She thought to herself and looked at Ryotuki. She forced a sheepish smile. "Um...How about we go somewhere else?" She satarted walking another way and Ryotuki didn't follow. "What's wrong...?"
Neokie froze in her tracks, she turned and faked a smile again. "Nothing's wrong! I just wanna go to the bar, see if Fokoro will let me back in." Ryotuki shook his head. "You suck at lying...But I'll go along.." Neokie shook her head and sighed, "You can see right through me." She smiled and began walking.
Ryotuki looked up. noticing a pool of liquid softening the dirt nearby. He walked over and bent down to it. "What in the...?" The Familiars had at least an IQ of -5 so they didn't care if they got killed. They were just hungry for blood. Jumping down, they lunged at Ryotuki, fangs bared. Neokie saw and gritted her teeth. "Darnit!" She yelled, running toward him, turning into a wolf she jumped, pushing Ryotuki out of the way and taking the hit. Ryotuki reacted immediately and threw his sword at the Familars, drawing it back as the rat-like figures fell apart. Bending down to the wolf, his eyes widened.
The wolf began having human-like features etched upon it's body. As quickly as the wolf had jumped earlier, it was now a human. Neokie to be exact. Ryotuki checked where the Familiars attacked and noticed burn marks. Examining the fangs of a Familiar, he noticed a liquid dripping. Touching it, his hand stung. Retracting his hand he sighed. Acid. Why did all enemies seem to use acid these days?
Ryotuki picked Neokie up, heaving her over his shoulder he began jogging to the bar. "Damnit Fokoro..You better be there.." He muttered under his breath while he notced something dripping down his shoulder blade. Blood. Neokie's blood. Quickening his pace, he saw the bar door in sight, a smirk crossed his face as he rammed into the door, falling on his back, preventing Neokie to touch the wooden floor. Fokoro rose immediately from his seat and hurried over. "WHat the heck happened!"
Ryotuki shook his head. "Ask questions later! She's bleeding badly!" Fokoro shook his head. 'Trouble always seems to follow you when you least expect it kid...' He picked up Neokie and set her down on a bed in a different room. Checking her wounds, he winced. "There were already old scars where she was hit. Now she's bleeding badly. She'll be lucky if there's no internal bleeding..." Ryotuki looked at the ground.
"She shouldn't have tried to protect me..."
"Shut up kid, she did it out of kindness."
"Kindness my foot, I can take care of myself.."
"Yeah right..."
"You wanna make something out of it!"
Ryotuki raised a fist to Fokoro's face. Fokoro simply ignored it and swatted it away. Neokie began shaking uncontrollably and Fokoro cursed. "There may have been something in the acid.. You're gonna have to wait awhile kid.,.."
Ryotuki punched the wall and stormed out, slamming the door behind him. He watched the clock as hours passed. He finally fell asleep and had the same dream again. He was awoken by Fokoro. "Kid, she's okay..."
Ryotuki ran in the room and found Neokie sleeping, bloodied sheets surrounded her as a scar ran from her shoulder blade to her hip. She turned lightly in her sleep. He smirked and exited, exiting the room.