The Training (mod)

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] Zen had just recently gotten angry at Alvaro, so he left to go back to the Tree-Top Town that he loves. He was recently walking under the trees and started looking around. "Hello!? I know the owner of the dojo! I was wondering if you could help me get up there!" Zen starts calling up through the trees. It started to echo and he waited while looking around the forest floor.

[Jay]

Suddenly a rustling in one of the brush above could be heard, and a rather feminine form appeared as what appeared to be a woman dressed in dark blue and yellow could be seen. Her hair was rather short and extended a little in either direction of her head but seemed to fit her general features rather well. "Eh? You know Sense?" she asked with a somewhat deeper voice than most females, but eh... "How?" she asked turning her head to one side and simply waiting for the answer.

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] Zen looks at her and waits for her to speak. He grinned to himself as he started to speak. "I know him from the last time I was here. He thought I couldn't care for myself, but I ended up beating a girl at the dojo and he gave me this." Zen says as he digs in his bag. He pulled out his sword and showed it off. His eyes were pretty red, which showed he had been crying recently, but they were starting to clear up. "I'd love to see him as soon as possible. Things haven't been so great recently." Zen tells her as he kicks the ground with a foot.

[Jay]

The girl seemed to nod her head a little and frowned considerably at Zen's words on not having been great. "Ah... well you can come with me and we'll go find Sensei then," she answered back before flipping off the branch and then stepping onto the ground with an easy step. Smiling a little, she made a motion to pick him up. "This'll be a bit of a bumpy ride," she stated before quickly started to jump upwards once she was sure that she had gotten a hold of him. Finally coming up to Soujirou's house, the woman stopped and set Zen down. "There now... " she said after a moment making a motion to the house.

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] Zen listened and grabbed onto her as she started jumping up. It wasn't quite as easy as Soujirou doing it, but he didn't mind too much. He got to the tree top town and smiled. "Thank you.." he mumbles as he starts to walk towards the house. He got to the door and started to knock lightly. He was finally back here... where he was safe from jerks like Alvaro. Once the time was up, he would change his nails back for sure.

[Jay]

The door opened slowly, and the blue haired man stuck his head out. His eyes zeroed in on his student and then the perosn with him. Noticing Zen, his face softened a little. "Welcome back," he stated aloud opening the door wider. "I see you've met Hajime," Soujirou smiled a little. The 'Hajime' in question seemed to grin a little and nodded. "He is our resident disguise master." A sudden laugh broke the air, and if one turned to look again at 'Hajime', one would see a short dark haired man wearing a rather easy set of male clothes colored dark purple and dark blue much like Soujirou's were.

"Sou-kun, you give me too much credit," Hajime grinned a little before laughing again and looking towards Zen with a light air about him. "Ah, I'm sorry I was playing with you, my friend... I found it rather fun to do to people... Sou-kun knows me too well and therefore can see right through me, I guess....." He laughed again and shook his head. "But, please, if you will, let me re-introduce myself. I am Jo-ka Hajime..."

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] Zen listened to him and nodded when he asked who he met... or at least he assumed that the was girl. Zen looked back at Soujirou started to laugh, just to find some guy standing there. Zen stared for a few moments, in a bit of shock. "You looked like a girl though..." he mutters as he stares. "Uh... it's nice to meet you, Hajime. I am Zen Gean." Zen says with a nod.

[Jay]

At the muttering, Hajime seemed to only grin. "That's the point of a disguise," he answered back having noted Zen's comment even without stopping to think of whether or not Zen had actually wanted that answered. "If you had not noted Sou-kun, I would probably have led out on a wild goose chase that ended up with you killed~! Outsiders aren't allowed, after all~ But I can make an exception for someone who knows Sou-kunsamatamadono." The last bit of his wording trailed off and more or less fulfilled itself in something of a laugh as he eyed Soujirou. The dojo master in question just mentally sweat dropped and resisted the urge to sigh to himself.

"Haji... is there any other reason you're here now?" Sou asked raising his eyebrow. Hajime seemed to frown before rubbing the back of his head and laughing to himself. "I didn't think so... back tow work," Sou finished. Hajime seemed to sigh but nodded his head before turning and jumping straight off the 'porch' area and rushing through the trees rather quickly. Sou looked back at Zen for a moment. "He was a student of mine until about two years ago and sees fit to do what he does," Sou sighed a little shrugging his shoulders and putting that thought away for now. "But anyways, how have you been?" he asked directing his words at Zen.

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] Zen stood there quietly as he listened to them have a conversation. He had nothing to worry about right now with what was said, so he just listened without a word. He did reply after it was over though. "I haven't been too good recently. After we left here, we went down to the southern region. It was all fine until I met a strange stalker guy who wanted to rap-.... do bad things to me. I got away from him, but Alvaro, my friend, was going to let him do that stuff to me without helping.. so I left him..." Zen mutters, telling the whole story whether the man wanted to hear it or not. He needed to say it to SOMEBODY.

[Jay]

Sou blinked rather slowly and said nothing for a good second or two. "Do... you want to come inside and have some tea?" he finally asked not addressing the full story and problem just yet but resolving to calm the boy a bit before he did any more.

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] He thought about the offer and nodded. "That sounds good.I haven't had tea in a while.. and I love it." Zen says as he stood there with a grin. Tea... that sounded really nice.

[Jay]

Sou stepped sideways and opened the door fully for Zen to enter before entering himself. The house was rather large and somewhat spacious. There was a couch off to one side and a small low kitchen off to another side. What appeared to be a rather young girl was sitting off in a corner and drawing on some paper. Her hair was dark blue, much like Soujirou's, yet her features were a tad different here and there. "Mei, say hello, we have a guest," Sou stated before starting over towards the kitchen to heat up some water. The young girl looked up rather slowly and stared at Zen before suddenly grinning and waving her arms. "Hi!" she called.

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] Zen looked at the girl and smiled as he came in. "Hello~" Zen says with a smile before sitting down. He hadn't sat down since everything went crazy.... He really needed this rest.

[Jay]

Watching the man sit down, Mei seemed to turn her head to one side. Slowly shoving herself up, she walked over to him rather carefully on her short legs before finally stopping a good foot from him. "Who you?" she asked pointing at Zen with an innocent questioning look that only very young children seemed to be able to give. Sou looked back and half chuckled.

"Mei it's impolite to point. His name is Zen," he stated before finally settling the water to boil and starting to walk back.

"Zim," Mei stated looking a tad confused.

"No Ze-eh-Nnn," Sou stated trying to exaggerate the sound in order for the girl to understand.

Mei seemed to puff a little trying to make the right word. "Zeeeeehhnnnn," she stated rather oddly before finally looking back and hoping that was right. Soujirou just laughed a little and murmured something along the lines of 'close enough' before looking at Zen.

"The tea will be ready shortly," he stated before sitting down himself. "Mei, give Zen a breath, hun," he stated. Mei turned her head again and sighed before finally moving back a few steps and sitting down on the floor. "You look like you ran all the way here... I can have a room in another one of the houses set up for you if you need some rest in a bit."

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] Zen listens and smiles. Before he had a chance to say anything, the man did. He listened and laughed to himself a bit. "Your really cute... and that's close. I'm a bit tired right now." Zen says with a smile as he sits there. He then looked over to the man. "Thank you... I really need to rest soon. I haven't slept very much at all until I got near here." Zen mumbles lowly. He could already feel his eyes getting heavy. He could finally sleep.. now that he was safe.

[Jay]

Sou nodded his head a little slowly still not quite sure how to get the full conversation that had been started ta the door going again but resolving to the idea that maybe after he rested and recovered from everything, the boy would be able to think rationally. To the side of him, the water seemed to hiss a little stating that it had reached a warm point. Turning again and starting to pour it out into cups and stick small bits of tea leaves into each, Sou walked back over and handed one of the cups to Zen before finally sitting down again. "Careful, it's a bit hot," he stated. Mei seemed to continue to watch Zen rather carefully. Not many came to the house that she didn't already know, and she was sure she had never seen a boy with green hair and eyes like those before. It was interesting, really.... "Ah... Mei, would you mind going to play in your room? Zen and I have a few things to discuss." Sou stated. Mei frowned a moment before slowly nodding, standing, and walking back towards her room. "Now then.... you were in the south?"

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] Zen listened to the loud steam sound and cringed for a moment. He was a bit paranoid now, and didn't seem to like the random sound. When he realized it was just the tea, he calmed down. Once he had it, he started to blow before taking a sip. "Thank you." Zen says as he sets it down for a moment. He watched Mei leave to her room, and looked back at Sou. "Yes... I was in the South with Alvaro, my friend, because he had some special friend he wanted to go meet. I went with him because I didn't want to travel around alone... and.." Zen's voice started to trail off as fear took him over. He took another drink to calm down, but didn't continue yet. So much had happened to him.. and he was just a kid..

[Jay]

Sou blinked at the emphasis on special friend. Like....? Slowly nodding his head, Sou began to answer back. "Ah, I see," he stated aloud. "And did you know anything about this special friend of sorts?" he asked more or less not truly interrogating so much as trying to get down as much as he could to understand the full story so to speak.

[Caden Bunny]

[bg=0b0121][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,0,false][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,386,true][atrb=background,http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/lilDiablo_/zenmid.jpg] Zen thought about it for a moment. "Uh.. I think it was a guy... and I don't know how good of friends.. but they seemed pretty happy together..." Zen says as he sits there. He picked up the tea again, blowing it to cool it a bit more, and started to drink some. He then sat it back down and waited to see what Sou would say.

[Jay]

Soujirou seemed to nod slowly with a general 'ah'. "And then someone else came or did Alvaro's friend try and harm you?" he finally asked waiting for some sort of reply. After a few seconds, he looked down and sipped his drink before looking back up again and waiting calmly.