the Kage Tenshi does not own Martin Mystery.
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Takumi pulled his blue hair up into a ponytail and gave himself a once over in the mirror, he looked like he had just walked out of a Neo-Visual music video. "It'll have to do…" he muttered to himself. The probability of finding Komatsuzaki and Miyabe in Japan was slim, after all, it wasn't like there wasn't a gargantuan population to worry about. He held out his hands and whispered something beneath his breath. Energy collected into a small mass that hovered over the palms of his hands. He whispered under his breath again and the energy was compressed into the form of a small blue butterfly. If they're here, Aoichou will find them.
-The Red Monarch-
"Tatsuki-chan?! Is that you?!" Tatsuki blinked owlishly at the gothic Lolita who came rushing at her outside Nakamuraya's (Do I have to mention she's speaking in Japanese?). "Omigawd, it is you!" The girl had got up close to examine Tatsuki's features.
"Um…" Tatsuki stumbled backwards away from the girl, "Kisaki-chan…" she recognized the Japanese girl with the dyed blonde hair which was pulled up into pigtails. Martin had finally chosen a kimono for himself and the group was on their way to the next store.
The blonde Japanese girl looked behind the priestess, "Ooh, foreigners!" she sounded excited. "Are they with you?" she asked quickly.
"Aah, Hai, Kisaki-chan…" Tatsuki sweat dropped.
Diana cocked her head; she had never seen anybody wear Victorian styled clothing, let alone a Victorian styled dress, outside of Halloween, or the 60s. It was quite peculiar. "Hey, Taki, do you know this person?" Diana asked, she couldn't understand the other girl's rapid Japanese, but she got the feeling Tatsuki knew her.
Tatsuki turned away from the gothic Lolita, and switched back to speaking English. "Yes, we used to go to the same school (I can't say we were really friends, though)"
Martin sweat dropped, "What's with the weird outfit? (It's cute, though)" he asked.
Tatsuki sighed and shrugged, and turned to the Lolita, and in Japanese she asked, "What's with the outfit?" as politely as she could. Kisaki blinked and looked down at her dress.
"You don't like it?" she asked.
"It's fine…" Tatsuki sweat dropped, I'm really not good at this Tatsuki thought to herself, and we really need to get a move on, she gave the blonde girl "Anyway, Kisaki chan, we have to go." Tatsuki bowed and preceded forward with the other's following. (Arashi gave a bow to the blonde girl as he followed as well.)
"Wait, Miyabe-chan!" Kisaki called to the small priestess, "I have a request for Tenjin Matsuri!" Tatsuki came to a halt and turned to face the other girl once more.
"Hm, what is it?" Tatsuki asked.
Martin elbowed Arashi, "Hey, what are they saying?" Arashi sweat dropped.
"Doesn't the U-watch have a translator in it?" Arashi asked the spiky blonde haired boy.
Martin glared at Arashi, "It can translate text, not speech." He said hotly.
"Alright," Arashi put his hands up in mock surrender. "The blonde girl, Kisaki, just asked Tatsuki if this year Tenjin Matsuri could have a Gothic Lolita Tea Party, or something like that."
"Gothic…Lolita?"
"It's something that spawned from the Visual Kei world."
"Visual Kei?" Diana asked, she was not familiar with such terms and was curious to learn what they meant.
"Visual Kei is a rock music movement, characterized mostly by extravagant makeup and costumes that were influenced by seventeenth to nineteen century European fashion." Arashi explained as best as he could. "Just think KISS, or David Bowie, bands like that. (But if you ever want to listen to it, MALICE MIZER, Luna Sea, and Vidoll, are a few you could listen to.)" He said, Diana seemed to have a mental picture of what these bands may look like, and shuddered, David Bowie was creepy. (No offence intended to Bowie fans.) "But now everything now is…Neo-Visual."
Diana sweat dropped, she doubted she like any of that kind of music. It sounds like it would be more of Martin's style… she thought with a grimace.
"Sounds pretty awesome." Martin said, Diana nearly anime fell, she had definitely called it.
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Colin lit the end of his cigarette, pushed his reading glasses up the bridge of his nose, and began looking over some plans when he heard his cell phone ring. Digging the device out of his pocket, he flipped the phone open and placed it next to his ear, "Hello?" he asked, taking the cigarette out of his mouth and blowing the poisonous smoke out of his mouth. He sweat dropped at the speaker, "I was just going over the plans to see if any major faults are noticeable…" he laughed, "It's going to be great, my best work yet!" his eyes hardened, "I have to go, give my regards to your mother." Despite a few audible protests, Colin pressed the 'end' button on the phone and went to the door and slid it open, I can't normally see the things Tatsuki can, but for a moment, I saw a glowing butterfly. His eyebrows furrowed, Of course, it could be a solid creature…arg, not the issue Colin! He shook his head, If red glowing butterflies are angry spirits, what are blue glowing butterflies?
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"YOU DID WHAT?!"A six-year-old Tatsuki winced at the loud voice of her (currently) lime green haired caretaker.
"I told you already," Tatsuki gave him a stubborn look, "I fixed the problem with O-nii-san." She said. Her long black hair was pulled away from her eyes and into a ponytail, and she wore olive green pajamas. "I turned my Nii-san into a butterfly, even though he's a red butterfly, he can't hurt anybody anymore."
"Tatsuki…" Colin sink down to her eye level and placed his hands on her shoulders, "Why did you go? It was very dangerous."
"Because I'm the only one who knows how." Tatsuki stated as if it were an obvious thing.
"What does it mean, 'turned into a red butterfly'?" Colin asked though he wondered if he even wanted to know.
"Butterflies are what people become when they crossover, red butterflies are the remnants angry spirits." Tatsuki said serenely.
"Wasn't your brother still alive?"
"Yes, but it's only a little bit hard to send a living person to the Other Realm." Tatsuki yawned, "Can I go back to sleep now?" Colin sighed, he supposed the small girl didn't understand the gravity of her actions.
"Yes, you can."
"Arigato,"
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Takumi paid the woman at the candy counter for his sweets, "Thanks." He said as he popped a candy in his mouth and walked out of the store. The navy blue haired twenty-seven year old looked up towards the clouds as he popped another candy in his mouth. I wonder where Aoichou is he thought curiously and began walking down the street, oh well, if Aoichou finds her, he'll return.
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Tatsuki sighed, she had no idea how to pull off a gothic Lolita tea party, but Kisaki wouldn't take 'no' for an answer, she was pushy that way. She looked up and gazed into the windows of other stores along the shopping street, and stopping at every street vendor so Diana could look at the merchandise. Taki's eyes wondered as her little group got into a small argument about purchasing one of the street vendors items ( Martin didn't seem to understand that 200 yen was not the same as 200 dollars.) her mahogany colored eyes caught sight of a silver haired person ducking behind a clothing rack in a store adjacent from where the group was currently standing, Tatsuki raised an eyebrow at the strangeness, but said nothing about it, preferring to instead think about what else would be needed for Tenjin Matsuri. "Fireworks." She said, and walked off to where she knew there would be a fireworks vendor this time of year.
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The Bowie comment was my impression on this one album art of his. :P So seriously, no insults intended.