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Post by wolf on Aug 4, 2009 7:49:56 GMT -5
Hinako sat on the beach after another long, mildly annoying day. She had missed her track meet and she was late to her Hapkido class -not that she hadn't mastered all the forms- because she had to run from the opposing side of town to reach the studio. It was fairly late at this point and she was angry. She didn't care who was coming, she knew the next few words would just fly out of her mouth.
I just want to pretend this is all a dream... That none of it's real... That I'll wake up and find I don't have these powers and I don't see ghosts... That these hollow and arrancar and shinigami... That they don't exist. But I'd be lying to myself... And that's no way to live a life...
As the oncoming reiatsu came closer she turned and said, "What the hell do you want?" A coldness in her voice chilled the evening air. Hinako, despite her small stature, had such a resentment in her eyes for everyone she saw at this point that it could likely send chills down your spine, and likely make you wonder just what happened to make her this way.
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Post by aurius on Aug 4, 2009 9:21:05 GMT -5
Sasuke was walking along the beach at night, he liked it here no one ever came to the beach this late so he could just relax and have a good time. It was after a nice hour long walk that a voice and reiatsu hit him at the same time washing over him like a cold water he realized he had strayed close to someone while walking. Stopping he feels no hunger after all he had just fed on a large hollow so the hunger would be quite for at least a little bit. Taking a step towards the girl on the beach he begins to recognize the reiatsu it wasn’t until the moonlight revealed her spiteful glare that he realized who it was, the girl who hated him.
Stopping in his tracks as like a deer in the headlights he stares at the girl his mouth to dry to say a word. Finally looking down he comes to the conclusion that like last time and everyone else he didn’t belong near her. As he turns to walk away his eyes slightly watery he speaks in downtrodden and dejected tone.
”Sorry” |
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Post by wolf on Aug 4, 2009 15:46:24 GMT -5
Hinako slapped her forhead and jumped to her feet. "For what? Don't apologize for nothing!" Her hand was on her forhead and she looked mildly annoyed. She lowered her hands into her jacket pockets and sighed. "Why exactly are you apologizing? You haven't done anything!" She took a few steps toward him, her eyes were slightly red looking, and what no one could ever see was the lonliness in the eyes that was hidden by a veil of resentment. What no one could ever seem to see was what the resentment was for. What no one could ever seem to see was that the resentment was for the lonliness she always masked behind bright green eyes.
"Stop apologizing so much." She was mimicing her Taekwando sensei again. "YOU haven't done anything. What makes you think you have to say, "sorry" every time you see me? Before you say anything else?"
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Post by aurius on Aug 4, 2009 16:35:57 GMT -5
Sasuke shuffles his feet in the sand a bit pushing a lump of sand from next to his right foot, to next to his left. Looking up he shrugs a little. Mostly he felt bad for being near her, what if he came out. He didn’t like the idea of her dying, especially not because he wanted some company.
” I don’t know…. You seemed really mad at the park…. I just guessed you didn’t like when I was around… Uhm, you want some chocolate?”
Sasuke regretted the statement as soon as it came out, if he gave her something she would have to come closer. Reaching into his pocket he pulls out a bar of chocolate, he had just stolen it before coming to the beach he was going to have it for dinner, but he could get more. He held the bar out as from him as he could trying not to make it too obvious that he was scared to get too close. |
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Post by wolf on Aug 4, 2009 16:54:39 GMT -5
Hinako looked slightly confused. "I don't understand you. You're stammering. What're you afraid of?" She took a few steps closer. "Is it because of what happened at the park?" She took another step closer and this time looked annoyed. "Because you have a power too?" She took another step closer to him, so that she was an arms length from his extended arm. "Because you can't control it?" Her hands never left her pockets as she walked towards him but they slowly retracted from them and went to rest on the back of her head, her elbows pointed outward.
"Beleive me, the worst thing you can do is worry about it." She sighed. "Getting all worked up just makes it worse. At least it does for me," She said, referring to the headaches she got when she used her powers too much or too long, or without really thinking about the correct thing... Whenever she lost focus she would get insane headaches. They could be crippling to such an extent that she would lose the ability to stand. She lowered her hands to the back of her neck so her elbows nearly knocked together. "I'm not afraid. Why should you be?"
What am I doing? Involving myself with others is always a bad idea... Why do I keep... Stop it Hinako, you'll give yourself another headache.
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Post by aurius on Aug 5, 2009 10:29:39 GMT -5
Sasuke stares at Hinako, should he tell her the truth? No she would just run away, everyone ran away. What should he say? By now he is nervously chewing on the chocolate and then he sort of just blurts something out, slowly reverting as he talks to his normal reserved voice.
“Well… It’s different for me... It’s not really my powers im afraid of losing control of…”
Sasuke was stunned by the words that came out of his mouth, possibly the worst thing he could have said. Now she would definitely run away. The resounding sound of the word stupid echoes through his mind as he listens to Hinako’s response rolling a seed between his fingers a nervous habit he had developed. |
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Post by wolf on Aug 5, 2009 15:50:15 GMT -5
Hinako listened with a curiosity that cast aside her everpresent mistrust of others. She wanted to be able to think that what she had seen in almost every other person she had met wasn't always in every being she met.
Fearing the different... It's not who I am. It's not what I do. I am different. Why doesn't he think the same? Why does he- Stop. I shouldn't involve myself with others. It always leads to somethi- but thinking like that, the same way that the sort of people who alienated me on first sight did... I won't be that kind of person.
"Then what are you afraid of?" Her hands left the back of her neck, dropping to her sides as she took a step forward, mentally noting every display of nervousy he was showing. "I'm guessing that you're like me; hollows target you. How many do you think you see every day? How many do you think you fight a day on average?" She closed her eyes, mildly annoyed by the fact that he wouldn't stop stammering. "I don't know about you, but being afraid is worthless when you're attacked by monsters almost every day. Showing it is worse."
She took one more small step forward. "What are you so afraid of?"
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Post by aurius on Aug 5, 2009 16:41:38 GMT -5
Sasuke stares nervously at Hinako, for some reason he felt relaxed, the hunger was subsiding despite her proximity. Struggling for the right way to explain himself, he wanted her to know, for someone to accept it but… He couldn’t just say it right out, who wouldn’t run. I am afraid of eating you? No he couldn’t say that. Then there’s the hollow question. How many attack him a day? How many has he attacked, how many hollows has he eaten?
”The hollow don’t attack me really… They’re afraid of him… Im afraid of him.”
Sasuke panicked as soon as the words came out of his mouth backing up slowly away from Hinako. What would she think, Jeez what a creepy thing to say. Damn why didn’t anything ever come out the way he wanted it too any more. Why is this happening, why does he even care that this girl know what he is? |
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Post by wolf on Aug 5, 2009 16:53:49 GMT -5
Hinako sighed and said, with sarcasm in her voice, "That's not vague." As he started to back up she rolled her eyes.
Stop being so scared Sasuke...
She took a step forward, a slight amount of anger behind her eyes, the kind that she would never let surface. "I don't know what you're talking about when you say 'him,' but showing fear..." She remembered every hollow attack she had endured, continuing, "It doesn't accomplish anything."
Hinako's hands were slowly tucked away in her pockets. She looked at him, a slight bit of anger in her eyes, but not for him. It was for everyone that had demonstrated fear of whatever was out of the ordinary. "If you're afraid of a possible reaction, don't be. Just shoot, I won't laugh, or run or whatever."
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Post by aurius on Aug 5, 2009 18:44:07 GMT -5
Sasuke stood staring at Hinako he places one hand on the ground speaking softly, ”I can do things that no one else can yet that’s not why I am afraid. Bloom”. As soon as the words left his mouth the ground rumbled slightly as a massive apple tree rose from the sand speeding through the life cycle that would normally take years passing in minutes. When the tree finished growing red apples dotted along it the glistening red spheres spotting the twiggy branches of the tree like chicken spots on a child.
He then reached out pulling in an apple form the branches he holds it out towards Hinako. ”I barely understand the nature of my power, I know it stops me from aging, I know I need to eat reiatsu, and I know when I don’t he comes out to feed”. When Sasuke finished speaking he stood hands in pocket waiting for a response, it had felt like a thousand pounds rose from his shoulder telling her what he was. Yet at the same time he felt overwhelmed by the fear that she would reject him for it.
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