No One Sleeps in Tokyo [PRIVATE (ask to join)]

Some people sleep in Tokyo.  Like that homeless guy on ju-ichi street, he sleeps.  In a box!  Or that guy on Sakura Avenue.  Though he might be dead, someone might want to check him.  Plenty of people slept in Tokyo, but none were as Vampiric, or awake, as Minami.  After all, can't be awake when you're asleep.  This small example of why powered humans aren't a bad thing was just skipping down the streets of Tokyo.  Why skipping?  Well it was faster than walking and more fun than running.  Her eyes actually had green contacts in.  This girl, a native to Tokyo, knew people.  She was avoiding going home, lest she risk her parents catching her with red eyes.  She didn't know how to tell them and didn't want them to know until she had an idea.  So she stayed at a 5 star hotel.  Hey she's loaded, she can do that.  She wore a skirt and a cute top that looked like a school uniform meets military uniform.  She was all too happy, mainly due in part that she just heard some great music at a nearby concert.  She didn't listen to music all the time, but every so often it was a great way to elevate the mood.

She was in THAT part of town sadly.  It was inbetween where the concert was held and her hotel.  The people here were really weird.  At one point a shirtless guy was running for his life from 5 other dudes.  That was strange.  People here actually had mohawks too, the ridiculous kind.  It was like gang territory if all the gang members were all losers.  They thought they were cool but it'd make Minami giggle, or would if they didn't have a chance of attacking Minami.  Being losers might make them all the more willing to try unholy things, and Minami was painfully aware of it.  She rubbed her neck as she walked.  She was sore and a bit bruised all over.  Not too long ago she had almost died to a crazed W.I.N.A, a wire integrated neurotic asshole.  But he was more a loser than these losers.  Still, she was basically a vampire.  When she was in the dark she healed faster.   She worried about Kirino, she was stronger but lacked the ability to regenerate.  She was probably still bedridden, though she was tough so even with her wounds she might be able to walk around by now.

As she rubbed her neck she overheard something.  The word witch.  Seriously witch?  These lame'os better be dealing with someone who's powers function like a fictional representation of a witch or she was gonna give them a firm...talking to.    Minami poked her head around a corner and saw a couple of, yep, mohawked losers being rough with some girl.  Yep, that wasn't good.  People feared those who had powers.  Hearing that blip of conversation made her certain this was what it was.  Minami jumped out.  "HEY, no fighting.  You'll get blood on your...mohawks."  She almost slapped herself in the face.  Really?  THAT was the reason.  "And it's rather uncouth to bring harm to a lady.  I don't think the ladies will be knocking down your doors if they saw you doing this...or maybe they would, but it'd be to kill you."  She said, maybe not the most eloquent but hey, it's the truth.  They were looking at her like she was crazy.  "Get out of here bitch, we're here to hurt the witch,"

Well played Dr. Seuss.  Well played.  "Wait, hold on a second.  How do you know she is a witch?  Is she made of wood?  Does she weigh as much as a duck?  Did you build a bridge out of her?"  Well those WERE things people did to test witches, save building a bridge out of them.  It can also be done with stone.  And did his hair turn dark green or was she seeing things?  She knew if these were normal humans, she had one advantage.  She was a a female version of the hulk.  Not really but with how she accidentally sent people through walls she sometimes felt like it.  She was hoping another person would come save the girl though.  Minami was stalling.

The girl seemed to make the mistake that Minami was calling her fat. Kinda hard of an accusation to make when she was pretty skinny looking honestly. Minami shrugged. "Maybe after a couple thousand burgers." She paid no mind to the thugs, in fact she kinda ignored their incessant prattle. Until the metal pipe was pointed at her. "A lead pipe? What is this, the 20's?" She tilted her head a bit, she was sorta confused as to why people whom had easy access to kitchen utensils would be using a pipe. Did...did they not use utensils? "Ew." She just pictured them eating with their hands. That poor poor food. She also wondered seriously why he was calling the girl a witch. Did she turn him into a newt? What, he could have gotten better. Did she curse... "Did...did she curse you with those stupid haircuts? Yeah I guess I'd be mad about that too huh." She tilted her head a bit wondering if that was it. Maybe hair fashion wasn't dying, but they were being cursed. However then they decided to call Minami a witch.

"Hey don't look at me, I'd never curse the world with hair like that!" Minami had been thinking. The green one had a teensy tiny bit of power possibly, if he could tell they had powers. However, basically they were human thugs. If she played her cards right they couldn't catch her. She might not win a straight fight, since they might pummel her before she can land a single punch, but they certainly shouldn't be able to catch her. She began to zone out what was happening to the girl and focused on herself. The 90's reject was reaching out to grab her. Yeah how about no. "Hey, don't reach out at me with that NOM!" With a shout of nom she bit down on the thug's outstretched hand. Really hard. She wasn't trying to draw blood to feed, so the mild numbing that dimmed the pain wasn't a thing. Two fangs just practically went THROUGH his hand. She shook her head a bit just to emphasize and then hopped backwards.

"Vampire, not witch, Vampire. And by the way." Minami reached up and removed her contacts. Her bright red almost glowing eyes revealed. "You know you're gonna turn into one now right?" The look on orange's face was priceless. With her red eyes showing, and the fangs, that statement turned him so pale he might be a vampire. "Wh-what? You freak, what did you do to me?" Was he...beginning to hyperventilate. Minami pulled a nail file out of her bag and began to file her nails. "Ohhh yeah, you're gonna be all like 'I want blood' and I'm gonna be like 'join me in the hunt'." After a little more freaking out Minami burst into laughter. "Oh my god, you should have seen the look on your face! You were so scared." Minami was giggling her cute little butt off. "Yeah just put on a bandaid and you'll be your same stupid haircut self. Even if I could turn people into vampires, doing it without their permission just seems downright rude and improper." "You little shit!" He jumped at her but she had so much distance reflexes weren't needed. She just ran to the side.

She ran as orange chased her. She went in a big circle, coming back around as orange tried to cut her off, but she ducked under his obvious grab and just ran backwards as she yelled back to him. "Seriously it is rude to chase ladies." She got distracted for a moment as she tried to keep their attention though. Apparently orange ended up right behind her after quite a bit of running. As she turned around she accidentally vampiric elbowed his nose and knocked him back. "There has got to be a better way to do this." Still stalling was the best course of action, she had a feeling if she stalled long enough someone else would come along and make life way easier. "Seriously Genji? Why must we do this. The fighting, the biting. Why can't we settle this over a nice cup of tea?" The orange one came closer and suddenly lunged forward. Minami let out an eep and stuck her fist out and punched him clear in the nose, which sent him stumbling back even further. "Guess not."

As Minami accidentally pummeled her foe, another girl stepped into the fray. It was just as well. Minami wasn't a good fighter, though somehow she was causing damage by accident. Minami looked over. The girl called attention to herself so it obviously wasn't a blunder that she got their attention. In her hand was a bottle of something. Minami watched, and as the girl took a swig of whatever was in said bottle she punched a wall. Nothing happened. "Hey I can do that too!" She said as she watched the girl punch, but after a few moments, when the green one questioned her sanity, the wall crumbled. "...I can't do that." Actually she might be able to. She knew she was able to dent a wall, but causing one to crumble might have been a little out of her League. It wasn't long before they all fell back. She giggled like crazy as they ran off. "There's a hair stylist in that direction." Minami dusted herself off. She hoped she didn't get any of their hair on her clothes, they'd change colors with that much coloring in the wash.

She was about to merrily skip away when the girl who was "saved" turned and spoke to her. Minami turned around and a giant question mark practically popped up over her head. "What that? It wasn't that great. They were kinda asking for it with hair like that." Seriously, how could one not successfully sass. As she finished her response, the girl came up to her. "Umm...can I help you?" She was being looked at a little strangely. That's when the girl asked if the vampire thing was true. "Oh that's right!" Minami reached into her pocket and got another pair of color contacts, placing them on her eyes rather quickly. She had practiced at home in case of emergency. Once on, her eyes looked like her old natural green color. "Sorta." She finally responded to the question. "If I don't drink blood I die, but I don't turn people into vampires or make people do my bidding or anything. Just take a drink, and everyone can go on with their lives." Minami looked the girl up and down. She couldn't sense anything, but she could feel something. "Noooooooormally it's a secret, but you looked like you needed help. And besides, who'd believe walking hair dye dispensers anyway?" Seriously, people with sharp canine's weren't uncommon, and the contacts she used were fairly hard to knock off. Those guys pull the "witch" card and...well if someone DID believe them her parents probably wouldn't and they have more than enough money to get prominent people to discredit them. She looked in the direction the guys fled in. "Jerk. The ass doesn't even realize that if he can so easily tell we're "different" that he's "different" too."

Minami sighed. She was always less ditsy when legitimately annoyed. Though this girl didn't seem to know. Minami could actually smell it on her, and ever so slightly on the head of those thugs too. Rather she did, now all she smells is hair dye. Minami scratched the back of her head. The question wasn't directed at her so she didn't go to answer it. Instead she waited for an opportunity. "My name is Minami Shimada." She was in her hometown so they might know of her family, but she stopped caring. She felt more at home in the academy so if someone was getting on her good side because she has money she won't be around long anyway. Still, she knew one thing had gone wrong. She needed to learn how to handle herself, and while she did go out of her comfort zone there, that wasn't exactly the practice she intended.

Minami was relieved when the girl said she could keep her mouth shut. Made her life easier, especially since she didn't have the guts to do what was necessary for self-preservation, which was remove her from the picture. Minami just backed herself up and let this girl give the explanation. Basic information from Hephaestus. Standard day one information. Yes. Yes. Indeed quite. Then the girl looked to both of them and said in a serious tone they needed to stay hidden. Minami made a pouty face. "I know I know, what do you think the contacts were for?" Seriously, was this girl not eavesdropping at all? The nerve of this girl. "I hate putting them in, if explaining the red eyes to people was easy then I'd have done it." She shook her head and dropped the pouty face. "I..." She sighed slightly. "Have the fighting skill of a 2 headed chicken, and the heads always argue with each other. I had to be...creative to be of any help here." Nope she wasn't happy about it. And she'd probably pout about it for the next 15 minutes...mentally.

Minami didn't pay much mind to the girl's lessons. Only because she had heard them plenty of times before. She listened to this girl ask what she was supposed to do. Not being able to live the way she was before, now THIS Minami knew the answer to. "I heard some people have trouble stopping their powers from going off...you...really don't want them to suddenly manifest and misfire when you're around normal people. Once you can control it...you can usually live a close to normal life if you want. Usually." The only problem was people who have powers who are hypocrites in one way or another, like the green guy. Even if he didn't have power, he had room to gain them. It'd suck for him if he was burned like a witch. "And yes. I mean the academy, not the island." She turned to the other girl as she mentioned that Minami already went to Hephaestus. "Hmm? I'm not surprised you recognize me...sadly. How did you know I go? Honestly the only people I know who really know are...at the academy. Even if they don't know what the academy is, I don't see them bragging about it. They're too busy for it anyway."

The girl introduced herself as Akahana Reikozuki, sounds familiar. Akahana...Hana means flower. This girl was pretty like a flower, to Minami anyway. "You remind me of pretty flowers, can I call you Hana-san?" She said with a painfully sweet smile on her face. Technically Akahana meant Red Rose, which was a flower. Yet this girl apparently didn't want to be called her first name normally, so that was out. Hana wasn't necessarily implied though. Then Hana, yes this is what she was referring to Reika as, at least mentally, even if she said no, then asked what they were doing out here. "Concert!" Minami called out, one hand in the air. The stiffness from her injuries flared up and hurt for a second, causing her to pull back down with an "ow". That is when Haruka, as she introduced herself, said something really funny. Seriously? What did she think this was, a Superman comic? Was she spiderwoman now? Some manga? It was actually funny. When she mentioned the "with great power comes great responsibility" Minami turned to Hana Reika and laughed, hoping she found it just as funny. After she finished all she could say was "Lasers? If you're lucky." She continued to giggle, she was obviously joking but she was in a good mood now.

Minami's ears twitched. Did she just hear something? She shrugged it off, the power talk was winding down anyway. Though she did feel like she should be careful what was said. When she asked about the nickname, Reika decided that just saying no politely wasn't an option. A tad rude when she was being nice to be honest. She shrunk a bit (metaphorically). "You didn't need to say it like that." There was a certain amount of respect you needed to show people, like asking before you just call them something. She asked, she was polite about it. Thus she sat back and just stayed silent, mostly because she once more had little to add. She pulled out her bow, sticking it in her mouth as she began messing with her hair to fix it. It was a tad out of place. Suddenly though Haruka addressed her, Minami looked up. Speaking through her teeth she spoke up. "One sec." She pulled the bow out and fixed her ponytail up. "Well, I suppose I can try. Not sure I'm the one to ask, though." Haruka though wasn't 100% sure if she wanted to give things up. "I'm the daughter of one of the richest families in Japan, and I still live with them when not at school. Really the trick is hiding it." Her ears twitched again. This time she was sure, and she could even smell him. "We're not alone. I can smell it." She stated. It was less than 5 seconds later that pink made his move.

Suddenly another member of the fashion disasters appeared, grabbing Haruka immediately. "My eyes I'm blind!" Minami shouted, damn his hair was bright. With her improved vision, it ACTUALLY hurt. She didn't know how to properly adjust her night vision, particularly bright colors kinda hurt. He held Haruka at knife point. He demanded that they put their money and clothes on the ground. Wait...their clothes? Clothes...women...clothes...clothes. "Our clothes? PERVERT! HENTAI HENTAI! PERVERT!" She screamed pointing at him! If there was anyone she was undressing for, it was NOT some stranger, and a freak no less. Still she didn't move. She slowly began to pull out her wallet, and as she got it out, Haruka pointed something out. He was fucked if he actually got rid of his bullet monkey. Minami blinked. "You know...she has a point." Minami popped the wallet back into her pocket.

After this things got a little crazy. Suddenly the man plunged the knife into Haruka, deciding to use her as a distraction to escape. Minami gasped. "Ah, ah, ah. Of all times for me not to have a bow!" Suddenly as she said that a bow appeared in her hand. It was a beautiful crystal bow, the ends a beautiful shade of red melding into a gold color at the center. Minami blinked a few times. "Well...that was convenient! Now I just need an arrow!" ...blink blink. Nothing. "An arrow!" Blink blink, nothing. "Oh come on! Seriously? What am I supposed to throw this at him!" She sighed, looking at Reika. "I'll go help Haruka, but if this guy is willing to hold up someone at knife point, I don't think he should just be able to get away without a firm talking to." He ran over to Haruka's side and began checking her.