Blood Moon |Earth|

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feeds@yuku.com (Lightning) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:08:19 GMT

Lightning gave a bright, tinkling laugh and tipped his head back to look at Earth upside down. His soap-lathered hair stuck wetly to his cheeks and his face radiated innocence. "I'm always nice to him," he explained, as though he had been through this with Earth many times before - which, indeed, he had. "He's the one who never wants to play along. It's not my fault he's no good at things and can't keep up. I still play with him, don't I?" he...

Re: Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Earth) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:19:52 GMT

Earth scrubbed the soap up and over Lightning's back and shoulders, making sure to wash every little strain of pink blood away from him into the soapy water. "That sounds nice" he said gently, making little note about the fact as to whether or not the Drip would like spending time with any members of the Batsu, let alone Lightning. Well... the new member hadn't tried to run away - he assumed that was a good thing. Besides, it was almost sweet (if Earth could consider things...

Re: Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Lightning) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:44:39 GMT

He gave a little groan of pleasure and bent forward to give Earth better access to his back. It was important to properly relax the muscles after exerting effort, he knew. He had read that somewhere, or been told it by someone, a long time ago. He couldn't - or didn't want to - remember who, but he thought that it was probably important. And if it meant Earth washing his back, working his strong fingers into the knots all the way down Lightning's bony spine, then so much the...

Re: Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Earth) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:34:01 GMT

Earth already had his sleeves rolled up, the towel set aside, and the bloody clothes pushed into a basket where all the washing was kept - Earth would make sure it was clean soon enough - preferably when Lightning was out of the way, he always wanted to wash away any remains of those particular evenings. He lathered the soap in his hands and leant over to scrub at lightning's back. "What shall we do tomorrow?"

Re: Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Lightning) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:20:50 GMT

"It doesn't do them much good when we've come along, does it?" Lightning said, but the need to be unpleasant to his brother - unexplained and unnecessary, when he loved him so much - was passing, and he spoke softly. Slipping lower into the water, he let it close over him, dipping his head under briefly. When he surfaced again, the water was pink and his eyes were clear and bright, all traces of the killer who had entered the room vanished. Now he was just Lightning, in the...

Re: Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Earth) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:55:05 GMT

"Everyone has a lot of blood" Earth murmured calmly, pausing beside the bath and reaching his hand out to press it upon Lightning's shoulder, encouraging him to sit in the bath properly to get clean. To wash all the blood off him. "Even you and even me." He wandered towards the bloody pile of clothes and took them under his arm, with every intention of washing the blood away as quickly as possible to pretend the evening had never happened. As he always did. "Its...

Re: Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Lightning) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:26:01 GMT

"Mmm," Lightning responded dreamily, beginning to slip his clothes off. It had failed, as it always did. It was impossible to get Earth to even bat an eyelid. Earth didn't cut off limbs. He didn't stab people again and again as though his sword were a ravening wolf hungry for blood. He didn't do screams. Nobody who Earth killed ever screamed.

He discarded his clothes in a dishevelled, bloodstained heap and got into the bath naked, where he stood calf-deep, not...

Re: Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Earth) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:07:02 GMT

"Ah…" Was the only reply Earth gave to Lightning's incessant details on the murder he had committed. 'Beyond recognition' it was always the same with Lightning. He played with people the same as he did with the spiders he picked up, or the ants he burned and so on. Many a time Earth had caught glimpses out of the corner of his eye of just how deep Lightning's morbid fascination with life and how far it could stretch from the smallest little creature to the hulking...

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feeds@yuku.com (Lightning) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:07:59 GMT

Lightning trailed behind Earth obediently enough, knowing that his brother would calmly deal with things the way he always did, scouring the blood away as though it had never been there, cleaning him, feeding him and taking care of him, petting him like a child if need be; doing everything he could, in short to remove the memory of the night from both of their minds. His brother always cast himself in the role of his protector, but sometimes Lightning thought that he felt the things they did...

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feeds@yuku.com (Earth) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:49:48 GMT

"Not much" Earth murmured faintly, keeping his gaze solemn and quiet as he always did, his hand petting the little blonde's head all the while, brushing his fingers through the stringy blood-stained hair. "I'm not that dirty" he said, gently, ignoring the sword clattered down on the floor - it could be left there until the morning, or at least the evening, when he had put Lightning to rest. He could never put Lightning to bed, the blonde would never allow himself...

Re: Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Lightning) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:12:20 GMT

A small sound vibrated between the two of them, and it took a moment before it became identifiable as Lightning laughing, a low laugh neither bitter or delighted. The long sword he had been holding clattered to the floor. He had carried it unsheathed over the rooftops home, reeking with the thick warmth of red blood, but he didn't need it now. He was home.

There were other things to be disposed of too, later, things which Earth could probably feel pressing against him, concealed...

Re: Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Earth) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:05:01 GMT

Earth rarely spoke as it was, but at times like this, when he was informed through one way or another - whether it be the loud-talking of another batsu, or the strange silence that lingered in the headquarters while he was gone - that Lightning was on a mission, the elite assassin always found himself that much quieter. He wasn't worried. He needn't ever be worried for Lightning's safety. Although he behaved much like a child, Earth, as with the other members of the Batsu was very...

Blood Moon |Earth|

feeds@yuku.com (Lightning) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:13:58 GMT

A bright streak of blood slashed across Lightning's cheek, although it did not belong to him. Nor did any of the scarlet haphazardly decorating his hair, his clothes, the exposed skin of his slender hands and wrists. He knew a total, all-encompassing euphoria as he danced through the hot summer rain, its scent heavy in his sinuses, mingling with the familiar, slightly sickening perfume of blood. The moon was bright in the sky above the city, not quite full, and its pearly light picked...