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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:44 pm
The place where he was currently working at was a small store on the corner of two not so busy streets. He wondered idly how the place got any business but he had learned it was loyal customers that seemed to come back time and again for random reasons. 'Petal Power' was the name of the place, a strange name but really Yukito did understand the power and pull that plants had. They were given as gifts when someone was ill to perk them up, to people as a gift when they excelled at something to congradulate them, or even as an appology gift. He'd been meeting a lot of people, getting to know them, and selling more flowers then one would think due to location.
Above the store was a small apartment that had two ways of getting in the stairs that led up to it from behind the counter and a second set of stairs that led from it to the backyard where the green house resided. The yard was deceptively small but the greenhouse seemed itself to be rather huge inside and within one could find all sorts of rare and beautiful bloosoms.
Currently the white chocolate dragon was going about with a bottle of water to mist the flowers that were inside, behind the counter was one of his many brothers Sasarai who was also working with him. He did the cashier work though seeming not to be very helpful when it came to the arranging of flowers. Sasarai blamed the fact that a man with one arm shouldn't be able to do that sort of thing when in all actuallity it just seemed like plants didn't like him. He'd tried but after a few failed attempts he was put in charge or the register.
Once he was done looking over the flowers inside to make sure he'd gotten them all he drifted then outside to start on the flowers that were outside. They were the more hardy varieties that could deal with the heat without wilting, there were also some pretty flowering cactus on display as well. Yuki had come to like them, they were pretty and needed hardly any work at all. No doubt why he'd bought one for himself when he had enough extra money left over after bills, "Hot out today." He murmured, taking a step into the sun to let it absorb into his skin and revitalize him.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:55 pm
Sigh... weak littel bag of flesh. You try and try... but it seems they would never comply. Garrick lacked something, mental, physical, spiritual, he wasn't entirely certain, but the elk baby seemed to definately have some issue that was keeping him from being what his Father wanted.
And down came the father, walking along the curb, balancing on the edge and moving at quite the decent pace for it. In his right arm he held the little Elk Baby. It looked to be quite dirty, its hands and feet had a few scrapes, but nothing serious, his face was covered in snot leaking out his nose, and it seemed as though he had just finished a crying fit.
It was thus that this strange pair came across a flower shop off on some corner of two streets he seldom saw traveled. It seemed... an odd thing, a shop selling flowers, and over here.
He paused just a little, watching one of the flowering cacti, shifting Garrick in his arms so the kid could see.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:51 pm
Yukito looked from the flowers he was water with is pail as a pair came close, looking over the large cactus. He tilted his head to the side, long tail swishing as he asked, "Can I interest you in any flowers?" Clearly thinking they must be customers, "There are a lot of varieties inside to be seen as well that can come out here due to it being so hot."
He was doing his best to stick to the lines that he'd been taught that went along with is job but it didn't last to long. He stepped closer to the baby, waving his hand, "Hello there little one. You look like you got a bit scrapped up. Are you ok?" He asked in a kind, concerned voice. He'd spent far to long studying herbs, potions, and to be a doctor to be able to keep from asking that even though at the moment he was just a florist.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:01 pm
As Yukito came in closer, and asked his question of health and wellness, the adult pulled the Garrick carrying arm back, just a few inches from the White Chocolate Sinaeis. The bald, clean shaved, dark skinned, and fairly tough looking man leveled one of his cold, intimidating stares at Yukito.
Garrick was quiet, and buried his head into his father's sleeve, sliming up the cloth with his snot. Not that the adult seemed to mind.
But as long as he was here, the father looked out over the plants outside, "I only need a part of a flower," he stated coldly to Yukito, "not the whole."
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:08 pm
He seemed to realize his mistake and gave a squeak, "Ah! Sorry!" He said, quite intimidated then again that was something easy to do when it came to Yuki. He was a person that would much rather make friends then get into fights. Healers were meant to stay at home after all while those with warrior spirits went out to do the dangerous stuff, "Sorry, to much time working at a clinic."
He took a couple of steps back realizing he'd no doubt invaded the older man's personal space and he was no doubt lucky he'd gotten only a glare and not flattened, "What sort of flower... um... parts are you interested in?" He wondered what a person would want with only parts of a flower... then realized he picked them apart often to take the needed parts to make his potions. Maybe the guy did similar work? He looked him over cautiously and decided he didn't exactly look the part.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:58 am
The man seemed to relax, if only slightly as he bent over, setting little Garrick down on the outdoor surface (Sidewalk? Concrete? Or is it dirt and grass?), letting the little beast roam around as he would. And roam the little boy did. Away from Yukiko and Yi Jen Ro (The father, by the way), and towards the doorway into the shop. It was darker in there, cooler most likely. He was crawling on all fours towards the door.
That probably explained the scrapes, it was all in places where baby flesh touched floor as he crawled. Garrick seemed to be snuffling and blowing snotty bubbles out of his nose, but he was Quiet, and seemed determined to make his way inside.
Yi Jen Ro followed just about 2 feet behind Garrick, moving very slowly to match the baby crawl's pace.
"One of those blooms," he said, pointing on that large cactus.
"But I am... uncertain of what you would call those plants in this place. I would perhaps recognize them as I saw them. Inside perhaps, to see the rest, yes?"
His voice seemed much more calm, had a bit of the "Back country" in his accent, his words pronounced very softly, without a lot of harsh syllables or letters. He kept his pitch even, and the volume quiet, just barely enough to reach Yukiko's ears.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:55 am
Yuki wondered for an idly moment how exactly they would charge for a single bloosom off of a cactus but decided he would leave that up to his brother. After all it was Sasarai that knew all about the cash register stuff, he was here to take care of the flowers, "Alright, I will get this bloom and then we can go inside to look for the other ones you are searching for. If they aren't in the shop there is always a book that lists the ones in the green house. If its in the book I can go back and fetch it for you."
He moved over the side of the cactus reaching his hands out to carefully take the bloosom that was looking the healthiest among them and the biggest off the plant. He murmured quietly to the plant as if thanking it for the flower before he started towards the door sort of falling into the step with the slow moving line that started with the little baby.
As they walked along his tail started to do its back and forth swishing, acting as if it had a mind of its own.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:03 pm
Swish, swish, swish.
The baby stopped. His brown little head turned around, causing him to lose his balance, and fall over on his size.
Something big was coming, several things, but one of them looked really weird, back, and forth, back and forth and coming closer. A shadow passed over him, blocking out the sun, and that swinging thing came closer and closer.
He rolled around on the ground, clumbsily getting into position to Intercept, and nap up that weird moving thing that seemed so strange in his chubby, stubby little baby flab arms.
And the father? He had stepped right over Garrick. Long he had explained the Ways to him. And he seemed unbothered, focused rather on... what was his name? Oh, yes, Chocolate. Focused on Chocolate.
"The flower I look for, it is native to the desert, but not of the cactus variety. Do you carry desert blooms?" Yi Jen Ro asked. All to keep that strange Chocolate busy, so the kid could get his little grab at the tail.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:26 pm
Yukito stepped in the shop, careful to move around the baby as he didn't want to risk stepping one someone as small as him. He paused then, lost in thought. Desert Blooms... they sounded familiar enough, he would have to look around, "Its possible that we have them." He said, "The shop seems to have all sorts of flowers including those that are harder to get a hold of."
The one that owned the shop had seemed to amass quite a collection of flowers from all over the place. It was rather amazing in fact some of the things they had here. He looked back and forth, scanning the many shelves that held a rainbow of potted plants for the requested Desert Bloom.
Behind him his tail still swished, now within arms reach of small hands.
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:08 am
SNATCH!
The baby on the ground let out a loud gurble noise, as its chubby little baby appendages latched onto the white tail of doom. And then... well, then it did what any kid would do. Or at least him. He started gumming on the tail of Yukito, spreading that vile baby drool over the tail, and shimmying along the ground, trying to keep up with the swishing movement.
"This land always amazes me," he said, taking a little wandering around the first part of the shop. He was casually looking around at the plants on there, shaking his head as he was not finding the one he wanted. Down, and down the row. No random browsing, he was on a mission, and looking for a specific thing.
"It is... interesting... how everyone seems to always have exactly what you need."
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:52 pm
Yukito gave a little jump before turning to look at Garrick, blinked, then couldn't help but laugh a little bit. This wasn't the first time nor would it be the last time he was sure that his tail was used in such a manner. It would seem that it was a baby magnet. He gave a little swish of the end of it but made no move to take it from the little one as he wasn't really bothered by the gummy attack.
"I am not sure if we hae everything, the owner of the shop has tried though to gather a wide variety of plants for people to buy as they need them." He said, "Its the largest gather of different species that I have seen, it rivals even my own gardens back at my Mother's place."
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:48 am
Large gardens? Why would one have them, and why with such a wide variety of plants?
He started looking around more, "So this... is an apocathary?" he mused. Part of him, the old part, started working in overtime, puzzling out all manner of things that were somewhat unreasonable to the newer part of his mind. Conspiracies ranging from a cabal of poisoners, to even stranger things.
Little baby Garrick was shifting around with its hold on Yukito's tail. He had given up slobbering on it, and now seemed to be trying to mount up on it, less than successfully, with many slip ups on his long climb up Mount White Chocolate.
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:16 pm
"This place I am not sure why gathered this many plants together. My gardens back home that was the reason I gathered all of my plants together, to be able to make them into potions. Part of what I was wanting to do when I get older." He said, seeing no reason to omit such information.
He looked over at the little one that was trying to use his tail as a begining of the climb up him. He blinked then gave a bit of a grin it was kinda cute! He wondered if the boy would be able to make it, just in case the end of his tail was swishing seeming to be ready and waiting in case it had to wrap around Garrick and catch him to keep him from falling.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:19 pm
"GWA!"
That little midget blob baby fell forward, grabbing onto Yukito's tail tight. It was moving under him. Those muscles and tendons working to move the end of the tail behind him. But not like the kid really was aware of that. No, all he knew was it was "Weird" under him, shaking and moving and making it hard to keep his delicate sense of balance going.
"A member of death's hand?" the man muttered it, sure it didn't exist here... but there was a clear sense if disgust in his voice at the mention of 'Potions', and he pulled away from the plant he was currently inspecting, giving it a cross eyed look, his right hand coming up to cover his nose and mouth.
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:36 pm
Yukito let the end of his tail wrap loosely around Garrick when he fell forward wanting to make sure he did get hurt then it released him again when the smaller boy grabbed onto it. He couldn't keep the smile off his face, he'd met so many of the younger Sin children and had similiar experiances, he was feeling a bit nostaligic.
He glanced over at the boy's Protector again then looked a little confused, unsure why he sounded so upset at the mention of potions, "I will admit I am not the best at brewing them, mid-level types are my speciallty at the moment." He said, "I still need much more practice to get to where I want to be."
He shook his head, deciding then that if the man didn't like potions then he probably should drop the topic, "Have you found your Desert Bloom? If its not in here we can check the greenhouse if you like. More plants out there."
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