"Hey, hey now..." The blue-haired girl whispered, trying to calm the tiny baby she held in her arms. She was not... the best person ever with a child. "Caaallmmm... Look, there's a birdie !"
The small boy blinked, and stopped his crying as he glanced at the blue jay that was perched on the tree across them, as Zero was sitting on a banch. What a pretty bird !
The pitter patter of little steps followed by much more matured once echoed on the concrete path as Tenshi followed after a wobbling Ancelin. Ancelin seeming to be practicing her walking. Tenshi smiled as she kept her arms out incase Ancelin started to loose her balance. Although it wasn't really needed, she was getting good at walking.
Tenshi then stopped as she heard what sounded like another womans voice, looking upward as she held a hand out for Ancelin.
"Anny wait a second." She said, looking up into the trees. Ancelin did as she was told and stopped dead in her tracts, looking up to Tenshi. She then looked up in the tree and tilted her head, before letting out a giggle of delight as she spotted the little boy in the woman's arms.
"Hello up there." Tenshi called, smileing as she looked to the woman, it seemed she had her own Sin child.
"Hm ? Ah, hey." Zero smilled. "How its doing ?"
Tori blinked likewise, but smilled when he spotted the other baby, making a little happy noise.
"You want to go see the other boy, Tori ?"
Tenshi let out a bit of a snikker as she heard the woman reffer to Ancelin as a boy. She then crossed her hands in front of herself gently, lacing her fingures.
"Ancelin here is a girl actually, but I'm sure she'd be delighted to play with your child." She said with a tilt of her head, before looking down to An. "Isn't that right Anny?"
"Es! Es!" Anny cheered, jumping up and down with her arms spread out. She had mastered walking but she was still poor at talking. Tenshi had yet to hear her say a word correctly, but she was getting there.
Zero didn't turn bright red, but her eyes widened like dollars, and looked like she was about ready to hide under the bench.
"Oh, im so sorry, I can never always tell with the youngins..." The reploid looked pretty embarassed indeed.
Tori simpely found this funny, visibely, as he giggeled, the returned his attention on Ancelin, pale blue eyes holding a certain hapinness as he outstretched his arms himself.
"Ga !"
Tenshi smiled and shook her head, before she held her arms out to help the two down.
"It's quite alright. I have a hard time telling aswell sometimes. All babys look the same when you get down to the basics." She said with a giggle.
Anny reached back and scratched one of her wings as she gazed up at the three, waiting for Tenshi to help bring down the boy so she could play with him. She then started bouncing up and down, cheering for them.
"Cooo! Coooo!"
"It's still a little stupid... Ill get slapped for it one day I bet." Zero was visibely trying to be funny, it always helped her feel less embarased.
Ohh, the other one had wings ! Those lovely colors... Once Tori had been set down, he directly clawled to Anny, an hand reaching gentely to the wings. Soft ! "Ga !"
Tenshi smiled after Zero and the child had gotten down, before she folded an behind her back, rubbing her elbow with one hand.
"I've slapped myself for worse. I once called my Master Gabriel father when I first died." She said with a grin, trying to be funny but she probably just sounded bizzar and strange.
Anny smiled as the boy reached out for her wings, she was used to that reaction from people she just met, she enjoyed it also. She gently folded the wing he reached for out and let him pet it, before she reached out and gently touched the black hair/feather thingy petruding from his head.
"Cooo!" pretty, she cooed.
Zero, however, did not seem too surprised... as if she had heard much, much more abnormal. She raised a black and blue hand, that seemed to have a strange circle carved in the palm, and held it out to the other woman.
"I've never died, but I hope never to try it out." She grinned "My name's Zero, who might you be ?"
Tori seemed scared that she would pull on it for a moment, but let her once he figured it would be just fine. He seemed a tiny bit surprised trough, she was the first one to ever do that... He always thought of it as normal.
He let out a coo of thank you, before letting go of her wings, carefull not to pull any feathers. He knew what being yanked on felt like, and it did not felt good >_x
Tenshi smiled and took her leather clad hand and shook the woman's in return.
"My name's Tenshi. Tenshi Kurohano. Nice to meet you miss Zero." She said with a nod, before peering around for a bench for them to sit on.
"Dieing isn't so bad. I've done it quite a few times now. If it's not painful it's just like going to sleep." She said with a nod. Being in her job line she had to of died a few times. She was a mix between a devil and an angel anyways.
Ancelin smiled as the boy let go of her wing. She in turn letting go of the thing sticking out of his head. She hadn't pulled, she knew what it felt like to have her wings yanked on. Onii had done it once and it did not feel good.
"Cooo" She smiled, before sitting down on the ground with a 'thump', so she could be eye level with the little boy.
"Well, I've been told im one of those damn things that never dies, so I guess it works at my advantages ?" The blue haired woman laughed. She was a robot, after all. "I've passed for dead a few times. It's hard to tell on me..." She laid back on the bench, resting the back of her head onto her metal hands.
Tori, likewise, sat down to try to make things a little easier, looking at her with curious little eyes, smilling as well. Why couldn't mama has brought a few toys ? Then he could show his plushies to her ! "Gaaaaaa."
Tenshi smiled and went to sat down beside Zero, listening completely, before she realised there was somthing blocking her legs. She stood up and took a little shiney blue ball out of her pocket, before sitting back down. It was An's, something she brought for her to play with. She then rolled it over to the two infants, grinning before she turned her attention back to Zero.
"Aaah I see. Cyborg or Andriod I'm asuming by your complection? I've met a few like you before then." She said with a smile. Robots and machinery really did amaze her. Since she had lived lives in the past without them, she always found them quite handy and astonishing, not something to take for granted.
"How long have you been active?" She asked, as if asking her age.
Ancelin blinked as she saw her ball roll twards her. She then picked it up and smiled, looking twards Tori.
"Coooo?" she said, holding it out for him. Offering to let him play with it. She kept it so clean and polished up, if Tori looked down at it he could of seen a distorted reflectiong of his face.
"Keen eye." Zero let out, visibely a little surprised, the eyebrow of her scarred eye rising sightly. "Reploid, actually, but that would make me pretty close to an android. As for time, uh.... maybe 5 years or so ? I lose track sometimes." She admitted.
....Ball ! He took it as soon as it was held out, visibely facinated by how reflective it was. Shiny ! Anny was lucky, he didn't have a shiny ball like that ! Maybe mama would get him one later ! "Gaaaa~" He smilled, gentely pushing the ball torward Anny again, when he was done observing.
Tenshi nodded her head and smiled, that sounded neat in a way. And Five years old? Wow, in a way that didn't seem like a long time to Tenshi. years seemed to go by like minutes to her anymore.
"That's interesting indeed." She said with a soft grin. "Where you created with a purpose of fuction? Like a gaurd or care taker or something along those lines?" She asked, her child like curiosity getting the better of her.
Ancelin smiled as the ball rolled twards her on the concrete. It was just a normal old ball you could buy at a store in all actuallity. Just a clear rubber bouncy that Tenshi had bought her and Ancelin in turn covered in car wax to give it that extra glimmer. She then rolled it back to the little quial boy, as if playing pass around.
Zero, visibely, did not mind the questions too much.... probably used to them. "Well... I was an anti-virus unit. I also pretty much acted as a daughter for my creator." Her brow creased as she mentioned her creator, trough.
Tori seemed to get the idea pretty easely, giving a tiny wap as the ball returned to him, sending it spinning in Anny's direction again. That was fun, really fun ! He gave another happy coo.
Tenshi nodded her head as she leened forward, resting her jaw on the palm of her hand as her elbows rested on her knees. Her free hand though just seemed to dangel in some offward direction.
"Aaah I see." She said, sensing a bit of discomfort maybe twards her creator? She dicided not to push the subject farther.
"In all honesty I forget how old I am. Gabriel probably knows though. My souls been around so long I can barely even remember my first life." She said with a sigh, feeling quite old even though her looks betrayed that notion.
Ancelin giggled as she gently pushed the ball with both hands back twards Tori. She spread her legs out to create kind of a bumper wall for the ball, before she looked up to the boy.
"Baaw! Baw goo wooosh!" She 'said' before holding her arms up in the air in exsaderation.
"Well, that happens... That must suck, trough. Trough there are things I wouldn't mind forgetting..." She sighed. "Blah, im sorry. I get all emotional about those things..."
"HU WOOSH !" Tori repeated. Even faster than a plane, yeah ! A plane sure had nothing on the speed of that ball ! So amazing !
"Snd ?" He tilted his head again, visibely wanting her to continue the game.
Tenshi frowned as she looked to Zero, she seemed to be in pain from some odd memory or another. She lifted a hand to reach over and try and comfort the woman, but then stopped and folded her fingures together, maybe she wouldn't be comfortible with that, having just met and all.
"Since your an andriod of sorts.. Can't you have your unpleasent memories deleted? So you wont have to remember them?" She asked, having remembered something to a similar effect she read in a comic book, about house hold computers shaped like humans with feelings.
Ancelin giggled and watched as the ball came zooming twards her, and then hitting her legs. She didn't even have to hit it, it rolled threw the half circle of her legs and rolled back twards the quail boy, which made Ancelin giggle and clap her hands together, impressed.
"ouuuue stwomg!" She cheered, aprently trying to say he's strong.
"I don't like having people go around my memories and stuff. You'll never know what THEY'LL do. Beside... my creator wouldn't approve if I took the easy way out. I guess it is a way to honor his memory..."
She turned her head to face her, as if the eye that had faced her, the one with the scar, could not see a thing. "...And sometimes memories are all you have left."
Of course he was strong ! Tori beamed. "Any swong two !" Visibely, returning the compliment before wapping the ball again, wanting to see if it would do the same thing another time.
Aaaah, that was it. Tenshi realised he must be dead, by the way she was talking. She frowned and nodded in consolense. She knew how much it hurt to loose a loved one.. She went threw that all too many times. She then realised that this woman said she was only five.. So that means he had to die within the last five years. That also ment she probably was the one who picked him up.
"Do you mind if I ask you his name?" She said, wondering if it would come to memory.
Ancelin kept her hands up, maybe it would agian. She then watched as it hit her leg and bounced over it, before rolling over acrossed the grass. Ancelin let out a gasp and quickly got up, chasing after it. She looked back to Tori, as if to tell him she'd be right back. She then ran after the ball, chasing it into a small mud puddle.
The ball stopped and sunk about half way into the mud, she then frowned and bent over to pick it up. She then looked down at it, before her lip began to quiver, and her eyes began to water. A burning feeling built up in her throat, yup, she was starting to cry. She then turn tailed and ran twards the others, going strait to Tenshi as she sobbed.
"Baaaaw! Baaaaaaaw!" She whined, pointing to her mud covered ball.
Tenshi blinked and then let out a soft sigh, shaking her head as she took it from her.
"It's okay Anny, Tori, I'll fix it." She said with a smile, comforting them both since she figured Tori would be upset aswell. She then reached into the baby bag she always carried with her, and got out some moist towlets, before she began cleaning the ball, shining it up for the children.
Ancelin just stood there sniffling and whimpering, whipeing the snot from her nose with a towlet she snatched from the box.
"Takashi Hazuki." She said, idely wondering why she asked. She came from somewhere else than gaia.... It would be unlikely...
But then her attention was sapped by the fact that Tori begain wailing as well, when he saw the mud covered ball. That was his fault, wasn't it ? And now the pretty shiny ball wasn't pretty anymore !
"Shhh, Tori Tori Tori !" Zero squeaked, visibely not the best woman around to handle young babies. "The nice lady it making it all better, see ?"
His tiny eyes widened, and he stared. Mama was right ! What was this, magic ? "Gaaaaa !"
Tenshi continued to clean the ball, easaly going threw six baby whipes to get all the mud off. She then took a seventh and did some extra shining, before holding it up.
"Don't cry! Look, it's alll better. See? No more mud!" She said, before holding it out to show An and Tori.
Ancelin sniffled and in a poor attempt, blew her nose in the baby whipe, she then folded it and whipped her eyes, before looking at the ball. It was clean agian! Good as new! She then smiled and took the ball, before skipping over to Tori, holding it out to him.
"Siiiney!" She cheered, holding it out so he could hold it and see for himself.
Tenshi let out a sigh of relief, she hated to hear Anny cry. And she only did when something was dirty. She then looked to Zero and let out a nervis laugh.
"Sorry about that. Ancelin hates dirt, she always starts crying when that happens."
...It was ! All clean and pretty and shiny !
"Innnyyy !" Yes, yes, shiny !
"It's okay... Ill just say that I want my nights back... That should give you an idea." Zero mumbeled. "If Tori's alone for too long, he cries. And by too long, I mean 5 minutes."
Tenshi let out a sigh, thank god all her kids where starting to grow past that.
"Yeah I hear you there." She said, all her experiance sure ment one thing, many many pains in the neck.
"Onii cried ALOT when I first got her. Same with Sakura. Thank god Oliver's a mute, and Ein's learning to talk, otherwise I'd go insane having four babys in the house." She said, slumping her shoulders. Just talking about it made her feel tired.
Ancelin smiled as she sat back down in front of Tori, before she spread her legs out agian.
"Genble" She said, saying she wanted to play agian, just gentler this time.She then held her hands out, giggling happily.
"I have two and I allready feel my sanity slipping." Zero mumbeled, yet she did not seem too upset about that fact... One probably might be surprised if they heard how many beings she had provided an home ever since she came to gaia, or that a woman that seemed to brash sometimes could be so caring. "One of them is a genie... he's worse than a toddler, mobility-wise. That's an odd story..."
"Ey." Tori nodded in aknowledgement, being careful to twap the ball with less strengh, so that it would not end up in the mud again. Muddy ball are not pretty at all. "Wee !"
Tenshi nodded as she looked to Zero, before she heard a peep going off. She pulled up her shirt sleeve and glanced at a... well not a watch. More like an arm band with a few buttons, a watch, and a big stone built into it. She then sighed and pushed the sleeve back down, bowing to Zero as she stood.
"I'm really sorry, but I gotta go. It's time for me to go to work." She said with a sigh.
Anny smiled as she pushed the ball, and then cought it back, holding it up as she giggled. She then gasped as she was lifted from the ground, holding tight to her ball as she looked up to Tenshi.
"I'm sorry kids, but it's time for us to go. Say bye bye Anny, I'll be sure you see him agian soon."
Ancelin frowned as Tenshi held her up, before she waved down to Tori. She then looked at her ball, and back down to Tori, before tossing it to him.
"Toor kneep!" She smiled, giving him the ball. She then waved over Tenshi's shoulder as she got carried away, pouting faintly as she didn't want to go.
"Ori cae bal !" Of course, Tori would take great care of this present. He waved, even when Zero took him from the ground, as well as the ball.
"Time for us to go back home too, kiddo."
"Ayyyeeeeee !" That was bye, not a scream of terror.
