NEXT UP!!!!
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Long, lime green hair waved behind Jikoku as she walked. Her hair had had plenty of time to dry during the night in her new little room. Day two of kidnapping. Good thing she always kept an assortment of colored dyes with her wherever she went, just in case. The wonderful thing about having different colored eyes is that she could color her hair to anything because no matter what her hair and eyes were going to contradict each other anyway. Such as now: the new lime green complimented decently with her left eye, its color being a moss green, while it contradicted highly with her right eye, it being an ocean blue.
Well it helped a bit to cure her boredom but now she needed something to actually do.
Ideas and thoughts ran through her mind when a hand grabbed a chunk of her hair. Two hands actually.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!!! Cut it out!" She whined as she was pulled back enough to actually see her attacker. Oh. Make that plural.
It was them.
"What's with your hair?" they both asked although Jasdero had an added on an unnecessary giggle to the end.
"I dyed it."
"Why?"
"I was bored," she answered plainly as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. They wore similar looks of 'What the fuck?'
She mentally shook her head, but noticed their clothes, or rather the lower half she couldn't see yesterday. Both had boots lined in fuzz like the jacket/vest and the pants had a gap going down the whole front of each leg with stitches crisscrossing the entire length, except that on Devitto's the left pants leg was just shorts with a red cloth tied around his thigh.
Apparently there was something they wanted her to do. They walked off, Jasdero hunched over slightly, and were clearly expecting her to follow. She did, but after she saw that the gap with stitches that was present on the front of the legs was also present on the back.
They certainly leave an impression, don't they?
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Lavi was starting to get a little worried. He hadn't seen Jikoku since she had yelled at him yesterday and Pandaface had disappeared off to do some kind of research or something. There was a stack of papers that was recently placed on her desk that hasn't even been touched. Something had to be wrong because normally she'd be almost halfway through by now.
That's why he decided to ask around.
Only not a lot of people even knew who he was talking about. Several of them recognized his description, especially if she was angry and searching for Lavi's blood, and a lot less than that recognized the name.
After failing his quest he decided to go find Allen and Lenalee to ask their opinions.
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"So let's recap," the Millennium Earl started. "You two wanted Miss Jikoku here to make you something to eat. She replied that she didn't know how but you made her anyway." Jasdevi nodded. "Once she finished it wasn't to your liking–"
"After I spent an hour working on it!" the girl in question argued.
"Because it was burnt black!" Devitto complained.
"She was supposed to be making ice cream, hii," Jasdero added.
Jikoku, Jasdevi, and the Millennium Earl were all sitting in the dining hall after the…incident involving ice cream, fire, and a lot of talent, although it wasn't a talent Jikoku was particularly proud of. She was a Bookgirl not a chef! She just happened to have the innate ability to ruin even the simplest of foods, thus seen from managing to burn ice cream.
Now the Millennium Earl was probably still trying to understand how, if she was making ice cream, the kitchen ended up in the state it did.
So Jikoku tried to explain. After she had finished and they blatantly refused it she got mad and…um, "coincidentally" a few things got broken around that time. She said she didn't know that hole could have gone through the fridge and counter and floor. Well the twins had started laughing about how much trouble she was going to get in so she said she'd pin it on them. They complained. They tried to force her to clean it all up so she tricked them into doing it through compliments. Just like Lavi they fell for it easy. Typical boys.
Sadly it wasn't such a good thing as she had expected.
Within five minutes there were bowls, silverware, plates, and glasses spread amongst the counters. Powdery foods such as flour and sugar clouded the air and clung to every surface. Paper and tape covered up the holes.
"Why don't you three just stay in here until it's all cleaned up," the Earl "suggested" which, of course, sounded more like an order he was daring them to disobey.
Then he left while those two unfortunate maid/butler people had to brave the mess and get it all cleaned up. It could be awhile.
So it begins.
Jikoku leaned her cheek against her hand and closed her eyes. Maybe if she let her mind wander then it wouldn't seem that long. Then she heard bottles opening. After a second she opened a single eye and stared at Jasdevi who were now both drinking from glass soda bottles.
"What are you two doing?" she asked before she could think better of it.
"What's it look like?" Devitto replied.
"Well where did the bottles come from?"
"None o' ya damn business," he laughed. She stifled a small chuckle.
"So you really are that small," she commented. She actually didn't think she had the right to say anything like that, considering she's never even kissed someone, much less have anything to do with that. Of course he still reacted the way she expected because while she didn't have any live experience, she has read quite a few romance novels in her time. They were very…informative although some of them sort of went into a little more detail than she'd like.
"Shut up!" The air between them was shocking with tension which went completely blank when Jasdero burped.
"Whoops, hii," he giggled and Devitto started to laugh too before chugging his own a letting out a slightly louder burp.
Jikoku felt like slapping her forehead as she muttered something to herself.
Jasdevi heard her.
"What was that?" Devitto demanded, although his tone wasn't angry. More competitive.
"I said pathetic, alright?"
"Can you do better, hii?" Jasdero asked.
"Maybe I can," she said offhandedly, although she was lying through her teeth. She'd never even had soda before. Alright yes, her life sucked! All work, with some light reading on the side along with throwing her Innocence at Lavi for not doing his work, and no play. She drank tea, had no friends, and never talked to anyone. Didn't have the time.
Suddenly both of them were standing on the table in front of her, grins on their faces. They shoved another bottle in front of her.
"Go for it then!"
Jikoku stared at the bottle for several moments before actually wrapping her fingers around it. After a moment she took a large gulp and felt her stomach bubble. She let the strange feeling flow up her chest until a small burp found its way through her lips. Everything was silent until Jasdero and Devitto started laughing.
"Was that really it?" Devitto called.
"That's it? That's it?" Jasdero giggled.
"Shut up!" she yelled at them, cheeks flushed, although the corners of her lips twitched upward a bit. Even though they were laughing at her it didn't feel mocking somehow. Are these really the evil Noah trying to kill us? she wondered, but was pulled from her thoughts as she noticed movement near her. The twins had moved so that they were sitting on the edge of the table on either side in front of her and they were staring. Jikoku started to grow uncomfortable, so unused to people paying close attention to her, but the two boys either didn't noticed or were ignoring it.
There was a small feeling in her chest that she didn't want to acknowledge. Happiness. She loved how they were paying attention to her, no matter the reason. But she knew it was wrong.
"This eye's blue," Devitto commented.
"This eye's green," Jasdero commented.
Jikoku did a mental anime fall. Had they really just noticed that? She held back a sigh and looked at them. Their faces shared an almost child-like fascination.
"How'd you do that?" they asked.
"Um…I was born this way," she responded, unable to believe they actually asked that. They frowned, hoping that there would be more to the story. Why else would I have different colored eyes? she wondered, but decided not to get into it.
Then Road walked in, books in her arms. She took one look at Jikoku and said, "Nice hair," before jumping up onto the table and crawling across is so that she was between the twins and right in front of the Bookgirl. She dropped the books on the table and started to explain all the problems and questions she was supposed to do. Each of the twins grabbed a book and flipped through the pages.
They were quickly taken back from the troublesome boys.
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Lavi stared at the book in front of him in frustration. Why couldn't he find any information?
Earlier when he had spoken with Allen and Lenalee they couldn't think of where Jikoku could be. Then Yu had walked in and acting as if he knew everything, as usual, he asked if they had considered the Clan of Noah. Well of course Lavi had but he dismissed it because the Noah were designed to kill Exorcists so why would they kidnap her? Well however unlikely it got him to thinking. What if?
But he couldn't find the information to help him.
He was looking for a way to open Noah's Ark.
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Jikoku's eye twitched a bit. Why were they staring at her? She was finishing up Road's homework and now she and the twins were all just sitting around her on the table watching her as they had been since she started.
She closed the book with a restrained sigh. Without a word she stood up and walked out, wanting some peace.
To the library.
Thanks to her Bookman training she easily found her way back to the room where books covered the walls.
As she stepped onto the wooden flooring she noticed Tyki already sitting in a chair, a book in hand. He looked up at her with a surprised face.
"You're hair…" he trailed off.
"I told you I was going to," she stated, moving to and sitting in the extra chair. Without paying any mind to the Noah beside her she pulled out her Innocence. Placing it in the palm of her hand she placed the other one on top and muttered, "Activate," and the book flew open to a random page. Show me Lavi, she thought, focusing her mind.
He was in the Bookman's office. A worried yet grim look was on his face. He was reading and writing down notes. She couldn't tell what it was. Wetness clung to her eyelashes. Was he not even trying to find her? He's probably upset because Pandaface threatened him into doing his work again.
Jikoku closed her Innocence and let it lay in her lap. Her eyes fell on it and traced the white lines all the way to the Black Order's insignia.
A tear drop landed in the center.
Jikoku's shoulders started shaking as more tears spilled over from the corners of her eyes and traced her cheeks only to fall on the insignia resting on her Innocence. Her voice was broken with sobs and she wrapped her arms around herself.
Why wouldn't the tears stop flowing?
This wasn't the place for sadness. She needed to be brave but…what did she have to look forward to? Hardly anybody even realized she was gone and not even Lavi was searching.
"H-hey, don't do that," she heard Tyki stammer. She turned her head to stare at him, her eyes already rimmed in red. "Girls aren't pretty when they cry."
"Well that makes me feel better!" she yelled, eyes hardening. She held up her Innocence but right before she chucked it at him she remembered that if it hit him than it would basically break. She didn't want her Innocence to break. With a grunt she got up, placed the book back inside her belt pouch, and started walking towards the door. Although she made a small detour to the bookshelf and grabbed a random book, looked at it, and threw it right at his head.
Jikoku still had perfect aim.
She stomped out the door, a few tears still evident in her eyes, but froze. As she started to think about it she let out a large sigh and walked back to the door. Leaning in with both hands on either side of the doorframe, she looked at Tyki.
"Hey," she said and he looked up from his book. "Thanks for trying."
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Well that's it for now.
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