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No one can do anything by themselves. Refusing to acknowledge that makes you... a damn fool!

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Only having recently found herself in this old mansion, and finding out she was locked in this place playing a role in someone's game Nozomi checked all the unlocked rooms she could. Her goal was to escape this place, and she was willing to check every door in the building. Although her goal almost seemed unreachable. Certain rooms were locked without a key anywhere to be found, while others were pitch black on the inside. Occasionally Nozomi heard unexplainable sounds, or noticed shadows. Following the rules of the game Nozomi managed to sneak around quite well, yet to be caught by one of the friends she was warned about.

Recently she felt something strangely familiar, but she couldn't identify exactly what that was at the moment. The girls first thought was someone from the soul society. Nozomi was unable to pin-point exactly where this feeling was coming from, although she could tell whatever or whoever they were, was trying to find Nozomi as well. Suddenly she heard a voice call out to her. The petite woman turned completely round grabbing hold of her Zanpakuto's handle. Her purple eyes narrowed at the others demands. Who was this person? A shinigami, most likely. She kept her grip on the handle tight and without answering a single one of his demands she spoke up herself. "Who are you?" her voice had a bitter tone in it. Asking her questions about herself out of nowhere the same way this person did was suspicious. She felt uneasy around this person.

artificialxsoul has been found

The dark haired captain had been walking around in this strange and dark mansion for what felt like hours upon hours - but he was too restless to try and sleep, and the darkness of the spiritual energy of this place had all of his instincts screaming at him to solve whatever riddle was in this place and to get out-out-out! Of this horrible place.

He sensed… Someone who might almost be a soul reaper, but not quite. So the brunet walked towards the spiritual signature, and called out when he was sure he was in hearing range of her “Name, rank and division, shinigami.” He stepped into the light of the room - too clean for a place that was abandoned - to look at the green haired… Soul reaper…

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Introduction

 The petite mod soul opened her eyes to find herself in an unfamiliar room. She must have been asleep, but for how long? The room gave off an eerie impression, and gave her an unsettling feeling. Nozomi had no recollection of prior events to this moment. Why was she here and how did she get here were two questions that came to her mind. Nozomi would never sleep in a strange place such as this, so what on earth was she doing here? The girl sat up on the bed she lay on and her purple eyes scanned through every aspect of this room until her attention was drawn to the letter sitting on a night-stand.

 The name Nozomi Kujo was handwritten on the front in ink. The mod soul took hold of the letter and examined it further until opening it. She narrowed her eyes and silently read it. After reading the message she placed the letter beside her on the bed and stood up to open the drawer to the left. In it was her zanpakuto and a small medical kit. Her eyes widened seeing her Zanpakuto in the drawer. How on earth did they take it from her? She took hold of the weapon and examined it, from what she could see it was the same as before-- Although she could feel something off about it. How could someone modify her own zanpakuto? That was impossible, was it not?

 "Whitefield Manor" she repeated to herself softly. "Hiding and stay out of sight. What kind of game is this?" she whispered to herself. The green haired girl looked towards the window only to see it barred off just as the letter explained. This person was serious. Every exit from this property must be blocked off. There wasn't going to be any short cuts here.

 Why was I brought here? She looked down at the floor boards and let out a soft sigh. If this was suppose to be some kind of game, Nozomi's intuition told her there were more people in this building. People who woke up the same way she did-- In some room with a hazy memory of prior events. Whatever friends this person had, undoubtedly were going to cause some problems. If she was correct the goal of the game was to escape without a close encounter with one of these so called friends. The people in this building were simply someone else's play-things. Pawns on a chest board for someone's game. According to the attitude of the message, she was going to have to play along with this game of cat and mouse.

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"Having a room to myself is much more relaxing than I'd expected"

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Childish Habits || Ruby&Nozomi

 --After being trapped in this school with many other students, they were occasionally given motives to kill one and other. For the slim chance to escape the school - which was undoubtedly was a scam, it seemed like people weren't smart enough to realize that - Nozomi ensured to keep her distance from each and every student she came across. Although many of which seemed fairly harmless, she had heard the stories of friends turning on friends. Nice people could do terrible things, and Nozomi wasn't going to take any risks.

Not only did she want to avoid potential threats of herself dying. The mod soul also distanced herself from the other students to ensure she herself wouldn't harm anyone she grew attached for ever again. In the given situation everything was unpredictable and who knew what certain things the mastermind could cause to happen. It wasn't difficult to avoid people. She felt it was somewhat selfish of herself to keep that gap only to protect her own heart. Even before finding herself in this school with little recollection of much of her life before, Nozomi was always very withdrawn.

The short, petite girl had her arms folded across her chest tightly gripping each of her arms. Her small build frame almost trying to seem smaller than she was in actuality. As she walked down the hall on her way to the cafeteria she noticed several people walking down the hall. Slowing her pace to ensure not to catch up Nozomi watched as a few students bumped into a dark haired girl causing her too loose her balance, almost as if on purpose. The green haired girl froze briefly and narrowed her eyes at the people who failed to do as little as apologize to the girl and simply walked away. Unbelievable. Nozomi started walking again until she was just behind the dark haired girl. That same girl did something unnecessary and yelled at them. How childish.

"Don't bother."

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Nightmare drabble

Nozomi lay in the dark room on her bed, starring up at the ceiling. Her roommates seemed to have already fallen asleep. It felt like she had been laying there for hours what could have been only minutes. The petite mod soul got some sense of uneasiness, different from usual. It wasn't unusual for her to have difficulty sleeping, being trapped in a school where any student could kill another any time. She turned on her side and faced the blank wall. Before she realized it her eyelids grew heavy and she had fallen fast asleep.

Before she could do anything else, her mind went blank and entered a vivid dream. Where was she? She tried turing her head, but it refused to move. Next she tried to take a step. Her body wouldn't move whenever she tried. She tried to wrap her head around the situation when her body began moving towards a bare cliff, only covered with dirt and little plant life. She tried to speak, nothing. Not a single sound would escape her lips. She felt her heart tighten. Her mind was completely conscious, though her body would move on it own. She could see and hear everything around her, but was unable to feel anything. What's going on? she asked herself. She felt like she was trembling, while at the same time her body wouldn't move on her command.

Still walking in that same direction, she came upon someone else. She knew who he was, didn't she? She knew them. But who were they? What relation did she have with them? She tried to speak again. Nothing. Her body continued moving towards the person, she suddenly felt some kind of anger form deep inside her. Why? She asked herself. There was some feeling she couldn't explain. Something she couldn't control. She realized, in her hand she held a weapon. Her zanpakuto? Or someone else's? It was similar, but it did not belong to her. Suddenly the blade was pointed to the person laying on the ground. No! Stop! She tried to stop herself with all her power. How did she get so close to them in a matter of seconds?

Slash.

The sound of the blade cutting through other's flesh was ringing in her ears. As the blade cut through, the bright red blood splattered on her cheek. Her eyes widened at the sight of a motionless body fall in front of her. She... She did that? She raised one arm and touched the blood on her face then brought it to eye level and looked at it. Her hands were shaking. A crimson red liquid was on her hand. How did this happen? Who was he? When did she get so close? Questions and questions circled around in her head none of which she could answer. Most of all, why was her body responding now?

Drip. Drip. Drip.

She looked down at the puddle of blood beneath her weapon. The blood was dripping into the pool of blood. It created the sound of a tap being left on ever so slightly falling into the sink. Why was there so much blood? It was one person there was no way that much blood would come out. Nozomi turned around, and was faced with reality. A battle field of dead motionless bodies. Her being the only one standing. Had she done... All this? She didn't remember any of it. She looked down at her weapon. It was Arazome Shigure, that was her zanpakuto. It was soaked in blood. She could have sworn it wasn't when killing that last person.

She threw her weapon to the side out of fear and confusion. The strength in her legs grew weak and she dropped to the ground and buried her face in her hands. Did I really... Kill those people?  

Suddenly her eyes opened and she sat up. It was her dorm room. The room was pitch black and she couldn't see a thing. "A... Dream?" She asked herself then got out of her bed and leaned against the wall and rubbed her cheek. It wasn't even a dream, more so a nightmare. Dream or not that certainly was vivid. Nozomi raised her hand and starred at it a while. She couldn't see it, but the feeling of that blood on her face and hand remained present.

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Now, this was an interesting one. Although boldly having been turned down, Inigo knew not of the concept of giving up. Not over something so small. He had cried enough tears over being rejected, and it was time to strike again. "Are you ready to smile for me yet, fair maiden?" he asked, presenting her with the third rose.

The petite green haired girl spotted the same guy who she had spoken with once before. He wasn't the kind of person she was too fond of however. He began to approach her again, before being able to react he spoke to her again. She had already told him she wasn't interested she failed to understand why he kept coming back and trying again. Although with this air in the school currently she couldn't be as cold.

"Are you ready to smile for me yet, fair maiden?"

He presented her a rose, as well as several other girls she noticed. Still the gift surprised her a bit. Nozomi looked down at the rose, unsure whether or not to take it. She took hold of the rose then turned her head another direction. "There's still nothing to smile about" she replied somewhat stubbornly "You shouldn't try to force people to smile". Although, with the strange air circulating around the school she was somewhat happy. Before walking away again she said something else. She felt as though before she may have hurt his feelings, although he didn't show it she got a small sense of guilt. One word couldn't hurt. She turned around "...Thanks"

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"I have to confess something to you," Eren explains, eyebrows furrowed as he glances off to the side. "So... it isn't as easy as I make it seem to stay so determined. The temptation to give up will always exist, no matter how much I wish it didn't."

Her attention was caught by another student, one who she'd never spoken with before. Why would he come to her and confess something now? He had quite the serious expression on his face, though she hadn't a clue why. Pushing her slightly confused thoughts away the petite green haired girl listened to what he had to say.

After his confession, the petite remained silent for a while. Honestly, she could relate to what he was saying. Her gaze fixed at the ground while in thought. She was going to let herself die once, she was ready to give up and let them win. She remembered being told to live. When seeing those around her fighting, Nozomi couldn't just sit back and watch even if they were protecting her, she wanted to help. She wanted to stop giving up. "...I see" she didn't know what else to say.

However, determination was a difficult thing to obtain, there was always one part of you that wants to give up. "...Everyone wants to give up sometimes. Whether they do or not is the separation between those who were determined and those who are not."

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Ruler

♥Ruler- Do you have any particular influences?

The question was quite vague, she didn't know exactly how to answer. "Can't say I do.." she replied. If it was something such as the source to her actions, that would be not becoming the person she was once a part of. It was the only thing that kept her going, she didn't want to hurt anyone else. Which was exactly why she distanced herself. If that counted as an influence that was her answer, though she would never tell anyone of it.

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♥Paper

♥Paper- What is a monster or mythological beast that fascinates you?

"I don't know much about mythology, and they're aren't any monsters that fascinate me. So, I don't really have an answer..."

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She wanted to go around hugging people still. She would have locked herself in her room but the 'love air' made her come out. She made sure to avoid popular locations in the school. As long as no one found her she should be okay.

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The petites head started turning back towards him, until she looked up so their eyes would meet. "Tell me, is that really something to smile about? There is still a chance I am going to die, that's something I can't avoid. I've been prepared to die for a long time anyways." She replied calmly.  Her eyes narrowed before she spoke again "I thought I told you I wasn't interested, why are you still talking to me?" she paused briefly before speaking again. Her eyes drifted down. "....I can think of several reasons not to smile" she said more to herself then to him. Hearing his comment about wrinkles she was left confused. "What's that suppose to mean? Wrinkles have nothing to do with anything.."

From what she could tell, he was trying to show her how to smile. Her eyes narrowed again, all that did was annoy her. "What are you, stupid?" she said her usual calm composure starting to slip, and her defensive personality starting to kick in. "It's not like I don't know how to smile, that's ridiculous. I've smiled before, but I don't have any reason do to so in this school. I'm not some emotionless robot." she said as she stubbornly cast her gaze to the side.

Surely that did seem like a complicated issue. Admittedly he had to think a bit because coming up with a half-hearted spur-of-the-moment answer was not likely to win him many points with this girl. He got this. “Hmm… You’re alive?” he said quite logically. “Health and beauty to match, is there a reason not to smile?” Sure he could think of plenty of those as well, but that was beside the point. “Beside walking around with a frown causes a most dreadful atmosphere and gives you wrinkles at an early age. We wouldn’t want that now, would we?” He wouldn’t at least. It would be a shame to ruin that marvellous face with wrinkles.”Come on, it is very easy. You just do like this.” With both index fingers Inigo pushed up the corners of his own mouth into a smile for emphasis.

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What was with this guy? He certainly bounced back much more cheerful then she expected. Usually after getting turned down like that people wouldn't spring back so fast. And he was only talking to her because she was a nice looking girl from what she could tell. Honestly, why even bother? When he started talking about smiling, the petite turned her head in another direction. She didn't care for what he was telling her, what good would smiling do. She hadn't smiled a single time since entering the school. "What's there do smile about?" she replied with a question. They were locked in a school where people could die any time and he was telling her to smile.

Instantly shot down. Didn’t women usually like being complimented? Oh well, there was also the odd one out here laying him on ice right away, it was nothing he wasn’t used to. There was after all also a certain charm in an ice queen. But still that frown didn’t suit her much. “Try a smile instead,” he suggested even though his opinion was probably not wished for. “Surely that will make you look even more beautiful.”

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"...That may be true, however if you look around you should notice several students missing, during the past few days I've noticed this. It's more worrisome then calming.. Thats how I see it at least."

"It has. However, in a setting as grim as this, silence is often needed to help rejuvenate the soul."

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"I don't know who you are, but whatever your trying to do, I advice you stop. I'm not interested." So he was one of those kinds of people. To just walk up to someone and say something like that, only to get turned down.  "I'm about as interested as the last girl you tried something like this on."

"I am certain people are merely stunned by your startling beauty."