THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU [welcome to shibuya]

[Jet]

Zakuku, after scouring the area's near Hachiko, gave up searching, and would find the Reapers out in the streets. He walked back towards the Scramble, only to see Kusari, Sora, Haine, and Forua still there. He looked at them, and then walked on towards the Central Street Entrance. As he was leaving the Scramble, he looked back towards the group. He dropped his head, put his hands in his pockets, and continued on, hoping he wasnt noticed by the others.

[Sora the warrior]

Sora began listening to Kusari's story, he know understood her and what she felt, he felt this sort of connection that he understood a lot by her body posture, facial expression and tone in her voice. He sighed apologetically and walked closer.
"Listen, Kusari, I'm sorry if I...uh...pressured you too much about the whole Reaper thing. I think I understand what you're trying to do, but..maybe you taking Zakuku's place can be a last resort. How about we try talking him out of it first okay?" He said with a smile. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Zakuku. He quickly turned and Zakuku was gone his face crunched together and put on a face of sheer confusion.

[-Arcana-X-]

"Yes." Haine agreed. Switching places is the last thing we can do. What about if the Reapers don't agree? We'll be Reaper Meat. And right now, Zakuku is overly happy that he has his new powers. We need to confront him when he's calm.
Haine's sense alerted her that Furoa's emotion changed, like offended. When Haine quieted Furoa, it wasn't meant to offend him. It was just to tell him to observe and see your surroundings. Maybe she shouldn't talk again if it hurt people's feelings here too.

[Axel Owns]

"This Reaper guy wanted me to join the Reapers, but I said no and Zakuku kinda... joined them instead. I don't really want to, but he shouldn't have done that, so I'm gonna take his place..." Kusari said, looking down at the ground.

Furoa thought about this for awhile, head down, eyes closed. While he was like this, he heard Sora saying something about "pressuring" Kusari. He opened his eyes, and raised his head to look at her.

"Well, this is what I think about the whole situation. You didn't join the reapers because you didn't want to. And by the looks of things, you still don't want to, you just feel like you have to. To save this Zakaku guy. Well, if the offer to join the reapers was extended to you, and Zakaku took it up, sounds to me like he wants to be a reaper. So, at least at the moment, you're not going to be able to turn him back to the players."

Furoa thought some more, and realized he hadn't thanked Haine or Sora for their advice.

"Oh yeah, and before I forget. Sora, thanks for the tips. At least I'm less confused now." Furoa smiled and turned to Haine." And Haine, thanks for giving me some advice. I guess you don't really learn and understand things until you experience them yourself." Turning back to the whole group, Furoa added one last statement. "Well, if we don't have anything else to do, is there a place where we can get some ramen? I'm starving."

[-Arcana-X-]

Haine smiled a bit. Yum! Ramen! Her stomach growled in response. Ramen was the only thing in the world that forced her to be extra-super twirly-whirly happy! She nodded her head slowly at Furoa. She was hungry...
Haine turned to Kusari and asked softly, "Shopping?

PS- Sorry for the short post, but you reminded me that I'm hungry as well. Raiding the fridge now bye!

[Sora the warrior]

Sora stomach growled at the word 'ramen'.
"Shopping it is..." He said nervously holding his stomach and laughed a bit. "Guess I"m starving too."

[sephiroth2]

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Standing atop of one of the large skyscrapers, that were dotted around the huge city, Sleif simply watched as the other started to leave, after the other reapers had left. Looking towards one of the streets, near to them, Sleif could see Zakuku walking all alone, probably not knowing what to do, or where to go. Raising his hand, one of the smaller snake noises appeared close to where Zakuku was, before it slithered and stopped in front of him.

Simply looking him up and down, the small noise instantly turned away from Zakuku, as it moved quickly back up the street, disappearing into a dark portal, though it seemed to stay open, for Zakuku to enter.

[Akans]

Kyoroj sat upon the rooftop, watching the Players. So... this Zakuku guy turned into a Reaper? He sighed. It was a vicious circle. Reapers recruit Players for the RG. Players become Reapers. Then those new Reapers recruit more Players for the RG. The cycle needed to be broken. A rebellion was needed.
Kyoroj chuckled to himself. A rebellion? Against what? Even though he was a Reaper, he still did not know who controlled the RG. Stupid. A rebellion would just be suicidal.
But saving a friend? In Kyoroj, a feeling stirred that he had not felt for many years. Compassion.

He rolled his eyes. Damn it. His feelings will kill him someday.
Kyoroj dropped down silently, outside the circle of Players. He called out.
"Hey, Kusari... About saving Zakuku? You don't need to trade places with him. Sleif probably won't accept you anyways. There's other ways you can turn a Reaper back."

[Sora the warrior]

Sora jumped at Kyoroj's words.
"What? Really?" He exclaimed then, hesitantly bakced away and diggin his right hand in his pocket.

"Wait....you're a Reaper. You dont expect us to just trust you do you? I meant, you try to kill us! Constantly! It's your job, and now you come out of the blue to help us? How can we know that you can be trusted?" Sora inquired keeping a good grip on his pins.

[Rhapsody Flows]

Cam groaned and rolled her eyes at what Kage said. She turned her head to the side with eyes narrowed. "This is not 'mess'. It's . . ." She couldn't really finish. How could she though?

Cam furrowed her brows and shifted her gaze down to the ground, looking aimlessly about below. Truthfully, she thought it was something beautiful and even artwork, but how could she give an answer like that to someone like Kage? Okay, say she did answer with that explaination. The Reaper would feel like an idiot if she said that this painting was some type of art!

She shook her head and her eyes went back to the wall. Her voice seemed to trail off as she replied, "I guess it's a little hard to explain, but . . ."

Before she continued, she crossed her arms and tilted her head toward the male Reaper's direction. An aggitated look appeared on her face as she talked in a fast pace. "Look, it's just that I used to come here when I was a kid, so this is the only thing that reminds me of back when I wasn't a Reaper."

[Takushi Rena]

Talk about ramen made Kusari's stomach growl. Pretty loudly, too. Kusari didn't hesitate to follow behind, keeping quiet and staring down as if telling her stomach to be quiet. However, she glanced up when she heard 'Shopping?' from Haine. The tomboy nodded and couldn't help but ask...

"Can we go to Tigre Punks?" she muttered, giving a small smile.

Hey, Kusari...

She immediately perked up, jerked her gaze around, and tilted her head to the side. Kyoroj was back! She was pretty ecstatic about that, even if she didn't show it, and that went hand-in-hand with what he said: there was another way to turn a Reaper back. She wouldn't have to turn into one just to save Zakuku!

But Sora didn't trust him. The tomboy shot him a glare out of the corner of her eye. He should've trusted him; though, he hadn't really met Kyoroj in the first place. She muttered something about 'he's helpful, i promise...' under her breath and perked up.

"Okies, what is it, then?"

[No post from Kage right now. >.<; Ultra sleepy and trying to catch up on stuff... But there'll be one from him tomorrow! :D]

[-Arcana-X-]

Kusari replied, "Can we go to Tigre Punks?"
And Haine couldn't refuse. Tigre Punks was an awesome store, and she knew Kusari would love it. But it was very far away from the Scramble Crossing they were at. And Dogenzaka where the ramen shop is...oh great. They were both at different directions!

What added to the conflict was that Sora was eyeing the reaper-player dude suspiciously. Haine would of been too, if she hadn't seen how he helped Kusari before. Wonder what he was doing...and does he have a partner?

Haine suggested, after alot of thinking, "Boys pick up Ramen while we go shopping?"

[Axel Owns]

Furoa stood back as the reaper walked up. He saw Sora go yell at the guy, about how he's not to be trusted.

"Settle down Sora. From what I've seen, no reaper would be dumb enough to confront four players at one time. And, if there's a way to get this Zakaku guy back, I say we hear him out." Furoa said, hoping he might be able to settle Sora down.

He heard something about the girls going shopping at Tigre Punks, and was glad he could go get ramen. Furoa turned towards the direction of Dogenzaka, and said, "Well I'm gonna go get some Ramen. Kusari and Haine, go buy yourselves some clothes. Just be careful out there, okay? And reaper..." Furoa said with caution, "I think you had better come with one of our groups. We need to know how to save this guy, and if you have a plan for doing it."

OOC: GUIZE T.T, i have to leave D: for a week. read the ooc thread for more info. idk what furoa is gonna do for a week, guess we'll just have to wait and see.

so see you guys later.

[Jet]

Zakuku sighed, his hands still in their pockets, as a portal appeared in front of him. He walked inside it, apparently appearing in...someones 'pad'? Gendou was apparently on the couch, but he was the only one in there. Where was Sleif? "Uh...hey?" Zakuku said, walking in and around, and then sitting down on the opposite couch.

It was quite the place. Water coming down from the walls, a bar, fish swimming underneath the floor. It really was fancy fo people who are dead, apparently. He got up, got himself a glass, and filled it with water, then going back to sit down, sipping out of the cup. Zakuku was still shocked.

[sephiroth2]

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Watching Zakuku from a top of the large building, Sleif grinned slightlyas he turned around and walked into a dark portal himself. A few seconds later, Sleif reappeared in a place, where Gendou and more recently Zakuku were. Walking out of the portal, Sleif instantly made his way towards a rather large arm chair, at which he took for himself.

"Well Zakuku!" said Sleif, as he looked at him from the large chair. "It seems you were looking for me!" he said, as the same small snake noise crept onto his shoulder, hissing a little in Zakuku's direction. "What is it, you would like to ask me?" Sleif said to Zakuku.