rakuen | Tuesday, conquest courtyard (open)

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Tuesday, conquest courtyard (open)

Characters: Kotaro and all the people of conquest!
Format: I'll follow you
This log is: Open!
Location: Conquest courtyard
Summary: One of Kotaro's lost memories is that graffiti is bad and he should not do it, the inevitable happens
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"Humdedumdedumdedum," Kotaro sang to himself as he drew, he was drawing a ship on the wall of one of the buildings. He had borrowed some pens from one of the classrooms and was happily scribbling away. It was a huge tanker, like the one he and his brother had traveled on, he also drew a teddy bear, which was bigger than the ship, and a train.

He smiled at anyone who passed by and greeted them happily. "Hello!"

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Sam was wandering around campus, mostly because it seemed like a good thing to do. He was starving, but the food just wouldn't cut it. He found himself staring at random students, most interestingly at their necks.

What was this? What was going on? He just didn't understand. The more he tried to reason it out, the dizzier he got. And this sun wasn't helping. He had his hat pulled low over his eyes, and he hid under his parasol. Finally, he rounded the bend of the building, and found some sweet, cool shade. He leaned against the wall, looking for all the world like someone that had just escaped a summer swelter.

It took him a moment to notice Kotaro. "...Hi," he replied breathlessly. He felt drawn to this kid somehow. Something about him seemed familiar. He just couldn't place it.

Kotaro had a parasol in one hand, which he was using to cover himself as he drew. He grinned at the man and then his eyes lit up as he noticed his fangs. Another Black Blood, Kotaro had only met humans so far so this was really exciting.

"Hello!" He left the wall and skipped over to him, and then remembered, his brother wasn't here and his brother was usually the one who greeted others. You were meant to be really polite and the youngest, or lower blood vampire was meant to go first.

Which would be Kotaro, at least in age. He bowed low, lost balance and stuck his arms out to steady himself, "It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance um..." he grinned trying to remember what he was meant to say. "I am Kotaro Mochizuki from Sage Eve's bloodline, brother to... erm... well brother to the Silver Blade, hero of Hong Kong..." he paused and then grinned, "He's a hero of Hong Kong not me, I was just born there um..." he had wandered from the proscribed lines he quickly tried to think of what came next.

"I am only ten and little and... erm something about you being great but I don't know you or your name... oh and may both are hearts beat strongly!" He stood straight and grinned.

He had no idea what this kid had just rattled off, and it was plain the kid didn't have much clue either. But all the talk of blood and status immediately made him think vampire. He supposed he was the child of some obscure clan he'd never heard of. Or he was from somewhere else entirely.

"You're a vampire?" His incredulity was plain on his face and in his voice. His status the way it was right now, he wasn't too worried about avoiding offense.

"Uhuh!" Kotaro grinned again at the man, who looked surprised, "You're a Black Blood too right?" Kotaro had no doubt, but he wasn't sure why the man looked so shocked. "What's your name?"

"Sam," he said, answering the questions out of order. "I'm not, though. I'm human. I know a lot of vampires, but I'm not one. I study them too."

"Hello Sam!" He blinked in confusion and came closer, "You look like one though!" He scratched his head in confusion. "Are you sure? I never seen humans with fangs before!"

This conversation was starting to give him a headache. A worse one, actually. He felt so horrible that he really couldn't pinpoint the reason. "I'm sure it happens sometimes." No, he knows better than that. His memories are just being a pain. Literally.

"Really? Well I don't know much about humans, I never met any until we left the sanctuary but that's why we gotta be careful, because humans don't like Black Bloods," he frowned thinking, "You don't have a headache do you?"

"Yeah, I do actually. And no amount of aspirin is doing a thing about it..." He rubbed his temples and slid down the wall so he was nearly sitting on his heels. "I can't work like this..."

"I get a headache whenever I try and remember my brothers name," he told him as he sat next to him, "So maybe you forgot something too..."

He didn't look well, and from the parasol that meant that he was the type of vampire who got hurt in the sun, if he were a vampire, which he said he wasn't but Kotaro wasn't sure.

"We should go inside!" He jumped up and reached down to pull Sam to his feet.

How could he have forgotten he was a vampire? It just didn't make sense. "Alright..." he let the kid pull him up, and walked with him toward the nearest building. Where had he been going? Oh yeah, toward the dorms. He hoped he was going to catch a glimpse of one of the trolls. There was something about them that held his attention. Other than the obvious things that stood out about them. Something he couldn't put his finger on.

Kotaro skipped ahead, twirling the parasol as he did so, he turned back and grinned, "Are you a teacher sir? My friend Nephenee is a teacher!"

"I work in the infirmary, actually. I'm a doctor. I don't think I'm cut out to be a teacher." He smirked sheepishly.

"A doctor?" Kotaro had never heard of a vampire being a doctor before, he wasn't sure it would be allowed! "I'm a student, but I've never been to school before! It's really hard!"

"Yeah, it's a lot of work to do well in school. And I've been in more school than you have," he said, smiling. This kid was kinda cute, after all. "Is your brother here?"

Kotaro nodded, it was hard though he was enjoying the classes so far. At the mention of his brother his smile faded.

"No," he said quietly, "But he will be, he will come and get me he always does! And he will beat up the stupid people who brought me here!"

"Well, I guess I'll have to look out for you. If you don't mind, that is." He smiled fondly at the kid.

Kotaro grinned, "Okay and I'll look out for you as well!" He took Sam's hand happily and his stomach growled. "I'm hungry," he complained.

"I guess that sounds fair," he answered to Kotaro's offer to help him out, too. But the way Kotaro so readily admitted being hungry made him uneasy. "Uh. Hungry?"

"Yep, Nephenee gave me permission to eat all the food I wanted! But I'm still hungry, my brother says it's because I'm growing!" He grinned again.

"Well, I guess we ought to go to the cafeteria," he said. He started leading the boy in that direction. He was kind of glad it wasn't the blood kind of hungry. He was kind of an easy target as he was right now.

"Yay!" Kotaro followed happily skipping along beside him. "Are you hungry too?"

He thought for a moment about how to answer that. "Yes, I am. But food just doesn't taste right. It doesn't really hit the spot either. It's like I'm hungry for something that's not food."

Kotaro blinked at him, the answer seemed obvious but Sam had said he was definitely a human...

But if he was a human he was one with fangs who couldn't be in the sun. "If some humans have fangs and don't like the sun, maybe there's humans that need blood as well?" He told him, because if food was starting to not taste right and he was still hungry he needed blood. If he was a vampire.

Kotaro was still confused on that point.

Nephenee had no idea what grafitti was, given that art supplies were rare in her world, but she noticed Kotaro's pretty drawings in the courtyard! She did remember that artists painted on the walls in the city, though. So it had to be okay...right?

"Hey, Kotaro." She chirped, standing beside him. "Whatcha making?"

Kotaro grinned at Nephenee, "I'm drawing a boat and a train, and Lord Bowwow who wants to ride on them but he is too big so he is sad," he drew blue tears on the bears face.

"Do you want to draw too?"

She looked at the drawing and smiled, "Sure! Maybe I should draw stuff from back home, too." Sitting beside him, she took a marker and thought for a minute, before drawing a crude house and plants beside it. "This is where I lived for most of my life back home." Soon there were little houses around the main one, "and this is mah home village, Ohma."

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"I'm a doctor, Kotaro. That kind of thing doesn't happen. I've never heard of that kind of thing happening in all of my research. And I'm considered an expert on vampire physiology. --Uh, on how a vampire's body works." His rhythm was broken a bit by his pause to explain a word Kotaro might not know. "My brother is a vampire, and the woman I've been seeing is a vampire. I'm not." Oh dear, here comes that headache again.

Kotaro, you might have to resort to drastic measures to get this boy to drink some blood.

Kotaro smiled and continued drawing before turning back to look at her pictures. "Ohma, it looks really nice, did lots of people live there?"

Kotaro frowned, but if this man was a doctor and an expert on how vampires bodies work then he should know that his teeth and the fact he couldn't go out in the sun made him a vampire, and an older bloodline of vampires at that.

"Are you sure you didn't accidentally drink your brothers blood? Or your friends? Because you might have accidentally turned into a vampire!"

As this discussion wore on, Sam's headache only grew more severe. He groaned a little and rubbed his temple. The kid had a few points. And logically, he knew that there could only be one conclusion. But he still knew, somehow, he was human. His head throbbed. "That's..." he couldn't quite get the sentence together. He kept finding himself in more and more pain.

Kotaro blinked at him, waiting for him to finish his sentence but he never did. "Is your head hurting again?" That was definitely what happened when you tried to remember something that had been taken from you.

"Well maybe you should drink some blood anyways, and if it makes you feel better you know you are a vampire and just forgot it, and if it doesn't then something else is wrong!"

He thought that over for a good, long, moment. It made logical sense. All what he was accomplishing by denying it was being obstinate. "All right. But not yours. Human blood. All using yours would do is make me something I'm... probably not." He wasn't outright denying it. He was making progress.

"...I can't believe I just agreed to this..."

Kotaro shrugged, "If you want though we need to find a human and you need to ask them nicely!" He told him sincerely, he had met some vampires in his new role as compromiser who thought they could just attack humans, which wasn't a nice thing to do at all.

"Though if you drank my blood, if you then became a vampire at least we'd know for sure!" He saw no issues with this at all.

"Yeah, I have no intention of doing anything to hurt anyone...." But then when Kotaro added that last part. He shook his head. "No! That's not something I want to do."

"Not near as many as the city I live in now...er, lived in when I came here." She said, "Melior's where mah family is now. It's real big and has lots more people." She drew a city on the wall, adding lots of houses and 2 walls before drawing a few outside of the main walls, "that's where I live now. We still have a farm, but here we won't get attacked as easily and I can protect 'em better."

"Good, you have to be nice to people!" He frowned at the last bit, "Why not? I'm not a Kowloon child and I don't think you are either," because he wouldn't have been able to restrain himself this long before attacking someone, "So there's no danger."

"Wow! It looks big! The special area is big as well! But the wall is invisible!" He drew a city as well, with big tall buildings and a river running through it. Over the river there was a big bridge.

"Who attacked them? Did you protect them? Are you a hero?"

"Well...ah!" A sudden headache sprang up, "I...don't remember. Um...I remember there were some riots back home, and I had to join up with the army to protect my family and village." She blushed at his question of if she was a hero, "A-ah. I ain't nothin' special. Just a girl tryin' ta protect her family."

Kotaro frowned, "You don't remember that either? I bet you are a hero! Just like my brother!"

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