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Alexander released the illusion he was currently holding. To most he would suddenly appear sitting next to Victoria. "Hey tori!" He said excitedly to her. He loved messing with peoples heads like that. It was his anti-drug i suppose. "I suppose you already saw me though huh, X-Ray?" The name he gave Leo. He gave off an almost glinting grin. "I can never get past you huh?" He said jokingly as he said most things. "Anyways how are you Tori?" He asked politely still showing off his bright teeth. Tori was the one person he really understood here. She was cold and distant. He could get that. He wont ask why but he understands the reaction. He was once like that too. Now, hes learned to look past the bad. He acts as he does on the outside but, on the inside he is cold and deppressed. His illusions may make everyone else happy when he wants but he can never do the same for himself. Hes the only one who truly has to see the horror that life brings. Him and I suppose Leo.

He put his arm around Tori's shoulders looking for a reaction as he laid back and propped his leg on the other.

The expression on Tori's face was obvious for once. It wasn't a blank mask at the moment. Instead, if you were to look closely, you would see her jaw tense, her temple throb in annoyance, and her hands clench at her sides. If there was one thing that REALLY set her off, besides her name, it was being touched. She had frozen guys for less... The fact that Alexander seemed so calm about the whole ordeal was only pissing her off even more, and before she could do anything irrational, she got up from the bench, his arm falling from her shoulders.

The expression on her face was classic. It just screamed 'don't EVER touch me.' "I'm fine, thanks..." She spoke a bit tightly. It wasn't that she hated human contact all together, it was just that she hated being touched without permission. Tori was very reserved... Touching would eventually lead to feelings, and feelings would lead to disappointment. And disappointment was not something that Tori felt like experiencing again. Her chocolate eyes shifted to meet Taro's, and she granted him a little nod. "It was nice talking to you, Taro, I'll see you around." When her gaze met Alexander's, it was a little tense, but she forced herself to smile anyway. "...Alex.." She acknowledged him before leaving the area completely.

It took a lot to set her off, but not very much to make her uncomfortable. He had just sat down like they were old buddies and assumed it was okay to put his arm around her. Had he not heard of her reputation? Could he not feel the drastic drop in temperature? A sigh escaped her lips, a puff of mist visible when it happened. Training... Yes, she needed more training. Her hands were still clenched, though she hadn't seemed to realize this very obvious fact. "Training..." She repeated in her head over and over again, practically slamming her finger into the elevator buttons, putting in her personal code. Training was something that would relieve her tension... At least she hoped. She was grinding her teeth, and once she realized this she stopped.

Taking a deep breath, she entered the elevator and gave her destination. "Victoria, you should be in class.." The elevator's voice interupted her, and Tori was almost sent over the edge, brown eyes snapping up to the source of the annoying woman's voice, her body literally trembling with her anger. "...Just do it!" If she hadn't known any better, and the elevator's voice hadn't been robotic, she would've sworn she could hear the woman trembling. Almost immediately the elevator lurched, and Tori leaned against the railing as she had only moments before, the fingers on her right hand drumming against it so hard, she could've broken a bone.

Alex smiled a warm smile as she walked away. He slowly walked after her. He had nothing better to do. This might inspire some sparring. He created his illusions once more and got in the elevator before she had. He hid in the corner and snickered a little to himself as he materialized slowly in front of her. "I figured you might wanna release some anger." he said blankly. His face lit up with another grin. "You can freeze me if you want but we both know it wont work." He said calmly but warmly. He knew he had her cornered on the matter. If he had wanted to he could send her into a world void of all senses. He could make her lose herself in all that is nothing. "So try if you want but you will find your choice badly made." he said a little bit grimly. He brightened up shortly after as he awaited her reaction.

For young Haruna, another day, was just another god forsaken, worthless day in her pathetically empty life. Armed with only a backpack filled with stuff which she doesn't need, and a body that didn't even feel like it was really her. Dieing was not the greatest thing to happen to her, neither was finding out she was just like her favorite cards, attached to an object which wasn't living, sure it kept her alive but if this was life, she'd rather take death, the only problem with that is if she tried to kill herself, she couldn't do it because her body was more of a doll made of flesh being controlled by a spirit, then a human with blood running through them.

Her organs had probably rotted away long ago, only her bones remained, as she guessed since whenever she was injured she shed not a single drop of blood. She couldn't remember any of that stuff, what joy it would be to eat, close your eyes and drift off to what people called dreams, feel pain when you cut yourself, feel the heartbeat in your chest, the rising and falling of it from your breaths. Things she did once before but had no memory of ever doing it. She envied those who were living, to be able to feel things she couldn't, it angered her, the only thing he had left were her emotions, but even they didn't feel like they were hers anymore.

Haruna had spent many years wandering around, trying to discover a way for her to live. She left Japan and traveled through China, into Mongolia, and then through Siberia, into Russia. She had to admit one thing to being dead, she never needed to stop and rest, she could travel farther and faster then any human, that's how she believed she made it all those miles in but a few years. Her destination was some place called Germany, a while back she met some strange people who seemed to show interest in her, but she didn't hang around long enough to find out about them. She asked people on her travels and they always said, head west, reach Germany, so that is what she did.

The only problem with wandering, is that you get lost. Haruna came to a stop and just fell to her knees and punched the earth with her small hand and did it several times till her small knuckles started to show signs of injury and then she stopped. She brought both her hands to her chest and clenched them as tightly as she could as her anger swelled up from inside her shell of a body. She screamed as loudly as she could which went off for quite a distance in all directions across the snow covered wasteland around her as she used both hands to start beating the ground, trying to get rid of the anger which had built up. She spent almost 30 minutes lost in her rage, or perhaps it might have been longer, she never could keep track of time. Calming down a little she sighed. "Why does it have to be so empty, it's so alone here, like... me, probably why my this place brings me such anger." Sitting down she slowly removed her backpack and pulled out a long roll of bandage wrap, they didn't do any good, her body healed on its own, regardless of the wounds she was inflicted, but this was one of her strange ways she tried to feel 'human'. After wrapping her hands and tightening them off she placed the wrap back in her pack and pulled out a small bamboo tube and removed the lid and pulled out a map. Scratching her head she tried to figure out where she was going, or at least where she was. Messing her hair in frustration she started to look around for anything that could be used as a landmark. All she was, was tundra, tundra, and more tundra, some mountains in the distance, and sparse tree's all over the place, every bit of it worthless.

Recalling what her sensei had instructed her about survival she looked up at the sky to see where the sun was. As she stared at the sky she fell over and just laid there in the snow, oblivious to what other's would find cold, wearing nothing but a thin cloth of a 'ninja'. A sort of, strange peace came over her as she just looked up at the sky, normally it was cloudy, but today it was rather bright as the sun shawn down at the land below. She thought it was beautiful but if she was alive she'd be dead, frozen as a Popsicle. "Remember, if you know where you are going, but yet are lost, look to the sun, using the direction it rises and sets, you can determine west and east, from that, north and south." That was what she recalled and for the next few hours she remained where she was. Just watching the sun slowly, inch it's way across the sky and then with a rather calm smile she got up and pointed. "So it's that way I go!" Haruna was quickly stopped in her tracks because she in fact had not gotten up, nor pointed, she didn't even speak.

She had remained in place for too long, although not living, her body was still made of flesh, and it had frozen over from lack of movement! Haruna tried to move her hands, her legs, anything at all but no movement was the response that she got. Most people would start freaking out at this point, when this first happened to her, she freaked as well. She was however dead, so didn't have to worry about it happening again, the only problem that faced her was how she would get herself moving and unfrozen.

((for note of reference, my character is in Siberia, she is no where near where anyone is ninja I'll get to where you are at some point, after I get unfrozen xd ))

"Do not test my patience..." Tori's words were bitten at the end, sharp and meaningful. She didn't turn to face him, but her eyes flashed with raw power, fury, and restrain. "I respect your power, though you should definately not underestimate mine." Her words rang true. Although she didn't look like much, Tori was indeed powerful. She had no desire to be classified as an A, and so she had remained in the B category. "I suggest you keep your hands and your tongue to yourself." His hands because she didn't like to be touched, and his tongue because if he kept speaking to her that way, she wouldn't hold back anymore.

The elevator announced its arrival with a ding, and Tori was more than grateful to see the doors slide open and the training arena come into sight. She barely even noticed Kiami, Lucid, and Amico standing there, mostly because of her irritation. Again the room cooled to a temperature fit for shivering, and she all but stormed out of the elevator and into the room. She could still feel Alexander's presence, following her, and her eyes narrowed into small slits.

In the blink of an eye, she slashed her useful arm through the air, bringing forth an extremely sharp blade, which she poised at his throat when she spun on her heel. "Stop... Following me." Her tone was harsh, her eyes still narrowed, her face twisted in a scowl. "I swear Alexander... Stop pushing my buttons if you really wish to keep your limbs.."

Draqx heard the announcement and nodded to himself and noted who was called, seemed like a large group, and the composition was slightly ominious. Draqx made a note to upgrade his supply request from his standard A grade package to something with more oomph.

Draqx got up and started to make his way to the meeting place, using his link through his electronic devices on his person to start the upgrading process, he thought it might be as bad as it might be, an airdrop in location might be a more ideal solution.