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Youkai Saint Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:22 pm
Byakuren smiled as Hanalli asked how things were at her temple. "Oh, it's as good as ever, really, thank you." She told Hanalli. When Hanalli introduced her to another youkai named Sorina, she waved her hand and smiled. "Hello, Sorina." She said to her. She listened to the two talk, but when Sorina mentioned Hanalli's real self blinding humans in an area, her smile faded a little bit.
Before she could say anything else, Ibara told them not to do anything stupid. Oh dear, had she caused another problem. Byakuren gave a concerned look as she looked at Ibara and Hanalli speak to each other. Byakuren couldn't even take a sip of her drink to avoid this. She could only look away vacantly, wondering if she should have come or not...
Hanalli snapped out of her thoughts when Hanalli said that she was going to do a bit more flying around. "O-oh, goodbye, Hanalli, have fun." She said to Hanalli as she left. But, before Byakuren could say or do anything after that, Selkie burst through the door.
"IBARA!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. She bolted over the counter and tackle hugged her.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:38 pm
Ibara was rabid when Hanalli spoke to her as if she was a being incapable of feeling joy. "LISTEN YOU--!" The bartender impacted her palms on the counter, shaking from rage. Her eyes though,spotted the buddhist monk; her nails scraped the counter as she clenched her fists, and gritted her teeth was grew silent.
The hornless oni sat down on her stool, eyes throwing daggers after the Joy Youkai. "The nerve." She grumbled crossing her arms under her chest grumpily.
Ibara was about to apologize for her behavior to Byakuren where a rabbit jumped over the counter and into the tense wall the oni was.
She almost smack Selkie back on impulse, but with a quick registering, the bartender wrapped her arms around her to prevent Selkie from falling. "ah- ?!" Now she could tell it was her friend,"Selkie? Waah-- What are you doing here?"
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Youkai Saint Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:03 am
Selkie looked at Ibara confused. "Hmm? What am I doing here? Well, a bunny told me that you guys were talking." Selkie said, the bunny in mention appearing on her shoulder.
Byakuren looked at the bunny. "Where did it come fro-" She cut herself off as though she already knew. She stood up and lifted her skirt, the inside was lined with little bunnies, as well as her cape. Upon being noticed, the bunnies bolted from Byakuren's clothing and out the door, Selkie's bunny included, and ran back to the temple. "Ehh... That explains why my clothes were so much heavier today." Byakuren said, with an awkward laugh at the end. She sat back down and and took another sip of her juice.
Selkie couldn't help but chuckle a little. She then released Ibara from her grip and asked the bartending oni, "So, how are you, Ibara?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:10 pm
Ibara raised an eyebrow as the rabbits rained out of the bar. The oni set Selkie down, behind the counter by her,"If I didn't know better, I'd say those cute things are pretty lewd towards you, Byakuren."
"It's nice to see you Selkie, Do you want something to drink?" The oni offered as usual. Now the patrons of the bar where really confused at her. They had seen some of the woman they knew when she threatened the Joy Youkai like any poor sod, but seeing her talk like a normal person with a monk and a rabbit was completely out of the norm, and honestly a bit disturbing.
"Been a little bit of everything," Ibara said to Selkie,"Still go some bumps, some scrapes, but I have been fine since things got calm after that last incident."
"And you? Have both of you been busy at the temple?" The bartender looked at both of them.
((this is when some people are jealous of those bunnies inside her skirt xD )
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:49 pm
Sorina soon walked back in to the bar. Her face showed worry about the bartender more than Hanalli. She looked around and carefully approached the bar.
"M-miss? I am sorry Hanalli said those things about you. It's just her drunk mood again. She may not like being a Deity anymore but it does not mean she hates spreading joy. She tries so hard to do it too. Just please forgive her mood. If she sobers up, I could bring her here so she could apologize for you." Sorina said, holding a bundle of leaves and other vegetables for her pet back at the mountain in a basket. Sorina's emotions is less of sorrow and more of concern for the encounter the two had previously. She dug into a pouch on the inside of her kimono, pulling out three dandelions for her.
"When you meet her again, please offer these to her. It's her favorite food. It's not enough for another Joy Bun but it's at least a token of forgiveness." Sorina added on, hoping the Oni would take the offer and show her true self instead of the harden persona she had with Hanalli around. Her aura changed into a more calm like state as she waited.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:07 pm
Ibara immediately tensed as Sorina approached the bar. She turned from Selkie and Byakuren, crossing her arms under her chest again and standing tall and proud. "No need to forgive; people have their own attitude to blame."
"Mmmmmh?" Ibara raised an eyebrow at the dandelions,"I ain't gonna ask for forgiveness, I really couldn't care less if a fallen deity or whatever is angry a me. If she is angry at me, she has her own drunkness to blame, she may as well leave me alone."
Ibara had some dislike for Hanalli, not for anything other than the oppressing aura of joy. As it was, the hornless oni lived in eternal penitence and her friends knew why. She was still annoyed at Byakuren seeing her Act like she was, and now Selkie too; her forced habit of being always a wall of defiance to anyone who tried to get closed was too deeply engrained in her to over ride. "If your friend has some sort of damn addiction with spreading joy then whatever; but she better not ever say I have to smile or that hate will consume me. I don't have hate in me, but regret. So tell her to back the hell off, and to think of people before spewing out shallow nonsense."
Still, her blue eyes framed by the white bangs where extremely displeased, and her shoulders remained squared.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:34 pm
Sorina backed off as she started to get frustrated. The emotions she was presenting would push Sorina a bit back.
"But if you keep shutting yourself like this all the time-"
"Sorina. That's enough." Hanalli came in, pulling Sorina by the arm as she only looked at the bartender with eyes of longing.
"It's obvious that nothing will change her mind. No sake in the world will ever convince an Oni without a horn to smile to me. Joy is spread, not made. If she wants to be like this then so be it." Hanalli spoke in a more deeper tone with a hint of mother like to her.
"I guess..." Sorina walked ahead, hoping things would turn out better.
"Even if you are not human. No matter how deep your past is, no matter how bad it was, I want you to know that an Oni who is not happy even within the presence of their favorite drink makes me cry inside. Your kind is cheerful and full of life...don't be so sheltered. What's done is done. Just move on." her words left in the air as her own presence faded the minute she left the door.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:00 pm
"Don't you call me that, I am not an oni. " Ibara growled, her fist pounding on the counter once as she put her hands down. "I am only withdrawing from people I have no interest in me; I don't drink, I just serve them. Don't tell me how I a--!" Ibara stopped as Hanalli walked out, clenching her teeth,"WHY YOU--!"
She was close to lunging over the counter, but something held her in place. Ibara shuddered from withholding her rage, but she let the youkai walk out. She didn't want either of her personal guests to see her try to beat someone senseless,"Think of me what you want; but you don't know my story, from where I come, who I am. Next time you claim to know me, I will tear a few limbs off you~"
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Youkai Saint Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 2:40 pm
Byakuren made another awkward laugh as Ibara said that the bunnies were lewd to her. "Oh my, you're probably right." She said to Ibara with a more Byakuren laugh.
Selkie gave another chuckle too. But when Ibara asked Selkie if she wanted something to drink, Selkie shook her head. "No thanks, I can't hold liquor at all." She gave a laugh, which then turned awkward as if continued.
Byakuren shook her head when Ibara asked if they had been busy. "I wouldn't call it busy, really. Selkie helps me with the Youkai as well as the bunnies." Byakuren told Ibara. Selkie nodded her head in agreement.
Suddenly, Sorina came back in and told Ibara to give Hanalli some dandelions, which Ibara refused to do. Then, Hanalli came back in and seemingly belittled Ibara a little, but seemed to mean something nice by it. Ibara took it very badly.
Selkie stood up quickly and held her arms out to her sides. "That's enough." She said to everyone there. "You've done enough, miss, please leave Ibara alone for now." She told Hanalli. She didn't want Ibara to turn into her 'other self' again.
Byakuren looked down at her glass once again. She didn't want to say anything that would cause trouble.
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:47 pm
Ibara looked after Hanalli, muscles ready to pounce into battle, and though she breathed heavily after the Joy of youkai as if she were a bull ready to charge, the hornless oni was restrained by Selkie's intervention. Her eye contact had bee unrelenting, but at last breaking the spell of rage, Ibara broke away with a quick turn of her head to the side. "The nerve-" She repeated with a snarl, quickly moving to cross her arms.
She soon relaxed and registered some of Selkie's nervousness,"Heh... Don't worry, I won't go after anyone... Not now anyway... Not in the middle of the village."
She leaned over the counter, speaking to Byakuren and Selkie in barely a whisper,"I try to hide I am an oni, and this woman won't ruin what I have worked to build by saying everything that seems to piss me off." She patted Selkie's head,"Don't worry, bunny, I' ve worked alot of my troubles, and though they aren't fully fixed.... I've come to understand them better...." Ibara did mean her 'other side.'
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