need...help......(open)

[Ayame]

"Just be careful when you touch me, okay?"
Had Licander not been present, Toshiro would likely have made some retort about still knowing how to treat injuries "the normal way" and the standards to which he was held as a Captain. Instead, he just nodded rather curtly and remained silent as he cleaned the wound.

Suddenly, the light came back on. Toshiro blinked at the sudden onslaught of the artificial light, looking up at it in mild surprise. He let his little ball of spirit energy dissipate.
"Thanks...." he began, turning back to find Licander putting his hand to Vincent's forehead. At the same time, he noticed a pink color had taken to his cheeks. Did he have a fever?
"You heating up of something...?" he pulled away and turned back to the Captain, who had returned his attention to cleaning the wound on Vincent's arm. "...Should I get some kinda cloth, or what?"
"Mm, jus—Hey!"
Before Toshiro had had the chance to respond properly, Vincent had suddenly torn his arm away from him, covering his face with both hands and curling up a bit.
I'm f-fine. Just d-don't touch m-my face a-a-again." The boy's face was scarlet beneath his hands.
"What the hell?" Toshiro half-muttered to himself. What was it with this kid? Without further acknowledging Vincent's words, he took hold of his wrist, pulled it back firmly, and resumed his treatment. After a moment of silence (on his part, at least), he finally spoke again.
"I don't know what your problem is, Vincent," he stated coolly, "but don't do that. Your face is so flushed, we can only assume you have a rather high fever—a very real possibility if you really were fighting for three days straight. You're clearly exhausted, and there's a good chance that more than a few of your injuries are infected, from the look of things. Both of those factors can lead to serious, even life-threatening illness." he paused here, giving Vincent a frostily stern glare as he starting applying the bandage. "I know what I'm doing, and I'm fairly sure Licander-san does as well. You'll either take it, or go crawl off to the infirmary. Do I make myself clear?"
Without really waiting overlong for an answer, Toshiro addressed Licander again. "As I was saying, just get him a damp cloth, cold water. A hand towel should work."

[aqua]

He attemted to relax as his arm was being treated once more. He shut his eyes and exhaled. He mumbled words under her breath.

"I don't have a fever. Its a blushing."

He didn't feel like saying it out loud as his face may become a deeper color. He squirmed when Toshiro touched him close to his wrist. He relaxed again and was starting to drift to sleep.

[x_LiCANDER .]

<sub>//I'd just like to get one thing straight just so you people know. I'm not misspelling Toshiro’s name. Li just calls him ‘Yoshi’ in his mind. Yoshi like that guy from Mario. Haha…//

Licander couldn't help but roll his eyes when V pulled back his arm and stuttered out, I'm f-fine. Just d-don't touch m-my face a-a-again., curling up like some baby. Licander was beginning to get fed up with his childish behavior, and if V didn't get his act together sometime soon, then Li would have to do something about it. And he wasn't intending on being nice about it.

Yoshi's next statement put a smirk across Li's features, replacing the fraction of a scowl he held before. I don't know what your problem is, Vincent, but don't do that. Your face is so flushed, we can only assume you have a rather high fever—a very real possibility if you really were fighting for three days straight. You're clearly exhausted, and there's a good chance that more than a few of your injuries are infected, from the look of things. Both of those factors can lead to serious, even life-threatening illness. he paused, and Licander wondered if that was the end of his lecture. It wasn't. I know what I'm doing, and I'm fairly sure Licander-san does as well. You'll either take it, or go crawl off to the infirmary. Do I make myself clear? Licander arched his eyebrows. Licandersan?? Wow. He didn’t know if Yoshi was using one of those Japanese ending things, or if he just thought his name was spelt ‘Licandersan’. That would sound weird. Licandersan, Licandersan, Licandersan…

As I was saying, just get him a damp cloth, cold water. A hand towel should work. Li looked to Yoshi, then nodded. He stood and proceeded to the bathroom, where he scrounged the bathroom for a hand towel. Searching in a cupboard, he found what he was looking for. He soaked it in the sink, rung it out. When he looked up, he saw his reflection in the clean mirror in front of him. He couldn’t help but notice how tired he looked. There were dark shadows under his eyes, and he looked slightly gaunt, like he hadn’t eaten in quite some time. He knew he should be taking better care of himself, but he was far from perfect; something these last few days had been keeping him from having a decent appetite. Was it uncertainty? Was he beginning to doubt himself in this mission? Surely it should be getting to him like this. So what was causing him to be like this?

He studied himself for a little longer, then closed his eyes and turned away, flicking off the light and returning to Yoshi and V. He’d missed V’s whisper, and had he been there, he would’ve heard it, given his keen hearing. Here, he said lowly, handing the cold, damp cloth to Yoshi.</sub>

[Ayame]

//OOC| Yeah, I'd noticed that. XD Quite entertaining to read, by the way. XDD
Sorry this is so completely, totally horrible and short, I cannot think of anything for him to do except what he's been doing.... Maybe we should just end the thread here and move on with the general subject in another thread somewhere...? \\

The boy had mumbled something, but Toshiro could not make out his words. Deciding it must either have been an affirmative or not all that important, he ignored it and finished cleaning the wound, moving on to bandaging it. Just he was finishing with that, Licander returned with the cloth. He responded with a distracted nod of the head, placing the cool, damp towel on Vincent's forehead wordlessly and moving on to treat a scrape across his calf that was still bleeding rather freely.

The kid really was in horrible shape, and his story had been less than illuminating. Given he was supposed to be keeping an eye on him, Toshiro couldn't help but think this was all his fault; or perhaps his and Kaite's. He should've gone looking for him when he'd noticed he was missing. It couldn't have been a Hollow he'd been fighting—both Captain and Lieutenant would have sensed that, without a doubt—but even so, he should have guessed it was Vincent's beast rage that was the source of the strange spirit pressure that had assaulted his senses over the last few days. Hell, with hindsight, it seemed completely obvious. Toshiro cursed himself mentally. Why hadn't he realized it?

[aqua]

He was almost asleep when something cold came in contact with his forehead. His body jumped from the tempature change, but didn't react any further. He kept his eyes shut while he spoke softly.

"Toshiro, do you remember what I told you earlier?"

He was trying to remember what happened other then his beast rage. He purred very quietly in the back of his throat when toshiro started cleaning a cut on his calf. He wasn't aware he was doing that as he waited for an answer.

[Ayame]

//OOC| Okay, since I have about two sentences to work off of, please excuse the badness of this reply.... \\

"Toshiro, do you remember what I told you earlier?"

Toshiro glanced up at Vincent as he cleaned the scrape. One thing was for sure—the boy had definitely been outside, all that dirt in the wound.
"About what you were doing? Yes, why?" he replied without any particular inflection.

Wait a second. What was that noise? It was awfully quite.... He looked up again, staring at Vincent oddly. Was he purring? No, that couldn't be it—he might meow, but surely he didn't purr.... Shaking his head briefly as if to shake loose the very thought, he returned to his work without comment.

[aqua]

The purr became louder, but was broken for a moment.

"I can't really remember. It's all fuzzy, like I wasn't even awake."

He was completely relaxed from head to toe. He still didn't realize he was purring.he was trying to focus on remembering what he had said. His hand moved to his ear and scrached it.

"I think I said something that started with R."

He opened his eyes and thought even deeper on the matter, making them turn a dark green. His ears twitched as the purr became louder still.

[Ayame]

Okay, what the hell was with that noise? It had gotten louder now, and Toshiro was hard pressed to ignore it. Then it stopped when Vincent spoke.

"I can't really remember. It's all fuzzy, like I wasn't even awake."

Toshiro nodded shortly, not looking up. "A common side-effect of passing out," he intoned, knowing all too well what he meant by "fuzzy." How many times had he personally experienced that sensation? Perhaps not countless, but definitely more than a few. And that damn sound was going again—geeze, that was starting to annoy him....

"I think I said something that started with 'R'."

It was getting louder again. And it had stopped for the kid, yet again. Finally pushed to his limit by the annoying—and somewhat creepy—noise, he replied with irritation.
"The word was 'rape', whatever the hell that is. And what is that... purring noise?!" With this last, he ceased treatment altogether and looked up and around at Vincent with a seriously irked expression.

[aqua]

His eyes turned pink for a moment as he seased the purring. His hands jolted up to his lips.

"Sorry about that. My skin's really sensative and I don't realize my actions sometimes."

The pink subsided back to green again as he was told the word he said. His eyes got big and almost white. A shiver shot through his whole body at the memory.

"Rape is a crime that is forced..........s......I can't say it."

He shut his eyes as his body tensed.he wanted to curl his body up, but controled the urge to. He was still in a deep scare as he laid there.

[x_LiCANDER .]

<sub>Licander took a moment to consider going back to his bed after Yoshi took the cloth, but thought better of it. He instead took seating at the foot of V's bed, once again. He turned to face the two, cross-legged. Normally he would have just taken off, but he figured Yoshi might need some help sooner or later. With what, he was unaware of, but hey, why not. He had nothing to say, so he remained silent, listening to their talking. Not intensely, mind you - he didn't have much interest in their conversations, but it's not like there was anything else to listen to.

As they were chatting about something of the past, Licander noticed that there was purring in the vicinity. At first he assumed there was a cat somewhere, when he remembered that he would have smelt it sooner, and that V had entered the room as one. So V was purring. Well, at least that was a better sign then him shrieking in pain or something annoying like that. The sound would probably be soothing, had he been sleepy. But at this point, Licander had woken up considerably, shoving away any possibilities of sleeping later. Dammit. Without any particular hand movement, just a glance to the general area, a shadow slinked across the more shady areas of the room, then made it's way to the refrigerator. Don't ask how, but it fetched him a green Monster energy drink, then brought it over to him. Li leaned over the bed side, taking the cool can into his hands from an almost transparent shadow under the bed. Sitting upright, he made himself comfortable once again.

I think I said something that started with 'R'. was what he heard V say, but only because Li began focusing on the moment, rather than the energy drink. He cracked open the can and took a large gulp of the delicious liquid. The cool, caffeinated, carbonated drink felt good going down his throat. Yum.

The word was 'rape', whatever the hell that is. And what is that... purring noise?! Licander raised his perfectly shaped eyebrows, staring at the two. Why were they talking about rape? Licander's gaze looked from Yoshi to V, alight confusion readable in his eyes. Yoshi seemed to be pretty pissed, and he stopped tending V's wounds. What was wrong with them all the sudden...?

Sorry about that. My skin's really sensitive and I don't realize my actions sometimes. V's purring stopped, his voice sounding apologetic. Is that what Yoshi was getting all worked up about? Simple purring? You've got to be kidding me... thought Licander, rolling his eyes before taking another drink of his Monster. V continued. Rape is a crime that is forced..........s......I can't say it. Licander fought back laughter. Like it was such a hard thing to say. Sure rape wasn't a good thing, but seriously. It happens everywhere. Looking to V, he noticed his closed eyes and the air of fear that seemed to be about him.

Li sighed dramatically. Rape is forced sex. Happens all the time. Usually breaks down someone's spirit, too. Sometimes ends up in suicide. Not a pretty sight, but like everything else, it happens all the time... Not sure why people do it, though. I think it's supposed to be something to show their dominance. Or maybe just 'cause they can't get laid any other way. he said with a shrug, his tone light, casual, as though talking about rape was as simple as a walk in the park. He knew well that it wasn't just he'd heard about it so much that it was no longer such a big shock. He'd had to kill a lot of people for such a crime. He'd once walked into a house on a mission to kill a guy who'd done such a thing, and he'd been raping some teenager at that very moment. After killing him, he had no other choice but to kill her too, as she was a witness - a threat. He felt kinda bad, but she would have been scarred by the memory of being raped by some burly man anyway.</sub>

[Ayame]

//OOC| Since I've decided characters that have english as a second language revert to their native one (to some degree, anyway) when unnerved:
"Sou ka?" = "Really?" or "I see." \\

"Sorry about that. My skin's really sensitive and I don't realize my actions sometimes."
So Vincent was purring. With an irate sigh, he returned to his work. The scrape was ready for bandaging.

"Rape is a crime that is forced.......... S—...... I can't say it."
Okay, works for him. It wasn't like he'd asked, and if it was a crime, it obviously wasn't that important if he didn't already know about it. It was probably a human thing, anyway.

It was then that Licander gave a dramatic sigh, drawing Toshiro's attention. What he had to say had the young Captain's eyebrow twitching as he fought to keep his composure.
"Rape is forced sex. Happens all the time. Usually breaks down someone's spirit, too. Sometimes ends up in suicide. Not a pretty sight, but like everything else, it happens all the time... Not sure why people do it, though. I think it's supposed to be something to show their dominance. Or maybe just 'cause they can't get laid any other way."

"O—oh...." He really, really hadn't wanted to know that. Although, knowing some of the drunkard criminals in Squad 11 who probably spent more time in prison than they did running wild, it wasn't a humans-only issue after all....
Damn it all, he hadn't been this uncomfortable in a conversation since Kyoraku and Ukitake had decided to try and give him "the talk." On that occasion, he'd been so quick to flee when he'd realized what they were getting at, no-one had seen hide nor hair of him for a week and Rangiku had complained for days about all the paperwork.
Toshiro cleared his throat, shook his head quickly, and resumed his work. Working to keep his voice level, he continued, "Sou ka? Alright, then.... That's positively disgusting...." He cleared his throat again, and thought furiously about how best to change the subject and coming up blank.

Damn all touchy subjects to hell....

[x_LiCANDER .]

<sub>O—oh.... was the first noise coming out of Yoshi, making Li smile and take another drink of his Monster. This was slightly amusing - but still worth watching. After a pause, Yoshi continued. Sou ka? Alright, then.... That's positively disgusting.... Licander grinned, clearly enjoying the discomfort that seemed to radiate off of Yoshi. He didn't bother looking to V to see his reaction, if any. Licander decided to try and see how much he could escalate the uncomfortable-ness of this conversation. He took on another casual look, though the slight smirk displayed on his features was almost visible.

He looked to Yoshi so he would know who he was talking to when he said the little nickname he had come up with. Yoshi, you seem... uncomfortable. Why is that? He paused for effect, but not for long. You haven't been raped before or anything, have you? he asked, trying to sound serious but not with much success. It wasn't as if he was trying hard or anything. He spoke once again so that Yoshi couldn't intervene. Oh, he was good. Turning his body away slightly, he rolled his eyes. It's okay, I understand. I'll be quiet now. No need in embarrassing you further. Wouldn't want this conversation getting any more uncomfortable than it already is for you. Then Li looked at Yoshi, a "caring" look on his face. I know this topic might be hard for you, but we all have skeletons in our closets... he said, fwapping his hand at Yoshi nonchalantly.</sub>

[Ayame]

Toshiro went ridged. Had Licander just done that, or not?
First, he uses some absurd nickname. Being called by his given name was bad enough, but Yoshi?! YOSHI?!?!
Then he actually asks if he's ever been in such a situation. Uhh?? Granted, Toshiro was quite uncomfortable with the situation, but that was no excuse to just assume—!!
And then there was that tone. He was getting fun out of this! Toshiro had half a mind to hit him with a hado or two, or at least bind him and hand him some sound torture. At the very least, he could freeze the boy solid.

Forcing himself to resist the temptation, he rounded on Licander with an expression that suggested the other boy had spontaneously grown at least eight extra heads.
"Where the HELL did that come from?!" he shouted with incredulity, completely forgetting that Vincent was even there. "No, I most certainly have not been—! They couldn't track me down for a week when they tried to tell me about—!! It's not like I come from some place where they tell... people my age... something like that, why the hell wouldn't I be nervous?! ....And just where do you get off calling me 'YOSHI'?! My name is Toshiro Hitsugaya, C—I mean, Toshiro Hitsugaya! As if 'Shiro-chan' weren't bad enough, now I'm being called 'YOSHI'?!"
Oh, how much more he could have added to that.... His rank, for instance, his real age, the fact that if he were like some of his comrades he'd have killed Licander on the spot for that....
Toshiro just stared at the boy opposite him, neglecting the bloodied boy.

[aqua]

His eyes shot open when Licander bluntly stated what rape was. He shaking worsen as he went on. He looked to Toshiro with eyes that said 'make him stop'. He gripped at the sheets as Licander called Toshiro yoshi and asking him if it had happened to him. Toshiro started yelling, causing him to get scared even further. He curled up some and placed his hands over his pinned ears. His eyes shot to Licander as his eyes went crimson and fangs going past his lower lip.

"Stop it.......stop it now.."

His voice changed to a growl as he kept talking. His thin and almost broken body started to gain muscle structure. He was growling loudly, being very close to taking his beast rage again.

[Ayame]

//OOC| Once again, I know it's sort of power-playing—which is why I try to avoid bakudo altogether on any RP site, Bleach-based or not—but this is exactly what Toshiro would do. Please let me know if this crosses the line somehow. \\

"Stop it.... Stop it now."

"Huh?"
Suddenly, Toshiro was very aware of Vincent's presence once again, as he was growling as he spoke. Vincent's eyes, he saw as he looked around at him, had gone scarlet and he suddenly had quite large, vampiric fangs. The boy's weak body started to ripple with muscles, and his spirit pressure was rising—edging toward that strange, malevolent texture....
There was only one thing that could mean. Which left one choice and one choice only, as Vincent could not be permitted to enter his beast rage. Toshiro would have to bind him and hope that could prevent it. With a wave of his right hand in Vincent's direction, he stated with resignation:
"Bakudo Number Nine—Geki."
With that intonation, Vincent was engulfed in a ruddy light and paralyzed where he lay.
"Sorry, Vincent, but it's for your own good," he added to the boy on the bed, knowing he could hear but not reply.