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Post by Seto Tetsuya on Jan 28, 2015 3:08:35 GMT -6
Vale sat up and lightly dusted off the dirt spot on her shoulder left by the pebble. "You think too much, Yumi." He smiled stupidly and poked her cheek. "Life is far too short and ever changing. If you spend too much time thinking you end up doing what you need to far later than you intended." He placed his hand on Chinmoku. He remained silent for a moment, then stood his feet. He walked over to the rose bush behind them and looked over his shoulder. She wasn't looking. He took the wilted worn rose from his obi and plucked two roses small white roses from the bush.
He walked over and stood in front of her. He knelt down and gently placed one of the roses behind her ear, the other he tucked into his obi. "There. Think about that for a while." He smiled awkwardly before softly kissing her forehead. Slowly, he moved back to where he had been sitting next to her. Vale rested the worn wilted rose next to Mizue.
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Post by Yumiko Ryouma on Jan 28, 2015 11:55:39 GMT -6
Yumiko felt her cheeks heat up at the tender gesture and lowered her head. “I – I don’t understand you, Vale. You destroyed a whole division to suit your destructive desires. You’re happy here in Las Noches, but - and then….” She fell silent for a few moments, hands wrapping around the unfinished braid of flowers, feeling a pricking of foreboding.
Not sure what to do about it, she looked back towards him, and her eyes caught sight of some color by Mizue's hilt. A worn pink rose on the ground, slightly covering in blood. Was that from ... Her fingers brushed over the dying petals. “You’re full of contradictions, and I don’t know what you want from me,” she finished in a whisper.
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Post by Seto Tetsuya on Jan 28, 2015 13:21:15 GMT -6
"I don't want anything from you" He looked at her and frowned. "Why do you think I want something from you?" Vale scratched his head and looked away. "Don't you dare say that I'm being cute and shy and shit!" He sat up and plucked the rose from behind her ear. "I don't do cute..."
Yumiko chuckled and smiled quietly, not replying and picking up the fading pink rose beside her zanpakuto. "Do I owe you an apology now?" she said before the quiet could continue too long.
"For what? What did you do?" he asked. "What did I do?" Vale pulled up chunks of grass and tossed them aside. "You can apologize if you want to. They are your words, Yumi."
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Post by Yumiko Ryouma on Jan 28, 2015 14:01:17 GMT -6
She chuckled again. "Then I suppose I didn't upset you." She stood up and walked over to the edge of the lake, leaning down to set the tiny rose into the chilly water. She held onto it for a moment and then let it go, watching it float away with the ripples. She looked over the garden, noting how the small rose seemed less wilted in the crystal blue water before them and smiled slightly. Her hands lingered in the water for another couple moments and then she stood again, one hand over her kimono, keeping it closed.
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Post by Seto Tetsuya on Jan 28, 2015 14:54:22 GMT -6
He frowned slightly as she let his rose go. "I could have been saving that for something, Yumi." He fell onto his back and closed his eyes. "Hey, Yumi..."
Yumiko turned around after she had retrieved the rose with Kido, still darkened on one side from the blood. "Yes?" she asked, setting the rose back on Mizue's hilt to dry out.
He watched as she sat the rose next to Mizue. He smiled. "Nothing." He sat up and looked at her. "I have a question for you. If I am such a contradiction and I confuse you, why give me the time you have?"
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Post by Yumiko Ryouma on Jan 28, 2015 15:33:12 GMT -6
Yumiko frowned slightly. Retrieving the rose he had pulled from her hair from where it sat on the ground, she stood up and looked over the lake, tucking it back into her hair. “I am not sure, to be honest. Perhaps it’s because everyone deserves a second chance. Maybe it’s because you changed your actions towards me." Then, she turned around. "And perchance it’s simply that I would like someone to talk to or can't avoid you if you wish to seek me out."
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Post by Seto Tetsuya on Jan 28, 2015 15:44:10 GMT -6
Vale stood and walked over to Yumiko. He stood next to her. For a brief moment, there was silence between them. Then, he scooped her into his arms and tossed her into the lake. He laughed as he backed away from the lakes edge. "I'm sorry, Yumi. I'm sorry." He stepped back and tripped over Mizue. "I'm sorry, I swear."
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Post by Yumiko Ryouma on Jan 28, 2015 16:18:37 GMT -6
Yumiko flailed for a few moments, completely flabbergasted, and then found her rhythm and footing in the lake. “Vale, why –“ As he laughed, she started pulling at her tangled kimono, trying to fix it from its drenching. And then, she suddenly ducked back under again, blushing deeply as she realized she was see-through with no bra on either. “Damn it, Vale," she hissed. "This is not funny."
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Post by Szayelaporro Granz on Jan 28, 2015 16:37:06 GMT -6
Szayel stepped into view pushing up his glasses. "Decided to take a swim, Hime?" He grinned widely at her as he stood back with arms crossed and watched the show. He looked to Vale for only a second as he laughed hysterically at the drenched Yumiko.
"I guess someone is at least jolly in our time of crises." Szayel whipped out a dry kimono from nowhere and offered his hand to Yumiko looking away.
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Post by Yumiko Ryouma on Jan 28, 2015 16:44:52 GMT -6
Yumiko considered staying in the lake but finally decided against it. Taking the hand offered, she wrapped the kimono around herself, quickly pulling her sleeping kimono off from under it and stepping away from the scientist. Still blushing, worried behind her angry façade, she started to tie the obi, face lowered.
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Post by Szayelaporro Granz on Jan 28, 2015 16:59:55 GMT -6
Szayel picked up her drenched kimono after she stepped away from it and hung it to the tree to dry. He then turned and bowed to her kindly. "If you need anything else, Hime. You know where my lab is." He raised a brow with a tilted head.
"I am sure you will feel much safer and warmer in there then out here. With--" he looked to Vale as he was still chuckling softly wiping away a tear. "Are you not supposed be somewhere?" Szayel huffed shaking his head as he looked back to Yumiko. "Such a vulgar man. Why do you keep company with such people, Hime?"
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Post by Seto Tetsuya on Jan 28, 2015 17:09:18 GMT -6
Vale stopped laughing and looked at Szayel. "You would question my manhood, if I weren't so vulgar Espada. Not that I care." He stood and pulled Yumiko's kimono from the tree. "And, maybe I wanted a glimpse of the beauty that was hiding beneath this." He tossed the wet kimono at Szayel.
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Post by Yumiko Ryouma on Jan 28, 2015 17:41:46 GMT -6
Yumiko blushed deeply, partly embarrassed still and somehow partly flattered. Confused, she kept her back turned, waiting for the artificial sun to warm her up and trying to keep from shivering. She didn’t particularly want to go to Szayel’s lab…. even if his kind face seemed to be intact after everything.
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Post by Szayelaporro Granz on Jan 28, 2015 17:44:37 GMT -6
Szayel caught the kimono with ease and rolled his eyes at the animal that called himself a man. "And abusing the poor child is the way to do that?"
He tossed the, now wet, kimono over his shoulder and turned from the two as he waved over his shoulder nonchalantly. "I will be in my lab if I am needed." As he still walked he looked slightly over his shoulder at Yumiko as she still had her back to them and her head lowered.
"My invitation still stands Yumiko. That is if you trust me enough not to harm you or treat you like an animal. Which I have never done before." He smiled slyly, "a hot cup of tea will be yours to have if you show."
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Post by Seto Tetsuya on Jan 28, 2015 17:59:19 GMT -6
Vale gave a childish pout. "He called me an animal." He mockingly placed his hand to his chest. "I dare even say he's hurt my feelings." Yumiko kept her back to Vale, giving only a slight glance over her shoulder. "I don't bite, Yumi. You can come back over."
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