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 Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:21 pm
Kazumi concentrated carefully, all thoughts gone from her mind except those concerning the gathering and returning of her blood. It was hers, and she deserved to have it back. Thoughts like this flooded her mind, not leaving room for anything else, until she noted that her breathing was steadily returning to normal. She shifted slightly, the blood from the wall behind her and the floor beneath her both disappear back into her wounds as they closed up slightly. She did realize that the blood soaking her clothing didn't seem to be lessoning at all though. A faint frown passed over her face just for an instant before fading into the blank expression that was probably now expected from her. Once she felt no more blood beneath her hands, she slowly opened her eyes again, looking down at herself once more.
The wounds weren't entirely closed, and she assumed this was because not all of the blood had returned. She ignored him completely as he shattered the kunai, and instead focused upon herself. Her red eyes focused upon her front as she slowly lifted her hands, grabbing the zipper of her hoodie between two clawed fingers, and slowly sliding it downwards. It was irritating, wearing this blood soaked sweatshirt. She unzipped it fully and then pulled it off of herself, letting it fall to a pile against the wall beside her. This was the first time she'd taken off her sweatshirt, besides to swim, since meeting Suka. Now she was wearing a sleeveless black shirt, which also had the chest torn and ripped, as well as the back. The left shoulder was almost completely cut through, only a few strands of fabric holding it together. The front and back were soaked with a dark liquid, blood from her wounds.
She blinked a few times silently, ears perked and tail flicking at her side. Then she pushed herself up, slowly rising to her feet again. Her head was bowed to the floor, shoulders hunched forward, until she'd stood fully. Now she looked up, shoulders straightening, as she stared straight at Suka, but otherwise didn't move. Her expression was completely blank, and she blinked once before her slightly widened red eyes settled upon him.
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:32 pm
Suka looked over at her as she removed her sweatshirt, noting that her other shirt had gotten pretty torn and he could see a lot of flesh from the angle he stood. Might aswell not wear a shirt at all if it is so revealing already. He was notiing this as she began rising, and turned to her when she did. Once she had settled her eyes on him again he spoke. "How long until you grow you wings do you think?" He spoke very casually, as if none of this had bee more than a little bit of a spar or something...as it had been close to the same as-in comparison at least. He hoped that things would smooth themselves out soon, but him teaching her to heal herself was possibly a very bad thing. She could use her near indestructibility against him for what he had dne to cause the wounds in the first place, how odd. What she could gain from it he would never be alble to guess, but the fact that she was of a completedifferent personality than Karin kept him on his guard. He could not lose to one of his own race, that would be very weak of him and would leave him vulnerable to an ambush. He waited for what was to come next in silence, hoping she would reply and not just stare longer at him, for her gaze was peircing even in it's apathetic lack of emotion.
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:06 pm
Kazumi stared at him blankly, ears perked slightly as she took in his words. For a moment she was silent, just gazing at him through her red eyes. Then she blinked a couple times and looked at the floor. "I don't know..." she said softly, her voice still tainted with a small hissing sound when she spoke. She looked back at him, taking a small step forward before pausing again. Her eyes darted around, noting her bloody sweatshirt discarded against the wall, and the daggers Suka had left laying around since earlier. She frowned very slightly before it disappared once more into the apathetic expression. Her arms were limp by her sides, swinging very slightly when she took anothe step towards him, before stopping once more. She looked dazed, just staring at him blankly, the tips of her newly lengthened fangs protruding from her upper lip, slightly overlapping the bottom.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:15 pm
With the answer that he recieved Suka did not seem to know what he should do next to help her. He continued to watch her, noting the way she took steps, one at a time, in his direction. He was unsure of her itentions, but they did not seem to matter very much to him because he was not going to do anything more then move out of the way if she came at him with an attack. He would move out of the way and maybe try and pin her again. If he had to pin her again then he would not know what to do for her. He might have to wait it out afterall, if her moving right nowwas not really part of a recovery as it semed at first to him.Why she was with such a dazed expression at the moment he could not begin to wonder about. What she could possibly want with coming closer to him, what her intentions were, why she had these intentions...nothing. He stood there unsure of what exactly was about to hapen until she would come any closer. If then she came close enough he might do something about it, but he had no plans for that until it happened...so he waited for it to do just that. For this Kazumi to come closer, almost daring her to with his eyes...though he tried to hide it and shook his head a bit the hair falling into his eyes.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:59 pm
Kazumi blinked a couple times and then took another small step towards him, once more pausing right after moving. She blinked again, glancing suddenly to the floor. Her eyes widened very slightly before narrowing back to normal again. She froze, bowing her head slightly as her hair fell to cover her face, hiding it near completely. She blinked a few more times and then stared blankly at the ground, her fangs pressing just a bit more firmly against her lip as she bit down.
Her eyes stayed focused upon the ground, narrowing very slightly as she stared. Her shoulders slouched forward and then suddenly tensed as the sound of tearing fabric filled the air just for an instant. The already torn back of her shirt ripped through completely near her shoulderblades as two buldges jutted out and then broke through the skin, adding even more blood to her already near soaked shirt. It ran down her back as two indigo wings appeared, almost leathery in appearance. They spread wide behind her, staying still like that for a few seconds. Then she slowly raised her head, blinking at Suka again as she straightened her shoulders. The wings flapped once, kicking up wind, and then tucked loosely against her back. "...they're here," she said in her monotonous yet hissing tone, speaking of the wings arrival, since he'd asked about them shortly before.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:12 pm
Suka looked over at her now and examined her new wings thouroughly, walking over to her and beginning to encircle her as he examined her. He did it quickly though, only going around her once, being a lot closer now than he had been moments before. He stopped directly in front of her though and spoke in a quiet voice so that no one else might overhear, as if there were other people in the room who should not. "You've not much of a shirt left...at all...huh?" he asked this in a calm tone of voice, and for no explained reason he stepped forward and embraced her in a gentle hug. Waiting for what might come because of it, but not caring as that was nott he worst thing in the world for him right now, he could always heal back anyway. This Kazumi seemed to be a bit scared of him just like Karin, though that was only seen when he had looked into her eyes earlier and in that brief moment it did not seem to be as much fear as he had seen in Karin's eyes. Why that was he could not explain, but it was obvious to him that she should not fear him as much as her...if it was apparent at all to her aswell then that fear was less than Karin's for that reason. He wondered when he should tell her how to change back...it was quite simple once he could teach her to retract her wings...
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:44 pm
Kazumi's red eyes followed Suka carefully as he approached and circled her once. Her expression looked blank and almost dazed again, but really she was taking careful note of everything he did, watching his every movement. Her ears perked, then flattened back, and finally perked again as she heard him speak. She blinked at him a couple times, and then slowly looked down at herself, apathetic expression remaining just that- apathetic. Though, for an instant, her eyes widened in fear again as he hugged her. At first she didn't know what he was doing, and expected him to hurt her again like he had so far. Her hand moved upwards towards his arm, gripping it firmly, until she suddenly realized he wasn't doing anything to harm her. Her hold relaxed very slightly, claws just pricking his skin but not quite piercing it. She blinked a couple more times, just standing there somewhat awkwardly. "...what are.. you doing...?" she finally said, in her same, quiet voice.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:20 pm
"Looking..." he said, lying as he had not really planned on doing anything at the moment...but now he really was looking-for something to look at. He scanned her back from the angle he was at now, feeling the way she had her claws stabbing him. After he said this though, without letting go he began to try and instruct her on retracting her wings. "Can you try and make your whole body push, and try and pull the wings in? To do anything else you must learn to do this first...can you try?" he was thinking like a Nightmare would now at least, thinking of himself first while protecting someone at the same time...as he could feel his want to do bad things at the moment and yet with the self control of a Nightmare he resisted. Suka felt good about that, but he would soon find that it was not enough just to feel that way about something for it was much simpler to not care at all as opposed to carring and finding out later that you were wrong to do so. (don't think that made sense) Suka kept silent afterward, watching her wings and her back and waiting to see if she would be able to do as he instructed without any help from him or anyone at all.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:37 pm
Kazumi's ears perked slightly as he spoke, and she blinked again, remaining silent for a while. She simply stood there, still gazing blankly at him, except he was a lot closer now. It made her feet odd, but she tried to ignore it. Her tail flicked slowly behind her, winding around her waist for a second and then moving behind her once more as it felt the blood running down her back from the wings. Her ears flattened back again as she simply stood there, feeling strange that she couldn't move freely like she had been before. He was confining her to one spot. But, he wasn't doing anything, so she simply remained lightly gripping his arm, her claws like little needles across his skin, still not piercing it. She blinked a couple times as he spoke of her wings again, and remained silent for a moment longer before slowly shrugging her shoulders. The skin on the left was still slightly torn, from where the blood in her clothing, or what remained of it, was unable to return like the rest had. She stared straight ahead at him again, her expression completely blank as she tensed slightly, trying to do as he'd said. Though, she stopped again and looked up at him blankly. "I don't..." She trailed off, watching him silently.
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:48 pm
Suka looked at her and thought for a moment. Maybe there was a reason for her not being able to retract them? Maybe there was a little too much weight on her at the moment and she needed to let a litle of it go. So, instead of instructing her further, he took a handful of the fabric that made up her shirt, and with his fingers through more than one of the rips she'd created in her shirt, he ripped it the rest of the way, causing the shirt to lose all body and begin to fall off, starting from the back. He released her from the embrace and moved his arm so that it was not being gripped by her at all after this. Once that was done he stood back a few paces from her and shoved his hands in his pockets. "Try again..." he said, beginning to instruct her on how she could make it easier for herself, "...try and pull them back as you would pull your arms inside of your sleeves...wih that type of force." Suka grabbed the rim of his pants with his thumb as he waited for her to try, and expected for nothing more than her wings' retraction to come following what he had just done. That which he'd been earlier tempted to do.
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:57 pm
Kazumi stared at him for a moment, completely silent and currently unblinking. She just gazed straight ahead, not moving at all except for her casually flicking tail. Her grip remained unchanging on his arm, not loosening, but not tightening either. She finally did blink though, as he grabbed her shirt. She looked down, watching what he was doing with another almost dazed expression upon her face. She just stared blankly, as if confused, as her pale face flushed the faintest bit red, hardly noticable. She looked up again and then slowly brought her arms up, crossing them lightly over her chest, ears flattened back again even as she took in his words. The scar was very visible now, traveling from just under her left armpit and disappearing into the top of her bloodstained black pants. For a couple seconds she just stood there, debating whether to listen or attack him for doing what he'd just done. But then she bowed her head slightly, staring blankly towards the ground instead of just at him. With newly worded instructions, she focused again, and this time felt the extremely odd sensation of her wings sliding against her skin, withdrawing once more into her back, until it finally stopped, finished. She took a deep breath, since she'd unknowingly been holding hers, and then very slowly looked back up at Suka. Blood was still running freely down her back, the fault of the wings.
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:29 pm
Suka looked her over, and watched her reaction toward what he had done. Nothing had been different from what he expected, nothing important anyway. He noticed her scar, but his attention was drawn away from that when she retracted her wings and thus the purpose for his removing her shirt was fulfilled the right way. So he walked around her, not moving from the distance he was from her until he was dierectly behind her, causing a semi-circle path. He looked at her back, where the blood was still running down her back. He decided that before he told her how to completely return to normal he would rid her of whatever wounds she had (on her back) that needed healing. Without her connsent he walked forward and grabbbed at her bra, accidentally breaking it instead of unfastening it, and then placing his hand on her bare back. There was a painful purple glow that felt hot on her back, as he used his Nightmaric boost of energy to heal her back of the wounds caused by the wings and by his attacking her, internally aswell as externally. Finsihing their healing so that the left shoulder was near healed and her back was completely healed. This took so little time though that htere was not much that could be done and the healing took less time than even the approach, as it was just a sharp pain for one moment. He spoke very calmly, finishing quickly so that he might listen to her if she was going to speak. "I've healed you so that when Karin is once again in control she will not feel so much pain, and so that now you will not be pained at all. Whenever you're ready you may return by doing the same thing as you did for retracting your wings, but for your whole body..." he said this and then listened.
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:50 pm
Kazumi watched him silently again, blinking a couple times before glancing over her shoulder at her back. She stared emotionlessly, and then looked back at Suka. Her ears twitched, hearing his footsteps as her eyes followed his progess around her. She just turned her head though, while the rest of her remained rooted in place. She blinked a couple times as he stopped behind her, not sure what he was planning to do.
She'd just decided to turn around, when he suddenly reached forward and she heard the sounds of here bra breaking. It started to fall, but her arms, still crossed over her chest, caught it and held it in place. Her face was still just the faintest possible pink as she stared straight ahead once more, biting her lip at the sudden burning on her back. She didn't flinch though, simply blinking once and then looking over her shoulder to see what he'd done. She noted that the wounds on both her shoulder and back were mostly, if not completely healed now.
She paused for a moment, and then looked back at Suka, staring blankly. Then she slowly turned back around to face forward wit a single slight nod of her head. She closed her eyes this time, bowing her head to the ground as she kept her arms crossed over her chest. She just stood there, completely emotionless for several seconds, until the flicking tail suddenly wrapped around her waist, her ears flattened back, and her face flushed near crimson as she hugged herself more tightly.
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:04 pm
As she begnan to do this, Suka followed the same path back to being in front of her, but once he was there he continued forward and leant against the wall. He saw her face change colors, and notcied her grab herself more tightly...he was unsure if this returning of emotion was from a successful transfromation or no though because he could not see her eyes. The fact that he was unable to do this restricted him from doing any further then watching. And, though if it was not he would sound stupid, once this happened he asked "Karin?" andwaited for osme sort of reply. He justrealized that he was asking her to return KArin's power over her body while she was ltierally half naked. PAst that in terms of percentage, but the upper half of her body would be completely naked without the bra. He realized how horrible an entrance back into coniousness would be, if when you returned you were without the better half of your clothes. He would not mind.,..of course he had nothing to hide in his upper half of his body. So now he waited for a reply, whether it be good or bad, interested to see her immediate reaction to the bare body that was hers. He wondered for a moment if she was cold now...if she was then her sweatshrit would not help, for it was wet.
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:22 pm
Karin didn't move for several seconds, just keeping her eyes clamped shut and her arms crossed tightly over her chest, trying to hold her broken bra in place. Her face was bright red, and after a couple more seconds passed since his speaking her name, she slowly looked up at him. Her eyes were gold again, narrowed angrily. "D-don't talk to me," she muttered quietly, and then looked back at the floor. Her eyes darted once towards her sweatshirt, but it was still soaked in blood, and then to her shirt, which was torn to rags. She cursed in her head as she shifted in place, tail tight around her waist and ears still flattened back firmly against her head. Then she crouched down, still with her arms tightly over herself, but now with them pressed against her legs as well. She pressed her crimson face against her knees, on the top, and crouched there silently, not moving or saying anything.
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