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 Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:11 am
 Dru sat up in a tree. Another tree that she'd claimed by climbing to the highest thick branch that would support her and looked out over the land. She saw her siblings and her mother and their group a bit aways, doing whatever they were doing. Dru smiled. She knew that Mura or Tachi or someone was going to start looking for her soon and join her, but for now she was alone to think. Turning her attention from her family unit, Dru watched the other animals in the area, the predators and the prey. She could see pretty far up this high in the trees. And she saw the animals pairing off into groups of two. That's what made her think.
The pairings, they made her think of her mother and her father. It made her think of Keena and her male. What was the attraction? Would she feel it? Did she want to feel it? What was it, exactly?
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:49 pm
Yuuki felt a lot more confident moving further away from the family group, now that he was older. Not that he'd ever go too far, he had to protect his grandmother and mother, and not to mention his sisters! They all needed his fierce and dedicated protection, which was part of the reason why he was moving a bit further than he normally would today.
He didn't like training too close to his family, in case they got hurt while he practiced. He'd never forgive himself if he hurt them.
He wasn't a large cheetah, his mother having been on the small size when she'd had them, and not to mention she had been only an adolescent herself when she'd birthed the three cubs. Yuuki was determined to make up his size in muscle though!
He moved determinedly towards a clearer area of the landscape, readying himself mentally for his training to begin.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:13 pm
Dru settled into her tree branch, thinking and almost didn't notice the pretty cheetah approaching her and her tree. The pretty pinkness of the cheetah caught her eye, though. And Dru couldn't help but stare. It wasn't that she never seen a white and pink predator before, after all there was Mura, and Dru loved her sister. It was a combination of the cheetah's coloring and her grace as she moved. Dru watched as the cheetah got closerand debated with herself whether or not to greet the graceful female. Finally as the cheetah got so close that she was almost right under Dru's tree. Well, not right under, but ... "Hello."
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:06 pm
Yuuki jumped, startled, at the sound of another's voice and he leapt backwards, away from the noise, feeling foolish for not noticing whoever was speaking to him first. Gah! What a warrior he was, he groaned inwardly, swinging his gaze upwards towards the noise.
Oh! That's why.
While Yuuki's mama was a half leopard, as was his uncles and aunt and his sister, he wasn't really used to being around leopards. His family was mostly cheetahs, or leotahs, but this creature was too big to be a leotah, he decided, eying her.
"...hello," he called back, rather suspicious of the creature. He backed up, out of reach should the..girl? decide to pounce from her tree. He hadn't noticed her earlier, but he wasn't stupid now that he did know she was there.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:03 am
Dru smiled down at the cute cheetah. It wasn't a girl like she'd initially thought because of its coloring and grace. His voice was much deeper than a girls. But Dru forgave herself for the slip up. She'd never met or seen a male as graceful as this cheetah as he walked toward her and her tree. The coloring only added to her confusion because of Mura's similarity. But the cheetah was very pretty.
Dru felt herself blushing for some odd reason and decided to climb down out of her tree. Slowly to get rid of the embarrassing blush. "I'm Dru." She smiled and introduced herself once she was on the ground. He was rather thin and small for a male, but then again she'd never met a cheetah up close before so maybe they all looked like this. Maybe they were all super graceful.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:31 pm
Yuuki was still rather suspicious of the female, and took a step back defensively as she moved down from her tree, though she didn't seem in a rush to attack or anything. Good. He'd hate to beat up a girl.
"I'm Yuuki," he said, in response to her introduction, eying her curiously. Why was she being friendly to a stranger? It was weird. Not that his family was unsocial, but still. For a single female on her own, it was weird.
He rather hoped his sisters would have better sense than to greet a random male stranger on their own like this female was doing.
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:07 pm
Dru tried not to stare at the pretty elegant cheetah. She didn't want to creep him out or anything, but she felt the silence between them was becoming kind of awkward. She just couldn't figure out how to fill it at all. And talking about the weather was sooo boring, it was sure to creep the handsome cheetah out and push this encounter into pathetic and weird. Dru looked around for something of interest, something that would strike an interesting conversation and maybe get the cheetah to, to well like her. Maybe not the way Keena liked her male, and her male liked her, but ... something. Anything really. Maybe.
She spied a shiny rock with purple crystal poking out from the inside. Dru strolled over to the stone slowly so as not to startle the male, after all males according to mom could be twitchy. "Hey look at this! Isn't it pretty?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:17 pm
To Yuuki, the silence was more irritating than it was awkward, and he frowned, glancing over her shoulder to places that weren't near people, weren't awkwardly irritatingly silent. Okay, so the silence was awkward, he had to admit, and he shifted on his paws.
When she stepped forward towards whatever she was after, he tensed, but didn't back away. He wouldn't want to hit a girl, but he would if he had to! She didn't attack or anything, just looked at the stone on the ground.
"I s'pose so," Yuuki mumbled, peering at the rock. The colour looked familiar... "The purple looks like my mums eyes." He flushed at that comment. Way to look tough, Yuuki, he scolded himself.
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:42 pm
"Wow! Your mom has purple eyes?" Dru admitted excitedly. "I can never remember anyone's eye color, but I do have a sister that is colored like you. But without the pretty markings and all." Dru blushed when she realized where her ramblings had taken her. She stopped talking suddenly and bit her lip.
She refused to look at the cheetah, staring fiercely at the purple rock instead. At least she didn't say how he was pretty like a girl. That wasn't something she thought he'd like, because her brothers wouldn't like it. Or that he walked with such grace. Oh! she was a geek!
"Did ..." Dru started but her voiced faded. She cleared her throat and tried again. "Did you want to take it home to give to your mom? Since it made you think of her and all?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:59 pm
Yuuki nodded. "So does my sister, and my grandmother," he added, not sure why he bothered. He had gotten his father's eyes, he suposed, as had his other sister. They had never met the man though, so it was possibly just a genetic trait lost in their own family history somewhere.
He blinked, not sure if he shoudl be insulted or pleased that his markings were pretty but he hesitated. "Your sister looks like me? What does your dad look like?" Maybe his dad was their dad too? He had always been curious of his father, mostly to yell at him for leaving his mum as an adolescent and with three cubs. Not that she'd been alone, what with grandmother and their uncles and aunt, but still!
He looked rather startled at the idea of taking the rock home, and stared down at it. "I dunno...do you think she'd like it?" Did girls like rocks? It seemed like a weird thing to like, but maybe...
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:02 pm
Oh, good he didn't seem to notice her blushing or embarrassment. Dru would have to make an effort not to do anything else to humiliate herself. She tilted her head and lashed her tail at the thought of their father. She wasn't annoyed or angered by his absence. After all they had Mom, and everyone; it was just that she wasn't sure how to answer the cheetah's question. "Well ... I don't really know. He was a leopard that we never met. Don't think Mom even stayed long enough for him to find out about us. But according to her and Aunt Keena, he was something of a - metrosexual? Or whatever that was suppose to mean, but they never really explained it to any of us when we asked. I never really asked. I want to be like my Mom." Dru shrugged differently at the thought of her dad. He was out there living and she was here, living. "He's named Dysi, I think."
Dru pushed the purple rock towards him. "I think she'd like that you saw it and thought of her. Don't all moms and girls like to know they were thought of? At least my sisters do when I bring them back treasures that I've found when out and away from the den."
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:24 pm
Yuuki listened with some curiousity as she spoke of her father, tilting his head to the side. "A leopard, huh?" He asked, somewhat disappointed. It couldn't be his dad then, his dad had been a cheetah from what his mum had told him, and since he and his sister were cheetahs, and his sister a leotah like their mum, it made sense for him to be that species. "Sorry to hear that he's not around. Neither is my dad," Yuuki admitted, not sure why he was sharing, though the sound of the name made him perk up.
"Dysi? My Grandmother used to talk about a Dysi, he used to be in the pride with my family before we left. I didn't really know him, Mum left when she was pregnant." He tilted his head to the side, peering at the female before him with obvious curiosity. "I wonder if it's the same guy."
Yuuki placed his paw on the purple rock, and nodded slowly. "I s'pose," he agreed. "Mum likes all that girly junk too. She used to get happy when this boy Ruu used to talk about how he thought of her sometimes when he travelled. It's gross," he muttered, but he guessed Satomei would appreciate the rock. Maybe they could find someone to make something out of it for her.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:45 pm
Dru nodded in acceptance of the cheetah's sympathy. Not that she needed it, since she didn't feel she was missing anything, but maybe others felt the loss more than her. After all, the cheetah didn't know Mom or Aunt Keena, and couldn't possibly know the over abundance of affection she and her siblings had felt. Plus there was Aunt Keena's male and the little hare that was bound to mom. Dru never felt the absence and no one really could understand it without having lived her life.
"Maybe. But it doesn't really matter. I don't think Mom had any intention of him ever finding out about us. She just wanted cubs and she had them by him rather than someone else." Dru ducked her head and blushed. Maybe that was .... blunt or mean. It didn't sound like something a girl should say. "At least, if it is, I know that he's real and alive." She tried to cover her last statement. Blushing, she bit her lip and flicked her tail and whispered, "Thank you." It was probably meant to comfort her and she'd pushed it aside.
Dru wanted to grimace at herself. Gods she was messing this up. She was just lucky the cheetah didn't turn and run from her and her stupidity.
"If you give her little things like this little treasure, maybe you're Mum won't be so gross with that other guy. She'll grow used to it? Although, my sisters and Aunt Keena don't. So, maybe not. My mom accepts it gracefully but she does gush like the others." Dru looked up at the cheetah. "Well, it couldn't hurt, could it?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:12 pm
Yuuki tilted his head, contemplating her words, before shrugging. "I suppose that's fair. I think Mum wanted us to know our dad but he didn't want to stick around - which was a bit of a jerk move, I think." He fluffed up a bit, irritated at his father - wherever he was. He was protective of his family, especially his mother. He glanced back at the female and looked a bit amused. "Considering you're real and alive, I would say he is too."
He looked curiously back at the rock. Hmm, well there was a thought! "That's a good idea," he admitted. "Maybe then mum will stop being so...giggly around him." Yuuki didn't really think anyone was good enough for his mum, and even though he and the male's offspring got on alright, he still wasn't overly keen at the idea of the male hanging around.
"Even if mum doesn't like it, Grandmother Aiko or Yuuli would probably like it."
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:16 pm
Dru laughed a little awkwardly and blushed. Gods this was more embarrassing than it should have been. But the blushed only increased as he found amusement in her stupid remark. She needed a filter. And maybe a better girl in her head to say the right things at the right times. Maybe Mura would be better at this? Dru thought so.
Fortifying herself against her own silly statements and the blush that would rise when he heard it without her being able to stop them before they left the tip of her tongue, Dru nodded in agreement to both of his comments. That was all she could do at the moment. Her voice wasn't working for some reason and she didn't want to gape at his like a fish out of water.
When he refocused on the purple treasure, Dru felt her throat relax enough to speak again. "See, you need to tend to your females better. So that way when another person comes along they won't be surprised by the gifts or comments given to them. I know my sisters aren't as inclined to accept gifts from strangers, but when we're adults it might be different. And at least they won't be all ... gushy about it and stupid either."
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