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Topic Started: Feb 28 2010, 06:18 PM (1,163 Views)
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Tell him about herself. What was there to say? Chizu looked up again, her eyes fixed on the patch of sky that managed to peek out above the skyline of the city. She felt relaxed enough to talk, but not relaxed enough to tell him everything. No, not everything. But what part of herself would she willingly share with a stranger? What part of a past that was built on death, violence, and betrayal?

"I grew up in Hyakuji's Tokyo," she said, with a small shrug. "I don't have any family. My last family member died about two years ago." That wound was old now, it didn't hurt as much as it used to. "I would have been a junior at Hyakuji High School if it was still around. I'm 17. Uh...I'm not exactly a good student. I like sports. I used to get into fights a heck of a lot, but after this whole Heartless thing, I don't know if I will anymore."

She sighed and shook her head. This was starting to sound a little too much like a personal ad for her liking. Next she was probably going to say some stupid thing about being a Leo or something like that. "What exactly do you want to know?" she asked. Again, it sounded like it should have been said with an angry voice, but there was no heat behind it. It was Chizu's way of asking an honest question.
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That explained a bit of the deep rooted grief, Yuu supposed. Kindred hearts, they were. Both alone in the world, well... in a way. Yuu of course had his parents, but they hadn't ever been very close to his heart. He kept them calm, kept their home a very mellow place, but it was more for him than them. He used them, in a way, to progress his life.

The idea of his world being consumed by darkness with his 'parents'... oddly drew no hint of feeling from him. They'd be more calm dead.

It was a frightening fact of life.

He inhaled deeply, the same dragon-like smoke curling from his nostrils as he exhaled, listening to her story calmly, his head having turned away again almost in disinterest. But he was merely... concentrating. Listening to her words and the emotions that were attached to them. When the girl finished, Yuu shifted his weight again, stretching his arms over the back of the bench -- one slipping behind Chizu, even though he paid it no mind really -- and spoke through his cigarette, the burning stick not hindering his soft speech in the slightest.

"I was thinking more... if you liked long walks on the beach, sunsets, puppies, the smell of rain, things like that." The boy spoke in a completely humorless way, but there was that little hint of a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth, and the next puff of smoke came out with a chuckle.

Yuu had thought he made a rather clever joke.
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Chizu laughed once at Yuu's words. It was a short, curt laugh, more a single "Hah!" than the usual round of laughter. She knew it was a joke, or at least she guessed. Yuu didn't strike her as the type who would be serious. If it was...say, Leon, or someone else, she wouldn't be too sure. "If you really wanna know, the last two. The first...eh...depends on why I'm walking on the beach and who I'm with." She would never admit to being a romantic. Mostly because in her past, she needed to act tough. Now? Maybe it wasn't so much of an act anymore.

But she liked animals, there was nothing wrong with that. And the smell of rain? She was an elemancer. She had a strong connection to nature. She could, and did explain that away as that. Besides, rain usually meant wind, and there were very few cases when she found herself not liking the wind. It was...in a way, what she wanted to be. Free.

But she wasn't the wind. She was human, and she could only experience it for a time. She looked up at him. "So..." she said. "Your turn. Tell me about yourself."
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That same barely there smirk rested on Yuu's lips as the girl laughed, and then it drifted away quickly. He liked that little laugh and supposed that when it was more drawn out it'd be even more pleasant. He'd have to try to make her laugh sometime.

Killing another cigarette, he flicked the end away and exhaled slowly. About himself? What was there to tell? His childhood didn't exist to him and would certainly not exist to a stranger he was growing more and more eager to keep around.

So what else was there?

"I'm boring,"
He murred softly, his voice rumbling low in his throat.

...Was that it? Was that all he was going to give her after she spilled some rather... more secretive details to her?

Thankfully, the boy shifted again, his arm returning behind Chizu's back over the bench, his head tilted back as he looked up into the sky. "Adopted. Did well in school. Can make everyone around me very pissed or very happy all at once," his shoulders rocked in a shrug. "I'm the same age as you... What else?" He tilted his head toward hers enough to look at the girl, one eyebrow raised.
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Boring? She could see why that might happen. But she'd seen boring before. It wasn't this guy. At least not right now. Maybe some other time...like in a library or something. Yeah. That would definitely boring. She grinned slightly at his description of himself. "Hey, I'm good at pissing people off too," she said. A joke. Maybe. But with a grain of truth to it? Hell yeah.

That aside, aside from them being the same age and with the uncanny ability to cause the people around them to react strongly (although with Yuu it was because of his powers and with Chizu it was more because of the power of personality), she could say that they were opposites. He was adopted, she wasn't, but she had been handed around from family member to family member often enough in her formative years that she may as well have been. He did well in school. She could if she wanted to, but she made enough to pass most classes with an A+ in P.E.

And she probably told more about herself than he had. "Dunno," she said with a shrug as he asked her what else she wanted to know. "What world are you from?" she asked after a while. She wouldn't admit to suddenly being a little disappointed that he wasn't from Hyakuji.
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At Chizu's words, Yuu quietly shifted his body a bit more toward her, the arm not behind her back lifting toward her and holding his palm up. High five? He seemed to be saying without really saying anything, his eyebrow still cocked and his body a bit closer to hers now.

The girl's next question made the boy frown. What was his world called? How was he supposed to know? He called it Earth, but he assumed it wasn't what she meant. What, did she think there was a big banner that came up when you entered a world? Tch, silly.

Either way, he really had no idea! He frowned a bit more and shrugged his shoulders limply. "Dunno. My school is Shinya?" Maybe that'd help, seeing as how the girl had asked if he was 'from' Hyakuji.... who knew though? It was worth a shot.

Idly, he wondered if his mute nature was making it difficult to carry a conversation with him. He supposed so, but it was just such a bother to try to talk at such lengths...

"What's your school like."
It was better than nothing, he figured.
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Chizu reached up wordlessly and gave Yuu a high five, a small grin on her face. She let her hand fall back to her side. She was relaxed now, and would remain that way even if Yuu did stop using his powers on her.

"Shinya," she replied without missing a beat when Yuu asked her what her school was like. "Except crazier. If that's possible." She was familiar with Shinya. She wouldn't have been before the whole Heartless fiasco, but Arcadia had made her familiar with it. Besides, Shinya was where they had run into the Nobodies in the first place. She shrugged as she tried to think of the ways the two of them differed. There were many of them, but many weren't immediately obvious.

"It's a school for teenagers with powers. We have four years instead of three--Hyakuji follows the international system instead of the Japanese one. So we also start school in the fall and end it in the summer. It's kinda weird, but it's kinda nice having one long break, I guess." She frowned as she thought back to another thing she knew about Shinya. As far as she knew, it had already been sealed off.

"But you're out of luck, I think," she said, "Shinya's safe already, it's been sealed off. I don't think anyone's getting in or out anymore. 'Course, you never know...maybe when we finally solve this world thing, the portals will open up again and you can go home. Or..." Or. There was always an "or". Chizu wondered why she brought this one up. "If that doesn't work out, there's always Hyakuji. If we can get it back, anyway."
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As the girl returned the high five, Yuu's hand fell to his thigh, but he didn't angle his body away from her. She was growing more and more interesting the more she spoke and her found himself actually WANTING to look at her instead of drift off into his thoughts.

Interesting.

Even more interesting was that Yuu had retracted his powers a while ago. Slowly pulling back bit by bit till the girl was left with no outside forces changing her mood. And she still was just as calm and relaxed as when he had been bogging her down with his powers. Was he really that relaxing on his own?

The boy was silent as Chizu spoke, still seeming to glaze over a little... It was hard for Yuu to look like he was paying attention. but slowly, the glazed look disappeared and his lips turned to a slight frown. Sealed off? Well that was a bit different than what he was thinking...

Leaving was one thing, but being forced to leave was another.

He needed another cigarette.

With a sigh, the boy turned away from the girl and crossed his leg again, his heel on his knee as always. Drawing yet another cigarette from his pack, he lit it and sat staring off into the distance. Well, now he really did have to choose a new world, didn't he? If the portals were open... would he even want to go back?

This was all very bothersome.

He inhaled deeply, the smoke curling slowly from his nostrils as he thought. Well, there was always Hyakuji, he supposed. Same sort of school only a little more hectic. And that was fine for him, wasn't it? He could calm whoever needed calmed. He didn't have much of a life back home, so what was the problem with starting a new one here? Nothing, right? Yeah.

Yeah.

An extra thick puff of smoke shot from Yuu's nostrils and he nodded, seeming to come to terms with something inside him. His left hand drew his cigarette from his lips, and his body angled toward Chizu again.

"I'll go home with you." The boy, once again, didn't ask... he told. But there was something strange in his voice, and odd sort of waver. He didn't mind being lonely... but he hated being completely alone. If Chizu gave him a big shove off he'd be stuck in a world he didn't know, in a school he didn't know, with no one in the whole world that he knew -- literally.
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When Yuu faced away from her, she faced away from him. She had spoken to enough people to know that it was easier to face ahead than to stare at the side of someone's face. So when Yuu finally spoke again, she looked up sharply and turned to him, her eyes wide. He would be able to feel the sudden pulse of surprise coming from her at his words. What wasn't clear was whether the reaction had been caused by the words themselves or the way in which he said them. Chizu herself didn't know the answer to that.

The surprise ebbed and faded away, from both her expression and her emotions as she looked at him. Studying him. Considering. There was nothing in his expression, but she thought she had heard something in his voice. It was very slight, slight enough that she wondered whether or not she had imagined it. But she knew one thing. She knew that being alone in the world royally sucked.

Still, she wondered at how Yuu could so calmly accept the fact that Shinya was sealed. How he accepted Hyakuji almost immediately. It wasn't something she would have been able to do. Heck, Hyakuji had been destroyed, literally wiped off the face of the multi-verse, and she was still fighting tooth and nail to get it back. She had seen all the other worlds. She knew she wouldn't settle for another.

Which meant one of two things. One, Yuu didn't feel any attachment for Shinya at all, or if he did, it was minimal, or two, either he didn't want to go back or something was stopping him from going back. Either way, wherever he was going, it seemed he suddenly decided he wanted to go with her. Chizu blinked at him for a moment, before chuckling and shaking her head.

"Alright," she said. "Alright. One condition, though. Don't ever get involved with a group called the Wo Shing Society." For a moment, her voice became serious. There were very few groups that Chizu could hate absolutely. Wo Shing was one of them. Kyrios would be, if it was still around. She couldn't be friends with any of its members. Not without remembering what they stood for.

She reached into her pocket and pulled out a scrap of paper. It was a receipt for a can of Coke she had bought earlier today. It wasn't exactly personalized stationery, but it would do. She searched her pockets further and pulled out a pen. She usually kept one on hand in case she needed to write something down. Not paper, though. Usually she just used her hand, or any scrap she found. She scribbled down a phone number and an address.

"You can call the number if you're ever in Hyakuji. It's my cell, I'll pick up. The address is for here. I'm staying in First District, in Traverse Town. Need anything, just knock." She gave the same speech to a lot of the people she bumped into, the ones who needed help. Yuu didn't seem like that kind of person, but she had the impression from his voice that he had almost been asking for it. Or at least company. She hoped he wouldn't read too much into it, most guys took it as a sign of interest.

But then again, Yuu could read her emotions, so he'd probably feel that she was only trying to be helpful.
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'Surprise...' It was one of his favorite emotions, along with peaceful ones, of course... And the most intense emotions like rage, and love. Each and every emotion left a different taste in the back of his mouth, shuddering there on the back of his tongue, barely palpable enough to recognize.

His deep grey eyes remained on hers, watching silently as she debated within herself. The whole time he ran his mental hands over the emotions she was feeling, carefully sorting them and making sure there wasn't anything hidden there. No resentment for his pushy behavior, or any sort of emotions he'd regret evoking in a woman...

But there was nothing like that. Just confusion, and then acceptance. Perhaps a small bit of comradery; and that made Yuu happy. It had been quite a while since he had a friend...

...Actually, he couldn't remember the last time he called someone 'friend'.

Yuu remained quiet still as Chizu wrote down her number, his eyes shifting from her hand to her face, his brow lifting slowly. "Wo Shing?" He mumbled around his cigarette, another bout of smoke curling from his nostrils. "Tell me." He seemed genuinely interested. The boy had lived his whole life in the suburbs, so he had no real way of knowing... But the way the girl's voice lowered, and the sudden spike of resentment in her emotions made the boy think that maybe the 'Wo Shing Society' was some kind of Yakuza sort of group...

A disgusting group full of disgusting people that had no real place in this world. Why did people live that did nothing more than cause emotional pain and suffering to others? It was sickening.

As she handed him the number, he dipped his head in understanding. She was very trusting, to willingly give someone her number and address that had only just met her. Especially someone that could manipulate emotions. What if he had just fooled her into trusting him? What if he was a rapist or something equally as horrible?

Luckily, for her, he wasn't, and as he took the number from her, he gently held her hand and tilted his head a little. The boy wasn't smiling, but there seemed to be happiness in those dim eyes of his. "Thank you," he mumbled, brushing his fingertips across the palm of her hand as he took the paper, tucking it into the front pocket of his shirt.

Maybe he could sense that she wasn't interested, but would she know the same for him? It wouldn't be the first time his mannerisms worked against him.
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Tell him about them? Chizu frowned, her eyes hardening slightly. When she spoke, there was venom in her tone. She hated them. She hated everything they stood for. She hated that she had once faced them from another organization, a similar one. It was a part of herself she wished she could do away with completely. "What's to tell?" she asked. "They're a gang. Well, more like a yakuza. They pull off thefts and kill when it's convenient for them. They just happen to have powers too."

She swallowed and clenched her fists. Two years ago, she would have spit in the streets, but ironically, Hyakuji had actually smoothed out some of her rough edges. Chizu reined in her temper again as she put the pen away. It was something she was getting very good at doing. She was also starting to learn how to pick her fights, which was a change for her.

"Anyway, just don't get involved with them," she said, leaning back in the bench and thinking. Yuu might have thought that she was trusting, to give him her information so willingly, but if he sorted through the emotions she was currently trying to calm, he would find that what lay behind that wasn't so much trust as confidence. She could allow herself to trust Yuu, because she was confident that she could easily match whatever threat he presented.

Almost as if she had already sized him up from the beginning.
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Yuu was still angled facing the girl, his right arm stretched over the back of the bench, his cigarette slipping from his lips, held between two fingers. As she spoke, his blonde eyebrow cocked. "I come off like that?" He mumbled to the girl, turning his head away in a considerate gesture as he blew another puff of smoke from his lungs.

He turned back to her soon after though, his head cocking to one side as he did indeed sort through her feelings, shifting and focusing on each and every little emotional pang inside her. He wished that others could see what he saw... It was like some sort of complicated bomb. A mix of different colored wires.

"Calm." He mumbled, but there was no power behind his words, he wasn't making her calm, this time... not unless she asked for it. And yet... so badly he wanted to reach out and touch the girl, give her something comforting.

That group wouldn't spring to her mind so quickly if it was just a Yakuza she had heard of before. She knew them personally, somehow. Had they hurt her? Her family? Her friends? Either way, the hairs on the back of his neck prickled. He wouldn't join them... but he would seek them out and try his damndest to cripple them.

Wouldn't it be great to see a group of tough, hardened criminal men suddenly groping and rubbing themselves all over each other as they were overcome with lust? He thought so.
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Do I? she wanted to ask, but she held her tongue just barely because she wasn't that sort of person anymore. Instead, she shook her head. "You don't," she said. Yuu didn't seem like the kind of person to get involved with people like that. She could never be too sure, though, because it was always the quiet ones. She thought back to the people who had been involved in Kyrios. There were very few she could remember clearly.

Always the quiet ones...

She shook her head and remembered how quiet she had been, back then. "But, Yuu? They're not stupid. You don't need to join them for them to sink their teeth into you. They're dangerous, alright? Don't mess with them." She didn't add that she didn't want to see him killed if she could help it. She hated Wo Shing, but she didn't actively go out and get them annoyed. It may have been hypocritical of her, but she was dumb muscle in the end.

Just smart enough to not get involved in a mind game she couldn't win. Physical fight? Sure, any time. She would love the chance to take on some of them and beat them into the ground. But she wanted to stay far enough away so that she would never be made to dance on their strings. Not that they would be interested in her, anyway.
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"I don't mess, remember?" He was teasing her a little, trying to make the girl smile... Trying to make her calm down. He ignored her words for the moment, not wanting to stress her more with worry. He'd be okay, he could hold his own. He knew all too well about having teeth sunk into you, her knew all about danger.

The numbers carved into the flesh of his back attested to that just fine.

With a grunt, he snuffed his cigarette and flicked it away, exhaling slowly and being rather surprised when smoke still came out. It was getting cold. The boy stood up slowly, seeming awkward with his long limbs. The boy offered the girl his hand silently, one hand tucking into his pocket, his body hunched over a little.

"C'mon. Cold?" he'd know if she was lying. Now was as good a time as any for him to find this Traverse Town, right? He could pretend to be a knight in shining armor and walk the helpless damsel home..

...Even though he was relatively sure the girl could drop kick him good if she wanted. What guy didn't feel good keeping a girl safe? Even if it was only in his own delusional mind?
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Well, whatever. It was his life. Chizu forced herself to think that as she nodded once at his words. Indifference was not something she was good at imitating, but she had learned over time. She had grown up in a big city after all, with the tendency to hang around some of the...less-refined areas. If the current situation fanned the flames on her fighting spirit, it also drew one clear fact to mind. She couldn't save everyone.

Not everyone in Florencia. Not everyone in Hyakuji. Not everyone in EXE. She wasn't enough of a hero to save every last person that lived there, and if she let it get to her, she wouldn't be able to be of use to the rest of the people that were still alive. But in a way, she was glad that she would never get used to it. She wasn't a hero, that was for certain, but at the very least she was enough of a fighter to not take those losses for granted.

Enough of a fighter to remember them and fight for them. But that was a story for another time. Chizu drew herself out of her introspection as Yuu stood up, holding out a hand to her. Chizu took it, but more out of a courtesy than anything. Yuu would probably be able to feel that she didn't pull on his hand to stand up, and she let go of it as soon as she was standing. She opened her mouth to reply to his question and shut it instantly when she reminded herself that he would know if she lied.

She would need to figure out a way to mask her emotions in the future. Yuu might have been alright, but any other empath could easily manipulate her like this. And she knew there was more than one, empathy was how Jameson started, after all. She stuffed her hands in her pockets. It was late winter now, or early spring, so it wasn't too cold in the day. Most of the cold came at night. Night was fast approaching now, though, and she had only worn a light jacket.

She was cold, if only just a little. She shrugged. If she couldn't lie, she could affect nonchalance. It wasn't even completely a mask, a quick check of her emotions would reveal that whether she was cold or not didn't really matter that much to her, beyond the fact that the cold was annoying. "A little," she admitted.
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