high_seas | A Morning Meeting

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A Morning Meeting

Who: Natsuno, Elissa, Sora, Riku
When: The morning after arrival
Where: Shipyard
What: Natsuno is interested in hiring Elissa for a job.
Warnings: Discussion of death/killing. Possibly more warnings to come.
Open or Closed: Closed, sorry.

Natsuno was waiting at the entrance to the shipyards, standing against a tree. His arms were crossed, he looked nonchalant. He was keeping his eyes open for a woman in blue armor.

Most notably about Natsuno, aside from his terrible taste in fashion, was the fact he was only sixteen years old. His eyes were darting around, keeping an eye open for anything out of place. He'd met Sora previously and had said he would go off with him, but this, this is what he had been waiting for.

Despite his outward appearance, he couldn't completely quell his nervousness. He swallowed a few times and waited for Elissa.

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"Perhaps. Perhaps not. I have performed all kinds of strange errands and favours in the past few years." The Warden lifted one gloved hand as if to rest it upon the boy's shoulder. "Tell me - who is it that you want to die? Getting to the heart of the matter may help your nerves." Now there is actual kindness in her gaze since she once felt the great need for someone to die in the past.

"I'd like you to kill me." Natsuno answered softly. Although his nerves were a bit unsettled, he reached into the inside of his jacket and pulled a wooden stake out of his pocket. "With this."

Surprise flickered across the young woman's features and her faint smile was immediately gone. "I rarely pry into the why of things, but I fear that I must in this instance - Why do you wish to die?" The hand upon his shoulder gave him a light squeeze.

She offered no other protest nor did she offer possibly unwelcome platitudes about his youth or the life left before him. Elissa merely asked, "Why?"

The brunette keyblade wielder was not far away, actually. He was exploring said shipyard, idly, while waiting for a certain person to show up. They had, coincidentally, agreed to meet there; and Sora was actually starting to get a little impatient as time ticked on. Suddenly, while blue eyes were scanning the area with curiosity, they narrowed. He could have sworn he just heard voices...

The fifteen-year-old slowly began walking in the direction, brow furrowed. He blinked when he spotted a familiar guy speaking with a definite non-familiar girl, "Yuuki?"

He muttered the name in a low tone, not actually verbalizing it with much intent on being heard. He planned on approaching them, but... he was also getting a bad feeling. He couldn't put his finger on it, however, which had him almost frozen in place.

Until he hears Yuuki tell her that.

"H-Hey, Yuuki, what's goin' on?" That time, he definitely spoke loudly enough.

Natsuno was surprised he hadn't noticed Sora. His nerves must have been getting to him, or perhaps the effects that enhanced his skills so much was beginning to fade once more.

He looked between him and Elissa. Natsuno wasn't sure he wanted an audience really, but he did speak, to answer her question.

"I'm already dead."

It was just as well. If he were in Sora's position, he wouldn't want anything to do with him. He'd been there.

The armoured young woman curiously looked at Sora, but bent her head toward Natsuno's ear. There, she whispered to him so that only he could hear her words. "Do you have a pulse? Do you bleed? Or did you mean metaphorically dead - such as suffering from an incurable illness?" Elissa flicked her gaze to Sora again before adding, "Is he going to be a problem??"

Sora's eyes widened at the words, before furrowing his brow. He looks angry, actually, "You seem pretty alive to me! What happened to you coming with me?!"

He then tensed at the woman whispering in the other boy's ear, "H-hey, stop whispering! That's not polite, you know!"

Was Yuuki really giving up, that early on? Well, Sora was not about to let that happen... whatever 'that' entailed. He didn't care if Yuuki "wasn't human". He was his friend, whether he liked it or not.

Natsuno shook his head. Sora wasn't a problem, it was probably better for him to know what a monster he was.

"I have a heart beat, and I am sure that I bleed. That's where things end. Even if I was alive before, I'm not anymore. I was killed less than a month ago. I consider that to be the end of my life, just like the others that died before me."

His hands clenched on his forearms. "I know I told you that but, it's better if I die here." Living, was not in his calculations. "If I were at home, I would have died today."

Elissa folded her arms and studied both young men with a look that was difficult to read. Finally, she simply asked, "How much?"

Sora's hands tightened into fists and he was flat-out glaring at the other teenager. His voice was raised into a pure shout, by that point, as blue eyes were fixated on the purple-haired teen.

"You just said it yourself! You have a heart! You can still feel things, can't you?! As long as you can feel... and care... life's still worth fighting for!"

He gave the woman a firm expression, pointing at her as he declares his next statement, "You're not touching my friend!"

Natsuno shook his head, frowning. This was going pretty badly, but considering his luck as of late.

"You don't understand. I feel things, yes, but it's not life...I'm not alive. I'm a monster!" He cried out and opened his mouth, and from behind his teeth, sharp fangs appeared. His eyes had a red tinge to them.

"This is not normal. I don't know what will happen if I stay alive. I could hurt someone. I could kill someone!"

The Grey Warden's face remained impassive as she let them work things out, but the appearance of the boy's 'new' teeth and the change in his eyes certainly got her attention as her look changed to one of surprise. Nonetheless, she remained silent as she let each male plead his case to the other.

Sora tightened his hand into a fist, before flinging it outward in an angry manner. With everything he had seen in his life, so far, fangs and red eyes were nothing. In his opinion, Yuuki was doing nothing more than giving up... and making up an excuse to do so. He was quick to make that known.

"You're just making an excuse to not have to try! It's easy to just give up!"

His eyes moved back to the woman, narrowing firmly as the hand out by his side tensed. Suddenly, a blade in the form of a key appeared. He pointed it at his friend, a firm expression planted on his face.

"Well, I'm not letting you give up, that easily!"

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This was turning into something of a mess. Natsuno sighed softly. He took out some of his money, about a quarter of it, and offered it to Elissa. It clearly wasn't going to happen then and he looked at her, speaking low enough for Sora not to hear him. "I'll contact you when this is resolved. Sorry."

"Are you certain you wish to pay me?" she murmured in reply to the teen. "It seems your friend may do it for you." She gave a nod toward the blade that Sora had manifested.

Still, she accepted the payment. If he wanted to give his money away, so be it. Zevran would have laughed at her for not doing so.

So Riku is super late to this party, but only because he'd gotten a little distracted eyeing up all the various ships that are docked in the harbor. He and Sora had planned to meet up here, though—and come to think of it, where was Sora? Shouldn't he have been here by now?

Not sure if he should be concerned or not, Riku finally tore himself away from the ships and headed back toward the entrance of the shipyard. He was almost there when he started hearing voices, one of them...familiar, to say the least. He sped up a little, and soon after spotted the group of three up ahead. When he saw that Sora had his Keyblade out, he had to debate whether or not he should be worried all over again.

"Hey! Sora!"

Riku pulled up short a few feet away, taking in the scene warily. His hand twitched by his side, ready to summon his own Keyblade if necessary.

"What's going on here?"

Sora was about to yell at them for ignoring him, again; as well as something else about how rude it is to whisper. Instead, he is blinking at his friend. Thank goodness he's here. In spite of looking relieved, he has a serious expression.

"Riku!"

He turns back towards Yuuki and the stranger, before he clenches his teeth. When he explains what's happening to Riku, he is quite obviously upset over all of this. He is pointing his keyblade at the purple-haired guy as he speaks.

"Yuuki... wants this woman to kill him!"

With his business concluded, at least for now, Natsuno turned his attention back to Sora.

"I'm not giving up. I already lost the fight a month ago. If I hadn't come here, I would have died already. I had wanted to take one of the others with me but...I'm here."

It was ironic, that his dream to leave the village had come true at the last, and worst possible moment.

"I've already died. I know, I felt it. I suffered through it. It tore apart my family. This is...I'm one of them now."

Elissa tucked the money that was given to her into her belt and paused to offer Natsano a sympathetic smile. "Contact me again, if you need," she offered to him as she tried to give his nearest hand a squeeze.

A nod was given to Sora and Riku before she crossed her wrists over her heart and gave a short bow to Natsano.

"Yuuki?"

Oh, so this was Yuuki. Sora had mentioned him a couple times. Riku frowned, listening to what he had to say.

"What do you mean, you've already died? You seem pretty not dead to me."

He returned Elissa's nod, mostly out of habit and to be polite, since he still wasn't actually sure what was going on here. Was she getting ready to leave? No killing of the other guy, then?

Sora was still confused, as well, here. He sent his keyblade away and gave Yuuki a firm stare, for a moment.

"You're still here, right? You're standing here, right in front of us. You could do something with that, but... instead, you're just gonna let someone kill you?!"

Sora pauses and gives a somewhat sad express, "We could really use your help, you know. Even if you've got no other reason to live on, you could try doing it for that!"

Natsuno couldn't believe their reactions frankly. He himself couldn't get over the fact that the Shiki were evil demons, needing to be exterminating.

A memory bubbled to the surface of his mind, Tohru standing before him afraid and tearful and he himself begging to save him, taking him away from the Kirishikis, and here was Sora, saying something just as heartfelt for a stranger. Someone he barely knew.

Natsuno's eyes softened a moment but he bared his fangs again for Riku's benefit.

"These aren't a decoration. I have felt the pangs of hunger that he spoke about. Just because I can push them aside, I don't know how long for. If I lost myself, I could bite you. Why would you want to associate yourself with that, when I can just solve the problem?"

He put his palm on his forehead. It wasn't like with Tohru, he'd known Tohru, and the gamble would have been worth it. They took everything from him.

"I told you. I'm a monster."

The young woman hesitated instead of taking her leave, looking between the three young men. "Cut your hand," she said to Sora. "If you wish to prove your point to him, cut your hand. He will then see that you trust him."

Elissa reached for the hunting knife upon her belt and threw it at Sora's feet where it landed, quivering, its point in the ground. She did not voice her belief that it might also prove to him that Natsuno was, indeed, the monster that he claimed to be.

Riku's eyes widened at the fangs, and then the whole exchange with the knife and telling Sora to cut himself—what?

"Whoa, wait a second."

He took a step forward, gaze narrowing as he looked at Yuuki. Forgive him, he was still playing catch-up here, but pointy teeth, calling himself a monster (and a dead one, at that), possibly being tempted to do something if blood was spilled...

"When you say you're a monster...what, exactly, do you mean?"

Sora's eyes widened at the words. Wait, she was totally kidding, right? Oh. No, she was definitely not kidding. He blinked down at the knife a moment, before he started to reach down for it. Should he?

Riku's voice stopped him and he was looking up at the other. He had been planning on consulting with his friend, anyway, so he was listening; and it seemed that Riku was just as confused.

He was quiet, for once. Riku had asked a good question, so he was waiting for the answer. He slightly tilted his head, a curious expression resting on his face.

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