We Need To Talk -Nami Version-

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

[Now that's I'm awake I don't wanna play this game *groans* everyone will see how effed up my first grade year was... All well.]

Beaming the first thing I do is double check that what he's wearing isn't too thick for this job. Satisfied I curl my hands into fists and gently, but rhythmically, pound them below his shoulders to about mid back. After one cycle of down and then up, I speak, my voice controlled and calm and even, "Concentration, concentration. Please are dying, children are crying. Concentration, concentration. Please are dying, children are crying. Concentration."

My fists uncurl and my fingers run up and down his back, patting slightly, "Spiders crawling up your back, spiders crawling down your back."

I pinch his shoulders and mime the trickling of liquid down his back, twice, "Bite. The blood runs down. Bite the blood runs down."

Curling my fists again I return to the first action, "Concentration, concentration. Please are dying, children are crying. Concentration, concentration. Please are dying, children are crying. Concentration."

Pausing for a breath I take his shoulders in my hand and lean forward, with out really touching him with more than my hands, I whisper into his ear, "Alright. You're on roof of a tall building, close to the edge. You know someone is chasing you so you check the edg--WHOA!" I jerk him a little forward, but keep him steady. "-- you almost fell off. Now footsteps sound behind you."

While still speaking I lean back slowly increasing my voice as if I'm still there, "They're getting closer and!!" I shove him forward, grinning. "... So what color did you see?"

[Neku Sakuraba]

It was a morbid chant, a morbid situation, but as she spoke, I could almost see it... and then....

".....green....." I said quietly. "Green. And crimson red. And there's a black shadow, it's what was chasing me," I said, just as quietly, almost rhythmically. "But green... mostly green.... and then... the green is torn away, and I feel them wrap around me, the crystal strands, and then they cut, and it's just red, crimson red...."

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

Eh?

Well.

That's a lot.

"Um."

My head cocks to the side, "Not sure... But... Okay!" I giggle softly. "Lots of colors I guess then."

[Neku Sakuraba]

I felt confused, and I didn't know why.

"When I was running... I fell. It happened, I remember it. I fell and I couldn't catch myself, and it was strange.... I couldn't catch myself. But why should I have caught myself? I fell too far, it hurt, they took me back. I'd hurt my leg running... but there was no shadow, no man with no name. That's what they told me..."

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

I blink and then give a worried expression, "This is more than the game... Isn't it?" I sigh and then frown. "This is... something that was buried."

Oh boy.

[Neku Sakuraba]

Maybe... I think that reached her. I'm not sure. My mind was busy at that moment.

"It happened, just like that, like what you said, only... a long time ago.... crystal strands that cut into me, they hurt. I could feel them tightening... I was running, running, and the thing came and the strands cut more, but I had to fight back.... and then... I couldn't.... remember..... they cut... they...."

I felt something slipping away.

"........I couldn't...... remember....."

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

"..."

Oh yeah.

That's definitely a memory.

[Neku Sakuraba]

I blinked, suddenly, feeling like I was.... waking up. From something.

"............that was.... weird," I said, shaking my head.

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

I run off, grab my sketch book, and come back. Quickly writing down a summary of what he just said, "In case you forget again."

[Neku Sakuraba]

I shook my head. "I probably won't, but it was probably important. It'll be good to have, maybe we can figure out what I was remembering." I shrugged. "I sure can't tell what it all means."

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

"Hmmm... Its weird, that's for sure," I finish writing and then glance up. "Soooooo... What now?"

[Neku Sakuraba]

"What do you mean, what now? It's your turn to pik 'what now' since I had the last four goes."

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

"Eeehhhh? Yeah, sure-sure," I roll my eyes and then sigh again. "I could... Show you some of my drawings?" Blinking something in me shivers at that thought, good thing this is sketch book number two... right?

Wait.

Wah?

[Neku Sakuraba]

"Sure," I said. "I get to see how many dresses you've put me in this time. Hopefully there's no shower drawings in this one..."

[Namine Joy LeBeau]

I flush and shake my head, "No... None of that!" My head ducks. "I mean... As a lady I've never done something like that... Shower drawings, what am I? A peeping tom?"

My feet guide me to the couch where I sit and flip to the first page of my sketch book... A table of contents...

"Well... I apparently am organized sometimes..."

I pat the seat next to me for him.