Wish (open)

[Kurosaki]

It seemed that his threat had worked. The braver thug seemed to realize that he was dealing with someone that had the advantage at the moment. However, he seemed still arrogant. He told Jin that they had planned for Sarah to end up at the auction house. Jin's eyes narrowed as he thought of the Celestial Dragons. Their imposing images popped into his head and loamed over him momentarily. The revolver shook for a moment but he remained locked on his target.

Sarah was the one that spoke up first against them, telling them that they should tell their boss to leave her alone. However, her sentence was cut off as a shot rang out.

Jin turned to see that Sarah was froozen. He could tell, however, that she hadn't been shot.

"Sarah...?" Jin questioned in a worried tone of voice. He then turned his head to listen in on the two men talking to one another about how Sarah was afraid of gunshots. He looked down at his own revolver. She hadn't said anything about that to him. For a moment he felt guilty.

"Even so, you aren't going anywhere with her," Jin said confidently. Now that he felt more alone, his focus on his aim would also be much better. When he had eyes on him, Jin wasn't as good at shooting. "Lock on!"

The two men blinked.

Jin opened fire on the two men, firing two times. The cowardly one went down. His gun had been knocked out of his hands and sent flying with one bullet and the second bullet had pierced through his right hand stopping him from retrieving it.

"You'll have to wear gloves to cover up the scar that that'll make there. But there are some really fashionable ones for sale in Sabaody!" Jin said with a smirk.

[Bear Etelka (Sarah)]

The cowardly guy yelped and looked at the braver guy" i..I told you beofre..this was a bad idea..this was a very bad idea!" he was panicking and holding his shot hand, his face showing both fear and pain. He got up to his feet and ran. "I'm getting out of here before he kills us!!! I'm out of here now!"

"Coward!" the braver one growled, but he looked back at jin, then back where his comrade had run. he snarled and then soon followed after his friend, running after him.

"y...You two will pay for this! One day you will pay!" He yelled at Sarah and Jin over his shoulder in an attempt to sound tough. "mark my words!!!"

After a short while, the two goons were completely out of sight. The streets going quiet again except for the sound of people shopping about and talking. but nothing out of the ordinary anymore.

Sarah finally snapped out of her little Daze, her tail still dragging against the ground a bit. She shook her head and looked around a bit. taking a deep breath with her cute little fluffy ears back against her head. Before she fell back onto her bottom, her legs feeling rather weak.

"s..Sorry about that..I.. I freeze up a...around the s...sound of gunshots I..I haven't figured out why.." her ears twitched up slightly. She looked around a little bit "h..hey...where did those two..i..idiot goons go?"she seemed too not be zoned in when they had run off. She was still stammering from being scared. She wasn't afraid anymore, but the stammering was just an after effect that stayed for a small while.

She smiled" thank you so much J..Jin..heh..n..now you see what I meant earlier when I said I was a danger magnet"she rubbed the back of her head a bit sweat dropping "I..I'm rather sorry If I caused too much trouble heh..." I wish those goons would stop coming after me, Ive been dealing with jerks like those two all day today...oh..and a lion faced jerk who smelled like garbage, zombies, and blood" she let out a small grumbling noise.

"b..but before those jerks showed up..we were ganna look for my captain right...lets go see if we can find her!"

[Kurosaki]

The cowardly one that Jin had managed to shoot in the hand seemed to have had enough. The last attack, one that had left him quite crippled as far as holding a weapon went, was the icing on the cake for him. He was fearful and in pain and took off like a shot screaming about leaving before Jin killed them both. The fashion adviser smirked.

Though the brave one taunted him, he seemed to realize he had no chance either for he took off running after his his "coward" of a friend. However, he was still strong enough to shout useless threats back at Jin and Sarah that they would pay someday.

"Sure, okay," Jin said, waving a hand dismissfully and rolling his eyes. He blew on his revolver a little at the end that the bullet had exited from and then placed it back in his shoe where he was keeping it for the moment.

Jin watched after the two men until he could no longer see them anymore. With a good eye, he was able to be positive that they had no intentions of sneaking back to confront them. At least not yet.

"Aw, Sarah-chan, are you alright?" Jin questioned with a look of utter shock to see her fall over. He was there next to her quickly with one arm stretched down to offer his hand to help her up. He listened to her apologize and shook his head.

"They... were late for a fitting I think," Jin said with a smile and laughed when Sarah told him that he could probably understand now why she had called herself a danger magnet earlier. "Well, you do have a tendency to get yourself in hot water, Sarah-chan!"

Sarah mentioned some stinky guy that smelled like zombies also being a pain that day. Jin raised an eyebrow and wondered what that was all about. He didn't have time to question it though since Sarah then said that they should find her captain.

"Okay! It will be an honor to meet this woman," Jin said enthusiastically. He tried to picture what he thought she would look like and came up with an image of a powerful woman with an hourglass figure and cute fashion with mostly pinks. Aw, how wonderful a Captain would she be?

"Sarah, what's the Captain like?" he questioned curiously.

[Bear Etelka (Sarah)]

Sarah smiled and took Jin's hand , accepting his offer to help her up. "heh, I guess jerks like to pick on me cause I look like weak, defenseless little girl at times, heh" she rubbed the back of her head. of course seeing Sarah fight before, the "weak defenseless little girl' wasn't always the case.

She listened to Jin ask what her captain was like, and Sarah let out a little smile and sweat dropped a little bit. "well, shes definitely different" she laughed a little bit "but shes a really good friend, and shes pretty distinctive by her looks, heh,,once you meet you would be able to pick her out in a crowd easy" She chuckled a little bit.

Mitch had finally flown back and landed on Sarah's shoulder with aloud chirp, ruffling his feathers up. IT interrupted Sarah's description of Lola. the girl giggled a little bit and patted the bird on the head.

"well there you are little buddy, ya know you really shouldn't fly off like that, you missed a whole lot" the girl explained to the parrot and the bird gave a weird look.

"chi chicih? xhi xhi chichi chi?" he tilted his head
(Translation: I did?, what did I miss?)

The Raccoon girl sighed and just rubbed the parrots feathery head" its noting for you to worry about Mitch, its all over.. Jin helped me"

Mitch then looked over at jin as soon as she said that, the birds eyes narrowing but turned away and ruffled up his feathers again" chi chi.." it seemed to huff.

Sarah smiled" hey Jin.. Mitch says Thank you.. though hes being a grumpy butt right now, hes a protective little thing" she grinned and d scratched Mitch's chest.

"now where was I..heh..oh yeah! describing Captain Lola!" she squeaked a little bit "Heh..WEl.. I guess more I can say about her is shes really loyal to her nakama, I mean, me and her had only met earlier and she still was being protective of me.." she smiled in a sweet way.
" oh! and shes very confedent..heh..very..very...confedent" she sweat dropped at those words, remembering the times Lola had asked some guy to marry her even in the short time the girl had known her so far. it made Sarah let out a little chuckle, and her fluffy ears flicker up.

"but, shes a great Captain! and a really great person!" she wagged her big fluffy tail and grinned" and..thats about all I can really say I gues..youll just have to meet her yourself"

[Kurosaki]

Jin helped Sarah to her feet with a smile. She explained that the jerks from earlier and other ones tended to pick on her because she appeared weak. Knowing what she was like though, Jin raised an eyebrow. It certaintly wasn't true at all. Sarah was a very capable person that could clearly defend herself.

After listening to his question, Sarah began to describe her captain a little bit. Apparently she was different acting and looking but a good friend. When Sarah explained that you could spot her in a crowd easily, Jin wondered why that would be. He guessed that he shouldn't try to picture what she looked like.

Sarah's parrot from before came to sit on her shoulder, chirping loudly and looking irritated. When Sarah began to talk to the bird, Jin just uncomfortably listened and wondered why the bird ended up glaring at him and huffing.

"Wow, Mitch, you have a really nice color, all the girl parrots must love that!" Jin said with a thumbs up, trying nervously to get on the bird's good side if that was possible. He wasn't sure if that had helped him at all but it was worth a shot.

Sarah realized that she hadn't finished up what she had said and finished describing the Captain. She was loyal, confident, and all around a good person. Jin felt all the more relieved and felt that he was making the right decision today.

"Let's go meet her then!" Jin said optimistically before looking into the ruined shop. A flicker of sadness flashed across his face as he saw his mom inside picking up what she could on her own and wiping her face on her sleeves every once in a while. People were starting to crowd around the shop though now wanting to know what had happened. It wasn't often that something like the destruction happened on Sabaody in the good Archipelago's.

"We should probably hit the road before we get asked a million questions about what happened..." Jin started to walk off calmly. No one really seemed to pay them much attention just yet.

[Bear Etelka (Sarah)]

Mitch made a weird little Squeaking noise when Jin complemented him and tilted his head to the side a bit, ruffling his heathers up a little bit before looking to Sarah and making little chirping noises lowly to tell her something.

The girl giggled some " Mitch kinda said thank you for the complement, it surprised him a little bit I guess" she laughed and rubbed the back of her head.

" yeah.. I hope we find her soon, I forgot where she told me she would be, and I really hope shes not on her ship...if she is I'm going to get mega lost cause I completely forgot where that is.." she blinked" corse... I have terrible sense of direction to begin with SOOOO thats nothing new really" she shrugged

"Chixhi chichi chi xhihi xhhixih" Mitch seemed to chirp to Sarah, his beak pointing up wards a little bit.

"Hm?" Sarah looked up" waht?...what are you trying to point at Mitch.. I don't see anything up there" the girl gave a very confused look" what do you mean look up there."

"Chi! xhixhi chichi hichic!!" The Bird squawked.

She sighed" Mitch..your just being silly, there nothing up there in the sky, trust me, its okay...amybe you just saw another bird, that would be normal right?"

"chichi xhi" the bird closed his eyes.

"See, you don't have anything to worry about" she patted his head" it will be okay!"

[Kurosaki]

When Jin was thanked for the compliment he smiled in turn. He had managed to pull off getting on the bird's side with some flattery. It was true but convenient that Jin had been able to say what he had. Sarah then explained about her captain. Hopefully she wouldn't be on the ship because Sarah didn't know where it was. Also, she didn't remember where they were supposed to meet up. Sabaody was a big place too...

Jin was just wondering how they were ever going to find one person in the biggest place he knew of when Mitch began to chirp loudly while looking upward at the sky. Sarah managed to calm him down saying it was probably nothing more than a bird.

Looking up at first Jin saw nothing at all. Until something caught his eye. It was just a flash but he thought that he saw someone go by in the air just near where the bubbles were beginning to pass through the canopy. It looked like someone or something was flying around up there. What was it?

"Huh? I saw something too... Let's go check it out!" suggested Jin, intrigued that they could be onto something mysterious. He wasn't all that curious of a person but that didn't mean he avoided things either. Motioning for Sarah he ran off after the thing he had seen above, not sure exactly where it was headed but going that way anyways.

(Idk what to write about... T__T Maybe someone is on the bubbles? O__o)

[Bear Etelka (Sarah)]

The Raccoon girl made a loud squeaky noise and she followed after Jin with a slightly confused look on her face. She kept looking up at the sky, desperately trying to see what Mitch and Jin were seeing, but she could not. She frowned a little bit, her ears falling back a bit.

"I didn't see anything.." she squeaked some, her ears twitching up gently. " I wonder what you guys saw" she tilted her head some and Kept up with jin to the best of her abilities, continuously looking around to see if she could spot anything that might of just been in the sky.

Sarah then saw one of the bubbles float in front of her, then another, then another. She got a goofy cute grin on her face and started swatting at the bubbles. She started playing with them, trying to pop all the ones that came near her with a happy little laugh, her ears and tail twitching wildly.

She was just following animalistic urge to try and pop all the floating things in front of her. Kinda like a puppy when you blow bubbles into the air and it runs around to pop them with its teeth. But Sarah was just catching them in her hands and laughing happily.

"Wow...I didn't know that someone with animal features had the urge to play like an animal too?" a voice from above said, obviously curious yo why there was so much laughing and giggling at a little cloud of bubbles. someone was sitting atop those bubbles. "though I mist say its awfully adorable"

Sarah blinked and stopped her bubble chasing as soon as she herd the voice.. only swatting at a few more bubbles that came close to he.r and making one land on her nose and balance there.

[Kurosaki]

Jin tried to figure out what was above him but lost track of the figure he had been so certain he had seen. Now that it wasn't visible to him he began to doubt whether or not he had really seen anything at all. Had it been simply a mirage? A distraction he had cooked up to forget that he was changing something drastically in his life today? No, but Mitch had seen whatever it was as well. Jin was absolutely positive about this.

Jin slowed and turned, hearing Sarah voice her unsuredness about what her friends had seen. Stuffing his hands in his pockets and looking upward, the fashionable young adult wondered himself what it was.

"I don't know but I lost track of it..." he admitted with a sigh before giving up interest. He instead began to chuckle as Sarah began to play with the bubbles that were in front of her, swatting and swiping at them to make them pop. Though Jin wasn't a person to easily show his emotions, he did with Sarah.

After a moment of his friend and new Nakama playing, someone said something from above them. Immediately Jin drew out his revolver and pointed it at the man. He was sitting on top of the bubbles commenting on how adorable Sarah was. Jin's hand wavered for a moment since he was only pointing his gun at the guy because he had startled him but instead of putting it away, the revolver remained trained on the thin black haired man. He looked a bit shifty to Jin since he was wearing all black and had his eyes were a bit too wide and smile too big.

"It's not very polite to sneak up on people. Especially from above," Jin commented, folding his arms across his chest after putting the revolver away after a moment's thought.

"Ahh, yes. But it's not as fun either! Varavaravara!"

Jin reached out and popped the bubble with his index finger, causing the guy to fall ungracefully to the ground with a solid 'thud'.

[Bear Etelka (Sarah)]

Sarah yelped and went over to see if the person was okay, helping his up "umm..sir..are you okay?" she asked concerned. "heh..that was a pretty hard fall, heh.. my friend here didn't mean to burst your bubble..heh..pun intended there"

She then seemed to blush a little bit" aww..that was a horrible joke.. I'm sorry.." she looked at Gin and sweat dropped" that was a terrible corny joke wasn't it? I'm terrible at making jokes.. I think.." she sweat dropped

The man laughed as Sarah helped him up "Gosh you act adorable.." he commented, talking about how Sarah went all spazzy about making a corny joke. He reached out and patted Sarah on the head, making her raccoon ears twitch, he seemed to yelp some" my.. I don't know your ears were actually real and..OUCH!"

The man quickly pulled his hand back when Mitch bit onto his arm with his sharp beak and hissed at the weird bubble man. it was for certain that the parrot did not like the stranger patting Sarah on the head, and in truth, Sarah didn't like the stranger patting her head either.

Sarah thought it right to apologize to the man anyway "heh..sorry sir..Mitch is very protective over me..so hes going to be a bit snippy" she rubbed the back of her head" and yes.. my ears and tail are both real..." she made her ears and tail both flicker. to prove it.

[Kurosaki]

When Sarah rushed over to the man Jin just wondered what this guy was doing spying on them from above. Had he just happened to see them happening to see him? Or had he been spying on them the whole time? When Sarah said that Jin hadn't meant to burst the guys bubble it caused Jin to laugh out loud. He had to literally wipe tears away from his eyes because it got to him so badly. Maybe it was the cute innocent way she had said it or that he had just been in the right mood but Jin had a hard time calming himself back down.

When Sarah said that it was a horrible joke, Jin shook his head and chuckled. "Nah, I liked it," he responded which caused the man on the ground to look sideways at him though he laughed his strange laugh as Sarah helped him up to his feet. He even called Sarah adorable and patted her on the head! Wasn't he getting too familiar a little too quick?

Jin laughed though when Mitch bit down on him. That parrot was one angry little fellow but this time he seemed to not be overreacting too badly. Jin would have applauded the bird's reaction if he felt that he could have without maybe making Sarah more upset.

"So, what were you doing exactly up on those bubbles?" Jin questioned. It wasn't weird to use the bubbles on Sabaody for something like the bubble bikes but to sneak around on them? It was weird.

"Why, getting a new perspective on life, of course! Varavara!"

Jin raised an eyebrow. What kinda loon were they dealing with here?

(Should he just be some wacko or turn out to be a friend in need of help with something? Or... Idk! =) Something interesting! XD)

[Bear Etelka (Sarah)]

( XD I think it should be some strange guy wanting there help XD)

Sarah sweat dropped a little bit "Heh...well..that's ..I guess..I guess that makes sense... I think.." she knew that the person sounded kinda crazy, but the last thing the young tanuki girl wanted was to sound rude to this newcomer.

Mitch seemed to make a little huff like noise and was just staring at this strange guy, raising one of his feathery brows and just staring at him "chichi chi xhi xhi chichi.." he told Sarah

Sarah yelped some "m..Mitch that's rude to say!" she yelped to her parrot friend " you don't call someone something like that..coarse... he cant understand what your saying.. I can..but I don't think he can..but still, that wasn't nice my feathered friend"

"chichi chi? "he said to her quietly.

Sarah sweat dropped and whispered t o her parrot so only he, and maybe jin could hear, but the strange guy could not" oaky.yes I agree this guys a little crazy but its still not nice to say it" she sweat dropped.

The guy smiled some" well..there's actually another reason why I was floating on the bubbles above you before you burst them..umm.." he started twiddling his thumbs" I actually watched you two.. fighting earlier..and I was wondering.. if I could get your assistance in ..something.."

"Assistance in something?.." Sarah repeated" in what?" she asked in a confused way, her head tilted to the side. she didn't know if she could help, the young girl really wanted too if the man needed help, but she wasn't sure f she could, after all the fighting today, and the running around, and the excitement, she was lucky to be walking around right now, let alone help fight or something else.

[Kurosaki]

Jin snickered some as he overheard Sarah and Mitch's conversation. Really he had no idea what the parrot was saying but whatever it was had to have applied to the crazy bubble man.

The mysterious bubble man didn't seem to take the insults, probably cause he couldn't understand them at all, badly. Instead he simple smiled and then began to say that there was another reason why he was above them riding on the bubbles. Apparently, when he came out and just said it, he had seen them fight before and was wanting their help to do something.

Sarah was the first to ask what it was that he needed help with. Jin wasn't about to volunteer either unless he knew what he was getting them both into first. Right now they had just been through a lot. Sarah had been through an ordeal all day long and Jin was starting his life completely over after witnessing the store he had worked in all of his life go down in flames. Yeah, it had been a long day.

"Well, you see..." the man started, a more serious look forming on his face. "My sister went into the bad parts of Sabaody looking for our father. He's been missing for a few weeks and the last we heard he was involved with some pretty bad guys. Well, I tried to stop her today but she wouldn't listen to me. Now I'm afraid that something terrible happened to her!"

"Just what sort of brother are you to let your sister wander into the bad archipelago without going with her?" Jin commented, with a raised brow.

"Well... She sort of got all the strengh in our family..." said the bubble man with a look that said there was more to the story. He fished into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper with a drawing on it and showed it to Sarah and Jin. "This is my sister."

"SERIOUSLY?!?!" Jin practically screamed upon seeing the picture. The woman looked more like a fat man than anything.

"Well, now I need your help. Even though she's strong I'm afraid some harm might have come to her. I'll pay you if you need! Anything! Anything just to get her back home safe!"

[Bear Etelka (Sarah)]

Sarah let out a little yelp at seeing the picture, and her ears flickered flat against her head" umm..oh my..uhh...shes..uhhh..." the raccoon girl was trying not to say anything that might be rude. "shes very.. unique" She didn't want to insult this man, or his sister. so she just shut her mouth, afraid to blab something out.

"T..The bad side ..of the archipelago..." The girl looked in the direction. Her fluffy ears fell back again. She remembered being there earlier. She seemed to let out a very small growl. All the things like the Slave trading, and the mysterious goings on made her angry. She seemed to growl a bit more the more she thought. and her tail fur puffed out a bit.

" WE WILL HELP!" she yelped out finally. Sarah couldn't let anything happen to anyone Innocent, epically from what almost happened her her while she was here." Or..AtleastI will help.. Jin..are you with me too?" she asked, her tail twitching a little bit. before she looked back at the Bubble Man.

"Sir... I will help find your sister for you..." she nodded a little bit, smiling a little bit. " WE will make sure shes safe alright! don't you worry about it!" the girl grinned. She forgot about how tired she really was. If she remembered she might of not been so quick to say that she would help. But she couldn't let anything happen to this girl, she couldn't live with her contentious if she just walked away.

[Kurosaki]

Sarah's tail seemed to puff and then she suddenly yelled out that the would help. Jin's eyes widened. Wow, it certaintly hadn't taken her long to make a decision and include him in it as well. Seeming to reflect on what she had said, this time she asked Jin if was with her.

"Haha, of course; Sarah-chan," Jin replied with a nod of his head as he placed his hands into his pockets. Jin watched as Sarah took charge and told the mysterious bubble man that they were on the case. They would find his sister no problem.

"So, when we get your sister back, where should we meet you um... Aniki?" started Jin, not sure what to call the bubble man without directly calling him that and in the process insulting him or something.

"Ah! You may call me Bashanhavothjair! Varavaravara!"

"That's too long of a name!" shouted Jin, clearly taken by surprise that anyone would have that long of a name, let alone say the entire thing casually as though expecting the other person to know how to say it back. "I'll just call you Bashan..." Jin looked away from him as though aggitated.

"You and Sarah may meet me right here in this spot. I shall wait faithfully for you to return! See you if you come back!" Bashan-Aniki was already retreating.

"OI, WAIT YOU! What do you mean IF!?"