Finding Home

[Suyu Kitazawa]

It had been a bit since Suyu dyed his hair a lighter shade of brown. It was slowly going back to being black in color and many were mistaking him for someone else. Some kids didn't even recognize that it was him. He had been dying his hair since his fourth year and had grown fond of it. But with the realization of graduation soon, he knew he would also have to grow up and find big and better things to do.

The seventh year was settled under a tree on the grounds, his sketch book in hand. His speciality had always been art, but he had to now face the reality that he wouldn't exactly get to go far once out of school with any of his artistic ability. His mother had already sent him a long letter regarding that. So the boy was savoring his last couple weeks of being able to draw. It was really upsetting that drawing would have to be pushed off to the side and he would have to get a real job.

"Stupid pencil," Suyu didn't know why he was so frustrated with everything, but he was. He chucked his sketch pad off to the side as he drew his knees up to his chest and wrapped his arms around them. He just stared off into space, his mind just zoning out. But he was startled when a voice spoke to him.

[Christian Kennedy]

"Hey now! Don't abuse the pencil." Christian said with a snigger as he walked up, smiling warmly and saying "Hey Suyu, what's up?" There were not many people who could get smiles out of Christian, but Suyu was one of them - though the events of the last few days were certainly working in the boy's favor. Settling quietly into a seat beside the other boy, Christian asked "So, what's been doing?"

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu glanced at Christian, blinking at seeing the other seventh year out and about. At least the person coming over wasn't one of his brothers nor was it some student he didn't know. "Trying to draw... But it's going horribly." The teen sighed. He was just too distracted to draw anything anyway. He didn't even know why he was still taking his art classes to begin with. What was he going to do with them? Nothing. They wouldn't matter in the end when he graduated. "What brings you outside? Just to enjoy the nice day?"

[Christian Kennedy]

Christian smirked and looked at Suyu's sketchpad before saying jokingly "Well, I wouldn't quit your dayjob mate." snickering at his joke before patting Suyu on the back and saying "Everyone has their off days, don't worry about it." Christian couldn't draw to save his life, so he really was in no position to make fun of Suyu's drawing, even if it was utterly horrendous. "More or less." Chrisitan said with a grin, "It is quite nice out isn't it?"

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu just quietly shook his head when Christian told him not to quit his dayjob. "I seem to be having more of them every day lately." His grades in art were actually suffering due to it, regardless of the fact Professor Johnson never seemed to say a word and tried to help him get through the slump, or whatever you wanted to call this. "I guess it is," his words were muttered. He hadn't actually been paying attention much to the weather or any of his surroundings since he got outside. It could have become cloudy or freezing cold for all her knew. He had been preoccupied by his lousy art project.

[Christian Kennedy]

Christian sniggered at Suyu's words before replying "Yes, that certainly sounds about right to me." Christian himself had so many things going on that he barely even knew where to begin sorting through them all. Honestly he had so many things to do he barely even had time to do anything for fun!

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu didn't know whether to crack a smile or what, but he couldn't hold back when one wanted to come through. He glanced at the other seventh year, quite curious. "What will you be doing after you graduate? Ministry?" He was curious as to what others would be doing. Maybe it could give him some idea as to what he wanted to do with life. So long he just had the goal of just getting by and surviving the torture of Garth and his gang. But now that he would be able to escape that... He was clueless about where he wanted to go now.

[Christian Kennedy]

Christian stuck out his tongue and replied "Eugh, god no! If there's one thing I'm sure of it's that I'm never going to have anything to do with that place!" His friends would bring that comment up a lot to make fun of him in future years, but for the moment Christian was dead set in his conviction that the Bureau was not for him!

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu laughed. "If you end up at the Ministry, I'm going to laugh and remind you of this day." There was something about the other that made him finally give in to his mood changing for the better. He couldn't just sit around with a dark cloud over his head all day. He just had to figure out what he was going to do. "Alright, so if you're not doing Ministry, what are you going to do?" Su was still trying to think about what he wanted to do. He'd probably leave the States if it was up his alley.

[Christian Kennedy]

Christian laughed and stuck out his tongue as he replied "That's about as likely as me sprouting wings or something." finding the very thought to be utterly amusing. "I really don't know." Christian replied honestly "Probably something down South, get as far away from all of this as I possibly can." Christian paused and asked "And you?" somewhat nervous about the answer.

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu laughed. It was great to be able to joke and just be carefree. It was nice. The teen had long since forgotten about the stress of this being his last year. At least... That was until Christian asked him about his plans. Su just shook his head, frowning. "I don't know what to do. I'm not particularly good at anything." He was pretty average. He excelled in art but there was no realistic job where he could put that to use. Most jobs wanted good magical skills, and he was pretty much average in that category.

[Christian Kennedy]

"That's not true, you're good at loads of stuff!" Christian replied, quite upset that Suyu would put himself down like this. Admittedly he could not think off of the top of his head what Suyu's skills were exactly, but he was sure that the other boy had to have some!

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu shook his head. "I can't think of a thing. Can you?" He didn't really mean to put the other on the spot, but he really couldn't think of a thing. He had mediocre grades. He hadn't been particular good at much to begin with. His brothers could probably get jobs anywhere they wanted to, they had direction. Su had just been determined to live to see graduation and had been pretty much directionless.

[Christian Kennedy]

"Well, for starters you're a darn fair bit smarter than you like us to think you are." Christian said, shoving Suyu jokingly, never having been able to understand why Suyu was so determined to make other people think that he was clueless. "And music...you're really good with music."

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu paused for a minute before bursting out laughing. "Seriously, Christian? Did you just say music?" Sure, the other probably didn't realize his mistake and that made it hilarious to Su. "I was an Art student, not a music student." And there wasn't much you could do with Art in the real world. Art had been something he could do as a type of therapy to combat every last urge of his OCD to make everything imperfect.

[Christian Kennedy]

Christian waved a hand dismissively and said "Art....music...there's not really any difference is there?" It didn't seem to him that there was much of a difference between the two. "Anyways, back to the point. We can totally think of something!"

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu frowned at the words and just stared at Christian. He wanted to point out that there was a huge difference, but just sighed. There seriously wasn't much difference in the fact both had a hard time finding jobs. He doubted many who wanted to go through with finding a job in the arts would find a job. They'd all probably end up in Retail, further education, or off at the Ministry. And boy did Suyu not want to end up at the Ministry. It wasn't right for him and he would surely get fired right away anyway.

"There really isn't anything out there."

[Christian Kennedy]

"Oh don't think like that! There's something, there always is!" Christian said with confidence. He was getting pretty good at this whole speech, having had to give it to two younger brothers in his time - though he had never thought that he would be giving it to anyone else. Who'd have thought that Suyu would be in need of a confidence boost from him? Usually it was the other way around.

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu couldn't help but shrug. "I'm mediocre in grades. Soyu was the brains. Seyu had the strength. And me... I'm the average one." He wasn't graced with anything except a gentle personality. It was any wonder that he was still alive with all he was put through. He probably should have died last year, too. And yet he was alive and struggling to figure out what he wanted to do with life. And all he was coming up with was a blank.

[Christian Kennedy]

"Oh come off it! I know you have things you're good at Suyu, you're not fooling anyone, least of all me!" Christian insisted, eying the boy with something between amusement and annoyance. Suyu's insistence on getting down on himself was fairly depressing, but it was so typical that it just amused him.

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu was quiet as he tried to think about things that he liked to do, about things he was good at. "Do you think that I would be good enough to write for a newspaper or magazine or something?" He didn't know if they would accept someone like him. However, he knew he liked to write and it was something he was good at. He knew there were all sorts of publications around the world and he was sure he could find something that had the same interests that he had.

[Christian Kennedy]

Christian smiled when Suyu finally came to something, and immediately replied "Yes! Yes I do think that you're good enough!" And he did, he really did! Suyu was his friend, and Christian was going to support him in whatever it was that he was going to shoot for, and if that was being a writer in a newspaper or magazine of some sort, then more power to him for shooting for his dreams!

[Suyu Kitazawa]

Suyu felt weird suddenly thinking that there was something he was able to do. It actually excited him. He liked to write, although he wasn't even sure what type of magazines were out there that he could write for. But he was sure he would be able to find one that interested him.

But the teen noticed that the sun was starting to set so he got to his feet with a sigh. "I guess we should head inside and get ready for dinner." His brothers would be trying to find him if he wasn't at dinner and that was someone no one wanted to see happen, as Soyu and Seyu tended to tear things apart and interrogate people if he seemed to be missing. It was the unlucky side of being the youngest of triplets.

Su made sure he had all of his things before heading indoors, with Christian if he decided to head to the meal hall. If the other decided to stay outdoors for a bit, Su just shrugged and decided to head to eat on his own.

[Christian Kennedy]

"Alright, let's head in." Christian replied with a nod, getting to his feet and following Suyu inside. He wasn't going to let this matter die - not by a long shot - but he supposed that he could at the very least put a fork in his thoughts for the time being. He would bring it up again at a later time.