-Relaxing.|-Invite Only.|

[psyche]

It was early in the morning that Ciel had woken up. Today she had alot of things to do and many things in mind. One of those things was that she needed to travel to Sound and need to find Nagato to go since he said he would go with her at the end. The other thing that was stuck in her mind was how to say the right words to the Otokage. She had no idea who it was, she had never paid much mind to that. It felt so frustrating to her but she wanted to help the Mizukage and she would. So this meant keeping her word. Besdies she would feel bad if she didn't keep her word to Hina.

Taking a deep breath, Ciel walked among the tall trees that were near her home. She had prepared a nice breakfast and decided to eat outdoors. She knew no on would be around to bother her and well she had plenty if anyone actually appeared. Ciel then came to a stop as she came upon a nice beautiful clearing. She sat up a caramel color blanket on the grass, under a tree that gave away shade. The sun was not hot but she liked the shade better than anything. There werent many cloud either so she prefered the shade.

Today she had picked out the most weird outfit. She was wearing a white dress that went down her knees. With black non heeled combat boots, and black tigh high stocking. Her dress was like always strapples but didnt show much cleavage. Her red hair was made into a bun, since she did not want to get her hair messed up in any way. She had no make up on, except for some black eye liner on her eyes and a peach shade lipstick. Ciel sat herself down on the blanket she had spread out. Looking out into the clearing. The wind blowing nicely with a slight chilly sensation. She smiled to herself as she would take out a bottle of water. She'd start humming on a song she liked.

[ichi]

The morning sun shone down through cracks in the canopy that had been created above him by the infinite number of trees that surrounded the lands he walked upon. He had no particular reason to be out and about but he hated staying in one place for too long so he had chosen to go out for a bit of a stroll; his arms moved back and forth at his sides in highly over exaggerated motions for the speed at which he was walking, the black sleeve that hung past his fingers whipped around freely in the fresh air, his feet which were covered by his usual red laced black sneakers would take overly large steps as he continued on his little venture through the trees with the ever present happy and excentric look painted on his face. His little legs would carry him deeper into the forrest until he came upon something he had been hoping for, a person.

Straight ahead of him was the form of a young woman, her white dress spread across the ground as she sat in the shade of a tree, enjoying herself from what he could see. Simply closing his eye he would step happily forward making his way to where she sat from behind, moments later there would be a slight flicker and the spot he had been previously standing would be deserted; instead he would now be located directly behind the woman, his knees pressed flat to the grass and his arms hung over her shoulders from behind grasping her in some what of a hug from behind, the excess of his sleeves would hang down across her lap. His head would slowly creep up from over her left right shoulder and be staring directly at her from the side, wide-eyed and grinning. "Hey there O-baasan!" slowly his gaze would shift down and look down at the rest of her before his neck quickly snapped up and looked right back at her face, "UuUuUu You gots some big ones don't cha'?"

Without giving her any time to reply his hands would slide over and push down against her shoulders sending his small form up and over her head as if playing a game of leap frog before landing on the other side of her, being sure not to land on any of her things. Quickly he would turn to be facing her again, legs crossed in front of him, hands pressed against his knees. The body of the small boy would slowly tilt forward to bring his face in closer to the girl in a manner that one might use as they were about to tell someone a secret or whisper to them. "Soooo~ Wutcha' up ta'?" he asked in a very playful manner before falling backward on to the grass and looking up into the branches of the tree that graced them with the gift of it's shade.

[psyche]

Ciel was about to open the bottle of water she had in her hands when she felt small arm around her neck, with long sleeves that hung down, alomst touching her lap. Her head turned slowly as she saw the creepy face of an extremly too happy kid. Great just what she needed, a brat. The words that came out of his mouth were not so kind or pleasant as he would have though. Before she could say anything he was already giving out comments to her breasts. Great even little kids had to deal with her breasts, just great. Still before she could speak a words the boy moved and leap over her head and sat down infont of her in the saiza possition, hand pressed on his knees as he leaned forward. She just looked at him with a want to kill this boy. His next words were playfull and nosy at the same time. Ciel just gave out a sweet smile at the boy as she extended her hand to touch the cute boy's cheek.

"Your such an adorable little Bozu." She said as she'd grab the boy hand as she pulled him towards her. Her left arm going around his neck and giving him a nuggie. Ciel having a silly angry face. "How dare you call me Obaasan. I'm not old you damn brat." As she ketpt on and did not stop. "Shouldn't you be at home with your mommy, she's probably worried sick and your here looking at things you shouldn't be looking until your much older." She'd let go of him and place both her hands on the boys cheek, squeezing them and making him have a funny face. "Now... you can call me anything but that, you got that Bozu, if not. I'll kill you with my bare hands. OKAY?" She asked as she looked into his eyes.

Ciel gave out a sigh and let go of him. She just gave up, the brat was too cute and she hated being mean to cute brats but still it didnt give him the right to having had called her that, but she would just forget and answer his question. "I'm here just relaxing before a mission. Are you hungry Bozu?" She asked as she took out a bottle of orange juice and threw it to the kid. "I think your hungry. Only reason your ere. I don;t usually attract brats like you." She said as she opened the bottle of water and placed the tip og the bottle in her mouth, still looking at the kid. "You you have a name, Bozu?" She asked as she closed the bottle once more and set it aside. Her focus was on the boy now, who was quite strange and interesting at the same time, especially his eyes.

[ichi]

Immediately following his leap, Ichi would be pulled in by the woman; his small body being unable to resist the pull, not that he was really trying to anyway. As the smooth arm wrapped around his neck he began to flail around, his sleeves whipping in every direction and his legs kicking around until he finally managed to worm free of the ladies grasp, however he did not comment on this act rather he planted his hands on the ground and pushed himself up into a hand stand, there was no particular meaning for the action, just something he felt like doing at the time. "I don't gots a mom."[/color] was his reply, even though the words held a grim meaning to them, they came out as cheery and happy as anything he had yet said to the girl.

From his hand stand he would be staring at the girl, his lone eye looking straight into her own as the juice would collide with this stomach causing his elbows to buckle; his legs fell over in the direction of the girl while the rest of his body just simple fell straight down causing him to get stuck on his back facing up with his legs sretched over him. After a bit of squirming he managed to roll over backwards so that he would be sitting facing the girl again, his eye blinking cluelessly as he picked up the juice that sat on the grass next to him. "My name is Ichi!"[/color] he said enthusiasticly raising his hand into the air over his head, even though she would not be able to see the hand hidden by his sleeve; it was held with the palm facing the girl and fingers spread apart as if waiting for a high five.

After declaring his name, he would roll backward and push himself up to his feet before prancing over to the tree behind the girl and reaching up to grab a branch in order to pull himself up and hook his knees around it so that he could allow the rest of his body to hang down from the branch. "Hey, you gots a name?"[/color] he would ask before raising the juice up and stick the end of the straw in his mouth, drinking it from his upside down position in the tree. Gently as he drank he would rock back and forth by his knees, his eye watching a bird sitting in the tree on another branch not far from the one he had chosen.[/size]

[psyche]

The squirt was something else indeed. She just watched him with curiosity, wondereing about the eyespatch. Maybe it was just a kid thing. Her eyes moved with him, as he stood up and replyied. "Sucks." Was the only word that came out of her mouth after he had said he had no mother. She was not about to ask why he didnt have a mother since it was not her business. She was not as nosy but maybe her curiosity would get the best from her, but not today. For some reason she noticed that the boy was extremely happy talking about his dead mother, which she found it odd. Some kids j=would just mope around and cry for their mommies and what not. But this kid was different he just seemed to want to play, smile, and do fun things. "Weird Bozu..." She whispered to herslef as she kept on studying him.

Cheking the boy out, from head to toe, he was not tall. But she had a feeling whe he became of age he would be handsome. Still his eyes cought her attention, they were pretty but they had something. Or maybe it was just her immagination that was playing her. She chukled as he fell, he seemed and looked goofy by doing so. He seemed to never be in one place for too long because he started to move to another. "Your like a restles puppy." She chukled some more as she said this words. As he faced her and said his name, she pondered on a good nickname for him. A grin spead on her lips. "I'll call you... InuIchi." She then noticed his hand out,like if waiting for a high five. She sighed and gave the boy the high five. She couldn't believe she was doing this.

Once again the boy moved, this time it seemed he had become a monkey as he climbed the branch. She gave out another sigh and stood up herself. Placing her hand on her hips and looking as the boy rocked back and forth. "Yes, I have a name InuIchi. It's Ciel." She introduced as her arms crossed infront of her chest. She wondered how the brat was able to hang upside down and still drink the damn juice. He sure as hell was something else. Her gaze would follow his as it seemed he got distracted from the bird on the other branch. "Do you come out here alot, InuIchi?" She asked as her gaze left the bird and back to the boy.

Ciel took the juice from the boy and set it down on the floor. She extended her hand out to him, a smile on her face. "Come, I think your hungry since you evaded my statement." She said as she awaited for him to get a hold of her hands. For some reason she felt like a mother. A chill just ran down her back from just the thought. An image on Nagato crossed her mind and soon shook her head slightly not wanting to think about him for now. That boy could do such things to her and she did not want to think about any of that. "Hurry up and come down, InuIchi." She said as her arms were still out, to help the boy come down.

[ichi]

All of the comments she had made about him went in one ear and right out the other, until she answered his question about her name. "See.... el... you gots a funny name, I dun' like it" he replied excitedly "Hmmm~... I'm going to call you..." he would pause only for a brief moment to think, but he just couldn't think of anything off the top of his head so he chose the first thing that came to mind...orange juice. "Mikan-Nee!" finally deciding that he wanted to play with the bird and also completely ignoring her gesture to help him down, he would swing himself up onto the branch and lunge out haphazardly across the branches with his hands out while trying to grab the bird. The small swallow would fly up and out the way causing Ichi to simply hit his head on the branch and fall down out of the tree, landing on his back with a solid thud. As he had been falling, his eye patch had gotten caught on a branch and came floating slowly down to the ground after him.

Blinking a few times as if he was unsure of what happened, his entire body would go rigid and he snap to a sitting position in an instant. His normally hidden eye was now exposed, a thick scar stretched from the center of his eye brow, down across his eye, and a little bit below it; the previous golden orb was split down the center with a streak of white, the marks of a blade that had rendered the eye useless. For the first time since arriving he would slide his hands out of the overly long sleeves and pick up the eye patch with his small hands before placing it back around his head and getting up to brush the dirt off of himself.

With another flicker like the one he had used to approach her before, his body would appear behind her again but not standing on the ground; rather his arms would be once again wrapped around her and being more than half a foot shorter, his feet would dangle freely off the ground, kicking back and forth as he spoke into her ear, "Of course I come out here lots, It's my house!" his words would be augmented with the usual tone that he had been using the entire time filled with joy and energy. After his statement he would drop down from her shoulders and run around her in a circle flailing his arms about for no particular reason before jumping up into the air and landing on his knees on the opposite side of the things that she had placed on the ground before he arrived.

He was indeed kind of hungry, it wasn't too often he got a free meal. "So Mikan-Chi! What did ya' bring!" he said while tilting his head slightly to the right and shifting his gaze down to the things she had brought with her. Before she could reply his body would fall forward and his face would be inches from the objects, normally this would look like he was just being weird... which he was doing either way.. but there was actually a small bug in the grass that had managed to occupy his attention for the time being.

[psyche]

Ciel shook her head at the sight of the boy. Her arms dropping to her sides. Also, not only did the boy know how to say her name, he didnt like it. "Great..." She whispered to herself as she looked at the boy once more as he seemed to be breaking his head trying to come up with a name for her. Once he did, she could not help but laugh. "Alright IchiBaka. I guess I'll have to like the name." She chukled, she then noticed him swinging up the branches like a damn monkey. "Oh great, now your a monkey." She stated as she kept on watching him, wondering to herself why she was taking care of a little boy she didnt even know up until now.

Before she knew it, her heart seemed to have gone to her throat as the boy fell from the branch. She moved quickly to were he had landed and noticed the eyepatch had come off. Her eyes widened at what she saw but looked away since she guessed the boy did not want her to see it sice he got up fast to retrieve the eyepatch. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath and then she let it out once more. She stood up and watched the boy once more that seemed to be fine after all that.

They seemed to like flickering himself alot, since now he was were she was, but instead was hanging from her neck once more. Her hand touch his arms and smiled some. She had a feeling she was warming up to the brat and this was so troublesome for her. She didnt like kids much, but this one was getting to her. Such a weird day, she thoughtas she gave out a sigh. At east he did listen to one of her question but wondered why he was alone. "InuIchi... Where is your daddy?" She asked getting much more curious about the kid. Turning to see him as he let go of her and dropped to the ground.

She smiled as he asked what she had brang with her. She walked behind him, her knees almost touching his back, as he seemed to have had gotten distracted by something else once more. Before she would stop herself, her body leaned forward towards the boy, her arms wrapping around him and pulling him closer to her as she embraced him in a tight hug where he would not scape. She chukled, "Well... you can look inside and see if you find something that you like." She whispered in his ear. As her forehead touched the back of his head.

Still not planning on letting go of the boy, her left hand moved to his hair and started to play with it. "How old are you, InuIchi?" She asked as she seemed to be fascinated with the hair. "I'm going to let go but you better not move." She said as she let go of him completely. Her other hand now playing with the boys hair. For some reason she wanted to know more about the boy's past, but she had a feeling it would be hard to even ask the boy such questions, since he was too much of a looney head and too hyper active to even be asked such questions. Maybe she'd would wait and see if the boy spoke for himself. If not... she'd beat it out of him... figuratively.

[ichi]

With the tip of his finger, hidden by the length of his sleeves, he continued to poke at the bug and flip it over on to its back, watching it's tiny legs wiggle back and forth as it made it's futile attempts to flip itself back over; the array of tiny legs waving about in the air seemed to have Ichi mesmerized for the few moments that he was actually paying attention to the small insect. For a moment, the bug had kept him too drawn in to remember that he had been asked a question, but with his interest in the small critter slowly fading away the question came back into his mind. His golden eye would look up and gaze at the woman, the usual excited look graced his face. "I don't gots one of those either" he said while sticking his tongue out in a some what playful manner.

As he was about to rise up and go search for something else in the area that might be able to hold his attention for a few seconds, he was stopped; arms wrapped around him, his body taken in by the warmth of her body, a kind of embrace he had not felt for years. It was some what soothing, and for a slight moment calmed his wandering mind, but not for long as soon after his eyes raced for something else to do. The strange and complex matter of his curiousity found it's new target upon hearing the lady say he could look inside of the things she had brought and see if there was anything else that he wanted. However he could not yet look inside; gentle arms were still wrapped around his body and he could feel her head held against the back of his own.

In response to the second question she would ask, Ichi would raise up his hands in front of him for the girl to said. Of course it would take him a minute to realize that she wouldn't be able to see his fingers, nor did he even have enough of them to tell her his age. A chuckle would escape his lips as he replied using words this time, "I am 12 Years old!" his answer would come in an elivated and excited tone, almost a shout. Slowly the arms around his body would release him, and for the moment he would ignore her request to stay still as his attention was still hidden among the items strewn across the ground that she had brought with her; his body tilted forward and he began to rummage through the objects until he found what he wanted.

His eye grew wide and his mouth split open in a massive grin as he pulled out another juice, with the small object in his grasp he fell backward into Ciel so that he would be sitting up, the back of his head resting against her shoulder, eyes closed with a happy smile. Ever so slightly his hands raised and he inserted the straw back into his mouth and began to sip away happily while still leaning back against the warmth of the woman's body. His eyelid would slide open, and his head titled back to look up at her face, "Hey Onee-san? I like you, your fun." he would say before closing his eyes again and resuming his previous position with his juice.

[psyche]

Ichi was sure as hell strange, atleast she thought so. She now was curious to know what had happened to his parents since it seemed he didnt have any. She kept on looking at him as he started to figure out with his fingers how old he was, but then he looked up at her and answered cheerfully at her. She could not help but smile at the boy. As he started to rumage about in her things for something he wanted, she got confortable. Alas, the boy found another juice that he seemed to like and happily started to drink at it. She just smiled as she saw his gestures. He was an adorable child.

He then came back to the position he had been when she embraced him in the hug. Her left arm wrapped about his stomach and stayed there. Her right started to move his hair from his eyes and play with his hair some more. Her head would lower, placing a kiss on his forehead. Yeah, the kid had gotten to her alright. is words made her chukled and nodded. "Then I am happy that your having fun with me." She smiled as she touched the eyepatch for a moment and then kept on with playing with his hair. Her eyes focused on him and watching as he happily drank his juice.

"Tell me..." She said as she tried to find the right words for her question. "How come you don't have a mommy or daddy? Are they sleeping?" She asked not wanting to say the word 'dead', since they boy migt as well just be hiding his sorrow behind all that happiness he carried with him. "Are you a strong ninja?" She smiled warmly as she asked, having a feeling the boy might as well be a shinobi of the mist. Giving out a sigh, she knew thatshe was getting too attached to the boy. In a way... she was getting worried about him, making this situation very troublesome.

[ichi]

The gentle nature of her arm around his stomach, the warmth of the soft lips placed upon his forehead; it was safe to say that he was not one to like sitting in one place for more than a minute but it had been so long since he had been embraced like this by much of anyone, and any way you slice it, he was still just a kid. Ichi found himself enjoying the kind embrace of the young woman, it was as if her entire body was giving off an aura that served the purpose of calming down others around her. A gentle breeze swept across the area, the small bits of his hair hanging down across his face blew back and forth, gently sliding across his face.

The excentric gaze of the child would shift upward and once again look up into her face, he had listened to both her questions and chose to answer in something of a reverse order; the golden orb that now looked up at the woman, it began to swirl with silver until the silver had almost completely displaced the gold and his eye was now a solid silver hue, small flecks of gold scattered through out. He would not tell her whether or not he was strong, that was up for her to guess, a game of sorts. Moments later the silver would began to swirl again until it had completely vanished from the recesses of his eye and all that remained was the familiar golden eye that gazed up into the eyes of the gentle young woman.

A playful smile would stretch across the calm face of the boy, his eye sliding shut as he spoke, "I guess you could say that, they are dead. Some bad men from the place with lots of snow killed them."[/color] through out the grim statement, he never lost the happiness of his appearance nor the excitement in his voice. Next his cloth covered hand would rise up from the juice and a hidden finger would be place upon his eye patch, "That's how i got this."[/color] it didn't seem as though he was thinking at all about the subject of what had happened, rather to some one else it would come off more like he was almost... happy about it.[/size]

[psyche]

The boy seemed to have stopped moving and she felt happy. She didnt know why but she just did. The red headed looked down at the boy as she still smiled at him warmly. Then something seemed to occur with his eye. She just looked intently and then her gaze turned away. Her attention would be cought once more as he spoke. The words seemed gloomy but the boy still managed to say them with such happiness. For some reason a slight pain in her chest appeared. The smile turning into a sad one. "Do you miss them?" The young woman asked as she fucused her whole attention to him.

Before she could ask anything else, he told her about the patch. Her hand started to trail on it and then touched the sides of the patch. "So the mean people that live in the snow did this to you?" She asked once more as she kept on playing with his hair. The boys hair was rather soft and silky for someone that lived in the outdoors as to say. But still she cought the happyness of having had that been done to him. It was a bit scary but she did not say anything about it. She just played some more with his hair. For some reason feeling like a mother, which would send another chill down her back.

The red head would push the boys away from her softly as she would stand up. She'd take him by the arm and help him stand up. "Do you like playing?" She asked a smile forming in her lips as she still gave her full attetion to him. "Cause if you do, today will be your lucky day and play anything you want." She said in a kind of cheerie voice, hoping the boy would accept. However, she was not sure what to play with him, she was not experience when it came to kids since she did not like them much but like said before, this one had surely gotten to her.

[ichi]

The calm figured of the young boy would flinch ever so slightly at the question asked by the woman. Of course he missed them, they were his parents; but he never thought about anything for too long and it had never really bothered him because of that. "Dunno'" just for that one word, his voice was lowered to a level much lower than that of his normal, but after that it would pick back up to be just like good 'old' Ichi, "Never thought about it enough to figure that out." he would reply before raising his arms and stretching them out toward the sky, flaps of his sleevs falling down on top of his head.

The fingers that slid along the patch did not bother him, he had long gotten over the incidents of that day, it was not something that bothered him. "Mm-Hmm, momma was from there too but she ran away." he had been told many times of the story that his parents treasured, the story of how they met. The inexplicable reason why his mother had given been so drawn to the man that she gave up everything that her life had amounted to just for him. It wasn't unusual for Ichi to warm up to people, he loved to make new friends; but this woman was something else, he had yet to meet anyone other than his parents that could get him to sit still for even a moment, yet she had done it so easily.

As the warmth would fade from his back, the small head would tilt back to look up at her, small strands of hair sliding down from his face to hang loosely toward the ground. 'She wants to play?' it was not really something he had expected to hear from this woman after the way she had reacted to some of the things he had done so far since they had met, but that didn't make it any less of a welcome gesture. With some effort, Ichi would raise himself up from the ground and pat himself a few times to brush off the grass that had stuck to his pants from sitting down. "I love games! Hmm~" A hand would rise up to be place below his chin while he thought about what to do.

"Let's play a game you wana' play!" he shouted as he ran over and jumped up grab the same branch he had been on before. With a swift shift of his weight, his body would swing up and over the branch until he safely landed sitting atop it, langs dangling down. "There's gotta' be something that you like to play, right?" the playful words would be accompanied by a childish laugh.

[psyche]

She felt growing much more attached to the boy, the more time she spent with him. As far as was told slowly, he was an orphan that lived alone somwhere around here. Parents having been killed and now him not having thought about actually missing them. She felt sad that the boy was going through this, even though he made everything a game, but somewhere deep down he must feel lonely, right? But she could not jump to any conclussions just yet. She'd still get things out of him.

His next words were a bit of a guess to her. But now she had actually confirmed it. Though she was not sure which parent was from there. "I see..." She said a bit absent, as she thought about the boy and his past. She still wanted to dig more but for now she let it go and was to play with him. Which she had not done in such a long and did not know what kind of game to play with the boy. "I really do not know any fun games." She said as she kneeled infront of him and took his hands. "Besides...She smiled as her right hand moved to touch his nose. "I said today was your lucky day, so you have to choose." She grinned as she winked at the boy, and stood up once more.

Before she would let him speak once more, her mind was set up on something but she was not sure. She did not know how to care of someone oter than herself, and had never had any other siblings to say she knew what she was about to do, but she had to give it a try. "Ichi-kun..." She said as she once more kneeled down to her at his level. "I have a proposal to make you. But I will warn you, I am not sure how to be what I am about to ask you. So you'll have to work with me.. that's if you say yes." She smiled warmly as she then closed her eyes and took his small hands in her, massaging his hand softly. She took a deep breath and then opened her eyes. "How about... I adopt you... and be your new mommy?" She asked as she looked at the boy. She hoped she coult pull throught his if he did accept. Now she was nervious to know the answer but still focused on the boy and awaited for him to reply.

[ichi]

'She doesnt know any games?!' was the only thought that would pass through his head at the time, 'Nee-chan must have had a really boring child hood' the fact that he was deep in thought on something was clearly reflected in his face as he stared off into the clouds pondering the subject. "Hmm~... no games..." Several ideas ran through his mind as he debated on what might be the best game to play at the time. He didn't even pay much attention to her recent motions toward him, his mind was too lost on the subject of games at the moment. Just as his mind was beginning to narrow down his choices, his attention was diverted from the subject of games by her new words, from the way she was speaking it seemed as though she was quite nervous about what ever it was she wanted to say, of course Ichi would never pay much mind to that and continue listening intently to her words.

'a new... mother?''

It was a strange offer indeed, and one that was rather hard to grasp one's mind around at that. Of course normally some might take such a comment offensively, thinking that she was implying that she would be replacement for his passed mother; but to Ichi this was almost like a miracle. He loved to be with people, and he loved to have fun, not to mention it had be so long since he had anyone that held some kind of special connection to him. He rarely paid much attention to these kind of things but the fact remained that he was just a child, and children need parents no matter how much they want to deny that.

His visible eye would grow wider as he thought about the offer, it was a mixed look of surprise and happiness; His teeth would slide over his lip and bite down gentle on the right corner, a simple distraction of sorts as he thought. His body would fall forward into the grass, his head landing gently on the knees of the young woman as he gazed up into her face from below, his own hand would gently carress the patch that hid the scar across his right eye; it was a rare thing for him to do but a sign that he was for once thinking of the cause behind it and the day it happened. "You really wana' be... my momma'?" his words had a strange sense of curiousity about them, it sure was a strange offer, strange enough to temporarily displace the hyper nature of this young boy and replace it with lingering curiousity; not that he didn't want such a thing, in face he would be more than happy to accept but she had been so nervous, was it something she really wanted he had to find out.

[psyche]

Ciel could not help but smile at the pondering expressions of Ichi. He quite adorable and she now admitted he had gotten to her. His first words were about the games and he seemed somewhat thougful for him since this was the first time he was being thoughtful but it was 'cute'. But she still felt nervous as he had listened to her words so intently. She was afraid he might say no and be dissapointed. For some reason she felt her hands start to get sweaty, although the boy would not notice since his hands were covered with his long sleeve.

Her red eyes were focused on his, and her heart started to beat faster. Not even when she had been with Nagato had this happened to her. But just waiting for what the boy had to reply was so nerve wrecking to her. She just wanted to know the answer already but she had to be patient, he was a child and seemed to be pondering on her proposal. She noticed as his eye widened and he started to bite onto his lower lip, it was really cute. She tended to do it herself, but that was beside the point. Alright, so the red headed was extremly nervous and wanted the answe already.

She noticed as he let go of her hands and fell to the grass his head on he lap once more. She did not say anything and watched his motions, as he looked at her and then touched his patch. Her hands moved to play with his hair once more. As she finally heard something about the proposal. Her heart skipped a beat and felt her body go cold. She closed her eyes and nodded. "I do and would like to be. I would like to take care of you." She started as her hand did not stop playing with his hair. "I know I am showing off alot of nerviousness but this is something I dont do often or more like at all. You see... I know it's been a short time but you seem to have grown on me alot. And I'd like for that to keep growing, and well... I just would like to have you as my son as to say. Don't mistake my words.. I know I am not a replacement of your true parents. But atleast I'd like to care for you." She was not sure why she just eplained all that to the boy, she just hoped he understood.

[ichi]

The simple words spoken by the woman served to reassure Ichi of the situation, he knew full well what he wanted but he had to make sure of what she wanted. It was true that the two had only just met, but it wasn't a hidden fact that Ichi was quick to trust and on top of that it was rare for some one to be able to get him to sit still no matter what the situation, this woman had something special about her. Not only that but the way she chose to explain her decision seemed quite sincere;but there was something he had to tell her first, "Ya' know, my dad's blood that runs in me, gives he these eyes." he said as he raised his hand up and placed it over his remained eye, blocking his vision, "because of these, there will be people who want me for my abilities." An uncharacteristic wave of unrest would pass over him, as it did the one hand that still rested in the woman's palm would tighten it's grip only for a second before relaxing back to normal. "Are you ok with that?"

After that he would released her hand and jump up to his feet facing away from her. His eye would close and he would let out a deep sigh, not that she would be able to see any of this, before turning on the ball of his heel and facing her again with his usual playful expression. "If you can accept that..." he would say as he dropped to his knees in front of her, his hands moved forward and pressed down against her legs as he leaned forward to bring their faces inches part. "...Then i will..." he would lean in further and place his lips against the warmth of her cheak for a brief moment before pushing off and rolling over backward, ending up lying on his back in the grass as he gazed up through the leaves at the passing clouds, "... Gladly accept."

[psyche]

Ciel kept her ear perked to listen every word the boy had to say to her. She did not want to miss anything and well she just wanted to make sure she heard well for his answer. From his next words, it seemed he was sharing a piece of him. Her eyes focused on his, and listening to him. But for some reason she felt anger growing in her, but did not show it and kept her cool. She felt him grip on her hand but relax it the next. She smiled kindly. "I will not let anyone take you away from me, if that is what you think. Unless you want to help others with your powers then I shall accept. If not I shall protect you with my own life." She answered truthfully. Her hand caressing his soft cheek.

His next movements were not predicted as he stood up and faced her away. Her gaze fell down, her shoulder slanted dowards, her head down as well. She had a feeling he was about to answer her questiong and had a feeling he might make her wait. But she had to be patient and wait for him to answer. She noticed how his feet moved, her gaze returning to the boy, a warm smile on her face as he had his same happy face as before. She could not help but hold her breath, time seemed to slow down on her as she listedned to his first words. Her eyes widened and started to blink rapidle as he placed his small hands on her lap and came inches away from her.

The young woman felt his small lips touch her cheek, giving her a kiss. She seemed shocked at this and just stared at the grass, not knowing what to do. He then moved away from her and rolled over and seem to rest on the grass, his gace somewhere but looking at her. His last two words were all she need to make time seem to go fast once more. Her heart was beating fast, and for some reason her eyes started to get watery. She moved to where the boy was, took him by his hands and pulled him towards her, hugging him tight. A few tears of happyness rolled down her cheek. "I promise to be a good mommy." She whispered as she held onto him tight. Caressing his head.

[ichi]

Finding solice in the tight embrace of his new mother, the young child's body would relax; his arms sliding up her back and returning the gesture, the side of his head resting gently on her shoulder. At that time he was not entirely sure of the reason for her tears, whether she was truly happy or if this was the trigger to the remembrance of child hood memories, either way he did not care at the moment. He was happy just being there, just being loved by some one like the old days, some one who would take care of him and protect, teach him the things he needed to learn; a mother. He did not expect her to be able to replace the job of his real mother nor did he want her to, he was simply satsified with knowing that there was some one out there some where who cared about him.

Some time passed before Ichi would shift his weight back and slowly pull away from her before standing up and raising his arms to the sky in a long stretch. It was still quite early in the day and the sun was shining brightly across the field, the patch of shade they sat in had fallen subject to the rising sun and shrunk quite a bit since earlier. A sweeping gust of wind would flush across the land rustling the leaves in the tree. A cloth covered hand would rise to take hold of a single falling leaf, his eyes focused upon it as if it were a great treasure he had finally come across after so years of searching; to Ichi, everything was of importance, everything could offer some form of entertainment if used the right away, even something as simple as a leaf.

The golden hue of his eyes would shift down to his mother who was kneeling in the grass, the edges of his eye catching a glare from the all-encompasing beams of light cast down upon the world by the sun. He was rather curious about her, there was still so much he did not know; not that anything should could tell him would affect his decision but it was just that being who he was, he was always curious about everything. "So! I wants to know 'bout you!" he would say in an overly excited manner, perhaps more so than was neccesary, "...but i gots too many questions." he would continue with a bit of embaressment as he scratched the back of his head, "So I'll let you decide what you want to tell me!" It was true there was much he wanted to ask, but he did not want to pry into things that may bring up painful memories and figured it best to just let her talk.

[psyche]

She was happy that her new son had giving the affection back and had not pulled away after a while. She had not noticed the sun had already changed it position and was now no shade there, but for now she did not care about such small matters. She wiped the tears from her face and looked at her son as a nice breeze picked up. A warm smile in her face as she looked at him, she chuckled as he found yet another 'treasure' to keep his attention on. She shook her head slightly and chuckled some more. The red headed tilted her head slightly to the right as her son looked at her, his eyes seemed to give out curiosity. She had a feeling something was coming.

Revealing his curiosity she smiled and nodded. "I see..." She said as her right hand moved to her chin and rested there. Her gaze was upon him as he kept on and laughed softly at his embarrassment, he was so cute. She shifted her body in a position she was comfortable in, spreading her legs apart, her dress covering the middle, she motioned for Ichi to sit in the middle. If he did, she'd start playing with his hair once more, since she liked playing with it. "How about this, I'll tell you some about myself, and if you have any questions, I'll answer them." She smiled as she looked at him.

Ciel went into a deep though as she wondered where to begin. "Alright... I know where to start." She grinned as she was to begin to tell about herself. "Well, my mothers name is Mitsuru... She's the one who taught me how to cook, do flower arrangements and do a tea ceremony. She wanted me to be the perfect housewife and a perfect lady/" She chuckled as she remembered. "Since little I've always caught onto things fast, thus my mother making me do those things, but I rather liked them much. My father's name is Akihiko Arisato, and we became very close." She smiled warmly at the thought of her father.

"For me my parents were the best, but if I'd have to choose between them, which would be a very tough decision... I think I'd pick my father. I think because he used to always carry me on his shoulder and I'd play with his hair all the time." She laughed softly at the though, she had not thought of it in such a long time, bringing her good and sad memories. "Around the age of ten or so... I saw a pattern with my mother. She had fallen sick right before my eyes, and after two long years she passed away." She took a deep breath and kept on playing with Ichi's hair as she looked at him. "After that day, I was the lady of the house and took care of my father at all times, making sure he was well and was eating well."

Closing her eyes, she thought of the state her father went into. "My father started drinking when my mother died. But this didn't stop me from taking care of him. I always picked him up wherever he was, besides he was the one that helped me with my Taijutsu so why not return some of the favor." She grinned some as she looked at him. "But when I turned fourteen he stopped drinking , so I was very content about it but it didn't last long... because my father was killed in a mission. It was hard for me because I was still somewhat young but I managed. So... I decided to train very hard, and not so long ago I was Mizukage but since some events happened that I still cannot recall I lost the position. But now I have been made into a Delegate so there you have it." She grinned still. Feeling a bit sad having had remembered the loss of her parents but happy that she was sharing this with her son.

A strand of red hair fell in her face, not bothering taking it away, she kept on playing with Ichis hair. Her purple eyes looking at her son with care,. "I am sure you have questions you would like to ask, so I say go ahead and ask me. I wont mind answering them." She smiled as she had a feeling he might ask a lot of questions, but she did not mind much. Besides, she wanted to get to know him better as well, and would have and would do the same. She smiled as she leaned down and kissed his forehead. "I'm sure my parents would have loved having such a cute grandchild. I bet my mom would have eaten you with kisses. My father... hmm... I'm not sure about him, he was unpredictable." She chuckled as she would now wait for him to ask her questions.

[ichi]

Leaping down from the tree, Ichi would land on his hands and knees before quickly scampering over to the location of his new mother and resting between her legs, his head turned slightly so that he could see her as she was talking. It was quite the story he header, but Ichi had never been one for comforting words or deep thoughts, so he would reply to her sorry simply with. "Hmm~ Do ya' miss 'em?" the answer was obvious but for lack of a better response that was all he could say at the moment.

Instead of trying to think of some fancy words to tell her, Ichi would continue the conversation by explaining some things about himself. He may not be the smartest of people but it was obvious that a mother would want to know about her new child. "When I was younger I got bored alot~ I wasn't allowed to leave the house 'cause my parents knew the bad guys would come. After a while though, I got these." he would raise his hand up and point to the single uncovered golden eye. "Then they knew they couldn't stop things. So went out and travelled to lots of cool places in soooo many different countries, it was when we were coming home when we got attacked."

With his story now out in the open also, he assumed she too may have some questions for him as well; but for now he would leave it at that and if she wanted to know more he would tell her. While he awaited to hear what it was she had to say his eyes switched over to a bird that was flying over head, slowly gliding across the wind. A small hand would rise toward the sky as if reaching to try and grasp the small creature that was so far out of his reach. In a way he was envious of the birds, they could travel across invisible roads created by the wind to any destination that they desire, free to fly as far and high as they desire.

Ever since he was little, all the time he was locked up inside his house for his own protection he would be watching the birds flutter past his window; feeding, playing, never confined by the likes of roads or oceans or paths... Free to travel a path that was unseeen and unknown to any person other than themselves. Ichi would have done anything to obtain such absolute freedom back then and even still; always dreaming of that pair of wings to carry him as high as he could go.