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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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."

"Alright then!" Yotsuba replied as Diarmuid carefully scooped her up. Thankfully, he didn't touch her burned leg, so she didn't cry out in pain, and she smiled a little when Diarmuid brushed some hair out of her face.

This really did remind her of Daddy. Even though he wasn't here..

"I remember! I'll be fine! Run like the wind!"

..Another odd phrase she had heard from her Grandmother. But, if moving fast meant that the pain would stop soon, then Yotsuba didn't mind. Even though she wasn't used to those speeds.

He smiles at little at her excitement even in her injured state. It reminds him of his boys actually, and how they would still want to go on training even after being injured, "All right, then I will! Please hold on tight."

Diarmuid takes a moment more to make sure he's happy with how she's nestled in his arms and then takes off in a flash for the infirmary floor, though he is well aware that no matter how fast he goes, it's not going to seem fast enough. Every moment she is in pain is a moment too long.

Such was how Yotsuba was: she always wanted to keep going until she just crashed. She smiled and nodded at his words.

"Yotsuba will!"

Yotsuba quickly took ahold of Diarmuid's shirt before he raced off to the infirmary. While she had never been on a roller coaster before, if she knew what those were, she would start calling Diarmuid a human one. This was fun! The speed made Yotsuba forget for the moment how badly she was injured.

As he carries her down to the infirmary, Diarmuid can't help but keep looking over at her to make sure she is okay. Each time he looks, though, he notices she's smiling and soon he is smiling himself. Children at this age. Sometimes, he thinks they could probably take over the world all by themselves if they didn't need to take naps so often.

Once they arrive at the infirmary, he sets her carefully on a table so that he can gather a few supplies. Honestly, he has no idea how to treat the spikes and a lot of these modern medicines look unfamiliar to him. In the end, he has to rely on what little information the Grail has for him on the topic and hope it will be enough.

And if they actually knew how to use weapons or had any interest in taking over the world. Thankfully, Yotsuba's interests were simpler. Not that she didn't need to take naps sometimes though.

When he set her down on the table, Yotsuba breathed in, sucking in her stomach for a moment. After all, her leg still hurt, and even light touches stung. But..that was all her back needed to suck in the blood-spikes.

"Oh..they're gone!"

Diarmuid starts when she cries out almost dropping a couple of the things he is carrying. "What is gone..." his voice trails off as he comes back to the table and finds that the spikes are gone. Just like that.

It actually almost makes him shiver. Even though he is an experienced warrior, the spikes are disturbing to him. Especially since they had looked like they were made out of her blood however improbable that seems. It's like something horrible out of the stories his father used to tell him when he really wanted to be scared.

As creepy as it is, though, he can't help but be relieved. Now what he has to worry about the most are the burns and at least those he has a little idea how to deal with.

"How do you feel after that?" He asks as he starts sorting through the things he's gathered. "Does anything but the burn hurt or do you feel dizzy or anything?"

Thankfully, Yotsuba, not having much experience with the real world, was not as creeped out by the whole thing. She was mainly just..puzzled. After all, those spikes weren't normal.

At Diarmuid's questions, Yotsuba thought a moment before responding.

"..Yotsuba doesn't feel dizzy..and only my leg hurts."

She was tired though. Not that she'd admit that.

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