ickaimp | [drabble] Kami Kaitou

Heehee. And in reply, though not of drabble lenght, I suspect.

It really wasn't fair, Hakuba thought. Just because he was eleven years old (almost twelve!) and a gaijin (which he really couldn't help, or anything), he was always getting picked on.

So during breaks he hid away in the overgrown corner of the playground, reading his books. He usually left his books in the little shrine, and if one of them sometimes went missing, it was always back in a few days. He liked to think it was the shrine's kami, but was getting too old to really believe that anymore.

Settling back against the stone walls, Hakuba lost himself in Hound of the Baskervilles, not noticing the transparent white shape perched lightly on the roof of the shrine, Hakuba's temporarily missing copy of Robin Hood floating serenely open in front of it.

I AM NOT STARTING ANOTHER AU, DAMMIT!!!!

*pats* Poor Icka XDD

If he was asked, he would blame it on boredom.

As a trickster god, it was a valid excuse.

And really, people had gotten far too complacent as of late. No one ever expected him anymore

It was such a simple thing too, just triggering a small latch at the right time. The son had placed his hand -right- there, and boom! a secret uncovered. Like setting up dominoes, one thing followed another and a trickster was back in action.

And he had an outlet to the world again.

Really, it was just the boredom talking.

Perhaps they'd make books of it, like that Robin fellow.

Now -there- was a thought....

OO! Me likeses! I can actually see kaito perched above Hakuba, reading over his shoulder. OR something like that

Kid as Loki! <3

Icka, right now I love you for combining two things I absolutely obsess about: The old Norse Gods and Magic Kaitou <3

...*suddenly wants to write the old Norse Gods in todays world, without making it into Metantei Loki Ragnarok* Hmm... Loki as a Gentleman Thief >.>

<.<

Dammit >.

Hmm... Loki as a Gentleman Thief

Wait, scratch that... The entire MK/DC cast as Norse Gods! *crackles*

Kuruba as Loki, Aoko, Akako and Keiko would probably be the Norns, Heiji as either Thor or Tyr (I'm going with the Nordic names here, since I only know Loki's "international" name), Ran or Sonoko as Freya, Shinichi... Well, Shinichi could be Thor, then Heiji would be Tyr...

As for Heimdal? Well, he's always closely connected with Loki, be it as a rival, enemy or "other", he's often pictured as blond as is know to have the eyes of a hawk...

Helloo~ Hakuba XD

Can I do one?!? Can I do one?!? **poings excitedly** Ahem:

That little blond kid, now, the one with the books; Kaito was starting to feel a bit guilty about him. It wasn't because the kami kept 'borrowing' his stuff (after all, the boy was borrowing his shrine, wasn't he?) or anything... but he had returned one late and the poor kid had gotten in trouble with the school library.

Apparently librarians were't okay with 'no, really, the shrine ate my book. No, really.' Librarians must not be religious, thought Kaito irritably, waving away one of the innumerable pigeons that had taken up residence in his shrine's rafters.

So, guilt. Not something he had more than a passing acquaintance with. What did other people/deities/things do to deal with guilt? He shooed away another pigeon. They were really getting bad lately, messing up the floor and everything--

Hmmmmm.....

And so that afternoon he went and had a little chat with a local tengu, who spoke to several of his best crows, who went and checked on the nearest raptor-rehabilitation center. The nestlings there were just about ready to be fostered; Kaito grinned an immaterial grin, shooed away another pigeon, and hoped that the blond kid liked hawks.

'no, really, the shrine ate my book. No, really

*squee!* oooh, that's a wonderful line, an the entire ficlet is lovely! And Kaito giving Hakuba a hawk as ~~an apology~~ a gift is entirely Kaito. X3

*snickers madly* I was doing fine until "the shrine ate my book"... *giggles some more*

As requested!! Cheers! ♥ ...or not, damnit, overstepped comment length?! LJ, you suck!
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Help me--

Air burned through his lungs like crackling fire as short legs churned quickly in a futile sprint. The small blond clutched his stuffed elephant closer to his chest as he ran headlong toward the shrine, which he'd begun to see as a sort of sanctuary. Sagaru thought if he could just get to the shrine, he could find somewhere there to hide. He knew the place well enough.

Oh God, someone help me.

"Stupid gaijin!"

"Get back here!"

Please. Please, someone help me!

Sagaru didn't understand why he was so offensive. Mariko and other girls also carried stuffed toys all the time. He'd even seen a couple of the boys have stuffed toys. Gunta or Eiji for instance. But some of the guys didn't like how he had a stuffed elephant. Sagaru wasn't trying to stand out; he had only bought it for show-and-tell today. However, Souma and his gang locked onto it like metal filings to a magnet. No one else had a stuffed elephant. They didn't like how he had it. They didn't like a lot of things about him: his hair, how he could speak English and Japanese, or how he would read all the time.

Pale fingers brushing against the heavy wooden shrine door, Sagaru shoved hard and darted in. He skidded to a stop as he tried desperately to remember what niches there were, feeling dizzy as the air burned in his chest like smoke, rising out of him too quickly. Fatigue made Sagaru sway. He was running on gas fumes, having not eaten in the morning and losing his lunch when Souma had knocked it to the ground before coming after him.

Pressing a clammy hand to his sweat dampened hair, Sagaru hesitated for a second before first running to hide Sir Stinky, his stuffed elephant, with the books he'd left at the shrine. He didn't want Souma or his gang to get their hands on the gift from his uncle, even if they got their hands on him. Sagaru held no doubts that Souma would rip it the shreds.

Figuring out where he could hide after securing his toy, Sagaru only took a few steps before a hard grip yanked his right shoulder back and threw him against the nearest wall.

"Why'd you run, Hakuba," sneered the thin Japanese boy leading a group of four to five boys. "When your senpai told you to stand still?" Souma shoved Sagaru back into the wall.

"Just looking at you pisses me off!" snapped Kunio, Sounma's best friend. The stout boy cuffed Sagaru viciously on the head.

Face snapping to the side, Sagaru bit his bottom lip hard and said nothing, knowing speaking up would just make them more angry and mean.

"Cat got your tongue, Hakuba? You're such a girl! Carrying that stuffed toy, running hysterically, having hair like that--" Sounma yanked on a fistful of Sagaru's gold hair. Sagaru winced, raising a hand to push Souma off. "Where's that stupid, ugly toy anyway? You shouldn't have a toy like that at your age, and you're a boy!" The guys broke into jeering laughter.

"Then again," piped up a short boy toward the back, "He is a gaijin, maybe they're supposed to be all wussy and girly." They snickered.

"Well, Hakuba, is it true? Are you supposed to be turn your feet inwards and be all cutesy-shy too?" taunted Souma, dropping his hand from Sagaru's hair and grabbing a thin wrist. He yanked harshly on Sagaru's arm, forcing him to stumble forward, and swept his leg across Sagaru's ankles. Sagaru tripped to the ground, nearly dislocating his arm, as Souma hadn't let go of his wrist. "You're such a freak!" He gave Sagaru's side a savage kick, squeezing Sagaru's wrist with enough bruising force that the small blond could feel his bones grind together. Souma threw something hard at Sagaru's chest. "This is what you should carry around--"

Turning his head a little, Sagaru made out the rag doll next to him. It was a cute caricature of a white rabbit.

The others broke into amused laughter.

"You're right!" laughed Masafumi, kicking the stuffed rabbit to the left.

Kunio stepped on Sagaru's free hand and ground down with the heel of his sneaker. "Worthless dick!" He kicked Sagaru hard in the head with his other foot. Sagaru gave a short cry of pain before he curled into a fetal position as the others closed in around him.

"Yeah!"

"Sickening--"

"Freak!"

"Gaijin!!"

"...hey... all for playful games but..."

Oh god, help, they're going to hurt me real bad--

"HEY! You know, hurting younger kids are not funny," said an unfamilar, small voice.

The gang paused, turning sharply to see who was the over-nosy kid, mouths opening already to order him off or join the blond on the ground. "What the--" murmured Tatsuhiko. There was no one there.

"Down here. Look lower!" said the displeased voice helpfully. Pops of pink smoke sounding from the floor caught their attention.

It was the stuffed rabbit. It had its front legs crossed in annoyance and was tapping one hind paw.

"What?" it snapped, cocking an ear. "Oh. Boo!" A wave of FORCE nudged playfully at the gathered boys, dragging the bullies a little away from the blond trapped under them.

Souma, Kunio, and the others screamed as one and stampeded for the exit, kicking Sagaru to one side.

"Man. What jerks." said the possessed toy. "But why scream? Was it because I'm naked?"

Dazed, Sagaru managed not to scream, but only just. He didn't think the rabbit would appreciate it and getting it angry wasn't in his best interests at all. It was between him and the door.

"Hmm, I could get clothes. Do you think a waistcoat would make me look fat?" the rabbit asked lightly.

At the moment, Sagaru could only think of three explanations. One, Kunio had hit him on the head much harder than he thought and he was seeing things. Two, he just dropped into a surreal universe like Alice in Wonderland, although the rabbit didn't have a waistcoat or a pocketwatch. Three, Kunio had knocked him unconscious and he was dreaming. After painfully pinching his nose with the hand that hurt less, Sagaru concluded it was the last one since he personally considered the second opinion unrealistic. At least, he dearly hoped so. This is a dream.

The white rabbit sighed. "why is it when anyone meets me, he thinks he's high? maybe it's the total awesome-ness of my presence."

Sagaru wondered if he had said his last thought out loud. "Awesomeness-ness is-- is not a word," he finally rasped.

"Aha, it talks!" cheered the rabbit, skipping forward.

Sagaru broke. Backing up in with a terrified squeak, he yelped, "Stay back!"

"Aw, come on, is it the rabbit suit? Don't like rabbits? Maybe I can possess a penguin instead, who doesn't like penguins?, but there aren't any around at the moment..."

Hitting an altar in his mindless scrabble backwards, Hakuba ignored the throbs of pain and grouped blindly for something to ward off the steadily approaching impossbility. Shivering as his hand closed stiffly on something wet and slimy, Sagaru nonetheless thrust it before him like a shield, in panic.

"AHHH!!! IT SMELLS! How could you, and I thought we were friends!!" The stuffed rabbit staggered back in aversion before making a theatrical thump to the concrete floor.

Sagaru learned forward disbelievingly, fish drooping in his hands. The thought he might have killed the rabbit disturbed him. It scared him badly, but it had saved him from Souma and his gang of bullies. Dropping the fish awkwardly, hoping the fish defilement didn't offend the deity of the shrine, Sagaru nervously snagged Sir Stinky from his hiding place, forgoing the books, and hurried toward the door, badly wanting to get out.

"You'd have made a bad penguin," Sagaru whispered timidly at the stuffed rabbit as he started to pass it. He barely stifled a gasp, freezing in his steps, as the rabbit popped back up like a jack-in-the-box and blinked at him.

"Oh? And how do you know that?" groused the rabbit sulkily, warily eyeing the discarded fish as Sagaru stumbled a few steps back to the altar.

"...y-you don't like fish," Sagaru said, wondering if he'd finally cracked. Mother had insisted Japan wasn't good for him.

"Oh. But I like sweet snow!" said the rabbit. Sagaru stayed silent and looked confused. "Well, then. Would I make a good elephant?"

Sagaru gasped and squashed his plushie close. The rabbit wrinkled its nose, thinking it looked damn uncomfortable for the elephant. "Not Sir Stinky!" Sagaru whispered. "Please, not Sir Stinky!"

"Hey, calm! Calm. Okay, not an elephant then." Frightened eyes did not calm. "I promise!" Sagaru was still tense. "Um, oh, I really liked your books. Way better than fish. Thanks."

"Books?" asked Sagaru faintly, unsure what books had to do with rabbits, penguins or elephants. "What boo--" The dots connected.

Sagaru's mouth dropped open. "You--"

"Yup. Hi!"

Bloody hell, thought Sagaru weakly as the last shock finally shut him down. He thought he heard the rabbit swear as his head cracked against stone.

"And he asked me to help," the rabbit said mournfully.

*squeaks!*
*Bounces around Joyfully!*

Oh, fates... I'm gonna hafta put a note on the Kid Ref Page that Sir Stinky is NOT Canon at this rate.

Dance, Bunny! Dance!!!

Anyone else thinking Meroko from Full Moon wo Sagashite? *Squeeeeeeeeeees*

((GLOMPHUGGLES Tdei!))

.........now I feel like adding to this >_< Geh~~!

Dooooooo iiiiiiiiiiiitttt!!!
Y'know ya wannaaaaaaaaaa!! XD XD XD XD

Gah dang it, woman! XDDD I'll do it! I'll do it! XDDD

Yay!! =D

Will probably be working on it tomorrow...for now...bed! :D!

Whooooo-hoooooo!!! XD XD XD
*happy dances!*

X3! ::glomphuggles back!!:: Glad it pleases you! :DD ♥♥

I sometimes forget it's not canon either. XD;;; Meroko? :O Hadn't thought of that, but he could pass, couldn't he. ^^;;; Hee! ::nuzzluff:: Except he could possess other stuff too? ;D

>Oh, fates... I'm gonna hafta put a note on the Kid Ref Page that Sir >Stinky is NOT Canon at this rate.

too late for that ;P

Heeee! ♥ Posessed bunny with the fish and the warding and Sir Stinky and yay!! Poor Sagaru having a very rough day, but! Now had posessed bunny to chase off bullies, whee! X3

*^^* Whee! ::echoes::glom!:: :DDD ♥

is it because I'm naked?Haha!

Haha!! Man! I love this! The entire thingie I mean.

Me, btw. I have to stop forgetting to sign in

Hee ♥ Thank you! ^^

Damnit, dunnit figure I'd jump in too?

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All he could think of was Damnit, this was the reason he'd learned Judo in the first place!

But it didn't matter. It didn't matter that he'd learned Judo for this very reason, it just seemed to matter that when Saguru was confronted by this schoolyard bully he'd simply frozen. This schoolyard bully from years past, when he was back in Primary.

"Shinezu buso kuso!" his attacker hissed in his ear, leaning over him menacingly.

Die you ugly shit.

"Do digata ni kazana ho akeruzou," he hissed again, and Saguru winced as the older boy threaded his fingers through his hair pulling it harshly and slamming his head against the rough concrete below them.

I'm going to rip open your stomach.

His attacker punched him three times in the stomach, and Saguru coughed before closing his eyes, tired and wishing this were over.

"Omae o korosu,"

I will kill you.

Saguru coughed again, and whimpered as his attacker pulled on his hair again before slamming it to the ground once more.

Gathering up his miniscule courage he said the first thing that came to mind, the first thing he could, "Chikushome,"

Son of a bitch.

His attacker’s anger flared and he grabbed his arm, twisting it behind his back, making Saguru cry out in pain. "Tameguchi kitten ja ney o!

Don't disrespect me, you f*ck!

He twisted his arm again and smiled in grim satisfaction as Saguru yelled, squeezing his eyes shut to combat tears.

"Hey!"

His attacker glanced over his shoulder and stopped short, his eyes growing wide and stumbling back, away from Saguru and the other person.

"Damn right you better run!"

And soon Saguru's assailant was out of sight. Saguru's savior huffed once, and walked over to the blonde.

"It's alright," he said kneeling, "he's gone now."

Saguru's eyes opened slowly, and took in the image before him. His breath hitched in his throat and tears began to stream down his heavily bruised cheeks. With his good arm, the one his Primary tormenter hadn't held behind his back, he wrapped it around his savior and began to sob into the fabric of his shirt.

"Sir Stinky!" He wailed, and then began to sob and hiccup uncontrollably.

Sir Stinky's possessed body hugged the broken boy back, and narrowed his black button eyes. He may not have known why, after taking control of this boy's stuffed animal all those years ago and saving him from that bully, he had slipped into a dormant state, but he did know he was awake now, and had no intention of leaving this boy any time soon.

And who knows? Staying with this boy just may lead him to his son.

The Kami-Kaitou smiled mentally at the thought of his son freaking out at the sight of his father’s spirit, the original Kaitou 1412, permanently attached to a small, gray-ish/blue stuffed elephant.

But until then he would stay with this Hakuba Saguru, and he would protect him, for as long as he was able.
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Kinda sucked, dinnit?

"Um... hello?" Hakuba called hesitantly into the shrine. He'd been here countless times before, but he'd never had a possessed bunny rabbit talk to him either.

At least it was after school hours, there was no one else around. He really shouldn't have been here, but this was IMPORTANT. "Usagi-Kami-Sama?"

He got no response, but he really wasn't -expecting- one, but part of him still -hoped- for one. He crept a little farther into the shrine, nearly stepping on the fish that he'd waved off at the Kami.

The Kami didn't like fish. Hakuba didn't completely blame it, after a few days a fish could make any place really stink. He reached into his school bag, pulling out a notebook and ripping out a sheet of blank lined paper. Wrinkling his nose at the smell, he wrapped the remains of fish up in the paper, setting his bag down to do so.

"I'll be right back." He announced to the air, carrying the fish out of the shrine. He glanced around, then tossed the fish into the bushes off to one side, along with the paper. It wasn't -really- littering, a kitsune or a tanuki could eat the fish.

Hakuba crept back inside the shrine. It could use a cleaning, but he didn't have the time to do so, no matter how much he'd like to as a thanks. The fish would have to do. "I didn't thank you for saving me." He called, fidgeting with the band-aid on the back of his elbow. "So. Um. Thank you."

There was no response again, the shrine being empty except for the faint coo of pigeons on the rooftop. There'd been a lot fewer of them lately, but he'd also noticed a hawk had recently moved into the area. He'd spent one lunch break simply watching the predator glide up in the sky far above, wishing he could fly like that.

"I..." He trailed off, looking down at the ground. He tried again. "I... I'm sorry."

He sniffed. Boys didn't cry. He hadn't cried when they had been beating him, hitting him or hurting him. Not a single tear. He wasn't going to start now.

Hakuba quickly scrubbed his face with the back of an arm, then distracted himself by kneeling and reaching into his bag again. "This is for you." He announced, pulling out a book and holding it out. "Since you said you liked the books and all."

Again, no response. "I'm... just going to put it with the rest of the books, okay?" He informed the spirit. Not waiting for an answer this time, he scurried over to where the precious stack of books was hidden, knelt down and added it to the pile.

He got the vague sense of something being -there-, watching him over his shoulder. Nothing bad, just... curious.

"You can keep them." He said. "All of them. It's okay... It's okay cause..." He sniffed again, feeling his eyes get hot. He would -not- cry. "I'm not coming back anymore." He whispered.

The wind rustled the leaves in the trees outside, filling in the silence. The pigeons were silent now.

"... Mum's taking me to live with her. Cause of the fight. So now... So I'm going to be going to school in England."

He didn't want to go. He -liked- Japan, even if he didn't fit in. Even if he didn't have any real friends. Or that people thought he was a freak. This was Home. And England was far away.

"So, um. Thank you for saving me. And Sir Stinky." He hesitated, not wanting to leave just yet. But he had to get home, he still had to pack his stuff and have dinner before they departed.

He sort of wished he could stay here. It was peaceful here. It was nice and dry too. And the spirit was good company too.

It was silent again, but it wasn't a bad kind of silence. It was the kind of silence that had drawn him here in the first place. Comfortable.

But he had to go.

Hakuba got up, pausing in front of the altar, clapped his hands twice and bowed. He then picked up his bag and scurried out.

"Bye."

-fin-

;_;!!! ::CRIES::

♥♥♥

YOUR FAULT.

... also, have fanart for yours that I need to colour. >P

::beams!:: It's been a while since I've caused anything worthy enough that make people not want to be caught with the blame for it. >DDD

::GLOMP!:: *^^* Thank you! Pic's great! :D

I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON I WANTED TO WRITE HAKUBA YEARS LATER!

>.>;;; Awww...D: Poor Haku-chan *cuddles with teh chibi!Hakuba*

I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON I WANTED TO WRITE HAKUBA YEARS LATER!

Oh, good. *whew*
-I was worried that this one would interfere or contradict yours. ^^;;

yes! Everyone Cuddle the Chibi!! XD XD XD

*huggles Hakuba* Damn, now I know mine didn't get the intended response. Ah, but, se la vei. I mean, it WAS my first try at writing sense my writers block kicked in. But...o_0... is it bad that this idea gives me REALLY angsty plunnies where before Kami-Stinky can save Hakuba his attacker kinda...*cough, cough, blush* forces him to preform...ah, a sort of sexual favor...? *blushes and glares at bunnies, who bare fangs*

Ah, but yours is simply marvelous, Icka! Oo;; Man, wish mine hadn't felt quite as detatched as it did. Then maybe people would have acctually, I dunno, FELT what I was going for? But, marvelous as always. I especially like the part where...um...I can't pick a favorite part. I liked it all so much. -_-;;

Oooo~ ♥♥ ::glitters:: No, not bad at all. :D! ::snompluff::

OCDness shining through for a moment.

It's "C'est la vie" for future reference.

Also, it's perfectly fine if you do that kind of thing XD This is a free-for-all AU fic, apparently. No one's going to object to your doing something with it, I don't think ^___^;;;

*bottom lip trembling* That's so.. so.. so..WAhh!! Sad. Beautiful. *sniff*

*grins* LOVE this string...

Oh yeah! It's just really fun reading isn't it? I imagine I might have come in too late but good fun and all right?
You know it'd be really great if Icka did sommething with Hakuba as Izumi (gold colored eyes and all) and Kaito and Takuto (Full Moon ^^) - and coving that kiss scene that happens in the manga. That falls under the Kami umbrella doesn't it? With a little Aoko bunny dancing in the background ^^

It's never too late!

Or you could write it if you'd like. ^_____^

I will~ give me time ^^ (by tomorrow ^^)

Just a snippet, don't know if this would fit in but....

"So...you're the kami of this shrine..."
Kaito put his bunny head on one side, "Yep."
"And...you're, a rabbit?" Hakuba blinked, raising his eyebrows.
"I know...not my first choice, but, that's life."
"Why?" Hakuba ran a finger over the strap of his bag.
"Why what? Why not my first choice? Well, I used to have a *very* nice human body, but I died, and after that, the corpse was thrown in the ocean. Ick. Ocean. Then, I decided on an animal. I think it was a squirrel, but there was this weird miko who used to live a few blocks away from here...Well, she said she was a miko, but she acted more like a witch, and she-"
"Uh, no...I meant...Why did you save me?" Hakuba stared into Kaito's bead eyes.
"...hmm...Don't know...I guess- no...I did it because- nah..."
The rabbit plushy frowned, rubbing its chin with one fuzzy paw.
"Oh...um, don't worry about it, Rabbit-kami. I.. guess I should go... Dad may be getting worried." *If he's home right now...he's probably still working...*
"That is...You're leaving? Well... Travel safe." He waved.
Hakuba turned to leave, but stopped and looked back, "Ano...Maybe sometime, could you finish telling me about the miko? And you?"
"Yeah, sure thing. Maybe some time, kid."
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Looking at dates, this seems kinda abandoned right now...Hope anyone reading this liked it!

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All right!

Umm...Can I play too?