"Shi... what the hell are you doing awake?" Ohno's eyes were caustically narrowed as he stared at the white haired man who just stared back leering as if ready to kill.
"Nothing," Shi answered back. "He crawled away and left me with a body...." the vessel allowed the body to fall backwards and lay against the sheets of the bed. "Don't be angry with me for something I didn't do."
"You bastard..." Ohno's eyes narrowed sharply. And just as things....
"Don't talk to me like that. I'm not the one who got his sister killed," Shi leered back.
"Shut up," Ohno hissed suddenly leering directly at Shi who just stared back.
“Hey Matsu was there anyone here when you woke up?" Both sets of eyes turned and found a slate haired boy standing in the doorway of the room. Ohno fell silent and looked away forcing a drain on his emotions to the point he appeared calm again. However, Shi was not one to real with this.
“No," the white haired man leered back at the slate haired boy who simply appeared to sigh back.
What has this got to do with anything? Ohno thought to himself. However, Ryuu appeared to take it a different way and instantly tightened up. “That bastard I told him to stay in here until you woke up," Ryuu all but hissed. Ohno blinked again.
“What are you talking about?” Ohno began. However, he was cut off in that instance and was forced to fall into silence.
“I’ll explain later.” Ryuu answered back suddenly turning. Hold on I’ll be right back.” Suddenly a light exploded, and Ryuu was gone. He's... a Moratorium..... Ohno's eyes widened a fraction in interest. Well now... how did I manage to overlook talking to him? Turning his head upwards, the red haired man eyed Shi again. The white haired man had rested his head on his knees again.
"He's so weak," Shi sighed aloud. "Just giving me control like this.... why is he suddenly so fragile?" A sigh escaped the white haired man again.
"He's just been through Hell, quite literally, Shi... I wouldn't blame him in the least," Ohno answered back looking away and sighing.
"I'm sick of this body.... he wouldn't let me have control when we were in the demon realm but then here he gives it up so willingly.. It pisses me off...." Matsu's one eye narrowed down as he continued to stare at the sheets on top of him. "And he wouldn't even let me out as she was ripping his eye out for damn's sake...."
"You forget who he is," Ohno chuckled causing Shi to look up into the face of the red haired man. "Matsujun is our little Yin.. one of the most pure souls in existence apart from the angels, of course. Everyone here is so special, it seems...." Another half laugh escaped the red haired man.
"You hate him don't you?" Shi sneered looking at the face of Ohno. "You hate him because of Ame..... He's so blind to it, yet neither you nor I am... I could easily take control and push them together and..." A sudden smack rushed across Matsu's face, and Shi was forced to look to the side as the red haired man turned around and walked away towards the corner. "I struck a nerve did I?" Shi smirked.
"I don't hate him," Ohno answered back. "Vessel's aren't meant to have relationships anyways... We don't even have a future. My job is set in stone, and that is all I will look at..." Ohno sighed outwards still not looking at the white haired man but rather down at his hand. His words floated in the air, yet now matter how much he tried to make himself believe it... the image of Ame came back to him, and Ohno found his hand in a fist.
Another shot of light caused Ohno to turn his head and find that Ryuu had returned. A forced smile worked its way on Ohno's face.
“Found him.” Ryuu's voice called, and as Ohno looked again, he found that the dark haired man, Nino, had been all but thrown into the chair near Matsu. He certainly takes matters into his own hands now doesn't he? Ohno smirked a bit to himself as he watched.
“So you must be the moratorium I’ve heard so much about.” Ohno smiled a bit. Better keep the appearances up till I can actually get full fact on everything..... the red haired man let a light sigh out.
“Yea I’m not surprised but I’m tired and sore so I’m going to go back to my room.” Ryuu answered. See you later then... Ohno grinned to himself before looking back at Nino and Matsu. The dark haired man was staring more or less in confusion at Shi who was staring back.
"He won't wake up," Shi sighed rubbing the side of his face where Ohno had struck him. "So I'll just relax in this body for a bit..." Leaning downwards and closing his one eye, Shi kept a calm smile on his face and faked sleep. Nino stared for a moment and then looked at Ohno who simply shrugged his shoulders a bit and smiled a fraction.
"It's this way!" Aiba's voice called, and suddenly Nino's head turned finding the faces of Aiba, Ame, and Elle staring inwards from the hallway.
"Oh Ame-chan..." Ohno grinned suddenly moving forwards as if to seize the teal haired girl into a hug. However, Ame completely ignored this gesture and looked at Shi still faking sleep.
"I thought he would have woken up by now...." she sighed outwards causing a sudden irritation look to form on Ohno's face. However, after a moment, the teal haired girl turned her head and found Ohno's face. "Ah, hey Ohno.... How have you been?" She smiled outwards at Ohno who only managed to force a sudden and very bright smile back.
"Oh the usual good good," he answered back laughing a fraction nervously.
"Ah..." Ame answered turning her head and staring at Matsu's sleeping form.
Ah hell... not this drama again.... Nino thought to himself suddenly very nostalgic and irritated at the idea that childish childhood things were coming back. "Will all of you just leave?" Nino's pupils were suddenly slits of irritation, and suddenly the dark haired man was kicking everyone out of the room and shutting the door again.
Ugh... like little brother like big brother.. constantly shoving people out of rooms.... Ohno thought to himself as he looked at the now closed door in front of him where Nino had shoved everyone out again.
~*~
"He's waking up a bit...." Shi sighed outwards with his eye still closed and an irritated tone now present in his voice. "But I think it would be best to let him rest more... this body is very... worn out...I'm still... ugh....."
Nino's head turned and stared at Shi's face looking up at the ceiling. "Was... it my fault for not being here?" Nino tried as if unsure what to say.
"No... he's just being weak now..." Shi answered back with a sigh. Suddenly Shi's expression suddenly changed, and Nino felt the power change around him. "Nin... o..." Matsu sighed outwards suddenly and quietly.
"Matsu...." Nino sighed walking towards him resting his head on the sheets of Matsu's bed. A pale almost fractured hand reached up and set itself on Nino's shoulder.
"Thank you... for not being gone..." Matsu sighed outwards. "I'm sorry...for being selfish...." In that moment, Nino forced himself up again and scooted Matsu over a fraction before laying himself downwards on the bed and breathing out. Before a minute was up, both men were asleep.
~*~
"Those two are... insanely gay for each other...." Ohno laughed as he walked down the hallway followed by Ame, Aiba, and Elle. The sudden very violent kunai knife that pierced the back of the red haired man's head caused him to fall suddenly forwards face first on the hallway. Aiba jumped suddenly extremely unnerved by the sudden violence of Ame who only continued to breathe out heavily as if suddenly very very angry.
"Don't you even talk like that," Ame hissed kicking Ohno in the spleen even as he rolled on the ground trying to get away from her. The teal haired woman kept at it even as Aiba and Elle had stopped to stare in confusion at the rolling man. "Matsu-sama is not gay don't even joke!"
"Ow... ow.. ow hey ow... ow... Ame!" Ohno all but cried holding his stomach as he continued to roll. "Ow... ow... ow.. owwwwww..... Well come on! Nino just slammed a door in everyone's faces after kicking us out of a room... what do you think they're doing in there?" He asked suddenly and very violently receiving a sudden kick to his manhood that all but caused him to squeak.
Aiba's eye twitched, and all he could do was put his hands up over his face and rest the weird embarrassment that was running up in him. Elle appeared to be trying to divert her attention in any way possible by staring down the hallway, at images on the walls, anything at all to avoid the conversation. "I'm going to break every last bone in your body if you call Matsu-sama gay again!" Ame hissed as she continued to all but kick Ohno along on the floor as she walked.
"So... I'm guessing you like Matsu then, Ame... was it?" Elle asked finally finding that she was between a rock and a hard place when it came to matters of the sorts especially in the confined area that they were all walking in. Ame turned suddenly red and shook her head sharply. "I just don't like lies being spread about Matsu-sama... Isn't that right Ohno?" Ame asked continuing to kick Ohno along. The red haired man had strangely become extremely mobile while being kicked down the hallway.
"Sorry... forgive me...." Ohno all but begged as he continued to roll on the floor spurred only by Ame's constant kicking. "It was just a joke... a harmless joke and owwwwwww ow ow ow.. hey... ow...."
"I'm hungry," Aiba mused suddenly causing everyone to stop and reflect a look of confusion. "Let's go see if this place has a cafeteria.. is that ok?" Ame blinked and then turned her head to the other, Elle and looked as if registering an idea.
"Sounds good, let's go," Ame answered as she continued to kick Ohno along. "Since I just got here, Aiba you get to buy dinner for everyone." Aiba's eyes grew for a minute before he finally sighed in defeat at the teal haired woman and looked into his pocket to find he had a bit of money... not a lot but still....
"Do you want to go to dinner too, Elle?" Aiba asked after a minute. Elle seemed surprised by the offer and was about to say something before Ame seized her around the shoulder with a grin.
"Of course she does. Who in the right mind would deny a free dinner?" Ame challenged causing a nervous laugh to leave Elle.
"Alright...." Elle finally answered unsure of anything else to say.
~*~
Aoi, all but pushed into the very pocket of her own container, sighed outwards as she watched Ryuu and Emiko. The girl, never to be a woman but to exist only as someone else, curled up over her knees and resisted the urge to sob. Her entire existence shouldn't have been, and here Emiko was saying pretty much the same thing. I'm sorry for all this.... I'm sorry I'm sorry..... she thought over and over again to herself to where Emiko could not hear her thoughts. I just didn't want to disappear... I didn't want to have to pass on... I wanted to keep fighting because... because... I wanted.... A strange amount of tears moved down Aoi's face, yet she made no noise to cry. She had changed forms and appeared closer to her actual age of death... thirteen... a child... nothing more and nothing less.... Bringing her head back up, the girl watched as Ryuu disappeared and Emiko was once again alone.
A sudden sob broke into Aoi, and sound followed. She was angry... frustrated.. tired... and unsure of anything she was doing anymore. When I woke up and saw Nino... I was so happy... I was so happy that maybe... I.... why did I think..... she sobbed even louder crying for things she couldn't have and things she didn't know about. She sobbed for all the reasons she had never cried before.... for all the things she wanted and didn't want... and it hurt.... to cry so hard....
"Stop crying..." Emiko's voice was loud causing Aoi to look up in confusion. The red haired girl far off was clinging to herself and holding her hands over her ears. "I hate you... stop crying like that... stop it..... stop it now...you did all this...."
"I'm sorry!" Aoi sobbed back suddenly crying even more. "I'm sorry... so sorry... I'm selfish and a bitch! I know it! I'm sorry!" She broke down into more sobs, and time passed.
