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YUYA SAKAKI UN: FUNDIRECTION

STATUS: Student Grade 9

ACCOLADES: (Here is a list of leading roles Yuya's has in school theater performances over the past two years, plus a glowing review of his familiar Odd-Eyes)

BIO: Hello! You can call me Yuya. I'm from Sendai, Japan. This is my second year in Daybreak Academy. I'm a Tamer, and Odd-Eyes is my familiar. He's the big red dragon that hangs out in the courtyards. He's friendly but he tries to steal food sometimes. I speak Japanese and English but not very good French. I'm also in the theater club. I'm in Lumiere 203. Let's be friends!

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[There is a mute nod- and slowly, he turns.] ...He is...

...He is seeing someone, yes? ...if this is how he reacts to myself...

...I am not the only lycan, here...

[Can he fight it alone, without Odd-Eyes? Probably not, but he's also not completely helpless without access to his familiar.] I can definitely escape it. Odd-Eyes isn't the only thing I have.

[Yuya squares his shoulders a little, like the emphasis on size will prove his point.] I'll know if you reach Odd-Eyes. If you go out the window, I'm fine. If you come out the door, we'll run. And if it's worse than what we expect... nobody else is going to know what's happening in that room if you're alone, right?

I... don't know. [It's true though that Gon is far from the only lycan, and what are they going to do if Toki is devolving into screams when faced with any other student of faculty?] He said before he didn't want to talk about it, when I told him about the counselors. I don't think he's really let it out at all?

[ There's still no point in it, in Kano's opinion. Nobody knowing what's happening inside the room is exactly what he wants- nobody would be troubled until ("if," and it's not a huge "if") he either loses grasp on the situation, and he still believes he can keep this under wraps somehow.

But if something happened to him, Ellie would be furious for sure, Minako too, probably Imelda for it being right under her own roof, Peter had told him he could call any time he needed saving, and then there's Yuya who's being told he can't do anything but be on standby and there's no more frustrating thing than that: being told to wait, feeling helpless, and opening the door to find it's too late.

That's not fair. ]

...Not very convincing. [ He heaves a sigh, rolling his shoulders. ] How 'bout you and I escape right now? It'll be angry, but maybe we can lure it out into the mountains or something? With Odd-Eyes, we'd be a lot faster, and can put a lot of distance between us. It'll buy some time.

[ And get it away from the building and the school, minimize casualties, that sort of thing. ]

Mng...not at all..?! That...

Surely, he does not believe that can last..!

[Yuya's prepared to argue, because it's probably not convincing but Kano's attempt to lock himself in the situation isn't either. And then he suggests escaping, and Yuya's shoulders ease.]

Yeah. Then there's less people in trouble, right? [He can follow the line of logic there, and Odd-Eyes is fast. And powerful. Maybe if they draw it away, they can scare it off or... at least put it in a position they can deal with it easier.] Odd-Eyes is really familiar with the mountains. He can get us somewhere clear with stable ground.

It happened recently, I think? So maybe it's still hard, but... [Yuya rubs the back of his neck, uncertain.]

It has to be really hurting him inside, and... he needs help dealing with it.

[Yuya's been in a state of needing that help, and he'll always advocate what really did make a difference for him in the long run.]

...perhaps you can ask?

I tried to. But maybe I should try when he's a little calmer. [Maybe immediately after a second freakout isn't the best time to advise someone to get come therapy.]

Is Orihime still going to make you a suit?

By now, it has been a few days at least...more than that however, if he is still in that state by February...

Auh. [He pauses, and jumps.] Auh...s..suit or no suit Yuuya, that is not the primary concern! [He lowers his voice to a whisper.] Yuuya...apparently, the seers foresaw an attack upon the ball...it is continuing, so that we can have the advantage...

But it is still a serious matter...!

That's how it is~

[ Here is where he wishes he'd paid more attention to class, because somebody must have talked about masked monsters at one point, how to combat them or how to dispel them, but instead, his knowledge stems from videogames and the sorts where you don't even fight the monsters head on, you run and pray.

He has no god he likes to pray to, so it's running instead, down the steps two at a time until they're outside and rounding the corner of the building where Odd-Eyes would be waiting. ]

See if you can get him to fly us by my window, so we can get the monster's attention and have it give chase.

[Yuya picks up speed, still glancing over his shoulder once and a while to see whether it's picking up on their plan. That hasn't been an issue so far, but... he can't help being a little paranoid when chased by a monster in the school. For all his bravado, he doesn't have a ton of actual combat experience.

He nods.] He can't fly, but he can definitely get us in view of the window.

[It's not hard for him to scale three stories up a building, anyway. Odd-Eyes is still sitting, attention up at the window until he picks up their crunching feet and looks down at them in--confusion?

Yuya flashes a smile and waves his hand.] Change of plans. Kano and I need a ride so we can lure it away from the school.

[Not that he explained to Odd-Eyes what 'it' is yet. Yuya deftly climbs up on the dragon's back, bracing his feet on his back as he grabs one of Odd-Eyes' horns with one hand. With the other, he leans over to offer it to Kano if he needs help up.]

Eh? [Yuya leans in closer to hear his whispering, lowering his voice in turn. He doesn't know why they're whispering because they're alone in the bus to Soleil, but that's how it's going now.]

It's getting attacked this year? [Yuya pauses.] But if the dance is still going on, it means they didn't see anything too terrible happening, right?

No- what it means is that it is better for us to know what is coming, than to allow them to replan and strike unexpectedly.

The dance will be attacked by daemons- and we must be ready...and more than that, we cannot risk faltering or entering shock to that extent.

[And look the bus driver counts as another person Yuuya.]

[The bus driver has probably been through enough attacks working for the school.]

But it's not just a trap, right? There's still going to be the actual dance? [He's pretty sure the seers wouldn't endanger them with a dance if they thought this attack was something they wouldn't be able to handle.] Are they going to announce something?

[ Why the fuck can't a dragon fly. He's huge enough that Kano had always assumed, but- doesn't matter, the assumption was his mistake, and they can still make it work. He takes Yuya's hand up to sit upon Odd-Eyes' back, but he has no idea what to hold onto that won't have him falling off the moment Odd-Eyes starts moving, so he's just going to wrap his arms around Yuya's torso and pointedly not look at him. ]

Sorry!! You'd probably rather this were done by a cute girl, huh? I can make that happen, to make up for all this?

Mnh, there will be a dance first, presumably...

I, the man Gongenzaka, cannot say if there will be an announcement however. I only know, due to what Orihime said.

[Yuya's waist is probably the best bet without a saddle, and Yuya shifts to make it easier for him to hold onto.

He laughs suddenly, briefly.] Ah, I don't have my eye on any girls here... [He leans over, patting Odd-Eyes' face before he grips both horn tightly in each hand.] Okay, can you get up to the window and make sure she sees us? And when she starts coming, we're going to run up into the mountains.

[The dragon lets out a confirmatory sound.] Hold on tight, Kano.

[He's got a second to make sure his grip is steady before Odd-Eyes rises up on his hind legs and grips protrusions in the wall to scale up. It's a smoother ride than it seems, the way Odd-Eyes makes large stretches with his limbs to haul them to the third floor in seconds.

He curves his neck to look into the window as he gets level to it, where Yuya and Kano and peek in as well.]

... So you still need a suit. [Yuya grins playfully.] Let's wait until they actually have a plan before we worry too much about a bunch of daemons. The school is not going to let us get murdered at the Valentine's Day ball.

[ The laugh is hard to place, but Kano doesn't get any more time to ponder over what it means, as he's got to make sure his grip is tight enough that he doesn't slide backwards, clutching Yuya close enough that his face presses against his back, watching out for any figure in the window.

The window was already open from when he had intended to jump, originally, and he hadn't closed it the entire time he'd led the monster into his room. That makes it easy for the monster to spot the three of them, but it also allows the monster to scramble over to the window and place her foot up onto the windowsill in the exact same position he was in before, stomach lurching when he hears her voice.

"Shuuya— Shuuya, no! That's dangerous! You'll fall!" Panic, worry, desperation. Over him. He needs to make this stop. It's his fault she's feeling these things.

The monster opens her arms wide, foot and a knee balanced on the windowsill.

"Come back to me! Shuuya!!"

Her voice breaks, choked with a sob, and all Kano can do is sit there and be silent, squeezing Yuya even tighter or else he'll be tempted to leap back into his mother's arms. ]

[Yuya feels Kano squeezing him in response to his mother's pleas. They have it's attention and they can't stay long, but... he can't help but feel a little pity even knowing that this might be a ruse, so see her so alarmed.

He offers the hollow a smile, strangely reassuring and confident.] Don't worry. I'm not going to let Kano be hurt.

[That includes by her. He doesn't tell Odd-Eyes the leap down, but his familiar knows exactly when to anyway--pushing off the wall as he releases it to land straight to the ground with a head thud that sends snow flying everywhere. He doesn't straighten up all the way, giving both of them a more horizontal ground to be standing on, but he does crane his neck up to see if the hollow is going to follow them straight out the window.]

NGAH-

THAT! That is not the point you should get from this!! What about Toki!!

[ Even if it's a ruse, it still hurts to hear it- in that way, it's already too late to promise that Kano wouldn't be hurt, because this does and has ever since he'd caught a glimpse of the creature. He should have found a way to deal with her early, instead of letting her draw nearer and nearer until she's right there in front of his face. Maybe selfishly he wished to see her again, maybe selfishly he wished for her to get close.

Selfishly, he gets his prayers answered, and the monster leaps from the building and crashes into the ground, kicking up a little cloud of ice- that does nothing to deter her, as she blasts out of the snow straight towards Odd-Eyes with inhumane speed.

"Give him back! GIVE HIM BACK!! DON'T YOU DARE TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME AGAIN!!" ]

—never mind baiting, just run! We gotta run!

[Yuya leans back, bringing his voice back to normal volume.] I'm going to talk to Toki, but that's a different situation than the dance.

[Yuya pauses, then shifts awkwardly.] I don't think daemons are the same kind of problem for him.

No, but any lycan who will be fighting the daemons will be a more worrying image than one serving tea, I should imagine..!

[...Point.]

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