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Kina gave a slight sigh as her friends seemed to see through her completely. The inside of the bookstore was dusty and filled with the familiar smell of old pages seeped with time and dried ink. From the back the crisp sound of shuffling book covers could be heard as rather aged keeper of the store seemed to be organizing the volumes. Kina stopped once inside, all her worries seeming to melt away slightly, a small dull smile appeared on her face. She loved books. And not just a little. But...there was a very good reason for that...and she supposed if her friends were really going to ask... Rather than seeming to answer Miyako's question, she looked back at the two in her usual calm way. "Did I ever tell you guys what the question was...? The one I want to ask my cousin when I find him...?" she seemed give pause for a moment then went off at a steady stroll down along one of the shelves of the store, running a finger along the spines of the books as she searched for a particular title. "Ah...here it is." Kina was rather used to libraries and searching shelves. She read throughout most of her free time, after all.

"Here..." she took the book more gently from the shelf then if she'd merely been pulling out any old book, though the smile on her face had fallen into a more blank faced melancholy. "this is it." in her hand was a book, a fairly large one, come to that, that across the cover in large lettering said "Kina's Journey." she let the meaning of this sink in. "This book...it was...written by my father when I was a year old." she held it closer to herself looking distant now. "I never really knew my father...he left mom and I before I was born...but at some point he came back when I was a baby...and knowing me then was enough to get him to write this..." she opened the cover, revealing the words.

In apology, and love, to my dearest child, Kina

Kina blinked at the words, her Maboroshi nature most likely the thing which kept her from reacting more strongly now. "...I understand that he must have had trouble...he...he was a Maboroshi too, you know. We aren't very good with things like Love. It's...harder for us to understand." she ran a finger over the words. "My mother was always too depressed to love me...but I think she loved him." she then seemed to frown. "But...if you really love someone, why would you just leave them like this. This book is beautiful, it's become fairly popular and...I've read it so many times, but I still don't understand why someone who could make this book...could just leave." she again looked mellow, her face blank.

"The only person I think may have loved me...is...my cousin." she shut the book. "He's taken care of me and taught me and..." she seemed to pause leading off. "Alot of people say that he can be scary...but I never saw that side of him. When I came to Oto after my mother died, he looked after me ever since. And he's not the kind of person to do that if he didn't like me..." she sounded very certain. "That's why I accept whatever decisions he feels he has to make to do what he thinks is...right. Because, even if I don't fully understand them, I think that I...that we're really a family." she faded off into silence after her heartfelt admission. She had felt the need to try and convey the confusing emotions welling up inside her. The reason that found it...difficult, to speak out against what was likely one of her cousins plans...

She gave pause now, as though giving them time to say...something....

Miyako Chōzō

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TAHp: 55/55
TACp: 55/55
TIMHp: 60/60
Dodge Bonus: 9
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Miyako listened to her story as she spoke. She didn't know the question that she spoke of, but everything was answered in time. Miyako looked around for some books, ones specifically to the puppet arts, but nothing seemed to show itself yet. "I'm sure one day you will find your answer. Maybe that is why he left himself... to figure it out." Urza, who seemed motivated by Kina's story telling, gave her an embrace. Miyako wasn't well known for giving people hugs, so she just stayed back, "Boys can be so difficult sometimes. Thank the heavens there are women in this world..."

She ran her finger past some more books, looking among the titles. Nothing of interest seemed to pop out to her quite yet. "My parents are difficult to understand as well. I... did something that wasn't quite acceptable in their eyes. I never could see the reason why it was so wrong, but I shut myself away from them. They still look at me differently, as if they are waiting for me to change my very way of life. I don't think I ever will..." She trailed off.

Urza released her friend as she looked shocked at the embrace. Urza turned a bit pink from embarrassment and decided to rummage the shelves a bit as she listened to her friends pasts. Urza heard Miayko talk about what a pain boys were. Urza could agree with that full heartedly. All of the men she had met so far where either crazy or trying to kill her, not a good first impression. But Miyako mentioned something else, something she done that was difficult for her parents to understand as well. Urza was a bit curious to find out what that was, but didn't know if it was okay to pry. Urza let it swish around in her brain before deciding to just go for it "What did you do?" Urza asked coyly. She had always been bad at reading situations when it came to high emotional levels, but she assumed it was an innocent enough question.

The next part Kina spoke of concerned Urza a bit. Snake spirits? Human forms? Where those people actually devils from another plain? Urza shook her head. No that sort of thinking didn't apply to this world. There were no angles and devils... Well at least not directly. But snake spirits that could crush a whole town? Urza didn't like the sound of that. 0009 Had been big, but not unmanageable, but something of that size. Well even Urza shuddered to think. "I hope you are right, Kina my friend. Or Maker help us all." Urza looked at her two friends, they both seemed to have such a tough childhood that she felt almost tainted having lived such a normal life for a Knight. "Well worry your heads no more!" Urza saluted the two of them, holding a closed fist over her heart "As long as I'm around I will do all I can to bring happiness and peace! So God Wills Its." Urza gave the two of them a smile, hoping to lighten the mood a little bit.


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Lvl. 6
Hp:90/90
MHp: 72/72
Cp: 54/54
Dodge Bonus: 13
Armor Class: 21*
* If an attack is above the dodge bonus but below the Armor Class bonus damage is halved. Full info can be found Under Armor Class on Clan Page*
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((In case the upcoming bout of my humor passes you by, people in the Maboroshi clan contort themselves while they sleep. Like, Yoga style, but always wake up perfectly refreshed and mellow as always. xd Also Kina is confused because Chishio's seduction roll is a nat 50+20. xd She does have hero worship for her big brother figure though, only because she's young. wink Ahem. And now, ON WITH THE SHOW! ))




Kina seemed comforted by Urza's declaration, another small smile making it's way on her face. "Thanks Urza." she said honestly giving her friend a little hug in return before stepping away with her mellow little smile still in place. At Miyako's declaration, Kina didn't really seem all that phased. "Oh, is that all?" she said in a rather understated manner. "That's not really a big deal. Moku-tan (the suffix used for a casual nickname between peers, as well as the actual rest of his name) told me that because of us Maboroshi's really weird sleeping habbits we should just be happy with whoever we should get to sleep next to us, boy or girl...or someone who's really freaky in bed...or something." the words coming from the girl's rather calm innocent face were almost hilarious. "Cousin Xen told him to stop corrupting me with his dirty thoughts." she blinked looking rather at ease now that she'd sorted out her issues, and was not actually back to searching the book shelves.

"If it makes you feel better though Miyako, I think I might actually have a crush on Chishio-senpai..." she then shifted eyes to the left somewhat dully. "And Kyojin-senpai..." she blinked small round pink tinges appearing on her petit face. "And really the only reason I think that is is because he reminds me of my cousin..." she rolled her eyes to the other side. "Which sort've makes it even weirder..." she nodded to herself. "...so yeah." the girl patted Miyako on the shoulder casually, looking rather unaffected. "It's nothing to worry about." she then went back to perusing a book that was aptly titled. "People who make you feel normal and well adjusted by comparison" . One got the impression that the girl would have accepted her friends regardless of what the general consensus for normal was...no matter what might have been perceived as wrong with them. It was very possible she would have had a similar casual reaction had one of them declared their heritage as being part elephant, in contrast to something as comparatively normal as liking the same gender.

Toshi let the wind slowly die, still occasionally ruffling his hair and sending his clothes askew. He fully let it stop as he gave lunar the last of the milk and split the last of the meat. Then he began to cradle lunar as the cat complied. He tried to scratch it under its chin but it decided to play and bite/claw at Toshi's fingers. He smiled faintly at the cat. Thankful, truly, that it wasn't trying to do real damage. He still felt the slight stings of the marks left on his arms. He smiled as he picked up the cup from the bench where he had left it. Amazed that it was still there. He put the cup into his bag as he sat on the bench in the harbor watching the water. He let the cat circle in his lap as he softly began to get the cat. Lunar purred loudly as it stayed in his lap, content to be petted.

((At the docks))


((The crew of the ship suddenly can see that the man who rushed off towards the large grand shipping house is heading back, this time with a far more spacious entourage in tow. At the head of the party, surrounded by serveral men who resemble body guards is a rather rotund man with large mustache, and very self-satisfied look about him, a broad smirk across his face.))

The rather wealthy looking man seemed rather pleased with himself as he centered his eyes on captain Yoko, a very certain gleam in his eye as he turns his attention to Shinzu, the nearest of the group to him, and approaches with a rather confident swagger, his guards just behind. "Well, well, well," he man said, holding out his hand in a more western greeting, his fingers covered in various expensive rings. "I must say this IS a very unexpected surprise. I was beginning to think COMPETENT bounty hunters were a thing of the past...low and behold though...it seems I was wrong. I AM glad." he wore his rather broad grin the entire time. "I take it you saw my posting for the bounty and are here to collect eh? Well I shall not keep you in suspense." he snapped his fingers, a man carrying a chest in his arms coming around the guards to set it at Shinzu's feet. "The agreed upon amount on the posters...plus a little extra something for your trouble. 360 ryo in all." he said almost too sweetly.



"Tcht," Yoko finally broke her silence as she glared hatefully at the man. "Yizo...so how much does stealing away someone's freedom cost these days!" the girl called out hatefully.

Yizo Gioboro looked rather unphased. "Yoko my dear...it's so very good to see you back...you know how I do hate it when my property is misplaced."



Yukimaru looked livid, bound up like the rest. "You are a liar zam! And a chicken, zam, and also a tiny man with no manliness! The captain does not belong to you zam!"

Yizo merely continued to chuckle. "Please little girl...I do not know what this little stray piece of furniture has told you, but she was sold to me to cover her families debt...according to the official laws of this land, she belongs, to me." he looked back to the ninja. "And as for the criminal Kai...well, he stole from me. And I wish to see him prosecuted by the full extent of the law. The rest of them I don't care about...you can toss them back in the water once you get out to sea if you like."




"You're VERY BAD MAN!" Flonne stated angrily.

"Ahahahaha, morality. How quaint...and irrelevant. This is business." he smiled at the Ninja. "You may go, once you turn them over to me, Shinobi-san...I expect you've much to do, yes?"

Name: Shinzu Akara
LV. 13
Experience: 242/700
Hp: 36
Cp: 156
MHp: 182


Shinzu looked down at the chest for a second and then looked back up at the man. "I'm sorry I cannot do that, they will be turned into the proper authorities in the Hidden Mist, if the Authorities here have no means to arrest them." Shinzu said, stalwart in his beliefs. "Also I should mention that I take offense to being called a bounty hunter, we are no such thing." Shinzu added, standing his ground between The men and the pirates, his arms crossed over eachother. "Now we're expecting someone very important and unless you have papers to prove these people wronged you I suggest you leave."