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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"I understand how you feel more than you know," Elissa quietly stated from her place at Natsuno's side. "Enormous changes to one's life can be extremely unsettling, but that does not mean that death is preferable even if that is how you feel at present."

Her gloved hand drifted as if to settle upon his shoulder once again. "My entire life was shattered in a matter of hours when I was little older than you. Believe me when I say that I wanted to die. I did not choose the path that was set before me just as I did not choose to awaken in this place - but others needed me more than I needed to escape, so I did what had to be done and I lived. You, too, can do this."

She inclined her head toward Sora and Riku. "Here are two friends who wish for you to remain and to help them despite your newfound curse. Could you not at least try this new life in this new place before giving it up? I promise you - If, within a month's time, you still desire death, I shall grant it."

...Huh.

A vampire.

Okay then.

Riku tried really hard not to summon his Keyblade purely out of habit. It wasn't like Yuuki was really doing them any harm... The opposite, actually, he seemed to be worried he WOULD harm them. That meant he was, technically, not a bad guy, right? Riku could see the reasoning behind trying to get someone to kill him...a little. Still, surely it would be worth it for him to at least try to learn to control his urges? Instead of making himself permanently disappear in such a drastic way?

He nodded his head in Elissa's direction after she spoke. "Yeah, what she said. Vampire or not... Look, Sora and I can handle ourselves. You shouldn't worry about—" Accidentally killing us, biting us, drinking all our blood...? "Uh...hurting us. It's really not worth it to just give up and let someone kill you. At least try to make do with the bad cards life deals you."

Sora shifted his stance, looking at the ground quietly. He had pretty much said everything, earlier. He let out a sigh and scratched the back of his head a moment, looking quite serious. He couldn't deny the fact that he was actually feeling pretty badly for Yuuki. What kind of pain must he be in, to feel like that was the only way out?

Still, though.

What about anyone that might miss Yuuki? Yuuki had said, when they first met, that he isn't looking for anyone. That doesn't mean this guy doesn't have at least one person that would miss him, more than anything. Everyone has someone that would be sad, if they were to die.

"You're being selfish," Sora states rather bluntly, with a frown, "I'll bet you have someone that would miss you. Did you ever stop to think about how your death would make others feel? I haven't know you that long, but I know... I'd be sad if you gave up and died. Not just for you, though, but for the people you'd leave behind. Don't you have at least one person waiting for you, back home?"

At this point, everything had gone so pear-shaped, what could he really do? Elissa wasn't willing to do what he asked, Sora was screaming at him as though he were someone else and Riku was trying to rationally explain that they didn't need to be protected from him. If nothing else, a month couldn't be that hard to bear, could it?

"I suppose I don't have much of a choice." He told Elissa, because he didn't think he could manage it himself, but that did give him somewhere to go in a month's time.

Naturally he had to address his two new...friends...so he turned his attention to them, closing his eyes and sighing. They were quite persistent.

"I don't want to attack anyone." Natsuno pushed his hair out of his eyes before letting it fall back into place. "I don't feel I'm giving up, this life as you put it, isn't really being alive. I died for more than a day."

He shook his head at Sora though, his eyes a little downcast. "No, there isn't anyone to miss me, no one is waiting for me at home. What happened...you can't imagine it."

Very softly, Elissa said, "I can." She gave Natsuno's shoulder a squeeze, but said nothing more after offering that bit of truth. She could, indeed, imagine what might have happened in Natsuno's home after what had happened at Castle Cousland. "If you need to speak of such things, I am willing to listen. My name is Elissa."

It would have been prudent to remain the semi-anonymous 'EC' from the journal communications, but she was beginning to feel a form of kinship with the desperate teenaged boy.

"You're here now, though," Riku said to Yuuki. "Whether you died for more than a day or not. You just have to learn how to feel alive again. And now you've got this guy—" He jutted a thumb in Sora's direction. "—who would miss you. He'll...he can help make things better. Trust me."

Riku grinned a little.

"Also, he's stubborn. He's got that look in his eyes, so you might as well just go along with him. Us."

The brunette opened his mouth to say something, but was stopped by Riku's beating him to it. Sora blinked as he was suddenly motioned towards. The keyblade wielder couldn't help but grin sheepishly, folding his arms behind his head. A slightly embarrassed laugh escaped him as he shifted his stance, looking off to the side.

Then, he frowned at the part about him being stubborn and having a 'look in his eyes'. Sora quickly shot Riku a sideways glance, and verbalized his disapproval on his best friend's 'Sora analysis'.

"Heeey... What look?"

There was no point in arguing the part of being stubborn, though. That was true, after all. Sora looked to Yuuki for a moment, pausing before saying the next thing on his mind, "I don't know how powerful you are, but if it helps... We're definitely not push-overs," he gestured from Riku to himself, "In fact, we recently fought, and defeated, a really powerful guy!"

He then grinned, a bit, "Also, Riku's right. I am pretty stubborn," he said this with a playful, since he really just wanted to cheer this guy up.

Sora's newest goal (besides the obvious find a ship and get back home)? Make Yuuki do something besides look incredibly depressed.

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Natsuno was incredibly confused about the outpouring of support for someone they had just met, literally. It allowed him to remember things he was trying so hard not to deal with, just like he had been for awhile.

"I won't do anything right now. I don't think I can do it myself anyway. Takes a lot of force."

He put the stake back inside his jacket.

"One month, my friend. One month. Go with these two and see how you feel in one month's time. You may change your mind."

She slowly grinned. "If not, you know how to contact me."

With a shrug, and a more teasing grin as he attempted to keep the mood light, Riku just said, "You have a look. Trust me, you've had it since you were about three and decided you were going to get into your mom's cookies come hell or high water."

He glanced back at Yuuki, still somewhat wary but mostly relieved that he'd put the stake away. "It's a good choice, not going through with it." And then, after a slight pause, he kind of mutters under his breath, "And an even better choice, not doing it yourself..."

He blinked at the fact that Riku even remembered that, before shifting with a frown. He vaguely remembered something about getting put in the corner, "Oh yeah... and you laughed at me when I got in trouble." Jerk.

He said that more to himself, than anyone else, before listening to Riku's next words. The last sentence had the brunette slightly narrowing his eyes, the ghost of a frown on his face. Looking down, Sora shifted in his stance one more time and lowered his arms, "So... what now?"

At least that was over with. He silently celebrated the fact that Yuuki had listened to them, which was actually a very difficult thing to not do out loud.

"I need to..."

There were a few things running through his mind and he pushed his hair out of his eyes. Natsuno needed time to think, and contemplate the consequences of the outcome of this. He was supposed to at least live another month. His mind was racing.

He crossed his arms over his stomach and shook his head. "I'll see you later." He had to get away from them for a little bit, and he started to walk up the path. Natsuno was upset, but hopefully it would pass.

The Grey Warden watched him begin to take his leave before moving her gaze to the other two young men. She was wearing a faint smile as she shrugged at the pair of them.

"Until we meet again, gentlemen?" she offered.

Riku sighed, watching Yuuki walk away, but turned to Elissa with a slightly startled glance when she spoke.

"Uh, yeah... Sorry, I don't think I caught your name?"

Her response was likely not what he expected to hear. Since she had spoken her name once, Elissa decided it was better not to give it again.

"I am known as the Grey Warden and you are... Riku, correct?" Her eyes shifted to his friend. "And you are Sora." She grinned just a little. "What a mop of hair."

He blinked a couple of times at the fact that she had their names, already. Wow, talk about observant (maybe it was because he tended to miss some things, that it was that amazing)...

"Uh... yeah, I'm Sora."

He ran a hand through his hair, frowning. She confused him, actually. He felt like he should be thinking of her as a bad guy, yet she was kind of friendly.

"Why would you... agree to do something like that?"

Sora was referring to the task of killing Yuuki. What reasoning could anyone have to willingly kill another person, simply because they requested it?

If Elissa was observant, it was because she had learned to be out of necessity - and it had served her well. She took a moment before answering the question that is put to her, her expression difficult to read.

"When I agreed to meet him, I did not know that he was the person he wanted me to kill. In fact, he worded his message so carefully, that I could but assume that was the sort of task he had in mind at all."

With easy, unhurried movements, the young woman approached Sora and the hunting knife that still rested point-down in the ground.

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Riku frowned, shifting his weight and watching Elissa warily.

"Okay, so even if you didn't know he wanted you to kill him, you still met up with him thinking that he wanted you to kill somebody."

Which wasn't exactly reassuring.

Elissa crouched in a smooth motion to retrieve her hunting knife from the ground before she answered.

"Yes. I did. The pair of you may have led exceptionally blessed lives that kept you from ever suffering so much that you would wish another person dead. I have not been so blessed. If he had needed vengeance against another so much that it required death, then better for me to provide it than for him to soil his hands. My hands, after all, are already tainted."

"..."

What... did she just say...?

His breath hitched as his body tensed a bit. Blessed lives? Sora actually... wanted to laugh at that. Narrowing his eyes, he fought to remain calm. She doesn't know what they have been through, right? So yelling at her would be ... stupid. Still, his heart raced as his teeth clenched together.

"Don't talk like you know us."

That came out a little harsher than he intended, actually. Suffering? Sora had been fairly acquainted with that, at one point, actually. Fighting against his best friend, turning himself into a heatless to save Kairi, fighting to save all of those worlds, and... not to mention, at one point, almost doubting he would ever even see Riku again. And, then... Speaking of Riku...

... He had suffered just as much, if not...maybe even a bit more. Knowing he had done all of those things... surely, that was painful. Suddenly, Sora's hands are tightened into fists, just a bit. She could say whatever she wanted about .... him. Riku, though... You don't talk about him, like that.

Riku immediately straightened up, all wariness leaving him and a cold seriousness taking its place.

"You have no idea what we've been, through," he said, after Sora finished speaking. "And yeah, I guess we don't really know what he's been through, either, or you, but don't think you can just judge us like that. So maybe he's suffering, you know, I get that. But I'm assuming you're new to this place, too, and you can't know his situation that well. To just go along with it when someone asks you to murder them -- it's irresponsible. That guy...no one should let the darkness inside them win that easily. Sometimes you have to fight through the parts of life that are total crap, no matter how hard it is."

"Again - I did not know he was the target until I arrived. Did you witness a murder while you were standing here? No."

The armored woman pushed to her feet and slid her hunting knife into the sheath at her belt. She did not hesitate to meet the gaze of each young man in turn.

"Think about what was said. Are your memories so short? I did not refuse employment because that would mean he would simply find another to do the job. Instead, I told him to wait for a month. An entire month to experience this world and what it has to offer. An entire month for people like you to convince him that he should not throw away his life when he has been given a clean slate and a fresh start."

"Judge me as you will, but I am not the monster you think me to be."

Sora frowns at the woman's words, before letting out a sigh. She still could acknowledge the fact that she had assumed things about them. Oh well. This conversation is going nowhere, "I didn't think you were a monster. We've seen what a monster looks like." Xemnas, anyone?

He folds his arms over his chest, and gives her a frown. She may be wrong about killing people, period. She had a point, though. Yuuki could have gone to someone else, but she had given them a month. Better than nothing, right? Still, though...

"Also, our memory's aren't that bad, actually. Sure, you made the deal about waiting a month, with him. But as I remember it, you had asked 'how much' after knowing what Yuuki wanted you do! Not to mention, all the whispering you were doing! We don't know what you were saying to him... or that we can even trust a word you're saying, now."

What if Sora hadn't shown up...? They don't know her, at all. If she's willing to kill, period, just because someone pays her... how do they know she wouldn't have done it... if Sora hadn't shown up when he did? Unfortunately, they could never know that.

For now, he'll simply have to let it go. She's promised to wait a month. Sora will figure something out, between now and then. He has to...

Riku was just frowning all over the place by this point -- seriously, think she was a monster? No. Just a little too willing to help a guy kill himself, regardless of whether or not she ended up telling him to wait a month. Had Sora not been there...

Well, whatever. Nothing had happened, maybe they could just move on from this.

Riku gave an annoyed sigh.

"Yeah, what Sora said. But fine, I told you not to judge us, so...I'll try not to judge you unfairly, either."

"Thank you, sers. Please - do your best to change the young man's mind. He is far too young to desire death. I shall attempt to keep in contact with him through the journal to learn how he is faring and to insure he does not drop into despair and try to find another to fulfill the contract he offered to me."

Crossing her wrists over her chest, the Grey Warden gave them both a slight bow from the waist. "Sora. Riku. Farewell."

A Morning Meeting

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Haaaaa...so late, SORRY. >.>

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/dire need of angry!Sora icons ha ha...

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... Sorry, it doesn't ever notify me when you reply, Elissa-mun. D:

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