@Mick:
Toukan almost blushed more at being laughed at, which was probably a reaction to spotting the reddening of his face to begin with. It wasn't like he could help it. Not like he'd known that portal would cause...this. The blush wasn't a reaction of "oh shit I'm naked" so much as a reaction of "oh shit I'm naked in public." Hopefully no one else was around, because he really would blush more then.

Ice-colored eyes flicked over at the question almost of their own accord. Perhaps not the best idea, but he couldn't help it any more than he could help blushing. Especially when he did appreciate the view.

"...Don't worry. Don't worry,"

He repeated, trying to soothe things over a bit. Then he put on his best smile and said, warmly,

"I just want to relax a while -- I've been feeling down, and I just want to take a break, and think about other things. Until I get sufficiently drunk on berries. Then I will cry like a baby, and feel better for it. But stage one of that relaxing...Is getting you proper payback for that splash."

Scape was probably the only person he could admit to feeling down to, these days. Well, not the only... But not far from it. But, well... Aw, he'd probably just say it all later today, so why think it now? In the meanwhile, he did a much better job of thrashing his antlers in the water to splash his friend and restore the mood.

"I got a great view to~," Kylar smirked as he saw the blush that spread across Toukan's cheeks grew even fiercer. He walked past Toukan making sure to give him a "great" view of himself and then grabbed the clothes from the trees and then walked back down towards his boyfriend, slipping his arms around him and going in for a quick kiss, simultaniously moving the hand with the clothing in it so that Toukan could take the ones that he had brought for him.

Seed grinned and turned around.

"Ah, but you left your defenses wide open.... For this!"

He bucked up a wave of water, then pranced a little out of the way, trying to get ready to dodge Scape's inevitable counter-attack.

@Seed:
Scape sputtered as water splashed high enough to hit his face.

It's on now! he thought, deciding on a different tactic - bodyslamming the water!

Kylar smirked, he had indeed made a reservation at a restaurant that he had had to hunt for ages for. He had found a restaurant that had a minty option for every course. He hadn't realised how hard that was to find, it seemed that most places had only a couple across their entire menu, but only this one had one for every course. He assumed that Toukan would appreciate that given how much his boyfriend loved the stuff. Kylar liked it as much as the next person but he failed to see the appeal to the extent that Toukan did.
"Guess it would," Kylar said. His iPhone had been placed in the jeans pocket that he lifted, he pulled it out to check the time. They still had just over an hour to travel to the restaurant so they could go pretty slowly, and this time they wouldn't need a taxi. Kylar's wallet, also in his pocket contained his newly recieved driving liscence and he and Kahlan had been saving some of their money for a long time and had managed to get a car. It wasn't brilliant, just a little Vauxhall Corsa, but still, it was their own transport.

Seed tried dodging, but still got soaked. So, he did the only reasonable way to escalate the war. He quietly, with a clever little smile, walked some distance away. Then he turned around... The light in his golden eyes was fiendish as he raced towards the water. Then, a few moments before he would have jumped to clear the river, he jumped. And turned, so the bulk of him would hit the water, and folded up his legs.

"Cannon-ball!"

Giant wave ensued, though he was too wet to see it.

Seed tried to collect a few of the dislodged flowers back onto his antlers, and straightened out his mask. He laughed at Scape's comment as he pulled himself onto the shore, his joints aching from the shock of cold.

"I admit, this could have been better thought-out... I think we'll have to declare the result of this splash was as a draw on account of mutual wetness."

@Seed:
Water droplets flew as the blue stag shook off the excess water from his back - probably pointless since he was still standing in the river and might get wet again, especially if he went near the twin waterfalls.

"Sounds like a good idea."

[I can't think of anything else to add. ^^; ]

[ Maaaan Kinsha and Sax need to meet inforest sometime |: Ninja + assassin/thief/agent = win. ]

Kylar's eyes widened little before he raised his palm to his forehead, chuckling a little at his own forgetfulness. He had forgotten to bring the cane, fairly often forgot about it as well. Toukan didn't use it that much when he was around, but then he knew that the other would like to use it if they had a distance to walk, and they did have a little bit to walk before they got out of the forest and got back to his car to take them to dinner.
"Oh...sorry," Kylar said, his voice flicking up a little at the end. It was a trait that he wasn't sure if it was just common to Scottish people or just the ones that he knew. He hadn't heard many go up at the end of an apology like that, they usually went down or stayed flat, "Forgot to lift it."

"I'm all for that," Kylar smirked in response to that, he liked the idea of Toukan voluntarily remaining that close to him for the entire evening. He liked being able to have the other man close to him. Reminded him that Toukan wasn't just going to up and leave like some of the other people in his life had. That was good.

Kylar extended out one of his arms to take Toukan to lean against him so that they could walk together in comfort.
"Guess we better move then," Kylar smirked, "Though we have a fair amount of time, I made sure that there was plenty of time so there was time that you could finish up any business that you might have had."

He pulled the other the rest of the distance so that he could bring their lips together for a quick kiss to answer the other's question. That definitively being 'no'. He liked the fact that he had time to dawdle with his boyfriend. As he released the other, he let his arm rest on the other's back so that Toukan could lean both on it, and his actual body, hopefully meaning that he would be more comfortable.

Kylar took the first couple of steps, actually now beginning their journey to his car so that they could actually get on his promised date. He promised it would be good and could last all night...and it really could. Now that they lived together, it wasn't like either of them had to get home the next morning, or do anything really. They could just stay in their apartment...he smirked at the thought, their apartment. It hadn't really sunk in that well, that Toukan lived with him. Not just stayed with him a lot, actually lived there.

((Sorry for the delay. I just needed to take the phone off the hook and disapear for a while, as the song says))

Seed tried shaking himself off, sending flowers flying. He worried sometimes, about the way he seemed to shed them more and more these days.

"Alright, then...Want to just forgo the actual drinking portion of our drinks, and have some snacks instead?"

After all, Seed knew he had swallowed quite a bit of water over all that.

Kylar turned to Toukan, keeping the smirk on his face.
"I just mentally referred to it as 'our' apartment," He answered happily.

After a few minutes of walking, they were approaching the end of the woods, and Kylar's car came into view. He fished in his pocket for his keys, finding them easily. He gripped Toukan a little more, making it more like a walking cuddle, than Toukan being assissted in walking.

Kylar opened his car's lock, and walked to the passenger side, opening the door for his boyfriend like a well mannered gentleman. Kahlan had told him that was the mannerly thing to do and that's what he wanted to be like.
"Don't worry...I'm not a maniac," He said. He knew that the other might be worried. Men between the ages of 18 and 25 were higher risk of accidents than others he knew, but Kylar had trained well.

"...You really think I'd endanger my baby," He said, teasingly going closer to Toukan and then patting the car on 'baby' to show that he was jokingly in fact talking about the car. He then turned to walk around to his side of the small car.

Well, yes. Seed happily dove into the mound of blueberries. He took a few bites, mingling the sour unripe ones with the ripe ones that burst into clusters of juice on his tongue.


"You know, I meet a lot of people who've no interest in casual snacking like this... Isn't it odd? That they live in a world, but don't take much interest in what it really has to offer."

"That doesn't make it less sad... So... Thanks, buddy."

He admitted, with a warm smile. Because of people like Scape, he was able to enjoy the world in which he lived. So as he slowed down, chewing the next few (slightly over-ripe) berries, he was thinking about how to phrase what he meant.

"This world can be a lonely place if you're apreciating it alone, you know?"

No, that still wasn't right... But he was perhaps not drunk enough for exactly what he meant.

Kylar climbed into the car, sitting in the driver's seat that almost crushed his knees. It was not the best car for him to be driving, since he was so tall and the car wasn't greatly comfortable for someone over six feet tall but he managed regardless. He wasn't going to let a little discomfort stop him from driving his boyfriend around instead of having to taxi everywhere, although that did have the benefits of letting him drink and meaning he could cuddle Toukan in the car. The advantages of the car though was that he could go where he pleased, when he pleased and not stand out in the freezing cold waiting for the taxi to turn up - that could kill the romance of a date easily. He turned the keys, and began driving.

To describe Kylar's driving there was only one real word that could be used: normal. He drove just below speed limits, he made sure that there was nothing coming before pulling out, he changed gear when it needed changed. There was nothing special or noteworthy really at all about it. He had indeed, been well taught in the manner of how to drive.
"Feel better now that you know I'm not crazy?" He asked with his trademark smirk, the left corner of his mouth twitched upwards, the line at that side deepening, and because it was the smirk that he was giving to Toukan, a sense of heavy passion lit the fires beneath his azure eyes.

Kylar laughed a little before his quick wit returned to him and gave him his counter.
"Only cuz of you~" He said cheerily, "I'm crazy in love with you." He almost sang with another laugh of amusement as he continued driving, handling any situation that may have arisen, although the drive was fairly quiet, which meant that they were probably going to be a little early in arriving at the restaurant, but that was to be expected. Either that meant sitting a couple of minutes, or if they were lucky that meant nothing at all other than they might eat a little earlier. The place they were going to served primarily Italian food, but had incorporated the odd dish from other cultures, usually one per culture, and there was only four they had really incorporated beyond special event dishes, like Christmas lunches or the likes.

"Not far away now," Kylar muttered, not really to either of them, just as a passing comment and thought that went to his mouth instead of his brain.

Kylar stroked his boyfriend's hand gently between the shifting of gears and moving his hand back to the steering wheel. He could see the restaurant in the distance and sped up a little, he was bored of driving and watching Toukan out of the corner of his eye, made him want to give the other a cuddle, he looked rather cute like that, spacing and watching the scenery out of the window, absent to everything in the car really.