Meow or Rawr? {open}

[Hikari S. Ito]

Hikari looked around the area, well. Club in this case. It wasn't the first time. She had been in here several times, but never once did she drink. She wasn't allowed at this age anyway. It sucked, though. She did have unlimited access to song request. Ryuu was the DJ at the Cat's Meow. So, she could just go up and ask him for a song. She usually did that, but today felt different then normal days.

Today just had a different feeling to it. It was a different feeling it today. Hikari could feel auras in the days and areas, but not really in people. She could just read people sometimes. Today was different and she took it a different way. Instead of asking Ryuu for a song, she just went to the bar. And instead of ordering water, she ordered pop. Today, was definitely a different day for Hikari, definitely.

[Ryo Navi]

Ryo walked into the club with his hands in his pockets and a rather calm yet stern look on his face. He was more or less passing through the area never one to really be a partyer or anything of that nature, and for a long time, he'd stayed away from generally crowded public places due to the simple fact that he might be noticed by one of the gang members and harassed or something of the like.....call it a fear of death maybe, heh.....

However, on that day something had more or less pulled him into the area at that moment in time, and he found himself walking inwards without any real goal in mind other than to simply survey the area. Breathing outwards and finally ending up leaned against a wall not far from Hikari, the dark haired man watched as people moved about for a bit. His dark blue eyes shifted around the area, yet he said nothing, really. After finding that there appeared to be no one there that he knew, he walked over towards the bar and ordered a coke at which the bartender stared for a moment before Ryo produced the money to pay for it. After that moment, the bartender seemed to be quite more kind to Ryo and quickly made up the drink.

Ryo sipped it carefully and didn't really look at anything at that moment in time.

[Hikari S. Ito]

Were her eyes playing tricks on her? Maybe she was just hallucinating. Nahh, he was actually there, but not really there. A Haiiro look a like. Hikari rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing things. She wasn't. Wait, didn't Haiiro-san say something about having siblings? Yeah he did.

Hikari scanned her mind for that conversation. Oh yeah, he had a twin brother. So, maybe that was him. He didn't have the same aura as Haiiro. It was, different. Hikari wasn't sure how it was different, but it was different in a way. It was a really weird day today. Should she go up and talk to the guy? Maybe not.

Ughh, life was so confusing. Hikari dropped her head and felt it hit the counter of the bar. It had made a loud thump as it hit the counter. At that moment the bartender asked if she was alright. She nodded. She new her glass was empty, so she asked for some more.

Lifting her head a bit, she looked at the bartender with pleading eyes. It wasn't the fact that she didn't have any money, she had quiet a bit. She just didn't want to go into her pocket. "Can I start a tab?" She asked. The bartender shook his head no. She guessed those were for people who could drink, she couldn't at this age.

Hikari reached into her pocket and pulled out the right amount of money to pay the guy to get another drink. When she heard the clink of a new cup of pop hitting the counter she smiled a bit toward the counter. She had put her head back down to stare into the darkness and the glowing blue color of the counter.

She lifted her body and stared at the cup. She downed the entire cup in one gulp, and smacked the cup down on the counter. She stood up and turn around just to bump into a person. "Sorry." She muttered before walking away from the guy.

She didn't get a great look at the guy, but she could tell her had brown hair at least, sort of. She made her way over to the guy who looked like Haiiro. She tapped him on his shoulder, "Excuse me," She started. "You wouldn't happen to be related to Haiiro Navi, would you?

[Ryo Navi]

Upon being poked on the shoulder, Ryo found his eye slide backwards, and after a moment, his head turned to the girl that had just poked him. She asked... about Haii. Staring blankly for a moment, Ryo sighed outwards somewhat glad that she hadn't just assumed that he was in fact Haii but had rather asked instead....He didn't recognize her but assumed that Haii probably knew her somehow. After a moment, he turned his head back and stared at his drink for a few seconds. "Maybe," he finally answered back before sipping his drink for a few seconds and then turning fully to stare at Hikari again.

"Who are you?" he asked after a moment before falling silent again. His eye traced around the room even as he looked directly at Hikari, and for a moment, Ryo thought he caught sight of... No... it couldn't be. After a moment, he closed his blue eyes and then breathed out. He was not this jumpy. He doubted that he had just seen him, but... if he did.....No.

[Hikari S. Ito]

He wasn't going to angry her. Nope, not one bit. Though his answer ticked her off a bit. She wouldn't loose her temper. Nope, not one bit. Not at all, not one but. It was still harder for her to hold her temper though. It ran in her family and around her. Ryuu couldn't hold his temper, neither could her father. Her mother, on the other hand.

Could hold her temper very well, but she was different. Hikari has gotten most of her father's traits both in looks and personality. To keep her temper calm, she bit her tough, literally. She bit into her tongue, hard. He had just asked who she was. Yep, she was right. It wasn't Haiiro-san, but it didn't matter right?

"I'm Hikari Ito," She said. She noticed the women next to the Haiiro-look-a-like get up. Hikari herself took the seat and then waved the bartender over. "Just water this time. She said, while handing him the proper amount of money. The glass of water clinked against the counter of the bar.

Hikari turned to the boy. "I won't take maybe as an answer," She said. "It's not a hard question. Answer it with either yes or no, boy."Hikari spoke the truth. It wasn't a hard question.

[Ryo Navi]

Ryo was quiet for a moment and didn't say anything but simply sipped his coke again. As this woman seemed to sit down and started talking, he said nothing but simply mentally nodded at her. After she made the rather odd threat of sorts, he half smirked. However, his face fell again, and he was once more somber as the grave. "My name is Ryo Navi," he answered back before sipping again. "Haiiro is my twin," he finished before sipping a bit more coke and falling silent again. The bartender was staring at him, and Ryo stared back for a good few seconds before the bartender finally looked away.

Not far off, someone was staring now at Ryo's back, and the dark haired man was starting to feel the paranoia of it. His stomach twitched, and he wanted to suddenly punch something though he wasn't entirely sure why just yet. However, in truth, he didn't show any sign of this and simply continued to sip at his drink coolly.

[Hikari S. Ito]

Hikari was watching Ryo, just like how she watched other people and his brother. She was able to read people, well. It was really just her reading their faces and noticing the little changes and the little things they did. Habits sort of. She sipped her water while listening to Ryo talk.

"Your like you brother," She said. "Always changing your facial expression back to normal, after you show some kind of emotion." It was probably obvious, but even though twins liked to be told apart from each other, but in truth. They were the same in more ways then not, most of the time at least.

Hikari could feel it even if he didn't show it. There was something wrong. Oh em gee! Hikari was a sixth sense! Well, she wasn't sure what was wrong, she could tell that there was something wrong. She could feel it in the air around her, she took another sip from her glass. "Is there something, Ryo-san?" She asked.

[Ryo Navi]

"Your like you brother. Always changing your facial expression back to normal, after you show some kind of emotion." Ryo looked half heartedly at Hikari and said nothing for a few minutes more to which she continued talking. "Is there something, Ryo-san?" Well that wasn't what he had been expecting of it. However, after a moment, Ryo simply gulped a large portion of his coke and then leaned forwards on the bar.

"No," he answered the second question first but still expected her to understand which he was answering. "And...." he started a moment thinking about the shift in facial features. "He smiles more than I do," was the answer that he finally gave back as he looked sideways at Hikari then. "I don't feel compelled to smile that much."

With that, he took another sip of his drinking finding that he had nearly finished the entire coke. After another swig of it of sorts, he set it down and slid it forwards towards the bartender who quickly picked it up and refilled it as Ryo got out some extra money and set it on the table. As the new drink came to him, Ryo started to sip it again.

"How do you know Haii?" he finally asked sipping the drink a bit more and no longer looking directly at Hikari.

[Hikari S. Ito]

Maybe, Hikari had read the reading wrong, but it seemed like there was something wrong. Oh well, whatever. She took another small sip of water from her glass. He, doesn't feel compelled to smile? How can someone not feel like smiling? Well, Hikari guessed there were all sorts of people around the world like that, but she never would've guessed Haiiro's -I mean Ryo- to feel that way.

"Even if you don't smile a lot, you and your brother both change you expressions when you show an emotion," She said. "Habit as well?" Hikari took another sip of water from her glass before setting it down on the counter next to her. "Well, my idiot father abandoned me at the Observatory, to go drink with a few of his buddies," She said. "He found me and took me on a tour of the Observatory. That's all that was really too it." Hikari shrugged after that. "Why?" She asked him.

She saw that he wasn't looking at her, not that she minded. It was just weird. When you talk to a person, most look at the person. She guessed Ryo-san was different from the average person. She wondered if she should bring up the whole Ryuu say Ryo with a gang a few weeks back thing or something. She guessed not, but his behavior.

[Ryo Navi]

"Habit," Ryo repeated back what Hikari had said without really thinking about it. As he listened to Hiarki's explanation on meeting Haii, he mentally took it inwards. Well, Haii did work at the Observatory, and the story seemed plausible enough, eh. After another moment, he took another sip of his drink and finally looked back to Hikari when she asked why. "Just wondering," he answered back rather dryly despite the fact that he had taken more than his fare share of coke in the last thirty seconds. "But....eh it makes sense," he finished before his eye caught something.....someone.

Not far off, Nex was sitting down and smirking towards Ryo. The dark haired man paled a moment and then looked towards the bartender and leaned over the bar a bit more. Great... so he was right... one of them... from the gang that he had left.... and... he was right there....RYo wasn't sure whether or not to simply break out into a run or act coolly, and his indecision led to the second taking to affect whether he wanted it or not.

[Hikari S. Ito]

Hikari nodded with Ryo's voice. Then suddenly she saw him lean over the counter more. Something caught his eyes that he didn't like. She leaned closer to the counter as well. "Ya sure there is nothing wrong, Ryo-san?" She asked.

Well, I would've made Hikari call him Ryo-baka-hime, but that would've been to long. So, let's stay with Ryo-san for now. She already knew probably what was going on with him. It was probably someone from his old gang. Hikari's eyes wandered around the club, until they landed on her drink.

She took another small sip and placed the practically full cup on the counter. She looked over and stared into Ryo's blue eyes. She could tell he lied when he said that nothing was wrong, but he could tell that she could tell that he was lieing?

[Ryo Navi]

Was he really showing anything? Ryo wasn't fully sure, yet this girl seemed to notice something, and he found himself slightly irritated by it. However, Ryo kept a placid face even as Nex suddenly looked directly at him. Ryo sipped his drink a bit more, and Nex had suddenly risen. "Hey Ryuu," Nex smirked using the gang name that Ryo had used for the time he had been in said gang. Ryo mentally cringed but didn't say anything for a moment. "Ya gonna ignore me Ryuu? That ain't nice..."

Ryo breathed out and the sipped his drink before looking towards Ryo. "You're not worth my time," was all that Ryo answered back with before continuing to drink. The bartender looked at the two and wondered if he was about to have to break up some sort of fight. However, for now, he'd be quiet and see how it played out.

"Heh, since when have you ever had such a harsh mouth to a friend?" Nex grinned walking directly behind Ryo. Ryo continued to ignore him, yet Nex seemed to put a hand on his shoulder after a moment. "Well?" was the question. Ryo continued not to speak, and Nex found his fingers tighten just a fraction in the dark haired man's shoulder. However, after a few seconds, this hand loosened again. "What have you been up to?" he smirked trying to keep calm.

Ryo was calmer than the grave and continued to drink his soda all but oblivious to the man directly behind him. However, after a moment, he finally seemed to smirk dryly. "Again, Nex, you're not worth my time. Get your ass out of here before I make you leave..." the dark haired man threatened. Nex found his hand tightening on Ryo's shoulder again, yet Ryo didn't even seem to care.

"Ryuu, you're walking a thin line... how about we take a walk?" the gang member stated aloud as though unsure of himself then and there. He had no idea what he was supposed to do now and was simply trying to put something together fast. However, after a moment, he smirked again forcing the face.

"No," Ryo answered back continuing to sip. Nex growled unsure of what to do, and in another moment, he made to punch Ryo. Ryo felt the punch hit the side of his face, and for a moment, the dark haired man didn't move. However, in another moment, he rose to his feet and then seized Nex by the shirt. Nex blinked suddenly aware that he had angered a very dangerous person. In the next moment, the sound of skin hitting skin could be heard, and Nex was suddenly on the floor. Ryo simply turned around and sat down again before looking towards the bartender and asking for another soda. Nex growled and then looked sharply towards Hikari as though debating to try something else.

[Hikari S. Ito]

Hikari watched the whole thing play out, and she couldn't even do anything. She guessed that Ryo's gang named was Ryuu. Which was a common name, it meant dragon. Yuu-chan had always said not to mess with anyone in a gang, and she took Yuu-chan's word very seriously. Especially now.

When Nex was thrown to the ground and Ryo had returned to his seat next to her. She could practically feel Nex's eyes boring into her back. She ignored him, the punch looked pretty hard though. Her eyes moved to Ryo. "Are you okay, Ryo-" She wasn't able to finish her sentence because she was grabbed by the shoulder off her chair.

She stared into the eyes of Nex. "He. Your pretty hot." He said with a smirk. "How 'bout you and I ditch this place?". Hikari didn't say anything to the guy, she couldn't attack him. That could lead to problems. "How 'bout we don't?" She said to him. She pushed him away, with a smile. He on the other hand, didn't look to happy.

He was fast. She didn't even get time to react. Next thing she knew, his arm was just below her neck, allowing her to breath, but she felt something cold and hard against her neck. She glanced downwards slightly and saw a knife. 'That's not good.' She thought.

"Either, you come with me Ryuu," Nex said. "Or your little girlfriend looses her life." He moved his arm around so that she couldn't breath and that the knife was pressed to her neck. 'This isn't good. I wish Yuu-chan was here.' She thought.

((OOC: I fail at writing gang leaders. I did my best though.))

[Ryo Navi]

Ryo's eyes stared forwards for a few seconds until his head shot up the sudden talk around him. Catching sight of Nex suddenly after Hikari. When Nex had seized and pressed a knife to Hikari's neck, Haii breathed out dryly and then turned and rose standing upwards. Nex seemed to smirk and then even half laughed. "Is she special to you or something?" he asked. Ryo stared at Hikari for a moment before breathing out slowly.

"You're a dumbass, Nex," was the comment that finally came from Ryo. "Did Hayate put a price tag on my head or something?" His face was somber and controlled as though he were made of porcelain rather than flesh.

Nex seemed to falter if just the slightest before tightening his grip on Hikari. "Don't you dare try and screw with me Ryuu.... or do you want your little girl to get her head sliced off....." was the only answer that came from Nex. Ryo simply stared darkly back. After a few seconds, Nex growled deep in his throat.

"She's not my girl," was the only answer that Ryo stated as he turned and then proceeded to walk away. However, in another moment, Ryo had turned sharply and landed a kick straight on Nex's face. The dark haired man shoved all his weight forwards and made to knock Nex straight down into the ground. "But don't you dare touch a woman again," he hissed sharply.

The bartender seemed to breathe a bit before finally stepping from out of his bar and then more or less getting between Nex and Ryo. "Alright alright... out with you," he stated more or less forcing Nex up only to make a shoving motion for him towards the door.

Ryo stated nothing but stared at at the knife that was left on the floor. He gently picked it up, closed it, and put it in his own pocket before looking towards Hikari. "Sorry for the trouble..." he sighed. With that, he suddenly seemed to turn and started to take a few steps to leave.


((OOC: It's ok x3 Nex is just a spiteful gang member and not the real leader as you can see heh))

[Hikari S. Ito]

Hikari was almost believed that he was going to leave her like this, but there was the split second before he actually did his action and when he was walking away, that she was sure that he wouldn't leave her. When Ryo aimed for a kick at Nex's face she shut her eyes before the kick landed.

When she felt Nex let go of her, she opened her eyes to find that Ryo and the Nex man were being ushered out of the club. Though Hikari had no idea why she did. She quickly after Ryo, when she caught up to him. She tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. "I apologize as well. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have gotten kicked out," She said with a small bow. "Though, as greatful I'm to you. I'm curious, why did you did what you did back there? You could've left and competly avoided the whole thing."

Hikari was just feeling curious today and her creator doesn't want to end the thread here after like five posts because that's a waste of muse. So, she wants to keep this going. She had it planned in her head. If he didn't give her an actual answer or a vague answer, she would follow him until it annoyed him. If he were to give her a straight answer, then she would probably go home, or just go back to the club and maybe hang out with Yuu-chan.