Hiboshi and Tomoe had just finished breakfast and were heading over to the shop part of Hiboshi’s residence when a knock sounded on the side door. Hiboshi went over and opened it to find a red headed kid with a strange look on his face that gave her the impression he had done one too many drugs lately. “Can I help you?” She asked blocking the opening so he couldn’t get in, she glared at him fully prepared to slam the door in his face and deadbolt it.
Tomoe peeked around Hiboshi’s skirt feeling like a small child hiding behind their mother. Not that she had many choices if she wanted to see who it was. Hiboshi was wearing a big western gown that puffed up to make anything below her hips look like a tent, which happened to take up the entire door. So her choice was to look like a child or to try to see from the window. She got an eyeful of who it was and her gaze widened “Leeaif… What are you doing here?” Last she had seen him; he had freaked out and ran into the night. One of her eyes turned blue as Ko joined her to see Leeaif’s return. “What was with before? Are you O.k.?” Tomoe asked noticing the lack of expression that looked wrong on Leeaif’s face. ‘What do you think happened to him?’ Ko asked inside Tomoe’s mind. ‘This doesn’t look right.’ He continued.
‘I don’t know.’ Tomoe whispered mentally. Beginning to feel skeptic and suspicious she pushed her way in front of Hiboshi to take a protective stance between the two. “What’s going on?” She spit out; her worry at the weirdness slowly growing. What if Leeaif had just been a spy this entire time? She apparently thought that a little too loudly because Ko started to deny it ‘No he couldn’t be a spy, I traveled with him all the way here, that doesn’t make any sense!’
‘I was there too Ko. Although I don’t want to believe it either, don’t let your guard down.’
A door opening and closing near the front banged in the background echoing to reach their ears. It was too early for it to be a customer so it had to be that new employee Hiboshi had talked about. “Hello, Hiboshi?” a faint question followed into the now dead silence. Tomoe looked over at Hiboshi and nodded towards the front telling her to get herself to safety in case a fight erupted.
Hiboshi picked up the message and left going to greet the new arrival. “I’m coming!” She shouted as she headed towards Aiko. Her footsteps sounded as they daintily clapped down the hall to the bar until the room was filled with silence. Tomoe stared up Leeaif from directly in front of him wondering what in the world was going on…
leeaif- the air was cold and the wind was twisting through leeaif's ginger hair. he stood up defiantly, and looked into the horizon. as he adjusted his eyes to the dimmed autum light, he noticed a small child running away from the village's outskirts. she ran like hell; apparently trying to get away from the man chasing her. Leeaif frantically tried to make sense of what was going on, he watched in horror as the rough looking man caught up to the little girl. her large brown eyes shone with fright as the man caught her by the back of her dress. Leeaif felt his anger rise as the man lifted a glowing hand "a magician..." leeaif grumbled with an intimidating look on his face. he jumped off of the cliff he was standing on with poise, and shot into the air like a pheonex. he transmuted a sword, and landed in between the man and the innocent girl. he growled; and slashed at the man with the newly transmutd sword. he shielded the little girl from the oncoming blood with his arms.
she smiled up at him, and giggled a bit. "what is going on?" leeaif asked with a concerned tone.the girl 's smile turned down, and she started talking quickly. she spoke of a leigon of magicians that barged into the town, and started destroying everything. they set buildings on fire, and they spoiled all the food they had gathered and grown with magic. she started crying. Leeaif hugged her, and looked toward the enterance to the village.
Leeaif slowly began to regain concousness, he found himself in front of Hiboshi's, staring in a window in the rain. a crash of thunder clapped, and the lightning allowed him to see inside the house. he was still brainwashed, but leeaif's mind was compleatly normal. he tried to stop himself from knocking on the door; but his body slowly rapped on the large oak door.
"oh god, Tomoe, Maora, please don't open the door! I don't want to hurt you!" Leeaif had figured everything out. and he didn't want to do it! He knocked on the door once more "oh pese dont open that door!" he started crying, eventhough his face was solom an devoted of emotion. just then the door began to open slowly.
Tomoe: “…Hi” She replied awkwardly. She struggled with a loss of what to say when Hiboshi’s voice floated up the stairs to the attic room beckoning that it was time for breakfast. Thankful for a reprieve from the silence Tomoe started towards the door. “So…” she said to Ko, “Do you want to explain to Hiboshi or should I? She’s gotta be pretty confused considering she’s talked to both me and Maora.” “You go ahead; I still don’t understand what’s going on anyway.” Ko whispered as they began to descend the stairs. Shortly after, Tomoe noticed Ko’s presence disappeared. She walked into the kitchen to find Hiboshi setting the table. “Ohayo, I need to explain some things to you.”
Hiboshi turned so she was facing her, squinted at her eyes, then spoke “You’re Tomoe right now, correct?”
“Yes.”
“So do you know what’s going on? Like why Maora is in your body.”
“I’ve figured out enough…” Tomoe went on to explain everything she knew while Hiboshi silently waited.
“Wow…” Hiboshi breathed, shocked into near silence for a moment. “That is something, well eat your breakfast, then I need your help at the bar. It’s been extra busy lately, so much so that I’ve been thinking of hiring again.”
“Again, as in you’ve hired someone recently?”
“Yes, she’s kind and really young but she’s a hard worker…” Hiboshi stopped herself before she started ranting. “Well anyway, sit down and eat!” Hiboshi said sitting down herself. “We have work to do.”
As requested by kamichama karin s here is everyone's profile:
Tomoe:
A mysterious character who likes to keep her secrets-secret!
Age: She won't tell
Background: She laughed when I asked
Scars: many
Skills: sword, horses, archery, fighting.
WARNING: May have multiple personality syndrom, and violent tendentcys.
Looks: Beautiful but dangerous. Black hair and eyes, is Japanese, has pale skin.
She is dressed as a samuri-the armor not the robe type- and has her long hair flowing down her back and refuses to put it up. She is short and thin. Also she has bangs.
Height: 5'0
Leeaif Terranay:
Age:17
Eyes: Purple
Hair: Bright orange/ginger w/red stripe
Skills/Weapons:Magic sword/?its a secret
Background: He is a shy and modest boy who was run out of his home when it was attacked. He traveled to Japan in hopes it would be more peaceful there. He is a skilled swordsman but a tragidy left him unable to kill anyone or hurt them for that matter. Almost nothing gets him angry but he gets sad easily. Some say he has a short case of depression but he never shows it when he's with people he loves.
Looks:he has shaggy hair. He wears a cloak most of the time. it covers his face some. He has boots with a largly practical feel.
Maora:
Height: 5'3
Eyes: Highlighter yellow
hair: Blonde and shoulder legth
Clothes: boys' clothing such as pants and a warm shirt and boots.
Also wears two barettes on each side of her head. She has bangs also.
Ko:
Height: 5'7
Eyes: Blue
Hair: short and black.
Looks: He is wearing a Kimono.
Hiboshi:
Height: 5'8
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown and long and curly.
Looks: Is wearing a Simple Victorian dress.
Leeaif:
A man smiled maniacally at Leeaif. "You're not quite how I imagined you." Another voice twittered coolly from behind unblindfolding Leeaif the two stood, looking curiously at him. It looked like a brother and sister, they couldn't have been older than Leeaif was, and the boy was holding a knife. The girl whipped out a piece of paper, it was one of the wanted signs. Leeaif twitched and asked the two what they wanted. "My name's Noah" said the girl. "And my name is Collins" The boy piped in. "My dad was killed recently, and we were wondering..." Leeaif's expression lightened when the boy spoke about his father. "And we want to find her! The killer! That magician killed him!" Leeaif was beginning to wonder where Collins was going with this. "And what do you want me to do?" Leeaif asked, eyeing suspiciously. Collins and Noah held up the sign "You are going to find her and kill her!" They said simultaneously. When Leeaif refused, Noah made her way up to Leeaif, and stabbed his exposed neck with a syringe. "We'll see who won't cooperate now."
...
Tomoe:
"Why don't you come and help me try to talk to Ko? I could use some back up and I want to try to explain what happened again."
Maora:
"O.K. Sure." Maora agreed readily, Ko was one of the few friends she had ever had, the others being Hiboshi and Tomoe. If there was anything she could do to help, she would. "Where is he? Or how do we find him?"
Tomoe:
"If you concentrate hard enough you'll be able to find him or if you need to find me later, just think reallly hard about me. It'll work." Tomoe paused for a minute then added happily "Oh yeah! I figured out it worked that way when one of you is controlling my body too. If I focus really hard I can talk to you." Remembering they were suppost to be trying to find Ko she continued with..."Try to find Ko now, just focus." Then she closed her eyes and disappeared.
Maora:
Maora tried it. It wasn't that hard and when she opened her eyes they were both in front of her. "Hi Ko! Can you remember me?" She asked.
Ko:
He had been standing around confused almost like in a dream. Everything was dark. The girl he had been talking to had disappeared only to reappear a little while later with another girl, this one with highlighter yellow blonde hair. They both seemed familiar and he knew he knew them. But he just didn't know who they were. "Kind of." He answered slowly not sure what to say. They both looked slightly disappointed that he didn't remember them.
...
Leeaif:
He heaved heavily, his breath hot and unsteady. Collins and Noah were watching eerily, slowly backing away. "You are our dog, now. Do as we say." The boy chuckled, eyeing Leeaif suspiciously. Leeaif could feel his will slowly slipping away from him....In a flash of alchemic light Leeaif was up, his eyes red. They flashed back for a second; but flicked back to red almost as fast as they changed. Collins held up the Wanted poster to Leeaif, who took it absent-mindedly. Leeaif walked out, brainwashed as someone could be. He vowed to get Maora for the two kids- or die trying.
...
Tomoe:
"So you don't remember us or anything that happened. Nothing at all? Not even a fragment?" Tomoe said after she and Maora finished explaining everything: how they were all stuck in Tomoe's body, what had happened to get them there, where they were right now, and that they had known each other for a long time. But throughout the whole thing Ko had just blankly looked at them, no recollection at all. "No. I'm sorry. I can't remember." He whispered looking sadly down at his feet. The pain on his face made Tomoe's heart ache. "It's o.k. It'll be alright." She said. Wishing she could make him feel better. She walked over to him and hugged him. "It'll be alright." She repeated soothingly.
Maora:
Maora had always suspected they were secretly a couple. But had felt it would be rude to ask.(Although with anyone besides them and Hiboshi she didn't care and would be rude anyway.) Especially now, since he wouldn't even remember it. There was just something about the way they acted around each other that made her think that; He was even nicer than he normally was, and normally he was really nice, around her and she acted human around him. Plus they had known each other before her so she didn't know how they really felt about each other, they could have just been hiding it or too shy to act like a couple in front of anyone. Or... her mental rant was cut off as she noticed Ko was gone. Tomoe got a weird look on her face then disappeared too. Maora looked around confused, what had happened?
Ko:
The shorter girl with long black hair had hugged him and he looked up startled and blushing. Then some odd force took control of him and he woke up in what he now knew was the short girl's body. He had no idea how he had gotten there, but he didn't seem to know a whole lot lately so this was normal. He looked around, it was morning. The sun hadn't come out yet but there was a greyish light like it was about to. He was in what looked to be a girl's room. It had cute and pink furniture and the walls were covered in flowered wallpaper. He looked down and saw that Tomoe's body was only wearing underwear and a shirt that barely went down to her thighs. And she wasn't actually flat chested now that she didn't have on her armor. He looked away blushing and got up out of bed. He suddenly felt as though he was being watched. He saw himself in the mirror and noticed that one of his eyes were black and the other blue. He jumped a bit and then a voice said in his head "I didn't mean to startle you. It's me, Tomoe." He looked confused for a moment then remembered that was the girl with long black hair's name. "Oh...Hi." He spoke out loud.
