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[Uzu]

Her heart was racing, but the blond teen was striding down the road with a determined pace.

One month, ten days, and 20 hours. It had been at least that long since Otami had laid eyes on Keniwa, in during which she had started counting the time. Why she had done this, when normally time had all but been a concept, Otami couldn’t say. Yet every day that passed she looked at a clock and remembered when Keni had called everyone to a field day with a bunch of people around their age. It had been embarrassing, fun, and little else had filled her mind since then. Well, aside from the medical practices she dove into to distract herself from noticing the clock. The complexity of the human body was so intense that studying it usually drove out all other thoughts. Yet, lately, she had gotten her hands on just about everything she could learn that didn’t require advanced teaching from an actual medical shinobi. Now, the boy filled her thoughts again and she found herself awake when she should be sleeping. It had gotten bad enough that the sleepless nights were finally starting to effect her work ethic in both the field and the Boyin where she volunteered.

In order to keep her teammates, and patients, from getting anything but her best she decided to confront Keni, all by herself. She needed to get these feelings for him out in the open, fully expecting rejection, but they had to go. She couldn’t just turn them off, the blond wasn’t enough of her father to be just so cold for the sake of work. Yet as her bare feet carried her down the road towards the complex at which her crush lived, she felt a stringent tightening in her chest. The thought of doing something so…emotionally open almost paralysed the girl. Only the harsh life of desert survival gave her the courage to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Yet when the blond finally reached her destination, her skinny arm froze in mid air as it went to pull the bell rope to catch notice of whoever was inside.

Beet red the teenager realized she hadn’t even a clue as to what she was going to say. The only reason she even finally knew why Keni stirred her heart so was because of the medical tomes she had distracted herself with, and just surmised this was the best way to take care of such a conflicting emotion. It wasn’t like they made drugs to repress this feeling. At the last second Otami muted the voice of anxiety in her mind and plunged into the unknown by grabbing the call bell’s rope and yanking on it as hard as she could.

Which, of course, removed it.

With a loud screech of surprise, Otami dodged the brass bell as it crashed into the steps leading to the Kyoujouran household, somehow even more red from embarrassment. This was a bad idea she suddenly decided, as the girl turned and started to hurry down the steps.

 

[Ayeka]

Gentle humming filled the air as Ayeka padded down the path back towards the clan compound with two large bags almost spilling with food tightly clasped between her arms as her head swayed back and forth in tune with her humming. Ayeka was wearing her trademark sleeveless cropped jacket in a nice shade of purple today with a hood deep enough that everything except her jaw line was hidden in shadow as the girl was much too shy to let people see her face but the newest addition were a pair of headphones that her brother had let her borrow. He had said something about trying to get her into music but really it was most likely because all Ayeka knew what to do was fight and he was just desperate to distance the girl from her old self he had found in a cage weeks ago not the Ayeka minded, as her bare feet lightly tapped against the pavement in response to an especially good part of the beat as she finally turned into the clan district for the Kyoujouran.

Looking up at the high walls that hide the clan housing from view Ayeka wondered what the other Kyoujouran were like as she had only met Keni and her mother at this point as her farther had fortunately gone missing for the moment much to her brothers ire since he was searching for why Ayeka had been where she was when he had found her. Taking another turn Ayeka began climbing the steps to her home when a screech shook her from her humming causing the bronze skin girl to look up just in time to see the large brass bell that was used as their doorbell to come hurtling towards her face. Ayeka only had time to gasp as the bell impacted the girl's face causing a loud bang but not actually knocking the girl down as she just stood there in shook as the bell seemed to defy gravity and just sat on top of Ayeka's head where it had impacted. Ayeka swayed for a moment as her eyes swam and spun before she could focus enough to look up at the bell only to notice in exasperation that it had been impaled on her horns which were now jutting out of the top of her hood which was probably what saved her from having her skull cracked open as only a trickle of blood now ran from the top of her head. "Ow t.t.that hurt." Ayeka whined quietly to herself as tears began to build but she held them in for now as her mother would be worried if she came home tear streaked and instead looked up the rest of the stairs to see who had thrown the bell at her.

At the top of the stairs, quickly walking down in a hurry was a blonde haired, green eyed girl who was currently so scarlet, Ayeka had to wonder what had happened to make her so quick to leave that she had somehow dislodged the bell from the door. Ayeka wasn't one to get angry in general and combined with her healing factor and large six foot tall body she was quite hardy as well so instead of yelling at the approaching girl Ayeka instead called out to her in a more timid tone. "Ano er excuse me....D.d.o you need some help." Ayeka could already feel her own face reddening from talking to someone new but Keni always said she had to help others if possible, so she would follow her brother words to the letter. It also helped that this girl was very cute which was also adding to Ayeka's blush.

 

[Uzu]

It was one of those moments. Time slowed down as Otami turned to flee with the bell flying down the stairs. Her eyes came across the hooded person walking up the stairs carrying large bags of food, and 1+1 quickly added up in her own mind. There was nothing she could do except watch in horror. The bell collided with the person and Otami knew she just hurt someone in Keni’s family. As the teen started to dart away in horror as to what would have become of the person hit by the large brass object, she heard the shy voice of a girl. Otami turned her oddly-colored eyes to the sound and saw the face beneath the hood - which resembled Keni’s in structure. The first surprise was that the person hit by the object hadn't been crushed. Secondly....

Had her crush been turned into a girl!?

Wait, no. That didn’t math. Outside of a transformation technique, that would have been dispelled from such an impact, why would Keni turn himself into a girl? One with…oh. Were those were horns sticking through the bell?
“I, ah. Uh…” the Ryuu stumbled over her words as she tried to right the panic brought about from consequence, “Ye-yes. I mean no!” The blond teen was going through an emotional rollercoaster she couldn’t even begin to describe. The entire reason she was at this house, brazenly, was to unleash the dam of pent up emotions she had towards a boy; and instead she had managed to slam the family’s doorbell onto what she could only assume was Keni’s relative.
“I’m so, so sorry! I came by to see someone and I freaked out, and I pulled too hard, and, and…aaaah!”

The girl suddenly reached up and grabbed the edge of the bell between her index and thumb. Her feet shifted across the stone staircase until she balanced her body’s core as the center of her strength. A sudden rush of Earth Chakra forced itself out of her body and then back in, giving Otami a boost so that she could simply snap the bell in half around Ayeka’s horns. The piece in the middle would fall down with a loud clang, and with the sunlight shining down on the girl’s face suddenly Otami’s breath would catch in her throat. Ayeka's vivid eyes, face structure, and yes, even the horns, painted a picture the blond had not been expecting or was even prepared for. For some reason, as if on reflex, Otami’s eyes shot down past Ayeka’s chest to where her dark flesh was exposed via the cropped jacket and saw a group of muscles there that caused a lump to form in her throat as her red face somehow managed to get even more red. The Ryuu turned around on the stair away from Keni’s sister suddenly, cupping the two halves of the brass bell around her face as she tried to hide her head becoming a tomato.

Oh Mother Suna…not another one…

“I….I came to see Keniwa…a-a-about…training. Otami’s tummy soft. Want rock tummy. Like Keni. Like…you,” she tried to explain, her voice echoed within the brass. It was a lie, and a bold one considering that anyone who knew Otami even a little was well aware of her aversion to physical training. Yet what else could she say?! She couldn’t just straight up tell the girl she had just wanged over the head with her clan’s doorbell that she was here to confess pent up feelings. What if Keniwa wasn’t here, and then he come to Asuka’s house?! No, the lie had to be told…and hopefully it would end here. She could go back to her room, lock the door, and bury herself under the floorboards to never be seen forever more as to avoid ever coming close to this embarrassment, ever again.

 

[Ayeka]

Ayeka found herself in a little bit of a pickle at the moment as her vision was blocked by the bell currently impaled on her horns which were sharper than she had realised or was comfortable with and made a mental note to possibly put some sort of stopper on the end to prevent further impalement accidents. The next problem was Ayeka herself couldn't clear her vision with her arms full and what made all this worse is that she is pretty sure her hood had fallen down into two parts due to the fact that her horns had shredded through her protection from strangers. A sweet and equally shy voice that seemed just as flustered as she was drifted over from the other side of her face covering telling her that she had come to see someone and since this door was private access to Keniwa's house Ayeka could guess the girl was here to see her brother and that the bell getting chucked into her face was more bad timing than any malice or genuine sabotage of the clan estates.

"Um It's.....ok I...I'm....." Ayeka tried to comfort the girl and wave off her concern as two seemingly awkwardly shy people tried to talk to each other when the other girl suddenly let out a cry startling Ayeka enough that she had to brace her knees in order to catch her shopping that had slipped from her grip which was enough of an angle for the mystery girl to grab the bull by the horns literally as Ayeka's eyes shot wide and her face went full nuclear red as she felt two gentle hands brush against her horns as the girl grabbed the bell. An application of earth chakra and the snapping of said bell freed up Ayeka's vision leaving her staring into the jade green eyes of a girl just a bit taller than her Ayeka herself. For a moment both girls seemed to just stare at each other as Ayeka took in the taller girls features, Green eyes with flecks of blue framed by long blonde hair that tucked behind a pair of pointed ears instantly got Ayeka's attention before her eyes drifted down and noticed the large canines gently poking out from beneath her top lip which all came together with the girls own blushing countenance and blew Ayeka away with how cute the girl was. Ayeka was pretty sure she was glowing like the sun at this point as the girl spun away with the bells covering her face only providing Ayeka a view of her outfit from a more flattering angle.

It seemed this whole bell accident had flustered the both of them so much they were basically just competing at this point on who could blush the hardest and it didn't make it any easy as Ayeka felt her psyche stir beneath with a thought escaping before the lock in her mind eased the her darker side back into oblivion. "Damn she is my type. I'm sorry Onii-chan for what your sister may do.' The brasher thought from her darker personality crept forth as the girl mentioned that she was here to firm up her tummy like Ayeka's. "Oh um er yeah my brother i..i..is out at t..t..t..he moment but um er ifyouwantyoucancomeandI'llhelp" Ayeka feeling her nerve running out rushed out the end of her sentence and just prayed that she was intelligible enough as she mechanically walked past Otami and simply walked into the door pushing open the large gates seemingly effortlessly before stopping and looking back at Otami in silent anticipation to see if the girl would accept the invite inside. "Oh um I'm Ayeka by the way K..K..Keni's younger sister."




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