a bear with a chair [closed]

"Truth be told I'm lying, and truth be told I miss you... wait, shit!"

Kazuto had been trying to play AND sing some newer song by a band that he had once followed quite extensively during his early teenage years. Unfortunately, until recently, he had never touched a guitar, so the results had ended up being rather comedic. Eventually, after learning enough in his own time (which nowadays he seemed to have a lot of), he had figured out how to play the song on guitar relatively easily, but alas, the current problem would have happened regardless of him having any skill with an instrument. Long story short, it had turned out that Kirito didn't actually know how to follow lyrics while playing guitar at the same time. Oh, and he could hardly sing anyway. His voice wasn't bad, it just was very standard, so making music with it was still a very weird and unfamiliar experience to him.

Now, if you're wondering why a ghost samurai was trying to learn to be a musician, you shouldn't be asking me. In fact, Kirito himself didn't really know either: it had just seemed like an interesting hobby to pick up, especially considering it was something that had always interested him, although never a hobby he had seriously pursued in his human life.

It had been after that rather terrible lyric mess up that Kirito had heard the knock on his door followed by the accompanying shouts of a female voice he hadn't been expecting to hear.

It would be a lie to say that Kirito hadn't been told that a new, apparently somewhat interesting arrancar had appeared in La Colonia as of late by Faelan, who seemed to be the only person in the town that Kirito could talk to without the conversation devolving into a scuffle, verbal or otherwise. However, what would be true would be the fact that he hadn't expected said arrancar to show up at his door, knocking and calling out to him by race alone as if she was his parole officer. What made the situation even more ridiculous was that Kirito supposedly held some high level of power within La Colonia as a "pathfinder" or whatnot, and that this person was just some random arrancar who had been interested in the... unique society that was La Colonia. To be honest, Kazuto had been so drunk when Atraerus and Tony had explained the societal military system La Colonia possessed that he barely remembered what his title or political standing was, only that everybody had to listen to him because of... reasons.

Oh, and would it have been a sin to wait a day? Seriously, Faelan had sent his notice of the girl's arrival approximately thirty minutes ago, so that meant that this woman was getting around pretty damn fast. Oh, and she knew he was a shinigami too, so Kirito could only guess that she had already talked to one of the other pathfinders or heads of the colony.

"Ugh".

Was Kirito's initial direct mental reaction. It was then followed up with a chastising yet encouraging remark from his zanpakuto spirit.

"New friends means less of you being bored!"

That was nice: he hadn't heard anything from down there in a while, so it was good to hear something out of his mind that wasn't-

How cute... a girl.

...That. Ignore it, he kept telling himself. Now, with a sudden sense of urgency instilled in his movements, Kirito placed the guitar down on his leather sofa, walking up to the door and opening it. Immediately, he took in the sight in front of him, which was quite frankly-


Beautiful and intriguing. The being in front of him was a petite, hopelessly kind looking (albeit obviously fiesty) arrancar with a pair of feline-like ears. To be honest, Kirito had been expected more of a gruff, scary looking thing to show up, or at least somebody who looked intimidating in the slightest. He would be lying if he said that his posture had immediately relaxed at the sight of such a non threatening figure. However, after a brief second of observational bliss, Kazuto's head snapped back to reality, focusing on the necessity of conversation when greeting somebody. Taking initiative, he spoke first, extending his hand as the words slipped from his mouth in a slightly too enthusiastic tone.

"Hello! Sorry to have kept you waiting, I was just finishing up something. I suppose I'm being a tad forward, but considering you've gone out of your way to come here of all places, I assume you wanted to meet me. I'm Kirito. Who might you be?"



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