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Post by Dairyuujin No Shi on Jan 1, 2009 17:21:36 GMT -5
Ryuu woke up, shivering because of some unknown reason, perhaps because of a dream that was already starting to fade from his mind. He looked around his very lavish bedroom and saw Fei sleeping on the foot of the bed. In one quiet motion he jumped of the bed and looked out the window. The stars were still shining brightly in the sky, but the sky itself had already started to lighten. He could feel the icy chill as it swept across his bare chest, his face and hair, and his bare arms and feet.
For some reason, it felt like a very ominous warning of the days to come. 'I wonder why? This feeling... I only got this feeling when there was a major adventure about, or a major disaster was about to happen, like Danava's death.... Perhaps Dustin had a point in his ramblings.' He thought to himself with a scowl. 'No matter, its time to start my training.'
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Post by shinigamiyoukai on Jan 1, 2009 18:52:08 GMT -5
Kyouki woke up again, this time without any help from the sun. She felt an ominous wind blow into her room, and it chilled her slightly. She stood up and looked at Shi, who was now slightly bigger, and had legs to walk around with. Then she got up from her bed and stared at the sky and the stars within its vast expanse, and started to think of yesterday's events. Smiling slightly as she shook her head, she remembered as her father took it in stride, so much that he made him part of the family, she still wondered about that now.
"So many things are confusing now... ever since he came here I've been confused.... I need to talk to someone about this, but Shen isn't here. Who can I call?" She whispered to herself. After a few minutes of thought, she found an idea. She would call Rai!
She stood up and went to the phone and dialed Rai's number.
"Hello?" She said into the receiver.
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Post by Dairyuujin No Shi on Jan 1, 2009 21:39:20 GMT -5
Ryuu quickly went to the 'dojo' with Fei after waking him up. To his surprise, when he got there, Ken was already waiting for him. Ken simply smirked and bowed as he addressed his master. "Ryuu-sama, I assume that you wish to train in the gravity room now?"
"Yes. And if you get any calls, tell them that I'm training." Ryuu said as he went inside. Ken bowed and went to his master's room and sat there. Right after he sat there, the phone began to ring.
"This is the Kusanagi residence, the butler speaking, who may this be?" Ken said.
Meanwhile, Ryuu and Fei were now at the console outside the gravity room. He was currently using Anything Goes Speed Reading to quickly learn the usage of this device. Fei simply looked on, fascinated.
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Post by shinigamiyoukai on Jan 2, 2009 2:29:56 GMT -5
Kyouki frowned a bit when she heard the butler's voice. Not that she had anything against him, but she had wanted Rai to pick up. Ken picking up the phone usually means that Rai is out doing something. Strange though, since Rai absolutely loathed waking up this early.
"Honda-san, is Rai-kun there? I need to speak with him." She said, anxiously waiting for an answer.
Shi stirred a bit at hearing a sound, but he mostly stayed asleep.
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Post by Dairyuujin No Shi on Jan 2, 2009 9:19:49 GMT -5
Ken frowned a bit as he heard the query. He must have forgotten to inform her of Rai-sama's trip. Strange, he wasn't really prone to making mistakes like that. He sighed as he answered the question. "I'm sorry Inugodaikoku-sama, but Rai-sama is not available at this moment in time."
He wondered if Ryuu-sama would mind if he introduced himself to the lady. After all, he would not want to waste the lady's time. Sesshoumaru-sama would not be pleased with him, and frankly, he did not have a death wish. Besides, it's not like Ryuu-sama would know this girl. That would be too much of a coincidence.
Meanwhile, Ryuu was doing a kata at 15 Gs, and loving every minute of it. Its these moments which make him cherish the art. Fei was watching him from outside as he read the instruction manual and guarding the console. He didn't notice Ryuu's sudden wince as he was going through one of his core school's kata. Ryuu felt that somebody mentioned him and was about to screw him over, but he paid it no mind. He was really enjoying the kata too much.
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Post by shinigamiyoukai on Jan 2, 2009 20:41:24 GMT -5
Kyouki scowled as she heard the response. How could he not be there? Oh wait, he doesn't have to get permission from her to go wherever he wants. He must e going on one of his tours again. This sucked, she wished Shen were here to talk to.
"Thank you for telling me. I have a question though, did Rai finally bring a guest there that was not a girl of some sort?" She said as her voice rang with amusement.
Shi stirred a bit, and woke up and yawned. "Why are you awake?" Asked the Dorimon.
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Post by Dairyuujin No Shi on Jan 3, 2009 2:58:43 GMT -5
Ken smiled and shook his head in amusement as well after hearing Inugodaikoku-sama's remark. It was very true, after all. Rai-sama had only ever invited his 'intimate' partners to this part of his properties. It was mostly to impress them.
"Yes, he did. In fact, it was a close friend of his. His name is... Ryuu. I forgot to get his full name from him though." Ken said. He was rather embarrassed that he forgot to ask his master for Ryuu-sama's full name.
Meanwhile, Ryuu was still training, and Fei was still reading the manual. No one was there yet to supervise them, but the butler was alright with that when he left, because he was sure the... digimon, Fei, was able to watch over his partner.
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Post by shinigamiyoukai on Jan 3, 2009 6:11:25 GMT -5
Kyouki's eyes snapped to her digimon as it asked her a question. Thinking about it for a few moments, she decided to tell the truth. After all, lying is not the best way to start a relationship, any kind of relationship, no matter how inconsequential it may seem. She covered the mouthpiece with her hand for a minute and answered him.
"I was feeling a bit... off. I decided to tell my friend Rai-kun about this so that he could share his insight, but he wasn't there, so I'm asking aboutthe new user of the house." She explained to him.
"Couldn't you talk to me instead? Even though we just... oh yeah, we did just meet. Its all right the. Besides, I would have been grouchy because you woke me up." He said in return.
She nodded in thanks and took off her hand from the mouth piece. "Hm... how unusual of you to forget. Usually you remember everything you need to ask. Why did you forget?" Kyouki asked in bemusement.
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Post by Dairyuujin No Shi on Jan 3, 2009 8:48:10 GMT -5
He waited for the girl's response. After what felt like a minute, she answered him. He sweated a bit, despite the cold air. How could he say that he was shocked into forgetting to ask Rai because of of that green blob creature,which had apparently grown even bigger, and more defined into a dragon. Actually, it looked more like a hatchling than a full-grown dragon, but still.... What should he say to her though; Ryuu-sama expressively forbade any of us from mentioning this, or else. Hm... he could say it was old age. Maybe he could say that he was old and forgetful... nah, she wouldn't buy that.
He nibbled his teeth as he started to sweat. What was he going to say? He didn't want to lie to her, but he did not want to disobey either. Hm... maybe he could tell her that the person's appearance and personality shocked him. That could work.... Well, he had no other options anyway, might as well.
"Well, Inugodaikoku-sama, his appearance quite surprised me. I thought that he would be another woman that he wanted to stay there. Imagine my surprise when I saw and confirmed that it was one of his army buddies." He said smoothly.
Meanwhile, Ryuu was now training in the advance forms of Rakan Niou Ken. Fei was watching on, quite fascinated by the fact that this was Danava's most used style.
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Post by shinigamiyoukai on Jan 3, 2009 20:08:18 GMT -5
After she had said the statement, Kyouki twisted a lock of her hair around her finger as she scowled in thought. Why would he forget? Its very unlike him. She thought that, and then she waited for the reply. After a minute, he did reply. Strange though, for some reason she felt that he was lying to her. Ken would not do that though, he respects her too much... right? Plus there was still the dead air....
She shook her head from these thoughts. Then she saw Shi concerned for her. "Hey! You back to Earth yet, you spaced out for a long time...." She blushed a bit from that remark.
Kyouki answered him. "He seems... interesting. Can I talk to him on the phone?"
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Post by Dairyuujin No Shi on Jan 3, 2009 21:28:30 GMT -5
Ken was now nervous. He only heard dead silence for five minutes now. He's stating to think that she's realizing that he lied to her. Who knows what Inugodaikoku-sama would do to him if she realized that? After all, she absolutely didn't like people lying to her like this.
When he finally heard her response, he breathed a sigh of relief. He dodged that nasty bullet. He was so relieved that he almost forgot to answer as he danced for joy. After a minute he composed himself, privately embarrassed that he would do that spontaneously.
"He is training right now in the dojo. I could patch you up to the speakers with his permission, if that's alright with you so that we do not interrupt his training." He said into the receiver.
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Post by shinigamiyoukai on Jan 4, 2009 6:51:32 GMT -5
Kyouki raised an eyebrow after she had said her statement. It was almost as if he was dancing and rejoicing on the other side of the phone, but that was just silly. Ken is too stoic to just dance around like that. Besides, what does he have to dance about? Kyouki waited for him to answer. After a while, she frowned, but kept waiting, after all Ken was probably doing something important that got his attention and he 'conveniently' forgot about telling her.
Right after that thought she heard Ken's voice through the phone again. After listening through it, she thought about it for a few moments before voicing her decision. "Alright, it seems to be reasonable. Do it."
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Post by Dairyuujin No Shi on Jan 4, 2009 20:25:51 GMT -5
Upon hearing her affirmation, he said, "Just wait for a moment Inugodaikoku-sama, while I ask his permission and patch him through."
He took out a strange remote-like device and a USB cord, and plugged it in on the phone. Then he took out a black PDA-like device. He activated it, and there he saw the familiar menu that connects the speakers of any given area to the black-remote like device, with the current master's permission of course.
He quickly accessed the dojo's speakers and receivers, especially those of the gravity room. Then he spoke into it and said to his master:
"Ryuu-sama? Can you hear me?"
Ryuu was startled as he was doing one of his Chinese Dao forms. However, he had enough skill such that his form was not disrupted even with the surprise. Fei, however, was startled so much that he jumped from the chair. Both of them quickly got back their composure, even though the butler could not see it.
"Yes, I can. How did you do that anyway?" He replied.
Ken's voice came out from the speakers. "I was able to do this because of Digger-san's modifications to our acoustic systems when she was still dating Rai-sama, even though this wasn't really her specialty."
"Very well. Why have you done this?" He asked.
"I wish to ask you if you would wish to talk to one of Rai-sama's business partners and friends. Would you like to?" The voice from the speakers asked.
Ryuu thought about it for a few moments. Afterwards, he sighed and made his decision. Besides, this was one of the stipulations Rai gave him: Answer all of his calls that request something like that. He'd thought of that as an odd request, and he still does.
"Do it." Ryuu said.
The butler obeyed and said, "Please speak when you hear the beep."
Then he quickly set up the last steps. Before he did that though, he said to Kyouki: "He agreed. Please let him speak first though."
Then Ryuu heard the beep, he said: "Hello?"
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Post by shinigamiyoukai on Jan 4, 2009 20:39:12 GMT -5
She waited some more, hearing the rustle of the phone as he probably put it on the table to set up whatever he needed to set up. Then she heard a one-sided, yet undecipherable conversation, and then, she heard a beep. The voice that she heard next though, made her chest constrict.
'Its him! It's Shen, but why is he here in Japan? More importantly, why did he say that his name was Ryuu?' Her thought were confused. Yet, she was excited as well. Her crush best friend was here!
Kyouki didn't notice when her face started show signs of a smile, but Shi did. He wondered why sh was smiling like that. He felt... happy that she was smiling like that. He wondered what made her smile like that, and if she could do it more often.
"Shen, is that you?" She asked with a hint of a tremor in her voice.
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Post by Dairyuujin No Shi on Jan 5, 2009 1:50:44 GMT -5
Ryuu was shocked when he heard Kyouki's voice on the speakers. He was so shocked when he heard her voice that he abruptly stopped his kata. He didn't know that Rai knew her too, even as a business associate. He hasn't seen or heard from her in three years.... He shook his head and went back to doing his kata.
Then he replied while doing his kata. "Yeah, it's me. I go by Ryuu in Japan because that was Danava's last wish."
Meanwhile, Fei also froze in surprise when he heard Kyouki's voice. The last time he had seen her was when she was berserk with grief. He wondered how she was doing nowadays.
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