The fact that they were not exactly the most brilliant or creative minds around was quietly ignored, lest someone pointing that tidbit out was to wind up with a few missing teeth, at the very least.
So, they went along those lines when they considered what they would do to Kasumi, not that they particularly asked her for any consideration as to what she wanted. In fact, several of them had leered openly at her already, and it was known that she wasn't likely to stay as pure as she had been. However, she was the one of the sisters who hadn't been really fighting them, as her naturally demure nature had kept her from displaying Akane's violence, or Nabiki's smart mouth.
Having someone like this pleased them, and they considered what they could do with someone like that for a long while. Some thought that she might be a prototype for 'employees', allowing them to take runaway and isolated girls to turn into workers who would be mostly human. Others wanted her to be a beast of burden, to be used and abused as they would like.
At the end, the ones who wanted an obedient 'pet' won out. They wanted something that would obviously not be 'human', but would certainly have enough feminine appeal to incite male lust. Since the eldest Miss Tendo had the sort of shapely figure that they already liked, all that they needed was the right mix to create the 'foxy lady' that they wanted.
Oddly enough, it was that slang term that decided what she would be made in to. Her mix of genetic manipulations was mostly made up of fox DNA, of the arctic variety. This resulted in her hair turning white, but not in the pale color of age. Rather, hers was a smooth and full bodied curtain of locks that seemed to shimmer like newly fallen snow. With that silken hair, the fluffy tail that now balanced behind her, and her 'naturally submissive' nature, it was thought that she would make the perfect creature to have on a collar and chain, either to frighten politicians, or to 'entertain' those that they did 'business' with.
It never occurred to them that she would join her sisters on their way out. Of course, the possibility that Akane could break their confinement, or that Nabiki could come up with a plan to get them out of the hideout also never seemed likely. If nothing else, they'd thought that the eldest of the sisters had been 'broken', and would have never caused any trouble, even if her siblings did try to buck the bosses' control.
Instead, she'd quietly followed her sisters away from their prison, and ran off to get away from the scary men who'd hurt her family. All it took was a few moments, and they were free from their tormentors, and out in the big and wide world. The only impetus that they'd had was to get to safety, and hide where they could live with what they'd become.
Unfortunately, they'd had to separate, which meant that they had no idea of which way the others were going. Getting into contact with each other wasn't possible without finding each other, and they couldn't do that as they were. Survival had taken precedence, and they had to work with what they had.
But now they had regained a lot of their humanity, and were relatively protected from those that had changed them, circumstances were different.
"I wonder where she is," Akane murmured, half to herself.
Nabiki grimaced. "Wherever that is, I'm sure that she's got a nice home."
"You sure about that? After what they did to us?"
"Yes. Remember, she could make a home out of anything. The question is what she had to work with, and I seriously doubt that she's living out some storybook life as someone's kitsune wife."
"What are you... oh." The muscles in the younger girl's arms tightened. "Where do you think she is?"
"I don't know. She could be living in some abandoned cabin, an old factory, or be captured by some pervert, but I just don't know."
"And we don't know where she went, so we can't track her trail. Damn it!"
"Hey, we at least got this far. And there is one important thing to keep in mind," Nabiki drawled.
"What's that?"
"We found you, and even you have more of an awareness of how to hide than she did."
"That's... sounding like I should be offended by it," commented the younger teen.
The 'tengu' just gave her sister a mocking grin, and chuckled, while:
(Posted Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:50)
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