Meeting the team (KGSF/Ritoru/Toshio)

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Holding onto the large man for several seconds Ru listened to his attempts at consoling him. This of course was of no consequence to Ritoru, he knew he was in no danger, as a matter of fact zach saying that made him wonder why these two were here. Of course this was the perfect moment for a green beam of energy to pass over their head by several feet in the air.

"I...uh..."

He said letting go looking at the energy. His eyes made a blank stare, as if so many emotions were running through his tiny little toddler mind. Finally enough time had passed that Ru could speak once more, the smoke rising, the explosions, the bright lights. There was only one way to describe such a horrific event...

"Cool!"

He said jumping up almost immediately and turning to face Nam, who had inconspicuously began approaching the two of them.

"Mickey look at the lights!"

He said pointing at all of the energy and fire. The apparent danger and drama of the situation was completely lost on the child as he turned back to Zach, who was probably at this point rather confused by the sudden shift in mood from the young boy.

"Oh, and my name is Ritoru! But my friends call me Ru!"

He told Zach before running over to Nam tugging on his cloak and pointing.

"Mickey how does he do that, did that come from his MOUTH!?"

He exclaimed begining his trip over towards the green man who was now floating above the rubble of the old Lookouts tower.

[Nam Reikonaga]

Nam solemnly stared from behind Zach, motionless. His face was expressionless, stoic and ostensibly calm. He felt that he needed to go back and help his teammates fend Geurin off. He was their leader! What kind of leader leaves them in such a gruesome situation? It was their first meeting together, they put their faith and lives on his hands, yet he felt he needed to do this. They could all fight Geurin and possibly have a chance of winning –as long as Zach didn’t enter the fray, but they might not have to fight at all…

He flinched as Ritoru suddenly hopped off the blond man’s chest and acknowledges his presence. Zach would soon turn around, and who knew what might happen then? A punch to the face? More degrading and ignorant remarks about how he dared show his face around him or seemingly recruit a child for his cause? But it was for that same reason that Nam decided to take the child in. As a saiyan, with the power he had, he was meant to fight whether he wants to or not. It was the ‘joy’ they all shared, but it was more of a curse in Nam’s eyes. Destined to fight… He knew Geurin would seek the child and so he took him in to protect him.

Trouble always finds a saiyan. It was especially most unfortunate for the half-saiyans like Ritoru and himself, whom were treated like outcasts by both the humans and saiyans alike. They don’t belong anywhere, and he grieved for the day this poor child would realize it; hopefully, the world would change before he had to face such a lonesome fate. Hopefully, Nam would be able to open the people’s hearts before it was too late… Open Zach’s heart…

Nam sighed at the child’s innocent remarks towards the whirring green lights that threatened his very existence –and theirs. He stood there, motionless, as the child tugged onto his trousers. Another beam of energy passed overhead, his hair moving frivolously in response to each and every beam that passed. Nam crouched down to eye level and patted Ritoru’s head.

“That’s right…” he replied with a soft, forced smile. There was a hint of sadness for he knew what would happen. What must be done…

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Nam and Ritoru were lying on the ground under the starlit sky of the Lookout. Finally, it was the time to rest. He wanted to take the boy into the bedroom chambers of the main building, where they’d sleep on comfy beds, but the child insisted on sleeping outside on the tiled floors. Nam, of course, acceded to the kid’s wishes and they lay there with the night’s breeze caressing their bodies. Nam looked down at Ritoru, whom was resting his head on his lap while staring at the stars.

“Hey, Ru,” he started. “How do you know if someone’s good or bad?”

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[Zach]

As he was holding the boy up and gurin was making a grand mess of the place, Zach looked on somewhat disturbed at how quickly the Namekian had decided to dmage the lookout. Granted they could always rebuild it provided the whole of the structure was left intact but if too much damage was done the place could very quickly become irreperable. Zach had no desire to see the place wrecked, especially his gardens, he'd put quite a bit of work into careing for them over the years. Plants just seemed so much easier then people to deal with, they didn't argue, didn't misbehave, all they needed was water, sunshine and the occasional weeding and they were as happy as can be. His gardens were the only thing that brought him happiness any more, both here on the lookout and back at the school. While teaching there was fullfilling, it didn't neccesarily make the blonde happy and more then once he found himself pondering returning to his farm. Now though something else was sparking a tiny glimour of joy in the young man, watching the boy's face light up with wonder at the light show above and actually being able to feel that serge in energy that accompanied the kid's change in emmotions. Even as Ritoru gazed up, a faint smile started to spread across Zach's lips.

All too quickly though it faded as the boy noticed something over the older male's shoulder and squirmed out of his grasp. Not wanting to force the kid to stay still, Zach let him get out of his arms and watched as he jumped back to the floor and then scooted around him. Turning to follow the boy's movements, Zach tracked the young blonde back in the direction they had come from and frowned when he saw Nam standing there. Perhaps it was serindipity but Zach thought the exact same thing Nam was thinking when he the other had followed him rather then back up his peons. 'What kind of leader does he think he is anyway?' Zach though to himself looking at Nam with one fairly easy read emmotion on his face, disapointment. Nam was supposed to be this great chosen one, at least that what Kami of old would have had him beleive and yet he couldn't even guide his own recruits, couldn't even be bothered to protect them in their time of need. They're alliance was doomed to disintegrate now, none of them could posibly trust him after he litterally threw them to the wolves. They would no longer be a threat, not that they had been to begin with. Nam was the only segnificant threat and Zach was sure he alone could deal with him to say anothing of himself and Gurin working together.

"Ru eh?" Zach rhetorically asked as he strolled along behind the boy, making no provocative or deffensive moves as he approached Nam. If the other struck out at him the blow would land cleanly and likely be devistating but Zach was confident he could withstand such an attack. This was a mind game now, this young boy was entrusted to him once before and he would be damned if he was going to lose the boy a second time by casting himself in the light of the villain. If Nam attacked him unprovoked Nam would do the job for Zach of casting the Saiyan in that role and all Zach would have to do then is defend himself, of course not before taking a few more hits just to drive the point home about who exactly was on the side of peace and light and who on the side of violence and darkness. "Ru, don't get too close. Those lights sting an awfull lot if you get hit by them." Zach cautioned the boy.

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"They kinda look like youws mickey, but youws is blue!"

He said as the demon wave evaporated off in the distance, turning his attention back to the green man who had fired it only to see that there was now three of them, and two of them were flying away...Speaking of that all of Nam's friends had left the lookout, scattering quickly. A game of tag? He wasnt sure, they had all begun shooting their light beams at each other, and now it was like they had all vanished.

"I didn't know thewe wewe so many fast people out hewe!"

He said looking back at Zach who had followed his over to Nam. Of course Ru had no idea the inner turmoil these two were going through, or even that they were opposing factions. The fact that both were within feet of each other without so much of a flinch made Ritoru think they could be friends as well. That wouldnt surprise him, the ugly brown three eyed one had been friends with Nam, so why not the cool looking blond one...Who actually seemed more familiar to Ru than he realized. Of course the images of Zach in his home village struck and Ru frowned, completing his sentence from before.

"I'm sowwy those bad guys got youw house"

He said looking Zach dead in the eyes as he spoke. His innocence was backed with such intense accuracy that if Zach understood what he as talking about, their simple chat would become slightly more emotional. Zach was certainly an overly emotional individual, and Ru had no way of knowing that. So he spoke candidly like most children did.

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Ru had nearly fallen asleep, it had grown later and Nam's voice was just another soothing addition to the lull of the night. He was nearly there when Nam asked him about the fight between good and evil. He didnt really have the time to think, and having been half asleep already his answer would just be what was on the top of his mind. But he answered.

"Bad guys don't have feelings, and good guys have lots of feelings, you can feel them."

It was repetetive, vague, and ultimately did not fully answer the question, but that was the best he had. Burrowing his face into Nam's side, the kid was clearly nodding out.

[Nam Reikonaga]

Nam stood up to meet Zach’s eyes as he approached. His heart began to race. Ritoru had no idea that there was an intangible struggle going on this very moment. He looked at Zach sternly, but he wouldn’t attack. Thinking back, he still didn’t know about Nam’s super saiyan transformation –or, at least he didn’t think he knew. But Nam couldn’t transform and fight him with it, he respected him too much and to aggravate their already fading friendship would make him lose any chance of turning everything back around.

Nam thought twice about what he’d say in front of Ritoru. Nam knew they were after the child and if they didn’t get him, this entire Lookout and his teammates would be endangered. It was only a matter of time before there would be a casualty, but Nam knew how he might be able to avoid it all without having to fight. This was the reason why he was standing there that very moment, restraining his instincts and desire to be there with his group.

“Do you promise,” he said, filtering his words as he spoke. “Will you keep him safe from Geurin?”

Zach wasn’t his problem, Zach wasn’t his enemy and Zach wasn’t his target. –and that alone was perhaps the only reason why this man had such an advantage towards the brunette man and why Geurin would succeed in his goals without competition. His eyes squint, a fixed gaze into the other man’s eyes as their history reminiscences through their eyes.

A gasp would have probably escaped Nam’s lips when Ritoru mentioned Zach’s hometown if this weren’t such a serious situation. But he kept a serious and calm face. “Another one of his dreams?” he thought. A drop of sweat rolled down his face. How would Zach react…?

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Nam smiles softly at the child. He was glad to hear his answer and his expression would go stern again as he asked the next. “But…” he started, speaking softly into the boy’s ear. “What if the good guy is confused?” he asked and then elaborated before he could answer.

“What if… the good guy does bad things, thinking it’s a good thing? What if they want to help, but all they do is hurt?”

[Zach]

Dividing his attention between Nam and Rito, Zach noted a few things, first that the boy wasn't calling Nam by name and the likely assumption was that Nam had never told him his name. Second was that the boy already seemed to know the color of one of Nam's energy attacks which of course meant that in spite of the Saiyan's concern for the boy's safety, he'd seen fit to endanger the youngster himself sufficiently to warrant the use of an energy discharge in his presence. 'What a hypocrite.' Zach thought to himself and kept his eyes locked on the boy. Both were speaking at the same time so he had to filter his correspondence with them. Rito had said something to him about 'bad guys getting his house' and the notion that the boy might on some level be telepathic still hadn't sunk in yet. What was starting to dawn on him the longer he watched the kid was how alarmingly the boy looked like Zach's own childhood photos. With Nam around he couldn't explore that thought for too long though, having to keep aware of his surroundings.

"Gurin is the least of the kid's problems." Zach responded quietly, hoping Rito wouldn't pick up on their adult talk. It had been his experience that children usually tuned out the stuff they didn't understand so there likely wasn't any danger in talking about current events in front of him. "You let an alien get away that promised to destroy the Earth remember. If you should be worried about anyone endangering the boy it's him... and that monkey king of yours." Zach added and then looked down to the boy.

"Ru, I live at a grand school, there are no bad guys there." Zach responded to the youngster, misinterpreting the boy's words as meaning Gurin and his clones were the bad guys and that Zach lived on the Lookout. Maybe some day the latter half of that would be true, but the longer he contended with his anger issues, the more Zach doubted he'd ever attain the kind of control he'd need to take the position of Kami. Heck, to this date he could only sense the energy signature of one other person besides himself and that person was standing right in front of him. The fete was still new to him and being so inexperienced in the science of detection, he also doubted that field would improve enough for him to take the position either.

"Would you like to see my home?" he asked the boy and then glanced back to Nam to see what kind of response the question would provoke. In that moment another thought occurred to him. There was a piece of equipment here that the school could very much benefit from. The gravity training machinery down below that Kami had procured with the money from Zach's wish and that the crippled space man had been kind enough to provide a power source for. It had been sitting idle for five years now doing no one any good and seeing as Gurin was Kami's son, or brother or what ever the relation was, it was only natural that the equipment now belonged to him. Even if it didn't and instead belonged to the special forces Kami had gathered, the device would belong to any surviving members who were Toshio and Zach himself. Being he was supposedly being groomed for the leadership position Zach felt under either of those circumstances that the gravity machinery now belonged to either himself or Gurin and in either case it would do the most good at the school. "I just have to get a few things from downstairs first." the blonde added, keeping his eyes locked on Nam's.

Nam was doing the same to him and for the briefest of moments Zach felt that old lust for the young man's company peek it's head out again. Something about the way Nam stared at him mad Zach want to engage the young man right then and there and then intentionally lose. He had no time for such graphic thinking though, Zach was here for a purpose and that came first, he could fantasize later. "That isn't going to be a problem is it? Mickey?"

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"School?"

Ritoru said, the obvious tension of the adult world being completely lost on his adolescent mind. He knew what school was, as a matter of fact if the orphanage had let him stay only a year longer, Ru would have officially started their kindergarten program...but that seemed...boring...

All they did was sing songs, play games, and eat snacks that were frankly to small fo Ru to enjoy. But at the same time, a school meant other people who he could interact with, maybe that was why mickey had brought him here.

"I've nevew been to a school befowe...it sounds..."

Not choosing to censor his language at all...

"Awesome!"

He said leaping upwards into the air, landing a few feet to the right of where he had been. Now the thoughts were invading his mind. Would there be other kids? Were the teachers nice? Would he live there or somewhere else?

But then the most important question purged his mind, one that he thought was far more important to ask than any other...

"...is...mickey coming too?"

He said pausing and turning to look back at Nam, whose displeasure suddenly became evident to Ritoru. Nam was giving Ritoru away to this man.

"You...you awnt coming awe you"

He said, his face finally losing the excited feel it had before, now taking on a confused frown. He was so happy to have met someone new, and felt that he needed to follow the blond man... something about the strange energy around him made Ritoru oddly attracted to him. No one else had such an aura...only him.

But leaving Mickey...that wasn't fair.

[Nam Reikonaga]

The first thing Nam noticed was how Zach still called him ‘Gurin’. Was he still unaware –or did he simply not care? He had made it perfectly clear last time they met, during their match in Geurin’s little tournament, that he did not care for whatever little plots the green man had in store. All he wanted was to keep the earth safe and right now it seemed like the best course of action. Nam scoffed as Zach once again accused him of false speculations, which were probably fed to him by the green goblin himself.

‘Let’ Touketsuki escape? What was HE doing while Nam was fending off that giant death ball that threatened the very existence of every being on the planet –‘his’ planet? Wasn’t he supposed to be the great guardian? Yet he let the matters of his world in the palms of a mutt saiyan like Nam. He saved the world from certain destruction and the entire world views him as the enemy, nobody would ever know of his heroics –and that didn’t bother him at all, what bothered him were the lies spread like the plague. All of these things, he wanted to express verbally that very moment. But he didn’t. Maybe it was because Ritoru was witnessing the conversation, or perhaps he just realized it was a waste of his breath to try and reason with this air headed man.

But, in a way, he did tell Zach. He told him every single detail through his eyes. Nam’s puckered face and furrowed brows were worth a million words. They expressed all his contempt, anguish, anger, disappointment, and they transmitted every truth in the form of vibes. Whether Zach was capable to read them was beyond him.

Nam’s angered gaze then softened towards the sight of Ritoru. They had barely known each other. They only met yesterday –yet, he felt so fond of the child. He crouched down to his eyelevel once more and smiled. “Don’t worry, buddy!” he said with an enthusiastic voice, the likes of which not a single soul in the entire universe had ever heard of. But it was still so obviously and painfully fake; hopefully, it felt real enough for a kid like Ritoru to believe. “I promise I’m going to visit you. There’s a lot of fast people you can play with and they’ll teach you how to beat up the bad guys!” he said, promptly standing back up.

"I just have to get a few things from downstairs first," Zach said, motioning to leave. "That isn't going to be a problem is it, Mickey?"

Nam grinned. “First make him stop.” He said, “You won, you got what you came for. There’s no longer any need for any meaningless fighting.”

At last, this was the reason why Nam was here and not there. From the very beginning, he knew what was going to go down –but it all depended on them. Hopefully, Zach hadn’t lost any sense of justice he had and realize that nobody had to die today. A drop of sweat nervously dripped down his sun-kissed face; a concerned expression for his teammates, and a concerned expression for Zach. Don’t become a monster.”

Nam felt that Ritoru would be safe with Zach. Somehow, he felt like they were meant to be together, like this was supposed to happen. He wasn’t abandoning the child. He wouldn’t have let him near Geurin if he didn’t think he’d be fine. His only concern was the tail…

“Well?”

[Geurin]

"I think you will find they are more than suitable of taking care of themselves Mickey"

Geurin's voice could be heard among them as he slowly walked towards the two and a half men before him. There was considerable dirt on his shoulders, as well as dust and whatever else had been in the rubble of the house on the lookout. Geurin had entered the wreckage to retrieve just what Zach sought after, and in his hand it was there, the small gravity suppressor that Tenshu had obtained nearly 6 years ago in their vein attempt to train in order to defeat Suki.

"And you must be the boy I have heard so much about"

Geurin said, taking a few more steps forward creating the perfect triangle around the poor boy. He was now in between the three men who were out to get him. Nam had allowed him to leave with Zach and Geurin under the condition that zach...

Make him stop

But here he was standing before Nam, that same crooked smile on his face. Of course the powers could be felt off in the distance. Maruca and Geurin's weaker clone, and below then Dynammo and the stronger clone. But the longer Geurin drew this out, the better.

"Here Zach, train our boys well with this."

He said, carelessly tossing the small piece of metal over to Zach, his stare never leaving that of Nam's who had undoubtedly began watching him the moment he came into view.

[Zach]

Zach was glad to hear Rito's enthusiastic response to the possibility of coming with him to the school. Of course little did the child know that there was no choice in the matter, it wasn't simply a possibility but a certainty. Rito had been placed into Zach's care once before, and he would return to that care, the fact that Gurin was involved was beside the point. This kid was special beyond what ever machinations Gurin had, the fact that Zach could sense him was proof of that. "You'll love it there." Zach assured the boy while his eyes were still locked on Nam's steely gaze.

Zach could tell by the changes in Nam's expression that he was all manner of upset and on some small, petty level Zach enjoyed it. Further spurring on the blonde's amusement was Nam's request that he stop Gurin before one of the others was killed. He'd given Nam the chance to leave Earth twice without loss and the Saiyan refused, now he'd suffer the consequences. If it meant the death of one of his cohorts to convince the Saiyan that Earth was not his place, then so be it. Two of them weren't even human as far as Zach could tell and the shirtless young man had a two in three chance of making it out alive, well one in three now that there were two Gurin clones running about. The monstrous nature of these thoughts didn't seem to occur to the blonde as he turned his gaze casually upwards towards the original Gurin who had curiously now vanished and then back to Nam, they simply were his thoughts. "I think I'll go and get my things and if your friends are still in one piece when I get back then I'll see about having a word with Gurin." Zach replied nonchalantly. "Of course they wouldn't be in danger had you not gathered them here to oppose us, you do know that don't you?" he added with a grin and looked back to Rito.

"Ru, do you want to come down stairs and help me grab a few things?" Zach asked, jumping topics as quickly as one might change tracks on an old fashioned CD player. No sooner had Zach made the offer though then did Gurin reappear, apparently having snuck off and retrieved part of the gravity chamber's mechanism. Granted it wasn't the whole thing but was one of the major operating components so for the time being Zach now had what he needed to put a chamber together back at the school. Catching the bauble, the blonde eyed the compact piece of machinery and then stuffed it into one of his pant pockets. "Well never mind that Ru, looks like I've got what I came for."

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Danger, now that was a word that Ru recognized. He took a quick look around and realized that everyone with the exception of Nam and Zach had disappeared from the lookout. Perhaps during their conversation they had slipped out...But danger...

It was then that Ritoru officially met Geurin. He swaggered in, patting the dust of the lookout off of his broad shoulders. His face reminded Ru of a monster. Not to say that Ru was afraid of him, but rather...disgusted. Not so simply because he was an alien, or different looking. But the sound of his voice, the look of his facial structure...and most importantly...the way he spoke to Nam. This guy was bad news.


Ritoru was now in the center of a triangle of adults. Mickey of course was his friend, and in any other situation he would choose him every day. But this blond man was...there were not words to explain the sensation Ru had towards him. He felt compelled to follow him, and yet the green man was very much the opposite, Ru didnt want anything to do with him, and so the decision would be difficult to make.

"I...I...um"

Ru was panicking, he had never had to make such a tough decision, and for a boy of only four this was a little overwhelming. He didnt want to leave Nam, but he had to know more about the man from his dream. His pain, and compassion, and deep blond hair. He had to know more.

But how could he make such a difficult choice on his own.

[Nam Reikonaga]

Oppose them? What nonsense had Geurin stuffed into this man’s head? Nam scowled, vituperated by Zach’s nonsensical claims. So many uncertainties, disinformation and misunderstandings made him feel like cringing and explode with fury. This whole situation, plus their previous encounters, their conversations lately –they could only truly be described as aberrant, abstruse gruel. The vestige of a fading friendship which he desperately tried to keep afloat but he couldn’t seem to change their vicissitude towards the occasion.

Speaking of the devil; here came the man himself without a care in the world. A pompous green man with elf-like ears and the smirk, which could only belong to a makaioshin, he tossed a small capsule at Zach. Nam only had but a glance of the object –but he knew what it was. The gravity machine was one of the many reasons why he chose the Lookout as their meeting place. He planned to train his new comrades with it, but they just lost it that very moment. Nam furrowed his eyebrows and glared at Geurin’s distasteful presence.

Every fiber of his body urged him to antagonize and apprehend the namekian with every step closer he took to the child. But he wasn’t a fool. Nam remained idle and vigilantly watched his every movement. Ritoru, on the other hand, was ostensibly becoming nervous within the triad surrounding him, each emitting a completely different vibe from the other, each with their own agendas and an internal and invisible struggle which he could not see but perhaps feel. Nam walked towards the troubled boy, keeping his eyes on Geurin and then crouched over to him.

“Don’t worry,” he said, selectively thinking over his words as he began to wean the child over to the shirtless man. He whispered soft, voluble and slowly in the child’s ear, “stick to Zach, you’ll be fine.” He smiled and embraced the child. “Remember what I told you…”

Nam stood back up, glared at Geurin, and then at Zach; each with a different expression, yet the same and similar meaning to it. Zach may have been delirious, but he was still his friend. And Geurin may have become an ambitious caudillo, but he was still his mentor –not him, but Tenshu, somewhere, wherever it is he lurks within those cold eyes. Come back! he thought.

The brunette saiyan turned and starting walking away. “I’ll be leaving now,” he said and glanced back one last time. “Ru, I promise I’ll play with you again sometime.”

With that said, given no interruptions were produced, he set his eyes towards his allies, whom were fighting for their lives this very moment.

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Nam and Ritoru lay on the tiled floors of the lookout, near the palm trees, almost asleep under the starry sky and the smiling moon above them. Nam was slowly closing his eyes, and although it felt like Ritoru was sleeping, he knew the boy was hearing him.

“Ru,” he started. “Don’t ever let anyone –not even me, tell you what’s right or wrong.”

“Only you know…”

[Zach]

Watching the boy and feeling the uneasy ebb and flow of his energy, although not fully comprehending the meaning, Zach could tell from his superficial observation that Rito was nervous now and having some difficulty leaving Nam. It didn't help that Nam was pouring on the big brother routine so thick that Zach thought he might spew. Why was Nam even still trying? Zach knew what he was now, Gurin certainly did, certainly he couldn't be keeping up the act just for the kid. What could he possibly hope to gain other ten making the boy feel even more conflicted and then later betrayed when he learns of the things that have gone on in the world before his birth, the things Nam has been responsible for. Nam even had the gall to promise to visit... Well Zach couldn't fault him for that one, if he hadn't they'd likely never get Rito to leave. Gurin didn't help matters when he maneuvered to put the boy into a triangle and then started laying on the creep factor. This was one time Zach would rather Kami had been around, at least he wouldn't scare the hell out of children, Gurin though in spite of his actions to protect the Earth looked like a shark when he smiled and just oozed vibes that screamed 'snake oil salesman,' but that was what politics did to people Zach guessed. The blonde could tell by Ru's reaction that the boy didn't much care for Gurin but that wouldn't be a problem, the Namekian had yet to even visit the school in it's four years of operation so Zach was fairly certain the boy wouldn't have to see the green man again for some time.

"Well, day light is wasting, I'm sure 'Mickey' has to catch up with his other friends and we have to get you home." Zach broke in, hoping to snap Rito out of his nervous non-response. He held out his hand to the boy and smiled. "You're going to have a good home with me Ru and 'Mickey...' Well we'll see him again, he keeps promising me that." Zach continued, turning his smile towards Nam. The other had promised at the end of their last meeting that they would meet again and likely on the field of battle. This wasn't exactly that meeting and both of them knew it, that historic day still had yet to come. This meeting was more of a proverbial slap in the face, Nam's team had been scattered to the wind without effort and they were leaving with the boy Nam had sought to use against them. Zach didn't particularly enjoy being such a snarky bastard about it but it was easy, oh so easy to taunt Nam with the knowing grin that he'd been bested. The blonde was sinking further away from the ideals he once held so high; honor and respect for one's opponent and was now drifting towards petty showmanship. Had the Zach of seven years prior been standing there he would have smacked the current Zach in the back of the head of acting like such a horse's ass. But that Zach was long gone, scarred by trauma after trauma and then slowly corrupted by the all consuming hatred he felt thanks to that trauma, a hatred that was slowly eating away at everything that made him Human.

[Geurin]

The moment their hands touched it would be as though a portal had sucked them through. The three GSF members would disappear in an instant, leaving no good bye, and certainly no room for Ru to change him mind. This was how it would have gone regardless of anyones action. Geurin would have his way, and so the three of them would instantly disappear.

For Zach this meant appearing at the steps of the victory school. For Ritoru and Geurin...they had some...unfinished business...

(Short sweet and to the gtfo of here I will take Zen)

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(Oh shit, you better check with Ritoru's other thread then. xD I want Zeni and everyone in KGSF wants Zeni too.)