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[Kikuyoshi]

"What the hell does it matter to you?" Clearly irritated by the attention this Akashi fellow was recieving from blaze, Tobias' scowl deepened, wrinkling Blaze's face so that it looked as though he had just sucked on a lemon. He was about to speak more of his mind when Tari had the sence enough to quickly hurl a rather large rock at his head, just enough to knock him out but not injur him past a small bruise.

"Dolt..." she spoke with the tenderness of a sibling, but her expression was that of slight embarassment. "Forgive my idiot brother...he's got a mouth on him that doesn't like to shut up." Cream complexioned hand gracefully swept aside a lock of softly glowing blonde hair, one sign that gave her away as a demon.

[Wyndbain]

"Hmmm..." Akashi looked down at Tobias before smiling and turning his gaze to Tari. "It's Tari right?"

[Kikuyoshi]

Unable to hide the soft tint of crimson that sprang to her cheeks out of being slightly startled, Tari fumbled a step backwards, nearly tripping over the fallen figure of Tobias. Blinking twice, she shook her head and regained her composure. "Yes...but, how did you know that?"

Tobias slowly opened his eyes, a hand placed on his head as he let out a groggy moan. "what the hell did'ja do that for!?" Scowl was directed at Tari, but it was clear she wasn't paying him any attention.

[Wyndbain]

Ignoring Tobias, Akashi simply laughed, "I don't suppose you've met my brother Mage, though if you haven't, I'm sure it was Blaze who informed him, and thus he informed me. Not that we're spying on you or anything...specifically...I just like to keep up to date on what's happening with my sister..." His gaze moved to Blaze, indicating her as his hand moved up to rest on her head, a feat easily accomplished as Akashi was a few hand spans taller than Tobias' body.

[Kikuyoshi]

"Mage...." Tari let the name run loosely over her well rounded lips, her tongue wetting just the edges of them. "yes...i believe we have met...once."

Tobias rose to his feet, dusting himself off, a serious look now about him. Gaze moved directly for Blaze, ignoring both his sister and Akashi. "Don't you think we should start looking for Legato? I don't know about you, but i'd like to get back into my own body..." Turning on heel, Tobias took off slowly in the direction Legato had been last seen heading, clearly not wanting to mingle any longer with both Akashi and Tari...both of which seemed to aggitate him for some unknown reason.

[Wyndbain]

BlazingTear nodded slowly, still seeming slightly stunned by the beast she had earlier become. At her movement, Akashi turned to move after them.

"Hold up! I still don't know everything that's going on here." His ears twitched as he caught the name of Legato as Tobias spoke.

Akashi stopped, looking fierce as he glared in their direction at some unseen object, "That Legato bastard that's given you so much trouble...he's the cause of this?"

[Kikuyoshi]

"Oh i do so hate being called a bastard..." The thick poison of vocals wafted through Akashi's mind only, the other's unable to hear a single utterance from this invisible foe. "For it is incorrect...i had both a mother and a father who were happily married." a pause settled in, eerie and most suspenceful"Happy until i slaughtered them..." a soft chortle echoed before skipping and fading out.

"Yeah...that's the guy." Tari's vocals rang out clearly as soon as Legato's voice faded. A look of irritation was visible upon her visage now, her glance directed towards her brother. Heaving a sigh, she started after him, clearly unaware that anything unnatural had taken place.

[Wyndbain]

Akashi instinctively stiffened, hand instantly to the handle of the hidden sword at his side, only a sliver of the sword visible as he readied to unsheath it at any sign of danger. His ears twitched, listening to the voice that was within his own head, realising that ears were usless in finding the source of this voice. With a growl, a small chink was sounded as he pushed the sword back into it's sheath, the weapon once again hidden within the folds of his clothes.

[Kikuyoshi]

"do you honestly think to cut me down with such a metal pole?" another short laugh echoed throughout Akashi's mind "how very amusing indeed" Again the voices stopped, though unknown to him, they picked up again in the mind of someone new.

"You look most unflattering in Tobias' body, Blaze. A pause, and then what sounded like a smirk "i can fix it if you give me your word that you'll be mine. It would be so simple...just announce that you no longer love Tobias and i'll make all this seem as though it were a dream. An illusion. You'll wake up beside me as if it were all but a simple nightmare. wouldn't that be nice?"

[Wyndbain]

"This, 'metal pole' can do more than just cut..." Akashi had unsheathed his sword once again, jamming the tip into the ground and placing his fists together with only his pointer fingers up. Akashi concentrated on Legato's voice, some connection having to be established between stalker and prey in order to speak through their minds as he was doing. If the trick was suscessful, it would point them in the direction of Legato.

BlazingTear instantly placed her hands over her ears as if to block the voice from her mind.

"No!!" She yelled, her gaze turning upon her own body. How could she speak those horrible words even if it meant they would be returned to normal...both of them...

[Kikuyoshi]

"Idiot...do you honestly believe a simple trick like that would work on one such as myself?" Legato's vocals were smug, however, the sword did indeed start to turn in a certain direction, landing with a clatter on the ground as it pointed south. "Now all you have to figure out...is whether or not i manipulated that tool of yours into pointing in the wrong direction..."

Auds were instantly perked atop Blazingtear's body, Tobias turning instantly at the sound of Blazingtear's whimper. what he faced now was an unusual site, for he would personally never cringe like that on his own...less he try to cover it up first and take it like a man. Concerned however because he knew it was not a guy within his body, but rather Blaze, he moved instantly for her side, pausing slightly as he caught site of the sword. "what's that for?"

"Tell him now blaze. The timing could not be more perfect. Tell him...and you'll wake up to find this nothing more than a simple dream and Tobias will be but a memory. And i...shall take care of you always...without the memory of Tobias to get in the way

[Wyndbain]

"Damn..." Akashi looked toward Tobias and BlazingTear after he had picked up his sword. "I had thought I could use it to find where Legato was...unfortunately I didn't think he might have the power to control the movement of my sword..."

He streatched out his arm in the direction the weapon had indicated, holding the sword in his hand, "It would be risky to follow where it directs us..."

"I can't!!...I won't!!" BlazingTear was now shaking with the effort of trying to ignore the voice in her mind. She was being selfish at the same time she was protecting their love...how could she make such a choice...

[Kikuyoshi]

"You can't what?" A hand instinctivly shot out to catch Blazingtear's, red amber's searching his own face. He had to admit, it was sorta hard to feel attracted to his own face, thus his gaze lowered ever so slightly.

Tari glanced in Akashi's direction, brow arching ever so slightly as she took a wiff of air, cranium shaking ever so slightly. "No....i think he couldn't manipulate the sword...and to not follow would be unwise. It'd certainly be his way of thinking to try and guide us off path."

You'd sacrifice your looking like that for eternity? Interesting...are you even seeing the way he turns away from how you look? He'd be much happier in his own body without you than in your body with you. You know it's true...just say it.

[Wyndbain]

Slowly...BlazingTear pulled her hands away from her ears, now convinved that what Legato was saying was true...She had noticed, even how slight it was, his gaze turning from hers. They couldn't live like this...they couldn't...love...like this...

"I can't..." She took a step back, sinking into a sitting position, her voice soft and barely a whisper, "I can't love you..."

Blaze!! A sharp voice in her mind brought her to her sences all too late, her gaze moving up to see Akashi staring at her.

[Kikuyoshi]

"what do you mea-" Tobias' voice was swiftly cut off by the tinkling of a soft bell...it's sound carrying over louder and louder in Blazingtears head. Instantly, everything seemed to blurr about her face...or so that was how the vision was supposed to be recieved. like a toilet flushing.

There was a sudden sharp pain in Tobias' chest, his whole body lurching over as it felt as thought the flesh were being ripped right off of him until only his soul remained. In a twisted, sick feeling sort of way, he suddenly found himself in his own body, lying on the ground where Blaze had once been...however she could be spotted no where...

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'Blaze...blaze." Vocals were a lot softer than they had been in her dream, a sturdy arm moving to shake her lightly. "Blaze, wake up."