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Post by Kazeko Soshina on Nov 30, 2008 22:55:11 GMT -5
trying to catch her breathe, the small girl dress like a boy, sat down on the cold stone floor, next to the table that was hidden with a deep within the rose maze. School had start once more, and here she was, at ouran early. Classes did not start till half an hour later. Why was she here so early?
Letting out a slight girlish scream, she jump to her feet, seeing her predator running out from behind a corner, a charging thing of fluff, coming her way. Turning to make a run for it, but the attacker to swift, and Kazeko came crashing into the sweet, wet grass, grass stains and mud marking the back of her brand new school blazer The bitter taste of defeat covered Kaze's face, as the big fluffy attacker kissed all of it's new master's face
This was the reason she came early. A very simply reason. She wish to play a game of hide-n-seek tag with her brand new puppy, who was already, nearing the size of most full grown dogs at around 4 or 5 months old. Laughing, she called the dog off, and used her elbows to push herself up to a sitting position. She stroke her fingers through the mix of gold and white fluff that covered her giant puppy's body.
You could hear the jingling of Kaze's eldest dog's collar, as it game prancing over. This dog, wasn't much larger than a dachshund, for after all, that was what it was mix off. A golden brown sausage like dog, the color the chihuahua part of her, but her face her a bit more terrier shaped. All three of them were mutts. and yes, I said three, that means Kazeko as well
This what Kazeko was known as in her class. The cute shy boy with some animal always at her, or as the school knows her, his side. Kazeko never had a thing for dresses, and she tried to tell her class mates she was a she once, but being very unassertive and shy, the attempt failed.
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Post by Hiroyume Okunake on Nov 30, 2008 23:22:36 GMT -5
Hiroyume Okunake was escorted to her school forty-five minutes before class began along with her three older brothers. After stepping foot on Ouran High School ground, the butlers bowed and they bowed (Hiroyume curtsied), and went their separate ways.
It wasn't long before Hiroyume was left alone; Shinku had to go discuss something with his teacher, Odame had early piano lessons and Hiroyuki left quickly to meet up with his friends. With nothing left to do, Hiroyume thought it fit to take a walk on school grounds, refusing to visit her locker to take the sun umbrella her maid had always encouraged her to use. It was too far, anyways.
Walking in the Rose Maze, trying to find her way out since she had so much free time, Hiroyume was a bit startled to hear "a slight girlish scream." All common sense left her, and she rushed to the voice to see what had happened; eventually it dawned on her that she was in a maze, and so it took her a long time to finally stumble onto the scene of a boy amongst his dogs.
She had rushed out so suddenly that Hiroyume was practically in the middle of the whole scene; realizing her situation, she ran back to where she came from without a word, maybe a gasp, flustered, and stood behind the maze wall, trying to catch her breath. That was embarrassing!
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Post by Kazeko Soshina on Nov 30, 2008 23:38:58 GMT -5
Kazeko blinked, suddenly seeing a small girl suddenly come out from the depths the maze, and just as suddenly she came out, she disappear behind the corner. Kazeko sat there, just staring at where the girl had been, but the charging pup brought her back to earth. "Marshmello! get back here! Princess, stop her!" stumbling, she got up to chase after her puppy, as her smaller dog was already on the hills of the bigger, younger dog, barking as if she was a siren.
Marshmello sprinted around the corner, and lunged at the girl, tail moving at several miles an hour, but before the puppy could glomp the stranger, kaze came tackling into the dog, and forming a pile on the ground right infront of the person, the smallest dog on top. "s-sorry about that, she's not trained yet....." kazeko said, drawing to her feet once more, gripping on her puppy's collar to prevent her from jumping on on the girl. If kazeko's uniform was dirty before, it really was now. Being close up to the girl, Kazeko could tell she was not a little girl, but a young woman, around her own age.
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Post by Hiroyume Okunake on Nov 30, 2008 23:57:44 GMT -5
Hiroyume thought about walking away from the scene, and had actually proceeded in taking a few steps, when she heard the yelling and the dog barks. One of them was actually loud enough to initiate Hiroyume's dislike of loud noises; of course, Hiroyume was able to turn around towards their direction, but all she could do was hold her ears and flinch at each loud bark.
And then there came the attack. First, one dog came out of nowhere and went to attack her; the dog was attacked by the boy again, and there was a dogpile, so to speak, since a third dog, apparently the barking one, jumped to the top of it. Hiroyume didn't know exactly what to say, since no etiquette was taught to her about the proper way to respond to a possible attack.
"Um, it's okay," she said hesitantly, looking away as the young man stood up; it couldn't be proper to watch that, right? "Nothing broken, and we're both fine, I assume."
She looked back at the three, the dog being held back by the collar by the owner. Actually, the boy looked a bit her height, her age, her grade? Despite the mud, he looked the part. "Um, I believe it's my fault so...I'm very sorry." And she bowed in apology.
As she did so, she thought, This is what I should do, right? The proper thing...I think.
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Post by Kazeko Soshina on Dec 1, 2008 0:06:17 GMT -5
Kazeko cocked her brow at the girl, a placed a hand on her hip without even realize she was doing such. "your fault? no, no. I need to train Marshmello more....she's too much a loving dog still, she doesn't know how to act around others....she doesn't even know how big she is, really" Kazeko explained, rubbing the back of her head, her shy self creeping up on her as she talked to the girl. Her warm brown eyes darted away from the blue ones. Eye contact made her even more nervous, but she tried her best to actually look at her, since it seem this girl was trying so hard herself to be polite, Kazeko as the well return the favor.
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Post by Hiroyume Okunake on Dec 1, 2008 0:28:07 GMT -5
Hiroyume straightened her posture to look back at the boy, a bit confused. Hadn't she caused the damage by running in, unannounced? Oh, wait---
"My apologies, I didn't introduce myself properly," she said, as she curtsied. "I'm Hiroyume Okunake, fourth child of the Okunake family, of the Okunake Music Industry." How could she forget? Oh, the maid wouldn't be happy to hear that...
She looked at the dog, Marshmello. "Um, not to be rude in the slightest but, I'm sure the dog meant no harm," she said, continuing her hesitant speech.
She turned to the dog again, and walked slowly to it until she was a few inches away, and very slowly reach to pet the dog...until she finally accomplished her deed. She petted again and again, at faster intervals, and then smiled.
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Post by Kazeko Soshina on Dec 1, 2008 1:03:50 GMT -5
Kazeko gave a slight bow of the head as Hiroyume curtsy. "Marhmello, sit. mine your manners" she command, as the fluff ball followed the command, her long tail thudding the grow as she smiled a big goofy smile, very much enjoying the petting as she pushed her skull into the hand so to be pet more. "No, she didn't...she just wants to share her love with the world, but even a dog must learn how to act in public" Kazeko said, giving off a small, shy smile, as she watch her dog get pet. "I'm Kaze, Kazeko Soshina, kid to the head of Enix Cubed, or something" she did not act with any real form a rich kid would.
"this is Marshmello, a Pyrenees Retriever mix" she explained, motioning with her hand to the white and gold dog she was still holding by the collar. "and the smaller one is Princess. A mix of Dachshund, Chihuahua, and Fox terrier" she said, motioning with her other hand to the other dog. As if on Que, Princess left one of her little, stubby legs and waved it in the air to say hello. "Marshimello, be polite to and say hello" Kazeko scold. The big puppy also brought a paw in the air to wave while giving a quick, deep bark. "Good girls" she praised, grinning down at the two, and she kneel to stroke them behind the ears
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Post by Hiroyume Okunake on Dec 1, 2008 1:18:40 GMT -5
Hiroyume was pretty much enjoying the petting she was giving Marshmallo; she had had no similar experience like this ever. And the dog seemed to enjoy it, too, although Hiroyume was a bit fearful that she was rubbing him a bit too hard. What if his skin peeled clean off? Oh, the maid wouldn't let her hear the end of it!
Hiroyume nodded politely, as she listened to Kazeko's words and stepped back from the dogs. "Ah, yes, I was told there were three heirs to Enix Cubed," she said, much more comfortable now that she knew how to act. "Enix Cubed is the game company, correct? It's a pleasure to meet you, Kazeko Hoshina." She bowed politely to him. "Marshmallo, Princess." She bowed to them, too, one by one.
"To wave like that, they must be very well-trained," she commented, as she waved back, looking away a bit as their owner petted them. Was that the proper way to pet dogs? "I didn't know dogs required etiquette, too." Pity, even they couldn't have complete freedom. Maybe they had to wear frilly dresses and tight suits, too ... or some form of dog-variation to it.
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Post by Kazeko Soshina on Dec 1, 2008 1:33:07 GMT -5
Kazeko said nothing as she mention three heirs to Enix Cubed. No, there was only real two real heirs, her step brother and step sister. for really, Mr Soshina was her step dad. But like she would come out and say that, plus, she knew some would look down upon a kid who was married into the buisness
"I try my best to teach them" kaze laughed, feeling proud of her dogs. "course a dog needs to learn some etiquette, just like any person needs to learn how to act around others....how else will they know not to do jump up on strangers, not to pee everywhere, not to eat other people's food, and other things like that..." Kazeko explained, as if this was a long rehearse lecture of her's but shorten and messed up as if she got stage fright during the lecture
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Post by Hiroyume Okunake on Dec 1, 2008 1:43:42 GMT -5
Hiroyume's face went red at Kazuke's choice of words, and began to fidget a bit with the hem of her skirt. What audacious words for a male of his status to say....or that's, at least, how the maid would want her to react. For now, she'd let it slide; getting angry seemed pointless, and maybe this would be a good thing.
"Um, if you put it that way, I see your point," Hiroyume said, her little hesitant speech returning. And then it got a bit awkward; Hiroyume didn't know what to say, so she continued to stand there and fidget with the hem of her skirt, looking idly around with her face still a bit red.
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Post by Kazeko Soshina on Dec 1, 2008 1:57:30 GMT -5
Kazeko felt thicken with the feeling of nervous, and it wasn't coming all from her. Did she say something wrong? she never was good with rich people...or people for that matter. Lucky for the two of them, the sound of the bell seem to break the awkward silence. Kazeko cursed under her breath, realizing how she'd be late for class, and she already knew how she'd be in trouble for dirtying another uniform.
"well, I guess we should be going" Kazeko said pulling a leash from what seem no where (where ever game characters pull stuff out from), and snapping it to the collar of Marshmello. "Do you need help out of the maze?" Kaze asked, before hurrying off. It was a maze, after all, and she did not know if this person was the type to get lost or not
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Post by Hiroyume Okunake on Dec 1, 2008 2:05:49 GMT -5
The bell rung, and if Hiroyume wasn't in the presence of someone else, she'd surely be flailing around worriedly. Oh, how could she have forgotten about the time? The maid surely wouldn't like to hear about this...
Quietly, Hiroyume watched as Kazuke got ready to leave, nodding in approval as he suggested leaving. Her face lit up when he asked if she needed help, and she breathed out in relief; at least she didn't have to say this aloud.
"Yes, if you'd do me the favor," Hiroyume said as she followed it with a polite bow.
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Post by Kazeko Soshina on Dec 1, 2008 2:13:27 GMT -5
Kazeko nodded, and return her eyes to the path ahead. "Follow me" and off she went, fighting the urge to randomly run out. Walking was such a slow pace....so she tried to mix the two, while still trying to stay slow down enough for Hiroyume to keep up. Princess walked ahead of Kaze, while Marshmello skipped playfully back and forth between Kazeko and Hiroyume
It wasn't long till they got to the exit, and the maze open up the a patch of grassy area, with a few trees, a place lots of student would spend their free time playing games, and up ahead, the school. "well....see ya'" she spoke while nodding her head slight more, and hurrying off to school with her dogs.
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Post by Hiroyume Okunake on Dec 1, 2008 2:22:29 GMT -5
Hiroyume did her best to follow Kazuke, attentively noting how much he seemed to regret the decision to lead her out. He seemed to have strange urges to just...run.
The minute they were out of the Rose Maze, Kazuke left her alone and the dogs were gone. For a split second, Hiroyume seemed fixed on the boy that had left her, and watched him go for a moment with a slight smile. She wondered how nice it would be if she could be that free...and she wondered if perhaps, she could have a dog in the house? Maybe the maid would alllow it if Hiroyume taught it etiquette. Or, perhaps, Kazuke would teach it, and it would be allowed to stay in the home as long as it did so. And maybe father would like him, too, and he'd be a poster dog...
And then suddenly, it dawned on her that she was the fourth child of the Okunakes, the poster child of the Okunake Music Industry, a student in Ouran High School standing in front of the entrance of the Rose Maze. And she was late.
With one last glance back at the Rose Maze, Hiroyume began her quick walk to the school.
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