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 Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 8:40 pm
Hunting for Naruto had been fruitful the day before, and so this morning he found himself pleasently full, and unusually awake for the time of the day that it happened to be, with the sun rolling it's way towards mid morning, and he was just full of energy!
He'd taken to running in sprints across short stretchs of the savana the orange and black lion currently found himself in, dodging any tiny rocks or trees or anything other than scrub, making a game of it, and seeing just how many he could count in a single dash. At around ten, the young lion kept losing count for some reason. Maybe he shouldn't try to count all the pebbles, he pondered to himself, maybe just trees? But there were so few of them that that seemed pointless and not a challenge at all.
Bored with counting things, he was disappointed to note that he hadn't seen any other animals in a while, though he figured his running around - in mostly a long wide circle - had scared off quite all of the prey that might be around, so that wasn't really surprising. Still, it sucked, because he would have liked to find something more interesting and compelling than counting rocks, and even though his stomach was presently content, hunting was always a blast.
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:02 pm
 Imbali was having a pleasant rest up in a savannah tree. She had been dozing and sleeping off the night. She had lost her servant a few weeks back, and she had noone to pamper her. She had been hunting alone. Due to too much socialization she hadn't been previously used to before summer came, she was also feeling lonely. That was a new experience for her. There had been a time she was never lonely. Those days had sailed. There had been something undone in her that just wouldn't go back to how it used to be.
She blinked her eyes open as someone was making such a raucous. There was lots of trampling. It sounded like a whole pack. She slowly pushed herself up onto her paws. She took her time stretching and giving each limb a good stretch and wiggle. Her tail then got a too wiggle. Her hips swished back and forth. She was ready to hop down and kick someone's a**. She cracked the knuckle on a paw and then went to leap down the trunk of the tree.
Once she was on the ground, she peered around looking for this rampaging group of animals who were so dastardly as to wake up the sleeping beauty from her rest. She grunted to herself how someone as deserving of adoration and worship was being trolled right here. She didn't see anyone. Then, she saw him. Him... a single lion. Not a pack. Not a herd.. just the one. She face palmed with a paw. Good grief. This is what she was woken up by? Well, he was in trouble now. He woke the beast. She coiled back and sprung out with a ferocity of a bear woken up mid winter in hibernation. "WHHHYYYYY YOU..... YOU NOISY LITTLE BRAT... how dare you wake up a lady when she's getting her beauty sleep like this!" She had aimed to swipe at his hind feet and also tucked and rolled. She hit the ground rolling, and then she was back up, running and spinning. She was in full on take down mode. "Didn't anyone ever tell you not to disturb the peace so early in the morning? I guess I'm the unfortunate Mistress who shall have to teach it to you."
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:31 pm
Naruto leapt back from his firmly planted stance, hoping up into the air comically and seeming to hang there for second or so, he was so surprised to suddenly hear a voice. He stared at the loud purple leopard with his bright blue eyes, blinking incomprehensibly at her for a bit as he caught his breath, strong chest heaving with deep breaths of air, his white toed paws shifting to find better footing as they fully settled back on the dusty earth. It took a little while, maybe a full minute, for him to even comphrehend what she had said to him. Beauty sleep? Interupted? Uh-oh. He pissed someone off. Again. Oops. “Uhhh….” he stammered in a slightly broken and out of breath tone of voice. “I’m….sorry? I think…?”
But then a paw swung at him “Whoa lady!!” A grin pulled at his maw despite himself when she leapt up and did a flipping spin unlike anything quite like what he’d seen before. Impressive! In spite of the fact that she was obviously pissed off, and, well, sort of attaching him, this mostly purple leopardess was freakin pulling some cool moves!! A man can’t help but grin at that kind of a thing, right? Or at least he thought so..
“Dang lady, don’t freak out so much! It’s already getting close to noon!” The mostly orange lion leapt back to avoid the strike aimed at him, dodging with a happy flick of his striped tail. “Sorry for waking you up but you don’t have to be a jerk! I mean besides, you may have nice straight from sleep moves, but you’d never beat me in a fight!” he couldn’t help but boast, it was second nature!
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:38 pm
She landed in battle position. She took a second to listen to what he had been saying. Despite the fact she was still saturated with rage that spilled over and poured out of every nerve of her body. Her ears, tail, body stance, and everything still said she was on the verge of clawing his face off. However, if there wasn't anything else to be said of her; she was never without any self control.
However, listening to his babble about how she should or shouldn't be or do something. She became even further outraged. "WHAT????? HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME IN THIS WAY! I am practically a queen and a goddess. You should be kissing my paws and thanking the heavens I haven't already had your throat in my claws. You are so full of crap. You don't even know who you're messing with. I have yet to lose a fight... Or.. have someone not fall down and profess their immediate pouring out of adoration and worship to yours truly." She then continued to walk around him in that predatory way when she was playing with her food before she would go in for the kill.
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:50 pm
“Whoa, er, what? Queen? Goddess? ………Seriously?” Naruto wasn’t sure whether to laugh or take this cat at face value. She… didn’t look particularly Goddess like… but then he had never really taken any time to consider what a goddess might actually look like, he guessed. So maybe she could be one? And it’d be really bad to piss off a Goddess… But how the heck was he supposed to know whether or not she was a goddess, and jeez he wasn’t even sure he believed in them despite the things he’d heard other felines say! There was always the chance, sure, but…
His blue eyes tracked her movements as she stalked a slow menacing circle around him, his own paws shifting to make sure he was facing her at all times. Reading her body language was easy, she was pissed, and not just her words said it. In any case maybe he ought to try and calm her down before anything else, even if she was kinda pissing him off with this Goddess business, because who knew, she could be telling the truth, but more likely she was lying…. But did he actually want to call her out on that? Seemed like a bad idea. Seemed like an idea that at present, might get his butt clawed up, and he’d been having a nice morning! He didn’t want that.
Naruto wasn’t much good at calming people down, but it seemed like fate had decided he was gonna get tested on whether or not he could, and well, might as well try. “Er…well, sorry to wake you up, I didn’t know anybody was around, sorry I didn’t smell you, you… smell… nice?” s**t. He was bad at this. Still, he knew he could handle himself, or figured he could, if things went bad. “And hey it’s a nice morning, aren’t you kinda glad I woke you up so you didn’t waste it all??” He let out a nervous laugh.
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:58 pm
Unknowingly, he touched on one of those special magical ways to get her to stop being a damn b***h to other animals. Flattery. Some say it gets you everywhere, and it was often most true of Imbali. After the summer of infinite males who all placated her with how divine she was actually. This had all been making her pride puff up even more than it was without any help.
His mentioning that she smelled nice. That little remark off the top of his head indeed saved him. She was ready to pounce and take his little whipper snapper lion butt out of her ten foot radius. Still, she did stop. "I do smell nice don't it? You would think sometimes a leopardess as myself who is so fierce and so skilled with killing and getting a good meal might smell worse. I almost never smell bad."
Then, she did almost a complete 180. She walked right up to him and walked a close circle around him. She brushed up against him, and it was anything but casual. Her tail wrapped itself around his neck until it trailed down his back as she backed off and walked a step or two away. "For your information, I generally do most of my living at night. I sleep the days away. Nights are cooler for one. Also, it's a great time to take prey by surprise while they sleep. That makes it easy. Of course.. I wouldn't say I mind when they run either. That keeps it fun at least." She sighed ... She was short a servant and here having a discourse with someone who didn't know radiance when it was shining in his face.
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:13 pm
Whoa, what a serious one eighty this leopard just pulled!!! He couldn’t help but stare, and his shock and confusion could have easily been mistaken for awed admiration of her sudden affectionate body language, just from the look on his face. Naruto was a lucky guy and his luck had served him well and had saved him once again, not that he realized it fully, or usually did, well, ever.
And hey this was much nicer than being stalked like someone was about to attack him! He much preferred flirty females to angry ones. Angry ones hit him or clawed him, and, well, he wasn’t usually very good at making them not want to hit him, so this was a great improvement! Maybe she liked him saying she smelled nice?......Yup she confirmed for him exactly what he thought, that shot from the hip had saved his butt. Not that he would have lost in a fight to her! She was smaller than him!
Maybe that’s all there was to placating females? Giving them compliments? Aww man, score, he’d have to file that information away for later use, absolutely!!! It could come in really handy. He wondered if it’d work on guys as well? Guess he’d have to try to find out!
His fur ruffled and his skin jumped under it as she brushed up against him, his hackles raising for an entirely different reason than before. Seriously talk about a quick turn around. Maybe this lady was off in the head. Or maybe all females were like that, he really didn’t know. His mother hadn’t been like that, but well, he never spent much time with her, so maybe she had been? He wasn’t certain now, and this leopardess was making it hard to think, because she was acting so confusing.
“Oh, well, yeah, I do like half of my hunting at night. I usually sleep half the day and half the night, I like getting to run around in both. But isn’t it a nice morning today?? I mean the sky is this really awesome blue and there’s a nice breeze and stuff…” Naruto wasn’t the most savvy of speakers, but his words were earnest and honest, and came with a smile.
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Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:49 am
She sighed inwardly. Was this guy seriously gonna keep sticking to t his nice morning business? REALLY??? Hadn't she been quite clear that she wasn't falling for that? Now that she was at least a bit more awake, her normally shrewd mind was catching up. Up till now, she had been raging purely on her instincts. She narrowed her eyes as she rubbed her paw on her forehead. Part of her just wanted to rip this dude a new one, but it was plain to her that he was trying to get out of trouble.
Well, she had no intentions to let him off the hook so easily. He was the one who unwittingly wandered into her space. Now he'd have no choice but to be drawn into one of her games. She then took another walk around him till she slammed a claw into a spot on his body that wouldn't scar or cause him any on going critical issues. It was however a nerve spot on lions, and she knew this. She was quickly putting him in what would only be an instance of pain that would get him to be willing to do exactly as she was about to instruct him. "If you open your mouth to say another word to me, it had better also be completed with the words "Ma'am. Or, when you answer me after this, it should sound "YES MA'AM." Got it?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:32 am
Naruto tipped his head to the side in confusion as the leopard rubbed at her face with her paw. Did she have a headache from waking up and screaming? Seemed likely, or at least semi-likely. He knew if he slept poorly he sometimes woke up with a headache. or maybe she was just frustrated with him, yeah that would make more sense. He frustrated people pretty often, wasn't very hard to do for him, even without his trying!!
His blue eyes followed while the other cat made another circle around him, and his paws kept him insistantly facing the same direction as her. He didn't think she was going to attack any more, but hey, better safe than sorry-
And all too quickly he was proven wrong as she darted forward at him before he could fully jump back, piercing him with a claw that made him emit an instantenous yelp of brief bright agony. THEN he jumped back, most certaintly. His shoulder still burned with hot pain, and blood had begun to trickle down his black fur, a wet shine, but hard to see the color. This b***h was crazy!! What the hell!
"What the HELL, are you crazy! What was that for, MA'AM!!" He said the ma'am she had requested, but mostly to be sassy.
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Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:47 am
"I did that to see if you really are worth more than a sigh. I think you're full of crap. You think you could take me on? I'm already have one over you when i'm not even trying. This is no longer about waking me up. It's about understanding your place. It's about giving the proper respect to those who are in front of you. Even if you didn't believe I'm a goddess or a diety of any sort; you could still just do as you're told."
She leaned forward and gave a mix of a smirk and a sneer. Then, she walked around a little bit before sitting down again. She smirked rather heartily again. She admired that he was able to stay on his guard so much even if she was getting the better of him. How entertaining for her. She then leaned sideways which was forward in his direction.
"Now, come come... be a good little boy and come sit by me. I promise not to hurt you if you can have the good and common sense. You just need to come sit down before me. You also need to do exactly as you are told. I can actually be quite nice. I can be so benevolent and wonderful; you could never desire to be around anyone else ever again. However, I just cannot abide all of this ridiculous antics of yours."
She then looked up at him with a piercing and steady gaze. "What say you? Will you still resist?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:23 pm
“I’m not full of crap! I’ve taken down full grown wildebeasts by myself!” He growled, just as much in anger as frustration now. This leopard was no goddess, this lady was absolutely crazy! He’d forgotten the ‘ma’am’, but he didn’t realize, and even if he had, he wouldn’t have cared.
“You don’t have one over on me! You just jabbed me with a claw! That’s all you did! And understanding my PLACE?!” he growled again, leaping back. “My place isn’t under you or anyone! We’re not in the same pride, you’re not even a lion! Don’t lecture me about my place or tell me it’s serving you you crazy leopard!” His voice was approaching a roar, tail swishing angrily side to side. He was sick of this crazy crap, and man, he had been I a good mood before!!
Naruto leaned away – crouching back and ready to spring if he needed to – as Imbali leaned towards him at an angle. “I’m not a cub, and common sense definitely tells me not to come and sit beside you!”
It was odd, really. When they first met, she was in the bad mood, and he was in a good one! And now their behavior had completely switched, except for the fact that, well, she had been crazy from the start and that hadn’t changed at all, at least in Naruto’s opinion, and of course he put a lot of stock in his own opinion.
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Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:46 pm
Her eyes watched his reactions. Her ears quirked to hear his rather fierce resonse to her. She then smiled a diabolical grin. "Ohhhh.. there we are... so maybe you are an adult after all." She had meant something rather crass by it, but she didn't bother to linger on that remark.
Her eyes followed his movements and she watched his face contort with rage. She then laughed. It wasn't a crazy cooky laugh. It was just the kind of laugh you have when you have just seen the most hilarious thing in your life. She was at least for the moment most entertained.
She listened to him prattle on at her. She then lifted a paw to point at him. "Lemme tell you something, young male who is full of inexperience. We are most definitely not in the same pride, because I don't DO prides. Nope. No thanks. I'd rather be dead than let someone else have any rule over me. I do exactly what I want, and I do it when I want to. If someone doesn't like it, they can take it up with my teeth and claws." She then narrowed her eyes as she grinned a most dangerous smile.
This confrontation was reminding her a little of another leopard she had met earlier that summer. At least that one had the good sense to find her attractive and respond to her. That also made it entertaining.
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:02 pm
“Of course I’m an adult!” He followed his words with half a roar for emphasis and a shake of his black and blond mane. Damn right he was an adult! He’d been a runt as a cub but he’d grown up big and tall and broad and was proud of it – even though he couldn’t take any credit for it, persay.
Naruto huffed and paced back and forth in front of her, like a lion in a cage – not that he’d even ever seen a cage in his lifetime, or knew what one was. His hackles bristled at her laughing, but he was comforted a little by the fact that the cackling didn’t sound crazy, at least, not how he’d expect a crazy laugh to sound. Now that he thought about it, he didn’t think he’d ever actually heard a crazy laugh before? So maybe he wouldn’t know what one sounded like. But as irksome as she was being, at least, he reminded himself, she wasn’t acting like she was going to attack him any more.
“I’m not full of inexperience…” he grumbled. He then snorted, still annoyed as hell by the leopard, but hey she was finally saying some things that made sense. “I wouldn’t want to join a pride either… not unless it had the right sort of felines. Cats I could get along with. But I haven’t met any like that yet…”
He thought about sitting, but only thought about it. That wicked teeth filled smirk of hers gave him more than a little pause.
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:18 pm
Pretty much by then, his every word that came out of his mouth sounded like a comedy sketch to her. It infected her with laughter. She started to laugh so hard; she fell to the ground and rolled around. This kid was actually completely hilarious. What a doof! She just waved her paw towards him as if to brush him off with his insistence of being an adult and having experience.
When she was done, she got up and shook herself off. She then began to just walk away. Yeah, it was probably rude. However, it'd give this brat some time to go find a safer place to be. She snorted. May the most powerful of gods or goddesses be with him if she should happen on him in the near future. She'd take full revenge for his shenanigans.
"Later, Taters!"
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