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[ Her form blurs for a moment, and the figure tilts his head watching as she solidifies once more, earning a frown from him. ]

You know it's rude to invade someone's heart.

[ He sets his hand on the tree and it lights up at his touch throwing light around them. ]

You don't belong here. I suggest you leave.

Edited 2016-09-19 03:13 (UTC)

[ She's an intruder, she shouldn't be here. She gets that feeling, and his words are like a sword being drawn against her. A threat.

And... she feels as if she's playing with fire, delving into this sort of memory-space. ] Wait. [ She protests, but only this time. ] My name is Sanae. Who are you? I'm only trying to figure out what curse he may be under--

Sanea? [ He looks her over looking none too impressed. ] You look like a little girl who'd break at the slightest touch.

[ He smiles, pleased by that question. ]

I'm his heart.

[ He's about to add something else when her question has his smile falling. ]

It's not a curse.

[ She blinks when he comments on her appearance. A little girl? Yes, she knows she appears (and acts) young, but something else about this man bothers her. His stance-- that ego, that insult, the cocky smile-- it does remind her of how a few youkai have regarded her.

It should put her on guard, but it doesn't. She doesn't have time for his games, she only wants to help Zero. So she gets right to the point: ] ...Then what is it?

It's the way things are.

[ He lets go of the tree and it stops glowing throwing them back in darkness, say for the moonlight streaming down. The figure smiles at her, and slips behind the tree disappearing from view before stepping out the other side. ]

You can't help.

[ He lifts his gaze, looking back up at her, and suddenly he's raising a gun - the same gun! - and pointing it at her. ]

I don't like sharing.

[ Her eyes widen as she looks at the barrel of the gun, surprised to see a weapon in this sort of place. She doesn't know if it would hurt her, but then again nothing like this has happened before when she's tried to read a fortune. ] I can help. [ She says, rather determinedly to boot. She's rather stubborn, and she doesn't take retreat lightly. Although make no mistake, as one of her hands still at her side forms a small fist, her knuckles are turning white. The uncertainty of this situation is unnerving as his cold smile. ]

And I will help. [ This part of him is something like a defense mechanism, she guesses. ] You want to protect Zero. [ She sympathizes. ] I do too. Please-- don't be afraid of letting others into your heart...

Silly.

[ He shoots her. ]

That's my line.

[ The shot rings out in the silence of the night and once it hits its target she's transported to a dark room. There's an unmade bed, a lamp, dresser and no pictures. No single marker to identify the occupant of the room except for the heaving sounds coming from the bathroom. The door is slightly ajar and a pale light streams out given enough light to chase away a portion of the darkness.

If he approaches the bathroom, the room gets noticeably cold with every step and once the door is pushed open a glass falls on the ground breaking at the unclad feet of the figure inside. Zero grasps the edge of the sink with bloody fingers slowly cracking the porcelain beneath as he struggles for breath. ]

[ She braces for the shot, ready to move, but then the scene changes. She takes note of the seemingly minimalist bedroom, but the lack of pictures and decor only makes it more suspicious. But she only scans the walls and furniture a little longer, as the pale light of the bathroom and struggling sounds within call her attention.

She stands-- not having realized she'd collapsed from the false shot-- and cautiously makes her way towards the door. ] Zero-- [ She says, although she knows that her voice may not reach him. Still, her tone is far beyond concerned, and the real Zero may notice that her brows are knitting together with worry where she stands in front of him.

Sanae moves closer, watching and waiting for what may occur next. ]

[ Back in the real world, Zero watches her eyebrows knit and he begins to grow worried. Should he break contact? ]

Is everything okay?

Edited 2016-09-19 04:58 (UTC)

[ Inside the memory, Zero is too caught up in his own struggles to hear her calling out for him. His stomach convulses and he violently heaves out a white pill. It lands in the water and disappears in a sea of red while his fingers slowly slip from the sink. He drops to his knees crushing the pills that lay scattered all around him.

The scene lasts but a moment before the windows start to shake and a cold wind breaks through rushing inside to surround the intruder. The commotion has Zero looking up exposing a bloody tattoo covered in scratches as the familiar figure from before appears and closes the door shut. With a neutral look, he flicks one of the pills at her before she's suddenly thrown out of his mind in a violent push. ]

[ One moment she's watching this Zero struggle with strange medication, the next she's gasping as she sees the blood dripping down the scratches at his tattoo. She's about to speak his name, but then he's noticed her, the windows are shaking, the wind is rushing, and then he flicks one of those pills at her and--

---And she's out of those memories, almost stumbling back from where she stands. ] ...Zero. [ She whispers, her voice scarce as she sees the real one in front of her, noting the concern in his eyes. Her own are misting, what with the big heart that she has and the scenes she's just seen. Her mind is still trying to make sense of everything, and a bead of cool sweat drips down the side of her face from the experience.

First the other, long-haired Zero. The "defense mechanism" as she now dubs him. Then the room when he was younger, the scratching at his tattoo on his neck, the pills on the ground. From what she's glimpsed of the marking on his neck, it seems like some sort of sigil or seal. Definitely not natural. But what it is and why it may be on his neck, she doesn't know. And the pills are a mystery as well, strange tables that turned the water red.

Blood red. ] ...Allow me to see your neck. [ She then says, taking her hand away from his. ] Please.

[ He's about to break contact when she stumbles back, which has alarms ringing in his head and he quickly moves to steady her. ]

What happened? Are you okay? Do you need to sit down?

[ He's about to her pick her up and set her down when her words draw a confused look on his face. His neck? What about it? He's more concerned with her current state, but he can also tell that she won't back down without an answer, so he compromises instead. ]

Sit down first. Then, you can take a look.

Edited 2016-09-19 06:06 (UTC)

Alright... [ She concedes. Sanae tucks her skirt underneath her, sitting down upon the ground next to her bag.

She brings her hand up to wipe underneath the corner of her eyes, and then looks back up at him. ] ...I have more clues, but I need to confirm them first.

[ He crouches down in front of her, and sets one knee on the ground. He's still worried about her but she seems okay... so far. ]

What do you need me to do?

I just want to confirm a few things.

[ She begins after a breath. The best thing she can do for him is to remain calm. ] ...Like if you have a tattoo on your neck. [ She can't exactly bring up his other self within that mind palace of his, or the memories she's seen. That could possibly trigger him to be blighted, or worse-- to be turned into an ayakashi. ]

[ His brows furrow, but he nods nonetheless. ]

I do. [ And to accommodate her earlier request, he tugs down the tie and pulls aside the collar of his shirt to show her. The skin is pristine, no scratch or scar just the Hunter tattoo. ]

I've never seen a tattoo before like that in my life. [ Interwoven thorns with blades. ] It almost looks like a flower of some kind... [ She has half a mind to reach up to touch it, but thankfully she stops herself before then, withdrawing her hand to her chest. ] I'd wager that it's a seal.

[ It wouldn't have been just a tattoo if he didn't claw at it before. Clearly, the seal remained even though the skin was damaged. What else, what else...? Her brow furrows as she thinks back to the memories she's seen. A tattoo on his neck. Pills that turn the water red. A cruel alter personality that shoots without question. ] Zero, do you, um, ...take medication for anything?

A seal?

[ People his age got tattoo's all the time, so he thought... ]

What kind of seal?

[ His eyes furrow at the unexpected question. ]

I don't know.

[ And then he thinks back, only then remembering the initial inventory check he'd done when he'd arrived. ]

Maybe.

I'm not quite sure what kind of seal, since it's not one I've seen before. [ Well, clearly its not of her world. So she wouldn't have studied it. A pause, and then a head tilt. ] ...Just a "maybe"?

[ His lips press together as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small silver case. ]

When I arrived. [ He slides the top of it open with his thumb and shows her the pills inside. ] I had these with me. I don't know what they're for.

[ She leans over, looking into its contents. They look like ordinary pills. ] I suppose you haven't taken any of them, have you?

[ She doesn't know if they're dangerous or not, or perhaps they're only for him. ] Hm... [ She's going to reach in the bottle and pluck one out, and then in out of her bag she takes out a small cup. With her power, she pours clear water into the cup, and then places the pill inside it.

Just like it was in the memory, it turns the water red. She brings it up, sniffing it, and then makes a face. ] It smells like... blood. [ She looks back at Zero. ] But I doubt this is some sort of strange medicine for anemia...

[ He shakes his head. If he was dead, why would he need medicine? Besides, he didn't know what it had been for and until this moment had forgotten all about them. ]

...........

[ The pill drops into the water turning it red like wine, and it sloshes around with the same consistency. It doesn't smell like anything just a regular drink but Zero immediately knocks it out of her hand and it splashes on the ground as the startled Hunter looks on surprised by his own reaction. ]

.....................

I'm-- I don't--

[ He takes a step back at his senses clash with each other. The scent had been appetizing yet the moment it reached his senses he felt a sharp aversion to it, but he didn't know why! ]

[ She notices his aversion, and her gaze once again becomes concerned when he knocks the glass out of her hand. ] ....It's okay, it's okay. Just-- [ She's starting to put pieces together, the report of his eyes changing, the blood-red color of the pills in water, his hunger. Staring to.

There's just a little bit more information she needs, but she feels she's close to figuring this out. ] Just... please, tell me what you're feeling right now. What sensations does that liquid evoke? [ She's determined to help him through this. ]

I-- [ He shakes his head. This... it wasn't right. He didn't want to drink it. He didn't know why but-- He pulls out one of the pills and stares at it in his hand. ]

I don't like it... like that. [ Like them. The vampires who drank it to ease their bloodlust. ]

It feels wrong.

[ He only ever swallowed them whole, his own little rebellion. He didn't know he was a vampire and the pills would do little to reveal it to him when they were only a means to ease the hunger and right now, Zero wasn't hungry. He'd forced himself to calm down before posing his question. ]

I don't think I'm supposed to take it that way.

[ A gut feeling, nothing more. ]

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