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 Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:49 pm
(( o.0 ohh?? ))
That question is funny. Izanagi giggled at Umeda then look at him.
How should he answer that man? "That someone..." He paused a while but still looking at the kodama.
"That someone is...special. He's bigger than me, taller than me. And he's older than me and stronger than me....I don't know if that someone feel the same way as me."
He used 'someone' instead of 'person' because that someone he loves is not human.
Besides, what is more cruel than not being loved back?
The boy smiled. "I'm not sure if that someone and I are going to work out. It seems impossible, somehow."
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:44 am
Smiling slightly, the kodama nodded. "Sou ka..."
How should he reply to that?
Honestly...
Because from where he sat... the kid had just given him the biggest compliment in a long time.
Such a very long time.
"I bet that someone feels for you, Izanagi. I bet he wants to protect you... wants to see you happy for once... hell, he probably does feel the same way but is just too stubborn to admit it." his smile failed just a tiny bit. "But, while I bet he wants it to work out... he probably knows just how hard a road that would be. This someone... while he could see a happy future for the two of you... probably also sees the end of a legacy... at least... a pure legacy..."
Umeda said this, because in truth, he could bear the heir to family name. All he would have to do would be to change his form a little, something he'd never done for anyone before... and, well, the child would be born of two worlds... born to a tree, in fact.
But it would destroy the humanity of the line.
Merging mortal with spirit... it was dangerous business... taboo by many in the unseen world...
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:05 am
After hearing what Umeda had just said, the boy stunned.
His brain blanked out and he is not sure if he heard it right...
Does Umeda really feel that way too? That fail smile of the kodama has given away the answer.
However, he is still not sure about that...It is quite...unbelievable...
Izanagi stare at that man like an idiot for over a minute or maybe two. Finally, he is able to calm down himself and spoke.
"I personally think..." He do not dare to look the man in the eyes anymore. It makes him nervous.
"Pure legacy is nothing if to be compared to pure love." Izanagi let out a loud sigh. "But yeah that is just what I think... And like I said, It is impossible for me and 'someone'." It feels like he just said something very stupid.
"Let's not talk about this." The boy frowned and grunted at himself. "Wake me up when we reach Inaba." He said closing his eyes and try to take a nap.
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:23 am
Umeda frowned slightly, having not expected that response. "Sometimes... the impossible can be possible... with the right conditions." sighing, he stood and looked around, making sure no one spotted him then... the kodama faded from normal mortal sight and transformed into his smaller true form.
"I'll wake you when we get there." Noe spoke as he walked over to the window and sat down, looking at the scenery that passed them by.
He wasn't upset... not really. After all, Izanagi was the last person he wanted to fall for.
Umeda wanted to protect him... but sometimes... sometimes he couldn't help but feel like they were closer than that.
Maybe it was his memories... maybe he was going crazy... hell, maybe he wanted one more fling before he faded from existence (though the power upgrade Izanagi's 'friends' had given him certainly would keep that from happening as soon)...
He didn't know why, but the fact that the 'kid' didn't even want to try.... well...
It hurt...
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:17 pm
Is right now the right condition? Maybe...
To be honest, Izanagi do not know what Umeda is thinking.
What the man said is confusing the boy.
If Umeda feel the same towards Izanagi, then why even bother about legacy?
Was the kodama afraid of their future or was he worrying that the boy couldn't bear such heavy burden?
Izanagi don't mind if he is to confront it with Umeda. It's just that...he is not going to make his first move.
He won't even TRY to decide anything for the kodama. Didn't Umeda said it himself that he was too stubborn to admit his feeling?
The boy knows it will be useless if Umeda has not yet made up his mind.
Therefore, he leave the decision to the kodama himself. When the right time comes, Umeda will tell him the answer he has been waiting for, like just now.
He just don't want either one of them regret or suffer from their selfish act in future.
The boy truly understands this related to the law of two worlds. It is a serious thing and this is no child's play.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:53 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:52 pm
The train continued... moving ever closer to their destination.
Not once did Umeda look at Izanagi, though he knew the boy wasn't asleep the entire time. The kodama merely continued to gaze out the window, feeling a bit stifled being cut off from all nature in that big iron box known as a train.
Eventually, the train pulled into the station and, making sure no one was watching, Noe returned to his human form and became visible again. Gently he reached out, placing a hand on Izanagi's shoulder.
"We're here. Get your bag." he spoke before standing and heading toward the door of the train car.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:23 am
Yes, he wasn't asleep. Izanagi couldn't, even though he was trying to. He feels like he is being watched.
Somewhere in a dark corner within the train...comes the kind of uneasy feeling lies the head that wears a crown.
The boy is being attacked mentally by such indescribable heavy force. It is something much more deadly than Sayori or the banshee.
Strange, but familiar. However, he is sure that is not Sayori or her spirit servant.
No...it's not even anything spiritual. This is strange and scary...It is better that he pretend he felt nothing right now.
When he felt the hand on his shoulder, he opened his eyes. "Oh, we are here already?" He said looking at the kodama and follow him after picking up his bag.
Yeah...He is pretending like he don't know himself is being watched and followed. "Ne, Umeda-san. Can we stop by the alley on our way back home? I just want to make sure Mimi is okay."
Ah...He didn't forget his cat. But, he won't see Mimi in the alley since Matsuo is taking care of it.
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:03 am
(( im not sure if i want to continue this anymore stare ))
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:38 pm
(((I'm kind of stuck as to what to do next.... Well plus I was sick for 2 weeks, totally absent from Gaia during most of that too... but yeah. I'm kind of stumped as to where the RP should go next... I really like the RP though. It's the only one besides my own original RP that I even post in anymore pretty much...)))
"The alley cat?" Umeda asked as they exited the train.
He hadn't felt whatever presence had been assaulting Izanagi. In fact, the entire train ride had seemed beyond uneventful for him.
It was strange...
Usually he could feel something everywhere, since youkai tended to exist in various places around the country. But the train had felt desolate... abandoned...
The kodama couldn't help but wonder why that was...
"You're leading the way so you get to choose where we head. I'm just along for the ride... basically..." the man smirked, wondering what things would be like once they were back at Izanagi's.
Izanagi would go back to school... Umeda would continue to tail him like before...
Things would go back to normal... somewhat.
There was still the issue of Sayori to death with however. An issue that the kodama wasn't quite sure how to manage.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:42 am
(( T^T We don't have a plot...for so long. ))
Izanagi looked at his watch and then the kodama. "Let's go then." He said smiling. The further he left the train station, the lesser that pressure he felt on the train.
It took him a while to reach the alley way by foot. "Mimi~~" He called the cat's name and waited for a minute. But he don't see the cat coming out. "Mimi?" Izanagi felt something isn't right. Where is Mimi? He looked around the alley but there cat is no where to be found. The boy sighed, disappointed. Maybe the cat grew up and met a few friends and left the place? He thought to himself...He walked back to the kodama and smiled. "Sorry for wasting your time. We can go home now." At home, there is a big surprise waiting for him.
"Guess who is back!" A man with a spectacle, short black hair, squary chin and quite muscular body pointing his finger at Izanagi. "Wha-the..." The boy was shocked by the surprise action when he opened the door. He jumped back a bit and get a zoomed out view of the man. "Oyaji?" Izanagi shouted and the man laughed. "Stupid son! You don't recognize your old man anymore?" The man asked. Kojiro Tamiya, Izanagi's father. A pilot and retired shaman. "Honey~ I think I heard Iza-chan's voice." Comes a female voice from the kitchen. That will be Izanagi's mother, Yurika Kishimoto. An air stewardess who was a priest works in a temple. "I see you brought a friend, Iza-chan! Such a handsome man." Although she said it like she welcome the guest but a dark aura around her body is so obviously can be felt. "We figured you didn't go to school and you have luggage with you. Did you go somewhere with your friend?" The father said with a wicked smile on his face. In the meantime...the shikigami which Umeda made had returned home..."Oh my god." Izanagi said and hit his face with a palm. Busted...he thought.
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:43 pm
There were times in Umeda's long long life... when people knew when he just wasn't paying any attention.
Such a time occurred in the alley, as was obvious from the fact that he followed after Izanagi without saying much.
It wasn't that he was ignoring the kid, far from it... his senses were just tuned so far outward that he wasn't particularly preoccupied with what Izanagi was doing.
Noe was sensing for danger... just in case...
But apparently there was no cat, which the kodama didn't think too great a loss simply because... well... it WAS an alleycat...
Pulling a cigarette from the pack bought by the taxi driver, Umeda lit it and took a hard pull, blowing the smoke up in the air as they walked. "You know, the cat's probably..." he was saying as Izanagi opened the front door to his house.
Anything else that the kodama had hoped to say was dashed and he quickly grabbed Izanagi by the back of his collar and pulled him backward behind him.
Parents or not, he didn't like the way they felt... "Dare ka?" Umeda asked, black eyes narrowing dangerously.
He kept his left handed grip on Izanagi, making sure the kid stayed put behind him, while his gently burning cigarette rested between two fingers of his right hand.
The shikigami arrived, though he paid it little heed since it was a creation of his own. With a quick glance in the summoned spirit's direction, the fake Izanagi disappeared in a puff of smoke. Umeda wasted no time in looking back at Izanagi's parents.
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:04 am
Before Izanagi could have the chance to explain what is happening to his parents, he was pulled back by Umeda.
"Dare... ka, you said?" Kojiro said darkly. "Boy you ate my precious cigarettes, drank my beer, sleep on my couch and kidnapped my son." The man exaggerate a bit at the end, though he knew Izanagi was not kidnapped. "Jeez, otosan. Why not let them in and talk in the house?" Yurika shook her head then said. "Iza-chan, bring your kodama friend in please." She said going back into her kitchen to make some tea.
The boy nodded at his mom with a smile then grab Umeda's arm and pull him into the house. "Don't worry. They are nice people. Just...a bit weird." He said closing the door behind him and take off his shoes, placing them on the shoe rack. "So what brings you guys back all of a sudden?" Izanagi placed his bag on beside the couch and sat down. "Heh? Just how many days you've been gone? We sent you an email to inform you that we are coming back today! It's gramp's birthday." Kojiro said lighting up a cigarette. "Hey you, tall dude. Why are you standing there? Sit down, sit down..." The parent told the kodama.
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:47 pm
Hesitation...
Umeda's black eyes remained wary, his senses tuned outward... just in case.
The kodama entered, though he didn't remove his boots, and leaned against the entry wall, arms crossed over his chest.
"I did not 'kidnap' Izanagi-kun. He accompanied me on an errand. And how do you know I slept on your couch? I could have been your son and I could have taken his bed instead."
Of course he said nothing to the cigarettes and the beer... because Izanagi had given them to him.
"Forgive my rudeness," the spirit spoke, hid body transforming into that of a tiny kodama.
Thus, that's how Umeda sat down on the coffee table. He did as Izanagi's father instructed... but he did so in a manner that would allow him to make a quick exit or protect the boy if need be.
Plus, he didn't want these people gazing at him. He held no interest in either of them beyond Izanagi himself.
He even made himself visible to normal mortals as well... just in case.
"How do you know what I am? Your son did not even truly know... yet you seem to realize many things about me that very few immortals in this world know... let alone mortals." the kodama spoke, watching Izanagi's father.
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:34 am
Yurika walked out of the kitchen and she has a pot of tea and bowls with her. "Of course we know. It is because you left your flower scent on the couch. Besides..." She put them on the tea table and knelt on the floor and pour the tea into the bowls. "We can see the aura you left unknowingly in the house. Maybe you couldn't see it. But, we can." She gave a bowl of tea to her husband and then Izanagi. "What kind of people drink tea with a bowl?" The boy asked taking the bowl and look at his mother. "Chinese people." Yurika replied with a smile and push a bowl to the tiny kodama. "Any spirit has their own color of aura. You got a quite a bright color one, kodama. But it is normal because you are, after all, a nature spirit. However your aura is quite different from the color we see in the house. Perhaps you've gained new power or something?" Kojiro spoke and drink the tea.
"You can't compare Yurika and I with Izanagi. We both are able to see spirits since the day we were born. We have seen many kinds of spirits. Capturing, keeping and sometimes, even killing them." The mature man scratches his head. "Well, its the past. Who wants to live their lives as a shaman and priest forever? Not me. Not Yurika. And definitely not Izanagi. Damn he can't even see spirits till he turned fifteen. Hahaha!" He told the kodama while looking the spirit whom sitting on the tea table and putting the cigarette on his lips again.
"Yuck! Stop smoking in the house. Mom! Do something." Izanagi coughed and cover his nose when he saw the smoke flowing towards him.
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