The storm had lasted through the night, raging on into the morning, until it became a light drizzle. With the annoying brat still seemingly asleep, Niruzu had carefully made his way out of the den. He wasn't sure he could handle another dose of her, not so soon, and he didn't want to hear a solitary word in that wretched accent of hers. She was aggravating to him, to say the least, and he felt a silent getaway was the best of all. Only.. it wasn't much of a getaway.
"Damn jungle," he said with a curse, paused for what seemed the hundredth time as he tried to untangle vines from around his ankles. He lurched, ripping wildly, until he had freed himself with quite a bit of noise, then began to trample through the greenery again. He muttered, throwing around a gaze, and headed towards the sunlight streaming through the trees.
She'd found him easily, though she'd woken long after he had. This jungle was her home, and had been for as long as she could remember... he wasn't liable to get away that easily. Bright eyes peeking down at him from ontop a large boulder with vines and shrubbery growing on and around it, she smirked to herself. Even the jungle was on her side, it seemed.
Shetani crept down, silent as a ghost behind him as he got himself free and headed towards a small meadow where a tree had fallen recently. She knew it well and sped up, skirting around him through the shadows to get into the meadow before he did.
Once there, Shetani draped herself over the fallen log, dusty sunlight twinkling all around her, and she laid her head upon her paws at the place he was liable to appear. "Good marnin' t'ye, luv." Shetani batted her eyes in the manner of mocking flirtation.
As he broke through the foliage to find the meadow, his first thought was to curse himself. She had gotten him good and lost in the depths of the jungle, and the only way he knew to get out was to keep walking until he saw sunlight brighter between the trees. He hadn't planned on coming into the meadow.
His second thought was another curse - but at her, and himself for leading himself into a trap. "What the hell do you want?" he said with a soft growl, thrashing his tail wildly behind him and stalking into the clearing. He set his pale eyes on her in a glare, teeth gritting as he watched her. How the hell had she possibly managed to get ahead of him? Sure, he was a bit clumsy and made a lot of noise, but wouldn't he have.. seen her or something?
"I need to get out of here, which way leads me out?" he almost demanded, though at the end he tried to remember to be at least a touch grateful. It still came out in a rather irritated manner.
Shetani regarded him with poorly veiled amusement. Oh this was really far too easy! Poor boy, she should probably take pity on him... but that wasn't going to happen.
Criss-crossed tail behind her swished and thumped happily against the log. "Mmmm change yer ton mit qwick thar, don'chyee?" She laughed and raised her head, "R, y'tryta'teeny rate. Why shuld'i be 'elpin' ye when ye so blassed rude?"
He grumbled under his breath at her, and had he been just a little less mature, he probably would have stuck out his tongue and made a face at her. He glowered at her with a side-glance - it was quite a surprise that smoke wasn't rising from his ears in his anger. But when wasn't he angry?
"I'm not very good at talking without being rude," he hissed slightly, only further proving his point with the emotion laced into his words. "I just want to get out of this blasted jungle, alright? I don't like games.. and s**t.." He shrugged, rolling his shoulders, and stalking to the other side of the clearing to peer through the trees. No good, it all still looked the same.
"Weeeeeel if ye don' loike shite, y'may no' wanna go in dat dye-rec-shin, luv." Shetani chuckled, "El'phent waste dump thar be."
After a giggle the girl got to her feet and jumped off the tree trunk, moving over to his side again, "But, iffn ye wanna be gettin' out'o dis jungle, den ye may wan'stop insultin' h'it... an me."
He stopped at her words, making a disgusted face at the direction of jungle he was examining. Elephant waste, huh? Well, at least she had stopped him from going there - that was a small, very miniscule brownie point for her. That still didn't mean she wasn't annoying as piss though.
"Fine, fine, I'm sorry, alright?" He huffed, turning to look back at her, face just as grumpy, but somewhat less pissed looking. He wasn't sure he remembered how to smile, or how to whipe the grump off his face completely. but he'd try if it meant the annoying girl would lead him out of the jungle. Maybe once he was out, he wouldn't have to see her ever again. That sounded pretty good.
"Will you please show me the way out of the jungle?" he muttered, staring down at his feet as he said it so he wouldn't have to look at her.
"Nope!" She replied with a grin and turned away. Shetani took a few steps away, then turned againt o face him. She sat down, the grin growing wider on her maw. "Y'dinnit mean h'it when ye say'd h't. So, Oi'm no' ganna 'elp ye."
He growled slightly at her, picking up a paw and jutting it at her with anger already boiling up on his words, "you are a pain in the a**, you know that?" He turned away from him irritably, choosing yet another random direction, and going to examine the trees and what he could see beyond.
"I don't know how to mean it, ok? I don't apologize." He humphed slightly, turning away from the trees to glare at her.
"Tha' much be ob'vyus." Shetani snorted. She got up and began to follow him. "an ye. Bu' ye're jus' as bigga one, y'ken?" The girl laughed a little, "Act'ly, prolly bigg'ah. Oi kin say sor'hey when oi need ta. I jus choose notta mos' de tyme."
He glanced over his shoulder at her with a huff, taking a few steps, then deciding to just go this way. He figured that she was going to follow him, so he just buckled up and let her. She would probably go away once he found the border - after all, she seemed to live in the jungl and he didn't think she would leave just to annoy him.
"What's your name anyway?" he asked, trying to change the subject from his 'pain in the assness' and to something more conversational. If he had to put up with her for a little while, he might as well have an interesting conversation while doing it - or as interesting as possible.
"Sh'tani.." She smiled at him as she came up by his side. Unlike him, she had little issues making her way through the jungle, allowing her to catch up to him with ease. "Y'even go'a nahme?"
"Sh'tani?" he asked slowly, blinking, then with a little more confidence in his voice, "Shetani?" He shrugged slowly, tail flickering as he made his rather clumsy way along at her side (though no doubt she passed him at moments when his feet got tangled), "it's Niruzu."
"Tha's wut Oi say'd ain'tit?" She raised an eyebrow at him. "Oi'd say'tisa pleesur ta meechye, Nayruzoo, only t'ain't."
Shetani couldn't help a soft snicker and jumped up over a small pile of fallen, rotting tree. She landed gracefully on the other side and waited for him to scramble his way over. "y'jus gunna keep walkin' 'round 'ere, eh?"
He shook his head at her words. Didn't she realize she had a really wretched accent? He decided not to comment on it sense she was already griping about how it wasn't too nice to meet him. "Yeah, yeah."
He frowned at the log, giving a leap, but landing with one back paw on it. It went through the bark with a smushing crunch, and he grumbled as he kicked his paw to get rid of some of the leftover residue and woody bits. "Yeah, since you aren't going to tell me how to leave. I'm not just going to see there and wait for my insides to rot out." He glanced up at her with a frown, then continued on his way.
"Well ye're goin' da wrung whay." She sing-songed. The girl hadn't lifted a paw to help him, much more interested in teasing and torturing him. When he moved on, she hopped right along after him. "Tis an' interestin' puhlayce dis. All kindsa whays t'git lost, iffin ye don' know whar ye're goin."
He sighed, stopping still and staring down at his paws. His body tensed, paws on the verge of tracing claw marks in the earth. "Well if you'd quit being such a damn pain, and tell me the way out, maybeI wouldn't get lost," he snapped, his voice rising with quite a bit of volume. He heard a few birds fly from a tree, turning in another random direction and beginning again. He wasn't in the mood for this s**t.
Shetani giggled. All she did was giggle, a highpitched highly amused note that run off the trees as much as his yelling did. Shetani couldn't help it, the giggles dissolved into guaffs and she fell onto the ground in a fit.
He stopped as he heard her giggling, throwing a glance over his shoulder, and then with a growl of rage he began to stomp off. Damn her, damn the jungle, and damn it all. He tripped, trampled, and stomped his way throught the foliage until he got far enough away to drown out those stupid giggles. Giggles were gone, but he had just pushed himself farther into the jungle.
It didn't matter, though. He couldn't hear those damn giggles.. anymore.
