"U-hm ma'am? I must urge you that your unpayed stay here is enough reason for us to call the cops." the duke of darkness said with great evil. Said ma'am stood up, preparing herself for another gruesome battle.
"Ughh, come on dude, I paid like... yesterday." She responded twirling her axe in the air. "Can't you, uh, like gimme a break?" The overlord of all evil hesitated at the wondrous sight of my axe and gulped. He was not prepared to be on the receiving end of that axe.
"Ma'am, you have been here for months only once paying. Coupons do NOT count." the small boy said while shaking. "I must urge you to either pay or leave this abode."
The axe user was impressed. For him to speak so angrily must have taken a lot of mirror practice and exercises, the boy must've spend hours in front of a mirror or a confidante just practicing what to say when another attempt would be made to get the unwanted out of the hotel.
"Oh come on Jack""Its Hideki, ma'am""I will pay you, but I haven't yet gotten my salary, it's all because of that damn acountant. And you know how, uh, that kind of thing goes, it takes time."
"Ma'am, you have used that excuse three times already, I must ask you again to leave this hotel.
"Three times already? I must be getting sloppy."
"If you do not leave this hotel within an hour I will call the police." Hideki said. He was only standing due to force of will, and the moment he wavered, he knew the axe-wielding lady would take advantage of his weakness to score another few days. He had tried to refrain from calling the cops since it would bring unwanted attention to his uncle's hotel, but he had gotten permission to call them if she would again refuse to leave.
"Oh-oh-oh, Harold is actually""It's Hideki, ma'am""planning to call the cops? Did you finally get permission? Did ya? Because if you, uh, did. That would never work." She said, completely bluffing. She knew that if the police were to get involved, she would probably flee, and discouraging the boy with trying to call the police was her only option.
The boy looked ready to piss his pants, yet his eyes didn't waver. He ignored her and walked out of the door, closing it silently and left the woman alone.
The woman, who was still standing cursed a few times, before deciding to pack her stuff. She had outlasted her stay, she knew that, but this place had been friendly and warm, so she was hesitant to leave.
After throwing all her clothes in a bag, make the room look like living hell by spilling every beverage there was to find on the furniture and making all kinds of intricate knots in the sheets, she decided she was done with fucking the place up, and decided she should probably leave,
This decision was proven to be a smart one, when she heard all kinds of footsteps outside of the building. Not able to resist a final joke she left a note for dear Henry and the police. After scribbling down some words and placing the paper on top of the knots she had made, she 'opened' the window and jumped on to a lower roof next to the hotel.
It says 'opened' because the window was kind off stuck so she axed it. Afterwards she regretted it as guilt ate away at her for leaving Homer-kun in such a situation.
Hehe, not really, she regretted it due to a little piece of glass currently locating in her thumb.
As the woman jumped from roof to roof, she suddenly spotted something following her. It was still far away but she could tell that he/she was way faster than her and would be cathing up with the woman in minutes, even if she were to go top speed. The woman pouted her lips and decided that she should probably mingle with the peasants, or people, as they were more commanly called.
She jumped on the street and ran to the most populated street she could find. It was kind of busy since it wasn't really that late in the afternoon, and there were even small stands selling dango and other things. She looked behind her and knew that the man (it was visible now) would probably catch up to her in fourty seconds.
The woman went from running through the populated street, to running through some alleyways, if she just went left at every alleyway intersection, he would never find her. Except he would. Since she couldn't go left.
Fuckin' dead end.
And as she turned around and saw the man, Shinsengumi by the way, she concluded that the only way she would be more screwed would be if she didn't have her axe with her. After quickly checking and feeling the familiar feel of her axe's handle, she sighed in relief.
"It isn't nice to leave a room like that you know." the guy said "You should just pay and apologize instead of fleeing, it would be way easier."
'Another one', she thought "another one trying to get in my pants as to get my wallet. They are everywhere, perverts they are, money-grabbing perverts! They ain't getting my money, not one yen. They would have to step over my dead-'
"Can I ask you something" the Shinsengumi dude interupted my angry musings.
I shrugged
"How come that multiple grown men advised us to barge in your room with swords ready? You don't seem that dangerous, with exception to that big-ass axe-thingy on your back. Why is a young woman like you in possesion of a weapon like that? It's unbecoming."
She thought for a while before answering. "Those grown men were probably right in their judgement." was all what I ultimately said. Bluffing really was my forte.
His eyebrows rose a notch.
She grabbed her axe
He grabbed his sword
There were two ways of getting out of here without having to pay him. One was to fight him, but he seemed kind of confident and she hated breaking the spirit of fighters (she loved it). The other was to escape by throwing her axe at him, jumping over him and then grabbing her dear axe and running. It was risky, because if he deflected it, she would be screwed, and fighting wouldn't be an option anymore.
While she was thinking over her options, the Shinsengumi guy told her about coming backup, and that fighting would be futile.
Throwing it is~
After throwing the awesome axe directly at his face, noticing his distraction, she jumped right over him, grabbed the axe within seconds and fled. The shinsengumi was fast enough to hit her foot slightly and she was impressed by his reaction, but by that time she had already reached the floor and beyond. Thanking whatever was up there for making him not deflect.
She heard his short cry of indignation of being passed like that, and she heard him preparing for another chase she would ultimately lose, when a car filled with suit wearing men stopped him.
After running for what seemed like miles, and whispering hallelujah everytime she noticed no one was right behind her, she stopped at some shady building with a cutbourd saying: 'Hotel'.
Hello, new living space.
'Chizue Nakayama'
The picture on the file showed a serious looking redhead with green eyes and way too many brown freckles.
"That's her," said the shaky boy "I know it for sure."
Well that confirmed it.
"Do you know anything else about this woman, Hideki-san?" Hijikata asked. They had been looking quite some time for this one. She stayed at shady hotels, almost never leaving the room to anyones knowledge, and she never ever paid, only in coupons.
"She always carries a big axe around, I've never seen her without it." The boy began "She likes to eat expensive foreign candy –-"
"Only things we can use to identify her, not her favourite colours."
"Uhm.. I don't know... maybe.."
"Do you know anything we can use? Anything?"
The boy looked up at the man and hesitated before speaking. "There might be one thing.." He stopped before continuing at the slightly urgent look in the other males eye.
"She always lies. I have never heard her tell the truth." Hijikata's eyebrows rose
"When she tells you it's day, it's night. If you ask her what her name is she answers differently everytime. She doesn't even tell the truth when she has no need to lie!"
Hijikata nodded, that sounded about the same as what the other hotels employees had said.
They had been looking for Chizue Nakayama for months now. Some big shot had put a search warrant on her head with great urgency, and as the government commanded the Shinsengumi, they were to investigate every little lead towards her.
They had expected some teenage girl running away from non-excisting problems at home, but what they encountered was something a bit different. A woman trained in the art of hacking apendages off was something they didn't expect, especially one with a taste in lying.
That made the search a bit tricky, even though identifying her was very easy due to her red hair and giant axe. She lied about who she was and where she came from wherever she would go and dressed differently (one employee had insisted she wore nothing but gothic lolita for her entire stay).
Though Hijikata didn't understand why no one noticed the giant axe on her back, you would think it would be noticed.
They almost had her today, if not due to her possessing more skill then Sougo had anticipated. He later said he could've easily stopped her, but no one listened.
But even though this search had some urgency, it wasn't their top priority, so Hijikata let the shaky boy go home and proceded to do his patrols with Sougo. After he had disrupted a fight and Sougo tried to kill him a short thought of hesitation entered his mind.
He wasn't really worried. He would find her.
After convincing this livid dango shopkeeper that it really wasn't Sougo who fired the bazooka.
They would never find her.
As the redheaded woman laid down on the crappy ass bed, groaning at the pained sounds her back was making, a thought popped up with a certainty that made her genuinly smile. They never would. Because lying to other people is easy, but lying to yourself is impossible she concluded, and so-
No one would take her back.
Even if she would have to live in shitty places like these for the rest of her life, running from the cops, eating way too many microwave foods and generally leading a sucky life, she would prefer it over going back.
Not because everything had been tragic and sad, and all that. But because she could never feel as if someone accepted her. Strangers accepted her more then anyone who knew her ever did. And with that in mind she would go on.
All for the sake of her quest.
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- xChise