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Minoru dropped down, rolling his shoulders and shaking out his wrists. He's laughing too, because that was probably the coolest dismount he'd ever done off a skateboard. (And that thing was barely still a skateboard.)

"Oh man... That was epic!" he sauntered over to Aarne, holding out a hand for the drummer.

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"It was." Aarne looks up shaking his hair out of his face.

Then he is taking Minoru's hand but instead of getting up the drummer does what he would to Rik. Firm grip on Minoru's hand he pulls sharply, intent on pulling him down and finding out if Minoru is ticklish like the Dane.

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Spoiler alert: He is.

Minoru was not expecting that, and fell right on top of Aarne and his waiting hands. (At least Aarne couldn’t tickle telepathically. Ziggy could, and sometimes did. At least, whenever Minoru got the bright idea to tickle him first.)

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Well! Now he is being tickled. In The Hammers tickling was a weapon used mostly against Rik who was incredibly ticklish. Aarne is but only on the neck, behind the ears and, well, high on the legs where Minoru isn't likely to go for.

No, he's not telepathic and the world is probably lucky he isn't. He doesn't tickle for too long, just enough to get a squeal and maybe some red in the cheeks from laughing.

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As a veritable acrobat, Minoru certainly could squirm. But he was at the mercy of Aarne until they both started laughing too hard to tickle or try to escape.

“Okay... okay...” he gasped. “You win!”

He rolled back, and pushed himself up.

“And you really won too. You went farther than I did!”

Which was technically true. Minoru bailed out before the resulting crash. No photo finish needed this time. Aarne was the clear winner.

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"I don't care about winning." Aarne tries to stop laughing but it isn't working too well. His cheeks red as he helps Minoru to sit up on the floor.

"I think we need better construction next time and pool innertubes so we can bounce." This is probably an even worse idea but it was sure to be even more fun.

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Oh, but the best ideas in life are the worst ideas!

“You know I’m always game for a teat run.” He laughed. “I am so glad this was one of the shows I could make it out to. This was awesome!”

He couldn’t tour with them for any real stretch of time at this point, just a night every few weeks or so. But clearly, he made the most of limited vacation time.

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"You can always come hang with Joe and I. We're always up to something." He knew Minoru also spent time with Ziggy and the others but it bore saying. Especially since it seemed like he was becoming good friends with Joe.

Aarne gave him a hug before encouraging him to stand up. "I love that the band brings partners and friends around. Tom told me you're in medicine. Have you talked to Weird's girl yet? She's a doctor."

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Of course, whenever he was at a show, he’d be spending at least some of the time with his koibito. But he was quickly making friends with the other bands as well.

“Definitely!” He grinned, returning the hug. “I’d love to hit up a cool amusement park with you guys. Or whatever!”

There were limits to that whatever, of course, but pretty much everyone in the crew knew where Minoru’s limits were by this point.

“No, I haven’t really talked much with her.” He smiled, stretching as he stood up. “What’s her specialty?”

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"I'll be sure Rik or I call you the next time we go to one." It would be soon, as soon as Rik found one that aligned with a tour date with a spare day after.

Once Minoru is out of his lap or where ever the tickling had left him sprawling, Aarne got up too.

"I'm not sure but she does disease research that's really controversial because she's a woman." He hadn't asked her but she was a miracle when it came to taping up his wrists and fingers when they hurt from playing too much. "She's a nurse too which is why she is with us, mostly to take care of Ziggy, but she's bandaged a lot of us up."

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Minoru was still grinning ear to ear. “Oh, Isamu would have a field day chatting her up about literally everything.”

He might have been in the medical field, but his brother was the one in the research side of it. And it didn’t seem controversial at all, really, what gender she was.

He couldn’t help but notice the ‘taking care of Ziggy’ party, though. It wasn’t like Ziggy could just go to a regular hospital in this world, so having a nurse on tour was a smart idea. But he still asked Aarne how often that kind of thing happened.

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"I still think she would like you too. She's so sweet it is painful." He's joking about the painful bit but she was incredibly sweet and feminine compared to the wild of everyone else.

"I don't know the daily ins and outs of what she's doing but she took care of Rik when Viktor caused him to overdose and then Viktor when Rik beat his ass for it... and she binds my wrists and fingers when they hurt. Oh.. and probably Viktor when he burns himself and Vars' old injuries when they flare. I think she takes care of whatever she sees. I think she's even been helping some of the others adjust mentally to things." He was just rattling things off that he's seen her do. "Mostly, I think Weird wanted her along because he likes her."

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Simply from having been present during an overdose, he immediately appreciated her presence on the tour. As someone who spent the better part of his days helping people (or at least making it easier for all the doctors and nurses to help them), they probably had enough stories to stay up all night swapping.

“Hey, Ziggy only put me to work setting up lights and running cables because I’m terrible at sitting around and waiting.” He laughed.

Liking him was the primary reason Ziggy invited him out. No shame in that.

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Aarne nodded. He understood, like Gloria,the primary goal was to not miss a lover while on tour and secondary was to give them something to do. Aarne would be the last to shame that since he had occassional meltdowns realizing the person he was falling in love with lived in a different country.

He shakes the thoughts off and smiles. "Rik and I should teach you how to set gear for the stage. I'll never complain about having help setting up my kit."

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“Sure! I mean, I’ll be glad to help whenever I’m around.” He nodded. “Won’t have any more long stints like Japan, though. Just a few dates here and there I can squeeze in when I’m off work. But if you don’t mind that!”

He promised he wouldn’t drop or break anything.

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"Don't act so much like this will be the only tour." Aarne teases. "We might tour again and you're the envy of a lot of people having Stardust's affection."

Aarne is rough on his drums. They're made to last more than a few drops or bumps.

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Minoru raised a finger and opened his mouth as though he was about to counter with something, but just laughed instead. “Okay, good point!”

Then he blushed slightly.

“Come on, I’m not that special. Ziggy has more than enough affection for everybody.”

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Aarne starts laughing at the display before ruffling up Minoru's hair.

"You get to hold his hand and whatever else the two of you do." Aarne winks at him and then sighs. "Minoru, the envy of all the girls and boys. He does have a lot of affection and love and you get a lot more than the rest of them ever will; you and Mick."

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Minoru being the envy of someone else? That was still hard for him to fathom. So was having a Fan Club and all of that.

Thinking about cuddling next to Ziggy, with the Anthean in his arms, did make Minoru smile under that blush. It really was a lot closer than the rest of them would get. Maybe not always physically, but definitely emotionally. And that was all Minoru ever wanted.

“We should find everybody else and show off the pics!” He suggested. The board-chairs had pretty much had it for the night.

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"Everyone." Aarne agrees and then back pedals. "Maybe not Tom."

He picks up the board chair and shrugs. "Vars probably went back to he top. Walking down inclines is always harder on his leg."

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"Tom would be fazed by this?" Minoru laughed.

As far as walking back up, inclines were incredibly boring. But thankfully, there was plenty of wall to make use of, railings to balance on, etc.

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"I've been on his shit list since Joe and I got thrown in jail a few weeks ago and h had to bring us clothes and bail us out. I don't want to tempt fate."

Aarne couldn't do quite as much since he was carrying the chair but he could walk the railing reasonably well despite needing to do it awkwardly because of his height.

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Minoru raised an eyebrow at that. "Like a change of clothes? Or did you guys actually get arrested while naked?"

Somehow, he'd missed that story. And that tour date (which was probably for the best, honestly.)

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"We lost our clothes somewhere in the liquor store." And lost was the right word. He still doesn't know where they went. "And we were arrested for being naked and then well we were bored waiting around in the holding cell. Tom was really pissed when the cops told him what happened at the station."

Aarne shrugged. "I think something we had at this one party was laced with Meth or something."

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Well, with this group, literally losing your clothes in a liquor store made a lot of sense. Minoru shrugged and kept right on balancing on the ledge.

“Oh boy. You were bored? What could you even get up to in a holding cell?”

He didn’t even suggest the ceiling. By that point, Minoru was always polite enough to keep his feet on the ground and wait for Isamu to bring some bail money out of the No Trespassing Fund so he could pay the fine and go home. He was a traceur, not a total troublemaker.