A/N: 'Sup, people. I've decided to write some fan fiction for the holidays. Just for fun - apologies for any errors or what not. Btw, I love Souseiseki. Hurr hurr
"Hurry up, Souseiseki!" Souseiseki grimaced from her twins shouting and held the phone away from her ear. "We've found another doll, desu! It's in Jun's house desu!"
Souseisekis mouth dropped open the same time she dropped the phone back onto the receiver. A few moments of shock took over before the news settled in.
"No way," she breathed but began to fly towards her suitcase, nevertheless. "I'm going to visit Jun's!" she called out to inform the two elderly taking care of her just before flying out the house and in the direction of Jun's house.
On her face was a calm demeanour but inside she was uneasy. An eighth doll, it's impossible?
The sky above her was grey; a thick layer of clouds covered the sun. It was ominous – foreboding.
She closed the lid to her case just before she smashed through Jun's window, sending glass shards everywhere. When the glass settled into a mess on the floor, her case cracked a bit open just enough for her to see where she was going as she manoeuvred her way around the room, bi-coloured eyes searching for any disruptions.
No one was there. She was about to fly out the window again before she heard creaking. Immediately, she darted back in and exited her case.
Her artificial spirit circled around her tiny hands before she once again carried her shears. She paced herself towards the source of the sound. It came from below Jun's study desk.
"Show yourself-"
BAM
The door to Jun's room was thrown open and in crashed Suiseiseki looking furious. "Where is that doll, desu?" she stormed towards her twin. "You saw the runt, didn't you?"
Souseiseki jerked her shears towards the direction of Jun's desk. "I heard a sound, but I haven't seen this doll. Have you?"
"A gardener, it claims," a voice said. Souseiseki spun around and saw Shinku with Hinaichigo with her cane, presumably have opened the door for her.
"A gardener?" Souseiseki turned back to the desk and saw her twin crawling underneath.
"Aha! There you are, don't try hide!"
Souseiseki sighed and let her shears disappear. "Don't scare the doll, Suiseiseki."
"Come out, come out!" Suiseiseki cried as she resurfaced with a suitcase in her arms. The first thing Souseiseki noticed was that the suitcase was a little different.
Instead of the rose designed embroidery, a circled of thorns replaced it.
"You can't fake a gardener even if you tried, you!" Suiseiseki cried, dropping the case harshly onto Jun's bed.
Souseiseki took the chance and pulled the case away from the bed and into her arms. "Stop this, you might break her!"
"But it's a he," Hinaichigo's sweet voice broke in. "He said he was the first of the Rozen Pages or something, we don't know anything else but that he was a gardener. But then Suiseiseki jumped at him and scared him away."
"I didn't jump at him, puny Ichigo!" Suiseiseki didn't make further attempts for the case though.
Souseiseki processed the information before setting down the case onto the floor, beside hers. "Well, let's listen to him then, shall we?" Shinku stepped forward. Now every doll was surrounding Souseiseki and the case.
"Please come out,' Souseiseki tried and knocked on the case. It seemed her mellow voice worked and the case slowly opened and a doll stepped out.
Everyone oohed and aahed even though most of them had already seen him. But for Souseiseki, it was the first.
He wore trousers like Souseisekis but was a dark green in colour. His shoes were black and small, contrasted against his white socks. He wore white gloves and wore a deep green, buttoned, long sleeved shirt with white suspenders. His hair was a brown, but leaning more towards the reddish and was slightly darker than Souseisekis.
His eyes were red and green, but instead of each eye possessing a colour, both his eyes had the colours. The red was in the centre, and the green was a ring outside it. His eyes were wide and downcast.
"Well, what's your name?" Shinku asked.
"…"
The doll hesitated but from the sheer stares from the dolls surrounding him, he murmured one word, "Shinichi."
"Well, Shinichi, my name is Shinku. I am the fifth Rozen Maiden doll."
Hinaichigo jumped forward eagerly. 'I'm Hinaichigo, the sixth!"
Suiseiseki pouted, "Suiseiseki, I am the gardener who carries the watering can, desu."
Eyes travelled towards Souseiseki who hesitated before speaking. "Souseiseki who wields the gardeners shears…"
Shinichi's eyes lit up at the sound of her voice. "You saved me from that Suiseiseki, didn't you?" His voice had a slight threatening quality to it, Souseiseki noticed.
"Hey, you!" Suiseiseki almost lunged forward again. "I'm just-"
"I did," Souseiseki interrupted, narrowing her eyes at the boy. "Are you really a doll that father made?"
Shinichi nodded, and jumped up onto Jun's bed, wind blowing through his hair. "I'm the first of the Rozen Pages."
"Could Father want a perfect boy?" Shinku murmured, as she mended the glass window. The last piece of the glass set in place just before the door opened again and Jun came in.
"Unyuu!" Hinaichigo glomped Jun and took the box from him. Then she proceeded to run out the door calling out his sister's name.
"What's going on?" Jun looked at the small circle of dolls before spotting Shinichi and took a step back. "Please don't tell me there's another rotten doll!"
All the dolls attention was on Jun, but Souseiseki's. She saw Shinichi's artificial spirit, a dark green one circle Shinichi's gloved hands before five curved weeders appeared in between his fingers on his right hand and a larger one he held in his left hand.
Before Souseiseki or Jun could do anything, Shinichi had already flung one of the weeders in Jun's directing, pinning him and his blue shirt onto the door behind him. It did not cut his flesh though.
"Whoa!" Jun grabbed the weeder and attempted to pull it out, but no avail.
Shinichi jumped off the bed, the curved blades of weeders positioned in his hands. "Why do none of you attack this human?"
All his timidness had gone and Souseiseki grew once again aware of the threat in his voice.
Rose petals floated into the air and formed a shield between the approaching Shinichi and Jun.
"He is my medium," Shinku said.
"And mine!" Suiseiseki joined Shinku's side. "I knew he couldn't be trusted. He's bad news, I tell you, desu!"
"He?" Jun grunted from behind the rose barrier.
Shinichi narrowed his eyes but understood what a medium was. He retracted the blade and it came darting back towards him and was positioned back where it started.
"Apologies," he said, beginning to look shy and embarrassed again. His weapons had dispersed into the air.
The rose petals parted and Jun was once visible again. "Who is this guy?"
"None of your business, Jun," Shinku said. "Now go make me some tea."
"Go make it yourself," Jun said, still haven't learnt his lesson. He began to make his way towards his desk but Shinku stuck out her foot and tripped him up.
"Now, Jun."
Jun gave up and dragged his way out the door.
