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A look of happiness fell over her expression as that small smile hit her younger brothers face and with another playful nudge to his side she moved ahead a little way and then settled close by to where he sat.

When the two were together they were all but inseperable.

"Perhaps it wasn't the Ophochio but that's not all that lives in water you know." Hababuu replied with an all-knowing expression. Her eyes snapped over to her fiery red brother and then back again to her much darker pelted sister.

"Fish bite sometimes and bugs. Or maybe she just has fleas." She laughed.

((Sorry it's so late. I've been a bit busy with RL. n.n))

Jini hadn't been expecting such a negative reaction from her family. Honestly, she hadn't been expecting much from them at all- except for an apology from Azima for frightening her so terribly.

Was she really trying to be the center of attention? It was possible. Sub-consciously, at least, but that didn't change that her family didn't seem very anxious about the fact that she'd almost had her tail bitten off by some monster in the watering hole. Jini glowered at Damu and stuck her tongue out at him for good measure.

"Well, no," she answered her father truthfully and bent her head over her tail once more to examine it closely, "but I thought something bit me."

The juvenile considered her sister's words carefully for a few moments and then gasped in surprise and outrage at the suggestion that she might have fleas.

"I don't have fleas!" Jini shook her head and held it high, jaw jutting out stubbornly, "and if I did -which I don't- they wouldn't bite me because bugs are my friends."

Then, Azima's words caught her attention. She watched him laze in the sun and then promptly turned her attention back to her sister. Steal things? Haba didn't steal things, did she?

It was an interesting idea that presented mountains of possibilites for action-packed adventure.

"Haba," she grinned at her sister, intrigued, "What did you steal?"

Azima's fur seemed to fluff up slightly, but he remained laying down. You couldn't say he wasn't afraid of Damu, he was... but he wouldn't try and show that. He snarled back and rolled his eyes. "She's stolen what was rightfull yours Damu, you idiot." His tail was flicking back and forth quickly. "Besides why should I take back a comment for you that was given so graciously to Haba? She's lucky that I even make a refrence to her. She's an evil little twit!" His voice was shouting and his paws twitching, as if he wanted to get up and go hide behind his father. He wasn't stupid... well in the sense that he knew his words were getting Damu more and more upset. And this wasn't at all fair to Haba, Azima hadn't even tried talking to her.


Uumi cringed and he stood, stalking between his two boys and sitting, ears flattening. "Enough you two, I won't hear such words about your siblings, Azima. Damu... calm.. down.." Uumi's voice was stern and deep, but his breathing was increased and he was panicing a little. Obviously this family needed tons of help getting along.

"What do you know of friends, Damu?" Jini spat angrily and ground her feet into the dirt, while glaring vindictively at her lightly colored brother. She was not a blood-thirsty insect.

Her own temper had been sparked by the others that raged around her; terrifying, intoxicating and positively contagious.

"Would somebody please tell me what's going on here?" It was a small, stubborn cry that could easily go unheard by engraged or frustrated ears.

The true meaning behind her brothers' duel may have been utterly lost to her, but Jini couldn't help but experience the full effects of the negative vibes that flowed between their bodies. They weighed down on her shoulders like a pair of ton bricks.

What was with all of the hositility? So what if Haba had stolen something?

She was confused and suddenly frightened, but discinclined to let anybody know it. Jini stood back a little from all of the commotion with her ears flattened against her head and, after recalling her sister's comments about flees, muttered something barely audible from the corner of her mouth;

"I like mud."

(sorry it's late!)

Damu had puffed himself up to a sizable amount. He was already showing signs of becoming quite a large adult, and with his fur on end and a snarl on his face, Damu looked almost...insane. "Shut up, Azima..." His words were laced with the deadliest of poisons. Tail flicking dangerously behind his back, the violent youth began to move forward in Azima's direction, his intent nearly radiating off of him. Yet just as his pace moved to prepare for a spring, his father stepped between them. He stopped short, a bit of the anger immediately dissipating. Not even looking at Uumi, he muttered, "Sorry, father."

He turned and stalked moodily back towards Haba, throwing a slightly apologetic look at Jini. He didn't mean to make his sister upset, really. He didn't mean to make anyone upset, but when it came to defending Haba, he couldn't control himself.

As he reached his twin, he pushed his forehead against her shoulder. Turning his head to glance back at the retreating Azima, his words became hushed and for Haba's ears only. "Don't listen to him. He's just being an idiot." The juvenile shook the little bit of black mane he had, his dark eyes narrowing. "I hope he's got better sense than to wander off alone." Damu left the statement hanging there, the faintest bit of a grin on his muzzle. He wouldn't want Azima to suddenly have an "accident" while off being moody, now would he?

Chuckling internally, Damu removed himself some distance from his sisters, flopping down near the watering hole.

Uumi sighed deeply and shook his head, tail flicking back and forth. Damn these cubs could be a handful, couldn't they? His eyes moved slowly toward the sky, he'd decided to give up trying to get them to get along. Azima had already run off and it looked like Haba would be too. The sky... just like Sye's eyes, just like half of his children's eyes. He missed Sye, she hadn't been around much lately.