ɤSwing Life Awayɤ (Open)

[shatan]

ɤ Zensen ɤ
ɤ I’m the voice ɤ
ɤ Inside your head ɤ
ɤ You refuse to hear ɤ

I seem to be struck by you.

Zen smiled and nodded in response to her question, “Of course; the elders don’t tolerate that kind of behavior, it’s just plain rude,” he said, laughing a bit; Hara looked at him questioningly; she had no idea he’d be able to lie. But Zen just shrugged slightly, as though he didn’t know he could either, but he supposed he could in some situations.

He looked at Kanrya in surprise when she asked if he’d want to travel with her and Yukina. He had never really intended to travel with anyone else, enjoying the freedom of having just Hara with him, but he found himself accepting the offer with, “Do you think it’d be okay with her? I’d love to, but only if she wouldn’t mind, either.”

Hara stared at him in open surprise, her mouth agape, before she pulled herself together enough to hiss, “What are you thinking? The thief and the violent one? Are you serious? Please tell me you’re not serious, Zen. Please, I need to hear that you aren’t serious. You aren’t are you? Come on, Zen, you’re joking, right?”

He silenced her by holding up a hand, before he collected his thoughts enough to reply “I think it’d be nice; they aren’t as bad as you think, you’re just sour because she hit you. Besides, we don’t really know where we’re going, it couldn’t hurt to have someone who does,” he paused, then, quietly, “I kind of like them, too.”

He blushed slightly under Hara’s hard stare, deciding against adding that he especially liked the very one that had hit her earlier; he doubted that would go over very well. Finally, after staring at him for several moments, she seemed to come to some conclusion.

“You’ve lost your mind.”

Her sudden comment shocked him into a quiet laughter, as she simply stared at him, shook her head, muttered, “Let me know when you’re sane again,” and stalked off a ways to stand guard.

He was brought back to reality when Kanrya spoke up, asking him if he traveled a lot. He heard Hara’s snort, as if it were the stupidest question in the world, but he ignored the Thylacine, saying, “Well, I’m supposed to, this is my time to learn about the outside world, but Hara and I haven’t seen much but the river until now,” he paused, then added, “What about you?” to the sound of another of Hara’s snorts. Zen merely passed it off as Hara being Hara; she’d get over her wounded pride soon enough and be back to her jolly old self in no time.

ɤ I’m Dying for Truth ɤ
ɤ I’m the face ɤ
ɤ That you have to face ɤ
ɤ Mirrored in you stare ɤ

_{Lyrics © Foo Fighters, Finger Eleven}

((Or, maybe not; it's cooperating now xDD))

[kanrya]

Kanrya watched Zen quizically and then looked at Hara. "What did Hara say Zen?" She asked and she nodded to Zensen's question and sighed in a disappointed manner. "Hai, I did travel through this country but I never really went into any of the human villages...Bad memories from my childhood...It's not really something I wish to speak about..." She watched the grass blow in the wind and smiled happily. She held her hand out and smiled gently. " Although there is one village I have found to help with my advoidance of the other villages and cities...Come Zen I'll take you to Inuyasha and Kaede's village!" She giggled happily and pranced around like a child and grinned happily. "Its a great village..."

[shatan]

ɤ Zensen ɤ
ɤ I’m the voice ɤ
ɤ Inside your head ɤ
ɤ You refuse to hear ɤ

I’ve been here so long; think that it’s time to move.

“Hara seems to think I’ve lost my mind for some reason,” Zen explained, grinning as Hara muttered quietly a selection of words in the Thylacine tongue, all in disapproval of his new found ability to mix lies in with truth; he knew full well why she thought he had lost his mind, he just didn’t want to insult his pretty little girlfriend. Zen blushed slightly at the idea, but decided not to protest; he did not care to explain what she had said this time.

When Kanrya spoke again, he remained silent, unsure of what to say; she was so touchy about the subject, and he had never been too good at comforting others; he was likely to make it worse rather than better. When she suddenly began to giggle and prance like a child, though, he felt the immediate relief; it seemed she had cheered herself up. He found himself grinning in return, getting up and waving a hand for Hara to do the same. She simply stared at him, then at the girl, and then back at him, her thoughts written quite plainly on her face: now they had both lost it, and she doubted they’d ever find it, either.

He laughed quietly, “Come on, Hara, it’ll be fun,” he said.

“Fun is not the adjective I’d associate with it,” she muttered, but got up anyways., stomping over to stand beside him.

“Alright, Kanrya, which way?” Zen asked, ignoring Hara’s sour attitude; she’d lighten up when they got to the village, he was sure. After all, the little Thylacine seemed to enjoy exploring villages; there were plenty of conversations for her to eavesdrop on.

ɤ I’m Dying for Truth ɤ
ɤ I’m the face ɤ
ɤ That you have to face ɤ
ɤ Mirrored in you stare ɤ

_{Lyrics © Foo Fighters, Rise Against}

[kanrya]

"It's a little bit after the forest of Inuyasha and it's probably a two or three day walk from the wolves den and it's a pretty simple village nothing too big..." She smiled gently and blushed as Hara stomped over to them and whispered in Zen's ear. "I think Hara needs to smile more she's about as grumpy as a beetle that flew to close to a waterfall." She giggled and took zensen's hand and blushed as she lead him to the village of Inuyasha and his friends.

Kanrya continued to blush a light red even though she was the one who intially made such a simple physical contact by simply holding Zen's hand. "Inuyasha can be a major grump but i think that it's because he likes Kagome, the miko that travels with his group a lot...Maybe Hara will get along well with Inuyasha."

[shatan]

ɤ Zensen ɤ
ɤ I’m the voice ɤ
ɤ Inside your head ɤ
ɤ You refuse to hear ɤ

And there you led me on.

Zen laughed quietly at Kanrya’s whispered comment regarding Hara’s lack of smiling, continuing to laugh as he noticed the Thylacine’s annoyed glare; she had definitely heard that comment. His laughing stopped, however, out of embarrassed surprise when the girl took his hand. He blushed as much as she did, but allowed himself to be led along through the forest, Hara following several feet behind, snickering as she went; had he not been so embarrassed, he might have been slightly irked by the fact that she was getting so much enjoyment out of said embarrassment.

Zen’s blush eventually calmed as he was distracted by the changing scenery as they walked; this was all new to him, and though the girl may be used to it and pay it no mind by now, he was quite interested in seeing what he could. When she spoke, however, and he was reminded of their contact, his face colored slightly, though not quite so bad, now that he was beginning to get used to it. He laughed quietly at her comments, though Hara no longer seemed to be enjoying herself quite as much as she had before.

“I don’t know, it may not be too good an idea to get them together, then; their grumpiness may spread,” he said, laughing a bit in spite of Hara’s annoyance; after all, she had been enjoying his discomfort not five minutes earlier, it was only right for him to take some enjoyment from her discomfort in return.

He again returned to enjoying the scenery, though this time he did not lose awareness of the girl, a slight amount of color remaining on his face. Hara, feeling his embarrassment, began to smirk again, though this time she stayed quiet, not snickering as she had last time; perhaps she was actually beginning to learn.

ɤ I’m Dying for Truth ɤ
ɤ I’m the face ɤ
ɤ That you have to face ɤ
ɤ Mirrored in you stare ɤ

_{Lyrics © Foo Fighters, Audioslave}

((And here's what happens when I force my muse to post when it doesn't want to: cruddy post ftl! xD))