Heaven's BBS | Video

[moonlitknight]

Posted: May 21st
From: Kiryuu Zero
Location: Temple of Hades

[ The video turns on showing Zero in a dark room inside his temple. A quiet look falls across his eyes as he faces the camera. He's not one to speak to people let alone about himself but after his encounter with Sheryl, he has no choice. He knows what happened even if he can't remember it. He lost control. ]

My name is Zero Kiryuu and I was here before as a shinki.

[ A pause as he squares his shoulders to face his crimes.  ]

I need to know if I killed someone.

They took my memories when I was brought back as a god but that doesn't erase my crimes. I need to know what happened. What I did.

I won't let this go.


[ OOC: He doesn't know he died, he simply assumes his loss of memories is due to the whole turning a shinki into a god deal. Some kind soul, please spring that up on him. Also, for any future in-action meet ups Zero will mysteriously have some pomegranate fruit/seeds on him at all times. If you eat them you'll be sentenced (only if you want!) to stay one night at his temple before the seeds effects let them escape! ]

Comments

[candyconsumption]

[ He's got his mad reflexes, and he catching four o the pomegranate seeds. He looks at hem in his hands, curiously. ]

...Pomegranate seeds...?

[moonlitknight]

[ And Zero is quick to try and grab them. ]

It's nothing.

[candyconsumption]

[ He closes his fist, pulling them away. ]

Why are you carrying these, Zero-san?

...Don't tell me you're going to lie to me, after making your promise.

[moonlitknight]

[ His eyes stay on his closed fist. ]

They're from the Temple.

[candyconsumption]

...Tell me what they do.

[moonlitknight]

[ ..... ]

They sate my bloodlust.

For a while.

[candyconsumption]

Is that all?

I doubt you would be so desperate to take them if that was it. [ His red sharingan are eyeing him, waiting for an answer. ]

[moonlitknight]

[ His stance firms, and he extends a hand out, palm up. ]

They're not for human consumption.

[candyconsumption]

[ He looks at Zero's outstretched hand. ]

Are you telling me the truth? [ A beat. ] All of it?

Omitting information is lying in and of itself. You're not sneaky.

[moonlitknight]

[ He keeps his hand out. ]

Hand them over, Itachi.

[candyconsumption]

...[ His shoulders relax. He feels worked up. He still doesn't like the feeling he's getting. But even so... ]

I'll hand them over if you say you're not lying to me, Zero-san.

[moonlitknight]

Don't make me break my promise.

[ To protect him. ]

Nothing good comes out of the Underworld.

[ So, hand them over.]

1/2

[candyconsumption]

[ He opens his palm to look at the pomegranate seeds. They are rich and vibrant in color. They look delicious, at any rate. It's easy to see the tempted look in his eyes, and for a moment, he lifts his hand towards his mouth... ]

2/2

[candyconsumption]

[ But this seems important. So instead, he pulls them away, breaking the control they seemed to have over him. He gently cups his hand, letting them fall into Zero's awaiting one. ]

...Here.

I wouldn't want to make you more upset.

[moonlitknight]

[ As each touches his hand a dark smoke burst from each of them replacing the seeds with a full-fledged pomegranates that fall from his hand. ]

[candyconsumption]

[ Okay, now this is just strange. He catches two--one in each hand. The other two fall to the ground, rolling across the grass. He looks up at Zero with a look of surprise on his face... which settles, into contemplation. He looks down at the red fruit in his hands. ]

... [ He looks up at Zero. ]

It seems your little seeds have blossomed. And you say nothing good comes from the Underworld.

You just showed me magic, Zero-san. Will I be able to see you whisk me away if I gave your hand a kiss? [ Now he's just being a cheeky little shit, but, really. What is going on? He had handed the seeds over, like he was supposed to... only to be rewarded with... more fruit? ]

[ ...They did look delicious, though... ]

[moonlitknight]

[ The clear distaste in his eyes is impossible to miss. ]

It's not magic. It's the Temple's way of messing with me.

[ Instead of providing him with the bloodtablets he needed the Temple sated his bloodlust with these things that had a mind of their own. Sometimes they stayed in his case like they should and sometimes by some misguided miracle they made their way off his person determine to spread their seeds outside the temple but for what he had no idea.

He moves forward to pick up the two that had fallen. Red stains his hand as he picks them up and concentrates on it until black smoke once more engulfs the fruit before being swept away by the wind leaving two pomegranate seeds behind. He takes the seeds, tips his head back and swallows them. It disappears into his mouth sating his bloodlust the same way the blood tablets curbed it, except it wasn't bloodtablets his Temple provided him with but pomegranates. ]

[candyconsumption]

[ It was interesting. He didn't understand it either, but he looked down at the fruit in his hands. he pulled them close. ]

...I'll keep them, this time. [ The reminder that they were not for human consumption rang in his head, but... perhaps they held their own purpose for humans, since they were so willingly provided to him. ]

[moonlitknight]

[ The seeds eased the tension in his shoulders, calming the hunger embedded deep inside. They gave him back the freedom to think clearly but they also made him easily susceptible to his emotions; vulnerable. ]

........

[ His flick to the smaller man. ]

They're not yours to keep.

[candyconsumption]

Is that so?

It seems as though your temple would like me to have them.

So I'll be taking them. End of discussion.

[moonlitknight]

This isn't a discussion.

[candyconsumption]

Then we're done here.

[moonlitknight]

[ You little--

He doesn't dignify that with a response and instead moves to grab the fruit. ]

[candyconsumption]

[ The motion has him moving. Using his chakra he makes a spin around the tree, back now against the other side of it. ]

Nice try, Hades.

[moonlitknight]

[ He watches shim flit upwards but doesn't pursue. ]

This isn't a game.