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Bonus chapter!
Shichibi and Scarfy : Immortality.
It is known to very few people that Naida lets the Shichibi have relatively free reign of her body while she sleeps.
Nobody really questions why an 11 year old girl is up in the pouring rain in the middle of the night, fling with relative ease through the storm, dancing around the lighting bolts and yelling happily with the thunder. She twists and turns and enjoys the brief freedom from her cage. She'd have to give the girl's body a wash before she woke up, but right now her mind was on other things.
It was time to talk to an old friend.
Making her way to a usually bright island, turned brown and dark with the rain, she goes into a dive towards one of the bigger villages, briefly racing a thunder strike. It beat her, of course, but such things really didn't bother her any more. She could deal with being weak.
As long as she didn't think about it for too long.
She perched like the bird of prey she once was on the open window sill of a young girl. She slept in the bed by the window peacefully, the wind preventing the rain from entering her room. She was still wearing her scarf, which was curled up like some kind of snake on her pillow.
"Go away, birdy bitch." mumbled the sleepy scarf. "Not all of us are nocturnal."
"Oh really now, is that any way to address your superiors?" she smirked as she preened. The scarf immediately raised it's 'head', the stitching re-arranging itself into a glaring face.
"Superior my ass."
"You don't have one, you're a scarf."
"Shut up."
Shichibi chuckled quietly. "Now, now, let's not wake little 'Laida." she shushed him with a smirk. The scarf turned away in a huff.
"Let her wake, I don't care." He muttered sulkily, though by all accounts he really didn't want her up. She'd be hyper all day if she woke up this early. Shichibi tutted and sat down facing out of the room on the window ledge, her face suddenly serious.
"They'll be coming soon." she said quietly.
"I know…" sighed Scarfy. "What are we going to do? If people get caught in the cross fire we're going to get it…" he stretched one of his loose threads to indicate the sleeping girl and then to Shichibi. "Especially these two. And their friends. And all those other special kids out there…" Shichibi sighed at looked out at the rain.
"We'll have to arrange something to get them out of here. Try to get to a safe place. Loose the pursuers." she muttered, mostly to herself.
Silence.
"You know, if they die while we're still attached to them…"
"We die too, I know."
"Is there anything you don't know, oh great tartan one?"
"How this will turn out."
Shichibi snorted and looked down from the 5th story window. "Aren't we supposed to be immortal Rufus? Aren't we supposed to be all knowing demons?" she said sadly, almost disgusted with herself. "I don't feel very all knowing. Or immortal."
"It's kinda hard to be kept in the loop of demon knowledge when you're sealed, ne?" he chuckled bitterly. Alaida stirred.
Shichibi scowled at the falling rain, the sky as clear as the future ahead.
"Pfft, immortality. What a joke."
AAAAAAAAND I'M DONE!
I need some sleep. Good night!