Jun 29, 2009 16:37
Senna stepped off the bus to wind blowing through the
clothes she was given. A sad face at one of the nurses allowed her a long red scarf as well, and once she had draped it around her neck and let it hang down her back, she had trotted off
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It was a bit chilly in Doyleton this time. Momo was glad she'd been given the red sweater and black slacks and not a dress like some of the other women. She didn't have much meat on her anyways, and something that breezy would whip the wind right through her.
Slipping the coupon book into her pocket, Momo walked into the park. It felt good to not have the cast on her arm anymore and she rubbed the appendage briefly. The ride with Taura had been pleasant, even if the woman didn't believe her about being shinigami. To each their own. She hoped the woman faired well and may seek her out after a few more days passed.
A bench by the pond definitely had her name on it. Sitting udown after brushing the frost off, Momo shivered once before she settled down. She didn't want to think about anything. She didn't want to think about how odd it was to feel Hitsugaya's presence again. She didn't want to think about what the absence of Ichimaru's meant. She didn't want to think.
Clearing her mind, she watched the waters of the pond and tried a meditation technique she hadn't used in decades. Slowly her eyes closed. If it wasn't for how rigid her posture was, one could mistake the shinigami for being asleep.
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ZEX shivered when he stepped off the bus, definitely not appreciating the wind with his thin human skin. How did humans survive on this planet if they couldn't even hold in heat? His body was spasming in short bursts which didn't seem to be helping, although he didn't know enough about it to say. It was possible that it was a human thing to help keep themselves warm for all he knew. They had to do something when they were cold, surely.
He glanced around, not catching sight of anyone he knew, and decided he might as well walk around a little and see if there was someone new he could talk to. After all, he'd had a pleasant chat on the bus... and he did need to expand his pool of potential partners.
Naturally drawn to water, ZEX held onto himself tightly in an effort to keep heat from escaping through his sweater and walked over to the pond. It seemed he wasn't alone... there was a human sitting nearby. A female human, by his guess... and a small one. Finally, a human that wasn't bigger than he was!
He came closer to her, noticing that her eyes were closed. Humans didn't seem to communicate with their eyes as much as VUX did... what was she doing?
Well, if she was going to sit there and not move or notice him, then ZEX felt perfectly content to admire her from a short distance away. After all, it was a fine way to spend his time! And each human's uniqueness made them very engrossing...
It was possible she might feel his eyes on her, but ZEX didn't much care if she did. Besides, ogling a human helped take his mind off of how cold he felt. He was still shivering.
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Momo tried to ignore the feeling that someone was staring at her. She really did, but after several minutes, she just couldn't anymore. Slowly, the shinigami opened her eyes and didn't initially see anyone until she turned her head further to the left to compensate for her lack of sight in her left eye.
Oh. That was an... unusual looking man. Was he one of the patients? She tilted her head a bit. "Hello."
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ZEX smiled too widely at her in return to her greeting, not for a moment thinking that there might be something odd about getting caught leering at someone else while they weren't watching. He shuddered at a sudden breeze, although it didn't dampen his mood. "Hello. I don't think we've met before, have we?"
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"Please, sit down? It's not as cold under the tree," she offered.
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"Ah, thank you. I'm not used to this sort of weather." Now that he was closer to the human, his smile became more unconscious and subsequently a bit more natural. It only grew wider as he slowly began to invade her personal space. "It's a bit more difficult to stay warm than I thought it might be... mmm, what's your name?"
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"I believe the nurses were handing out extra jackets. You could always ask for one from them," Momo replied, shifting a bit away from the man a bit. "And my name is Hinamori Momo. You are?"
Way too close. The shinigami tucked her hair behind her ear as she turned more toward the man, hoping he'd not move any closer as her knee would give her a bit of a buffer. At least that's what she thought...
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"Mmm, I may take them up on that offer." Although with the way ZEX said it, one would think the nurses were offering something much more interesting than an extra jacket. "I didn't know this body would be so... sensitive." Leering at her.
Another odd and long human name, although it almost sounded managable near the end. One letter too long, but MOM was at least could almost be a VUX name. ZEX kept smiling at her. "Mmm, I'm Admiral ZEX, formerly of the VUX military." No need to warn her not to be frightened. She seemed rather receptive to him so far as she'd turned towards him, although that did mean her leg was somewhat in the way... not that it wouldn't be an easy obstacle to get around should it come to that.
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"Pleased to meet you, ZEX," Momo replied. There was something familiar about that name, but she couldn't place it. Maybe it'd come to her later. The fact that he wasn't human, from the phrasings he used earlier, allowed her to shrug off the odd looks for the moment.
"I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the VUX military, ZEX-san. I am one of the shinigami here - one of the vice captains."
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"Mmm, I'm pleased to meet you as well." Very pleased by the tone in his voice, and he was still smiling too widely. "There are so many different people to meet here... I haven't had the chance to know many female humans, I'm afraid. Hopefully that will change..." Still leering at her.
As all humans here did (inexplicably and impossibly), she was speaking VUK ZIX. Normally he tried not to think too much about it as it would just give him a headache, but she did something to his name that caught his attention. Did she give him an honorific? Apart from the few humans that used his title, she would be the first to do so. Even if it was a fairly mild one (no ZEX-KYR, certainly), it was enough to startle him out of his ogling and into a blank, confused stare.
"Ah..." A moment to try and gather his thoughts, then he caught the second sentence. "A shinigami?" Awkwardly sounding out the word one syllable at a time. He'd exchanged notes with one of them on the bulletin board once, hadn't he? "I think I've spoken to one of you before... you have something to do with 'ghosts', don't you?" From what he could recall, anyway.
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"Yes, though we use call them spirits as opposed to ghosts," she replied. "And I'm sorry for the mistake, but I am not human. I was one many years ago, but no longer. Though it is an honest mistake, so please do not worry about it."
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"You're not human?" Well, that changed some things, depending. Was one many years ago... "I wasn't... aware that one could change from human into something else. Well, aside from whatever methods this place uses to change us into these." ZEX indicated his body. "Although I'm not very familiar with your current species, I must admit." He wasn't quite sure if he was convinced about them having something to do with spirits or ghosts or whatever humans wanted to call them, as he was still somewhat doubtful that either could exist on the physical plane. His invisible admirer may have possessed some extraordinary qualities, but she was still human. Or human enough.
Although come to think of it, he'd had yet to cough up any hair today... interesting. Maybe she didn't want to wander too far from the Institute?
"How does one become a shinigami?" Perhaps some kind of ritual? Hmm.
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"Well, it's a bit of a process," she explained. "I died as a human and then the strength of my soul allowed me to endure the training needed to harness the raw power of my soul to become shinigami." It was a much more complicated procedure than that, but she wasn't about to explain it to ZEX.
"I could have chosen to be reincarnated as a human again, but I chose to become a protector of humans and aid their spirits when they died."
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But not at the moment. ZEX listened to her explanation with something of a skeptical expression, although he didn't know it. He was pretty sure his countrymen would not believe humans had souls, or much less an afterlife of their own. Then again, other VUX saw humans as little more than animals, and ZEX certainly disagreed with them there.
Not that that made her explanation make any sense. He had no idea what she was talking about or describing. He took a few moments to think about it, then said, "Why would a spirit need aid?"
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"Usually it's because the soul has a very strong emotional tie to someone or something in the living world, something they just can't let go. It's part of a shinigami's duty to help these spirits gross over before they corrupt and turn into an eater of souls we call a Hollow."
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Well, whether or not this human was a delusional and religious zealot or not, they were still nearby and still very easy to harass. ZEX leaned in a little closer to her, and heightened proximity made his smile almost too natural. "A Hollow, hmm?" As an innuendo, then something about that term clicked. He'd heard it somewhere before, hadn't he...? "Heh, I think someone was trying to warn me about those a few days ago..." Still smiling too much to sound concerned.
"What would you do with a... Hollow?" Although by the tone in ZEX's voice, he was asking something very different.
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