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Post by Platinum on Aug 7, 2009 20:02:13 GMT -8
Kira had been walked out in the gardens, something she did more often now that she didn't get as many odd looks for being an 'outsider' although the woman got the feeling that many of the maids still disliked her. Especially that older one that reminded Kira of harpy, or an old crow. Kira had secretly dubbed her 'Medusa'. She did have wild curly hair...
Moving on now, there didn't seem to be any of the maids out and about today, so Kira took this chance to dump her children in Hatori's lap and escape the usually screaming household. Today, Sakura had made a mess of the toothpaste and used half of the mouthwash because apparently Akatsuki had held her down and spat in her mouth. Kira didn't want to be around from when she got a stomach ache from swallowing way to much of that nasty stuff.
Kira stopped in front of a flowering cherry, or a Sakura tree. She grinned slightly. She had named Sakura that because the flowers bloomed in Spring and... Springtime was a special time for her and Hatori...
Kira pondered if she should climb it, but deicded against it and just sat down on the grass at the base, leaning against the smooth trunk. A soft breeze blew her long, silky ink black hair across her shoulder and ruffled the grass around her. Kira sat in silence, her knees pulled up to her chest and just... sitting.
She began to think about things that had recently happened. Shade's cancer, to be correct. Kira had wanted to curl up in her emo corner but it was so loud in there... plus the outdoors seemed to have made her feel slightly better right now. But her thoughts wondered to her child hood. She had been a monster. Killing, and smoking, and mobbing, maiming, burning. She had done alot of things she wasn't proud of. But when Hatori found out, he forgave her of each and every one. She loved that man. God bless him.
Kira heard soft footsteps, and she looked around, and noticed Akito. The head. Kira still wasn't entirely comfortable around the head of the family, so the green-eyed woman bowed her head, hoping Akito would pass right by her. But, as it has been stated before.
Kira hardly ever got what she hoped for.
((Tee hee. I feel I did okay with this one. XD))
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Post by Akkii on Aug 7, 2009 20:11:38 GMT -8
Akito, upon seeing Kira, had thought that it was time they talked. She knew the easy way would be to leave things alone, but she didn't want to be awkward around the woman forever. She stopped a few feet away from the older woman, bowing respectfully, even though Kira wasn't exactly looking at her.
"Ah... you don't mind if I sit beside you, do you?" Would her new voice shock the woman? Personally, Akito preferred her lower voice. But oh well. She ran a hand through her plumb-black, permanently shoulder-length hair nervously as she awaited the woman's answer. Part of her wanted to say 'Never mind,' and walk away, but she stayed where she was, and waited. If Kira said no, so be it. She'd leave. If she said yes, she would sit beside Hatori's wife and talk.
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Post by Platinum on Aug 7, 2009 20:16:46 GMT -8
"Sure, I dun care. It's your property you can sit where ever you want." Kira said to Akito, getting up to return the bow. Those who knew her, like Hatori, would know this was Kira's way of defending herself. Throwing up walls that no emotion escaped and she just acted poliet... but also blank. Unreadable. Almost distant. Like talking to a computer. Or talking to Lawliet with him being all weird...
Kira sat back down, the green eyed woman looked up at Akito.
"You're a vampire now." She stated blandly. Kira didn't sound surprised at all. If she was... ? No one would ever know with the hard walls she had put around herself.
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Post by Akkii on Aug 7, 2009 20:24:07 GMT -8
Akito was almost positive Kira didn't act like this all the time, even if she didn't know the woman well. She didn't say anything though, just sat down. "Just asking." She tilted her head back to look up at the sky, then glanced over at Kira with her vibrant ruby eyes and nondded. "Yes." And awkward silence settled. She finally thought of something today. It was a sucky way to start a conversation, but she didn't want to just sit there quietly and wait for Kira to say something. She was much too impatient for that.
"Ah... how have you been...?"
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Post by Platinum on Aug 7, 2009 20:28:38 GMT -8
"My corner was taken over by little children." Kira stated, keeping a perfectly strait face as she looked Akito in the eye and said this. She scolded herself in her head for sounding like her brother, though. But, also being like her brother, she wasn't going to admit that just sounded really weird.
"How have you been?" She asked, switching the connversationg back toward's Akito direction, brushing a leave out of her hair that had drifted down from the Sakura tree she was sitting under. The black haired woman continued to watch Akito. Wary, like a cat. Ready to spring up and run. Either away from Akito or Medusa if she happened to come out.
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Post by Akkii on Aug 7, 2009 20:45:23 GMT -8
Akito blinked. She'd been unsure how to respond to that first sentence. She knew the Satos... or Aratas or whatever were strange. But maybe this was Kira's sort of... act of defence or something. She couldn't judge. So she just nodded. Then, when Kira asked, Akito shrugged. "Mm... I've been fine. Things have been going well." Then, in a slightly annoyed voice, she added, "My head maid is just bothering me. She's on my case because I'm apparently 'allowing too much money to be spent'." The young head-of-house shook her head. "But I know for a fact that there's plenty of money. And if we run low, I can dip into my personal funds..."
She trailed off. "Da**it. I'm rambling again. Sorry." She would have blushed if it were possible.
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Post by Platinum on Aug 7, 2009 21:12:41 GMT -8
Kira shrugged. "It's fine. The head maid bothers me too." She stated. "She reminds me of Medusa." She said to Akito, playing with a small blade of grass now, concentrating on it.
"She's said some rather pleasent things about me." Kira said sarcasticly, a smirk on her face now. She looked back up at Akito, losing the smirk.
"Hatori hasn't told you yet, about my daughter, Shade, has he?" She asked Aktio, cocking her head.
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Post by Akkii on Aug 7, 2009 21:21:12 GMT -8
Akito smirked a little at the part about the maid. "Yes. She used to be my favorite. Very loyal. But she's annoying. Very much so," she admitted.
Then about Shade, Akito felt a little concerned. Was something wrong? "What about Shade?" She asked. "Hatori hasn't said anything yet. I haven't gotten much chance to speak with him."
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Post by Platinum on Aug 8, 2009 8:44:10 GMT -8
Kira looked down again.
"She has cancer. We found out not too long ago." Kira said to Akito. "Hatori think's it's all his fault. Since it's lung cancer. He's convinced that she got it from second hand smoke from him." She said.
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Post by Akkii on Aug 8, 2009 9:01:17 GMT -8
Akito looked sad. "I'd say I feel sorry for you or something along those lines, but that's the worst thing to say. I wish her luck. From What I've seen... Shade is strong. I think she has a chance of making it. Even if the survival rate ends up being low... I think that she has a chance..." she said. It sucked when someone close to you was sick, and it was very much possible that they would die. She'd gone through that herself, when her father died. And she'd gone through fearing she would die as well. She wondered if she could offer Shade any kind of help. Probably not. Shade probably still hated her, anyway.
"And Hatori really needs to stop blaming himself for things like this..." Akito shook her head and a wave of guilt washed over her. Even if she'd been forgiven for what she'd done to Hatori, how she'd wrecked the happiness of him and Kana... and he'd just blamed himself. She bit her lip. It would have started bleeding if she were still human. She glanced down, not sure what else to say. What would Tohru have done in this situation... G*d, she just didn't know.
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Post by Platinum on Aug 8, 2009 19:54:10 GMT -8
Kira nodded.
"She gets upset if people tell her she'll make it though. And Hatori really does need to stop being so hard on himself about it." Kira said. "It's not his fault, as many people have pointed out to him... but he's stubborn." Kira said with a soft chuckle. "He's forgetting that I used to smoke, too." She said.
((Bleh.))
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Post by Akkii on Aug 8, 2009 20:09:00 GMT -8
Akito smiled a bit. "Yes, smoking... very bad habit. I'm thankful all three of them quit." By all three of them, Akito of course meant Hatori, Ayame and Shigure. Kureno had never even tried smoking, and as far as she knew, neither had the younger ones. She leaned back, holding herself up with her hands. "And... I understand what that's like. To be told that you'll make it, that is. The words had always sounded hollow to my ears. But in the end, I guess they were right, weren't they?" She didn't name anyone. She noticed she was rambling again and shut up, grimacing again. Tohru really was rubbing off on her, wasn't she? Not to mention she'd changed the subject to be about her. It's not like she wanted to talk about herself. She was just comparing this to past experiences...
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Post by Platinum on Aug 9, 2009 6:49:14 GMT -8
Kira nodded.
"I was sick for a long time when I was younger. I got told that, too. But I didn't believe them. I thought certain I was going to die before I got out of highschool... from my illness or being shot." Kira said with a slight grimace. "But being told that you'll make it sometimes just makes you more angry because it sounds likle they couldn't think of anything else to say."
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Post by Akkii on Aug 9, 2009 6:57:30 GMT -8
Akito nodded. She didn't ask about the 'being shot' thing.
"So we both know about that experience," Akito said. "It'll be a good thing Shade has you around. Because I highly doubt she'd come to me..." she added. Then, at the end, she tacked on, "You're a good mother..."
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Post by Platinum on Aug 9, 2009 11:34:18 GMT -8
Kira shrugged. "I try. Sometime I don't I'm very good. I think you're doing well with Mary, too." She told Akito. "It's hard to be a good parent when you don't have any role models, isn't it." It was less of a question and more of a statement. Kira's parents both died when she was hardly eight.
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Post by Akkii on Aug 9, 2009 11:42:34 GMT -8
"It really is difficult," Akito agreed. "But I've had a few people to help me along. If it weren't for them, I'd probably be just as bad as my own mother," she admitted. She knew now that she had acted more like Ren in the past than she'd thought. And she despised herself for it. She glanced over at Kira again. "And thank you... I try my best to raise Mary correctly." After a pause, she asked, "Ah... what about your parents. You probably know enough about mine. But... were they bad? Or did something happen to them?" She kept her voice soft. Parents tended to be a touchy subject for some people. She knew that well enough already.
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Post by Platinum on Aug 9, 2009 11:56:50 GMT -8
"They died." Kira stated blankly. "My older sister took care of my brother and I, even though she's only a year older then me. Not long after that the goverment came and took my brother away." She said. "As you can probably imagine, I was a very bitter child." She chuckled.
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Post by Akkii on Aug 9, 2009 13:58:35 GMT -8
Akito nodded. "Hard not to be bitter, when the people you love are taken away from you," she agreed. She sighed quietly. "Oh, how are your other children? Akatsuki, Hikari and Sakura? Are they doing well?"
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Post by Platinum on Aug 9, 2009 14:35:57 GMT -8
Kira smiled slightly at Akito.
"They're doing well. Akatsuki and Sakura bicker alot, though..." She said. She was slowly starting to slip away from the emotionless mask that she had painted on herself when Akito had arrived.
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Post by Akkii on Aug 9, 2009 14:41:56 GMT -8
"Mm. Well, I'm sure it's not as bad as two certain siblings," Akito said with a light laugh, meaning Ayame and Yuki. "You know, Mary-chan's taking quite a liking to Akatsuki," she added, just because she wanted to.
((Mehhhh. Shall I have 'Medusa' come out. I'm gonna say her name's... =thinks= Suzume. xD ))
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