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Who: Yotsuba Koiwai and whoever decides to join her.
Where: Outside of the mansion in the rain.
When: Anytime. Preferably during the day because her Daddy always told her never to go out when it's dark. :c
Rating: G. Preferably because this little girl is protected by waaaay too many big brothers (and a Daddy) that will pummel you if you try to corrupt this little one. :|
Summary: Yotsuba likes the rain. She likes watching it. She likes splashing in puddles and her favorite pass time is running around in it while it happens.
the Story:

[ Anyone who passes by any of the windows on the first floor should do well to note the scene they see through the glass. ]

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[b-loodflower.livejournal.com]

Alice was bored. As usual. He often got bored considering his attention span. Now if this was back home he probably would have annoyed the Mad Hatter, but here there was no one to annoy, and he didn't feel like reading.

So, the next best thing he could (other then rolling on the bed) was wander the halls. He was now able to wander around the Mansion without getting lost anymore, which he was quite thankful of. Going downstairs, he reached the first floor, glancing at the window. It was still raining, all day, all night, just raining. It reminded him of his home, which was....he wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not, but it made him feel nostalgic.

Alice felt the sudden urge to just go outside, and get wet by the rain. And so he did, for when he felt an urge to do something, well..he did it. Going outside, the rain felt nice and cooling. Smiling a bit, he walked around a bit, before catching a sight of a little girl playing around in the rain. He was a bit surprised, since not many people he knew would go outside without any umbrellas, but then again there was odd people here. Alice just stood there and watched the girl.

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There were puddles to be had! .... and lots of rain! And there was thunder too!

Oh, Yotsuba was having so much fun that as she raced across the mansion grounds -- grass, mud, water, what have you -- it was no surprise that her legs seemed to be covered in bits of pieces of earth that was stuck to her legs.

Her whole body was soaked through with water, but she just continued to smile while spinning around, kicking up the water any which direction.

Did we mention that she liked the rain?

[b-loodflower.livejournal.com]

After watching the girl frolicing around for a few minutes, for some reason he started laughing a bit. The girl just playing around in the rain, soaking wet, not caring anything at all.. It was just amusing.

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Despite the loud sound of the rain around her ears, Yotsuba picked up the sound of laughter asides from her own and stopped in mid spin. Turning, she sees Alice? standing there laughing at her -- smiling and in a general good mood.

So what does she do? She smiles right on back and rushes forward to stand a few feet from him.

"Are you here to play in the rain too, mister?"

[b-loodflower.livejournal.com]

Crouching down to be in the same level as the girl, he stopped laughing and grinned instead. "Nah, I just wanted to take a walk. You seem to be having lots of fun though," he said.

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"Uh-huh! The rain is lots of fun!" Her smile seems to brighten as she mentions her love for the weather. ... although, the moment another rumble of thunder is heard, she's squeaking happily and stretching her arm out as far as they can go.

[b-loodflower.livejournal.com]

"Is it? What do you like so much about it?" he asked, noticing the thunder. Alice thought little girls hated thunder, but she seemed to like that as well. What an odd girl.. Were they all like this? This was his first time talking to such a young girl.

[innocentxcharm.livejournal.com]

Florian likes playing in the rain! It's better when there's people playing with him though, which is why he hasn't gone out very often. But what's this? There's a girl outside today! Which means he should go out too!

And now there are multiple green-haired children outside the mansion grounds.

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Yay for the green haired children!

Yotsuba is very much pleased when she's got a playmate who's willing to float around in the rain -- puddle after puddle.

"I can make a bigger splash than you can!"

To which, she finds the nearest puddle, jumps up and then lands with her ankles deep in water that goes which ever direction.

[innocentxcharm.livejournal.com]

There's nothing more fun than splashing in the rain; at least until Florian gets distracted by something else.

"I can splash bigger than that!"

And to prove it, he makes a running jump into another nearby puddle. Whether it's actually a bigger splash or not is a mystery to him, because he wasn't paying attention.

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"You found a good puddle!" Yotsuba claps proudly at the large splash that Florian has now produced.

She turns her head and sees a very large and very LONG puddle of water and smiles excitedly. "Watch this!"

To which, she runs right through the puddle as if she were skating, causing the water to ripple and splash on either side of her.

[innocentxcharm.livejournal.com]

Florian beams at the compliment before watching Yotsuba's stunt and laughing in wonder. "Wooooooww! I wanna do that too!"

He tries running through another nearby puddle, but only succeeds in making a few tiny splashes.

The mystery of puddleskating remains unsolved! He jumps in the offending puddle for a bigger splash.

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"Nuh-uh!" Yotsuba walks over to Florian and waggles a scolding finger at him. "I'll show you how to do it! It's reaaaaaaaally hard! You gots to do it right or it won't work!"

Reaching over, she moves to tug on his sleeve to pull him back to the large puddle she had just gotten done puddle skating at and points at her feet.

"Watch!" ZOOM she goes, doing that awesome thing with the water and her feet again.

[cryopathic.livejournal.com]

Typically perhaps, Vexen isn't fond of being wet and cold-- he's expressed as much even in the middle of winter, which should, of all things, be his season-- but affinity with an element is by no means equivalent to a desire to completely immerse oneself in it. Which is precisely why he's been avoiding going outside. He's not the type to get cabin fever, especially with the mansion as large as it is. Saix, now...

On his way along a first-floor corridor, though, he can't help but notice an oddly familiar shape through the water-streaked glass. He squints.

And stops.

Five minutes later, he's striding out the front door, coat zipped up, hood tugged up over his head,and a hastily procured umbrella keeping the water from his face. If that's who he thinks it is, the last thing she needs is to be outside.

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Of course, Vexen would be correct in his assumption. There Yotsuba is, splashing in every single puddle while giggling childishly.

Every so often when the thunder rumbles across the sky, she'll stop and spin in place, but for the most part, she's just enjoying the rain as it soaks into her body.

It's when she stops spinning that she notices a familiar figure coming up with a big umbrella. The clover girl blinks once, maybe twice before she notices who's under the hood.

"VEXEN!" She raises a hand and waves at him before scampering up to him with the largest smile on her face. "Did you come to play outside in the rain!?"

[cryopathic.livejournal.com]

The coat does well to keep the worst of the rain off Vexen's body, but it doesn't do much to keep his face free from the occasional fall of raindrops the wind blows his way. Geh. Still, as he's acknowledged, he lifts his head to squint at the girl, resembling nothing so much as a leather-clad scarecrow in the downpour. After a moment of thought, he adjusts the fairly large umbrella so it's at least keeping the worst of the rain from hitting Yotsuba.

"You shouldn't be out in this weather," Vexen scowls, feeling like he's only echoing something he's said before. "You'll get sick." As for the idea of 'playing', of course, it's preposterous. He's much too old for it.

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Her head leans back as she sees the umbrella being put over her head. Now that the rain wasn't pelting down on her head, the water that her hair had soaked up dripped from the ends and down little rivets on her childish features.

"Nuh-uh! I won't get sick! The rain is nice!" When Yotsuba looks down, she sees that they're at a random puddle ... and she jumps up to splash in said puddle because that's what she does.

[cryopathic.livejournal.com]

It's a very good splash, at that; so good in fact that a gob of water jets up to smash neatly into Vexen's face.

His expression isn't precisely dark, but the water dripping off his nose makes him a rather pathetic sight. "...Yes, I see you're enjoying yourself." At least she isn't running around in the middle of an actual storm. He wonders if he'll end up having to accompany her around.

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If he's upset about the rain, Yotsuba is completely oblivious. In fact, so oblivious is she that she jumps up and down in the puddle a few more times for good measure before she stops completely.

"Play in the rain with me!" She squeaks out, a look of hope spreading across her features.

[sitard.livejournal.com]

The rain has become more than a nuisance.

Demyx, of all people, really does appreciates a good, heavy rain storm every now and then, but this. This is ridiculous; it's been weeks of downpour, and, with the last terrible event having already past, the Melodious Nocturne really has nothing left to worry about. Or, for that matter, do.

So, to quell his oncoming case of cabin fever, he takes to the inside of the mansion, simply walking up and down stairs and along the hallways to give his sitar a rest and his body some needed movement.

...It's not until he passes a window on the first floor that he notices his surrogate daughter dancing out in the rain, completely soaked.

Hardly two seconds pass before Demyx is out the door himself, flailing as he jogs and nearly trips over the steps on his way to her side, pulling the little girl close. He understands how bored she must be, but sacrificing her health to play outside was a no.

"Yotsuba! What are you doing out here? It's really coming down!"

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It's not like the water is bothering the little girl. If anything, it's just making her even happier just by being there.

The rain -- the thunder -- the wind -- the lightning. It just seemed to give her an extra bit of life as she danced to her own tune. Seemingly untouched by the whole world as she was taken away by how wonderful the rain was.

At least, that's how it was supposed to be until she felt herself being pulled close. "Eh?" Her emerald colored eyes glance down to see arms covered in a familiar black coat, and a smile spread to both sides of her face as she looked up.

"Daddy! Daddy you came to play out in the rain with me!"

[sitard.livejournal.com]

"...Play in the-?"

It's sort of pathetic, how easily Yotsuba has him wrapped around her tiny finger. His intention was obviously to come outside and bring her inside, but apparently that thought hadn't once crossed Yotsuba's mind. So now, the sitarist actually feels guilty for wanting to spoil her fun, whether his reasons good were or not. She just looks so happy to see him out there with her...

"Ha...haha. Right, playing," turquoise eyes avert, focusing on all of the mud beneath their feet with a pause between words, "That's what I came out here to do! But there's a lot of fun things we could do inside too, you know. Why don't we go dry off and, uh...do that?"

Whatever Yotsuba's answer might be, Demyx is already raising a hand while he waits for her to respond, watching the drops of rain come to a stop above her head as he quickly draws them together. The mass of water grows just short of an instant, and soon enough there's a liquified shield floating above the small clover's head. Each excess drop caught drips off the transparent edges as they're continually absorbed, filling more puddles around her dirty boots.

Yotsuba may already be soaked, but the sooner to dry, the better.

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While Demyx is thinking, Yotsuba just leans back against her surrogate father and smiles contentedly. There was no doubt that she didn't love him completely -- he was always first in her mind when it came to anything and everything.

Still, it was nice to know that he'd get himself soaked in the downpour just to be with her.

"Eeeeeeh?" She does look mighty disappointed when he offers to go inside to play. Yotsuba's tiny, yet rather cold, hands cling onto the sleeves of his organization coat as she tugs on them. "B-but, but Daddy! We haven't found a good puddle to splash in!"

Thoughts of puddles are soon pushed aside when she catches a glimpse of the water shield that Demyx was now producing above her head. "....!" True to his previous nickname, it still amazed her when he was able to manipulate water so easily.

"AH! It's not raining on me anymore!"

Insert flail of excitement here as she reaches up to touch said water shield.

[sitard.livejournal.com]

Demyx seems a little relieved to have caught her attention with the water barrier, honestly not sure what he'd say if she kept insisting on finding a good puddle. Of course, now he's the one getting soaked - which is better than her! - but he can't help but wonder: if he's capable of handling an entire wall of geysers, why can't he add a little more mass to that floating shield of Yotsuba's to stretch over himself as well? It's a bit of a no brainer he feels foolish for not having done in the first place, seeing her perfectly dry just beside him. So, instead of letting the water continue to drip off, he allows a little more conform, spreading it far enough to cover the both of their heads and then some.

"Ta~da," the musician grins down at her triumphantly, resting one hand atop a tiny shoulder. "You like that? It works inside, too."

He walks around a little, just to show her the shield would indeed follow, chin raised to keep watch and focus while guiding her along beside him.

"Wanna see?"

It was worth a shot.

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Her hands flail around as the shield grows larger -- encompassing around the two of them. Yotsuba's eyes widen a little more as she follows around completely entranced by the moving water barrier.

"It's like an umbrella, Daddy!"

To test this theory however, she moves to pull away from him and steps out of the barriers range before hopping back it. Then in the rain, then back out. She does this for a few more moments before going back to Demyx's side and smiling up at him with childish wonder.

"Can you really do it inside the house?! Really really?!"

Hook line and sinker, Demyx. Good job.