'How much is that doggy in the window?' -Zax-

[Syn]

The trust of the innocent
is the liar's
most useful tool.
---Stephen King

Oh the innocence, the sweet innocence of the naive. Kureha actually enjoyed toying with them the most. Though she enjoyed a challenge she also enjoyed how easy it was to manipulate them. The lies they believed and all it took was a little acting. Good acting. But today Kureha was feeling a bit feisty and not in a sexual way this time. She was looking for action and if that wasn't obvious by her outfit choice well. For the past few days Kureha had been dawning various attires that would be considered outside the normality of the world. Tonight she was dressed as Taki fully including the face mask and twin kodachi's just like Taki obviously. Mischief was the goal for the night and she was lurking around like a ninja.

At some point she made her way into a tree just outside a bar and stared down and about with her piercing haunting green orbs. Her raven locs were tied back in a high ponytail occasionally blowing in the gentle breeze. She scanned the area like a predator till her eyes settled on a individual that emerged from a bar. He was cute in a adorable kind of way. Quite tall for his age but everyone was giants nowadays no matter the age. Her head tilted to the side a little and she smirked devilishly. Without any warning she would pounce right onto the male individual who would certainly hear the rustling of the tree branch and leafs as she came down onto him. By sheer surprise she was sure he was going to fall down as she would land on top of him, right on his chest. The blade of the kodachi being held just under his chin to his neck. Her half covered faced hovered over his as she looked into his eyes.

"Boo."

[Hone]

Zax started to let out a scream then his voice slowly dwindled. "Woah," he would say as he stared at her. "Your hotter then Ari!" He said with a smirk.

[Syn]

Well now that wasn't the reaction she was actually expecting considering he just had a woman pounce from a tree and land on top of him with a blade to his neck. The scream yes. Everything after? No. Nevertheless it still made her smirk as he could see from the hole in the mask she wore on the lower half of her face. Purposely she leaned her face a little more so some of her hair from her ponytail fell off to the left side of her faces almost like a shield. The blade pushing against his neck just under his chin a little more. Funny how he all he saw was her beauty and paid no mind to the fact that she could've killed him right then and there. The sound of her snicker followed by her sultry voice cut through the silence that she let pass between them.

"Doesn't surprise me. Not so concerned for your life right now huh? Or maybe cause you're just thrilled to be under me."

Kureha would smile devilishly at her innuendo while leaning her face away from his just a little but very much staying mounted on him. She was more intrigued to see how thins would play forward.

[Hone]

"Well, true beauty is strength," he said as he looked down at the sword under his chin. "Well, true beauty is actually when someone is as hot as you are. I was just trying to sound poetic," he said with a slight chuckle.

[Syn]

“Sweet words are like honey,
a little may refresh,
but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

Was he trying to flatter her into releasing the blade from his neck? She did love to be flattered, it came with her vainness. But was his working? Not particularly but it didn't hurt to rub her ego. She tilted her head to the right a little and purposely slid herself downwards so that she was sitting more on his waist. Her body would straighten a bit upright but the blade would remain where it was.

"That's cute, but it doesn't change the fact that your life could and may just end here tonight."

Kureha grinned while the fingers of her free hand tipped toed up and down the middle of his chest, wanting to see his reactions.

"Then again maybe we can arrange a way to spare you hmm?"

[Hone]

"Hm hm, wow. Hot and manipulative," Zax said as he smirked. He poked the sword out of the way with a bone eject from his pointer fingers, and the grass under him would instantly die as he sucked the bone back in and the wound would heal. He bumped her hips forward so she would lose balance and have her lips inches from his.

"Just how I like it. Why don't you take that mask off?"

[Syn]

Why yes, yes she was. Manipulative was a very good way to describe the raven haired gal. There was usually always something working up her sleeve especially if she saw she could get something out of it. It was rare to genuinely place her in a realm of surprisement but the lad underneath her had just achieved it. It was because of that that he was able to actually push the blade away but not out of her hand. Her head tipped to the right a little like a curious cat, brow perking at what she just witnessed. The concept of people with abilities wasn't exactly new to her, but his power was. Well actually not so much his power more the fact she was seeing something like this in person. Kureha knew her comics well to know about mutants like Wolverine who at one point had bone claws but that was his extension. From where this guy protruded the bone from reminded her much more of Marrow.

But alas this was getting far too topic. When he bucked his hips Kureha's body naturally fell forward. The hand with the blade with be just to the side of his head, with the blade pointing away as she was holding it in a backhanded way. Her face dropping over his in that hovering position she was from the beginning with her empty hand on his chest. She smirked through her mask at the puppy underneath her.

"That's a nasty trick. But doesn't change a thing."

Kureha would quickly roll off him towards her right side and stand, looking down at him maintaining her smirk. The blade held in her right hand snug and firm.

"I don't work on the demands or request of others. You're batting a thousand pup."

[Hone]

Zax chuckled a little and got up.

"Come on, girly, it was just getting fun!" he told her as he dusted himself off.

[Syn]

< Did he just - >

Call her girly? Yes. Yes he did. And not in the reference of 'hey you seem like a girly girl'. It wasn't the easiest to describe who the referenced worked but one thing that she hated to be called was girly. At least in that nature. Best reference to the feeling would be how Lola Bunny hated being called doll. It set a certain fire within the raven haired beauty, which of whom the one before her seemed to forget the blades she held. One in hand the other still sheathed. Her head tilted down a bit with a smirk as she gripped the handle of the blade a little tightly. Bringing her head up those haunting green orbs stared deeply towards him, still keeping a dangerous smirk on her face. She was feeling generous to a point so she'd give him a fair warning to his folly.

"Heh, I advise not to call me that again. Let's not sour things hmm?"

[Hone]

Zax had seen this before. Yachiru. The devil himself, just disguised as a girl. At least she didn't slap him.

"Alright, won't happen again." Zax said with understanding.

"Since I won't call you that, what's your name?"

[Syn]

He seemed quickly submissive to be completely honest. Which in truth the raven haired girl didn't mind at all. She did indeed like it. She looked him over with a tilt of her head as she decided to slowly start circling him in a clockwise motion. She would seem like a wolf stalking its prey.

"Raven."

It wasn't her true name but it was her nickname from long ago. A name she would never shake and didn't even want to. But who was he to think it wasn't her true name?

"You, petit chiot?"

Translation: You, little pup?

In truth from the power he exhibited moments ago her nickname in her head for him was Marrow from the X-men. Even if he had given his name she'd still associate Marrow with him until she deemed otherwise which wasn't likely.

[Hone]

"Zax. Nice to meet you you!" Zax tried to stick his hand out offering a shake.