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 Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:59 pm
-Finding Karoko-
"Mischa!" Noharu called from the kitchen, leaning back in her chair to peer through the window. The first thought that came to mind: What the hell is she doing?
In her opinion, being about the size of a kitten, somewhat odd when you compared it to the big bad demon stereotype, wasn't the only thing that made her strange. She was just an all-around 'weird-o'.
But she was also good for getting things done, good at listening, and therefore the fox-eared girl was content with the idea of keeping her around. But on those rare occassions when she didn't listen, they had problems.
She called, Mischa didn't come.
They had a problem.
"MISCHA! I told you to come INSIDE!" Noharu hissed as she stomped outside, jerking the poor blonde demon up by one wing from the ground. What was she doing sitting in the grass like that anyway!?
A shriek came, and got louder when the poor thing was instinctively dropped. "NYAAA! YAAA!"
When you thought about it, it only made sense Noharu's hearing was so sensitive. Not at all surprising when the sudden cry caused her to drop her 'servant' of sorts, stumble back and clutch her ears. "IDIOT! STOP IT!"
Luckily, said 'idiot' did infact 'stop it', settling down with a small sniffle. Only then did Noharu notice she was holding something.
"Let me see that," the fox demon demanded.
But Mischa shook her head and held 'it' closer to her. "Nyaaa!"
"Let. Me. See." She smirked in satisfaction as the thing was handed over. Raising an eyebrow, she resisted the very, very strong urge to step on the stupid thing that hovered at her feet with wide, teary eyes. "It's a leaf...."
"Nyaaa!" Mischa cried, waving her hands wildly at her sides. "YAAA! NYAAA!"
"Quit your yelling!" Immediatly she went silent, but Noharu continued to glare darkly at her a few seconds later. Her eyes--well, the one that worked--flickered over the leaf with little interest. "Whatever."
Turning around, she tossed the thing carelessly over her shoulder.
Mischa sighed in relief, flying up to catch the precious leaf before it hit the ground. She smiled brightly down at it and hurried to get into the house before Noharu shut the door. "Yaaa yaa!"
This was no ordinary leaf, even if Noharu didn't know it yet...
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:38 pm
Karoko's First GiftNoharu Something's going on with that little brat Mischa. She's been out in the yard all day, and earlier didn't even come when I called her. She's been clinging to this stupid leaf all day. I guess she's got some interest in nature I never noticed before, but I just hope she doesn't get upset and start wailing when the thing crumbles up and dies. Honestly, I don't know
Propping her elbow on the desk, she leaned the side of her face on her palm and watched as the mini-demon struggled past her door, dragging a vampire plushie as big as she was. Almost as if guilty, her eyes dared not move sideward for risk of catching Noharu's gaze.
She was so close to being out of view, the foot of the plushie all that was visible when suddenly, "Mischa..."
As if she'd just seen a ghost (more like she'd soon be one), she froze in place, remaining that way for a moment before very, very slowly stepping back and hesitantly glancing her 'owners' way. "Nyaaa?"
"Mischa, why are you dragging that thing around?"
"Nyaaa..."
"And where do you plan on taking it?"
"Yaaa..."
"Oh, honestly!" The pen she'd been writing with clunked on her desk as her hands flew up in disgust. "What is WRONG with you? If I buy you a rosebush will you stop this nonsense?"
"Yaaa! Yaa yaa! Nyaaa!"
There would be no peace in the world that was Noharu until she got her little servant over this annoying leaf-obsession that had suddenly occured for what seemed to her like no reason. "Fine," she agreed in a hiss, rising to her feet and following after the minature blonde, grabbing the plushie she'd abandoned by the arm as she passed it.
The leaf remained, still in the kitchen, right on the window ceil, where the sun normally would've been shining through had it not been so late. To be honest, Noharu was surprised it hadn't wilted away by now. "Alright," she began demandingly. "What about it?"
Mischa squealed in delight, soaring over coming to kneel beside the leaf, motioning with one hand for Noharu to watch before she prodded the future-bat girl. "Nyaaa!"
This is so stupid. She felt ready to rip the stupid little demon apart for acting this way, and very well might have, had something not caught her attention.
The leaf...
IT MOVED?!
There was no way! The mere thought was ridiculous! "Don't make anymore noise!" That said, she stormed back into her room, grumbling something about 'needing sleep'...
Mischa shrugged her sudden outburst off, carefully lifting the leaf and carrying it down the plushie that had seconds before been tossed harshly on the ground. "Nyaaa!" She chirped, as if to say 'This is for you!' and following such placed her new friend on the ground near her gift.
Karoko made no movement at first, but soon was wiggling happy and emitting a low 'mmmm' humming noise.
"Stop humming!" Noharu snapped from her room.
Poor Mischa just shook her head and sighed. "Nyaaa..."
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:36 pm
::Karoko the Prankster::
"Mmmm."
Noharu grinded her teeth together as she stared at the words printed on the newspaper. As if it wasn't hard enough to read being blind in one eye, it seemed Mischa had picked up some extremely annoying habbit of humming at random.
It was an odd noise, really, and had anyone asked her to explaining it exactly she probably wouldn't have been able to. Like a screech-hum, if such were possible, almost like a bat...
"Mmmm."
"MISCHA! CUT IT OUT!" The paper didn't lower, but the fox demon slumped in her chair, hissing through cletched teeth.
As far as Mischa, the poor thing was settled in the center of the floor playing with Karoko...sort of. But she kept humming! And Mischa was being blamed for it! "Nyaa yaaa!"
Noharu's grip on the news paper tightened, her voice a low growl, "Don't give me that. You really expect me to place the blame on a leaf?"
"Nyaaa!"
"JUST. BE. QUIET."
Silence.
Sighing contently, the poor soon-to-be guardian (though unaware of such) settled in the chair a bit more, finally reading the headline. Or the first word of it, anyway...
"MMMM."
"MISCHA!" The paper hit the ground, soon followed by Noharu's feet. Storming over, she snatched the little demon up by the wing with a hiss and moved down the hall.
Back inside the living room, the little leaf wiggled as if laughing...
"Mmmm..."
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:04 am
-The Bat and the Weasels- Poke.
No response.
Poke.
Again, no response.
Poke..poke..pokepokepoke-
"Mischa," the voice finally came, more of a hiss than a actual word. "What do you want?" Chances were she'd regret rolling over, but she did anyway, at the same time making a mental note to break both the mini-demons wings and put her matress higher somehow.
"Nyaa yaa!" Was her answer, and then came the struggle of being so small and trying to lift an average-sized book. More out of curiousty than anything, the future guardian reached down and lifted the book up, examining the cover. Ah, she recognized this one. Nothing special, just a small book of legends and fairy tales.
"What the-?" When her grip loosened, the leaf slid out of the page just a little bit. The thing was still alive? "For liking this so much, you sure don't take good care of it." So that was it, she used this thing as a bookmark. Mischa made a sour face at such words, flying up to sit beside the leaf that now rested next to Noharu.
"Oh, I remember this one." The 'bookmark' had been placed on a story called "The Bat and the Weasels", originally told by some guy (or perhaps some woman) named Aesop. Her eyes fell to Mischa, and the blonde pointed at the page, clearly requesting she read it.
Anything to get her to take her stupid leaf and go away, Noharu decided, and thus began the story...
"Once, a bat slipped from his roost in a tree and fell to the ground. A hungry weasel beneath the tree. A good meal, he thought, as he snapped at the bat.
"Help me! Mercy! Save me!" the bat cried, knowing he was about to die.
"Why should I save you?" asked the weasel. "You are my enemy. In fact, you are my worst enemy among the birds."
"But I am not a bird," said the bat. "See my fur? See my teeth? I'm a sort of flying mouse."
"Then I suppose I'll let you go," the weasel said.
Later, the same bat slipped from his roost again. He was caught by a different weasel, who happened to be hunting beneath the tree.
"I shall eat you," said the weasel. "I fancy a tasty mouse for dinner."
"But I am not a mouse," said the bat. "Look at my wings."
"Then I suppose you are a bird. I will let you go," the second weasel said.
And so twice the bat went free."
Beside Noharu, the leaf hummed happily.(Didn't write the story part, credit for it goes here.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:16 am
After ensuring she had the right place, Kakui pulled something out of a large bag and placed it by the front door with a note. If she hadn't been so busy, she'd probably have actually knocked or something, but as it was, she grabbed the sack and hurried off.
Quote: Dear Noharu, If you don't recall, we met the other evening. As you know, I've been out all morning (and part of last night) giving people gifts, so here I am with yours. I hope Karoko likes it as much as I do. ~Kakui
Attatched to the note was a cute bat-winged doll. 
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:27 am
Karoko Strikes Again: Prank 2
(Dedicated to Green, and reminding me how funny I thought The Ring was. XD)
"So, let me get this straight..."
"Nyaa?"
"This little girl is some psycho b***h who's mad at her mom for pushing her down a well. And she gives these people seven days to live because she lived in the well for seven days?"
"Yaa.."
Promptly pushing the demon off her shoulder, she rested her head against the back of the couch and sighed. "I'm going to bed." This was the first, and Noharu decided last, time she ever watched one of these "horror" movies. The concept of them was absolutely ridiculous! Some zombie girl coming from a well, psh...
As she watched her walk away, Mischa sighed and reached for the leaf she'd set carefully on the handle edge. Apparently it felt differently than Noharu judging by it's happy hum, which made the small blonde feel a bit better. At least SOMEONE agreed with her... "Nyaa yaa!" She thanked the leaf, soaring to the kitchen and placing it carefully down on the window ceil. It seemed to like it there.
Now, there little need for house rules since only two beings lived there, but Noharu had set a few for the sake of her sanity. One being Mischa wasn't allowed in her room at night. But she'd broken that rule so many times, Noharu seemed to have forgotten it exsisted. This was a good thing for our dear mini demon, otherwise she would've probably had both wings ripped off for daring to wake Noharu at such an hour.
"What, Mischa?"
"Nyaa..."
"Scared of what? Don't tell me it's that stupid movie."
"Yaa nyaa!"
"Water?" Pausing, Noharu's ears perked and listened. There was water...or more, something moving around in water. "You're..you're being ridiculous." Turning over, she flattened her ears best she could, via pushing the pillow down on them, and attempted to ignore it. She was just tired, that was all. That stupid movie didn't scare her any.
But it was hard to distract herself from those thoughts when Mischa kept whining like that. Somehow she managed.
Spalsh.
"YAAAAA!" The small creature shrieked, launching forward and clinging to the pillow Noharu tightened her grip on.
"Fine! We'll go look!"
Mischa squealed. She'd hoped that "we'll" would've been an "I'll". She thought about flying up out of Noharu's reach, possiblely clinging to the ceiling and refusing to move, but before her heart could beat twice (even beating as fast as it was), she'd been snatched up and carried into the hall.
Splash.
Noharu jumped a bit, freezing in place. Very slowly, she lifted Mischa up and placed her on her shoulder, glaring sideward. "I wasn't scared, I was just surprised is all." So on they went. For the first time, Noharu had to think this hall was a few steps too long. But her home was still small. Small enough to detect where such a sound was coming from right away.
Carefully, blue eyes peered around the corner into the kitchen, flickering wildly about. "Eh?" Upon her discovery, Noharu now felt very, very stupid.
"Oh, honestly!" Stepping over to the sink much louder than nesscary, she pulled the stopper out, lifting it up to Mischa's level as all the water vanished down the drain. "Look? See this? I told you to take this out of the sink when you're finished with the dishes! The sink must've been leaking or something."
Mischa shifted on her shoulder and sighed. There was no point in trying. At least she noticed that leaf was wet...
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:51 am
As Shouko put down the heavy flowerpot, Ty had already pushed a letter inside of it. "I've never been to this place before and we don't even know the people...do you really think we're right ?" The blonde girl asked her friend who just shrugged. "Your mam told us to come here." Tyyne sighed as both of them quickly moved away towards the next house.A letter from Eden
Dear Noharu,
You might not know me and feel very surprised that I'm writing a letter to you, but I'm informed that you're taking care of a special leaf. We're an organization which specifies to work with these leaves and please don't call me crazy now, but indeed children are born out of these pieces of plants. You should come and visit the 'Eden Project' nearby Barton Town so we can talk about it more clearly.
Anyway you might have noticed that I also sent you a flowerpot. It's for the leaf. Please plant it and you might be surprised with a development. We experienced that the leaf will grow into a child soon after planting it.
Have a nice day and I hope to see you soon at the Project's House
~Lena
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:09 pm
: razz lanted::
"I'll be damned." Leaning back in her chair, Noharu glanced the letter over again, lifting a hand to scratch behind one of her ears. The other flew up to knock Mischa away, who had been hovering around her making all sort of complaints since this odd delivery was found. All it took was that one hit and glare to quiet her down.
"Now then," Noharu mumbled as her eyes moved from Mischa to the leaf, the leaf to the letter, and the letter to the flowerpot before they finally came to settle on the mini-demon once again. "Well, my stupid little friend, I guess you'd better get to work."
"Nyaa!" The blonde made a sort of huff sound. She was stupid?! She was the one who'd known all along! Uncertainly, she eyed the flowerpot. It was as big as she was! Karoko was humming again, but it was more aggravated than the usual. Seemed the thought of being stuck in a pile of dirt didn't much appeal to her. Said humming got louder as the tiny demon lifted her up and flew to the top of the flowerpot...or tried to anyway. Had she gotten heavier?
Noharu's excuse for forcing her little 'servant' to do this was she just plain didn't feel like it, but her impatience was a stronger force than that which is laziness, and that humming was oh-so-annoying. She snatched the leaf so quickly Mischa fell to the table, surprised by the sudden motion. Without wasting anymore of her precious time, the soon-to-be guardian pushed some dirt off to the side, then moved it back once she'd placed the leaf in. "There."
No sooner had the single word come from her mouth did she snap her fingers, stand, and walk out of the room, calling over her shoulder, "Water it when you think you need to, Mischa."
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:35 pm
Life over the past few days had been pretty...well, boring, though Mischa prefered the word "calm". That little leaf of theirs hadn't moved or made much noise since they "planted" it, something she was thankful for since the previous times it had done such things had ended in trouble for her. Something still didn't seem right, though. It's like the little leaf was upset about something. After careful consideration, the mini-demon had finally figured it out.
It wanted a name.
She was a bit cautious when taking the matter up with Noharu. It was already a miracle she hadn't tossed the flowerpot out the window or something in one of her daily fits of anger, caused by whatever happened to be pissing her off at that moment. What amazed her more was she'd showed some form of interest in the well-being of the nameless leaf, and always seemed to be sneaking glances at it.
"Nyaaa?" Hesitantly, she flew up to the table, coming to a landing on the wooden surface. Now what was all this? A bunch of pictures. Right away, she recognized the majority of the people (or should she say demons) in them. Mainly, Noyama. No one dared speak THAT name in this house, but for whatever reason there were still pictures of her around. She guessed because every picture that had Noharu in it, had her in it too...
"What is it?" Noharu demanded, shuffling through the pages of the photo album.
"Nyaa yaa..."
Pausing, the teenager let her hand linger on a single page before continuing to turn them as if searching for something. "What's wrong with it?"
"Yaaa yaa."
"A name? Who cares? Just name it whatever and leave me alone."
Already poor Mischa was getting frustrated. A name was important! It wasn't something you should just decide to get it out of the way! Their little leaf deserved a good name, or at least one that had taken some thought. "Nyaa yaa!" She protested, waving her arms about angrily. Her motion stopped when her eyes happened to catch sight of a picture that had been set off to the right. She didn't remember this one, nor did she recognize the person in it...
Noyama was there, Noharu too, but there was another girl. She looked about their age, purple hair like them and the same skin tone. However, she lacked the fox ears and tail both of the twins had, and her eyes were a rather bright shade of red. "Yaa?"
"That's Karoko. She was pretty...interesting, I guess. She just kind of vanished one day, though, never heard from her again."
Karoko...? Aha! Yes, Mischa liked it! "Nyaa yaa!" She squealed, pointing behind her at the flowerpot set only a few feet away.
The guardian blinked once before staring at her for a few seconds, then her eyes drifted up toward the flowerpot, and much to her "servants" surprise she smirked. "Fine, if it'll shut you up."
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:00 am
Babysitter-to-Be. Thumpthumpthump.
...Thumpthumpthumpthumpthump.
"Nyaa?" Mischa asked carefully from her place on Noharu's shoulder. The teenager pushed her reading glasses up and glanced sideward at her, ears flickering. "Just leave it, they'll go away eventually..."
"Yaa..." This was the one time of day Mischa could honestly say she enjoyed. Noharu read the paper all through the day as if she had the time and nothing else to do, but for as long as she'd known her the early morning had been set aside, no matter what, to sit and read it all the way through. From what Mischa knew, she read EVERYTHING, from the front page to ads to the comics which she never seemed to find funny.
But still, she was calm, a side of her seen at no other time. Mischa had thus far at this time been able to question, prod, or even just talk to her around this time without risk of being thrown at a wall or something. Sure, she hardly seemed to be listening, but it was probably as good as she was going to get...
She wasn't one to try and push her luck, but the knocking at the door had gotten very annoying, very fast, and each time it echoed through the house it got noticeablely later. She couldn't help but be curious as to who was there. Maybe-
"YAAA!" Mischa screeched, shooting up into the air to cling to the ceiling above. Wide-eyed, she stared down at the female who had just come through the wall as if a ghost...she was, sort of. Yes, she recognized her...
So did Noharu, but she didn't seem to care about her arrival enough to even look up. "You know, when someone fails to open the door it generally means you're not welcome, though honestly I'm surprised you didn't float through that wall earlier."
The newcomer smiled bright, holding a hand up and tilting her head innocently. "Oh my, I suppose you're right about that, but I just had to come and see you. It has been so long, Noharu dear."
"You can drop the act, Lockee, what is it you want?"
"...Fine." That sweet smile shifted into a cold glare as the cat-eared girl plopped down on the couch beside Noharu's chair, leaned forward and lifted a hand. "I can't take those damn little monsters Noyama has anymore. That one--Akilah, was it?--she's the worse. When she's not terrorizing me at my own home--which I lived in first I might add--she's run away or something and has the whole household constantly complaining or someone crying about it. And--what the hell is that?"
Wordlessly, Noharu nodded over to the flowerpot on the table between the couch where Lockee sat and the chair she occupied. "The leaf, it's alive. It either likes or hates you, I can't really tell." And really, she didn't care. "It doesn't do much but hum occassionally. Supposedly a kids going to come out eventually."
"Lovely," Lockee hissed, rolling her eyes and leaning back, stretching her arms out. "Anyway, I did come here for a reason..." Only when she realized Noharu would say nothing else did she continue. "I want to stay here." That certainly got her attention.
"Excuse me?"
"I want to stay here. Stay with you and this...freaky little demon thing clingy to your ceiling."
"Nyaaa!"
"Shut up, Mischa. Now Lockee, I don't like strangers too much and I'm not exactly fond of the whole you live with Noyama thing. Infact, if you weren't already a spirit, or ghost or whatever, I'd probably have a knife to your throat. Now, give me one good reason why I shouldn't call the Ghostbusters and have your sorry a** hauled out of here?"
Lockee's eyes flickered to the humming leaf thoughtfully. She was certainly a manipulative thing, and she knew just what the other girl wanted to hear. "I'll take care of it for you, the kid I mean, when it comes."
After that, there was no hesitation.
"Deal."
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:30 am
As you look at the leaf the next time, it's hardly wiggling and trying to get out of the soul. The athmosphere starts to get creepy inside the room and the whole air seems to become pretty dark for one moment and is normal again within seconds. And there's this strange emotion coming from the leaf...
Please answer the prompts to make little Karoko grow
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:36 am
"....NOOOHHAAARRRUUUU!"
The teenager grimanced, clutching the paper she was holding (and reading, thank you) tighter as the loud screech came from Karoko's room. Or what WOULD be her room when she could put it to use, anyway.
Yelling hurt her ears, so instead of screaming back (as much as she'd have liked to), she rose from her chair and hesitantly entered the other room, somewhat surprised by how it suddenly felt so...creepy.
Well, this was different...
"S-somethings wrong it!" Lockee hissed, rushing behind Noharu and glaring out from behind her at the leaf. "It's gonna kill me! IT'S GOT AN EVIL SPIRIT IN IT!"
"Look who's talking," Noharu snapped, pointing out in the hall, clearly signaling her to go before edging toward the leaf. It WAS being weird... "Karoko?" She questioned slowly, not expecting an answer as far as words, but...
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:40 am
As the leaf's name was called the creepy athmosphere vanished. The plant instead popped out of the soil and started to float around the room slowly until it attached itself to one of the walls. Upside-down !
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:46 am
Noharu had a way with words...kind of. Her ears lifted out of instinct, suddenly alert, the only thing she could manage at first was, "...What the hell?" Now, many would've been creeped out by now. Like Lockee, for example. However, Noharu refused to be intimidated by a leaf, even if they wouldn't be a leaf forever. And she intended to prove it.
"Alright, young lady...or man...or whatever! You come down from there RIGHT NOW!"
Between Lockee's screaming and Noharu's voice getting higher in volume as well, it only made sense Mischa would've noticed SOMETHING was going on by now. Assuming Lockee had done something to poor Karoko, she rushed into the room only to find the leaf...hanging from the wall?
"Nyaaa?" She questioned Noharu, who turned to her sharply and pointed up at Karoko.
"Get her down. NOW."
Not one to argue (with Noharu), the tiny demon nodded her head rapidly before guliding up to the leaf, tilting her head to the side. She didn't yank her off the wall just yet, but instead made a face as if to ask 'Hey, what's wrong?'
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:50 am
The leaf seemed to move slightly and was slowly changing from green to black. It almost seemed like it shuddered as it allowed itself to sway to the ground. As the black leaf hit the floor it quickly covered everything with it darkness until the whole room was black within seconds.
As quickly as it had appeared the darkness vanished again and on the floor sat a small girl, looking quite guilty at her mother.
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