Wash it all away [Open/Active]
Who: Shisui, YOU~!
Where: Glass Bathroom
When: Day 002
What: Shiusi takes a moment to bathe.
Warnings: Half naked ninja, talk of gore possible.
( Feel Almost Human Again )
Where: Glass Bathroom
When: Day 002
What: Shiusi takes a moment to bathe.
Warnings: Half naked ninja, talk of gore possible.
( Feel Almost Human Again )
Upon opening the door the the bathroom, he stopped short when he noticed that the room was already occupied. And judging by the way the kid in the room looked, he was definitely in some sort of awful state.
"You look like shit," he commented bluntly, narrowing one eye in some scrutiny as he stared at the kid. What the hell had happened to him? Mello didn't recall having seen him around, but that certainly didn't mean he couldn't have been here long enough for something here to have succeeded in attacking him.
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He kept his tone friendly and unguarded as he carefully toweled his hair dry. He studied the other man carefully, a little bit older than him. Not exactly a civilian, foul mouthed. He let the towel drape around his neck, turning so that his right hand rested against the pile of clothes and the weapons hidden in it, left hand lax and useless at his side. "Shisui, just got here. You?"
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"All you've got to do to make a door interesting is lock it," he replied with a smirk. He'd checked for locks on all of the doors, too, and likely hadn't been any more pleased about the shortage of them than Shisui was. The fact that the bathrooms didn't lock was especially frustrating. He crossed his arms, leaning back against one of the glass walls. He apparently wasn't going to be bathing in here any time soon, but he saw no reason to leave when the kid was trying to make conversation.
"Mello." He raised an eyebrow in some curiosity, and propped one foot up against the wall behind him. "So, which is it? Got pulled into the house in the middle of a fight, or got attacked upon arrival?"
In either case, nightfall wouldn't be too far away judging by what the house's clock said, and Mello suspected that the kid would be in deep shit.
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He kept his hand on the pile of clothes, otherwise giving every impression of being completely relaxed.
"Nice to meet you." He smiled, shrugging casually as though he only had a black eye and the injuries were a result of a minor scuffle. "The former. Got ambushed by five professionals. Wasn't expecting the attack. I wish I could say I fought them off and it was a heroic battle, but... Some battles you win, some you don't. How long have you been here?"
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He nodded in response to the greeting, still watching the kid rather intently, though out of perplexity more than anything else. Shisui seemed to be awfully casual about the fact that he'd just been ambushed, and had lost quite badly by the looks of it. Mello couldn't tell what was under the bandages, but it was apparent that something had happened to his eye, and that was likely pretty serious. How was he able to be so laid back about it?
"I've been here for a few weeks," he answered flatly. It was probably closer to a month, at this point. How had it already been so long? The thought was almost disturbing.
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He nodded to the door. "Write a sign, "Occupied" or something similar to it. Since there aren't any locks, it makes sense to label things."
He kept himself relaxed, calm. No reason to act like a paranoid bastard, really. Mello seemed a bit direct, but that wasn't something to start a fight over. He was providing useful information after all. "Have you found anything?" He let his smile fade a little, eye serious as he considered the man in front of him.
There was nothing to be done about the ambush, or the people that had been invovled. ROOT and Danzou had known exactly what they wanted and taken it. To dwell on a lost battle would only inhibit him in moving forward in a potentially hostile situation.
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Mello was, in fact, a little bit surprised that nobody seemed to have thought to do that yet.
"The entire second floor was locked off until a few days ago, and the back hallway downstairs opened a little while before then." He sighed sharply, and pulled himself away from the wall to pace a couple of times across the room; he didn't care if he was letting it become apparent that he was frustrated. "But no, I've only found bits and pieces. Nothing even remotely fucking close to an answer."
Not even after he'd been stuck here for nearly a month. He felt just as clueless as he had when he'd first gotten here.
He stopped pacing and turned to look Shisui directly in the eye, before firmly adding to the statement. "Yet."
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He watched the older man move, reminded of some of the older ninja he'd dealt with. They didn't hold still well, or deal with situations they didn't have some sort of control of. "So is it some sort of prison? Or just a puzzle? A prison would be designed to be impossible to escape, you'd be fighting against the basic design to find an exit. The best chance would be finding the guards, if any exist. A puzzle might have a solution, however unlikely it seems."
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In all honesty, Mello was beginning to feel as though he had been trapped in some sort of twisted video game.
He sat down on the edge of the bathtub, pausing for a moment to think before he spoke up again, his tone now verging on demanding. "You've been here for how long? Tell me. What do you know about this place?"
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He narrowed one eye in consideration when Shisui spoke of people arriving from the same area. Had he-- or somebody he'd talked to, perhaps-- run into someone he knew here? It was the part about arriving from different times, though, that piqued Mello's curiosity. He hadn't heard of that happening, though he figured there was really no reason to be surprised about it. If this place could transcend time, though, then that raised plenty of new questions.
He raised an eyebrow as the subject of Shisui's observations turned towards him. "Perceptive, aren't we?" He gave the kid something of an amused smirk. "I'll admit that's true enough. I don't think I'd have have much of a chance here if I wasn't. Trapped or ( ... )
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He glanced back up at the kid, and gave a brief nod. Perceptiveness was an asset, and and he saw no reason to take offence to what Shisui had noticed; he didn't consider it to be a particularly negative impression to give off. "And you're used to this lifestyle, aren't you ( ... )
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He flashed Mello a smile, hand still relaxed on the pile of clothes and the hidden hilt of his tanto. "I've been in this ah - lifestyle since I was a child. It's just another battle we'll need to overcome. I'm luckier than most, I have people that I trust here to guard my back." And watch his blindside. He would need to change his fighting style to make adjustments for the eye.
"The day cycle, what can you tell me about that? It seems off and wrong, but I've spent much of my first few days here unconscious. Does anyone have any sort of count for just how long it is?"
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He narrowed his eyes as he considered what the kid had said. "Having that sort of attitude about this, makes you lucky, too," he commented. And having allies around, he had to admit, was probably useful here-- especially in Shisui's case, considering the condition he was in-- though it was the implication behind the statement that interested Mello. "Should I assume that these acquaintances of yours arrived from a different time than you ( ... )
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He smiled, lacking humor. "I suppose it does. Though it is more the product of training than anything else." He rolled his shoulders, nodding. "Two of them arrived from the far future, and one of them arrived from the past. He should be dead. But then, by all accounts, so should I."
He nodded. "Do you have a watch? Or any sort of time piece that could tell you exactly? I didn't have a stop watch on me or I'd try to measure for exact."
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