Duo
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Post by Duo on Jun 10, 2010 8:54:20 GMT -5
Duo sets his palms on his knees, slanting his body forward as he catches his breath after the long hour run through the first random country he picked, which happens to be Ianne. He liked it so far, and though there's no place to show off his skill with the spanner, it's pretty decent for him.
The sound of stomping hooves perked his hearing senses, and as he pushed his upper body up straight, he could see an army of horses stampeding towards him. "ACK!!" Despite the rather girlish squeal, Duo managed to disappear and reappear on the safe side as he watched the horses ran pass him.
How he did that was not sorcery, he's just a human, but rather by his inhumane speed. Okay, maybe he's just human except his pair of demented speedy legs. "Well, that was close..." Duo muttered to himself. He was running through the forest earlier, and just after he had escaped the mass of trees, right at the outskirt of the forest, he almost got rammed over by horses.
"What a spicy day!" Duo exclaimed, particularly to no one, but he's crazy like that sometimes. When he turned around, his eyes widened at the large medieval fort standing mightily with flags om top of the watch towers and men with metal plates standing guard at the entrance where the horses just ran in.
"Hahah, no way. Which era am I lost in?" He mused with a lighthearted smile, resting his hands on his hips. By his current posture and his long braided hair, someone could easily mistaken him for a maiden from behind.
[ Open~! ]
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Post by Ritsu on Jan 29, 2011 13:20:00 GMT -5
"Fu~! Where the hell am I?"
One moment she was hiding in a rucksack hanging on a horse, the other she was on the side of the street.
The fox shook her ochre fur.
Looking around, she noticed that the place she was in looked familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time. Kumo wasn't much different than this place but the trees were definitely not like the native ones from her home country.
"Cheh... lost again." Ritsu quickly transformed back into her human form. She had been chased around and hunted for her golden coat in fox form so she frequently stayed in her human form whenever she could. It was just that she needed free transportation that she stowed away in that stupid sack.
Ruffling her ochre hair, Ritsu kicked the sack into a bush and started walking down the dirt road. Her eyes brightened when she saw someone there. Good, maybe that person can help her around, she thought.
"Hey, Lady! Do you know where I am right now?" She called out to the girl with a long braid.
Just how does she wash that mane, I wonder
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jan 29, 2011 14:19:55 GMT -5
Duo froze as he heard a holler from behind him. He scanned around at first, to see if there's any 'lady' nearby besides the caller, and finally resorted to turning around with a confused glance. It took him a moment to realize that he's the 'lady', and once he does, Duo delivered a glare.
"Hey, just because my hair's this beautiful, it doesn't mean I'm a girl," the lad almost pouted as he said that too, walking towards this person to take a better look. Once standing a few ways away from this young woman did Duo felt astonished of how shiny her hair is, and he wasn't afraid to express it too, "Your hair! How did you kept it so...tame!"
While the ponytailed man did not pout of being insulted, he did pout of jealousy. Not many 24-year-old men would. He shrugged it off after a moment, spinning around to face back the fort of sort nearby, " Well, by the looks of the medieval-ish theme and my faulty memory of the pamphlet describing this place... I'm guessing we're in Newfort, love."
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Post by Ritsu on Jan 29, 2011 14:31:18 GMT -5
Ritsu blinked, astonished, "Ehhh~! You're a guy?!"
"...really? Wow. Well.." The fox's golden eyes humorous looked at the lady-guy's chest and rubbed her chin, "Even if you're a girl... you'd pass as a guy." Ritsu snickered.
"Huh...? My hair is tame? Wut? Haha! No one has ever told me that. Most people called my hair wild-- wait... we're straying off topic again." Ritsu wasn't the type to discuss appearances but having a man talk about hair wasn't a common occurance in her life. Thinking about it made the fox a bit... weirded out.
She shrugged it off though and looked around once again, "Medieval...? Torches and pitchforks medieval...?" Great, Ritsu thought, she's going to get hunted her too. The ochre-haired girl face-palmed.
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jan 29, 2011 15:05:47 GMT -5
Duo was thrown off-guard when this woman seemed to stare at his chest for a while, at which he responded halfheartedly, "Does my face looked that feminine that you have to resort staring at my abs? Actually, I wouldn't mind at all if I'd have to unbutton my shirt to prove it," he threw in a short laugh too, flirting slightly. Well, she's a girl, he's a guy. Its not in his control.
"YES, it is tame, and its shiny too! What sort of magic did you used, because I'm unable to believe you use any sort of moisturizer," Duo commented, totally ignoring that they went off topic. Duo was sometimes labeled as being a little metro-sexual back in his last school, but he didn't mind, as long as they don't see him as gay. Plus, hair care is actually very important to him.
The braided man took a moment to ponder upon her imagination of the word medieval, and while in his thoughtful pose, Duo pondered, "I think it's more of the knight and kings sort of medieval. Jousting. Horses. Men in armors. ...Wait, what are we doing here, let's just go inside the fort and see for ourselves, hmn?"
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Post by Ritsu on Jan 29, 2011 15:35:37 GMT -5
"Abs? You have abs? I was staring at your chest. And...yea~ you look like a girl. Your face I mean." Ritsu chuckled sheepishly and scratched the back of her head. "I actually know girls who are manilier than you." It wasn't as if Ritsu was trying to rub salt to the wound, she was just blunt... like a sledgehammer. She would say the first thing that comes to mind.
When the topic went back to her hair, however, Ritsu laughed uncomfortably. Then, as if a lightbulb went off, she grinned, "Oh, it's just naturally like that. I don't need to do anything to my hair. I'm awesome like that. Hehe... go ahead praise it more~."
"Jousting? Knight in armors? Eh? Hmm... well we do have samurai in Kumo. Is that the same?"
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jan 29, 2011 15:59:24 GMT -5
Duo blanked out, 'Oh right, abs are at the abdomen, the STOMACH. Nice going, Duo.' True, he doesn't study biology, and it would take a miracle for him to, actually. The lad knows more of robotic anatomy rather than human, in all honestly. He's way more obsessed in machinery rather than organic substances. ...Except maybe his hair.
Duo arched a brow of her attempt to insult him...well, further insult him, that is. Good thing he possesses abnormal optimism. "Love, I take that as a compliment that my face looks as beautiful as a girl and I'm gentler than some girls." He even bowed to her as he stated that, that smile he wears seems to be eternally plastered on his face. Eternally.
Straightening back his body, the braided man blinked at how different her laugh sounded and how prideful she's acting. "Nope, that's all I have; tame and shiny. ...Ooh, and you have a little dirt there, let me.." Duo motioned towards her hair, and just when she least expect it, grab hold of her orange-blonde hair and would you believe it, he actually ruffled it.
"Ha, and may I add tousled in my praising?" he smirked, pulling back his hand to cross his arms. Duo's playful, but not that cruel. He slipped a hand on his back pocket and pulled out a comb, an item he always brings wherever he go, and handed it to this girl. "State your name before you get to touch my sacred magical comb," he light-heartedly joked...but he indeed is curious of the girl's name.
So now in his head, he has the image of a knight and a samurai standing beside each other. One's going all 'Yaaa' and the other went all 'Haiyaaa'. Yep, both totally the same. "They both seem to take pride in honor and glory, so...I say yes, they're the same, I assume." While he said that like he didn't even care, Duo took note in his head that this girl resides in Kumo.
'Have to check that place out some time next week~'
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Post by Ritsu on Jan 29, 2011 16:18:00 GMT -5
"Gah! Mah hair!" Ritsu yelped when Duo ruffled her locks. Seriously, was that necessary? The fox pouted as her hair settled wildly, indeed giving her that tousled appearance. She growled (though not threatening) and tried to smooth her hair with her slim fingers.
She then stared at the so called 'Sacred Magical Comb'.
Ritsu was street-wise,-- even though she did get lost quite often but she blamed that on her curse of sleeping during travel, which, in turn, made her miss her stops-- so she doubted that the plain looking comb was indeed magical, let alone sacred. But then again, she thought, if that thing could tame this guy's hair then maybe, just maybe it was...
...possessed by some demon.
"Name's Tainaka Ritsu-- not because I want to borrow your comb-- but because you asked. Hnnf," Ritsu crossed her arms as well, then smirked, "Being smooth isn't gonna work... or are you like this all the time?"
With the speed of a fox spirit that she was, Ritsu stole the comb from Duo's hands. Looking at it inquisitively, Ritsu commented, "Yup... possessed alright. I can smell a tanuki from this thing."
Ever easily distracted, the ochre-haired girl already forgot about the difference, or similarities in this case, between a samurai and a knight.
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Post by Duo on Jan 29, 2011 16:43:53 GMT -5
Duo can't help but to snorted and tries to hold himself from bursting into a fit of laughter while pointing a finger at this woman. Her face is so amusing when she's staring at his comb, almost as if she actually believed it's sacred and magical. ...Well it is, to Duo, since that comb's his life-saver whenever he has a bad hair day.
The pleasant smile on his lips widens as she uncovered her name, plus her comment on the comb made him laugh for real, letting out all that restraint from not laughing a moment ago. "Smooth? Me..? You just said a minute ago how unmanly I am. Actually, I'm not even trying to be smooth, I'm being myself," what seemed to be an innocent statement then gave birth to a thought in Duo's mind, and that's when his smile grows into a toothy grin, "Orrr are you actually falling for a beautiful unmanly man, hmmnn Tainaka Ritsu-chan..?"
He can't help teasing her like this, it's just too good. Though, he can't help blinking and caught totally surprised when his comb was no where in his grip. Not that he mind she uses it, but she didn't, Ritsu simply stated that its possessed. Duo burst into another round of laughter.
"HAH! That's gold...tanuki...hahah! Relax Ritsu, it's just a normal boring comb... and what exactly is tanuki?" he assured her, but then a sudden thought struck him. Maybe she's unto something. Though the comb is perfectly fine, Duo himself however is not. The lad's actually the one who is possessed, maybe his aura stuck onto the comb and this girl misread it.
'Oh crap.. She can read auras. Damn.'
"Y-yeaaa, ahahah, that's..a really funny notion there, Ritsu..! Hahah.. Now uh..would you um...return that comb to me please?"
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Post by Ritsu on Jan 29, 2011 16:55:49 GMT -5
Ritsu huffed, "Eh...? But you're nowhere near as handsome as a fox. I like 'em cute and furry, ya know?" She grinned. Now that she thought about it, she never really thought of humans to be attractive. She liked staying in human form sure but human males weren't on her 'hottie' list.
Not really anyway... certainly not this guy.
Wait.
"Ritsu... chan? No no no!" She pointed a finger right on between Duo's eyes, "Ricchan desu! If you're going to add a suffix, you might as well do it properly!"
She took her hand back and started waving the comb around, "Oh, tanukis are raccoon dogs with... large testicles." She said with utter seriousness. She then looked at him, burningly stared, and said, "Are you a tanuki?"
It was only through centuries of experience that Ritsu could keep her face straight. This guy wasn't an animal demon but it was still fun to throw random trivia around.
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Post by Duo on Jan 29, 2011 17:30:46 GMT -5
"Whut? Cute and...furry...?" In the unholy territory that is Duo's mind, he had imagined in his head a large bulky hairy man, but with a cute face. The lad flinched at the thought and even stuck out his tongue at how horrible that looked in his actively mental mind, "Geh... That's just..ew. You SURE those are your type of...men?" He even shivered at the thought of Ritsu being on bed with one.
Good thing said Ritsu distracted him from imagining further by objecting her suffixed name he created. "And why are you so worked up by that? Fine, fine! Ricchan, then!" he raised his arms in defense as he backed a foot or so away from her, though her explanations on tanuki certainly made his arms dropped dead. Not just his arms, even his brain.
Duo totally blanked out, staring at her in mild shock, but that's just a pre-stage. And here comes the real roller-coaster, "WHAT?! And what are you implying behind that..?! I do NOT have large testicles! ...Wait, no, rephrase. I am NOT a raccoon dog!" Duo facepalmed himself at his mistake in saying that out loud. In front of a girl. Great, it feels just like in high school again.
"Congratulations Ricchan, you just destroyed my dignity."
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Post by Ritsu on Jan 29, 2011 18:29:36 GMT -5
Ritsu smiled.
She smiled in utter smugness.
Why?
There were a couple of women walking down the dirt road towards them when Duo shouted to the world that he, in fact, didn't have large testicles. Meaning... he had small ones.
The fox's smirk grew wider when the women started to chatter amongst themselves while looking at the embarrassed and flushing long-haired man... with small testicles.
Ritsu folded her arms behind her head. "Fufu... I did nothing of the sort, Tanuki-kun. I certainly didn't say anything THAT loud." The fox then puckered her lips and whistlied innocently as the women came into Duo's view. "I didn't destroy your dignity either. I never wanted to. Heh. I didn't think your dignity would be shorter than your hair."
To the ladies chattering, Ritsu said, "Hai hai... we heard you now leave the man with shortcomings alone. Shoo. Go...uh... milk cows or something. Whatever you do around here..." She shooed the people away and turned back to Duo grinning with her hands still behind her head, waiting for him to recover.
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jan 30, 2011 12:39:25 GMT -5
There is nothing in this world right at this moment that could match how frightening Ritsu's grin is, Duo decided. By how hot his face felt, the ponytailed man could correctly guess how immensely red he is now. He never wishes to remove his palm from his face from the facepalming before, and just paused like that till the embarrassment subsides. And Duo hoped SO HARD it would subside.
It doesn't. A couple of ladies walking pass his range of view made him squint his eyes closed as tightly as he could.
Okay, so now he realized he didn't just said that out loud in front of A girl, but a FEW girls. It defies logic how the lad's face could become even more red, but it did. He feels like his face would explode due to overheating, and he hoped that literally happens in order to escape such a moment.
Ritsu's words were like needles...no, swords...no, bigass scythes, shredding every bit of dignity he may have left, though he doubt if it's measured with numeric values, then his dignity would already have long dropped to negative. Beyond negative infinity. His stomach churned.
So Duo just stood there, totally frozen, his hand still covering his face, wishing he'd got a heart-attack and die already. He would almost thank Ritsu for shooing the girls off, but then again, he hasn't recovered from his lifetime's supply of embarrassment yet.
"...Ricchan," his voice was muffled under that palm of his, but his voice certainly indicates that he's not feeling all too well. "..Can I do anything to possibly erase every bit of memory of that tanuki incident from your head?"
Yes, there certainly are times when he wished people around him were robots, with deletable memories.
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Post by Ritsu on Jan 30, 2011 13:57:34 GMT -5
Ritsu strode over to where the long-haired man was standing and dropped a heavy hand on his shoulder, "Oi... snap out of it. Come back to me~ Tanuki-kun."
When Duo finally responded, Ritsu tilted her head to hear him clearly. The poor guy sounded so defeated by that small incident. The fox felt just a tiny bit guilty for not telling him that there were other people behind him during his outburst. "Sumanai." She declared and wrapped an arm around his shoulder, "I didn't know you were that affected by that kind of stuff."
"But!"
"You'll remain Tanuki-kun in my head. It's your fault, you never gave me your name." She slightly shook the guy to snap him out of his daze.
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Post by Duo on Jan 31, 2011 4:45:39 GMT -5
'Warning, warning! Heat overload!' His mind chimed, exactly like how a machine would notify the damage taken. "Geh.." He groaned under his palm, in response to hearing Ritsu's apologetic tone. It sort of felt nice into having someone trying to comfort him like this. TRYING is the keyword. But that's enough for Duo to begin recovering.
He released his face, revealing a small pout of his lips and his metallic-blue eyes focused onto the ground rather than this girl in front of him. Ritsu's right though, he himself has no idea that he's THAT sensitive by that kind of stuff either. 'Ah well, there's a first for everything..'
"Eh..?" Duo blinked, now focusing his eyes towards Ritsu, though his face has not yet returned to its normal tanned complexion yet. "O-oh right! My name! Wow, I totally forgot," so the braided man takes that as a distraction from the earlier event to completely recover that cerise tone on his cheeks.
"Well, I wasn't named since birth, but they called me Yumoa Duo over the years, Duo for short! Certified mechanic, courier and delivery boy, at you service!" He did a little regal bow, that long braid behind him even slides its way down to the front on his right shoulder and just hanged there beside his neck until the lad pulled up his upper body.
"And if you're not planning to use it, I'd like my comb back, please." Duo requested, while hanging a hand up for her to put the item on his opened palm. "Or would you rather let me comb you hair? It's a little..tangled around the left ear. And you have an...antenna over there."
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