paixaorpg | Three heads are better than one [Active]

Characters: Naminé, Rhyme, Beat, and not necessarily closed to others
Content: So we drove around, lookin' for a Repliku... We didn't find one....
Setting: J7-ish
Time: afternoon
Warnings: Probability of cute = 100%

She knew it was futile, of course. Naminé wasn't sure why she had accepted the black hat girl's offer to help her look for Repliku. She already knew they weren't going to find him.

Yet here she was, sitting on a streetside bench, her legs dangling off the edge, journal held neatly in her lap. She'd arrived early enough to check the shop already, and as she'd suspected, he wasn't actually there. Which left her with no clues, no ideas... except that something about all this just didn't seem right.

I'll still keep the promise and protect you.

Would he really abandon her, like Larxene had said?

If he had, of course, it wasn't as if she didn't deserve it. She'd caused so much trouble, made so many people miserable... it was true, she wasn't worth returning to.

But Repliku knew about all that. He knew what she was capable of, what she'd done. And he had promised anyway.

Something wasn't right.

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Rhyme jogged to the place that she said she would meet Namine. She was running a little late. Once getting closer she looked around to try and spot the blond. She spotted her on the bench and approached her. "Namine?" she asked making sure.

She walking around in front of her and smiled her usual smile. She tried to be as friendly as she could. Namine didn't seem like she was used to people, at least from what Rhyme could tell.

Beat was, of course, close behind Rhyme. He wasn't sure what his sister had gotten into in agreeing to help some girl she met on the journals, but whatever it was, hell if he was gonna let her go by herself.

He approached a little slower, looking as cool as he could. "Sup, yo," he said to Namine with a nod of his head. "Name's Beat. I'm comin' too- t' bodyguard, aight?"

At first, Naminé just stared at them both - she'd only expected one person, and here there were two. But she realized her rudeness a second later and got quickly to her feet. "Ah-! R-right!" she exclaimed, to both their questions. Beat. Beat and ... Rhyme? She would have to remember their names.

"Thank you for... for coming," she said eventually. She'd been about to say "helping," but she couldn't very well thank them for that before they'd even had a chance to help.

Rhyme smiled at her new friend, "It's no problem," she replied to Namine. "You're..Namine right?" she asked. She remembered seeing it in the journals that this girl's name was Namine. She just wanted to make sure before they got started looking for Namine's friend.

Rhyme was happy that Beat had come along...then he was able to meet her new friend. But she didn't think it was necessary for Beat to be their bodyguard. She was sure they would be alright. But at least now Beat could get to know her new friend as well.

"So we lookin' for yer friend, right?" Beat asked. He understood that. Especially in a weird place like this- he would have been desperate for someone to help him find Rhyme if she got away from him somehow (partially, the reason he insisted on coming-- because his sister had a tendency to disappear or fall into bad luck sometimes). "Don't worry, yo, we gonna find 'em."

"Me an' Rhyme, us Bitos got a family motto. It's 'nothin' beats a Bito'!" he told Namine enthusiastically. "Aight so maybe I just made that up, but it's true."

Naminé nodded to Rhyme. "Yes. It's a pleasure to meet you. Both of you," she corrected herself quickly.

But we aren't going to find him.

She didn't put a voice to that thought. They were so enthusiastic about helping her, they probably wouldn't believe it anyway.

"So... you're family?" she asked, still without smiling. The concept wasn't totally unknown to her, but it felt sort of alien nonetheless.

[ooc; sorry for the delay D;]

Rhyme nodded and continued smiling. "Yes. Beat is my older brother," she explained to Namine. She wondered if Namine had a brother as well. Maybe the person they were looking for was Namine's brother?

Rhyme felt a bit guilty for the fact that she didn't really know much about Namine. She would definitely have to make that effort.

[ooc: No, I'M sorry for the delay 8D]

Beat had a serious expression on his face and merely nodded as Rhyme explained. Being an older brother meant you had a set of jobs to do, if you were worth anything. One of those jobs was helping people out-- little sister or no, it was good to do what you could for other people.

"So what's this guy look like anyways, yo?" he asked her as they walked. "So's we'll know if we spot 'im."

Naminé followed along with them. Her accustomed walking pace was slower than theirs, and she found herself almost trotting to keep up. But Beat's next question stole her full concentration, slowing her back to the usual. "Umm..."

After a second, she stopped altogether and flipped open her journal. A few taps with her stylus opened the simple drawing program, and she began sketching energetically. It took a couple of minutes, but to her this was far simpler than attempting to describe him.

Finally, she turned the journal over and held the image out so Beat and Rhyme could see. "He looks like this," she said. "... His name is Repliku."

Rhyme looked over in Namine's direction, her eyes focusing on the sketchpad. Her initial thought was 'Oh, that's him' and then the second thought was 'Namine is a really good artist'.

She decided to voice her compliment. "You draw very well," she smiled. Her drawings would never turn out as well as that. Rhyme then turned her head to her older brother, her smile still present. "Right, Beat?" she prodded him. She wanted to make sure that her brother was social.

Beat was actually boggled at Namine's skill there. He fancied himself something of an artist (he wasn't) but... man, even he wasn't that good.

"Tha's pretty good," he whistled, thoroughly impressed. "S'like I'm lookin' at him right now, y'know? Aight, no worries. I bet we can find 'im now. Ain't gonna be too hard!"

In the distance, a Dusk twisted into a portal, reporting to its master.

And only moments after that, its master appeared.

A portal of darkness opened up behind Namine, and Marluxia stepped out, his hood up.

There were two others with her, just as he'd been told. He doubted they would give him trouble, and even if they tried, it was doubtful there was anything either of them could do to stop him.

Besides, this was just a pick-up, after all.

"Naminé," he called, taking a few steps closer. "You are to come with me."

Naminé lowered her eyes uncomfortably at the compliments and confidence. There was no real way to tell them she didn't really believe them. Fortunately, Marluxia's entrance saved her the awkwardness of having to.

Unfortunately, though, he was there...

She gasped, and her whole body tensed visibly, the action snapping her journal shut with a loud clap. She didn't have to see the man behind her to know who he was, but she turned instinctively to face him anyway.

"Ma-"

She choked back the rest of the name, remembering that she shouldn't say it.

What was going on? Had she done something wrong? Her mind went blank. She didn't know.

"I was-" she began, but nothing else would follow.

Three heads are better than one [Active]

sorry this is late D;

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