Marked By The Tengu (For Bare)

[Deus001]

Haruka found it quite ironic that she would be so upfront despite masquerading as an otherworldly being known for deception and seduction, then again she was an outward going person at the end of the day. Plus playing sub to this strapping lad, going limp in his arms was such an enticing thing for Haruka to try that the Ito heiress wanted to get in his good graces so she could keep it that way if he so desired~ If her flustered cheeks were anything to go by. She let out a little gasp as Finlay shuffled her about, making sure to try and stay in his grasp. When he gripped her rear more that really made Haruka giggle, yeah that settled it she liked her men a bit handsy~

Then when Finlay posited the idea of letting Haruka stand, the peculiarly eyed girl would hum to herself and let her legs shuffle about in his grasp as if she were idly sitting on a tree branch. Then something popped into the sprightly and spirted young lady and figured it might be a nice idea to help establish more of a rapport. "Mhmh you know what?~ Put me down would you dearie? There's a good lad." Haruka would purr out to Finlay, once the lad put her down Haruka would then stretch a little to get the feeling back in her body.........

Then she'd point towards a large tree up a hill and say "Now then, you were running earlier. See that over there? I do parkour and I bet.......that I can get to it before you do!!!" Haruka would say as she began sprinting as she trailed off! Perhaps a light hearted sprinting challenge might be a nice idea to show Finlay that Haruka was a more joking sort behind it all, Regardless Haruka could move, without her Tengu wig bogging her down she was as free as a bird and it was time to get flying!

[Bare]

As Finlay stepped away from the rock he had pressed Haruka against the blonde idly wondered what the girl would say or do to prove she meant no harm to him. As a favor for his suspicion though he was at least willing to let Haruka be allowed to do so how she wanted, not just in the confines of his arms. Evidently she wanted to be put down, understandable all things considered, and something Finlay didn't mind given his arms were starting to get sore from holding her weight for so long.

But as he did so he would soon find that releasing the Tengu from his grasp was like releasing a hyper puppy that wanted to play. "What?!" He asked in a mix of surprise and shock barely managing to get all of the dark haired girl's words in before she took off in a run. Idly in the back of his head he knew that he could turn and walk away, not bothering with Haruka's antics and going about the rest of his workout in peace. But even as the thought crossed his mind he knew it would only lead to another encounter later on, one that may not go as smoothly as this had all things considered.

So with only a few seconds to process he would turn and break out into a run himself, dashing after the speedy girl and leaping or vaulting over whatever was in his path. Haruka had mentioned she did parkour in her brief burst of words before dashing off, and Finlay was proving to her he knew for himself a thing or two about parkour as well as he aimed to try and catch up with her before she could reach the tree.

[Deus001]

Haruka was quite confident in her speed, she was quite swift in martial arts as she proved with her sparring sessions against her clan mates. Many a time the lady would just clip her foe right out the gate and she had gotten her parkour training on the sly to help her get out of her parent's mansion when she wasn't at the theatre. One time she was almost caught getting out of the mansion and felt her heart pound like a jackhammer, but it was so exciting!

Yet Finlay showed that he was just as adept at the shanks pony game as Haruka, the Ito heiress had wide eyes as she saw the strapping lad making a mad bolt for it at a rate that Haruka didn't anticipate! A loud huff noise was heard from the former Tengu as she tried to keep pace, yet her legs juuuuust weren't long enough to allow her to get one over on the maori lad here. She'd arrive just after him at the tree, Haruka would pant and get her hands on her knees as she bent over to better catch her breath!

"Ah.......h-hah.......I.....h-held back......w-well ran.......t-though......" Haruka panted out, she lifted her head up with a smile to show her enjoyment at spending time with Finlay. She'd lean on the tree and catch her breath some more as she marvelled the sight from the hill. With a moment of joy in her mind she'd remark "I.......I'm from a rich background, my folks don't let me do stuff. That's why I did that whole dress up stuff, so I could finally see if I could hold my own in a scrap........" as she gazed down at her sneakers afterwards~

[Bare]

Finlay was used to running. Be it for exercise or a couple of thugs that were too many too beat down, or just some store owner that didn't want him hanging around back home. As such he learned how to parkour and in a hurry. Using it both to improve his awareness and speed, as well as his out right agility in the process. On top of it all it was rather relaxing as well. Little could compete with the wind going through his face or the feeling of concrete under his palms as he used them as a base for vaulting, everything tended to blend together while running and it was just what he normally needed to unwind.

Today it seemed that all that free running had paid off for him as despite the head start he managed to out pace the dark haired girl that was previously ahead of. Something that was no doubt aided by his longer legs and higher degree of muscle mass overall in comparison to the girl as he pulled ahead of her and made it to the top of the hill and the tree that rested there acting as the finish line for the two.

Turning and crossing his arms as he faced Haruka the blonde had to admittedly suppress the smugness that was welling up, after all it wasn't in his nature to boast over something so trivial, but he supposed the playful nature of Haruka was brining that out of him. Now that they had some more privacy however she opened up a bit, and all at once much of her actions suddenly became a bit clearer to him. "Ah. Makes Sense I suppose." He said directly before his eyes drifted to her knuckles, noticing the tell tale signs of callous from multiple thrown punches. "By the looks of it however that wasn't you're first scrap..." He said before focusing back on her once more. "You must like to fight." He said, stating more of an observation than asking a question.

[Deus001]

Truth be told Haruka wished she could openly show herself in the ring there, sure the idea of being the Tengu was always going to be enjoyable but to openly display her might as an Ito heiress was on her dream list for certain. Yet Finlay's words made Haruka smile broadly, she might have looked cute as a button but there was no doubt that she could handle herself in a fight. She tried to often hide it with her outgoing nature yet Haruka knew, she knew just as Finlay surely knew that such an attempt was only temporary at best.

"Your sharply eyed Finlay-san, why yes that wasn't my first battle! I'm from this clan, called the Ito. They're a clan of marital artists, dates back to the Sengoku era. Think the first time I got into a scrap was when I was like.....11? I was to never fight save for self defence though, they wanted me to be more......you know, in a normal life. I do plan to, work in a theatre not far from here actually. But they still taught me the clan arts." Haruka said while feeling bemused at the irony of how open she was, yet she would masquerade as an otherworld being known for its deceitful nature.

"That's another thing I'm impressed by with you, your keen eye. You didn't fall for my persona's deceptions and choked me out just like any other foe you might have fought." the Ito lady said as she tilted her head looking at the lad with a light smile before going on with "If I may ask, how did you learn your craft? I sensed a rawness in your movements, not a lack of experience but rather more of a drive to survive if that makes sense."

[Bare]

Finlay continued to lean against the tree, catching his breath for a moment while he focused on the girl in front of him as she essentially explained her origin story. It was a bit more than he was looking for but he wouldn't interrupt. Besides in a few ways it was at least a fairly interesting story and explained quite a bit about the girl before him and why she acted the way she did. Or at least why she held up that person of hers and why she had essentially ambushed him in such a remote location.

"I see. They must be fairly backwards then if they won't let you fight when you want." He said, showing his distaste for such old school values, even when not directed specifically for wrestling. Frankly it was something he never got, so long as someone seemed tough enough he wouldn't hesitate to knock their lights out if it meant a good fight. Unintentionally it seemed that was something Haruka had noticed too that she commented on along with his eyes.

"Hm?" He said in response to the question before shrugging. "Street fights mainly. You need to be pretty aware in case someone pulls some cheap trick or a weapon. I got into wrestling around the time I was a teenager, when a gym for it opened up in my neighborhood. They helped me refine those street fighting skills with wrestling knowledge." He said with a shrug. It was an abridged version, and there was more to his history, but they weren't details he felt were necessary, if purely because that was the most direct way to answer Haruka's question.

" As for choking you out I learned from a young age girls could be just as tough as boys, so holding back was never something I learned one way or the other when it came to gender." He said with another shrug. Still not exactly phased by going through his upbringing. For him it was just the past, what he was more so interested in was how the girl across from him would react.

[Deus001]

Haruka was outgoing by nature, she reasoned it was to make up for lost time being spent allllll cooped up in that mansion half the bloody time. The Tengu lady would kick the ground idly from Finlay's assessment in a rare moment of annoyance from the usually perky Ito heiress, she huffed and said "Yeah that can be Japan for you, traditions demand it and all that. The old man prances around the place spouting it so much I lost count of it be the time I was 10. Could call it a gilded cage for sure, that's why I had wings in my debut." Haruka usually wasn't this negative but Finlay to her didn't seem like the sort to judge hard against her there.

However Haruka's dedication to the martial arts let her know that Finlay took care of himself, call it a warrior's instincts. It seemed that the lad opened up a bit to her here, as the maori man talked about street fighting and having to keep a wary eye for any dangers, Haruka had been in her fair share of outdoor scraps. Usually fans of the theatre or louts that thought they could accost her on the way back home. "I see, I saw your comfort in the wrestling ring. I've dabbled in that at the gym sometimes, yet hid my lack of experience thanks to my acting career. I work in this theatre not too far from here......" Haruka said, it was where she'd crafted the Tengu idea after all.

"Mhmhm~ The more I hear of you Finlay-san the more and more I'm impressed~" the black eyed girl mused as she went to Finlay's side before saying "Still, you could do with lightening up a bit. Heeya!" with that Haruka would try to playfully tackle the lad and go tumbling down the hill with him! Yet Haruka kept hold of him the whole time, hoping that when they reached the bottom she might be mounted atop him and let her splayed out hair and petite frame provide a pleasurable view for him~

[Bare]

So far things had been.. going well all things considered between Finlay and Haruka. He definitely didn't expect there to be so much depth too the girl who he at first thought was just a energetic and eccentric party girl who knew how to fight. No instead there was plenty of rhyme and reason for why Haruka was the way she was and did the things she did. He could understand that much at least. After all his own closed off nature and serious demeanor was a result of his upbringing and in a way so was Haruka with her Tengu character being a manifestation of her desire for freedom from her family.

As if confirming his thoughts Haruka hit him with a rather apt analogy of a gilded cage. Something that while he couldn't relate to personally but he could understand wanting to do something different than what life had laid out for you. As she spoke about his comfort in the wrestling ring he would nod to her with a soft expression on his face. "I see. You weren't bad yourself. A bit more comfort and you'd do excellently." He said with a nod to her in recognition of her skill from what he saw in their match.

Though then the girl said something that made him raise his eyebrow in thought towards what she said. "What do you- Ngh!"/color] He grunted out as the girl crashed into him, knocking him off his feet and down into a tumble across the hill. "Ngh! Gah! Ugh!" He grunted out as the two bumped and tumbled across the hill before landing at the foot of it. With Haruka on top straddling him. "Ugh... really?" He asked her with a deadpan expression on his face as he looked up at the girl above him.

[Deus001]

Haruka figured she could be bold enough to get this done, Finlay needed to lighten up. Just a tad. The stoic tough guy act could melt her all day long, but she was a romanticist at heart. And this was just the perfect next step she reasoned, Haruka giggled loudly as she went tumbling down with the lad, she'd never really had the chance to do something like this before but she'd always imagined it.

Before long the pair would hit the bottom of the hill and Haruka would ensure she was mounted atop him, her purple locks were messy from the roll there and she'd absentmindedly pluck some stray blades of grass off them as she sat atop Finlay. "Heehee~ Figured that would get you moving~" Haruka said with a smirk, she'd then lean down atop the lad. Letting her long mane of hair spill out past her shoulders and let it hide her face and his to create an intimate sort of union there~

"I'll get you to have an enjoyable day dearie." Haruka purred, she'd tap her finger on his chiselled jaw before moving it back to her lips and titling her head before then jerking her hair back up and letting the lad up, daintily sliding off from the strapping maori warrior and offering him a hand up as a gesture to make up for her sudden blindsiding earlier and giving him an offer with "That theatre I work at isn't too far from here~ Would you care to see a performance there? On the house from yours truly~"

[Bare]

Finlay groaned softly as he landed at the bottom of the hill, Haruka straddling his waist in a position most would find intimate, and admittedly her weight wasn't unpleasant. But he would have preferred a more... subtle way of getting here. Or at least one that didn't involve a hard tumble down a equally hard hill. That being said however he would look up and immediately be met by the looming dark eyes above him.

"Yeah... Thats one way to put it." He said in response to what she said about getting him moving. As she leaned in closer he instinctively tensed slightly in preparation for what she may do. Something that was exacerbated as her hair fell down around his face, forming a dark curtain around the two's face as he stared up at her, waiting to see what she would do or say.

But what came out of her lips was a promise to get him a more enjoyable day. Something that made him quirk an eyebrow up. Whats more she would soon get off of him and offer him a hand. Looking at her skeptically he would take only a moment to take her hand and accept the help up as she invited him to her theater. 'Guess it would be rude too decline. Or at least ruder than I like to be.' He thought before nodding.

"That'd be fine I suppose." he said before squeezing her hand and turning, suddenly throwing Haruka over his shoulder with a judo throw! "That was for the hill though, so that we're even." He said with a chuckle and small smirk forming on his face as he bent down to offer his own hand in assistance to her if his little payback went off. "You'll have to lead the way." He said as he waited for her to accept the hand up, shoe now firmly being on the other foot now.