Leki and Dane start to eat Brownies.
"Well, I thought guys wore those dresses all the time?
Ummm you are thinking of Kimonos.
Leki: Oh. Then I know how the Muse feels.
This coming from a young muse in training, who likes to where his skates on his hands and his gloves on his feet.
Dane: Hehehe
Leki: Hey that is a perfectly good style. Right Mr. Muse sir?
Kids come up with the strangest things.
Dane: Does this mean you will where the dress?
Leki: Only if I get to where it on my head.
Tries to picture Leki wearing a dress in that manner. Hmmm not to hard to picture that.
Dane: Hey Leki!
Leki: Yes?
Dane: Why don't we go bake some cakes and stuff?
Leki: Good idea!
The two run off. Just remember use real cake mix!
Dane and Leki: We know!
Don't mix the things up and try to use brownie mix in the cake mix please!
Leki and Dane: We won't!
And watch out for the--
CRASH!
--shelf. Sighs. I better go clean up what they knocked off the shelf. But you guys go a head and read.
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It happens
Things had been going rather slow in the trying to gain Hisoka's trust area. Tsuzuki took to bringing Hisoka to work with him. So now Hisoka was being picked up by ten in the morning Monday through Friday. However the closest He had been to Hisoka was when they went fishing and that was two months ago. But at least Hisoka was talking just a little more. Tsuzuki even would let Hisoka make the choices of where to eat lunch at and even some of the places on where they would go after work.
Some of the places that they went to were pretty amazing. They went anywhere from Kyoto's Imperial Place where Japan's Imperial Family lived until 1868, to as far as Japan's best aquarium in Osaka. This coming weekend they were going to go with Tatsumi and Watari to Kobe
Watari and Tatsumi had some things to do there but with a lot of begging from Tsuzuki they decided he and Hisoka could come. So now Hisoka found himself traveling with Tsuzuki, Watari, and Tatsumi. What's more is he was on a bus with them. Hisoka was doing fairly good in keeping from jumping out the nearest open window. "Are you okay Hisoka?" Tsuzuki asked.
Hisoka looked at him he couldn't help but to gaze into those Amethyst eyes. He gave a nod and then looked out the window. Hisoka was amazed at how the outside world can look so peaceful. "I'm fine." Hisoka said in only a half calm voice. Truth be told he was very tense. Keeping his emotional guard up Hisoka was able to keep the emotions of those around him out. He had somehow known that he would someday have to get onto a bus and was glad that Tsuzuki had told him a week before. This gave Hisoka time to prepare himself.
Once in Kobe they checked into a nice but very cheap hotel. "We need to go and see our clients." Tatsumi said. "So why don't you two rest--" Tatsumi stopped himself as he seen on the two of the beds Hisoka and Tsuzuki were actually asleep.
"I think we can leave now." Watari whispered.
"Hai." Tatsumi said and they both left.
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What Tatsumi and Watari had gone to do was do one of those three months checkup and some of their older cases of children needing help. Some of these kids that had went to them turned out alright in the end and only needed yearly visits. However, there were those select few that still needed a push in the positive direction. Thos ones ranged from daily, once every month, once every two months, and so on depending on the child, the family, and the environment.
::Three hours later::
"I am glad that so many of our clients live in one area." Watari said as they walked back to the hotel. "So how many of yours do you think are ready for once every four or five months?" Watari asked while he looked at his own folder.
"I had only about two ready for every four months." Tatsumi answered.
"Only two? Out of how many?" Watari asked.
"Twelve families." Tatsumi said.
"Man, isn't any of them ready for every five months?" Watari asked.
"Hai, three are." Tatsumi responded. "But one has to go back to every two months." He added with a slight frown.
"Well, at least that is good." Watari said as he was messing with the lock on the door.
"How many out of your twelve?" Tatsumi asked.
"Two are ready for the every five months but I don't think the rest are ready." Watari said as he finally got the door open and the two entered the room. Tsuzuki was still asleep but Hisoka was up and reading a book that Tsuzuki had bought him a month ago. It was a book on the different sights of the world. It had many photos and Hisoka seemed to enjoy it. "Hey Bon!" Watari said.
"Hey." Hisoka replied without even looking up from his book.
"He is still asleep I see." Tatsumi said. Hisoka gave a nod as he turned the page in his book.
"You really like that book don't you?" Watari asked as he looked over to the book for a moment before sitting at the table with Tatsumi.
"Kurosaki?" Tatsumi said. Hearing his last name being spoken was something Hisoka had gotten used to. His emerald green eyes looked up from the book to Tatsumi. "When we are done here we'll try to wake Tsuzuki up and then the four of us will explore around and see the sites." Tatsumi said.
"Alright." Hisoka said as his gaze shifted over to the sleeping Tsuzuki before returning to his book. "Good luck with that then." He added. Hisoka had known from many times back at the office that it was at times pretty hard to wake Tsuzuki. But it wasn't as hard as trying to keep him from sweets.
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As promised the four of them went out to see what could be seen. They knew that none of it could be seen within a day so that was why they had the hotel room. Tsuzuki had taken it upon himself to be sure that Hisoka's family was okay with this trip. Even though Nagare didn't like the idea of having the boy out of his sight for so long he didn't want them to think anything was wrong so he grudgingly gave the okay.
"Hey? Did you know that in January 1995, Kobe was hit by the Great Hansihin Awaji Earthquake?" Tsuzuki asked as he had picked up an information pamphlet. "It killed over 5000 people and destroyed tens of thousands of buildings." He added.
"Heh I read about that in my book." Hisoka replied. "They were able to rebuild and now it looks like it had before with very few places left to tell it was hit by the earthquake." Hisoka added in a causal calm voice.
"Really!" Tsuzuki said as this amazed him.
"It says that there will be a parade tonight in the Harborland." Tatsumi said.
"Oh lets go see it please!" Tsuzuki begged.
"I don't mind if you guys don't" Watari said. Tatsumi smiled at his friend and then they all looked at Hisoka who gave a sigh and nodded. The first place they went was Kitano-cho which was the district with former mansions of Western residents. They then went to the Earthquake Museum which commemorated the 1995 earthquake.
"FOOD!" Tsuzuki said when they stopped at one of the restaurants to eat.
"Geez you act like you hadn't eaten your whole life." Watari said as they were sitting down and Tsuzuki wasted no time in eating his food so that he could run up and get sweets. Hisoka looked a little concerned with him
"Don't worry he is always like this." Tatsumi said as he spotted the concern in Hisoka's green eyes.
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After lunch they went to Mount Rokko. They went to many of the tourist attractions can be found on Mount Rokko, including a botanical garden, a music box museum, a pasture with flowers and sheep, Japan's first golf course and Rokko Garden Terrace. Hisoka and Tsuzuki did get into a few arguments over where to go but other then that they made it back to Kobe's Harborland to watch the parade.
Hisoka never thought that there would be so many people there he got pretty nervous and tensed up. He could feel his emotional wall crumbling and the foreign emotions from the crowd was slowly starting to force their way into his soul. He found himself hugging his arms tightly.
"Hisoka?" Tsuzuki said as he saw what was going on. Hisoka was slowly stepping back and forgetting about the fact that he didn't like to be touched Tsuzuki placed a hand on his shoulder. That combined with the fact that he had just bumped into someone behind him something happened. It was a brief flash of bluish green light. Several people were pushed back into one another and those that had been closest to Hisoka got their hand slightly burned.
It took Tsuzuki a moment to collect himself. He Watari, Tatsumi, and a lot of other people were looking at Hisoka. "An empath." Watari said in a low voice.
"Empath?" Tatsumi said.
"What's an Empath?" Tsuzuki asked.
"Empath is a term coming into common usage to refer to a person with a feeling expanded sensitivity to recognize, perceive and directly experientially feel the emotion of another." Tatsumi said.
"Some are so strong that they can push others away when they are touched during the time of feeling to much at once." Watari said.
Hisoka turned to Tsuzuki. Even though his left eye was still covered by long hair his right eye was trying to say sorry and that he didn't plan for that to happen. As if he knew what he was saying Tsuzuki gave a nod to tell him that he understood and that it was alright. Another thing Hisoka or Tsuzuki weren't planning on was Hisoka's father being there. Nagare stepped in front of Hisoka who fell to the ground with fear.
"Let's go." He said and began walking away. Hisoka, dreading what will happen got up. His legs were so shaky that he could barely stand at all let alone walk. Hisoka took one last look at Tsuzuki. Emerald met Amethyst. He then turned and followed his father.
"Is that …" Watari started to say.
"Hisoka's father?" Tatsumi finished.
"Hai." Tsuzuki said. He just sat there and it wasn't until Hisoka was out of sight that Tsuzuki realized that the final look Hisoka gave him was saying "help me." Tsuzuki tried to stand but winced as he stood. Looking down he had a rather nasty burn on his right leg and on his right hand. But he did not care for that he just ran after Hisoka. "HISOKA!"
"Hey wait up!" Watari said as he and Tatsumi followed Tsuzuki.
"HISOKA!, HISOKA!" Tsuzuki kept yelling. His whole body had gone numb with fear. He reached the parking lot in time to see the car that Hisoka and his father was in drive away. "HISOKA!" Tsuzuki said as he gave chase. He fully intended to chase the car down.
Hisoka was in the backseat with his father and as the driver drove Hisoka saw something in the mirror that was in the car. His heart seemed to jolt as he seen Tsuzuki trying to catch the car on foot. However, Tsuzuki was not as fast as a car but it still surprised Hisoka that Tsuzuki kept right on going, even though he was getting farther and farther left behind.
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Leki: HISOKA!
Dane: Don't give up Tsuzuki! Keep running!
Leki: I hope he catches him.
Dane: Me to. I didn't know he was an empath.
Leki: I know that sounds like a cool power doesn't it?
Dane: Yeah it does.
Leki: What do you think Sass?
I don't know. I think it would drive me crazy at some point.
Dane and Leki: It would?
Yeah, plus it might be kind of lonely and a bit boring to know how someone felt.
Dane: It can be hurtful to you to right? I mean if you found out that someone pretended to like you when they didn't like you at all.
That's right. I think it would hurt more to be an empath then it would be fun to be an empath.
Leki and Dane: Oh
Leki: I don't think it is all that cool now. It is great but it is not so great.
Dane: Yeah same here.
Leki: I wonder if the readers will think it is or not?
I wonder that to.
Dane: Guess we should let them review and tell us that along with what they thought of this chapter huh?
That's right Dane.
