Caged

Chapter 4: Weird Senji Obsession

Disclaimer: I don't own Deadman Wonderland! If I did I would be the happiest person in the whole world... well less than happy if I owned BLEACH... but if I owned both I'd be so happy, much more happy than just one ... oh well! READ ON PEOPLE!

I awoke to find myself on the floor of my room, well they still call it a cell but it's more of a room to me now. Today is my fourth day here, it doesn't really feel as if it has been so short. That's when it hit me, I haven't talked to Mami since my trial. We've never been apart this long in our entire lives, she was always there for me and I for her. But now, I feel sort of alone without her at my side.

At least now I have Ganta, Shiro, and of course Senji to keep me company. Now that I think about it, I never really expected to make friends here.

" I'm happy I did though. " I laughed to myself.

Getting out of bed, I decided to walk around by myself today. I'm kinda surprised that Senji hasn't showed up yet. He's usually here either making fun of me or talking about something I couldn't care less about.

" I wonder what's around this place. " I said stretching my arms above my head as I walked out the door.

Let's see left or right... right I guess, I thought in my head as I turned down the hall. After about 5 minutes of nothing but dim lights and closed doors, I heard a noise coming from down the hall.

" Finally a possibility of life in this boring place. " I said picking up speed as I jogged down the hall.

Unfortunately, as I turned a corner in the hall I ran straight into something. I fell to the floor as an enormous pain grew on the inside of my skull.

" What the hell? " I said gripping my now aching head and looking up to find a large metal object in my path.

" Are you okay? " asked an unfamiliar voice from behind the metal object.

The voice belonged to a boy with light green hair and golden eyes. He looked rather scrawny and wore really weird clothes. He held out his hand to me with a playful smile on his face.

" Yeah I guess, " I said taking his hand and picking myself up, " thanks. "

" No problem. " he said.

Wow, he might dress and look really weird but he was actually pretty nice. Might as well introduce myself, I thought.

" I'm Ume. " I said.

" I'm Toto, nice to meet you Ume. " he said, " So where ya going in such a hurry? "

" Truthfully, I have no clue. " I laughed.

I continued walking another direction without another word. Silently and slowly, I kept wandering not caring if Toto was following or not. Turning around, I saw that he was following me, that goofy grin of his still on his face.

" What is it? " I asked, stopping in the middle of the hallway.

" Just following you to make sure you don't run into anymore fire hydrants. " he laughed.

Okay what is with these people and picking on me, first it's the short jokes from Senji and now Toto is picking on my slight clumsiness.

" Well that's just great. " I said to myself.

" Your welcome. " smiled Toto.

" Oh sorry, I wasn't talking to you. I have this weird habit of talking to myself. " I said.

" It's alright. " he said.

I decided to ignore Toto for now, his positivity was getting on my nerves for some reason. Walking to the door at the end of the hall, I slid it open to find a gym with a lot of old-fashioned equipment inside like barbels and such. Sitting in the corner I saw Senji, he had a towel over his shoulders and his coat was laying in the far corner of the room.

Toto ran past me and jumped Senji, wrapping his arms around Senji's shoulders.

" Shit! " I said sitting on the floor gripping my ankle, " That wasn't smooth. "

A towel then met my face as I looked up at the two of them.

" I wonder what you taste like. " I heard Toto say as I removed the towel.

That's when I saw his hand reach for mine. Panicking, I stood up quickly and moved away from him. I only stayed up for at most a minute, then I fell to the floor as an immense pain shot up my leg.

" Stay away from her Mockingbird. " said Senji as he picked me up by the arm off of the floor.

" I was just curious, see ya around Ume. " he said as he left the gym.

Wow, Toto is starting to seem severely creepy to me now. I wonder why he's so fond of Senji, I mean Senji is a good person but maybe Toto is going a little overboard.

" You okay? " asked Senji as he wrapped my foot with his towel.

" Yeah, I guess so. "

" So how'd you find me? "

" I don't know just did. " I laughed.

" Well at least you only sprained it. Don't you have a fight tomorrow? "

That's what I've been forgetting, I knew something was going on tomorrow I just couldn't remember what it was.

" Yea, I completely forgot about that. " I frowned, " I guess I'll have to be extra careful tomorrow. "

" Here I got ya something. " he said putting a cold metal object into my hand.

Opening it, I found a pair of rings similar to his but smaller in sized and slightly different. The blades curved more upwards instead of towards the sides like his.

" Thanks these will help alot Senji. " I said putting them on my thumbs.

" I figured they would. " said Senji as he stood me up and wrapped one arm under mine to help hold me up for now.

We walked and talked almost the whole way back to my room. Well, more like I tried to walk and he talked about strategy in Carnival Corpse. I paid attention to most of what he said, but zoned out into my own mind near the end. My mind wandered to the subject of Toto, he was really strange but nice at the same time. I wonder what the story behind that is, and if I ask will he tell me?

" Are you paying attention? " asked Senji.

" Hmmm? What? Sorry I wasn't, say that again. " I said shaking my head at him.

" You should steer clear of that guy. "

" What guy? "

" Mockingbird, he's mad. "

" Ok... "

Was he reading my mind or something?! It's like he knew I was gonna confront him. But Senji had a point, Toto was a little... off in my opinion. Off as in not right in the head, or how Senji decided to put it "mad" .

After arriving at my room, we sat and talked a little more. It was fun and crazy, until Senji asked me a question that I thought I was prepared to answer at any time.

" So what was you life before Deadman Wonderland. " he asked.

That question, it made me stop and think about my life. Was I happy, was I sad, how would I explain that. And entire 16 years, it all just flew by until now. Now's when everything started to slow down so I can reflect on my life.

" Well, I guess it's a little complicated..."

Ume's Past revealed! in Chapter 5: Memories

End of Chapter 4

The Mockingbird has appeared! Will his sudden appearance affect our favorite Deadman's future? We'll all find out in the future! Probably next weekend unfortunately because school is starting Monday :'( sorry readers but I'll be a little preoccupied so less updates than usual. But I promise to try and update when I can.

Question(s): What do you guys expect from her past?

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