towerofanimus | The new Deadman..

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The new Deadman..

Characters: Yotsuba Koiwai and you!~
Setting: Around the Tower's steps.
Format: Starting in prose, but I'll match you.
Summary: After unknowingly eating some contaminated food on the eleventh, Yotsuba gains some strange powers, and is rather..curious about them, so she starts to search for answers.
Warnings: Yotuba will get killed by Wretched Egg, so look out for that. And Yotsuba can control her blood, so..people who don't like that should probably avoid this post.

Yotsuba dimly remembered that dinner on the eleventh had tasted odd, but since it wasn't yucky, not many people payed to much attention to it, chalking it up to the Administrators again, and since it wasn't bitter, no one thought it was poisoned. She didn't give it much thought either, since she wasn't harmed. After all, she was a little girl with much more to do and much more to keep her occupied.

However, when Yotsuba woke up on the thirteenth, she noticed that she wasn't feeling..right. Not bad, just not right. Trying to think of what wasn't right, she got hopped out of bed and started to walk through the dorm floors. When she heard a loud noise from below-probably someone fighting or a newcomer-she jumped, surprised..and cried a little in pain. Turning her head around, she saw small spikes of her own blood coming out of her back.

This..wasn't normal, and curious, Yotsuba started to walk up the Tower steps, calling out the people she knew so that she might be able to find some answers. Since she didn't know how they came out, she didn't pull them back in. They just stayed like that while she climbed and called.

"Dia..Diamud! Edgeworth?! Arada! Hibiki?! Yu..Yukki?!"

Feel free to bother her or help her out.

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Hagire had managed to heal himself up as best he could after his fight against the Wretched Egg. Under normal circumstances, the dreams he had in and out of consciousness following that fight would be considered nightmares to almost anyone else. But to him?

They were dreams he didn't want to wake up from.

He had performed at least four surgeries on himself following that fight. He had done so several times before, several times a week; replacing stitches, tightening stitches, sterilizing wounds, sometimes even sewing entirely new body parts on. He was going to ask Jason to make good on his promise for fresh limbs, but instead... he didn't. He had found a sliver of a Nameless Worm on his skin from when Wretched Egg (nearly) finished him off, and new it was only a matter of time before more showed up. A whole new Wonderland. It was more than he could ask for.

He was in no condition for another fight, but the moment he was strong enough to stand and walk on his own (albeit awkwardly), he left his room to dispose of his bloodied bandages and throw out his old stitches.

It was then that he heard the voice. And upon discovering it's source-- "Yosug--" no. No, it wasn't her. A much, much younger version of her, but the brief surprise quickly faded. He did, however, notice... oh. Oh.

It was already starting.

"Ahah, hi there, little one! ✩" Hagire greeted, clapping his hands... and then wincing in pain. He may have one hell of a pain tolerance (you kind of have to be able to tolerate performing surgery on yourself), but Wretched Egg did a number on him. He still wasn't all the way healed, but thankfully, most of the wounds were now cleaned and covered up by his clothing, sterile gauze, and applications of Karako's Branch of Sin to stop any excess bleeding that can be undone in an emergency.

He bent over to take a closer look at her. Green eyes... spitting image of Yosuga. "Neat trick on your back. How did you do that? ✩" His index finger pokes her forehead. He's suddenly remembering the last person as young as her who was unfortunate enough to cross him.

Well... that doesn't need to happen this time, does it?

Yotsuba was used to being held or having her head patted. She wasn't quite used to having her forehead poked, so she backed up two steps, watching the new person warily. The spikes on her back still didn't lower, since she didn't know how to pull them back in, but she was feeling a little tired and would have to pull them back in soon.

"Yotsuba doesn't know! Do you know? And are you a bad person?"

Ahh, typical little one. He stands back up straight, frowning, and brought his scar-covered hand to his chin. "Ahh, well, that depends on who you ask. Everyone's bad to someone, right? ✩"

Her spikes have been out this entire time. It's possible she doesn't know how to control it yet; very few people did upon first discovering their Branch of Sin. Wretched Egg didn't either, and, well... a lot of people died. Poisoned beak indeed.

"You know, you're not the only one whose blood can do things like that. If you ask nicely, I'll show you how to make those spikes go away. ✩"

While Yotsuba was curious about her blood, the fact that this person might be bad was even more concerning. To an adult who understood things about blood, they would be worried, but since Yotsuba didn't quite get it, she wasn't even concerned about passing out. She just..had these odd spikes in her back and wanted to know more about them.

But not from a bad person. Daddy had told her to avoid them, even if he wasn't here now.

"So you are a bad person?!" Yotsuba will be carefully backing away from you, Hagire, getting even more suspicious.

"Not everyone can like you," Hagire replies with a shrug. Poor thing was scared out of her wits. In a brief moment, he was reminded of Shiro, before the awakening of the Wretched Egg. "So not everyone will think you're good. See how that works? ✩"

He's trying to confuse her on purpose, even if what he says is 100% true. "Do you want my help or not?"

Yotsuba took a few steps back, shaking her head.

"No..I don't see. And if you're a bad person, then Yotsuba doesn't want your help!"

She was going to run away if Hagire kept up this act. Really, all he needed to do was say yes. Yotsuba was a trusting little maroon sometimes.

"Now, now, no need to make this difficult," he begins closing the distance. "Because you'll only end up dying if you don't realize how that works. It's called a 'Branch of Sin.' Would I be that bad of a guy if all I wanted to do was help you stay alive? ✩"

If she kept backing up, she'd eventually hit the wall. And that might be a bit painful for her, if she hasn't even figured out how to pull her blood back into her body yet. "Come on... unless you think the Wretched Egg or Hummingbird would be more willing. ✩"

Spoiler alert: They almost certainly wouldn't. Unless Hummingbird is serious about the moe act.

Yeah..that only makes her want to walk away from Hagire even more. However, Yotsuba wasn't stupid, so she kept walking down the middle of the hallway. She wasn't about to bump into the wall. She kept eying Hagire suspiciously as she spoke.

"Are you threatening Yotsuba? And..what's a Branch of Sin? And why is the egg bad? And Yotsuba hasn't seen any hummingbirds here.."

"Ahah, threatening you? Not at all. I thought I was doing the opposite." He shrugs at her next question. "She likes fighting in general, especially other Deadmen. Which is what you are, now. It means you have a Branch of Sin, like me."

He forms a small blade in his hand, his palm facing upwards. "See? This is my love. I can share it with you, you know... ✩ All you have to do is let me."

Normally, Yotsuba would have said that she wasn't dead, or asked more questions about the girl-who was an egg too?-or the spikes that were coming out of her back.

But when the boy made a small blade-how did he do that?-and said that he would share it with her-which Yotsuba took to mean that he would stab her if she said yes-she quickly turned around and started running down the hall. Hope you can keep up, Hagire. Yotsuba is fast.

"Edgeworth!! Diarmuid! Help! There's a bad person here!!"

It wasn't hard to figure out what she thought he meant. "H-Hey now, I wasn't going to hurt you, I was trying to show you that my blood can do the same thing!"

But if she keeps running like that... he'll have to slow her down. He needed another Branch of Sin, he needed to taste blood again, and she wasn't going to deny him. Thankfully, though, he had just the Branch of Sin for that; Minatsuki's Whip Wing. It was, after all, faster than the eye can see.

"You'll bleed to death if you don't pull them back in soon!" He calls after her. A whip of blood begins forming on the side of his head, but it still hidden by his hair, for now. If she doesn't stop...

Yotsuba, having labeled Hagire as a bad, scary man, ignored what he said and kept running, yelling for Edgeworth and Diarmuid. His correction went ignored, as well as his warning that she would die, and she didn't see the whip of blood that was forming on the side of his head.

She just kept running down the hallway, away from Hagire.

Hagire sighed. "Okay, have it your way." The whip shot out, and attempted to sweep her legs out from under her, aiming for her ankle; not an attempt to lash her like a whip normally would, but more like an Indiana Jones-esque trip. He'd begin chasing after her.

He needed that blood.

Since Yotsuba wasn't expecting that, Hagire would succeed, and Yotsuba would fall to the ground.

"Waugh!!"

Since she wasn't expecting it, and since that fall was hard, Yotsuba, who was already more than freaked out, began to cry as she sat up and stood. Usually, this would follow with an apology from the other person, but since this was a bad person, Yotsuba wasn't taking her chances. Still crying, she ran off, trying to be even faster, screaming at the top of her lungs all the while.

"Hellp meeee!~"

"You know, I tried being nice," Hagire chided. "But if you're gonna play hard to get... I'll need to show you my love in other ways."

More of his stitches split. He didn't want to kill her... she looked too much like Yosuga for that, and for some reason, just like before, he couldn't bring himself to do any serious harm to the small girl. Blood began swirling out of his wounds.

"Lo҉͞ve ̀҉L̵͞ab̧y҉̷͜ri̴n͜th͝.̢ ✩" The blood began coating the area around her, but not on her. Immediately, the blood ignited, forming a dark shade of smoldering fire. A Branch of Sin known as 'Condor Candle.' "Just one little look at that Branch of Sin of yours, and I promise I won't hurt you and I'll leave, okay? ✩"

Yotsuba was, sadly, unlucky. When the blood ignited, Yotsuba's left foot was left in the blood patch, and it quickly caught on fire.

"Kyaaah!! Edgeworth! Diarmuid! Arada! Helllpp!" Yotsuba screamed and cried even harder, ignoring Hagire's offer as she tried to roll around on the ground to put out the fire. Thank god her father taught her 'Stop, drop, and roll'. However, it wasn't easy with those spikes in her back.

Thankfully, just like he can start them on fire, he can also turn it off. The blood on her foot quickly went out, but it was certainly burned by now. She wasn't going anywhere any time soon, not with a second-degree burn on her foot. It would have been a third if it went on much longer. But by now, he was standing over her.

But... she had rolled over onto the ground. Just she was on her stomach, his foot stepped down on her back, covered in the crystallized blood of Karako's Branch of Sin. His foot would feel like it was covered in armor. "Ahah, you really should have just listened to me. But y'know what? I like you. I'm gonna let you live. ✩"

He bent over, and dragged a single finger at the base of one of her spikes. "But you were bad," he continued, collecting some of her blood on his fingertip, which he then brought up towards his lips. "Which means, you're gonna need to find someone else to teach you how to control that Branch of Sin." He then... licked his finger. Her Branch of Sin was now his. "But since Tamaki isn't here, I'll give you a parting present! Your new Deadman name is... hmm. How about... Chicken! ✩" He giggles, and claps his hands, finally removing his foot.

Yotsuba kept on crying, even when her leg wasn't on fire anymore. Those burns still stung horribly, and the fact that the bad man was holding her down didn't help. However, when he removed his foot, she managed to cry out.

"I'm not bad!! And I'm not a chicken! I'm Yotsuba!"

She still lay on the ground as she yelled, wiping at her eyes.

"Ahah, you wouldn't have a burnt foot if you wouldn't assume everyone who wants to help you is bad. ✩" He slowly begins skipping away, but looks back at her one last time as he turns towards the staircase.

"Just be careful, Chicken. If the new Carnival Corpse starts, I won't be so nice next time. After, all..." And with his back turned, spikes erupted from his own skin; nearly identical to hurts. There were already some holes in his shirt, so no unnecessary damage was done. "... l̢̛ò͢͜v̴̷è͠ ҉h̸͟u͜r͢͏ts͡.̛̕͘ ̀✩̷̨"

And with that, off he goes.

As the boy fled, Yotsuba spoke to his back as she crawled, trying to find someone that she knew who could help her.

"You didn't help Yotsuba..and I'm not a chicken.."

Hopefully someone would come around soon. Those burns weren't going to heal anytime soon.

It wasn't too long before someone DID come around. Mockingbird was already gone, at least, by the time Orihime was passing through. When she saw the little girl crawling on the floor, she gasped and dropped down next to her.

"Oh, don't move, okay? I'll help you!"

In an instant Yotsuba had Orihime's healing shield covering her burns. The healing process was already starting while Orihime tried to help the girl into a comfortable position in which to wait out the healing.

"What happened?"

Hopefully, Orihime wouldn't touch Yotsuba's spikes as she was moving her, but Yotsuba would let the woman help her move as she slowly healed.

"Thank you..and a boy with green hair..he burned Yotsuba and called me chicken!"

"Someone did this on purpose?"

Orihime had done her best to avoid the spikes, since... they were pretty weird. But she gave Yotsuba a reassuring smile.

"You can't be a chicken, since you were working so hard to get help, even though you were hurt."

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