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[ a female computer generated voice: ] This is the voicemail of-- [ a lower, obviously male and very much real voice: ] Haaaah, say my name? For wh-- [ the loud thud of something falling on the ground, then a half-muffled curse before the computer voice returns. ] Please leave a message after the beep.

[ either leave a voice message, call him, or send him a text! ]

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[regives]

[ It better be a mix of both, but the look she gives him aims to have him more worried than surprised. ]

Nothing wrong, are you kidding me? Look at you, you're practically walking around half naked. [ The irritation is clear in her voice, brows furrowing as her hands are already busy with buttoning up his shirt. ] You can't even do this.. make sure you're watching so I don't have to do it again, alright?

[ Like a mother scolding her child, really. ]

Even if you don't wear clothes like this back home, it's good to know how to at least on while you're here. You can't just keep wearing the same thing over and over again.

[ Once she's done buttoning his shirt all there's left is zipping up his pants which.. causes her to hesitate. She scoffs, hoping that the obvious signs of irritation makes Shinpachi oblivious to how she's blushing enough to make her ears red. ] This is simple, too, see..

[ Zipper up. Buttoned. Done. ]

Not hard at all.

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[ He's just staring at her the entire time she's working on his clothes and rambling on.. but honestly, the words aren't reaching his ears, he's not doing much listening here. Instead he's focusing on the feeling of her hands buttoning up his shirt, zipping up his pants.. there's something odd about it that he can't quite place, but it takes over all of his thoughts, leaving him unable to really consider anything else.

It's only when she finishes talking that he realises that crap, he should have been paying attention, and he quickly fumbles to speak up. ]

Uh.. yeah. Of course. [ Agreeing is usually pretty safe. Sounds good, right? Yeah. Totally. ]

I'll..

[ .. shit, what does he say now? ]

.. keep that in mind.

[ Nailed it. ]

You sure you're doing 'kay though, Leanne-chan? Your face's sorta red.. you don't have a fever or anything, right?

[regives]

[ Because she's going to believe him given a reply like that. Sure. ]

Were you even listening? Seriously, we're going to be here all day if you don't--

[ But then he mentions her face being red, and immediately she's glancing over to the mirror to see that she was indeed blushing. Even if she did feel it there to the point that it almost hurt, a part of her didn't want to believe it; she was blushing because of Shinpachi of all people. ]

I'm fine, r-really.. ! I don't have a fever, you're just imagining things.

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There's no way I'm just imagining anything here! [ Unfortunately he has zero sense of exactly how unhelpful he's being here.. he just thinks Leanne is trying to hide the fact that something is wrong with her, and although he might let some of his friends and soldiers get away with it, girls are a different matter entirely.

So Shinpachi's already leaning a little closer to her (and winces a little, damn, these western clothes are tight and inconvenient as hell, that's for sure) with a frown to scrutinize her. ]

You got hurt pretty badly last time, maybe it's still 'cause of that. Here, lemme feel.

[ Moving his hand towards her forehead... ]

[regives]

[ No. No. No. No. No.

She's not doing this, she can't do this. While he's leaning closer she can feel her heart racing in her chest and it feels like it could just burst at any second, which makes matters worse when she sees his hand reaching for her forehead. ]

No!

[ And she's quickly ducking away, taking a step back and reaching behind her for the door. One, two.. three unsuccessful tries of getting her hand on the actual door knob and she's finally rushing out and slamming it behind her. ] J-Just hurry up and get back in your clothes!

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[ . . . . . . . .

What just happened. No, seriously. What just happened. Because Shinpachi sure can't keep up with this train of thought going on here, and he just.. stares for a few moments as he watches her retreat out of the blue. It was almost like she seemed embarrassed rather than sick, considering that amount of energy she put into it, but..

Well, what does she have to be embarrassed about, nothing weird going on here, right?

Cue the long struggle with zippers and buttons by himself before they finally get back to their shopping trip, honestly.. ]