Back to ze past

Shade paused. "Yuki. Yuki... your brother! Yuki is your brother! You're his sister!" He grinned and waved back towards the cave. "We're friends!"

Amaterasu frowned, she had no clue what the man was saying. She armed herself again and pointed her weapon at him.

Ah. The grin dropped. "No, no, no... Yuki, my friend." He tapped his own chest. "Yuki. Is. My. Friend" He emphasised the last word, waving towards himself. "Your brother"

"My broter." Amaterasu said, holding her hand to her chest she let the bow drop. "Your friend." She held her hand to his chest. "Yuki." She said and gestured for him to take her to him.

Well, there was a disaster averted. He complied more than happily. Once they neared the cave, Shade stopped. "Yuki! Call your sister off before she shoots me!" He bellowed into the cave, looking mildly amused.

Taro came running out. "Shade?" He queried, glancing worridly from him to the armed girl before him, he fell still.

Amaterasu Rose her bow to the fool, she glanced between the two men.
"Its Ok Ama, their friends." Yuki said, a smile on his face. Amaterasu let her bow fall to the ground.
"Yuki..." She whispered, a smile on her features as Yuki ran up and scooped her into his arms. he spun her around.. "Its so good to see you smiling again!" He exclaimed. He put her down and hugged her close. "When I saw... Oh God I'm just so glad your alive."
Amaterasu smiled softly. "I have so many stories to tell you Yuki, but first who are you friends."
Yuki introduced Shade and The fool, however he didn't use the title. "And this is.... Beloved?" Yuki smirked at the joke.
"Beloved?" Amaterasu questioned.

At this, Taro bowed. "Anything the fair lady would call me!" He winked. "Fool will do. It is as close to a name I've been called for a time." He said to Yuki, for him to translate.

Amaterasu looked appauled at the name. "Fool?! WHAT?!"
Yuki just smiled and lead his sister inside. He gave her a few moments to register to the new surroundings. She was surprised to see it all in ruins.
"Wh-What happened?"
Yuki smiled. "I'll explain later. This is ... Liry?"

"Elizabeth." The girl smiled, cursied. Amaterasu just looked at it.
"Why is she in my clothes?" SHe asked her brother, Yuki just smiled.

Elizabeth looked to Shade and the fool for help.

"She's pretty I guess." Amaterasu said, walking around the girl. Elizabeth watched Amaterasu with wide eyes.

Taro just beamed in her general direction. He wasn't about to interrupt the scary one. He opened his blue eye, leaving the other closed as he grinned. Shade, however, found himself sorely tempted to walk between them and glanced irritably at Yuki, discomfort plain.

"I don't suppose she'll swap back to murderous in a moment?" He asked Yuki lowly.
"I don't think that's help~ing" Taro sang under his breath, leaning towards the asassin. Shade batted him away.

Amaterasu lifted Elizabeths face. "She's fair." The girl said. "Almost ghost like and her hair doesn't help it. Royal I take it?"
Yuki held out his hand and tilted it back and forth. Amaterasu nodded.
Elizabeth flinched away from the girls touch, only causing the bowman and lift the blond girls hands.
"Not a hard days work in her life." Amaterasu muttered. "A bit of swords play here and there and a few blisters from cleaning I think."
Yuki rose an eyebrow. "Your getting good."
"When I came back here I was raised back to health by Monks." The girl told her brother.
Elizabeth moved away from Amaterasu.

Shade moved in quickly and moved Elizabeth back, eyeing the girl warily as he stood in front of his charge.
Taro sniggered. "I'm starting to wonder if we've lost much in the absurd lack of translation yet" Shade looked irritated by his point and his back stiffened.
"Don't feel bad, Shade! I'm sure she'll get to observing you later!" Taro said, crossing his arms and winking.

Amaterasu turned to the two males. She bowed low. "I apologise for my behaviour. You were an unknown male in unknwon territory and Englishmen are not known to enter these parts of the forest."
Yuki translated. "She apologises for going at you with her bow."

"Forgiven already" Taro said, waving his hand at her.
"Yuki... I think it may have become important to learn the language" Shade said with a frown. Taro grinned and pranced over to Amaterasu, ignoring the conversation topic offered by Shade.
"Never has one such as I seen something like this!" He proclaimed. "A cat and a rat, it almost seems. Though why the rat doesn't aggrevate the cat, I've no clue.". Shade, used to the unimportant jabber of the fool's seemingly unfocused mind, moved to check the contents of his bag.

Elizabeth touched Shades arm tenderly. "So you found your bag?"

Yuki puffed up angrily. "How do you know this stuff?"
"What?" Amaterasu asked, Yuki ignored her.

"All in my day's work!" He said, bowing deeply. "Have I displeased the Lord Yuki?" He asked, rasing his eyebrows, mismatched eyes dancing with mirth.
"Yeah. It's all here. Clothes are wrecked. No matter. All of my things are fine" He said, smiling at Elizabeth.

"Go and annoy some other person, Please." Yuki said, turning Amaterasu away from the fool.

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Elizabeth smiled back at him. "Thats good I guess, though all my clothes are now ruined and it seems so unfitting for a woman to walk around with her feet and chest showing." SHe pointed to the clothes she had on.

"I know you don't mean it." Taro said happily, dropping down to his knees and simpering a smile up at Yuki, managing to take hold of his shirt. "You wouldn't kick me away!" He fixed the simpery expression on his face and just managed to hold back his laughter at Yuki's soon to be gaged discomfort.

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Shade snorted. "Indeed. We'll have to go see what a handfull of English gold can get you in the market."

Yuki tried to shake the fool off.
Amaterasu rose an eyebrow, what was going on?

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Elizabeth smiled softly. "I feel almost naked dressed as I am."

Taro wouldn't let Yuki get rid of him yet. He winked at Amaterasu, conveying his game, before turning back to Yuki. "Fear not, Yuki. Even though it may seem hard to accept now... The fool's smarter than you!" He laughed. "Stop ignoring manners! You might learn something!".

Shade shook his head. "I'm afraid their fashion is a little different. Though, we'll still have a try." He pasued and glanced over to the fool and Yuki. "To intervene, or not to intervene. That's what he gets for deciding he can't make mockery of him." He sighed and shook his head.

"I dunno." Elizabeth shrugged. "I think their getting along well." She smirked.

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"Get Away." Yuki hissed, kicking out at the fool. "Just bugger off!"
Amaterasu started to laugh.

"The rain makes all things beautiful.
The grass and flowers too.
But if it makes things beautiful
What did it do to you?!"

Taro waggled his eyebrows up at Yuki, somehow having managed to hang onto the angry man.

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"Not sure", Shade chuckled. "This is what he's normally like at court."

"Just get off!" Yuki yelled. "Or I swear to god I'll kill you!"
Amaterasu didn't like the sound in her brothers voice.

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Elizabeth sat on the floor and let her finger dance in the soil.

"Sorry, didn't catch that. Cat got your tongue?" He asked, tilting his head, ever present smile wide. Although, he didn't like the sound of that last sentance.

"Fool." Yuki said in warning. "Its never wise to annoy the one allowing you to stay alive."

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"I don't like this place Shade." Elizabeth whispered.

Shade frowned. "I think I'll have to talk to that one about the different customs here..." He started but found his nerves on edge.

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Taro beamed but let go of Yuki, standing up. "Forgive me, Lord. I wasn't aware it was in your hands." He said and stepped back, bowing mockingly low.