A Grand Re-Entry (Open)

[Oki]

Oki raised a hand to her forehead. She followed everything that Yuki said, albeit it with some difficulty. She wasn't normally this slow on the up-take, but this? This made her head hurt more than it already did.

"That... that is just messed up," she finally managed. "Is everyone but me at least bi curious? Jeeze... Alright, so where do we find Cirrus? Hasn't he been out of town, too?"

[Yuki]

"Hey! She was a girl when she kissed me," he deffended...

"I have no idea where the little rat is... I'm checking the town first because Tsunade just said find him... I hope that means he got home while I was gone... if that fails... Then... i don't know..."

[Oki]

"Good plan," Oki said dryly. "I can see that you've thought this one through. And what happens if he's inside somewhere and doesn't see the giant flaming bird because he's in the shower or something? You might want to park it and go talk to someone who might know. Sorry," Oki added as an after thought, worried she had offended the phoenix. She patted its leg lightly.

[Yuki]

"Hey... I showed up 5000 miles away to find Akira near dead and fevoured, had to break away from my mission to fly them back here, and half way back, Akira's heart stopped! We got it going again, and then Otomeken tried to perform a c-section right there! I haven't slept in three days, and then I get screamed at by the Hokage... I'm a little on edge right now Oki," he said, but he was very level with her and never lost his cool with her, but he finally looked over, realizing that Oki was straight out of the shower, and decided to cut her a break too...

"Cirrus has a pet sparrow. If he sees us... He'll get Cirrus, and I'll get hit with something like a squirt gun blast before too long... I don't even know who I'd ask," Yuki said, all but admitting defeat...

[Oki]

Oki was more than fresh from the shower: she was pale, and there were heavy dark circles under her eyes. Even her posture was slumped, defeated, as she scanned the village below them. She didn't remember Cirrus well; she had a vague recollection of a boy with blue hair...

"Let's hope the sparrow sees us, then," Oki said levelly.

[Yuki]

Now that Yuki was looking, he was starting to see that. "Oki... Are you ok?" he asked a little softly, thinking that it was better than stating that she obviously hadn't been sleeping either...

[Oki]

"No," she said flatly. "I'm not."

[Yuki]

Yuki couldn't shurk what he was meant to be doing, so he couldn't keep his eyes on her, and had to scan for Cirrus.

"I'm going to regret asking, aren't I?" he said, not liking the tone of this already... "What happend, Oki?"

[Oki]

"Oh, I'm sure you'll be delighted, actually since it means Baoh's now out of the picture. I told him about what happened. He left."

[Yuki]

Yuki damn near fell, but managed to catch himself, and even the Pheonix's head dipped down to check on him... When Yuki recovered, his glasses were hanging askew and his jaw was slack... "Oki..." what did he say, was he sorry, was he happy, was he worried, was he relieved... "You should have told him I forced you," He said said looking away... He was sorry, actually. Sorry that he was the one to ruin this on Oki. He'd hoped she would figure things out, figure Baoh out, and leave him, but he didn't want to be the cause of her pain...

[Oki]

"Why, because lying to him was going to make it any better? I had already betrayed his trust, Yuki, I wasn't going to add insult to injury by lying to him, too. Besides, he already knew," Oki said bitterly. She wasn't sure if she was angry with Yuki or not. She hadn't yet made up her mind as to how culpable he was; she had allowed it, after all. And she had kissed him back. "He was already hurt..."

[Yuki]

"I feel bad that you were hurt, Oki... But I'm not going to apologize for kissing you. I don't know why I thought you wouldn't get hurt by that... But I'm still glad I finally did it, and just kissed you... You're not here because you wanted to see me again, are you?" he said a bit rhetorically...

[Oki]

"I don't really want to see anyone right now, Yuki; I've spent the last two days wallowing in self pity, and if I had my way I'd still be doing that. But there was something going on. I saw the phoenix and remembered you talking about the last time you summoned him, so I thought the other shoe had dropped somehow. Why would you be sorry? You didn't watch someone who loved me put his fist through a door and then leave."

[Yuki]

"Then I'm glad I came by," Yuki said, thinking it was high time she got out of the house if that was the case...

"And I'm not trying to confuse the issue, I don't give a damn about Baoh or what he did to your door... I'm sorry because I see you right now and know you're hurting, probably more than partially because of me... I actually liked seeing you happy, even if it was because of him that you were happy, Oki..."

[Oki]

"You make it sound like it was a bad thing!" Oki snapped. "He loved me Yuki, he actually loved me and I did this to him! What the hell was so wrong with that?" Her voice was beginning to break, and she bit back the rest of her question. Was it because it wasn't you? Oki breathed deeply, squeezing her eyes shut against the tears that were threatening to fall again.

"Never mind. Let's... let's just find Cirrus and get him to Akira."