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Post by Keisko Azuma on Jan 9, 2010 15:27:55 GMT -5
Keisko, having finally found the beach that Akio had talked about, walked onto the beach to find it crowded. Looking briefly, she saw a spot that was clear of all people.
She walked to the spot and took off her bag and threw back her hood. Her pale blond hair was waving in the cool afternoon breeze. The sun was beating down on her face and Keisko welcomed it. She closed her eyes and laid down on the warm sand. It had been so long since she'd been to the ocean and although she wanted to look at it, she also wanted to just relax and enjoy her moments of peace.
She didn't care she was in Ookami, she didn't care that she was in a Kuma territory, she honestly didn't care about anything. She was just glad to be able to escape to a place and not have to wander. She just laid there on the sand, letting her mind settle and letting her face take in the Vitamin D it craved.
She sighed to herself and before long she drifted into a deep comfortable slumber.
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Post by Tekka King on Jan 9, 2010 17:11:11 GMT -5
Tekka scanned the area from her spot atop a sand dune. Sand, water, screaming kids, towels, and sunburned fat guys, must be the beach. She slid down the pile of sand and reeds and made sure her orange locking bracelet was covered by another bracelet before trotting down the shore. For once, it was a good day to get lost. The sun was shining, it wasn't too hot or cold, and there was no threat of being brutally slaughtered for wandering into enemy territory.
She closed her eyes as she walked, finally getting to the slightly more secluded area of the beach where the prospect of tripping was much less likely. Her shoes had their laces tied together and were hanging around her neck with her sock inside of them and she wore a red and black fedora-like hat that was tilted to the side slightly and covered short blond hair. Her jeans were traded in for a pair of loose jean shorts that came down to her knees with various pockets, her shirt and hoodie combo had been swapped with a plain white t-shirt. She could have easily passed as a boy if she were to change her voice a little.
As she thought back to the events of the day that had led up to this, her bare foot caught on something. Her eyes flew open as she tumbled to the ground, effectively filling her mouth with sand. She spat and coughed out the grainy substance and rubbed at her eyes, turning to face who she had tripped over.
"Sorry!" She croaked out, voice hoarse from the sand and the coughing.
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Post by Keisko Azuma on Jan 9, 2010 19:18:34 GMT -5
Keisko was jolted awake suddenly. Her shine had a small ache in it like it had been hit. Looking down, she saw a girl... well she had the eyes and face of one, but at the moment she looked more boyish than anything. She was coughing alot from the sand it seemed. Then she croaked out a sorry.
Keisko moved to help her sit down and get the sand out of her mouth and lungs. Once the girl regained herself, she started saying sorry with everyother word. Keisko held up a hand to stop her. "Don't worry about it." she said simply with her small smile quirking into an evident smile.
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Post by Tekka King on Jan 9, 2010 20:24:26 GMT -5
Tekka gagged a bit, though she was relieved that the older girl wasn't going to tear off her limbs and make a sculpture out of them for tripping over her. Getting the last of the sand out of her mouth she smiled. "If you say so." She blinked, then pouted jokingly. "Well here i am, tripping over you without even giving you the courtesy of a name." She gave another smile, making certain that the older girl knew she wasn't really trying to be overly polite. "How terribly rude of me, I'm Tekka," Noting that her bracelet-covering had fallen off she scratched the back of her neck awkwardly and held up her wrist.
"And as you can see, I'm in Tora. Who are you?"
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Post by Keisko Azuma on Jan 9, 2010 20:34:49 GMT -5
Keisko froze and looked down at the girl's hand. Tora. She was in Tora... Gritting her teeth, she shook the girl's hand and tried to relax.
"I'm Keisko. Ookami." She said holding up her arm showing the green wristband attached. She kept her teeth grit and tried to fake smile. This was the first Tora she'd run into since the man in the alley. That man was the reason she even joined a clan... To get back at Tora...
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Post by Tekka King on Jan 9, 2010 20:47:40 GMT -5
Currently oblivious to the elder's tension Tekka continued to talk. "Cool! That means you get to go to the Ancient Gear Amusement Park and not get challenged to a duel at every ride, right? I've never gotten lost over in that area, so I wouldn't really know." She nodded decisively. "Nope." She turned back to the Ookami. "Hey," Tekka had finally tuned in to Keisko's nervousness. "Are you okay?" Her face was filled with concern.
"You don't look all that good. Are you sick or something?" She cocked her head to the side, legs crossed and hands on her knees. "Or are you not allowed to talk to other clans in Ookami? But that wouldn't make sense, I've met people from that clan..." And like that she was rambling again. Finally catching herself she stopped.
"Sorry! I haven't let you get a word in edgewise, have I?"
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Post by Keisko Azuma on Jan 9, 2010 21:03:45 GMT -5
With her teeth still gritted, she listened to the Tora girl ramble. Then she asked if she was okay. Was she okay? Health wise, yes. Otherwise, no.
She shook her head at the girl. "No, I can talk to other people in other clans." Her teeth were still gritted. She didn't want to judge the girl based on her clan but she couldn't help it. It was like an instinct to be defensive and on edge with Tora clan members. One insident caused it and now she'd grown so accustomed to the feelings of hate with that clan. She thought about saying something more but didn't want to start snapping at the girl, so she stayed quiet like normal.
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Post by Tekka King on Jan 9, 2010 21:39:12 GMT -5
Tekka's smile faltered. There was definitely something up, Keisko hadn't begun acting hostile until Tekka had shown her clan bracelet. It took a few seconds before the figurative light bulb went off in her head and she could have smacked herself. Something, Tekka wasn't sure what, but something had happened to make this girl hostile to Toras.
"Keisko?" She asked, looking the other girl straight in the eye with an unwavering but hopefully not threatening gaze. "You're not fine, are you?" Tekka looked down, it's not like she could make assumptions, but she had to know. She looked back up. "If I'm bugging you, you can say so," She broke into a wry grin. " Hell, my own clan does that all the time." She paused. "But I have a feeling it's not me, is it? It's Toras in general, right?" Tekka could only guess how awkward this would get if she was wrong.
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Post by Keisko Azuma on Jan 9, 2010 22:35:59 GMT -5
Keisko nodded at Tekka. She had hit it right on the spot. "Well... it was a few months ago..." She stopped not wanting to get into it but feeling like she should explain her hostile behavior to this young girl. She sighed and continued. "I had just got back into town and this guy asked me to duel and I refused. He followed me and when i rounded a corner, he shoved me against a wall with a knife to my throat. He told me he wanted to duel and he was recruiting for Tora... I got mad, kneed him in the crotch and summoned Night Wing Sorceress. He ran away." She said telling the story for the first time to anyone. It made her feel less hostile towards the girl infront of her. Obviously she was nothing like the guy... "That was why I got into Ookami... Well that and my friend..." She said smiling thinking of her crazy friend. "I'm sorry..."
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Post by daisymayduke94 on Jan 9, 2010 23:04:49 GMT -5
Luna was in Kuma clan territory but didn't care she was told there was a beach and she wanted to surf she hadn't been surfing since she was ten and she had been good at it. One of her many nanny's let her go and had her taught by her son that was my age but had been doing it his whole life. She smiled and rode a wave all the way in to the shore and saw two girls very close to each another she automatically looked for there clan bands or something that showed what clan they where in. She noticed the older one had a Ookami band on her wrist and smiled and decided to introduce her self to the girls. She unzipped her wet suit now only wearing a bikini and walked to them.
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Post by Tekka King on Jan 9, 2010 23:17:40 GMT -5
Tekka gaped at the idea that one of her clan mates would do something like that to a person. She managed to subdue the desire to find, threaten, and/or beat the crap out the guy, but pounded a fist into her open palm. "When I find that guy he is so getting a beat down." She muttered to herself while Keisko finished the part about the mugging.
As she finished her tale, Tekka smiled. "S'okay. First impressions are typically a big deal. If something like that had happened to me, I'd probably be wary of the clan too." There was a moment of comfortable silence before she blinked. "Wait," Tekka began looking all around and gripped the top of her head. "Where the hell did my hat go!?"
As her frantic search for the hat commenced, she felt a gaze on her back, turning around she saw an older girl come over dressed in a bikini with white hair.
Grinning at her in her signature (but completely natural) creepy grin Tekka spoke. "You wouldn't have happened to see a hat around here, would you?"
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Post by Keisko Azuma on Jan 9, 2010 23:23:00 GMT -5
Keisko nodded with a smile as Tekka rambled on about beating the guy down. Then looking up, she saw a girl walking up in a bakini and carrying a surf board. On her wrist was an Ookami wristband. Great. Another Ookami girl...
She nearly laughed as Tekka started freaking out over her hat, she then turned to the new girl and asked.
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Post by daisymayduke94 on Jan 10, 2010 0:54:24 GMT -5
Luna walked swiftly to them with the with a hat she had just found and said "Is this one of yours?" the smaller one blushed. She then noticed that she was wearing a Tora clan wrist band this made her double take them both.
She looked them both up and down secretly smaller one has brown hair she looked her over quickly and focused on the older one blond short hair and Ookami clan she checked twice about the wrist bands.
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Post by Tekka King on Jan 10, 2010 9:23:13 GMT -5
"Yup!" Tekka grinned snatching the hat and planting it firmly on her blond head. "Thanks for catching it! Can I ask for the name of the savior of my hat?" She grinned wider. New people were usually fun, and maybe being with another Ookami would get Keisko to relax a little more. After all, odds were that they knew each other.
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Post by daisymayduke94 on Jan 10, 2010 22:21:12 GMT -5
"Luna Bikou..." Luna said as she watched them both turn there attention to her. Feeling the stare of them both she threw her surf board in the sand and threw her wet suit over the top of the board. flipping her long white wet hair over her tan shoulder.
"And you all are???" she said more interested in as why two different clan members where hanging out neither of there territory? But just wanting to know the basics first and not wanting to rude she smiled warmly and moved her body to a lose fighting position that they would see as a relaxed position.
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