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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There would be red holes and stains in the back of Yotsuba's shirt, but there wouldn't be any wounds.

Not that Yotsuba knew about any of that. At that, Yotsuba smiled and nodded. Daddy hadn't been a doctor either, but he had bandaged up he wounds when she was hurt.

"Okay! But..what's brave?"

Either Yotsuba actually didn't know or she had forgotten. Either way, the question had been asked.

"Brave is what you call a person who is able to stay strong even when they are scared or hurt. Just like you are doing now," Diarmuid explains as he continues to clean her foot. While it strikes him as a little odd that a girl her age doesn't know that word, he also realizes that he knows very little about her and the world she came from.

This just might be the perfect time to fix that.

"While I am working will you tell me about yourself? What was your home like? Have you been here in the tower a long time?" He knows whatever answers he gets from her will be mostly child-speak, but that is a lot better than nothing.

And fortunately, after having 5 of his own children, he's gotten pretty good at deciphering child-speak.

"Oh..okay! Yotsuba will keep being brave then!" Sadly, since Yotsuba was a fan of animal books and hadn't watched much television yet, she didn't know too much about heroes or of tales of bravery. But..being brave sounded like a good thing, so she would try to be it.

At Diarmuid's questions, Yotsuba thought as she tried to respond.

"Yotsuba lived in a house with Daddy before the bad people kidnapped her! And before that, I lived to the left!"

That last part was impossible to decipher, even for people who had met children before. She meant an island to the left..but there was no one anyone would reach that conclusion normally.

Diarmuid nods, sorting out her answers as she speaks into useful information, things to ask more about, and things to just discard. The sorting is done pretty automatically leaving him able to focus most of his attention on starting to put some ointment on her burns.

"It sounds like you loved your Daddy very much. It is a shame the bad men took you away from him and brought you here," She hadn't said outright that the bad men she mentioned had been the administrators which is why Diarmuid is double checking that information just in case she had been kidnapped or something before she had been brought here.

"And what is it like, living on the left?"

Yotsuba winced at the ointment when Diarmuid started applying it to her burns, but since she was trying to be brave, she forced herself to not cry. However, the conversation was helping by distracting her from the pain.

"I do love Daddy! And is is bad that the bad people kidnapped me..but Daddy will come chasing after then and get them soon!"

Sadly, Yotsuba was oblivious to the truth here: that her Daddy was dead and that no one from her own universe was coming to save her. At Diarmuid's last question, she smiled.

"It was great! It was really wet..and there were dolphins!"

Diarmuid nods, hiding the sudden sadness in his eyes by moving to grab the bandages he has left nearby. She is far too young to understand the truth of things now, but once she is older, how will she react? How will growing up in a place like this change her from what she should be?

"Your home sounds like a beautiful place. What was your favorite thing to do when you had extra time? Did you like to swim or maybe fish?" Her talk of water and dolphins makes him realize she must have either lived near the sea or on an island, and it sounds like she enjoyed it a lot.

What might surprise Diarmuid is that she would probably take it rather well. She would be sad..but she would probably go on. After all, she had been an orphan once before, before her 'Daddy' had found her.

However, at Diarmuid's questions, Yotsuba happily spoke as he reached for the bandages.

"Yotsuba swam a lot! But that's not Yotsuba's home anymore. Yotsuba moved to a big house on the right."

Far, far right. However, children were often more perceptible than adults sometimes gave them credit for, and as Yotsuba leaned to try and look at Diarmuid's face, she caught the sad look on his face.

"What's wrong? Does your tummy ache?"

If only it was just that..

Surprise crosses Diarmuid's face when she asks him about how he's feeling. He had hoped his worry would go unnoticed. He should have known better.

He reaches out and gently taps her chin, "I'm just worried about you is all. This place is so dangerous and then there are those spikes. I'm glad they went away, but what is to keep them from coming back? I wish I knew more about them."

It's not exactly a lie, but not the full truth either. Diarmuid really hates how much he seems to be doing that lately--lying but not lying. It's just wrong.

Yotsuba wasn't quite used to being tapped on the chin, but it wasn't bad, so she didn't grimace or flinch at it. She smiled and thought as she spoke.

"Yotsuba would like to know more about them too..but as long as the green-haired boy doesn't come back, I should be fine!"

Yotsuba, remembering that she had pulled in her muscles when she was set down, tried to push them out again..and the spikes reappeared.

"Oh! Yotsuba has it now!"

Diarmuid can't hold back the shiver when she pops the spikes back out. While he should be glad that she seems to be figuring things out, he can't help but wish she wasn't.

He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath trying to calm himself since he needs to be strong for her. He's the adult after all.

"What do you think you've figured out, little one? What are you doing to bring them out like that?"

Oddly enough, Yotsuba wasn't that scared or sickened by the spikes in her back. She was just curious about them and how to pull them back in. Having figured out half of what she wanted was a good step, so she spoke happily.

"Yotsuba has figured out how to push them in and out! It's like..pulling a bar of ice cream from it's wrapper and putting it back in!"

As further demonstration, Yotsuba pulled them back in.

"I don't know how I got them though.."

Despite being uneasy watching her mess with the spikes, as she speaks and works with them he does realize how they work. It's a kind of reflex, and it seems to work almost like a muscle would. It's natural and unnatural all at the same time. That doesn't make him feel any better about it than before. In fact, somehow that just makes things worse.

"And doing that doesn't hurt?" Diarmuid asks as he finishes bandaging her foot. It's nothing fancy, but it will heal and hopefully not hurt terribly as it does.

It would still sting, but Yotsuba would still be able to walk on it, even if her shoe was a bit burned now. But, as long as she could walk fine and get better in a few days, that was fine. Yotsuba shook her head at the question.

"Nope!"

..Of course, she felt more tired, since she had it out for so long, but there was no way she was going to say anything about that.

He smiles at her, glad that they aren't hurting her at least. If she will be stuck with them for a while, at least they aren't damaging her any.

Diarmuid reaches out and ruffles her hair. She's not the only one catching onto hidden emotion, "You look tired. Shall I carry you back to your room so you can rest?"

He's going to have to make sure he keeps an eye on her, though, to make sure that boy doesn't come after her again.

Yotsuba laughed a little as Diarmuid ruffled her hair, but at the mention of a nap, she..pouted a little bit.

"I'm not sleepy! I can keep going."

..Remember how you would have to deal with your own sleepy children, Diarmuid?

Yep, that is pretty much the exact reaction he had been expecting. No child at that age is ever really tired. Not that they will admit to anyway.

A disappointed look crosses his face, "Ah, really? That's too bad. I was looking forward to singing a song to you or maybe even telling you a story while you settled in. You were so very brave after all, but if you aren't tired I guess I just will have to do it some other time."

A shocked and suprised look came over Yotsuba, and she tried to respond while still keeping up the fact that she wasn't tired. Even though..that was a lie.

"Yotsuba would like to hear a story or a song..I could try to get some rest."

Diarmuid smiles at her gently. There is a slight twinkle of victory in his eyes before it fades, replaced by a more serious look, "I don't know. If you aren't tired I would hate to bore you. Are you sure you want to hear something?"

He pauses to gather her back up into his arms, "What do you say, little one? Song or story and sleep or going back out to explore? If you go and sleep, I can stay with you for a while to make sure the man doesn't come to hurt you again."

Yotsuba let Diarmuid gather her back into his arms before replying. Really, every time he did this, she thought of her Daddy.

Normally, she would choose to explore some more, but the promise of a song or a story was tempting, and the offer of protection against the bad man helped sealed the deal.

"Yotsuba would like to hear a song and sleep! And I don't want to meet the bad man again!"

The twinkle returns to Diarmuid's eyes. It's nice to know he still knows how to handle children.

"All right, but first a ride, yes? A zippy trip back to your room once you tell me where it is?" He shifts her up into his arms so he can look into her eyes, "And if you think you are strong enough, you can ride on my shoulders on the way there. How is that for an adventure?"

If he goes a little slower than before and holds on to her, she will be in no danger and will probably love the trip even more.

And Yotsuba grinned at that, her eyes widening. That sounded like a lot of fun. So, looking Diarmuid in the eyes, she chirped.

"Yotsuba lives on the second floor! And that sounds like a great ad..adventure! I'm strong enough!"

"All right, then off on an adventure to the second floor we go!" Diarmuid lifts her up so that she can sit on his shoulders. "Hold on tight now! Don't worry. You won't hurt me."

He gets a strong, though gentle grip on her legs to make sure she won't fall, and once he is sure she is all secure, he takes off for the second floor, though he's not going nearly as fast as he did before.

Why, with the grin on his face, one might even think he's taking his time to make sure it lasts.

As Diarmuid put her on his shoulders, Yotsuba gripped the back of his shirt so that she wouldn't fall off.

"Yotsuba is tall now!"

After she said that, the other arm would get used to punch the air upwards.

"Off we go!~ Onwards on an adventure!~"

As Diarmuid ran, Yotsuba looked around, taking in the sights and the sheer speed, not noticing that Diarmuid was going slower. This was still great to her.

Her comment about being tall actually makes Diarmuid laugh. He's had so few moments in this place when he can say he has actually been happy, but this is definitely one of them. Doing this reminds him of all the times he'd spent giving such rides to his own children. It might be a very simple thing, but that thing had never failed to help him forget the stresses of the world for a while.

He's sad when they inevitably reach the floor with her room on it and drops to a walk so that he can search the nameplates by the doors for her name. Diarmuid could just ask her for the room number, but looking for it like this stretches out things even if just a little bit.

Yotsuba noticed the reduced speed, but she was even enjoying that. After all, she was still so tall..and her leg was feeling a bit better.

As Diarmuid walked around and looked on the nameplates of the dorms, she would eventually pick out her name on a plate outside of room 2-07.

"That's my name!"

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Diarmuid..why are you so cute?

LOL! The sad part is...I actually have a real explanation for that. X.x

Oh? Mind telling me?

Sure, I'll Plurk it to you. :-)

Ah, thank you! ^^