Aoko Nakamori: 024: [In Person]

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[Somewhere behind some trees there's a girl crying.]

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[9th-pirate-lord.livejournal.com]

[Jack was wandering around, mostly because he was trying to find something to use for kindling to keep his fires going when he comes across the sounds of sobbing behind one of the trees.

He pokes his head around the large trunk and his eyes widened to find the one girl that's made his life very difficult inside the manor. He visibly deliberates before he the better of his conscious wins out and forces him to speak.]

You seem.....troubled.

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[Aoko looks up from where her face was hidden in her knees and sniffles before wiping at her eyes]

Go away.

[9th-pirate-lord.livejournal.com]

[He starts to turn away with a shrug but the whips around and returns to his previous position. It was apparent there was an internal struggle there.]

I would but something is telling me otherwise that you need someone to talk to outside the situation than someone inside.

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[she just sniffles again]

I don't need anyone to talk to-I need you to go away.

[9th-pirate-lord.livejournal.com]

[Jack's brow lifts.]

That's all well and fine.

[He picks up more of the fallen branches and bundles them in his arms and walks off. He would have stayed but the friction was already apparent between them and he did try to help. Getting it offered again will most likely not happen again.]

If you happen to see a beastie, yell. Someone will be sure to hear you.

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

Why? So I can get in someone else's way?

[9th-pirate-lord.livejournal.com]

[He turns around and hides his grin.]

Ah, is that what this is all about? You getting in the way? If you worry about being in the way, then stay where you are and don't come out from hiding to stay out of the way like you think everyone wants.

[And he certainly knows what being in the way feels like since he deliberately does it all the time and makes use of it.]

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

I don't want to be useless.

[9th-pirate-lord.livejournal.com]

Who said you were? If you ask me, in which you hadn't, but if you had, I would say that you're usefulness is needed. You see, there are those that recognize ability and some that don't. It's those that don't that cause failure and the ones that do that surpass. Now, judging from my time here, there are more ability than not.

[He points to the dragon.]

Do you think that's stopping the dragon from trying?

[nofishplz.livejournal.com]

[A while later after Kaito had spoken to Hakuba and calmed down, Kaito went looking for Aoko. He still felt like a jerk for blowing her off like that and he knew he needed to make up for it. So that's why he was heading for the trees where Aoko is.]

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[She doesn't notice him come up-her face is buried in her knees]

[nofishplz.livejournal.com]

[Once he found her, Kaito moves so that he's behind the tree Aoko is sitting under.

There is a puff of smoke and a flap of wings, as a dove (not one of Kaito's regular flock, but one from the grounds he's been taming and training) flutters down to land on Aoko's knee with a single red rose in it's beak.]

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[At the soft weight on her knee she looks up and stares at the rose in it's beak-]

....Kaito?

[she glances around for him]

[nofishplz.livejournal.com]

[Kaito peaks out from behind the tree, grinning sheepishly.] Uh, hey Aoko.

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[she quickly faces forward to wipe her eyes because no way was she crying over him.]

Um... Hi...

[nofishplz.livejournal.com]

[Kaito doesn't really move from where he is, feeling a bit uncomfortable.]

... So, uh, you got your present I see.

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[No, clearly, this is one from Yoh :|]

Um... yeah...

[In Person] ((Before Kaito found her >>))

[a-damned-liar.livejournal.com]

[Yoh peeks around the tree and bites his lip. He comes and sits down next to her, producing a tissue from his pocket]

Here.

[In Person]

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[She looks up at him and then at the tissue before looking away-trying to hide the obvious fact she's been crying.]

I don't need it.

[buuuut she takes it anyway]

[In Person]

[a-damned-liar.livejournal.com]

What's wrong? What happened?

[In Person]

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

Nothing. My stupid best friend is stupid-that's all.

[In Person]

[a-damned-liar.livejournal.com]

Forget about him, seriously. Tell me about something else. Tell me about something cute.

[In Person]

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

[.......Wrong. Oh so very wrong.]

Forget about him!? How can I forget about what a stupid, idiot jerkface, baKaito is!?

[she crosses her arms and looks away-fuming.]

[In Person]

[a-damned-liar.livejournal.com]

Sorry, sorry!

[In Person]

[abluechild.livejournal.com]

...He probably didn't mean it... but he's still a jerk.