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 Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:03 pm
 Shinku watched Shizuka run off before slipping behind the curtain into the changing area feeling awful in deceiving the other. If he hadn't..Shinzuka wouldn't of left. His head pound and the bleeding was starting again causing warm trickles down his cheek.
He focused on disrobing, his fingers where stiff as they worked the Obi belt off hindered by the mud. It unraveled after a moment, slithering to the floor. He let the kimono fall from his shoulder into a puddle of ruined silk about his feet pulling the towel around his waist.
He was just about to step into the shower when the intensed shouting called. Shinku hazel tipped ears twiched. "I'm fine. I was just starting to go into the shower," he said slowly, blinking rapitly. Spot flickered into his vision, lovely, he clung to the wall slowly slipping down to the floor."I-I
m n not fine.." He trailed off, pressing his forehead against the cool wall.
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:17 pm
 Glad to hear Shinku's voice, Shizuka entered slowly, his eyes lowered to the floor in respect. Then the Haka's voice trembled and sounded weaker. In a blaze of beige and black, Shizuka was at the Haka's side. Towel or no, the Haka needed help and he would do his best to ensure that the being had it.
"What's wrong?" he begged, eyes glistening slightly with pressing tears. He smoothed the Haka's bangs away and noticed a gash in his forehead. "Shinku, why didn't you tell me before?"
Praying to whatever higher being he recalled, Shi remembered that when he had been here with Enju and the Gehaka had accidently tripped him onto a sharp rock the herb which stopped his hemopheliac bleeding had been nearby the outside pool. It was an herb that almost immediately closed wounds and accelerated the healing process. Oftentimes, his mother made a poltice to put on his many bleeding wounds so that he wouldn't bleed to death. That was the only choice Shi knew of around and quickly helped lower Shinku to the floor.
"Stay here... I think I know what can help you..." he gently sat Shinku leaning against a wall and ripped a square off the bottom of his dark green pants. "In the mean time, hold this against the wound, applying pressure, and if you feel sleepy... whatever you do, don't fall asleep!"
Shi once again sprung to his feet and ran outside. On the far side of the outdoor spa were the herbal leaves. He grabbed almost the entire plant from the ground and ran back to the shower.
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:18 pm
Shinku tilted his head slightly away. "I really didn't think it was that bad," he muttered, letting Shinzuka postion him against the wall. He took the scrap of cloth pressing it against the two to three inch gash. "I know. Brother tells me that." His eyes became half lidded as sleep began to pressure him. Sleeped healed but not now.
The Haka prodded the wound with a sharp black nail causing pain to flare away the sleep. His cheeks where gaining color though having still the grace to blush from the Gehaka seeing him in nothing more then a towel.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:05 am
Shizuka was back in the showers in no time, grinding a few of the leaves into a mush in his palm. It smelled minty and sweet, but he knew it would sting at first when it hit the wound. At least it would stop the bleeding, if nothing else. He hoped it would heal the wound soon.
"Here... you can move that cloth now," Shi said, stooping just beside Shinku. He gently rubbed a bit of the ointment into Shinku's wound and watched to see if it would stop bleeding. It could take seconds or minutes. "How are you feeling? Is there anything else I can do for you?"
Shi was still covered in mud, but it didn't very well concern him. The mud had started to dry where it wasn't drizzling down his forehead with the sweat.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:40 am
Shinku ears tilted as the strong smell of sweet mint flood. He looked up watching Shizuka walk to him and smiled. 'My we are fast." He dropped the cloth away to show the wound descritetly attempting to wipe away his claw on the towel.
His green eyes winced as it stung for a few moments. He raised his hands touching the mush applied then around it. "It stopped bleeding. What is this?" He questionedm tilting his head up to looking at the Gehaka.
"I.I'm feelling better now, thank you very much. But," he said dryly but in good humor, "it seems we both could use a shower and soak. Would you accompany me today." Till he managed to find his brother. "It will not take long, you must have errans to run for you..." he paused to take in the Gehaka wrists, no marrigace bracer shone. "Mother."
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:51 am
The wound successfully stopped bleeding, providing a great deal of comfort to Shi; It also seemed that the plant had numbed the pain of the wound because Shinku wasn't so pale now. "Yes, it stopped bleeding," he said matter-of-factly, a grin on his face. "It's an herb my mother often uses when I get cuts..."
He paused, wondering if he had let slip that he was a hemopheliac. Even the tiniest cut could put him off of work for days if he was far away enough from home that the bleeding couldn't be stopped quickly. "I... um... I have a condition that it helps with..." he said flatly, turning serious again.
"I'm glad you're feeling better. And you're right; I could use a soak... mud's not exactly the best thing for ivory skin," he smiled again. "No... not many errands today. None that may be finished..." for Shi had alternative plans for the clothes in the box. He could work to pay back his mother for the cost of fabric and time it would take to make a new kimono. The one he had was going to Shinku whether the Haka liked it or not. "Mother can wait. It's practically my day off, anyway..."
Shi went into a shower stall and started the water. His pants were soon mud-free and slung over the edge of the stall. Suddenly he realized something was missing. "Erm... could you bring me a towel, Shinku?" Shi asked innocently. He was ready for a long soak in the spa.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:13 am
A condition? The haka jade eyes shadowed over as intrested and concern completed. Concern won out. "That must be difficult. I hope it is not to threatening." He tried to think of what it could be with his limited knowledge and failed miserably.
He chuckled a warm pleasant sound. "Mud seems to good with nothing." Shinku grinned midly. "That is good, I do not want you to be punished for my indulgence of your pleasant company." He absently pushed his back. He like Shizuka and would feel horrible it the Gehaka was punished because he caused some sort of problem.
Shinku shook his head slightly to release the thoughts as Shi requested a towel. He laid his hand on a fluffy towel and paused to think. Would it be beneath him to peek at Shizuka in the shower? He had such a gorgerouse cut body; Shinku lips pressed in a smile. The trials of being a Haka; he could order but hadn't brother taught him better.
He took the towel setting it on the shower edge. "Here you are." He slipped into the next one, turning on the water, shed the towel and stepped under the steamy spray.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:03 am
"No, erm... not too threatening. But it doesn't help that I'm clumsy," said Shi of his 'condition.' It wasn't a complete lie, but it would do for now. Shi felt Shinku's hand on his back and shivers ran up his spine. Had he noticed before now how gentle the Haka was? Had he noticed the lilt his voice held? Like softest velvet to the ears?
Shi blushed a little as he climbed into the shower and washed the majority of the mud off. He felt as though there were eyes on him coming from somewhere outside the shower. Was someone watching him? He turned slowly, peeking out just as Shinku retreated into the next shower. Soon, he was completely mud-free and stepped out of the shower, taking the towel to dry himself.
Then there came a voice at the back of his mind: Don't you want to take a peek? Just one look couldn't condemn him for life, could it? He pushed the voice away and turned to look to the opposite side of the shower than that which contained the gorgeous, sweet Haka. He was determined not to look... no... he wouldn't...
Would he?
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:17 am
Shinku tilted his head back in the warm spray of water, lips open ever so slightly in pleasure at the rushing spray. It didn't take long for the water to clean his skin but the heat balmed his bruises and acheds.
He skimmed his fingers across a yellowish discolorment across his upper thigh with a tight lip smile. He had fallen harden then he had thought. Not evening noticing the bruise till he had stepped into the heat and flowing warmth. "That is good that it isn't too threatening." He called pulling a strand of hair out.
He ran his hands though the hazel mass, searched, and found it clean of all mud and debree. Now clean, he knelt turning off the water, back to the door.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:24 am
Shizuka stood stiff with his hands to his sides, his eyes closed as tightly as possible as the shadow of the Haka played across the floor. No, he wouldn't look, no! His knuckles were practically translucent from the way he was gripping his hands. Then the water shut off in the shower and he turned quickly.
Just one glance wasn't going to kill him, was it? He wondered if the door swung open what the Haka inside would think of him. Would he be scorned, condemned, his mother dishonored forever because he had been indecent with Shinku? He neared the door of the shower and leaned coolly against the shower he had been in. He nonchalantly leaned toward the door of the shower that Shinku occupied and attempted to peer through...
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:42 am
Water beaded down his skin as he pulled the towel close to start drying his skin. He stood giving his hair a shake to loosen the drops of water that clung to it, before pulling it back in a tail and letting it lose to drape his shoulders.
He glanced at the door and caught himself. What was he hoping? That the Gehaka would take a peek? He snorted slightly before turning his back to the door and draped the towel about his waist. Well..maybe he had hoped just slightly that Shi would.
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:33 am
Shi could just barely see through a crack in the wooden stall door and nearly gasped at the sight of the Haka. Shinku looked almost the same as the Gehakas, but his shape was more slender, more feline and feminine. His hair was much more beautiful, it seemed. Without the wings, he seemed to have a longer torso, a more beautiful shape...
Shi's heart skipped a beat and he sighed. What god was responsible for making such breath-taking beings? What force could engender such a flower?
Enough for now, he thought to himself. I shouldn't be so selfish. He called gently, "Shinku, are you ready for the spa? There are robes here if you'd like to wear one out..." Shizuka didn't know if it was below the Haka to bathe with a Gehaka or against society's rules that they share a spa. Would they do the ritual thing and remain unclothed while they soaked... together?
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:41 am
baby_gwing  Had the violet-eyed Haka noticed Hikaru's unintended slip of the tongue with the pronoun that he had used, he certainly wasn't giving any indication that that was the case as he continued sipping his tea slowly in order to savour its aroma and flavour at his own leisure.
"Hmm... what do you mean by high maintenance Hikaru?"
Aya inquired next with a slight quirk of his eyebrow. Pools of violet lifting to meet Hikaru's own eyes briefly before returning to focus upon the amber liquid within his cup yet again. Hikaru looked away and blushed. "I just... I tend to be very... specific in the way my things are kept. In the way that I keep myself clean all the time. I can't handle disorder or being dirty... it just drives me crazy... really..." Hikaru looked into his tea, it seemed to consume him. He just wanted to drown in it from embarrassment. Had he raelly just admitted to his OCD? He had never just come out and told someone something like that before. Hikaru shook his head, almost chastizing himself mentally. Should he really be expounding such things to a Haka he barely knew? But for some reason, Hikaru trusted Aya.
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:55 pm
Shinku wrapped the towel firmly around slender hips as he turned to the voice. "A robe would be very much appreciated." He padded over to the stall door pushing against it with a fine bone hand. "If you would fetch one for me?"
The door opened slowly and he looked out at Shi. Black hair, ice eyes, ivony like skin, he looked lovely clean from the mud. His eyes focused on the tone body, masacline beauty leaning against the showerwall...had he been spied on?
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:19 am
Shizuka? Spy? Never... the ivory skinned Gehaka strode across the room and grabbed an ivy green and gold robe. He wondered if it would bring out Shinku's eyes or if he'd like it. Did he like the color green? Well, he'd soon know.
Opening the robe for the Haka, Shizuka waited for the slender creature to slip into the robe. He glanced at his pants, which looked to be almost dry, but most definitely clean. His intention had now turned to wearing the pants into the spa; he didn't think he was quite ready to be seen by a Haka outside of his garments... the shy voice from within wouldn't allow it.
"Shall we?" Shi asked, offering an arm to escort Shinku toward the baths...
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