[Raikiri] No. 298 Austin Gonzales

[ginseku]

"No thanks, I'm okay..."
Gin rolled over in bed, now facing the wall instead of Amber.
"Omg! Theres a monkey with a wrench! run for your lives!...."
Gin squiggled in beg for a moment, then just collapsed quietly.  

[Kaitae]

Amber Elise snorted and glared down at Ginseku. "Ohhhhh! You idiot, wake up!" she commanded and jumped on his bed, tickling his sides. "Wake up, wake up, wake up!" she ordered into his ear, the sunlit room surrounding them turning dark suddenly as a cloud blotted out the sun.  

[ginseku]

Ginseku jumped up, laughing uncontrollably at Ambers manipulations.
"AHMAGAWD! IM UNDER ATTACK!"
He hid under the sheets quickly, curling into a ball of defense. He wings fluttered sillently, protesting a bit to the assault of tickle-age  

[Kaitae]

Growling, she stepped back and folded her arms, scooping Butters into her arm with a frown. "You'll wake up, won't you?" she sighed, glaring at Gin. She'd have to wait it out..  

[ginseku]

Austin knocked on the door to ginseku's room rather quietly. seeing the door creak open, he peeked inside.
"Oi, Gin? You home bro?"
Austin then opened the door and walked in rather nonchalantly. His hands were stuffed in his jeans, which were of course overly baggy and scraped the ground beneath his heels. He had a ninja vest on, but it was unzipped and left open freely. rather paradox to wear armor as a fashion statement, yes?
Austin stopped when he saw Amber standing there with Butter in her arms.
"Hey. Whatcha up to, Butter?"
Butter squealed in joy, then flew from Amber's arms to jump on Austin. Austin caught Butter easily, then stroked the top of his head. butter squeaked and squealed happily to Austin.
"Ah, I see. Gin's got a visitor, and he's being goofy again. Sounds like him."
Austin placed butter on the bed, then poked Ginseku in the back once.
"Wakey wakey eggs and bakey, gin."
Ginseku mumbled slightly, then curled up more.
Austin furrowed his eyebrows slightly iin his own little disapproving way.
"Come on gin, don't make me do it again. i love sleep too, but enough is enough."
Ginseku mumbled again, then did the same.
"Aight then."
Austin formed two handsigns quickly, then blew a small stream of water forth to wake gin up. Ginseku squirmed in bed, getting soaked with cold water.

"AH! IM AWAKE, IM AWAKE!"
He hopped to life in his bed, now resembling a soaked dog.  

[Kaitae]

Amber Elise watched in confusion as Gin's brother entered, got attention from the cat, and then woke Gin up. She ended up laughing, though, looking down at the silly, soaked teen.

"Wow, that's brilliant." she lifted up her tattooed hand and covered her mouth, trying to not laugh as much. It worked somewhat, and she was reduced to laughing under her breath every couple of seconds.

"So. Um." she couldn't seem to say anything coherent. "I'm-- I'm Amber Elise." she put her hand back down to her side, still chuckling.  

[ginseku]

"Hey there Amber. I'm Austin. I'm pretty sure youre already aquainted with Gin."

"Austin? Whatre you doing here?"

"I'm stopping by to let you know that I'm leaving Tenshi, and Ria high. I've been elected Kazekage, and I receive my official robes in three days. I'm just letting you know, since you're my best friend."

Ginseku seemed to go into a state of minor shock at Austin's statement.  

[Kaitae]

Amber Elise blinked as Austin spoke, not even throwing out her retort about how she was Amber Elise, not just Amber... and then she frowned. She took a step forward and slapped him lightly in the face, before going red in her own. She was embarrassed that she'd done that, but was Austin was doing was rather.. stupid.

"That's.. That's wrong." she muttered and started to turn away. "You stop by like you're saying, 'hey, nice knowing ya, but I'm leaving now. Kaythanksbye.' That's.. that's just wrong." she paused a beat. "Sorry for slapping you."  

[ginseku]

Austin didn't even blink when he was slapped. The slight sting wasn't even a thought in his mind.

"Yeah, I know what you mean. And I don't mean to be rude. But you don't know what the hell is goin' on, who that soaked puppy over there in that bed is, or anything about our relationship as blood brothers. So, pardon my english, ******** off."
Austin took a rather half-hearted bow, then spoke to Gin.
"You know where I'll be. I have to go now, i already know that people are looking for me...Political escorts and all that. Seeya."
The wind in the room picked up suddenly, and Austin disappeared in a gust of wind.


Gin seemed a bit surprised at Austin's straightforwardness with amber, provided his mannerisms and sense of justice and whatnot.

He spoke after a moment.
"He's not always that rigid. He really just hates it when people don't know about him or who his loved ones are. He's..really hard to understand. s**t, it took me 2 years just for him to open up with me."  

[Kaitae]

Amber Elise really didn't know what to do or say. Gritting her teeth and feeling like a moron more or less, she shoved her hands in her pockets and looked towards the window, her hazel eyes distant as she bit her lip guiltily.

"It's fine. It's okay. I.. understand. It wasn't really my place to say anything anyway." she said quietly with a small sigh, turning back to him and then walking with light footsteps, sitting down on the un-wet foot of Gin's bed. Patting down her legs for a moment in silence, she finally shrugs. "It's between you and him. If you want to say anything about it, you can, but.. it's just whatever you want." Shrugging, she spoke delicately, not wanting to really press into the matter. But, she didn't really know what to say, either.

... Harsh. I can't really.. believe Austin just did that. Her thoughts were slow and delicate, as if she were afraid she might even think something wrong. But.. wow. I imagine Gin's going to be upset. I mean, they were.. 'blood brothers', er.. are. Whatever. Either way, that'd hurt, having him suddenly leave. Even if it was for political reasons. Kazekage, wasn't it? Eh.. she sighs through her nose, looking up to him in a furtive manner.  

[ginseku]

"Amber Elise, I can tell you're rather confused about all of this. It seems like he's ditching me without so much as a goodbye, but the truth is that that isn't the case at all. Austin and I had an agreement because of our adventurous lives that we would always remain friends and find each other whenever we had down time. Austin's worked most of his life to get that position, and i've always been there to help him. When...HE....Tried to kill me...Austin showed up and opened up a can of whupass on him and rescued my sorry butt like it was no big thing. So you see, hon..."
Gin curled his legs up, and folded his wings behind his back to sit up.
"Austin is pretty much my only family. He's always been by my side, and vice versa. But we both know that when the time comes for each of us to part for a while, we let it go. It's never been taken personally, and never will be."
Gin reached out to rest a hand on Amber Elise's shoulder softly, and smiled softly as well.  

[Kaitae]

He? Who's this he Gin's talking about? she pursed her lips together, just nodding and forcing a returned smile on her face. She sat down on the bed next to him, sighing softly. "But hey, doesn't that kind of suck? Family coming and going. I mean, jeez, I couldn't do that. I can't hardly stand being away from my--" she broke off for a moment, blushing. Might as well finish your sentence, dumb-dumb, he'll ask you about it anyway. "--my little brother right now especially. Him and my dog. My parents, I can call and check in with, they're fine, but those two I worry about like mad. Besides, my little bro's the only sibling I've got." she shrugs, and then mumbles under her breath,

"I'm proud of him, even when he does something stupid, you know?"

Shaking her head, Amber Elise shrugged, flashing a smile towards Gin. "But it's okay. I understand." she paused, adding a secondary shrug. "Now at least."  

[ginseku]

Gin didn't feel like relaying that he didnt HAVE family, just Austin and Sora..So he didn't and just nodded back.
"Austin has a lil bro...He's autistic. Austin definitely understands what you mean there, and I bet he'd get along well with you if you guys had a second chance to talk.But anyway..."
Gin saw that Amber's tattoo had changed a bit.
"Amber elise...what happened to your mark? IT seems..different.."  

[Kaitae]

Slowly, Amber Elise nodded. "Well, I hope we get that chance, what with him being an important politicial figure with his robes now and everything." Smiling at Gin, she stares down at her hand, creasing her eyebrows. The tattoo was pale, the light that seemed to have been coming from within it before non-existant.

"Hm. Maybe.. it's just going away?"  

[ginseku]

"No..."
Gin reached down and tapped part of her mark, then traced his finger across to the corner of another part of her mark.
"That part of the mark warped inwards and rotated counter clockwise. It's altered. What happened while i had my moment of idiocy out there?"