[BCOLOR=transparent]"Hi. I didn't mean to scare you."[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]B[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]link blinked, squinting a little to make sure she was seeing the girl in front of her correctly. Stood in front of a backdrop of green-yellow leaves, a small girl adorning little more than underwear and a bikini, with her cocoa hair tied with a neat yellow bow. Not only did this sight cause Blink's cheeks to become a little red, but she backed up a little, unsure what to say. Not because she was scared, but she was confused on how to reply to such a 'kawaii' kind of girl. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"...Yo?" [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Blink finally stammered in reply, her fingers slowly releasing hold of the stick as it slumped back into the grass. Blink bit her lip a little harder as her cheeks returned to a normal colour at the sight of the small, curious-sounding girl. Her heartbeat was steady… and seemed to echo in an ethereal way, like a bass drum with reverb effects. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Had she come to explain to her what was going on? Because answers would be lovely right now. For now, Blink didn't want to splutter out the fact that she used to be a boy. Because she thought that'd be weird. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Uhm… s-sorry, but… where am I?" [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Blink asked, trying her best not to look like a dork, or walk backwards into the river. Her eyes were still a little cautious of this stranger, but she certainly looked harmless. [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]...Unless robot killer uniforms came disguised as cute girls… [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri approached with slight caution, knowing full well what backing up in a defensive posture meant. If she approached too quickly, they'd just go into full flight mode. Though, Matsuri did want to get closer, so this time she tried a slow approach. Armed with a soft, shy, little smile, Matsuri was at the very least at the peak of how innocent she could appear. Often she looks so indifferent that she could reasonably be confused for a number of unsavory types. This smile widened, although so slightly as to potentially be missed, as the purple haired girl responded back. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Now, Matsuri had no idea what this 'yo' was supposed to mean. For all she knows, it could be the worst of insults, but the girl said it while loosening her grip on her makeshift weapon, so she thought that maybe this time would be different. Matsuri presses on, still at a steady pace without making any sudden movements. Then, just as she is about 20 feet away, the purple haired girl speak again.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri actually stopped in her movements because this question was so difficult to answer. In a world which constantly changes, where are you indeed. Even though it was completely impossible that the girl meant it like this, Matsuri's mind couldn't help but recognize what a difficult thing that would be to answer. So instead, Matsuri gave an answer that might not be helpful, but was the most correct thing she knew to say, [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"The new world."[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] Matsuri then began to continue moving slowly towards this person. She was dressed so differently, and there was so many things she wanted to know. Could it happen?[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"...Oh."[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] Blink plainly said in reply. [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"Well… um…" [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]She continued awkwardly, before clearing her throat, her big blue eyes watching the girl as she got closer. That wasn't helpful. But did that mean Blink was in heaven, or some sort of afterlife? This fantasy of a world… the unreal trees… and the fact that she'd been transformed into a young lady. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]As for the stranger… her smile was adorable, but Blink couldn't help but feel a little uneasy as the girl kept slowly approaching her, as if she was about to pounce. Blink could hear her heartbeat's tempo increasing. She spoke somewhat creepily too… but Blink couldn't back up, otherwise she'd take a tumble into cold water. She just had to hope she was friendly; in the case that she wasn't, Blink didn't really want to bring herself to hitting her, especially when she was barely clothed and unarmed. Well, smiles were good, right? Blink belatedly returned a smile, although hers was awkward and very shy.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri looked puzzled as she approached the girl. At this close distance, she got her first good look at those beautiful blue eyes. They were so big, but they were also filled with anxiety. Was meeting someone for the first time really this hard? Even though she wanted to make a friend very badly, Matsuri noticed for the first time that she had backed the poor girl up against the riverbank with no form of retreat. And her own posture was becoming less smooth as she began to feel the pressures of anxiety. Although she answered the question, she couldn't tell if she answered unclearly, or if the poor girl had started panicking. She started smiling, but it was very clearly not a usual type of smile. Matsuri began to think that maybe she just came off as creepy.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Maybe she messed it up again, Matsuri thought as that soft little smile of hers was replaced with a gloomy small frown that could easily be mistaken for indifference. Matsuri turns away from the girl to hide the fact she was red with humiliation that she couldn't do something as simple as this correctly. With small breaks in the consistency of her speech tempo, [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"I'm sorry for bothering you." [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri walks back towards her tree, wanting to go back to day dreaming.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Oh no… as soon as Blink had seen that frown, her face trembled with guilt. It was clear to her now: the girl was just curious, not aggressive, and now Blink had gone and made her upset. Even in the body of a pink-haired woman, he still somehow managed to be a massive jerk... [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Hey…"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] Blink quietly said as the girl began to walk away. Biting her lip, Blink finally decided to man up for once, and follow after her. She could sense by the stranger's speech that she'd upset her, and after all, Blink didn't want to be alone in this weird world… only now she'd realised the severity of her mistake.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Hey![/BCOLOR] [BCOLOR=transparent]W-wait up![/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] Blink finally said, louder this time, as she broke into a little jog after the girl. Clumsily wading through the long grass, Blink's magenta hair flickered behind her as she followed, almost desperately. She couldn't be alone - not here! She had no idea what to do, and even if the world looked pretty, the cowardly side of her personality still remained. She didn't want to die. Blink inevitably tripped on the snare of the thick grass, landing on her side with a yelp. Blink kept a gaze to the floor as if grovelling, with a face beyond embarrassed as a few pieces of grass were snared in her hair.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Please don't go!"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] Blink pleaded, maybe a little louder than she meant to, after a long pause. [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"I don't know how I got here, and I don't know what to do… and… and..." [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Blink spluttered, all of her confusion bursting out of her somewhat emotionally. Although she'd probably blew it by now. What was the point?[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri had already resigned herself to having failed once again. However, she was more than a little bit surprised when the girl called out to her. She wasn't ready to show her face, so she just stood still, debating if it would be ok to turn around. She felt so vulnerable like this, she didn't want to expose herself. Though before she could complete that mental discourse, the girl had called to her again, this time running in her direction. She didn't know how fast she was running due to the fact that she remained turned around, so Matsuri turned to face the blue eyed girl, and what she saw made her just about turn white.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]The girl was desperately running after her like a madman with a vendetta. Without time to process the situation, Matsuri immediately was overcome with terror, as she thought the girl was going to run up and attack her while her guard was down. Moved to tears, Matsuri suddenly bursts into a purple flash of light, moving up to the spot on the treetop that she was before with a flash step. Matsuri, from this angle looks over to find that the poor girl tripped, and looked to be in a lot of pain. She was, groveling to her. Begging her to stay and help her figure out what kind of world this was, and how she could be safe. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri still had a few stray tears, and her calm had yet to return to her since she thought she was under attack, but she confronted these feelings on the other girl's face and confirmed them to not be unlike her own. Matsuri didn't know what to do anymore. She could easily flee from this point because she was scared, and didn't want to trust this person anymore, but to run away would be to definitely lose out on a friend who understood the kind of fears she had. Someone she could share the world with. And for this reason, Matsuri stood still, in a state of even greater uncertainty. She had not even one rational thought about what to do in this situation since her whole body was telling her to flee. So instead, she waited in place, hoping for the answer to come.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Blink looked up from her spot on the ground, her heart sinking even further with guilt when she noticed she'd made the poor girl cry, and… well, Blink might've been hallucinating, but she seemed to teleport back to the position where she'd first seen her. Although nothing surprised her at this point.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]All the stranger had done was approach her smiling, and now look what she'd done to her. If she was going to help her, Blink knew she probably didn't deserve it. She'd been too paranoid when she clearly needed help in this new world. She'd been a jerk. As usual... [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"I…" [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Blink began, clearly guilty. She was usually cheerful and non-serious, and solved problems with jokes and playful banter, but her emotions were completely bending her personality at this point.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"I'm sorry, I just…"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] A part of her wanted to run away at this point, but brooding in her guilt and missed opportunity wouldn't do her any good. She at least needed to try.[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] "...I woke up ten minutes ago in this place. I've never even heard of somewhere like this before, let alone seen it. I don't know why I'm here." [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Blink paused. Should she mention that she used to be a dude? No, not yet… she couldn't bring herself to spill that out.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Blink pulled a strand of grass from her hair, and looked at the floor guiltily.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Sorry for making you cry.[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] Blink whispered. Amidst confusion, fear and guilt, her lip began to tremble a little as soon as she stopped biting it.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri managed to stay long enough to hear the poor girl out long enough to know that she wasn't her enemy. Matsuri was still very new to existing, but she felt as though she understood what this terrified, regretful girl was going through. After all, she felt it many times before. No matter how hard you try, when you are new to the world, you can't help but not understand the way others feel. Sometimes, that feeling inside you that you need to protect yourself gets in the way. And if someone like Matsuri, who has yet to learn what to live for doesn't want to die, then it is probably something that all people feel. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]In sharing this pain, Matsuri, though thoroughly embarrassed, came down from her tree. She flash stepped just five feet in front of Blink, looking at her with eyes that just could not settle on one definite emotion to convey. She was scared witless, but she declared with her soft, fragile, but beautiful voice, [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"I just wanted to be friends."[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"...Friends? Ohh…"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] Blink replied quietly, mentally punching herself. Each word spoken by that girl tugged on Blink's heartstrings from the cuteness and beauty to it, especially with this new enhanced hearing in this body. Every word was spoken like a beautiful tune in Blink's ears. ...Perhaps this really was an afterlife of some sort. Another purple butterfly brushed into Blink's grass-stained hair, but she didn't flinch this time.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]So that was why the girl was approaching… she was just curious and alone, that was all. Blink was thankful that this girl hadn't turned away and left her, but judging by the nervous heartbeat or the girl, she was still scared from her rushed advance towards her earlier. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"...I didn't realise that was what you wanted. I thought you were going to push me in the river… o-or something…" [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Blink ended with a nervous giggle, wiping her somewhat teary eyes with her sleeve jacket. If she had some form of musical instrument, she could maybe calm the girl down. But all she had were these useless headphones plugged into nothingness…[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"W-we just misunderstood each other. I didn't mean to look like I wanted to hurt you… running at you like that. Ah… this is my fault." [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Blink continued, looking into the frightened, green eyes as reassuring as she could. At this point, all Blink wanted to do was make her smile. She felt awful; turning an adorable smile into terrified tears.[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] "I'll let you push me in the river for being a jerk, i-if that makes you feel any better…"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] Blink continued with her shy smile becoming a little more warm and open as she gestured to the flowing water behind her jokingly. If it got rid of those scared eyes, Blink didn't mind doing anything at this point. She didn't have her music to stave away loneliness if it ever came, and… who knew what she'd do at that point? [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri smiled, genuinely amused by the girl's attempts at making amends. While it was true that the idea of pushing her into the river hadn't occurred to Matsuri, the thought that the girl would allow her to do the very thing she had feared happening as punishment for fearing it in the first place was just too amusing. Matsuri walks over to the cusp just before the river, then does a half twirl to face Blink. Putting forth the same smile she had before, Matsuri chimes, [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"Ok, then stand closer." [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Blink seemed reluctant at first, but she obliged, slowly shuffling closer to the girl with a somewhat goofy smile. She was too relieved to see the girl's smile to care at this point, although perhaps the girl was just joking as well…? Now that she thought about it, Blink wasn't all that up for getting soaked. Perhaps she'd just lightly fall in or something, such a small girl would do little more than poke her.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Didn't think you'd want to… but fine. Bet you're not strong enough to push me in anyway~."[/BCOLOR] [BCOLOR=transparent]Blink playfully added. Blink stood ready by the river; surely the small girl couldn't push her i-[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri, looking rather eager to show what she trained this small body of her's to do, shoves out her arms with easily enough force to shove Blink off of such a perilous grounding; however, as her shove is about to make contact, Matsuri pulls back on the force, and encircles her arms around Blink's waist. Hugging her body close to Blink's Matsuri whispers,[/BCOLOR] [BCOLOR=transparent]"As if I could."[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Blink's face shot to a similar colour to her hair at the small girl's gesture, before her cheeks flushed into a bright red. Ohh... this girl was so adorable, that Blink's heart literally throbbed. Probably because she was actually a little scared about getting shoved into cold water. This sudden change of events was such a relief that it changed how she'd normally act completely.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"D'awww…"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] Blink hummed quietly in reply to those words. She tried to hold her girliness back, but she knew it was no use. Ohhh… she was scared she was actually going to get [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]used[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] to being a grill at this rate. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Blink couldn't help herself but nuzzle against the girl's hair, whilst cuddling her back. Even in her past life, nobody had done anything like that to her before… and it felt so soothing that Blink acted in a way that she didn't even know she could act. Blink made a happy smiling sound, before loosening her hug on the poor thing before she squeezed her to death, and looked down at the girl.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]You're just too… kawai- uhm, cute." [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]Blink giggled, before seeming rather embarassed about something. It was only then she realised how girly she was acting… almost as if she was getting used to this body already. But she definetely wasn't used to this just yet! Ah… all of this was just so weird. Nonetheless, Blink's smile quickly returned.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Call me Blink."[/BCOLOR] [BCOLOR=transparent]Blink whispered quietly. Even if she didn't have her music anymore, she still wanted to go by her DJ name here. Because 'Jay' just sounded dorky for a girl… and might give away the fact that she used to be a dude.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Matsuri didn't fully expect for Blink to go so quickly from scared of being pushed into the river to totally gushing all over her. Honestly, Matsuri wanted that to be a playful joke that Blink might not even be comfortable with at first. Maybe she expected more of an, "Oh, you got me," reaction than a, "You are the most precious thing," reaction. Even though it wasn't quite what she expected, Matsuri found it extremely pleasant. Blink's body pressing up tightly against her's, the feeling of Blink's nuzzling her hair, the feeling of Blink's hands brushing against her back, and the general smallness she felt within herself; all of this fueled something within Matsuri that she didn't understand, but knew she wanted more of. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Upon release, Matsuri felt a bit euphoric, and had slight difficulty snapping back to reality. Once she did however, she recognized that it was time for introductions. Pondering,[/BCOLOR] [BCOLOR=transparent]"Blink…"[/BCOLOR] [BCOLOR=transparent]Seemingly satisfied with this answer,[/BCOLOR] [BCOLOR=transparent]"I'm Matsuri. Matsuri Uragi." [/BCOLOR]