Fifteenth Jump (Blazblue) Part 4

Another One Bites the Dust

            I left fairly early this morning, doing my best to avoid the fact that Jin was currently spending the night in my room recovering from a few injuries that he possessed. While I disagreed with Bang’s actions, I can honestly understand not wanting to fight someone who was injured. It isn’t as much fun, especially if they caused you a lot of torment. For breakfast, I actually went to that restaurant the NOL Agent had told me about.

            There was no sign of that agent and, while I was eating, the news that was on TV mentioned that she had actually been found dead. Inch deep claw marks were found all over her bloodied corpse, some having actually been since as stab wounds and not true scratches, primarily around her head and chest. Back home I had heard that if someone had wounds around their face, it meant that the killer hated them… Sad. I would bring her back from death, but I could not now that her death was known to everyone.

            I pushed the thought out of my head and simply went back to my food. The waitress was kind enough to join me for a conversation and a snack after her shift and we actually hung out for about an hour afterword as I asked her about current events and where everything was in the city as I still had yet to go everywhere. She was a beastkin, so I did have to drive off a few racists that decided to bother her.

            We parted around the marketplace and I went on my way to go to the park and enjoy myself with a few smokes and my endless, healing cherry grog while simply enjoying the day. Yankaka managed to find and join me a few hours, around the time that the sun was starting to set.

            She seemed surprisingly calm, considering she simply flipped over the back of the bench I was sitting in, landed on her feet, and then dropped into the seat. Yes, that was her being calm. “Hi, Great Guy!” She stated as she sat down and moved to try to lean against me. I allowed it for a moment, but when she tried to wrap her arms around me, I gently pushed her arms away.

“Evening, Yankaka. Why so calm?” I asked softly, taking a long draw from my cigarette before letting out the smoke through my nose, making sure that I wasn’t blowing the smoke toward her. She seemed to enjoy the flavored scent that it was laced with, but it was still unhealthy. “Yan has been up for a few nights. Yan has had business to take care of, nya.” With a small hum, I took a moment to put out the cigarette on the bench before tossing it into the nearby trash can.

I took a final sip from my grog while Yankaka spoke, listening quietly as she elaborated. “The little Kakas were bothering Tao’s nightly nap, nya. Yan took them to bed and nothing else, nya.” My head tilted off to the side as I corked the bottle and slipped it back into my coat… Really, the personal inventory, but this way it just looked like it was in the coat. “So… Multiple nights in a row?” As I spoke, I raised up out of the bench and started to walk off.

Yankaka leaped up and tried to cling to my back for a moment before eventually dropping off once I voiced a slight complaint… Granted, she kept reaching for my arm when I wasn’t paying attention. “Totokaka was looking for her, so they tried to find Taokaka, nya.” We both turned a corner and went off toward Bang’s place as the wind started to pick up, a few clouds rolling in and the humidity began to increase. Was probably going to rain soon, so I didn’t want to stay out in the open for too long.

“Very well. I can understand that… I think. Still, multiple times?” The Kaka frantically nodded as we made our way toward Ronin-gai and, just as the storm started to pick up, we managed to slip into the home. I still had yet to have an actual place of my own… or find my damn apartment or even the resort, but that was unimportant.

            “Ah, Good to see you, Yan of the Kaka Clan!” Hollered Bang once he realized who it was that I brought with me, considering the fact that she said her name when speaking, it didn’t take long. “Shirtless Man! Hi-… Who are you, nya?” She started with a smile, but her red eyes turned into straight lines and her mouth into a box shape once she realized she had no idea who this was. “This is Bang. He is the guy I am staying with at the moment.” I wandered off for a moment, leaving them to talk.

            It only took a few minutes before I crashed right through the wall to get back into the room when I heard Bang, talking in his heroic, boisterous voice say “Of course you can stay! I wouldn’t want you getting sick and going through the city at night! That’s just unkind!”. It took me a moment to regain my composure, my eyes glancing back and forth between the two for a moment.

Bang looked at me with a mix of surprise and confusion, considering I had gone through the wall, while Yankaka seemed so very happy about the idea… Even if I had gone through the wall with an expression of ‘no’ on my face. “What?! I could easily get her home, you know. I have an umbrella and the darkness is not an issue.”

“Do you not want Yan here, nya? Does Great Guy want Yan to go through the cold and rain?” She stated with a growing whine, her jacket-covered ears lowering down and her ‘eyes’ watering up on the spot. “Yes, Tadek… Are you sure? That’s not very kind… or, in your case, polite.” Bang commented, an eyebrow raising up as he spoke.

Between the two of them, I let out a heavy sigh, turned, and wandered off toward the chest that held the spare guest supplies. “Alright, alright… I’ll get out the blankets and everything.” I heard a “Yay! Yan get to spend night with Great Guy, nya!” and a “That’s the spirit!” from Bang.

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(For the audience.)

            Later that night, as everyone was sleeping and recovering from their individual events, Yankaka was unable to sleep. She had been set up behind a fold-out screen on the opposite side of the room that Jin and Tadek were sleeping in, as she was in the same room and Bang (And Tadek) insisted on privacy. The little Kaka peeked out from behind the screen and simply stared in Tadek’s direction, her body leaning back and forth as if she was debating whether or not she should simply go over and join him.

            “Yankaka happy… Yan also found more competition… Beastkin… Great Guy would be mad, if he knew Yan was following him without saying ‘hi’… Don’t worry, Great Guy… Yan will be with nyou soon. Yan killed the first…” Her claws suddenly slipped out of her jacket, the large blades gleaming in the shreds of light that occasionally creeped in due to the light poles outside. “Yan kill the second, nya… Then Yan will be closer... Yan will have Great Guy, nya. Yankaka will have you.”