A Child's Innocence

[Empress_Julianna]

Ai woke up, stretching her body as she looked at the window, the new morning sun rising. She sat up, rubbing her eyes, her long hair a mess after a long period of sleep. She stood up, walking into the restroom. She stretched again, cracking nearly every bone in her body. She looked up at the mirror, a frustrated look on her face. She was in her child form, and thus quite short. She always woke in this form, for some reason reverting back as she slept. She leaped up onto the sink, able to see herself in the mirror. She scanned over her undeveloped body, a slight smile on her face. The only thing she didn't like about this form.

She rubbed her eyes again and dropped down onto the floor, getting in the shower to clean herself. After a lengthy shower she went back to her room, putting on her favorite flower patterned kimono. She glanced at her dresser and put a flower in her hair. She walked into the living room and saw Akari sleeping. She stopped for a moment, simply watching her. "She's so beautiful when she sleeps." She said quietly, walking over to her. She crouched down a little and kissed her forehead, hoping she wouldn't wake up. "I'll be back in a while, hun." She said quietly.

As she put her gata on, she walked out the door of her apartment and into the nearby alley. She figured she may as well go on a walk. As she went on her stroll, she made out a small group of men, peculiarly dressed, wearing all black and a couple of them wearing sunglasses. They all apparently had knives, and were picking on a young woman. At first she thought nothing of it, then realized, this could be an opportunity to redeem herself. "Maybe I can help..." She said quietly to herself, beginning to approach them.

[ryendan]

Ryendan grinned from the ground as he began to stand up. These men had underestimated him, as often happens. He was escorting this particular woman for a small amount of money...just another job for him. Stupid men tried to ambush...well did ambush them. Now they're picking on her, trying to get her to do something or just rough her up before they have their fun. Ryendan naturally stepped in the way and fought very low of his ability to gauge all of them...unsurprisingly they're all your average human with a weapon.

Standing up shakily, pretending to be barely able to keep his footing. Staggering slightly as he spoke "Hey." His rough voice a lower tone than his body would suggest him having the capability of speaking at. "You leave that woman alone." Although he never went out of his way to protect someone...or at least he didn't make a habit out of it, this was an exception for a reason aside from the pay. This woman hadn't done anything to them...their just wickedly trying to have some 'fun.'

[Empress_Julianna]

As Ai approached, she realized a man was there too, it appeared that he had been hurt. She walked closer, stopping once she was only a few feet away. "Excuse me sirs, Desu." She said cutely, a wide smile on her face. One of the men turned around and looked at her. "What do you want you brat? Get out of here before you get hurt!" He shouted at her, swaying his knife, attempting to scare her.

Ai simply giggled and shook her head. "No, Desu. I think you should leave them alone. It would be so sad if something bad happened to you. Desu." She said quietly, changing her tone from happy to suddenly sad. The man simply scoffed. "Shut up you little brat. I have no problem with killing kids." He said angrily, thrusting his knife towards her.

As the blade came towards her, Ai simply giggled and stepped to the side, grabbing his wrist, swinging around as she tossed him into the shadows effortlessly. As soon as an impact was heard, she disappeared. The men were all in awe, surprised and confused about what had just happened. A few strange sounds could be heard coming from the shadows until after a few moments, she stepped out, her hands behind her back and a smile on her face, her head tilted cutely to the side. "I'm back. Desu." She said cutely.

[ryendan]

Something was off about this little girl. She...had a certain air about her that he sensed wasn't humane. Staggering to one of the men, he grabbed the man's shoulders and jerked him towards himself. Growling slightly as he spoke completely normal now...sick of the game. "You've made a big mistake...she didn't do anything either." Slamming the man into the dumpster, it shook, cracked and indented as it wrapped around the man that was launched into it.

Turning to the others, he grinned. "Now whose next?" He spoke quickly before moving quicker than they could follow as he grabbed the woman and got her out of the circle. She nodded and bolted...not wanting to stick around. Who could blame her? Turning to the remaining people he grinned. Choke slamming the first before tossing him into the air again. Grabbing the next and punching him directly towards where the previous was about to land. The last one paying immediate attention to Ryendan and not the unusual girl, was promptly drop kicked directly in his chest. The man flew into the other two and they all flew off towards the shadows. Pointing at the other he leaned against the building behind him. "I'll leave you to her." He said with a grin.

[Akari Niibi]

Akari awoke a few moments after Ai had left, and stretched. "Nya" she said, even though she was in human form. She got up, and located the rest room, cleaning up and otherwise, before looking in Ai's room, to find her gone. She realized that the woman who had her heart was probably out and about. She decided to take this as a chance to get into some clothing that would be primarily dominate in this area, instead of her miko clothing. She looked around, until she found something that seemed possibly out of place.
It was a long dress, and a modest top, with out sleeves, but covered everything, she smiled as she stripped and place that on. She then looked at herself in the mirror, realizing that she looked rather nice in it. She then tied her hair back, the color of the top being purple, with the long skirt matching.

She then grabbed herself a glass of milk, and drank it down, before heading out, only having taken really a total of fifteen minutes, she walked out of the house, picking back on her Sandals, before heading down to the street again, and started walking. She then picked up a smell that made her face lit up. "Nya!" She exclaimed, with out even thinking, as she started walking quickly towards it, it was Ai, she could tell.

She then saw a child, and a man fighting against a group of men in defense of a woman, and thought that something was going on. She came up quickly, she wouldn't let anything get in the way, "Hey, leave those three alone!" She declared, could have sounded fierce, if not for her priestessy voice. She wasn't used to shouting.

[Empress_Julianna]

Ai simply smiled and giggled quietly, looking at the only man left. The sheer look of terror in his eyes was enough to drive her crazy. There is no aphrodisiac quite like the fear in the eyes of your victims. Just by glancing into his eyes, she felt it, that tingling sensation. But in this body, it wasn't as strong, fortunately.

The man began to turn, attempting to run away. "Aww...your leaving so soon? Don't you at least want to say goodbye to your friend? Desu." She asked quietly, tilting her head cutely to the side again. The man turned back to her, a confused look on his face. "W-what?" He asked in a confused voice. "Here he is. Desu." She said quietly, bringing her right hand out from behind her back, holding it out to him.

A large object lay in the palm of her hand, obviously bigger than something a normal girl of her size could carry in one hand. The shadows hid what it was however. She stepped forward, bringing light to the object in her hand. To blank eyes stared out at the man, the jaw open in a silent scream. The object in her hand, was his partner's severed head.

The man screamed in horror, beginning to run away. As he started to run she threw the head, hitting the man in the back of his leg, tripping him. As he screamed out and stumbled to the ground, he went to get up, only to find the young girl standing in front of him, a sinister grin on her face. "Leaving so soon? Don't you want to play? Desu." She asked quietly, her wings suddenly shooting out, still folded up, they shot forward and dug into the man's shoulders, pinning him to the wall in the shadows. She seemed to levitate up into the shadows, lifting herself by her wings until she was face to face with him.

Her voice was suddenly very quiet, almost inaudible to anyone but him. "Its time for you to die, little man. You should have spent your days helping others instead of tormenting them. Goodbye...Desu." She said to him quietly, her jaws suddenly growing as her teeth shifted into long needle like teeth, then suddenly closing over his head as he began to scream for help. Blood gushed onto the nearby walls, just before his body fell limp to the ground. As she walked out of the shadows, her wings had receded back into her body, and she was licking blood off her fingers, and in her other hand, she held a small blue orb, closed in her tight little fist.

[Akari Niibi]

She was surprised, as she watched the group fall, and then to see what her love had been doing. She had watched the entire finalization of it, and was quite scared, but first she looked to see if any humans saw it, only the woman who was part of it, and she luckily, had fainted. The man was still up, but she didn't know what to do about that. She smelled the air, and verified that it was indeed Ai. She ran to the group, before bowing before the man, and then looking at Ai. "Ai-chan!" she stated in a harsh tone, to get the love of her life's attention. "What are you doing!?" she asked, a fearful look on her face. She knew she told her to only eat bad guys, but she was doing this in a place where there could be people watching.

She then realized that it might be hard to explain to a man that she didn't know, what was going on, also, she was too confused by the situation to sense Demonic Energy, otherwise she might have been able to know what the guy was. She looked at him. "Um, sir, tell me, what are you doing here still? Get that woman to a place where she can rest, get her some water." She stated, her teaching of how to take care of people came from living and working in the Shrine, with the old priest. She didn't know what to say to Ai, but she looked at her back, wondering how to take care of the current situation, and also what happened to her physical appearance?

She then realized the one thing she might have to do. She sighed as she started her Yasha Miyu Technique, she would have to make it seem like this place was completely dark to everyone. She released some of her energy into the surrounding air, dulling the senses of everyone around. She danced a little as she did this, to regulate it. She would have to keep this up till they got out of there. She wasn't affected by it, thanks to it being her own energy that caused it. She only hoped that her love would finish eating quickly, so that she could stop this technique and get to work doing other things. She felt sad, being that she knew that her love was hungry.

[Empress_Julianna]

Ai sighed softly when Akari arrived. She obviously knew it was her right away, but it didn't bother her any. She walked towards her, licking the last remaining remnants of blood from her fingers. "Good morning, Akari. Desu." She said cutely, running over to hug her, even though her head only went up to her waist or so. She figured she had seen most of the event. She looked up at her sadly. "I'm sorry, Akari-chan. Desu. It wasn't supposed to get so out of control." She said quietly, looking down at her hand, then holding it up to her. Resting in her palm was the small blue orb, a human soul. "Even though he was an evil man, his soul is still so pretty. Desu." She said quietly, a hint of fascination in her voice. "After a little while, it'll die, and become a hardened stone. I want you to have it. Desu." She said quietly. She truly felt bad about what she did, and that she didn't care about the witnesses.

[Akari Niibi]

Akari looked at her lover, as she kept her technique going, before stopping, to hug Ai. "Ai-chan, you know it isn't a good thing to keep such a relic." She whispered, a tear in her eye. "Let it go, or eat it." She added, not wanting to remember this. She was brutal in combat, but this was not even humane. This was a massacre, that is all she had to think of it, the only way to describe it. "Ai-chan, we'll need to work really hard, but lets not discuss this anymore till we get back home." She suggested in a whisper, as her technique dispersed, letting all things be seen again. If she had been in her true form, her two tails would be swishing back and forth with annoyance, fear, and worry. But being in human form, she felt that there was nothing she could do right now, but her face was full of sadness at this, she started praying for the dead.

[Empress_Julianna]

Ai frowned, a great look of sadness overtaking her usually cheery expression. "Akari-chan..." She started, her eyes welling up before she turned to the man, wiping her eyes with the sleeve of her kimono. "Thank you for your help, mister. Desu." She said quietly, running past Akari towards her apartment, getting there quickly. She sat on the top stop, looking down at the soul in her hand, lost in thought. Was she really right about death? About what had happened? She couldn't understand what was so bad about keeping this soul. The man was wicked, did he really deserve to have an afterlife? Don't the wicked deserve punishment? It was simply a concept she couldn't grasp. She tilted her head back, dropping the soul into her open mouth, her teeth shifting again just before they bit through the crystal, releasing the soul into her mouth, swallowing it quickly, dropping the fragments of the crystal into her hand, dropping them to the ground beside her. She finally felt well fed again, after who knew how long. She stood and walked up, leaning back against the door, changing into her human teen form, the kimono shifting to fit her still.

[Akari Niibi]

Akari finished praying over the dead body at the site, and returned to the house. She felt sad, as she always did, no matter what was killed. It was something that had always happened to her since she became the priest's apprentice all those years ago. She felt a bit lonely, as she walked, in these clothing that were not her's. She knew she could help Ai become a good demon, but she had to first learn more about her. She had to admit that the soul was pretty, but she couldn't keep such a thing, especially since it was an Evil soul, it would only make her think of her nature that she had forgotten. She was a Two tailed cat demon, And there were only a few types of those. She wondered what she would have became, had she not lived with the Priest.

She came up to the apartment, not paying attention to if anyone followed her. She entered.

[Yukina Snicklefritz]

(OCC: the posts from ryendan are illegal)