Disclaimer:
Notashrimp: (runs) "I told you Lawyer's already I don't own any of the copyrighted characters! I only own Kirumi, Rica, and Dan (I wish I owned the real him though :P)"
Elfen Lied Cast: (O.o) "Ooookaaayyy..."
Chpt. 1
"Invisible arms?" Rica's face was wide with shock as I nodded, a goofy grin spread across my face. "Yeah, I'm able to lift things that are to big for me to hold in my bare arms." I said glancing over at a large moving box, filled with clothes.
"Here I'll show you." I laughed grabbing her by the wrist and pulling her 'round back of the moving van. Rica stood a few feet in front of the box with me on the other side. I felt the strange tingling as my vectors began to slither out of my back grasping the corner of the box.
"I can't see anything!" She whined waiting for some thing to happen. I only discovered how to control these invisible arms a few days ago, so it's still hard to control them. It takes a lot of concentration to lift objects such as the box full of clothes.
"Oh! I see it!" she shrieked as the box to lift off the ground. I smiled looking at her astonished face, gasping as the box slipped spilling all its contents on the ground. I sighed seeing I had over estimated my abilities, but muffling a giggle I bent down and began gathering the clothes.
"Well, I guess I need more practice."
It had been an hour since I had shown Rica my vectors' ability's. We were both relaxing up in my room, listening to music and leafing through magazines and comic books, when she popped a question.
"Kirumi, do you control those arms with your horns?" I looked up from my magazine thinking hard.
'You know what?" I said frowning as I rolled onto my stomach next to her, "I really don't know. I mean I get a weird tingle in my horns and back, but the rest just happens." I shrugged my shoulders. I looked over to see a devilish smile on Rica's face as she reached for something behind me. Poof! I was smacked with a pillow hard knocking me off the bed.
"Owww…what'd you do that for?" I groaned rubbing my backside. She tossed me another pillow signaling what she was thinking. Pillow fight.
"Okay, then I'll play," I said standing up looking her in the eye, "But you need to promise me something."
"What?" I smacked her hard in the side with the pillow. She keeled over laughing, falling off the bed, hitting the floor with a thud.
"Just watch the horns."
"Owww!" Kirumi giggled as Rica jabbed her in the stomach. They were standing outside the house down the blocks were the new family had just moved in. Kirumi's Mom had suggested they go down and greet the new neighbors, instead of tearing up her room like they had been doing. Rica sighed ringing the door bell. There was a loud thud as someone must have fallen down the stairs, racing to the door. A blonde haired boy opened the door rubbing his head.
"Daniel, I told you not to leave you soccer ball lying around like that!" A female voice yelled from inside the house.
"I know mom, I'm fine!" He called back, turning towards the girls. He stood there dumbfounded for a second obviously caught off guard by Kirumi's horns and dark pink almost purple hair.
"Hi Daniel, welcome to the neighborhood!" Rica said smiling, "I'm Rica and this is Kirumi." She said pointing to the Diclonius. She waved shyly, blushing slightly under his stare. In situations like this Kirumi usually let Rica do the talking.
"You wanna come in?" He said gesturing the two inside. The two girls followed him inside navigating their way through boxes of moving supplies. Kirumi looked around the disorganized house, seeing a lot of work would have to be done before the house looked at least partway decent.
"Hey Dan could you- oh! We have company!" His mom gasped setting a large box down trying to straighten her frazzled hair.
"You'll have to excuse my appearance," she said grabbing another box and taking it into the kitchen, "But with everything being so hectic since the move I haven't had any time to freshen up."
"That's okay." Kirumi said as Daniel's mom tuned to face the teens. She gasped slightly at the site of Kirumi's horns.
"It's a birth defect." Kirumi replied, her cheeks burning as she averted her eyes from the woman's gaze. His mom nodded shaking herself out of her stare.
"Why don't you guy's go out in the backyard and play soccer?" She said brushing a lock of brown hair out of her eyes.
"I know of a great playing field around here, if it's okay with you we could go there?" Rica said as Daniel grabbed the soccer ball from the hallway and tossed it to her.
"It's fine with me." The woman said struggling under another box, taking it out into the living room.
"I'll be down in a second!" Dan called taking the stairs to his sisters room two at a time. He looked around her room blankly for a minute before moving over to her dresser and began raiding one of the drawers.
"Ah ha!" He said grabbing the item and dashing back down the stairs, nearly tripping for the second time that day.
"Man, I really gotta stop doing that." He sighed as he reached the bottom step. The girls stood at the door waiting patiently for him.
"Here," he said holding out a black and white henna bandana, "If you don't want people to notice those…uhhmm…"
"…Horns."
"Right horns. If you don't want people to notice them, just cover 'em up." He said holding it out to her. Kirumi took the bandana and laid it on the top of her head tying a knot under her hair at the top of her neck."Perfect! I can't even tell they're there," Rica said giving Kirumi's head a complete look around, "Now let's go."
"So Dan what brings you to Kuramna?" Rica asked as the teens walked down the sidewalk next to the busy street. Since it was rush hour the streets were flooded with people and it was easy to get lost if you weren't careful.
"Mostly my moms work." He said as he juggled the ball on his knees while walking. Kirumi stood to the right of Rica, and Rica stood to the right of Dan.
"Oh! Whoops." He said as the ball landed on his knee crooked, sending it flying into the street.
"I'll get it." he sighed looking both ways running into the street while the traffic was a slow pace.
"Dan wait!" Kirumi cried but it was too late. A large truck was headed straight for him…
Authors Comments (whoot!):
Notasquirt: "Okay I'm hoping to introduce Lucy/Nyuu in the next chapter, but don't kill me if I don't." (looks over at Lucy and backs away slowly)
Lucy/Nyuu: (evil glare) "You do realize I can tear you to shreads, right?"
Notasquirt: "Thats why I'm outside your vectors' range."
Lucy/Nyuu: "...Damn..."