"Reunion"

[bloodysnowabumi]

Who: Zaku, Karin, and a bunch of random people 8D
When: Wednesday afternoon to Wednesday night
What: Zaku, alone and nearly dead, follows the lead of Shige, the creature who has been appearing to him for a few weeks now. After running away from home after the fight against Kidoumaru and Sai two days earlier... and accidentally injuring Karin, Zaku's

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[bloodysnowabumi]

From the depths of Karin's sweatshirt pocket, the cell phone began to ring. While she was surprised to have service out here, she wiggled the sweatshirt out from under her from where she was sitting, pulling out the small device. "Home." She knew it. Hiroshi had probably just gotten off work and her mother wasn't going to be the one to call. Karin flipped open the phone, "Yes?"

As predicted, Hiroshi's voice came through the other line, although it was fuzzy at best, "Karin? Are you out looking for Zaku again?"

"Yes," Karin didn't feel that he needed more than that.

"Your mother and I would prefer you hadn't done anything like that again, Karin. Where are you though? I'll come pick you up and we can drive around and look from my car..."

"You can't come get me," she sighed. "But don't worry... I'll be on my way shortly."

"Where are you, at least?"

Karin paused, wondering whether or not she should tell him the truth, but slowly went ahead and softly replied, "Hayama." When he didn't reply, she pulled the phone from her ear and looked to the display, the cell phone had lost the call... and all signals.

Another sigh of disappointment and Karin slowly got to her feet, wishing everything would disappear and she could've just stayed here in silence until it was time to pass on into the next life. Yet, without Zaku, somehow the world continued to move around her. The thought demanded a depressing silence, and followed with Karin's eyes fixing on a small fist-sized stone and picking it up with her left hand, screaming loudly as she clumsily flung in towards the ocean. She screamed a little longer after it was done, wanting all of the bottled up emotions to be released from her body. A few of the remaining guys at the harbor looked her way, and she stormed off. The sudden motions caused her right wrist to sting in pain and she pulled it up to her chest. How long has it been since the pain medication wore off? She crossed the harbor over to the other side of the beach, praying that there would be more rocks to throw as she thought of a few choice boats to aim them at. Finding one a few meters out, she jogged over to it and grabbed it tightly in her fist, swinging her body back up before stopping in mid-throw... There was something on the beach... The thought of some large dead sea creature or worse.. a body. She dropped the rock and turned to look back at it. The outline was bad from this angle, so she slowly approached closer and closer. There it was, a mess of black hair and a dirty, torn school uniform... It's a dead body!!! She cringed a little, turning and wanting to go get the men from the pier. She only managed to jog a few steps before she stopped. A.. school uniform? No... it couldn't be... there's no way... She turned on a dime and ran over as fast as she could, seeing the school uniform closer and noticing the patterns and colors, a little darker than she was used to from the dimming light, but she kneeled down next to it, her heart trying its best to leap out of her chest. No... No.... NO. "ZAKU!"