2175/Through Naru's eyes

Through Naru's eyes
Date of Scene:	01 December 2016
Location:	Naru's apartment
Synopsis:	Naru and Alexis meet Through. It... goes well, all things considered. They even fall for her a bit.
Cast of Characters:	Naru Osaka, Sakura Kinomoto, Alexis Raskoph

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Naru Osaka has posed:
After school, and generally somewhat of a moment of reckoning. There's been all day that Naru hasn't been home, and who /knows/ what state the apartment is going to be in when she gets home these days.

"I am pretty sure that there's everything to make noodles for supper." Naru is offering to Alexis as they climb the stairs to the apartment. Bribery with food to provide moral support, or more likely, she simply enjoys his company. "Do you have any plans for the evening?" She asks, turning the key in the lock of the door.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
And, once again, all the pictures were up. The place had... well, everything had been moved about. Through had been having a lot of fun. It had even gone down to the shop below and messed with things. Her mom had probably called and asked why she kept moving everything around. Nothing bad. Just... annoying.

Through had found the camera! Thoughi t hadn't known what it was. It thoguht it had been some kind of mirror and had ended up making little faces in ehr reflection before moving the camera off and dangling it from a chandelier.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"Well I mean..." Murmurs the inexplicably european boy stepping just behind Naru, already taking to loosening up the red scarf around his neck, though he's apparently intending to leave his brown leather jacket along for now. "I *was* going to go bust into the hideout of a buncha Yakuza and crack some heads."

Beat.

"That was a joke," he amends, then, though his tone is just as deadpan as he started out with. "You know I don't usually ever have anything..."

His words slow down considerably there, with the turn of his focus. Not on the paintings, really, but on the camera dangled onto the chandelier.

"...Planned. Uh. ... I guess it could be worse."

Naru Osaka has posed:
"You could have something." Naru points out as she takes a deep breath and then lets it out in a sigh as the apartemnt has found a new way to be rearranged today. "I swear, by the end of this.. whatever it is.. I am going to be just /immune/ to having this art up. I'm really not sure I want to be desensitized to a lot of this stuff." She gestures, and absently kicks off her shoes and peels off her coat before going to start taking some of the art down.

"Can you see if the camera still works? I think you can just plug it into my laptop and see." Naru asks of Alexis. "It should have been all self contained so moving it shouldnt have been a problem, but who knows."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through hadn't messed with anything in it, so it should still work fine. Through had been bored for a while, but now there were new things to torment. She gave a silent giggle as Naru started moving around. When both their backs were turned, she'd zoom out and drop a towel on her head.

What? Spirits got bored too! And she'd been more or less IGNORING it! for days! How dare she!

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"If it has it's own battery then *I guess*," offers Alex while he works his boots off for the sake of letting him walk further inside. "I'll have to get it down first, though."

This time around, Alex's inherent tallness is not actually enough to help with this particular situation, so he stomps his way into the kitchen, first, to recover one of the chairs.

Which probably means the towel-droppage happens while he's not there to see it.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Dammit!" Naru swears as the world goes dark as she's reaching up on tip toe to get down a piece of art. She lands heavily on her heels and one can practically hear the ginger snap.

"Alright, THAT'S IT!" Naru fairly snarls as she drags the towel off her head. "I don't know if you're a ghost, or a spirit, or a fairy, or what /ever/ you are, but I have had /enough/. ENOUGH. What the /hell/ do you want? And if it's just to piss me off, Congratulations."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through just hid in her closet, rolling around and giggling. Albeit, silently as she didn't have a voice. Oh, this was such fun! It had been soooo long since she'd been able to have fun, she almost forgot what it was like!

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"... Naru?" Alex's voice calls from the kitchen, right before he steps out from within, carrying a chair along as he is. And he just kind of stares at the redhead, having come out to actually look at her only AFTER she'd pulled the towel from her head. Though he does eye the towel itself.

"... Maybe you should sit down."

Super helpful, Alex.

Naru Osaka has posed:
The look at Naru levels at Alexis at that 'helpful' suggestion indicates some degree of /why/ a non-magical Naru managed to make a Wraith flee. She quietly seethes for a couple of minutes before gesturing. "You get the camera down, I'm going to put these /back/ in the closet." She takes the paintings she's managed to collect up before the towel and heads down the hall towards her room, nudging the door open.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through was too busy laughing, rolling through the air and kicking out her feet that she didn't notice the door was open until a few seconds. She looked up at Naru and... eeped, diving out under her and heading towards the door!

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"Yes, ma'aaaaaaaaaaaaaam..." Alex chimes after Naru with just the tiniest bit of sarcasm on his part. And so, he goes climbing up onto the chair, and reaching for the camera dangling from the chandelier.

"You know, there was this tv show I watched once where they used salt to--" he goes on saying, too, but he paues immediately when he hears *something* over the way of Naru when she opens the door.

Lacking in superpowers he might be, but he can be damn attentive, surprisingly enough.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"YOU!" Naru is probably not yelling at Alexis, sarcastic retort or not. She's lunging for the tiny creature that is making a break to go past her, and the eep that Alexis heard is very shortly followed by a clatter of paintings hitting the floor, and more swearing as Naru fails to grab the quick Through. "It's coming your way!"

Not that she's told Alex /what/ is coming his why, mind you.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through came barreling into the room, letting out a sigh of relief and--

Ran right into Alexis. It bounced off his chest with a silent eep, flailing a bit before looking up at him. It had a little tear drop on its head before it tried to flee again.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
By the time Naru'd, Alex was already down from the top of the chair. And so thankfully this means that when Through smacks into him, that he doesn't in fact end up falling onto his butt from the heightened point.

But it does leave him staring down at the thing, slightly wide-eyed.

"Uh. Hi," he lets out, akwardly. Right before the thing makes to bolt away again.

"Hey!" He yells after it, thus, and bends himself forward in a steadily lowering lean, hand snapping forward and after the flying mischief-causer.'

Naru Osaka has posed:
Clearly in this situation, Alexis is playing the part of 'good cop', and Naru is playing the part of 'bad cop'.

Naru whirls to chase after Through, getting to the living room just in time to see it bounce off of Alexis and try to make another break for it. "YOU LITTLE BRAT!"

Through might /hope/ Alexis catches her, rather than Naru at this point.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through paused at the sight of raged Naru. Oh dear. It--

ACK! Alexis caught it! It wiggled about helplessly in its hands! No, ack! It wasn't strong enough to go through living matter on its own! It thrashed and wiggled. Then looked up to Naru with a teardrop on its face then... covered its face with its hands, awaiting the end.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"So..." Breathes out Alex, drawing the... whatever, back closer to him in his single-hand grip, while he straightens himself up in his stance again. "Not a ghost. not the paintings. But..." He eyes the thing. "... What is this, a pixie?"

He is shockingly calm considering the situation. Actually, he is pretty shockingly calm, considering it's ALEX.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"I have NO idea." Naru fairly snaps as she looks at the cowering little creature in Alexis' grasp and then paces away to make an attempt to get a grip on herself that does not involve smacking an obnoxious little creature senseless.

"Do you talk?" Naru asks, even as she takes a few steps away, turning to take the few steps back.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through opens its mouth and... nothing comes out. It finally shook its head and gently peeped through its fingers. Well, it wasn't squashed, so there was that. One good thing to come of this.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"I am gonna go on a wild guess here and say that's a "no"," suggests Alex, with a sigh, and steps himself back in place towards the chair he left behind, to lower himself upon it. EYes firmly on the... whatever the heck it is.

"Okay, so. Do you write? You're gonna have to excuse me if I don't exactly let go of you for a while, though."

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Oh bloody /hell/." Naru grumbles and has at least settled enough to squint at the little creature. "Well. Right size to be one of the Guardians, but I dont think they leave their people terribly much, if at all." She considers a moment and then looks at the little critter again. "Can you usually talk?" It did /try/ after all.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through lowered its hands and then shook its head. Nope, it couldn't talk. A mischievious grin formed on its face and it tried to fly off and PULL Alexis with it! Towards the wall!!!!! If she succeeded, he'd find that... he'd go through the wall? Then a second one? And then-- Slam face first into the third one. Well, she WAS a prankster.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"...Maybe we should get like a piece of paper and a pencil for this thing," Alex suggests, while his free hand scratches idly at his cheek. "I mean, maybe we ca--"

He was going to say more.

But he suddenly finds himself flying through the air.

"Eh?"

This sudden change doesn't even fully register in his brain right away, despite the fact that the source of the momentum is very clearly in his hand, until after they're through the first wall. And the very awfulness of the situation sinks in after the second.

"Wai-wai-wai-wait!!!!"

A heavy thud echoes through the whole apartment a moment later, the impact on the other side of the building hard enough that loose objects on counters and furniture probably clatter lightly.

And whatever room it is that the pixie flew into with Alex ultimately, one can now find a single (1) Alex laying on his back, groaning quietly, with both hands pressed tight against his reddened face.

So, no, he probably doesn't have hold of Through anymore.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Woah!" Naru was /not/ expecting that, and she reaches a moment or two too late to grab for Alexis as he goes flying. Somehow.

Through the wall into her room, and then the closet wall and then ...

Well at least Naru hadn't put the paintings back in the closet yet.

Naru races over to her room and she's willing to ignore where Through might be for the moment. "Are you alright, what the /hell/ was that!?"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through was laughing her head off when she came back into the room, rolling around in flight. Then her eyes leveled on Naru and that grin formed onto her face. She raced forward, slammed into Naru's chest and--

NARU FELL THROUGH THE FLOOR! Into the shop below! Through laughed... until she heard the sound of glass. She was still clutching Naru when the girl slammed into the glass case. However, rather than getting slashed to ribbons, she suddenly went through it a moment later. The shards of glass landing around her as she went through the case and appeared, more or less, impaled on it. Except she wasn't. She went through it completely, the case and glass not even touching her. Only the floor seemed to, now.

Through was clutching Naru's chest, not letting go, shaking slightly as it maintained its spell over her. IT wasn't MURDEROUS. But with glass and a case through naru, it couldn't unphase her now... and it was getting hard to keep this up.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"Everything hurts," grumbles Alex from behind the covering of his hands, though he's slooowly drawing them downwards. "That--" He continues, but then Naru's SLIPPED THROUGH THE FLOOR.

"...Naru?" The pain is suddenly forgotten completely on the boy's part, and he snaps up to sitting, eyes widened. "Naru!"

In the span of five seconds, he's already scrambling to sprint through the apartment, and for the stairs downstairs.

Naru Osaka has posed:
That was not even a little of what Naru was expecting, and that sudden sense of falling for no reason from ceiling height is really not ideal for someone who is scared of heights. The yelp was perhaps not the most dignified as Naru really /did/ expect to be impaled.

"Okay, this is seriously not ideal." Naru comments as she glances down to where she has glass impaling her chest, except that it isn't. "And really weird feeling." She reaches to instintively put her hand over Through, so as not to lose connection at the moment, as she works to wriggle herself free of the case, and the glass, and the certain hospital visit if this /actually/ becomes real.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Once naru was free of the glass(not hard as the only thing that seemed to be affecting her was the floor) and in the clear, the magic died and she was solid again.

Through went almost completely limp in her grasp, panting weakly and laying softly in her hand. The little fairy was exhausted. Her magic was meant for quick little jaunts through walls and stuff. Actually MAINTAINING it for that long? That was tiring. She laid there in Naru's gasp, panting with exertion. Awwww, looks like her prank had gone a bit too far. But at least Naru would know that Through didn't want her dead, at least. And hey, a LOT easier to catch now.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
At that point, the door to the shop from above bursts open, and through, alike, bursts one (1) Alex, scrambling in a hurry to try to figure out what on earth just happened.

"Naru, wha--?" He calls out, just before he turns the corner to see the scene before him. His eyes blink slowly.

Somehow, he's not entirely sure how to process this fully, now, what with the post-impalement-proceedings.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"I got nothing." Naru admits to Alexis as she holds the little fairy in her hand, gently in spite of many angry words that have been hurled in Through's direction. "It pushed me through the floor, and then I could feel the glass in me, but not /feel/ the glass." She's knelt on the floor, still in shards of glass. "Are you alright? How the hell do you keep a hold of something that can go through walls?"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through was tired and sleepy, its magic all spent and exhausted after that ordeal. It curled up into a little ball and looked up at her. It gave a small, apologetic grin before closing its eyes. It wasn't asleep, though. It was just really, really tired and needed to recoup after that.

Though one finger did go out and tried to lightly tickle her hand. She was a playful card.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
Stomp, stomp, stomp.

Alex makes his way over to Naru and the pixie-whatever-it-is, and crouches down by both of them. He's straight *glaring* at the bloody thing, no less.

"So this has been thing thing screwing with you, huh?" He grumbles, eyes narrowing. "I think my nose broke again."

Naru Osaka has posed:
"I'm not sure your nose has any structural integrity left in it." Naru points out as she looks at the curled up pixie on her hand. "I'm going to bet that this is what's been messing with me. Now .. we just have to figure out why, and how to encourage it to /stop/." She frowns a little. "At least it's not trying to kill me. It could have, and instead exhausted itself. It is still a spectacular pain in the arse though."

Sorry Through, Naru really isn't terribly ticklish when she's pumped full of adrenaline.

"And I need to come up with a story on why one of the cases broke for no good reason." Naru looks at the shattered glass in the store. "Of course, the opal case. Because of /course/ it is."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through eeped and then gave a little grin to Alex. And totally stuck her tongue out at him. She then glanced back up to Naru and smiled, cocking her head slightly to the side and just smiling to the young girl, seeming so nice, happy and content, snuggled up in her hand comfortably.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"Well it *very clearly* understands japanese," deduces Alex, with his brow twitching and forehead going all vein-poppy over the little thing's chosen reaction to him. "Even if it doesn't *talk*. And is being way too comfortable there for having nearly killed us lot."

Now there's the more usual Alex, then.

"Should I go find some bloody writing implements now before I decide to try to apply my boot to the thing?"

Nevermind that he took his boots off earlier. It's a figure of speech, yo.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"100 yen says that it's not going to write for us either." Naru replies as she carefully gets to her feet. As much because she really /is/ in a swack of broken glass as for the fact that she's holding a fairy in her hands. "But we can try. There's pens in the container next to the cash, over there." Naru gestures with her free hand to where Alex should look first. "And paper's in the top drawer."

"Don't try the cute card now." Naru advises the little fairy. "Thank you for not killing me, but you're still a pain in the butt."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through grins, and then writes on the paper in... chinese. Through. It then glances up to Naru again and crosses its arms, pouting a little. It then leans forward a bit, one finger to its cheek, trying to be super, duper adorable.

Alexis Raskoph has posed:
"I'm sure I can think of some *other* uses for the pencil if it doesn't," declares Alex on his way to search for the writing implements.

Perhaps it's best no one think too much an that.

And when they do finally get around to the writing, and...

Alex's veins pop on his forehead again.

"I'm pretty sure that's not Kanji," he grumbles, before he turns his eyes from the piece of paper to Through, and... reaches over to poke his forefinger against it. "Listen, you understand japanese, don'tcha, ehhh?" Veinpop.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Noble effort." Naru doesn't look impressed by the uber adorable act. "But no. And we dont read Chinese." Naru points at the page, tapping it lightly with her finger.

"You're breaking things, you're hurting people both physically and emotionally." Naru explains to the little creature. "And you're tampering with an actual business. This is /not cool/. I can only assume that you don't know enough to care about other people, except that you clearly do, because you didn't want me to get very badly hurt."

Naru has progress past rage and into Parental level Disappointment.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Through hmphs and then writes its name in english. Through. It points at the two, then throws the pen at Alexis.

And then Naru scolds it. It eeps and pokes its fingers together, lowering its eyes. Well, at least it looked sorry. Probably wasn't. But it acted as if it was.