Chapter 3: Day 4 - Early
A man and woman pair stood before Soubi and Ritsuka, under a high bridge, where the water had dried up.
"Will this do, Soubi?" The male asked, his short, waving indigo hair flipped in his face from the sudden wind.
"Who are you?" Soubi took a few more steps forward, not menacing, just following a bit more. They had led him here, beckoned.
"Seamless." The duo said at the same time, apathetic.
The girl smiled down at Ritsuka. "We've come for Loveless." She seemed to be speaking only to him.
Soubi huffed "Seems everyone wants him." As he said this, he laid his hand on Ritsuka's head, dragging him to his side. "Whats your purpose?"
"To make him lose his ears." The girl cocked her head to the side coyly, Soubi glanced down at Ritsuka, who flinched away from the girl's gesture. He noticed that the girl still had her ears, the boy did not.
"We declare a spell battle." The boy announced loudly, bringing his arm up slightly, trailing his fingers in the air.
Soubi frowned. "Ritsuka?" He asked his sacrifice.
"No..." Ritsuka was already backing away.
"Sorry, not today." He answered the team immediately; a trained dog.
The girl pretended to pout, the boy smirked, stepping forward, Soubi already sensed that he was the fighter.
"Actually, we're the same as you, we share different names, Miomi and me."
Ritsuka was still at Soubi's side, trying to appear brave.
Soubi was silent, giving the boy a chance to explain.
"See, my name is Seamless. Miomi's name is Loveless."
Soubi's eye's shot up wide, he looked in Miomi's direction, then down at Ritsuka, who looked confused, but defeated.
"We were sent by Sensei; he's sick of waiting for you Soubi." The boy rested a hand on his hip, impatiently.
Soubi sighed, then grinned. "I have no more business with that epicure." His grip around Ritsuka's shoulder tightened. "Excuse me." Soubi turned Ritsuka and himself to leave.
"Bummer." The boy said. Ritsuka carefully glanced behind himself; the boy noticed. "Fine, then the next request is from Seimei."
Soubi found himself stopping uncontrollably, he shut his eye's.
"He's actually the one who found Miomi." Said girl looked bored, dancing in circles next to the boy. "I'm sure you can guess why." Soubi noticed he didn't say "how."
"He wasn't really clear on anything though." The boy laughed once, a short sound of distaste. Ritsuka bit his bottom lip. "Fine." He mumbled, and turned around. Soubi growled, but followed.
"Whats up?" The boy smiled, bringing Miomi close to him by the elbow.
"We accept." Soubi's voice was disturbed.
Miomi grinned madly.
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"Maybe it will rain today." Kio took another bite out of his breakfast pizza, glancing at Soubi across the table.
Deciding he should probably answer, "why do you think that?" He used one of his chopsticks to roll a sausage around the pizza.
Kio shrugged. "A cold front has already passed, cumulonimbus clouds are hanging in the sky- they're full of rain you know." Kio paused to see if Soubi was interested, he only nodded. Sighing, Kio continued, "there's also the fact that the sky is a scary gray color."
"I didn't know you liked science so much." Soubi propped his chin up on his laced fingers to stare at Kio, who beamed.
"Yeah, I've been studying. Need all the credits I can get." He winked, telling Soubi that he should take extra classes too.
"I'm ditching class today. Tell them I caught the flu because of the cold front."
Kio dropped his pizza, which landed with a sloppy 'splat' on his tray. "Why?! You only have 3 days until the project is due, you haven't even started and outline yet!" Kio frowned, his face falling when Soubi started to get up. "Gunna go mope again?" He didn't mean for him to hear that, but could tell Soubi did when his upper lip twitched.
Automatically going on the defense, "No, wait! That's not what I meant-"
Soubi quietly picked up his tray to dump it.
"Souuuuubi..."
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K, so this is becoming harder than I thought it would be to write a Loveless fic. Sigh, but i'll write it to the end...