Sakumo was on his way home from the store when he noticed the moving trucks sitting in front of old man Morrisons place, the house across the street from his own and paused. He adjusted the bags of cat food and litter in his hand and watched some guys carry out a bookshelf as a girl, a pretty little strawberry blond with her hair tied back in pig tails, wearing a red hoody and skinny jeans came bounding down the porch steps and headed towards the truck.
At a distance he calculated her age to be about fifteen or so. But he might have been off a bit.
He stood there and watched her disappear into the truck and collect several small boxes and piled them one on top of the other and then pick them up and start for the ramp. He tensed up as he noticed that she was a little off in her steps and could only cringe in sympathy as she stepped off into thin air, missing the ramp completely and tumbled forward with a startled scream.
She hit her side and one of her legs on the ramp as she fell and hit the street hard, some of the boxes landing on top of her while others spilled out onto the street.
He saw a guy with dark hair come barreling out of the house and run over to her and sighed. She would be taken care of so there was no need for him to bother. Not when he had a momma cali waiting to bloody his ankles when he got home.
Ya know, on second thought having his ankles bloodied wasn't his best idea of fun so...maybe they could use some of his first aid knowledge. It certainly wouldn't hurt to see. And while he was there he could introduce himself to her parents. He sighed and put his stuff down and ran across the street just as the dark haired man was helping the poor kid up.
"Jesus Naru one of these days your going to wind up breaking your neck!" The man almost shouted.
Sakumo slowed his pace as the girl sort of cringed and wondered if maybe he'd come up on something he shouldn't have seen or heard. But the sheer thought of some asshole hurting a kid just because she'd lost her footing had him on alert. If he saw anything he deemed...odd, he'd contact the proper authorities and see to it that whoever the guy shouting at her was- wound up in jail for a good long time.
He was more than half way to them when the guy looked up and saw him, his dark eyes narrowed at him. Apparently not liking the fact that a stranger was hanging about as Sakumo asked if they needed any help. The guy hastily assured Sakumo that the kid was fine and tried to haul her to her feet.
Tried being the operative word.
The girl got almost to her feet before falling down again as Sakumo looked her over and noticed that her pants were torn, she was bleeding and her knee was already swelling up the skin already showing signs of discoloring. The guy tried to haul her to her feet again and Sakumo felt his temper rise as her leg went out on her again and she fell for the second time and tried to pull her arm free of the guy's grasp.
"I don't think she should stand on that knee." Sakumo said in a eerily calm tone as he pointed to her leg. The man growled something about his mother at him and started to try and pull the kid up again. Sakumo's temper got the best of him this time and without warning he stepped in close and reared back his fist and punched the man in the face. Knocking him back over the ramp where he hit the ground with a dull thud before Sakumo bent down and carefully picked the girl up and then growled in a warning tone.
"Stay there or you and I are going to have some trouble." As he started walking across the street to his place since he doubted that the new family would have their first aid kit in a handy dandy place that was easy to find and get too.
He was half way across the street when the girl finally squirmed in his arms and then rested her chin on his shoulder and muttered. "Goddamn Genma- Always has to be a jerk." Sakumo's steps might have faltered if not for the fact that they were in the middle of the street as he blinked in bemusment at her softly spoken words.
"You should be careful about what you say, doll. Your brother doesn't seem to be running on all cylinders."
"He's not my brother."
"Please don't tell me that I punched your dad." Sakumo said more to himself than her. Inwardly cringing at the thought. He felt her slowly shake her head and he sighed in relief before she asked him where he was taking her. He explained about how he doubted that her parents had their first aid kit handy and she fell silent.
He walked up the steps of his porch and stopped to dig around in his pocket, having to shift his grasp on her for a second while he dug out his keys and unlocked the door and opened it. As soon as he stepped foot through the door the cali came running, meowing insistantly. Letting him know that she was hungry, the kittens were driving her crazy and everything else.
"Yes. Yes. You're hungry. I know. Just let me take care of dolly here and I'll feed you." He said as he kicked the door closed behind him and carried the girl he'd dubbed doll or dolly into the living room and set her down then left her to the mercy of the hungry cat while he ran to get his first aid kit.
