Prt. 5

10 lead 13 toward the stairway and helped the small female down the stairs, honestly a little concerned that she should be doing something so strenuous right after her awakening. Hadn't her soul been weak and not strong enough for her to wake up when she should have? If that was the case…than the tall pale male wasn't about to take any chances of her doing something that took shut her down again; he had just begun to see her spark for life after all. And he planned on see more.

"10…you don't have to hold me hand the whole time you know. I can walk just fine on my own." 13 said when getting to the ground floor, looking down at her hand that 10 had unconsciously been holding onto the whole it he had began helping her down the stairs. He gasped sharply and quickly removed his hand from the small females own, turning away and looking anywhere but her own uniquely colored optics,

"I'm sorry, sorry…sorry," he rambled on for a few moments, able to say nothing else as his pulse quickened from knowing he had been holding onto her delicate clawed hand that whole time and she hadn't pulled away in fear…but he had.

'Augh! What is wrong with me?' he thought desperately, bringing both of his hands up to his chest and breathing deeply to try and calm himself, 'I was holding her hand! Holding it like my blades couldn't damage her…got to be more carful. Remember what happened to 11; get a bit upset near her and, and…'

He quickly shook his head free on those thoughts and glanced back over his shoulder at 13; she was just standing there watching him with intense focus and look…concerned. Concerned for him.

10 panicked at her stare and quickly tried to detour her focus elsewhere, remembering what they were suppose to be doing when they had headed down the stairs.

"Um, how about we go looking for those brothers of mine?" he asked with a phony smile, trying to appear calm and collected well his insides were corning in worry. "They should be up by now and probably causing all types of trouble…males after all."

He gave a small chuckle and gestured for 13 to follow along, which the female did without hesitant as the two of them made their way along the floor to a living room that 10 began to glance around…trying to locate his little brother. His little and VERY annoying little brother.

13 stayed on one place well 10 looked around, her eyes located onto the pale males every move as if she were studying him, preserve him to memory perhaps…just focused on his every detail that made up the males anatomy. So caught up in her staring in fact that the small teal eyed female didn't hear the footsteps behind her until it was too late.

"Mmphg!" came her muffled scream as a hand clasped over her mouth and a arm was wrapped around her middle, pinning her arms down to her sides well 13 kicked and tried to break away from her capture's hold; tensing when she heard his voice entering into her audio sensors.

"Reveal your name temptress," he purred out deeply; speaking right into her neck, with a low sadistic tone. But his voice sounded young like her own and he didn't seem to be doing anything to tighten his hold on her…"Before I have to try other methods of making you speak my dear."

"11 you idiot!" came the voice of 10 as he turned around and approached the scene, reaching behind 13 to smack the other of his head. "What are you trying to do to her? Scare the soul right out of her again?! Let her go now!"

13 pulled away from '11' as soon as he had been smacked, having lost his hold to instead cling his smarting head with his clawed hands, whining pitifully at the bit of discipline from his elder brothers hands. 13 herself moved some ways off before turning to look back at the one who had dared to scare her…blinking in surprise at what she saw.

The male was pale just like 10 was but after that he had a completely different look; his optics were gold instead of silver, his claws weren't bladed looking more like her own with a bright green color. His arms were striped of black and bright green as well the color matching his claws and the patch he made on his knee that held the eleven he had print on it. But the thing that stroke 13 as the most curious detail of this male was that, despite being the tall pale male's brother…11 was no bigger than she was.

"Ah man…" 11 whined well rubbing his head, looking up at 10 with a very small pout and trying to glare at him through the pain. "I was only having a little bit of fun. You act like you can't take a joke or something…she doesn't seem to mind too much."

10 growled deeply for a moment before sighing out and rubbing a hand over his face softly. "You know I'm not one for humor and honestly? She probably doesn't know any better. But still, introductions- 13 that's my LITTLE brother 11 and 11 this is our new member to the family 13; first female."

"Charming…" the shorter male replied well quickly moving closer to 13, taking her hand and giving a smile, "Nice to meet you 13. I'm the short stack around here, least I was until you came along and I'm also the main tracker on the group but 12 and 10 say I don't focus enough to be taking seriously. But who wants to be serious? I'm more for play and fun myself."

Well 13 stared at him well blinking with a face, 11 chuckled and bowed himself down a bit well raising her hand up, making 13 curious as to what he was doing well 10 looked like he wanted to smack the other silly again.

"Anything you need from me just ask. And by the way, you my dear…" 11 said well sounding more like a purr, "are beautiful; may I?" Before giving her time to answer, 11 brought his mouth and 13's hand together, kissing it lightly with a soft smile. The reaction followed right after that; 10 having planned on ripping 11 away for a good scolding but he was beating to it as 13 eyes narrowed the moment 11's mouth had made contact and than slapped him clean off before anything else could be said or done.

11's expression was absolutely stunned well bring a hand up to touch where 13 had hit him, amazed that someone so small and not even trained yet had been able to slap him so hard that there a lingering sting on his cheek. 10 on the other hand, was staring wide eyed and frozen with what had just happened; not knowing if he should comfort 13 for the situation or see if his brother was okay for his teasing leading to a misunderstanding.

Finally 11 moved first and smiled well turning his head back to smirk coyly at 13; bring his hand down and away from his face as he started to chuckle.

"Wow…nobody's going to say you hit like a girl," he said with a chuckle, "Beside's I like woman with a bit of fire in them and boy! Do you have some fire there inside ya; you my dear…give new meaning to the expression hot stuff."

13 expression changed to one of satisfaction for her action well 10's became a mortified expression for hearing and seeing this from his little brother; was fate trying to make him irritated to the point where he wanted to smack the other through a wall?! But 13's voice entering through the anger calmed his mind down again.

"Flattery will get you nowhere shorty," she replied well give 11 a small punch in the arm; him immediately acting like she had broken it which only amused the both of them. "But you're welcomed to keep trying. Who knows, one day you may actually say something I believe."

11 and 13 seemed to carry on a small conversation well 10 watched closely, a very small smile forming because he was glad that these two were getting along nicely. Perhaps a bit too nicely…

'Stop it 10,' he told himself well moving to lean against a chair as the two small ragdolls chattered about many things. 'They just met and so have you; its not like it's writing in stone for you and her to be more than just friends…just be nice to her and let things play out like their suppose too. Nothing is going to happen…'

At that thought though, 10's eyes widened when seeing 11 and 13 touching each other in harmless gestures as they looked over the other of the design that made up their look. The instant 11 moved and pulled the scarf down so that her head was no longer covered…10 got a deep frown and growled lowly; not likening what he was seeing.

"Hey, how about we go see 12 next?" he asked quickly, sounded normal as he shook his misplaced anger away. "I'm sure he'd like to see 13 also; you know how he is about females."

11 smiled broadly and nodded quickly before taking 13's hand and leading her off with 10 closely behind them…likening these touches between them better than the others, but he still didn't like them.