~Reunited~

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Private roleplay for Zash and myself, I'd suggest not reading it.

I'll make my intro next hon. Buckle your seatbelt, this is gunna be wild. XD

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The sun beat down harshly atop a juvenile shoyru, yet at the same time a sharp chilly breeze whipped through the air. No shelter comforted him, not the side of a building, or the cleft of a mountain. No buildings permitted him entrance, no townsman stopped to help him, or even to see if he was still alive for that matter. The sun was high in the sky on a Saturday morning. People who were out in town were mostly people who were out shopping, and most everyone else was snug inside their villa atop one of the numerous mountaintops. One shoyru, however, lay in the middle of one of the numerous dirt paths. If you looked closely, however, you would see he wasn't a full shoyru. Instead of having scales like a normal shoyru, thick black fur covered his body, which was matted and tangled. Having pointed ears, he looked part kougra, and even had feathered wings instead of bat.

He appeared half dead; the only clue indicating otherwise was the fact that his eyelids lay open. He didn't move for hours, didn't even blink, and his chest barely rose and fell with each breath. For hours upon hours he lay like this; hundreds of people passed him by, all ignored him. It wasn't until around noon that he finally indicated his consciousness. It began with the simple twitch of the head, and then of the muscles in his arms, and finally after ten minutes, he sat upright. Looking at him now, he looked more dead now than when he had just been laying down. Even through his fur, he looked pail, drained of color. His eyes appeared sunken in and dull, when they were normally a bright red color. To be blunt, he looked stoned, or something along those lines. His spine ached from lying on the spikes on his back for hours; he just all around felt like shit.

Willing himself to stand, he looked around Shenkuu with glazed-over eyes. He tried to recall the night before, closed his eyes and forced memories to emerge into his conscious mind. But as hard as he tried, he just couldn't collect a clear stream of memories from the night before. Eyes closed, he saw a female pinned under him, heard screams in the back of his mind, but everything seemed fuzzy and surreal; he couldn't be sure any of it was real. Sighing deeply, he looked down. His blue jeans had become twisted, likewise his blood red t-shirt, and although he didn't care about appearances, if he didn't fix it it would drive him crazy. It was funny, although he knew he hadn't slept all night, he couldn't clearly recall anything that had happened. He had no idea where he was; he only knew his next move, and that was to find some type of food.

[zash]

Zuri had just woken up about the time the sun had begun its journey for the rest of its day. Zuri sat up in bed groggy and tired and wondering why he is gonna even bother to get up. His long tail eased out of the covers and onto the floor, his feet soon after followed. He stood up and groggily walked into the shower. He took a nice hot shower. He scrubbed down his scales to get them clean and washed his horn on his head. He took some shampoo and washed his black hair that was only about two inches long. He made sure his Shoyru body was scrubbed down and clean. He then got out and dried off and went into his room with only a towel on. He sat down at his computer and browsed his music for the morning. He found the song Shout by Disturbed and blasted it. He's lucky he doesn't have neighbors, he probably would of woken them up or just plain old pissed them off.

He had finished drying off and he went into the kitchen, only to find that he was out of food.

"Son of a bitch. I forgot to go to the store."

He looked around. He had frozen meat and noodles. He really wanted breakfast food. He also looked for anything to drink and all he had was water from his sink. He grabbed a glass and got a drink of water and went and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen from his board. He sat down on the couch and took a drink.

"Ok, I need milk, bread, breakfast food, and soda and Kool aid."

This was enough of a starter list to get him to the store to browse. He put on some clothes, a black T-shirt that said "You read my shirt. Thats enough social interaction for the day." He then put on a pair of jeans and a jacket and left his house. He walked to the edge of his mountain and jumped off. Spreading his wings he caught air and went sky wards. He flew for a while to enter town and landed where no one was and started for the store.

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Food would be difficult. Reaching into his pockets, the shoyru hybrid discovered he had no money. He kind of figured this before he checked, but checking just confirmed the fact he was broke. There was no wonder as to why; it wasn't like he had been living on the streets for a few months now - no, it had been three years now since his mother had thrown him out. He had become accustom to living on the streets, however, doing so required the bending and occasional breaking of a few laws. Now came the question of food, and with no money....

The nearest grocery store was incredibly tiny. A very trusting store with almost no security system aside from a few random cameras strategically placed around the alcohol and cigarettes. Pushing back the longer portion of his gray, flame tipped hair, he strutted into the store like a big shot punk and began strutting through the aisles.

[zash]

Zuri walked into the store shortly after Ku did. He walked in and grabbed a kart. He sighed a bit. He could feel his stomach rumbling.

"I had to forget." He moaned. He started off going down isle one and started from there. He looked down both sides of the isle as he tried to find everything he needed and knew he would eventually need. He continued to roam through the store as he filled up his kart. He found several things he needed and some he knew he probably didn't need, but got anyways. He enjoyed having snack foods on hand. He was decently bored, he didn't really enjoy going to the grocery store, specially when he was hungry, because just about everything looks good when your hungry.

He figured he was waisting to much money so he tried to speed things up and started to look just for the bare essentials. He really wanted someone to talk to, he tended to get to focused on the food when he was in a grocery and needed something to keep his mind off things.

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Not being a structured creature, the shoyru roamed willy-nilly around the store. He didn't start at aisle one and work his way through all ten, but rather began in the middle, jumped to aisle three, and then to aisle seven. Nothing looked appetizing - most everything needed to be cooked and he didn't have anything to cook with, or any place to cook for that matter. Scanning the aisle, he found a few things he could eat that didn't require any cooking, and were decently small to fit in his pockets. One thing caught his eyes more than anything else - a box of cereal bars. He walked up close to the shelf, grabbed a box, and then looked from side to side. Only one person was around, another shoyru looking at something else in the aisle; he didn't think the guy would notice him. Ripping open the box, he pulled out all the small bars and stuffed them in the deep pockets of his pants. He then put the empty box back on the shelf, hiding it behind all the other boxes.

[zash]

Zuri was looking down isle 7 when, looking at all the cereal. He figured cereal may be a decent breakfast, if he finds something that looks good. He noticed a black Shoyru standing down towards the end of the isle. He didn't pay much attention to him. As he got closer as he was browsing the cereal he noticed the Shoyru started to tear open a box and stuff its contents into his pants. He really didn't mind but he figured the guy was a broke ass.

"Oh good grief man." Zuri thought, "do it someplace better than this. They may not have a camera but its so freaking obvious."

As he got closer he figured the guy would just crouch and walk the other way and turn the corner quickly. But as he got closer he started to recognize him. He noticed he had fur instead of scales, and had a kinda dirty and evil look. As he got closer he couldn't help but to keep staring at him. Then he ran into a display knocking it over, causing a big ruckus and attracting attention to himself.

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Ku paid no mind to the other shoyru coming closer; he didn't even notice him truthfully. He wasn't the best thief in the world, clearly. It wasn't until the klutz knocked over a display stand that Ku realized he was there. His nerves felt rattled but he didn't jump; the only motion he made was to snap his head in the shoyru's direction. Of course now practically everyone in the store was curious and investigating, peering down their aisle to see what had happened. Warm blood flooded Ku's cheeks as a sense of panic overcame him, as if just by looking at him anyone now staring would know what he had just done. However, the panic subsided quickly, and was replaced by annoyance. He was mad now. "Nice going fucktard," he muttered just loud enough for the other shoyru to hear him, as he intended. If it had been just two seconds earlier, the other shoyru would have completely given him away, and then he really would have been mad.

[zash]

"The fuck man." Zuri muttered. "Aint my problem. And yeah, don't worry about your thieving. Gawd I swear, your a horrible thief. You call that theft you fuckin ass wipe? A 5 year old does better than you. I swear you act like some fucking kid."

Zuri glared and muttered back. He was careful of how loud he said his words. Though no one had really come yet he figured he be helpful to the nimrod and make sure that not everyone in the store heard it. Zuri moved his kart around the mess of boxes and came up near the Shoyru.

"Seriously, I was standing right there when you did it. Who knows who I coulda been, I could work here for all you know you idget."

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From deep within the back of his throat, Ku emitted a soft but annoyed growl. His eyes returned the other shoyru's glare with a cold one of his own, anger now boiling from deep within him. It was all he could do to keep from shoving passed this shoyru and storming out, but still too many people lingered around. He came a centimeter away from cursing this guy out, but he bit his tongue. Rather, he stood taller, trying to think of something non-ostentatious to reply.

"So what if I am bad." There was a still slight growl in his tone, which didn't go above a whisper. "You're obviously quite clever, a true thief yourself, otherwise you wouldn't be lecturing me. My god you sound just like Strips. And since you're obviously a thief yourself, you clearly don't work here, so if you'll excuse me, I've got banks to rob and villages to plunder." That last sentence was his poor attempt at a joke.

[zash]

"Gawd, Strips would do a Hell of a lot better I assure you that. He could probably rob this place of all its money and get all the food without any one knowing." Zuri continued to glare. Then, he thought for a sec.

"How does he know Striii...... Oh fuck. Damnit Ku, I swear, you'd think he'd inherit more." He sighed shortly and shallowly and looked at Ku. "Wait just a sec, you know Strips.....I know you. You, uuhhh lived with Abby didn't you?"

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Even thinking that Strips was a hell of a lot better than him, whether it be true or not, sent Ku's blood boiling; he hated that man. Then the thought occurred to him - this guy knew who Strips was....that was a little strange. Then the stranger said it; he mentioned knowing Strips, and then said he knew Ku. As for Ku, he didn't remember; this stranger didn't look familure, not at first. "Yeeeaaah, I did...... but how do you…." Then it occurred to him, from deep within his drug stained mind, that this was the guy that used to hang around every once in a blue moon. "Oh, yeah, you're that one guy that was all hot for my mom," he replied in a very monotone voice with a slight roll of the eyes.

[zash]

Though that may of been true. By that point in time Zuri and Abby had split up so, he wasn't all that hot for his mom any more by then. Zuri didn't have that many friends and he always found it fun to go visit Abby and the gang, but as time passed he became more secluded and just started staying at his house in Shenkuu more. He still talks to Abby once in a very great while, so just not that often really.

"I guess. I didn't really even know she was your mom, but oh well. So yeah, guess we do know eachother." Then a thought sparked in Zuri's mind.

"I guess we should move from this isle till either of us get in trouble. So, how have you been? I know your a trouble maker and all, but usually you didn't look like you just woke up in a ditch."

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Ku made a thoughtful noise, ears pinning back for just a second. "Hmm, I thought you did," he referred to Zuri not knowing Abby was his mom. "I thought everyone did, but I guess I do look more like you than I do her." He was referring to the fact that he looked more like a shoyru than a kougra, not to the fact that Zuri and him actually looked alike. Ku was a little slow like that - a shoyru used to hang on with his mom all the time, he never knew who his father was, he looked like a shoyru....yeah, he just wasn't very bright; anyone else would have put the pieces together.

He nodded in agreement to moving from the aisle, and maneuvered to follow Zuri. He became slightly amused and slightly annoyed by Zuri's next statement; he was a trouble maker, and didn't mind being called one. And it wasn't the fact that he looked like a bum that bothered him, he didn't really care about that, it was just the reason why he looked like a bum that bothered him. "Yeah, well, that whore of a mother kicked me out of the house. I found my way over here and, yeah...."

[zash]

Zuri just kind of laughed at that remark. He knew why Abby would kick his ass out. He did get into a lot of trouble and was just a giant ass from time to time, like earlier. He knew he'd probably regret saying this but he did anyways.

"That's funny that she kicked you out. She can be a bitch like that."

Zuri chuckled just a bit and said,

"You know what? How about you come over to my place? I'll feed you a little and let you get cleaned up. Really, if you are gonna do anything wrong you might as well look like someone who wouldn't than someone who looks like they just woke up in ditch. Hell, you'll get lucky just to get out of here without anyone trying to pat you down."

Zuri knew if Ku left with him he wouldn't look as suspicious but still, least he'd have a better chance on getting out of there with what he had. But Zuri felt the pit of his stomach disagreeing with him on doing this, or it could be hunger, he never really could tell.

"Plus I could use some help getting all this shit home." Zuri finished.