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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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."

Yotsuba nodded. Whoever that boy was, he was now an enemy, a bad person.

"Yes! He did!"

..That's not quite true, but, sadly, Yotsuba didn't know that.

"..It burned, and since there wasn't any water, I had to try and find it!"

"Well look now. Sorry it's not faster, but it's healing up!"

Slowly but surely, the burns were reverting back to normal, undamaged skin.

At that, Yotsuba managed to smile a little. She felt exhausted..but at least this kind lady was willing to help.

"That's okay! Thank you!"

"You said your name is Yotsuba, right? Mine is Inoue Orihime. So call me Orihime, okay Yotsuba-chan?"

And that smile grew as Yotsuba nodded.

"Okay! It's nice to meet you, Orihime!"

Well, at least the manners her father had taught her were sticking.

When Diarmuid hears his name screamed, he is several floors away and the sound is faint. Even though he can move very quickly, it still takes him what seems like forever to arrive where Yotsuba is. When he sees that she is hurt, he curses under his breath, before crouching in front of her and laying a gentle hand on her head.

"Little one, what happened? Who hurt you?" He wants to pick her up and hold her close so nothing else can harm her, but he is afraid of hurting her himself. What kind of wounds are these? The burns he recognizes, but he has never seen anything like the spikes before.

Yotsuba tried to stop crying as Diarmuid arrived and put a hand on her head. To be honest, Diarmuid reminded her of her father, or even Jumbo. She trusted him completly. So..since her Daddy didn't like seeing her cry, she assumed that it would be the same with Diarmuid.

"I was trying to find out about these spikes..and a boy with green hair came up to me. He threatened to kill Yotsuba, and he called me a chicken! And he said these spikes were...Bran..Brambles of Sin.."

Immediately, he raises his head to look around and make sure no one matching her description of the boy is around. When Diarmuid is satisfied there isn't, he turns his attention back to the injured girl.

"Brambles of Sin?" The phrase is completely foreign to Diarmuid. All he knows is that they look very painful, "So that what he called those spikes? I'm going to guess this isn't something you've always had then..."

This month's experiment, perhaps?

Yotsuba tried her best to shake her head. Her leg, while not on fire, was still burned and it was still in a lot of pain.

"No, Yotsuba hasn't! I don't know how I got them though.."

"I wish I could tell you how you got them, but I have seen nothing like this before. My best guess is another of the administrators' experiments, but that seems odd considering there is another tower resident who does seem to know about them," He gently pats her head. "I am going to pick you up now. I will try not to bump anything that is injured, but let me know if I do on accident. We need to get you to the infirmary. I don't have any kind of healing magic, unfortunately."

Yotsuba looked a little puzzled for a minute there.

"Admin..admins?"

However, when Diarmuid patted her head, she quickly moved onwards in the subject matter.

"Okay..and water might be best, since Yotsuba got burned.."

When he sees her confusion, Diarmuid shakes his head, "Don't worry about it, little one. I was thinking out loud."

He shifts, then, reaching out to carefully gather her into his arms taking special care not to bump her injured legs or touch any of the spikes. Once he has her securely settled, he gently brushes some hair out of her face, "I am sure the infirmary will have whatever we need, including water.

"Now, do you remember how fast I was when I saved you before? Do you think you can handle that again being hurt like this? I can go slower if necessary. However, if you can handle it, I would like to go that fast so that we can get something on those burns as soon as possible."

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