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Post by LittleBlackCat on Apr 24, 2014 17:13:46 GMT -8
OOC: This thread is continued from A New Semester, A New Beginning.
Atari agreed to accompany her to her home first since she wanted a change of clothes. As they were walking, he called his brother, knowing that the older sibling would be waiting for him patiently like a pet dog at home. The phone rang, and within one ring, his brother picked up. "AATARRIIIIIIII!" his brother screamed into the phone, causing the younger brother to pull away for a second. An expression of annoyance spread on his face as he put the phone back to his ear. "Matsu-nii, I'm finished with school today, but I'm going to the shopping district with a friend." There was a loud shuffling on the other side of the call. In the background, Ryoshi was yelling at Matsu, "What are you doing?!" It was enough for Atari to figure that his older brother was on his way to find him. He let out a heavy sigh.
At that time, they reached Elizabeth's apartment. There on the balcony was an extremely interesting sight. What followed after was even worse. The whole apartment building was shaking from their interactions. Again, Atari sighed. 'What a day...' he thought as Elizabeth finally reemerged in a different outfit. She was still fuming, but they were on their way towards the shopping district.
"AAATTTTAARRIIII!" screamed his brother from the phone. "Ah..." Atari made a surprised sound, having forgotten that he was still on the line. He drew the phone back to his ear and replied, "Matsu-nii. We're on our way there now. See you." With that, he hung up without waiting for the older sibling to reply. Atari continued walking without turning to speak to Elizabeth, "Sorry. When I told my brother that I was heading to the shopping district instead of home, he said he was going too. We don't have to wait for him though. He'll find us eventually."
A couple of minutes passed by, and they finally arrived at the start of the district. There were many shops lined up along the streets as far as the eye can see. They started walking, knowing that the supply store was still a ways away. As they passed a few stores, Atari noticed a bakery and stopped the two of them. "Let's go in," he demanded, curious as to what cakes were available. He did not wait for a reply and entered the bakery. Although he appeared uninterested, his eyes betrayed the childlike curiosity he held. His head turned left and right, observing all of their displays. "They have red velvet, mango mousse... green tea puffs and cheesecakes," he muttered under his breath, reading the names out loud as he stood by the glass display. 'Ah!' Something caught his eye. "L-Lemon tart!" he exclaimed. This caught one of the workers' attention.
The young female worker quickly went to greet him. "Hello~ wel-" she stopped her greeting when she looked at her customer. Atari's eyes remained fixed on the lemon tart, his mouth hung open, with almost some drool hanging out. This did not disgust the girl at all since she seemed to have a different image of Atari in her mind. "H-HI! Welcome! H-How can I help you today?" she asked with much enthusiasm. He did not catch the change in her behavior and immediately asked for the lemon tart. Taking his order, she asked, "I-Is that all, mister? Would you like something to drink?" He looked up - past the girl - at the the menu. Once he decided, his eyes stared into hers, "A milk tea." The girl nodded with a big smile on her face, asking again, "Will that be all for you?" With this question, he finally remembered and turned to Elizabeth, who followed in after him. "Do you want anything? Cake? Or a drink? I'll pay," he asked, offering to treat her.
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Post by Erlkings on Apr 24, 2014 17:43:38 GMT -8
She caught the girls eyes and got a mean look when Atari's back was turned. Giving Atari a glorious smile she said, "I would love one! Your so nice to me." Walking over to the selection she saw a fresh Lemon Meringue pie she pointed saying, "Oh I'll take a slice of that pretty please." She didn't seem to fetch her item with the same enthusiasm. As Atari paid she hugged him lightly and said, "thanks so much Atari." She knew it would embarrass Atari, but it was worth it for the dirty look she got from the worker.
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Post by LittleBlackCat on Apr 24, 2014 18:23:54 GMT -8
None of this phased Atari until Elizabeth decided to cling onto him like she used to. It made him blush a bit, but he kept his composure as he paid for the food. At least he had gotten used to it by now and let her do as she pleased (as long as it did not go overboard). Thinking back, he honestly believed that their level of comfort with each other has increased. He shrugged it off and smiled at the girl. "Thanks," he replied, grabbing the tray in his hand. He turned toward Elizabeth and motioned for her to pick a spot.
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Post by Erlkings on Apr 24, 2014 18:32:37 GMT -8
She picked a spot that faced towards the register so that Atari would be sitting with his back to the worker. As Atari sat down she took her pie and picked off tiny pieces enjoying its nice tart flavor. With a smile she put a piece on her fork asking, "would you like to try a piece of mine?" Letting the fork hover ready to carry it to his mouth. She knew the worker was watching them, and she didn't know why but she was getting a huge kick out of this.
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Post by LittleBlackCat on Apr 24, 2014 19:15:56 GMT -8
Picking a piece of his lemon tart with a fork, he took a bite that would last for a while as he savored the taste. He was in his own world until Elizabeth offered a piece of hers. Since she offered, he did not want to turn her down, yet the thought of her feeding him felt embarrassing. He grabbed the fork out of her hand and took the bite, returning her utensil afterwards. With a pensive look, he thought that the, 'Lemon Meringue doesn't have much of a difference except the creaminess.' The pensive expression on his face did not change until he took another bite of his tart. That happy expression he wore earlier when he took the first bite returned. Some of the girls at the counter could not help but admire him as well after they noticed their coworker staring off into the distance.
Some time had passed, and Atari finished his dessert. "The cakes here taste good," he said while waiting for his companion to finish. In his mind, he thought, 'I'll have to come back here again to try the others.' Casually, he drank his milk tea. When placing it down, he told Elizabeth, "Let's go when you're ready."
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Post by Erlkings on Apr 24, 2014 21:22:57 GMT -8
She took her fork back satisfied and slowly finished her slice of pie. With a satisfied belly she put her little dish on the tray. Standing and stretching her arms behind her head she asked, "ok, where did you need to go first?" Walking out she holds the door open for him to follow. As the door closed behind her she walked alongside Atari as they headed to the next destination.
Thinking back on her fight earlier in the day she asked, "so what did you think of my new soul earlier today?" She wondered if her fighting style resembled Atari's at all, having tried to use what she had learned from watching him, but never asking him outright for help with it.
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Post by LittleBlackCat on Apr 24, 2014 22:15:37 GMT -8
At her question, he thought back to the fight and a feeling of familiarity hit him. "It was good," he said recalling how she shifted quickly and avoided getting injured. As he compared it to his own movements, he added to his statement, saying, "But you were a bit slow. You should do some body workout to help with that instead of depending solely on that soul transformation."
Atari kept walking until a certain someone yelled out his name. "AATTAARRIIIII!" called out the long haired bundle of cheer rushing over to the two. When he turned around to see the culprit, he met with a tight embraced by the older male. "Oi, Matsu-nii... let go of me," the boy stated, anger seething in his voice.
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Post by Erlkings on Apr 24, 2014 22:33:50 GMT -8
Elizabeth couldn't but help let out a laugh when she saw Atari's brother embrace him. She took a step back just in case any flailing from the younger brother was to be had. Personally she felt abandoned by her own family, but seeing them even with Atari's angry voice she knew they loved each other. She stood quietly watching them with a smile on her face not wanting to ruin the moment. She had time to think about it, 'Matsu wasn't bad looking perhaps his whole family just had natural good looks.'
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Post by LittleBlackCat on Apr 25, 2014 0:11:32 GMT -8
Matsu kept hugging his younger brother for quite some time, and eventually, he let him go. When he released his grip and smiled innocently, his face collided with a fist. The older male flew back a few feet causing the surrounding crowd to move aside. Looking up from the ground, Matsu saw the blush on Atari's face and smiled widely. Without any change in his behavior, he walked back to the group, as if nothing happened, with a big smile. Placing a hand on Atari's head, he exclaimed cheerfully, "Looks like I found you!" This caused Atari to clench his fist and grit his teeth. With twitching brows and a pained smile, he muttered under his breath, "At least act your age, Matsu-nii..." What to do with such an embarrassing brother?
Atari turned to Elizabeth and motioned for her to get moving. The three of them started heading down the street with Matsu being the noisy member of the group. 'Ugh... this is why I don't go out with you, Matsu-nii,' he thought to himself, ignoring all the compliments of his doting brother. At long last, they finally reached the supply store, making no other stops along the way. The three of them went aisle to aisle to look for their supplies. When they purchased their items and left the store, a familiar being came up to them.
The older male went forward and intercepted the giant wolf. "Oh! Good boy! Waiting outside for us! What do you have here?" he greeted his partner enthusiastically. This irritated the wolf (as well as Atari, who felt that Ryoshi could have found a better partner). The wolf decided to turn to younger sibling, ignoring his owner and handing over what was in his mouth. "A... bone?" asked Atari. (Off to the side, Matsu was moping at what happened.) Ryoshi began to explain the situation, "I found this skeleton walking around. He had Miss Elizabeth's scent, so I tried to grab him, but he ran away. This was what I could retrieve." Atari thought a bit before yelling, "WHAT?" He quickly turned to look at Elizabeth to see how she reacted to the news.
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Post by Erlkings on Apr 25, 2014 9:28:31 GMT -8
Elizabeth was little surprised to see the big wolf standing outside the store. Thinking to herself, ‘is everyone else I know in the city going to show up today?’ Lost in her thoughts she didn’t catch what had been said, until she noticed the bone in Atari’s hand. Her eye twitched feeling the familiar shadow of a headache that was always going to be associated with that skeleton. Taking a step towards Atari she snatched the bone out of his hand the cool energy falling off it, feeling as it reached out to be joined back with the body as a whole.
Her necromancy tie to the skeleton was strong, but she just couldn’t understand why she didn’t have complete control over it. After months of trying to lay it to rest hadn’t worked, the spirit Masuja having disappeared to who knows where. Or for some reason old ghosts like to annoy necromancers and the spirit really was in there. The only thing she could notice consistently was the skeleton behaved better the more she was around it, but she would be damned if she took it with her to school.
Grumbling to herself she said, “why does god hate me?” Looking towards Atari asking, “want to help me catch a deranged skeleton?”
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Post by LittleBlackCat on Apr 25, 2014 10:28:36 GMT -8
Atari could not just leave Elizabeth to handle this troublesome situation on her own, so he agreed to her request without hesitation. He turned to Ryoshi and asked, "Sorry to ask you to do this... which direction did it come from?" The wolf merely nodded in understanding and turned around to sniff the air. Isolating a scent from the millions around him was a difficult yet amazing task that Matsu is proud of Ryoshi for. (That was how he always found Atari, no matter where the boy was.) In a matter of minutes, the large wolf found his target and bolted in a direction.
With such speed, the brown fur that rested on the wolf's large body danced about. He led through through large crowds of people, cut through several alleyways to the next open street, and stopping at an old-fashioned Japanese bath house. Atari walked over to the wolf and gave him a good scratch on the ear. "Good job, Ryoshi. So this is where that skeleton has gone..."
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Post by Erlkings on Apr 25, 2014 12:19:09 GMT -8
She looked at the bath house in horror. Elizabeth was really not wanting to know what she would find. Some yells were coming from the men’s side of the bath house. With a blush she took the bone pushing into Atari’s hands telling him, “h-here try and coax him out with this.” She crossed her arms waiting, knowing she would not be the one going into that side of the bath house.
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Post by LittleBlackCat on Apr 25, 2014 13:05:08 GMT -8
With a sigh, Atari went in, dragging Matsu with him. Ryoshi stayed outside with Elizabeth, not wanting to get his fur wet if anything were to happen.
As the two guys entered the building, a few men ran out with a towel wrapped around their waist, clothing in hand, and a look of fear on their faces. The owner was stunned at what was happening, not realizing that a skeleton had entered the premises while he was not looking. "Sorry for the trouble! We kind of misplaced something in the baths!" exclaimed Matsu, waving at the shocked owner. The two of them went into the men's bath and saw the skeleton enjoying a nice soak at the far end of the room. It even had a towel wrapped around its skull and a relaxed expression (if any). When it noticed Atari and Matsu coming closer, it waved at them, a bone clearly missing from its arm. Atari stopped a few feet away and lifted the bone in his hand saying to it, "If you want it reattached, we'll have to go back to Elizabeth." At hearing Elizabeth's name, the skeleton turned his head away in a motion to ignore them. A vein popped out on Atari's head and he yelled at the skeleton for attention, "OI! Didn't you hear me?! Besides! What's a skeleton like you taking a bath for?!" The older brother only laughed at the amusement, seeing that his younger sibling clearly started to annoy the skeleton.
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Post by Erlkings on Apr 25, 2014 14:04:07 GMT -8
She watched after the brothers went in as a bunch of boys and men fled from the bath house. By the time it looked cleared out she could hear Atari’s mumbled yells from the front of the building. She walked into the lobby to find the owner was setting up a closed for cleaning sign for that side of the bath, after it was up he closed himself in his office mumbling something about crazy people. Walking through the room before the baths and opening the door to find what had been the commotion.
Upon seeing Elizabeth walk in the skeleton dived under the water causing a wave to come up and drench both Atari and her. Matsu had luckily been out of the splash range. Angry Elizabeth took a step forward about to yell at the skeleton, but her foot slipped and in her panic she grabbed Atari by the shirt pulling him down on top of her.
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Post by LittleBlackCat on Apr 25, 2014 16:15:13 GMT -8
The brown wolf, Ryoshi, could only imagine what was going on by hearing the whole commotion. Ever since Elizabeth entered, there was a loud splashing sound and several people yelling and screaming. On top of that, Matsu's laughter could be heard loud and clearly, echoing from the baths. It only caused the wolf to sigh, having an anime sweat drop on his head, while waiting outside.
Inside the baths, Atari had been pulled down by Elizabeth, who lost her footing with all the water on the floor. He did not have any friction left on the floor either and fell on top of the girl. "O-Ow..." he muttered, pushing himself up with his hands and knees. He was about to complain until he opened his eyes and saw Elizabeth's face a few inches in front of him. It took him a few seconds to comprehend his situation. When he finally did, he shot straight up, and even crawled backwards away from the girl, yelling, "WHY DID YOU PULL ME DOWN WITH YOU?" His face was red with embarrassment, and his brother just continued laughing.
With a frustrated and embarrassed look on his face, he stood up, turned around, and jumped into the bath to wrestle the skeleton out. Why not? He did not care anymore since he was soaked from head to toe and had to end up falling on top of Elizabeth too. 'This skeleton's going to get it!' his angrily thought, pulling the thing out and throwing it in front of Elizabeth, who was slowly getting up.
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