Seijin no Hi

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden was a lot less fidgety in his silk formal kimono than he was in regular suits. He liked the fact it was handmade to fit Aiden's 6'3" frame. His grandmother had spared no expense in having the colorful kimono made. The heavy silken wear felt right to the Mojoworlder. And it was not trying to choke him. He started to think he should wear one to all formal events.

He had attended the ceremony at the city hall and had made it to the ceremony at the temple his family went to for holidays. He wasn't sure where he was going next. There were events all over to attend. Though he was not going to get drunk again. His grandmother had drunk him under the table. It was a little embarrassing. Even if his grandma was a mysterious ninja clan leader.

Currently, Aiden was looking for either his family or Angel after getting pulled aside for a string of photos with other young Japanese ladies in their finest. The gaijin-looking guy celebrating seemed to be a big draw.

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[ngm_mojoverse]

Of course Aiden was a big draw. Look at him, the stunning, tall blonde Romeo with his bright eyes and his even brighter smile. But Hikaru was there as well, dressed in a bright coloured furisode which she had designed herself just for this occasion. Many of the girls had their hair up in elaborate styles and everything. Not so for Hikaru. She didn't need the extra help - she was stunning just as she was. Granted, she had opted against the traditional zori. A pair of open-toed stiletto-heeled pumps suited her just fine.

She approached Aiden with a shy, demure smile, a mad glint of hope in her eyes.

Using her powers, she gently nudged girls this way and that until she was directly behind him.

Hikaru tapped him on the shoulder. "May I have the honour of having my photograph taken with you?"

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden jumped at the sudden sound of a familiar voice behind him. It wasn't the Southern drawl he was looking for. He turned around and blinked. His eyes widened slightly. Then he grinned.

"Hikaru-san! I didn't know you were from this part of Japan." He did the slightly awkward motions of should he hug, handshake, or what. He settled on the very Japanese bow. "You look very pretty. I'd be glad to take a picture with you."

[ngm_mojoverse]

Hikaru held back the frown that attempted to tug down the corners of her perfectly lacquered lips. He settled for a bow. A bow. When he could have hugged her instead.

She looked down and concentrated for a moment. A light breeze whipped around her, lifting the scent of her perfume up from her. It was a special perfume, one which was supposed to contain pheromones which would make any man wild about her.

She prayed that it would make Aiden wild about her.

"There's a lot about me you don't know, Aiden-san," she said demurely. "Maybe if we had dinner together one day, you could learn more about me and I could get to know you better as well."

[sonoflongshot]

"You have someone to hold the camera?" Aiden caught a scent of something. He glanced around for a moment, thinking Angel was somewhere close by, but he didn't see her. He shrugged to himself.

"We can do that sometime," he agreed. Then his brow furrowed. "Though it'll have to be back in the States. I gotta head back soon since Angel's classes start."

[ngm_mojoverse]

"Oh, no," Hikaru replied. "I am here all by myself today," she said. "Is Angel here somewhere? Maybe she can take a picture of us." And in the process, the furry little she-beast would see how perfect of a couple Aiden and Hikaru were, and she would back off and go find a hairy gorilla somewhere to mate with.

[crawler_kid]

Though she had yet to turn twenty-one, Angel had been enjoying the privilege of being able to drink in places that weren't stateside.

More importantly, perhaps, was enjoying the fact that Japan seemed to be, at least in certain circles, far kinder to mutants than America. Or maybe that was just the anime fans and furries. It was hard to say. But she did think she still looked rather good in the kimono Aiden had gotten her for their first White Day. She'd even gotten a few picture requests, including a couple from someone who insisted she was from something--her Japanese was getting better but still not perfect--she thought was called Super Excellent Space Cat Pirates.

Now... where had that boy gotten to...?

[sonoflongshot]

"I don't think she'd mind," Aiden replied to Hikaru. Being as tall as he was, Aiden had an easy time looking over the crowd. It worked even better when he stepped out from behind the tree he was by.

"There she is! Hey, Angel!" The tall blond waved excitedly to his fiancée. "Over here!"

[crawler_kid]

There he was! Angel carefully made her way through the crowd, over to him.

"There you are, Sugah," she said. "Thought you done got away from me for a minute."

[ngm_mojoverse]

For the briefest of moments, Hikaru's face darkened. She had a momentary mental image of taking Angel and Aiden to a teppenyaki place, where they would lop Angel's tail off.

That would be nice.

She caught herself, though, and her face brightened considerably. She could be nice to the girl. After all, the girl was only temporary. Hikaru was the one who was going to stay.

"That is a very beautiful kimono, Angel-san," Hikaru complimented the other girl.

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden didn't notice the momentary shift in Hikaru's expression. He was only paying attention to Angel at that time. That kimono looked great on her. He knew it would look even better off of her later.

He stepped up and gave Angel a kiss on her cheek. "Lots of people want a picture with me today." He did not sound baffled by that as he would have Stateside. "And I ran into Hikaru-san! You remember her. Would you mind taking a picture for her? She doesn't have anyone to help her out."

[crawler_kid]

Angel's attention was focused entirely on Aiden, so she too, missed the look. Little strange that this girl would be here, but hey, she had a tail and was covered in fur. Strange was her life.

"Sure," she said. "Reckon Ah can do that."

[ngm_mojoverse]

"Thank you, Angel-san. It would be greatly appreciated." She handed Angel her camera and then sidled up to Aiden, placing her hand on his chest, and pressing herself gently against him - enough to be suggestive, but not enough to be overtly obvious to Aiden.

And then she smiled at Angel.

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden wasn't paying attention to how Hikaru was posing. He was busy posing himself in his best adult samurai pose. He adjusted his kimono a bit and smiled for the camera.

"Cheeeeeeeeeese."

[ngm_villains]

Lots of other people were screaming and running away like Hikaru. That didn't stop the ninja from heading toward Aiden.

Though one ninja did fall to a sudden boot to the head. His katana skittered across the ground.

A couple more ninja found themselves walking into a sudden strong wind that wasn't there a moment ago. They struggled against the wind to get at Aiden.

While the last two managed to slip past the sudden defenses and swipe at the Mojoworlder. They thought their swords could slice through that flimsy shield of light. Instead, both blades bounced off the hard light. Though the force of simultaneous blows did make the shield flicker.

[sonoflongshot]

"I like these bad guys," Aiden mused as he tried to recover from the sharp blades hitting his shield hard. It was making a spot in his brain throb. He dropped the shield and made two glowing kama appear in his hands.

"No talking, just fighting!" He launched himself at his two closest attackers. His hand sickles striking out to get them to back up a step or two.

[crawler_kid]

Angel bounced, landed, bounced again, snagging the fallen sword with her tail as she sailed past, before bamfing again, appearing in the midst of the ninjas in a flurry of blows.

[ngm_mojoverse]

Hikaru concentrated, pressed up against the wall of a building, head peeking out around the corner, fingers drumming as she manipulated the air around two of the ninja. She was cutting off their oxygen supply, pulling air from their lungs. She held back on the temptation of doing the same to Angel.

Maybe after they'd saved Aiden.

[ngm_villains]

Two of the ninja did not like suddenly not being able to breathe. They dropped their swords, made gasping sounds, and clutched at their throats. With Angel throwing a flurry of blows, they went down quicker than anticipated.

The final two fighting Aiden had underestimated the gaijin fighting prowess. Between being distracted by Angel's flurry of blows and Aiden's skill with his weapons, both went down into groaning, pained messes.

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden glanced around in the quickly diminishing crowd for anymore attackers. Though he would have been disappointed in their ninja skills if he could have spotted them so easily.

"Only five?" He still had glowing kama in hand just in case.

[crawler_kid]

Angel balanced on the balls of her feet, ready to spring into action again at a moment's notice, katana held in one hand. Not exactly her usual rapiers or occasional short sword, but she had a pretty good idea how to use it.

"Probably not..." she said, glancing around.

[ngm_mojoverse]

For her part, Hikaru stayed behind the wall and kept vigilant. If no one attacked, then she would join Angel and Aiden soon.

If someone did attack...she'd attack back.

[ngm_villains]

There were more than five! There were five more. They had been hidden in the tops of trees surrounding the temple, but they leapt out of the trees with nary a whisper of a leaf.

Not that people could hear them anyway over the screaming and panic of the crowd fleeing away from the fight. The five ninja unleashed blasts of blazing fire, freezing ice, crackling lightning, sizzling acid, and explosive sonic energy.

[sonoflongshot]

"... ho crap!"

Aiden covered his head with his arms and put light shields up again instead of weapons. He dodged toward Angel even though she could take care of herself. But he had to try to make sure her kimono and very soft fuzz were not singed.

[crawler_kid]

"Since when do ninjas do that kinda thing?" Angel asked, dodging out of the way of the blasts and coming up under Aiden's light shields.

[ngm_mojoverse]

From where she was, Hikaru got to work. She deflected the spurts of acid with her wind, whipping through them and slamming them to the ground so they hurt no one, and the ice got whipped up into a whirlwind that attacked the ninja who tried to attack her Aiden with it.