12 ☀ Day; Video

[savior_n_black]

[ Seems like a lot of these keep cropping up. Usually at the most inopportune moments. Today is no different, though all the video is showing is a bouncing, jostling blur of movement. Nothing but streets, buildings, and the occasional streak of blue sky as Ichigo alternates between plain shunpo, and mixing it with parkour

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[saeptuose]

[ There is so much sighing on her end. ] Do you really think fighting is going to help?

At least you're all right now...nothing really bad happened...

[savior_n_black]

I'm tired of sitting around, wondering when the next horrible thing is going to hit, Lior.

Yeah, I'm alright now, and everyone I know back home isn't. I'm stuck in a huge cage with crazy people running it, getting turned into a freaking dragon on some random day, dealing with mist-monsters, and nightmares, and friends who don't make a damn bit of sense!
But sure, yeah. I'm totally fine.

[saeptuose]

We all are, Ichigo, but there isn't anything we can do about it. Beating each other up won't solve anything.

I... I wish there was something I could do to help you. You're not the only one that's stuck here looking for ways to get home. Since we can't get back there yet...just--

There are people here that need you, too.

[savior_n_black]

It'll keep me from from getting soft.

[ AND I'LL FEEL BETTER DX. But, hrrrnggghh...can't really be mad at Lior, so have a lot of sighing here, too. ]

Yeah, yeah. I know. I'm not going to kill anyone, though, okay? Don't worry.

[saeptuose]

There's better ways to remedy that.

[ not that he'll listen, but she might as well try. ]

I'm going to worry anyway, Ichigo. I care about you too much not to, and I know you're still angry. It's not about you killing anyone it's just.. [ SIGH ] N-Nevermind...

[savior_n_black]

What? It's just what?

[saeptuose]

...Nothing, I'm just being selfish and silly.

[savior_n_black]

Just say it.

[saeptuose]

It's just that, sometimes, despite what everyone says and all the bad things that might happen...I don't want people to leave. Especially not my knights. and it's not that I worry about you killing someone, it's that I worry you'll be the one that might get hurt...and I won't be able to do anything to help.

One day, for all we know, you might be gone. Or I might, or anyone else for that matter. I feel like wasting time fighting, when we could be spending that time with the people we met and care about here, is just that; a waste.

locked;

[savior_n_black]

Lior...my friends from home came here not too long ago. And Tatsuki...she told us what was happening there. It was bad. Really bad.

I know you don't like it, but if I don't find a way of getting stronger, the guy that's looking to wipe my town, my family, and all my friends off the map will win. I have to get better. A lot better...
And the only way to do that is to fight. If I'm going to be stuck in this big prison, then I need to use it. Figure out how to get stronger.

I know you don't like fighting, but...I have to.

locked;

[saeptuose]

[ She's quiet for a good couple of minutes, and if she wasn't using the video function Ichigo might have just assumed she left.

He's right and he's saying pretty much everything everyone else had said to her when she brought it up. Now she can't help but think that maybe there's a method to her knight's madness when they go off and fight. There really is only one way to get stronger in most cases.

She's just sort of staring off to the side of the screen, thinking, before she finally says, ]

Then I'll fight with you.

[ Better with her, honestly. At least then it wouldn't seem like such a waste. Or as violent. ]

locked;

[savior_n_black]

...What?

[ No, seriously. WAT. ]

locked;

[saeptuose]

If you're so determined to find someone to fight, then fight me, Ichigo. I can't stop you anyway.

I...I need to get stronger, too.

locked;

[savior_n_black]

[ Looong silence. If not for the fact that the recording is till on, it might seem like he hung up. Sorry, but he's puzzling on that one. ]

....You've got magic. I do okay against kidou back home, but...Lior, I don't know if this is such a good idea.

locked;

[saeptuose]

You said you wanted to get stronger to protect people you care about. And fighting was the only way to do it while you're here. I might not like fighting, but I've talked to a few people lately and I realised I can't avoid it entirely. One day I'll need to fight, Ichigo. As much as I don't want to.

...Why isn't it a good idea? Because it's me?

locked;

[savior_n_black]

No. Because it's me.

[ Lior, this kid has two modes; all, or nothing. He's got power in spades, and not much in the way of finite control over it. But, after all that business about helping Inoue to learn, and anyone else who wanted to...seemed kind of lame to not help Lior, too. ]

...But how about different rules. Like, if I draw blood, even a little, I lose. And if you say stop, then we stop. Because, as much as I need to get better, I promised I would look after you. So I won't hurt you.

Deal?