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Who: Data-Roxas cloak and Hibari Kyoya disciplineking
What: When Ayakashi Attack: Resentment Edition
When:4/8
Where: Park
Warnings: Hibari.


[Roxas has, as he once told Horikawa, taken it upon himself to resolve problems before they're actually brought to him by way of prayer. In his mind this is far more efficient, and even if he doesn't get credit, he's doing his job effectively. For something like him, this is a higher priority than renown, though he acknowledges that is part of his job as well. What he doesn't catch in his wandering problem-solving is caught in the net of prayers and that's good enough.

Today he's looking for a lost pet he's seen flyers littered about for, following a winding path through a park near the owners' residence. He hasn't found anything just yet as he makes his way along, but that doesn't discourage him. If anything, he's got all the time in the worlds...though he aims to be as efficient as possible and move on to the next task he comes across.

His search is interrupted by a panicked scream, prompting him to reflexively summon his Keyblades to his waiting hands, bending his knees and leaning forward as he rushes in the direction that alarmed cry came from.

He darts down a hill and finds himself faced with a rather large, tick-like creature with spikes protruding from its back, a plethora of leering eyes clustered about its head. It's bigger than anything Roxas has had to face on his own thus far, and with none of his shinki with him, he recognizes he's got a problem. But as the creature skitters after an alarmed woman running off with her child, he acknowledges that there's nothing for it but distract it at the least.

It's with that in mind that he hurls his keyblade at the ayakashi's head, forcing it to turn around and howl at him]

Try me on for size!

[No one ever said Roxas was good with human turns of phrase. And no one ever will]

[ooc: For an approximation of ayakashi appearance, something like this]

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[Hibari himself was planning on just staying in the park and maybe quietly napping with the birds as he usually did when he had to get away from noisy idiots. However, the sudden screams peeled his eyes open, and he sat up from the bench, annoyed.

Couldn't people keep out of distress for one damn second? Still, Hibari had a job to do, and screams usually meant a giant creature for him to vanquish. Taking the short way around a couple of trees, the bug-like creature came into view and he skidded to a stop.

It was big. It was really big, and the shinki knew he wouldn't be able to deal with it, much less provide a fight. But he'd taken to actually leaving his phone behind to ignore whatever texts Ren sent him when he was going on trips like these to the park.

If only he knew it was going to come back to bite him. Still, as the thing gnashed its teeth and skittered forward, Hibari drew out his tonfa anyway and leaped at the creature, completely missing the god attacking from the other side.

It was only when the thing turned away from him and then struck by his tonfa that he realized someone else was there. He landed, his eyes widening when they landed on the other figure. Did it have to be HIM??]

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[Although Roxas heard someone approaching, saw a flicker of movement on the other side of the ayakashi, he paid it no mind. He was far too occupied with running possible options through his mind. So far nothing was definite nor advantageous, but as the enemy rushed in his direction, he supposed if it came to it he could buy time until another god noticed the commotion.

Far from ideal, and a plan that would leave Add nagging him later about being useless without a weapon, but such was his situation. There wasn't time to call on anybody else, and at least he had the assurance that he was very difficult to destroy outright.

He took a running leap and landed amid the spikes on the ayakashi's back, holding a Keyblade aloft and casting a Thundaga spell with a simple word. Although the creature lurched and hollered as though it stung, it didn't appear to the damaged. The darkness emanating from it didn't weaken.

No surprises there.

After widening his stance to gain better purchase, he shot a glance in the direction of — oh, that thug]

Get out of here!

[Much as he couldn't stand that shinki, that didn't mean he liked watching others suffer. Really, that was part of why he disliked him so much]

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[Having this asshole of a god shout that at him just cemented the idea that the last thing he was going to do was go and run away. He couldn't stand people faking concern like that and even worse he couldn't stand running away.

Still, he had to leap out of the way as the thing thrashed around and nearly stepped on him due to the lightning. Didn't this asshole have any power, or did he not have a shinki?]

Isn't it your job to take care of something like this?

[Hibari brought his tonfas up to block the skittering creature's next attack, surprised with how much the thing jarred him. Crap, this thing was stronger than it looked, and his weapons had no effect!

The blow had made him take a few steps backwards before something strange shot out of the things mouth and attached itself to Hibari's left arm. He hissed as the pain and blight stung his skin, trying to hit it off with his other weapon and having no effect.]

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What do you think I'm doing, putting on a show?

[Roxas practically growled the words from between gritted teeth, casting a Blizzaga spell to freeze the ayakashi's forelegs in place. It wasn't as though he had anything to work with except spells and skills that were ultimately unable to destroy creatures like this. As Keyblades were the only true way to dispatch Heartless, it seemed only shinki could get rid of ayakashi.

Even if his were here, it wasn't as though he had a weapon. Now all the times he was reminded that he hadn't a way to effectively fight weighed with stark clarity over his mind. No matter how powerful he was, all he could do was hold the fort. Wait for someone else to kill it.

How very useless.

But there was nothing for it. He cast another Thundaga spell when the ayakashi broke through the ice around its spindly legs, following up with a Curaga spell tossed in Hibari's direction. It wouldn't help with blight, but maybe it'd enable him to get out of there]

Leave!

[disciplineking]

[From the looks of how little damage he was doing to the ayakashi, yeah, Hibari almost was thinking he was. Even if he didn't know the guy well, Hibari still figured that the cloaked figure's spells were useless, and now he'd been trapped by the monster itself.

Figured it had to take the form of a string-spinning insect though, Hibari thought to himself as he tugged at his arm. A few more hits with the tonfa solidified the fact that his tonfas were useless chunks of metal, and with the thundaga he got thrown backwards onto the ground, before the insect ayakashi reattached itself to his leg.]

I couldn't even if I wanted to, you degenerate god!!

[Kicking it was doing nothing, and the whole thing shook itself violently in an effort to knock the god off.]

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[It was a good thing that Roxas wasn't one to get offended by epithets. As it stood, he reasoned that Hibari had no reason to call him a degenerate with any validity. And so, being the literal being that he was, he easily put the matter aside. He had more important things to concern himself with.

For instance, getting the ayakashi to stop shaking Hibari about like a rag-doll.

He made his way toward the monster's head, slamming both Keyblades against its eyes in an effort to force it to release him. A shinki without a god was just as useless as a god without a shinki, but assuredly less durable... And getting blighted by the second, from the looks of it]

Now go!

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[Hibari was getting tossed around like a ragdoll, and at times he could barely tell which way was down until he slammed into it. Both limbs that had been touched by blight felt strangely numb, but he was using them to the best of his ability to struggle against the grip the ayakashi had on him.]

What part-about-I can't-DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?!

[He was past furious at this point; to lose to something like an ayakashi was the worst thing that could happen, and like this, he wouldn't even have any evidence of what had done so. The blow to the eyes certainly blinded the ayakashi, but it didn't let go of Hibari at all, just dragged him closer as it slammed into a tree in another effort to get the black-coated pest off.

Somewhere in the scuffle, Hibari had lost grip of his tonfas and therefore, could defend his face at all when the final tendril of web shot out and wrapped around his neck.]

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[Roxas stumbled to keep balanced on the ayakashi, and for as useless as attempts to do meaningful damage to it were, he could at least remain perched on it. But that wasn't doing anything for Hibari right now. He vaguely wondered if those injuries would alert the shinki's god to the fact that something was very wrong, but he wasn't sure how quickly that other god would respond.

The times he'd come to help his shinki, he never seemed able to prevent heavy damage having been done first, no matter how quickly he'd tried to find them. And they weren't dealing with blight.

He grit his teeth. A protracted battle on his own was fine, but letting some idiot shinki die really wasn't]

If you were one of mine, this would be much simpler.

[But he wasn't, and he'd surely be no less frustrated with Hibari's inclinations if he was. On the simple elementary level of being able to change his form and call him like a Keyblade, it'd remedy the current problem.

He shook his head]

Any chance your god will show up?

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[Being strangled by some ayakashi goo was not on Hibari's list of things he wanted to happen to him, but it was a useless struggle against his fate. Never in the short time he existed as a shinki had he felt more powerless against an opponent, and it was actually starting to get to him.

But he knew Ren probably didn't know anything. Hibari fought too many times to distinguish one life threatening moment to the rest, and his phone was long gone.]

Came here-to be alone-

[Was all his angered and strangled throat managed to get out. He didn't want to see Ren, much less be rescued by him, and now fate seemed to be laughing at killing him because he wouldn't accept it.

The blight was spreading across his face and the ayakashi was starting to drag him closer, leading Hibari, as strong and fearsome as he was, to panic.]

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[Roxas' shoulders tensed as it sank in that the situation as it stood was untenable. If he let this continue on, Hibari was going to get killed, which apparently had happened before. As a god he was really only responsible to his own shinki, but having come close to losing two of his own (thanks, Hibari) he could imagine how he would feel if he was that other god.

Gritting his teeth, he dismissed one of his Keyblades. He was probably going to regret this, but he couldn't just watch Hibari suffer, no matter how deserved it might be]

...I'm giving you a name.

[More established gods had set the example, enforced the idea that noras were to be frowned upon. Roxas didn't know why, but he didn't care to question it either. The rules of a world were simply that, and he accepted them in the same tacit manner he had so many things others would rail against.

But it couldn't be helped.

An a tone quite dispassionate even for someone with a nearly expressionless voice, he held out a hand and followed through with his word]

Kiki.

[A thug he was, and a thug he would be named]

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[Apparently those words coming out of the cloaked figure's mouth were just as terrifying as dying, because Hibari's eyes widened and he went taught as Roxas spoke.]

Don't you fucking dare-

[Deep inside his mind he knew this was probably the only way he himself would survive, but of all the gods it had to be to turn him into something, it had to be the degenerate one that had humiliated him before-

But nothing could be done, and Hibari felt a small sense of relief at suddenly being able to breathe, even as he felt the tug on his body the name gave him, pulling him into the cloaked figure's hands.

At the call of his name, Hibari's vessel form being an almost ornate meteor hammer, the two metal weights on each end connected by a long silver chain in between. It took him a moment to right himself and even realize what he'd become, before his anger suddenly crashed down in waves.]

The only way I'll even think of working with you is if you agree to immediately release me after this.

No matter what, I WILL KILL YOU.

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[Roxas was still got a collection of instants, memories that weren't his own crashing over him in an obtrusive wave. So... Hibari had been destroyed by underhanded means. That might or might not explain the unfocused rage]

I don't keep shinki in these forms longer than I have to. Ludger and Add hate that.

[Though Ludger expressed it only in his unspoken discomfort, and Add was far more vocal on the subject, not unlike Hibari here]

Anyhow...I've already died three times before.

[Which was to say, he wasn't the slightest bit afraid of the prospect. On two of those occasions, Roxas had allowed himself to die, even assisted in the process. Death held no terror for a made-thing, when he knew all along that his existence was bound to purpose and thus, expendable.

Based on the difference in their powers, he doubted he had anything to worry about.

He shifted his footing on the ayakashi once more as it whirled around looking for its absent target, screeching as it sought Hibari's body out in vain. It seemed almost too effortless as he balanced and shifted his weight, examining the thing in his hands]

...A weapon...you must be joking.

[His tone is a wry, unmistakably bitter thing, his shoulders shaking in the hollow imitation of a laugh to suit]

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I don't see why I should trust a single word you say. But I will hold to my promise of adding to your number of deaths if you don't let me go.

[Inwardly, hearing Roxas' words, Hibari was utterly confused. Of course he was a weapon, so why should this guy be so surprised? The only thing that he was holding onto was that the cloaked god would be better at fighting than Ren would be, yet he was still standing here like an idiot.

He wanted to crush this ayakashi for almost killing him and so he could spend as little time as possible as a Nora.]

Are you going to stand there like an idiot? If you have the gall to turn me into a weapon, then kill it, you fucking god!!

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It's a problem if I leave you in this shape.

[Of course, Roxas' understanding is that Hibari means he doesn't want to be trapped in his vessel form. Add hates it, Ludger finds it disorienting, and so he can only conclude it's not a wholeheartedly pleasant experience for any shinki. Tolerable, but not preferred.

He doesn't bother responding to the rest, briefly testing the weight at one end of the chain before he starts to swing it about, a deft flick of his wrist that suggests he does know what he's doing. As the ayakashi bucks and rears underneath his shoes, he easily compensates.

After building momentum he releases the chain with one hand, sending the weight crashing into the ayakashi's head. The horrible trilling screech tells him the head is surely avital point.

Actually doing damage is...sort of satisfying. Shame it requires Hibari though]

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[Well, he didn't like being stuck as a weapon, but Hibari was also implying the whole business of being a nora. He didn't know this guy very well, and that meant trust was minimal when it came for him to do anything. Just feeling his hands was awful enough to make Hibari want to call the whole thing off. ]

Like I said, if you don't release my name after this too, you'll surely regret it. Are we CLEAR?

[The anger Hibari was holding in his heart somehow manifested itself into a circular blade suddenly popping out of the metal weight, so if Roxas dragged it back to him, it would cut a line down the ayakashi's back.

He was so lucky he didn't get motion sick.]

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[Roxas...hadn't even thought about that end of things, really. He's never named a shinki that wasn't assigned to him from the beginning, lacked the desire to even when all three turned out to be household objects and not weapons. And it'd give him pause now, if the keening of the ayakashi wasn't enough to drown out even his own thoughts.

But it was, and so Hibari wasn't getting an answer as the creature below them screeched and skittered unsteadily. Roxas was already preparing for another attack then, building momentum by swinging the weighted end of the chain about once more.

As long as he kept striking a vital area, this thing would be dealt with in no time]

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[He was sure that Roxas could feel his utter anger and irritation at this point, and made a point of it as well, just like he did with Ren. The whole monster shaking underneath the god was throwing Hibari off, but as Roxas swung him around again, he decided to just focus on the battle.

The metal weight shot towards the head again, dropping down like a cannonball and crashing straight into the head as Hibari corrected the course himself. The blades, spun by Roxas' momentum, tore into the black mess of the creature, causing it to collapse forward onto the ground.]

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[For a brief time, Roxas remained still, as though assessing the condition of the thing underneath him. But as had often been the case with Heartless and the smaller ayakashi he'd faced, the thing seemed to evaporate into a dark mist and dissipate. He briefly thought to himself this was about the time he'd expect to see a crystalline heart float away, freed from dark confines, but there was none]

You're pretty moody, for someone who likes fighting.

[Said flatly, but just as Roxas had promised, he released Hibari from his vessel form with a simple utterance of the name he'd given him. He took pause to look him over, assessing for further damage, and concluded that he'd live]

Leave my shinki alone. I didn't let you die here...but that doesn't mean I'm condoning that shite.

[Shout out to Henry Cooldown for teaching him vocabulary. There was an edge to his tone that suggested the words were more of a warning than anything else.

And with that, as so many instances when Roxas felt he had no further purpose in a particular place, or speaking with a particular individual, he simply vanished. Off to some other job before anyone had bothered to pray for assistance]