Long lost Brother

[nilo7]

Jenos hates himself because while his brother is lost he was getting a good education when he should be out there looking for his brother. Jenos was sitting is a ten foot tall tree that looked oddly shaped but he didn't care. He took a deep sigh then lookedd at the moon. He always thought that the moon was beautifal and that maybe somewhere out there just maybe his lost brother was looking at it too. Jenos could never forgive himself for that night the incident happened where he lost his partents to the after life but he also lost sight of three brothers. If he could he would kill himself but he can't because he still has five sisters and one brother he had to protect. Jenos still looking at the moon grabbed his coin necklace and held it tight in his hand while being deep into thought about that night the incident happened.

[Ayame]

Toni wandered aimlessly through the woods, touching each tree she passed. She could tell they were trees because of the way the bark felt, even if she couldn't see the looming trunk or green-clad branches above. She wished she could see it, but wishful thinking hardly ever helped.

That's not saying that being blind didn't sometimes have it's advantages--for example, her intesified hearing, or her ability to sense another presence. The fact that she had a sort of secondary sight was useful, too. She could see someone's aura, outlining their body and making it easier to avoid any awkward collisions.

Not only that, but when she really wanted to, she could peer into someone else's soul. Of course, that was only when she was really close to someone, and that had only happened twice before in her long life. Sometimes she hoped it would never happen again, but there were other times when such a relationship would be welcome.

Shaking her head, she continued feeling her way down the path. She paused when she heard another person breathing, and she immediately went into defensive mode. She didn't react well to being startled.

Toni took a deep breath to calm herself down before glancing up and spying a greenish aura in one of the nearby trees. She simply looked at them for a moment before finally collecting herself enough to speak.

"Hello," she greeted kindly, "I'm Toni. Who're you?"

[nilo7]

Jenos jumped as he heard another person's voice. He quickly stood up in the tree and pointed his glove at her. He didn't know if it was a trick or not. Jenos didn't want to be tricked not again at least. He stated his name as number 11. The well know healer and inventor of an assasin group called the kodiac. He didn't know if he should take her as a friend or an enemy. He has been tricked by the sweet, kind, and gentle voice before and he didn't want it to happen again.

[Ayame]

Toni could sense the man's--she could tell it was a man because of his voice and the masculine edge to his aura--unease at talking with her, and she frowned slightly. She didn't like it when people were uncomfortable around her, because then it made her uncomfortable.

"So your name is... Eleven?" she clarified curiously. "What an interesting name."

Of course she knew that it was probably an alias, but she didn't to pressure him into being honest with her. He didn't know her, and she didn't know him. Alias's were fine with her.

Toni walked over to the tree carefully, sensing the proper direction rather than feeling for it. It made her look like any other person, not blind like she actually was. So long as he didn't notice how unusual her white eyes were, he probably wouldn't guess her condition.

"So..." she started, searching for something to say. She cleared her throat and glanced unseeingly at the sky. "Beautiful night, isn't it?"

Toni just about slapped herself. Of all the things you could say, and you comment on the weather?!

She sighed and waited for the boy to say something. Hopefully he wouldn't think her a total freak and she could help him with whatever made him so uncomfortable. It wasn't her place to impose in people's lives, but she liked to help others in any way that she could.

[nilo7]

Jenos was starting to get nervous as she walked his way towards the tree he was in..... once she started to talk about the weather he kind of wanted to laugh. So he lowered his glove and said "really the weather. You're a smooth talker aren't you?" He then replied to her question earlier about his name. He said " it is a rather different name isn't it. Well apparentlly that makes me special." Jenous was still not telling his real name because he doesn't know her that well yet.

[Ayame]

Toni smiled at the ground when she heard him snicker at her comment on the weather, but didn't speak. The last thing he said startled her, and before she could stop herself she slipped up and spoke without thinking about what she was going to say first.

"How does being named Eleven make you special?" she asked. She bit her lower lip when she realized how tactless and rude she'd been. "Er... I... uh... sorry," she mumbled, chagrinned.

Toni was quiet for a moment, running a hand impetuously with her multicoloured hair as she scrambled for a way to patch the awkward silence. She hadn't meant to be so blunt, and now she'd probably offended Eleven without meaning to.

"Toni isn't a special name. In fact, I'm fairly certain it has no real meaning or anything. It's probably not even an actual name, not the way I have it spelt. I'm actually pretty sure it's not even my real name, but I've been going by it for as long as I can remember--" she litterally bit her tongue to stop the flow of words.

Why was it she always had to ramble when she was nervous?

"Anyway... um... so..." Her face fell into her hands and she laughed in embarrassment. "I must sound like a total moron."

[nilo7]

When Jenos heard her say how is the name eleven make you special he felt a little hurt. Jenos then mumbled "I......I don't........Idon't know. It isn't special I guess. I mean it was assigned to me. I guess i just like to think it is special because I never felt that I was special to anyone." Jenos now felt crushed. He not only thought he was the blame for his brothers getting lost and his parents dying but now he was hurt inside thinking he wasn't anything special. Jenos then replied to Toni " Toni is a real name. You are lucky it is not only a mure number like mine." Jenos sat back down in the tree with his head down in shame now. He wasn't wanted anywhere. The kodiac wouldn't even want him if it weren't for the fact that he could heal people with major abilities and make weapons that wouldn't be fassed by a bomb. He felt as if he should just hang himself now.

[Ayame]

Toni heard the saddness and pain in Eleven's voice and instantly regretted saying anything at all. She felt the trunk over, searching for footholds, before timidly scaling the tree and sitting on the branch next to him.

"I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Eleven. I'm sorry. I always babble like an idiot when I don't think about it, and then I end up saying the wrong thing."

She pulled her feet up onto the branch as well, hugging her legs to her chest and resting her chin on her knees. Eleven's aura was taking on a depressed edge, and she felt sorry for him. She wanted to put a hand on his shoulder and tell him that everything would work out.

But she couldn't--not only because he barely knew her and would probably react poorly to such an action, but also because she didn't know what was wrong. Telling him that it would be all right when she didn't know what was wrong to begin with would probably just make things worse.

Instead, Toni began humming to herself. It was an old folksong, one she'd learned many years ago. She'd learnt it from her mother, in point of fact, and ever since it had been close to her heart. It always made her feel better when she was down, and she hoped that maybe it would have the same effect on Eleven.

When the song was over, she sighed. "So... not to pry, but why exactly are you sitting up here in this tree?"

[nilo7]

Jenos was a little more careful when she came up in the tree.....He then replied to Toni by saying "This tree has a great view when yo want to look at the moon. The reason I am in a tree is.....Well I guess I just like trees. The wind blowing through the leaves f the tree calms me done some I guess you could say. It help me when I feel bad. Boy do I feel bad and stupid in fact at this moment." Jenos raised his head to look at the moon thaat he believed at least one of his three lost brothers were looking at.

[Ayame]

"I understand," Toni told him, her lips quirking up in a smile.

She sighed again and gripped the branch on either side of herself, receiving a shock when her hand accidentally brushed someone else's. Blushing furiously, she pulled her hand away almost too quickly. She then realized that while touching him might have freaked Eleven out, jerking away like that might have insulted him.

"Sorry," she mumbled for what seemed like the billionth time. "I didn't see your hand there." Or any of the rest of you, for that matter... she thought dryly.

Toni closed her eyes, taking a deep breath to centre herself. She might as well let him know the truth. If he knew something about her, maybe he'd be willing to share with her what was bothering him. Besides, he'd probably find out soon enough anyway.

She found his hand again, her fingers following it up his arm, over his shoulder and to his chin. She then turned his face to hers, but kept her eyes closed for a moment longer.

"I'm blind," she told him plainly, her lids sliding open to reveal her white eyes; eyes that looked as though they had no pupil and no iris. "But I can see auras--which is sort of like seeing the person your talking to--and sense emotions--which is like seeing their expressions--so talking with people is just the same as it is for anyone else. Sometimes being blind makes me feel like I'd rather be dead, but other times I'm happy about it. Every day I am thankful for what I have, even if I could do without some things."

Toni smiled reassuringly, patting Eleven's shoulder in a friendly way. She was fairly sure that what she'd said didn't make any sense, but she shrugged mentally, not really caring. If it helped him open up to her so that she could help him feel better, then it was worth it.

[nilo7]

Jenos felt her hand touch his but didn't care. Then she yanked it away like was going to rape her because of it or something..... He heard her say that she was blind and then said "I know" as she was feeling him which seemed frever considering he wasn't touchy person when he first meets somebody. Jenos then said " Jenos......Jenos is y real name." He felt a little bit more confortable around her now so he decided she should at least know his real name. It was his way of saying thanks for talking with me for a while I really like company.

[Ayame]

"Jenos..." Toni repeated slowly, committing it to memory and testing out the way it sounded when it fell from her lips. Suddenly she grinned at him. "That's a nice name."

Quite suddenly she moved her hand from his shoulder to his face, feeling it. She hoped he wouldn't mind, she just wanted to know what he looked like. Her fingertips trailed over his eyebrow, down his nose, across his cheek, along his jaw. Jenos' warm breath tickled her palm as her hand ghosted over his mouth.

Her other hand came up to discover the other half of his face, taking the same route the other had, though pausing briefly to touch his eye patch curiously.

And then, just as suddenly, her hands dropped her her sides again and she bit her lower lip, smiling apologetically.

"I probably just creeped the heck out of you," she sighed, shaking her head. "I know I should really ask before I go around touching people's faces--gosh that sounds weird. It's just... since I don't know what you look like, touching your face is the only way I can even get an idea."

Toni clasped her hands in her lap, showing Jenos that she wouldn't do it again. She amused herself instead by watching his aura ripple around him, glowing brightly the closer it was to him and growing more hazy the further away. He had a nice aura.

[nilo7]

Jenos was fine with her touching him as long as it wasn't in a weird way like they were in a relation when they aren't. Jenos relized Toni started to babble probably from being nervous of what he would think of her.Jenos didn't say anything he just decided to show her with actions, Jenos lightly felt her leg so he wouldn't startle her. He then moved his hand to her hand gently. He slowely moved her hand to his face having her touch hi eye patch were she had left off. tryin totell her trough his action that he wanted her to confortable around him and that he would rather her feel what he looks like intead of being upset that she was blind.

[Ayame]

Toni was somewhat startled when Jenos took her hand and directed it back to his face. But then she relaxed and, a little more confidently now that he'd let her know it was okay, she continued her examination of his face.

When she finished, she returned to his eye-patch, and she touched it once, her fingers fluttering lightly over it's surface. "Did something happen to your eye?" she asked curiously. She then added hastily, "You don't have to tell me, of course, if you don't want to."

Toni frowned a little at how cautious she was being. Why? She wasn't usually this timid around new people. Why was she suddenly nervous about doing or saying the wrong thing? She shook her head minutely and returned her attention to Jenos, waiting patiently for him to answer her question however he saw fit.

[nilo7]

As Toni was feeling his face Jenos closed his eyes so he could be more calm and so he could feel her hand much better knowing how many times she touched a certain part of his face. With his eyes still shut he decided to answer her question. He relied "There really isn't anything wrong with it but i uess you can say i make myself blind in that eye by wearing this eye patch. " Jenos can ee out of that eye but not what he should see instead it is looking at the future so he has two different times going on at the ame time. He only uses it in battles for the most part tugh because it is like a trump card because once he uses it he most of the time passes out.