[Chizuru tilts her head curiously.] With Hijikata-san? You mean...[She reaches back to her neck and gestures with a hand to indicate a change in hair length.]

[ Nods slowly. He'd include the clothes, but he's guessing the outfit came with the hairdo.

Not to mention how old he looks... ]

[Chizuru shifts her weight uncomfortably onto one foot, and folds her arms tightly across her chest.]

Honestly, I don't really know. We were on a ship to Edo when I woke up here. And everything--well, almost everything was how you remember it...

[Except for Yamazaki and Inoue...but she wasn't sure if it was her place to tell him.]

But Heisuke-kun seems to be close to my time, too, isn't he? Has he filled in any of the gaps for you?

Hm. [ Is his only response to that first part. So Hijikata must've gotten his haircut and his wrinkles after the boat to Edo in Keiou 4. That also means he must be from a time further along than at least three of them.

On that note-- ]

No, we haven't gotten around to it. [ As in, they never bothered. ]

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[Sup Chizuru. Are you sick of this whole "the captains all have issues and come interrupt and/or wake me up in the middle of the night to talk about them and/or threaten me depending on the day" thing?

Well I sure hope not! Because here's one now! Knocking on your door because you weren't anywhere else in the house.

Technically it's not the middle of the night, and lucky for you, because what is Hijikata's sleep schedule even. It's after dinner, though, hope she's still awake...?

So, yeah. Knock knock!]

[It's a good thing Chizuru isn't sick of it! --but honestly, couldn't she ever, really? Even if she could, she won't. Not if she knows what's good for her.

It's a good thing it's not the middle of the night, otherwise Hijikata would find Chizuru in a state of undress. Luckily she'd yet to even get her things together to bathe, so there was little delay in her answering the door.]

Eh?! [It was the best thing Chizuru could come up with through the initial shock of seeing Hijikata at her bedroom door. What could he possibly want? And why would he come to her room to talk to her? Knowing his view on propriety and 'the way things ought to be,' wouldn't he have preferred to speak with her over dinner or in...well, a not-bedroom place?] Hi-Hijikata-san..?

[Well, that was a little better.]

[Wow, Chizuru. Real smooth. He sort of just blinks at her obvious shock. Not that he can blame her...this is probably the first time he's actually done this, isn't it? But oh well this is important!!

But yes, propriety and such, so he won't be actually entering her room ~~unlike that creeper Souji~~. Instead, he just pretends nothing about this is weird and asks:]

Do you have a minute?

[That's Chizuru. One smooth operator. She blinks out of her tizzy of questions.] Oh! O-of course!

[She opens the door wider, but doesn't step out close enough to determine if there's anyone in the hallway - but surely Hijikata's already taken care of that, right?]

What is it?

[....You know what? He can't do it. He can't just storm into a girl's room like he owns it. Or at least not this one's. That is weird and creepy and not what someone of your rank should be doing Toshizo why are you thinking about this stop.

So, taking her answer as a "yes," he turns to the side, leaving the doorway clear.]

Let's take a walk.

[He's using that we need to talk tone, Chizuru.]

[Oh dear. That didn't sound pleasant at all. The tension that had left Chizuru at the thought of taking a bath came rushing back, and she stiffly stepped out into the hallway.

She hadn't...she hadn't done anything wrong, so why was her stomach suddenly in knots?] Is everything alright, Hijikata-san?

[She wasn't sure if she wanted to know the answer, but she couldn't just--well, she could just let him talk, but that might just make things even more unpleasant.]

I'll explain. [He's already checked and double-checked that everyone was out, or otherwise occupied. So hopefully, no interruptions were in order.

He heads to the living room, trusting she'll follow before stopping to look out the window, waiting for her to catch up.]

[It doesn't take long for her to catch up. As always, Chizuru is on Hijikata's heels, pausing only at the entrance to the living room to look things over before letting herself in.

She followed Hijikata over to the window, following his gaze outside to see what was out there that would demand his attention.]

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[Nothing in particular, he's just avoiding looking at her is all. So he continues looking outside when he speaks.]

I...might have screwed up.

[Well, this conversation was all of ten words or so thus far, and as of now every single one of them that came from Hijikata's mouth out-did the other in the realm of surprise.]

Screwed up? [She hadn't seen him do anything wrong, and the others seemed perfectly fine. He must be imagining things, but she won't go so far as to say so just yet. He wouldn't believe her unless he was given the opportunity to explain.] How so?

[He sighs. For a second he wonders, not for the first time, if he should even be talking about this.

Buuut it'd be sort of hard to back out now. So.]

I haven't told anyone about this, but...there's a miko in the village. Hino Rei.

The night I got here, I showed up in her house. Scared her pretty bad, I guess, because--

[Hold on! Sidetrack. This time he turns and actually looks at her, seeming more than a little irritated.] Did you know miko actually have...powers? Some kind of spiritual garbage?

[He isn't the only one who thought they were all a sham, right?]

Ah! Hino-san! [Chizuru's eyes lit up in recognition.] Yes, we spoke quite a bit after that incident, actually...

[She smiles brightly.] I don't think you have too much to worry about! She says there are all kinds of types in this place. I doubt you were the first person she threw an ofuda on.

[She almost wants to laugh about it, looking back on it now--but Hijikata appeared genuinely concerned about the whole thing.] I don't think all miko do, but onmyouji, miko--a lot of them have connection to the supernatural, don't they?