Run and Go Seek

[Kida]

"AHA!" The monkey girl was in the top of the tree, her hand raised to her brow to scan the distance heroically. Too bad for her the tree was barely five feet tall and wobbling like crazy because she was in it. Most of the people in the mall were looking at her like she was mad. And she was. Like a hatter! Yay mercury poisoning!

Ann Marie heard a little snap. "Oro?....Oro?" Just as she was about to ask what it had been the bumbling monkey fell out of the tree as the branch gave way under her. "OW! ....DAMN IT!" she sword unnecessarily loud for just a small injury. Normally she didn't really swear but she figured it might attract Kida's attention if she were near.

"SISTER! KIDA! KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDA!" she called/ whined like a child. But her sister-to-be was no where to be found. Ann Marie pouted while sitting there on the ground outside the mall. Maybe she was inside? Oh! Maybe she would check the dressing rooms! Kida always wore trendy clothes. Or maybe they had a geeky comic store that she could find Kida in.

Ann Marie was suddenly so proud of herself that she'd figured out the two most perfect places to find her buddy. "Off, off, off to a journey to find her!" she sung aloud to herself. But when standing up and starting to march off, she'd kept her eyes clothes. For no apparent reason had she done this other than she thought it would look better when she marched wildly. However it caused her to collide with another person. "Ow~!"

{Open}

[Zephel]

"Ooof!" Hikaru was knocked backwards as he tottered his way to regain balance, though that proves to be much of a difficulty since he's holding two or so large paper bags in his arms, that completely covers his face to add. A few apples escaped the paper bags as it fell down and rolled...and Hikaru being Hikaru, stepped on one of them, tripped and fell with food all over him.

And there goes all of his brother's painstakingly-earned money...

"...He's gonna KILL me..." Hikaru muttered to himself, horrified of the mess. Just as he's about to sulk in his usual endless despair corner, the redhead suddenly remembered the person he just collided with. Turning his head to the front, he sees a girl he thought he haven't met before...at least he thinks so.

"I..I'm truly sorry about that. I wasn't looking where I was going. A-are you okay??"

'Of course, nii-san would hurt me more if I hurt somebody ELSE other than myself...'

[Kida]

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Ann Marie shouted in horror. Not answering the question Hikaru had given her, no, she wasn't even paying attention to him. "Gotta fix! Gotta clean!" She ran around on all fours, almost like a crab, gathering up whatever she could of the food that hadn't been smashed or spoiled. To her dismay, a bird was trying to pilfer one of the apples. "No! Bad! Shoobegoneshoobegone SHOOOOOOO! Not yours!" Ann Marie gave the firm a firm whack on the head and while it was distracted, took the apple back.

"Yes, yes, yes." she chanted, stuffing everything back into the brown bags. Only then did she notice Hikaru at all. "Oooooo. Red." she said, commenting on his hair. It didn't occur to Ann Marie to apologize to the person because it had been her fault for running into him. "Did Red hurt himself when falling down?" --Or that she'd been involved at all, it seemed.

[Zephel]

Hikaru cringed inwardly as the girl's shrill scream automatically made his fingers quickly block his hearing. He raised a brow as he just sat there, with a finger blocking each of his ears, eying the strange girl cleaning up his groceries. He silently watched her as he slowly lowered down his fingers, releasing his ears as the girl then whacked a bird on the head to retrieve an apple.

Hikaru sweatdropped at the sight. It's only until she's done cleaning up that she noticed Hikaru, naming him Red due to his hair, and the light child could only manage to chuckle slowly and nervously before sweatdropping once again. "Uh...no, I'm...not hurt, but uh...are you...." It's amazing what this girl could do to his mind by only revealing her quirks.

"My... My name is Hikaru, actually." Regaining back his composure, Hikaru then pushed himself up and smiled to the new girl. "And uh, thanks for...cleaning up my groceries. Uhm...did by any chance, I accidentally hit your head with my elbow or something...?"

[Kida]

Once again Ann Marie either didn't hear or didn't choose to acknowledge that he had asked her a question. Instead she was giggling and humming to herself as she swayed for no apparent reason. "Ann Marie cleaned up your food stuffs--Yup, yup!" She jumped to her feet and offered him a hand. No matter that the boy had told her his name, he was forever dubbed 'Red' in her brain. Only death would wash that away.

"Lots of food for just Red. Red huuuungry person?" The little monkey's tail wagged, rather like a dog's, with her interest in this new person. "Red must live here. Ann Marie all bright and shineh new to here. ....Where IS here?" she asked, suddenly curious.

[Zephel]

Hikaru sort of had that distracted smile stuck on his face as he watched Ann Marie and her strange antics. He's reflecting this girl to his younger self...he was that hyper and happy-go-lucky years ago. A hand that was suddenly offered to him woke him up from his train of thoughts as Hikaru gratefully accepted her help and stood with her help.

"Thanks!" He automatically said before lightly laughing at this girl. Maybe he can revert back to his old self with this girl. "Hahah, so you're Ann Marie. Nice to meet you!" Hikaru nodded at her with that same wide grin. "Oh! And here is DD! Diabolic Domain~! There are a lot of dragons here, so be care--" The redhead paused, the word 'careful' could never be understood by someone like this girl, he's sure of it.

Picking up one paper bag, Hikaru suddenly remembered something. He reached his hand inside his pocket, and offered it to Ann Marie...though, when he thought it back, this isn't such a good thing to be presenting to a highly hyper child, but still. "Want a candy?" When he opened his palm, bubble gum, some pieces of candies, and a lollipop are present on his hand...

Hikaru's left leg are already in a half-leap motion, readying to bounce off the ground and escape if she tries what he thought she would. ...Now half of him regretted this.

[Kida]

"Kyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!" Ann Marie launched herself at Hikaru, tackling him to the ground once more and making him drop the bags all over again.

As sad as it was, Ann Marie was mad. The combination of her insanity and her younger appearance made most take her for an extremely hyper child. The fact of the matter was that Ann Marie was 15 years old, insane, and wasn't very shapely--so her physical maturity wasn't obvious. Still, it was pretty apparent that she in fact had breasts when she was smashing them into Hikaru.

The monkey demon all but inhaled the candy with an excited giggle. She ADORED candy, was always chasing it. Then, as a thank you, she gave Hikaru a great big kiss--full on the mouth. "Red gave Ann Marie candy! Candy, candy, caaaaaaaaaaandyyyyyyyyy!" Then, like the idiot she was, she cuddled him in the middle of the shopping center.


"Red and Ann Marie shall be the best of best friends!"

[Zephel]

His readying leg proves to be of no used as the girl's sudden outburst and speed shadows even his own. Before he knows it, he's being attacked to the floor, his groceries decorated the floor yet again as the redhead trues hard to breathe and function his ears back to normal through both that fall and that yell.

The fact that this girl apparently owns a certain body part Hikaru's not supposed to touch, or even felt, smashed onto him isn't no help to clear his mind either. "C-calm down!! Calm down!!" He yelled out, his complexion now slightly red as he tries to not get his hand sucked inside Ann Marie's mouth while she's busy devouring the candies he (stupidly) displayed to her.

"Please, Ann Marie, I need you to--"

And that huge kiss attack totally blew it. The 'it' refers to his mind. Instant black-out. That's why right after he's being kissed, Hikaru slumped back to the floor like a rag doll, eyes blank with his face burning. That wasn't no help either as Ann Marie grabbed him and hugged him...in public. Many pairs or eyes stared at them, some stopped at the sidelines to watch the scene...

With an immediate slap on the face, Hikaru is silently grateful for hanging around with his brother too much to gain an automatic hand for slapping in case his mind blacks out. That woke him up with a start. "A-Ann Marie, can you uh...please let me go now... Friends need to help each other, not block the other's airways..." He choked...awkwardly.

[Kida]

"Oro? ........Oro?" Squeezing him, Ann Marie tilted her head to the side and looked at him. "Red need air? Okies!" She let go and sprung about a foot back, sitting rather like a dog with her hands rested on the ground. The Monkey's tail twitched back and forth. "Thankies, Red! Ann Marie LOVE yum yums." She giggled and smiled at him. "Ann Marie likes Red." In her mind this new person had not only been proved a decent person, but an a great one.

"Red and Ann Marie be BEST of friends!"

"Birds of a feeeeeeeather, they flock togeeeeeether and da da da da DA daaaaaaaaa!" she sang her little imaginary song, then was lost for words and just sang out syllables. Then Ann Marie reverted to just humming the short melody over and over again, waiting for Red to respond.

[Zephel]

When this hyperactive girl releases him, Hikaru does nothing but gasped for air and heaved like mad. It took him a few seconds to inhale one big breath to calm him down before he reverted his attention back to this new girl. She's weird, he's certain of that, but everybody is, its just her weirdness just...literally glows outside her. "Y-you're welcome.." Hikaru stuttered, wondering if he'll start to be like his brother, running the hell away when hyper people like Ann Marie started to recognize his existence... And while thinking all of that, he was staring at the girl blankly... Realizing this, his eyes finally caught something moving behind Ann Marie, swaying to and fro...a tail??

That's when the girl declared they shall be the best of friends, which Hikaru politely smiled at...with a sweatdrop, wondering if this is a good thing or not. "Hahahah...that's wonderful, so I've got a new friend already. But friends also need space, so please...no glomping and hugging out of a sudden like that, okay?" Wow, he feels so matured when talking like this...or maybe he feels uncomfortable because the only person that he's used to hugging and glomping him is Kimiko.

While Ann Marie's busy humming her little melody, Hikaru sat up, ran a hand through his thick red hair for a while to make sure he got his mind back, and looks around. Of course, he received some odd looks from the people around them, and Hikaru is only able to reply to them with apologies and a small guilty smile, complete with that same awkward sweatdrop.

Shortening his view, he could see his groceries-- no, his BROTHER'S groceries, scattered everywhere on the shopping center's waxed floor. ...Great, he can't even see where the paper bags are, probably got blown by the wind or got lost in the commotion when Hikaru's busy trying to breathe earlier. Though, stuffing the goods back in the bags started to sound like a bad idea... Zeph can tell when Hikaru drops something TWICE and hands it to the silver-haired. Total head-smack marathon. Hikaru shivered at the thought. 'Why me....why NOW...'

But being Hikaru, he never lets any grave thoughts lingering around his mind for long. ...To him, might as well enjoy his time before death stalks him in the form of a pissed silver-haired clutching a cooking utensil with an empty pot...no dinner tonight, he suppose.

"Say, Ann Marie! Do you know any games we can play inside a shopping centre??" His tone's different from before...now more energetic, fun,happy...playful. ...Wow, he hasn't felt this way for a long time. "Whatever it is, let's play!"

[Kida]

Nodding like she might be paying attention, Ann Marie didn't truly grasp his words. Ann Marie would most certainly hug him in such a manner, glomping, later. After her little song, the monkey jumped to her feet and offered Hikaru a hand. "Game?? Ann Marie know lots and lots of gamies wamies. But dun know any for a shopping place-place."

Before Hikaru could actually take her hand she did a cart wheel around and around and around. Making herself dizzy almost, when she finally landed she had what was left of the food that had spilled a second time. "OooooOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOoooooo....! DiiiiiiIIIIIIIiiiiIIIIIIzzy...."

Ann Marie almost fell over before getting the food into the bags she'd picked up. "Red know gamie wamie for shopping place-place?"

[Zephel]

Hikaru smiled at Ann Marie's offering hand, and he was just about to accept the generous help...until she pulled her arm back and starts spinning around and around, cartwheeling. 'Wow, I haven't done that in a long time...' Hikaru thought to himself as he watched her, before standing up by himself and dusts his clothes.

"Well, Red DOES know some gamie wamie for shopping place-place." The red-head picked up Ann Marie's tone, which came out rather squeakily, and grinned. Just when he's about to announce his idea of a 'gamie-wamie'...

"BARK, BARK!!"

Hikaru paused. A dog...no, a puppy barking. ...In a shopping mall. "Oh no..." He turned his head around to see one lone snow-white puppy running towards the redhead. This isn't one ordinary lost puppy...it's his BROTHER'S one lost puppy.

Out of instinctual fear, Hikaru grabbed Ann Marie by the arm and quickly pulled her off towards the nearest escalator, after almost slipping on his brother's groceries he bought earlier, and rushed up the escalator that's moving oppositely, squeezing through the people there. "Sorry! Sorry!!"

It's until he reached the next floor that Hikaru realized he's been pulling the new girl all that while. So, to cover his actions, "L-let's play hide and seek~!!" Just as he spotted one silver-haired among the others at the floor below. "NOW!" Hikaru jolted off from where he stood, dragging the poor girl behind him.

[Kida]

"Hide and Seek! Hide and Seek!" Ann Marie squealed loudly, probably damaging several pairs of ears near by. "Ann Marie LOVE hide and seek, Red!" She had kept up with him easily and hadn't given a second thought to him pulling her along at all. Red was her friend after all.

"Who Red and Ann Marie hiding from?! Who we hiding from?!" she asked, excited and curious at the same time. "GASP! The puppykins, right?! We hiding from the seeking white puppykins from below!"

"Awww, puppykins CUTE!" But just then she caught sight of what she considered a fantastic hiding place. "Here, Red!" Now Ann Maried started pulling him and tugged him straight into a women's lingerie store and shoved him into a rack of bras and panties. Quickly she followed him, finding in the mass of lace and colors. "Puppykins NEVER find us in HERE!" she said way too loudly.

[Zephel]

"Bark, bark!!"

"Yes, yes, we're hiding from the puppy!!" Hikaru answered, short of breath, while running. He looks around his shoulder, and sure enough, that same white puppy is trailing behind them, barking excitedly. Well, since it's just a puppy, Hikaru's pretty sure they can outrun the little seeker...until...

"Slow down, Zi-Fi! What is it?!"

Hikaru was sure his fast-paced heart stopped beating just now. That's his brother's voice! 'Oh GOD, he's going to MURDER ME...!!' But just as he's about to plot on how he's going to cheat death again...

Until Ann Marie literally pulled him and shoved him in THE most forbidden place he can ever think of.

"Gyah!" Hikaru quickly pull his head up from the mass of ladies undergarments, now finding a strap of bra hanging down his head. His face went strikingly red at this, like his hair. "A-ANN MARIE!!" He yelled, now getting her habit of screaming and injuring some pairs or ears, and tries his best to fight his way out of this embarrassing hiding spot. And being himself, he ended up tripping down face-first, with several panties and bras all over him.

What he didn't realize is some of the clothes that got tangled around him was around Ann Marie as well. So, as fate turns out, the poor unlucky redhead dragged the girl out too, and made her fall right on him, slamming his forehead to the floor. "OW!!!"

And there he laid...kissing the floor, with a crazy blonde on top of him, tangled with a ridiculous amount of ladies undergarments around them... That's Hikaru's life. One bad luck after another. ...And here comes the next one.

"Bark, bark!!"

Before he knows it, he could feel a lick on his ear...and there's Zi-Fi, barking and wagging its fluffy tail back and forth at its found. Hikaru sighed, now giving up on his little escape parade. He's going to be dead anyway.

Placing both his palms on the floor, the redhead tries to get himself up and out of this mess before anyone sees them...especially anyone he knows. ...Or perhaps some others have saw their antics and ran off to report to the nearest guard. "...Ann Marie, it seems like we've been found..." Hikaru said emptily, annoyed even.

[Kida]

"Awwwwwww! Again, again?" Ann Marie wrapped her arms around Hikaru's neck and gave him a hug while still sitting on top of him. Blinking as lavendar lace fell over her vision, the monkey started riding the both of them of the colorful unmentionables. "Ooooo, rainbow--rainbow of coloooors!" With a giggle she threw a bra on top of the puppy that was having so much fun barking at Hikaru.

"Hee hee. Puppykins look good in blue lacey-lace." Ann Marie bounded to her feet with a single move of her tail and pulled Hikaru up as well. "Red-red okay? Went 'bam!' on the floor pretty loud." She poked his forehead and cocked her head to the side, her eyes vacant of anything but curiousity.