Wedding Crashers | Job | Rei Katsura |

Neyvahn's heart felt like it was going to jump out of his chest. It was embarrassing, getting his back washed by someone else, not to mention that it was Rei washing him. Her hands roamed around his hair, running her fingers through soapy strands of silver locks. The sensation was... different. It didn't feel gross, it didn't feel weird having her massage his head. Neyvahn sighed, doing his best to relax. He felt her hands consciously and hesitantly hover over his face, rubbing the soap around the wounds. She was careful not to get any in his eyes. Her hands left him for a second before coming back with water to rinse. Neyvahn closed his eyes and allowed her to wash the soap off of his face. Her hands dropped the cup and moved from his face, down his neck, and onto his shoulders. She lathered the soap into his right shoulder first, the dirt on it trapping itself in the suds. Rei moved her hands to his left shoulder, and lathered the soap there. Her hands touched his shoulder, the one with the open cut that Conner inflicted on him, causing him to wince, grimacing to himself.

"s-sorry..." she muttered quietly. Her hands carefully moved around the injury, light as a feather. Neyvahn's head sunk a little, his cheeks growing warmer than the water. His heart continued to beat hard, pushing down on his chest. Neyvahn had never felt this before, the way that it put his voice up in his throat.

"It's... it's fine," he said, his breathing becoming more labored. Rei's hands moved off of his shoulders, rubbing soap into his chest. Neyvahn's breath caught for a second, her warm touch tingling against his front. Her hands carefully moved over sensitive bruises, lathering more soap against the injuries. Neyvahn gritted his teeth a little while Rei cleaned out the cuts. Rei asked him to lift his legs out of the water for a second. She lathered the soap on them, then let Neyvahn place them back in the water.

Neyvahn was being a little overwhelmed right now. He did his best to keep his eyes forward. Knowing Rei, if he looked back, he'd be in more trouble than he was when he was fighting Conner. Neyvahn chuckled under his breath, moving his legs around in the warm water. Rei filled the small cup up and began to rinse off the soap, starting with his hair. The water dripped on top and fell down passed Neyvahn's shoulders, bringing the soap with it. Rei ran her fingers through his hair again, clearing it of any more soap, then did the same to the soap on his shoulders and chest.

Rei finally finished washing Neyvahn, unplugging the drain and grabbing a towel. She placed it on top of his head, shuffling it around. Neyvahn was just glad that it was over. He wouldn't really be able to handle much more. After Rei finished drying off his hair, she rested the towel around his shoulders. "feel any better...?"

Neyvahn took a slow, deep breath in, holding it for a few seconds. He released the tensed breath, his muscles relaxing. "Very much so. Thank you, Rei." He turned around. Rei's eyes locked with his, her cheeks a rosy color. Her damp hair seemed to stick to her face, the rest drooping down passed her waist. Neyvahn took a shaky breath, looking away and steadily standing up. He dried the rest of his body with the towel, then wrapped it around his waist. His face felt like it was on fire right now.

After a long day, Neyvahn and Rei need to rest. Both of them knew that. Rei grabbed a brush from the counter as they both left the bathroom. Neyvahn went over to his bed, but there wasn't anything besides his already torn up clothes and armor. He sighed. He'd have to fix that later. Neyvahn turned around and opened a sliding door next to the beds to reveal two sets of complimentary motel sleepwear. It would have to do. Neyvahn grabbed a pair of pajamas and slipped them on. He paused for a second. They were more comfortable than he had expected. He grabbed the other pair and turned to give them to Rei. He stopped dead in his tracks.

She was sitting on her bed, brushing her long pink hair in only her underclothes. After all, her dress became badly burnt after their fight. It looked like she was thinking of something, the color in her cheeks still glowing. She held her hair, brushing through it before she noticed Neyvahn looking over at her. If it was possible, her cheeks grew an even pinker color. She dropped the brush and curled into an upright ball.

Neyvahn looked away and held the pajamas out to her. "I-I'm sorry! Here... They're complimentary from the hotel..."

Rei nodded to Neyvahn after she finished bathing him. she played with her hair for a second and moved out of the way to let him out of the bathroom. Once he was out, she sucked in a breath and sighed nervously. Jeez, what was she doing? giving a guy, but out of all people, Neyvahn, a bath? now that she thought about it, it sounded perverted... her stomach felt like she had swallowed a hand full of butterflies that were flying around inside her. With one last shaky breath, she decided she would take off her dress. The stupid thing smelled like smoke and was itchy as hell. And plus, she had seen neyvahn in his boxers, so its only fair if he sees her in...what the hell was she talking about!?

She grunted in frustration and threw the dress on the bathroom floor. she was wearing a strapless dress, so naturally a strapless bra also. as she looked over herself in the mirror... she saw a giant blue bruise on her side from the wind wizard, her arms and legs had burns from the Fire wizard as well. oh, and she couldn't forget her right wrist was completely immobile. she tried to keep it just hanging limp where it hurt the least. But it still hurt, nonetheless. She decided maybe she would was off as well. She hopped in the shower, and squeezed what was left out of the rest of all the bottles of soap to try and cover all her hair. she must've used up most of the hot water with Ney, because half way through it started getting colder... 

She had washed herself off best she could, and hopped back out of the shower. wrapping her hair in a towel and taking another one to dry off her body. She had only been up and walking for about a month since she had been in the hostpital. she looked like she had quite the frail frame, the wounds from today's fight didn't make her look any healthier. it wasn't horrible, but she didn't look like this four months ago, that's for sure. 

She put her underclothes back on and took a small brush the motel had provided and sat on the bed closest to the bathroom where Neyvahn's armor was. she wasn't sure this hotel had any clothes for them... she'd just have to wrap herself in one of the blankets to keep herself covered. As she sat brushing her hair with her uninjured hand, she saw neyvahn buttoning up a nightshirt. well, guess they had sleepware after all. She had never seen him this casual before, usually he was always in his battle armor. It made a lump come up in her throat that was hard to swallow. 

As she was brushing out her semi-wet hair, Neyvahn turned around, looking right at her. She saw his eyes move up and down then look away. She squeaked in surprise, hugging her knees into her chest and only looking up to see him handing her a pair of nightclothes just like his. "I-I'm sorry! Here... They're complimentary from the hotel..." He said, Rei looked up from her small ball and took the clothes from his hands. "T-thanks..." she said quietly, she noticed Neyvahn kept his back turned politely to give her some privacy while she put her clothes on. she pulled the pants over her legs, and slipped the shirt over her head. wow... these were actually really soft, the silky texture felt great against her tired body. 


"you can look now..." she stuttered a little, still brushing her hair with her left hand. she sat back down on the bed, as an awkward silence stood between them. "so... uhm..." she looked down at the old wooden floor. "do you need any help getting into bed, or anything...?" she didn't know what else to say, just kept brushing her hair to give her something to occupy herself through the situation she was in. 

Neyvahn shook his head, although moved by Rei's concern. "I don't think so. Besides..." he laughed, taking a deep breath and leaning his head towards the ceiling. "After all the crazy shit that we went through, my body's just too pumped to rest." He walked over to the bed Rei was sitting on, grabbing his pieces of armor and sitting on the edge of his bed with them. His armor was torn up on every surface. His left shoulder brace and his chest-piece especially suffered. The left shoulder brace was cut right down the middle, red staining the edges of the opening. Neyvahn groaned, running his finger along the edges of the reddened gap. He reminded himself that the cut was caused by his own sword, by his own error. His mind wandered over to his other mistakes during the fight. He made way too many, his first probably being the fact that he let Conner get into his head. Had he just kept everything professional and ignored what Conner said, then he wouldn't have gone into a fit of rage and nearly killed their target. The only thing that stopped him was seeing Rei in front of him. He could remember her jumping in front of Conner and catching his punch before it hit Conner. Neyvahn paused. The power behind that punch was enough to cave someone's nose in. There's no telling what kind of damage it did to Rei's wrist.

Neyvahn looked over to her and noticed the wound. Her right hand was hanging limply, and Rei was being careful to keep it from moving. Neyvahn's expression turned serious."Rei, let me see your wrist," Neyvahn ordered, dropping his piece of armor back onto his bed and sitting in front of Rei. He ignored any statements from Rei telling him not to worry about it. "Look Rei, I owe you more than this, but this is all I can do for you right now." Neyvahn gently lifted Rei's right arm, while her wrist hung limp. "This is going to hurt for a second, so just bear with me." He carefully moved her hand until it was aligned with her arm, then transferred his energy into her wrist. Neyvahn's magic had a regenerative aspect, but it's really just applied to him for a while. However, if he was able to redirect the magic back into Rei just like when he visited her in the hospital, then he could repair her wrist. His magic moved through her hand, moving and shifting bones back into their intended places. Once the bones were in place, Neyvahn's magic would move to adjust the tissue around it. The process took more than ten minutes to complete, each piece of Rei's wrist carefully readjusted and set back into its place. Neyvahn knew just how odd the feeling was, but Rei would get used to it soon enough. Fortunately, it didn't really hurt, it just felt weird having everything moving around like that.

Soon enough, her wrist was back to normal and she could use it normally again. Neyvahn smiled. "There you go... About the whole cause of this... sorry..." Suddenly, Neyvahn began to fall unconscious. On the contrary of what he said, he was actually quite tired. The adrenaline of the fight left his body, and he was able to fall asleep. He fell to his side, sound asleep, breathing lightly.

Rei sat there and let Ney heal her hand, she knew he definitely felt bad for it. She felt bad that he felt bad, Rei wanted to help tuck him into bed after this... no matter what he said, she could see in his eyes, he was exausted. it only increased as he reached down to heal her wrist. it did hurt a little... but for the most part it just felt...very strange. The feeling of bones moving back to their original place it sent a shudder down her spine. but the pain inside felt as if it was suddenly mended, cracks inside being sealed.

"There you go... About the whole cause of this... sorry..." he said, Rei looked at him pitifully. "its okay Ney, really i-Ney!" her sentence was cut short when Neyvahn suddenly collapsed in her lap. his head was resting on her leg, she could feel the rise and fall of his chest. she took in a deep sigh, he was fine.. the exhaustion just knocked him out cold. She smiled at how clueless Ney always was, always seeming so quiet and emotionally composed. Rather it was the total opposite, he really let his emotions control him all too often. she ran her fingers through his messy gray hair and laughed to herself. He was such an adorable idiot.

now that her hand wasn't broken anymore, it would be much more comfortable to carry him. She scooped him up from underneath his knees, and carried him over to the bed closest to the window. she pulled the sheets down with one hand while still holding him like a parent putting a sleepy child to bed. she placed him gently on the bed, and pulled the sheets up over him up to his neck. she sat there for a second, looking at his peaceful sleeping face. smiling again at herself, he looked so peaceful and handsome when he slept.... wait, did she just call him handsome? damn it, she couldn't doupt herself. she liked him. she brushed ney's hair out of his eyes, and thought about giving him a kiss on the forehead... but then she thought against it. she sighed, putting ney's torn up armor on the floor neatly, turning off the lights and climbing into the other bed next to his. "night, ney.." she said quietly, pulling she sheets up over her nose, curling into a fetal position. letting her eyes shut, welcoming the heavy darkness of sleep.

Neyvahn had enough madness for a night. It was his first job as a bounty hunter for heavens sake! It shouldn't be that crazy, but then again, he did kinda take a job a little higher than his level of ability. Whatever, he had Rei to help him manage it. Without her, he probably wouldn't be walking out of that job alive, not with the way Conner was fighting. That psycho meant business. He was glad Rei was there to accompany him on the mission. Neyvahn couldn't imagine taking on all of those goons by himself. Hell, he's surprised he was able to do what he did. The only reason he didn't collapse earlier was because of the adrenaline running through him, and he was glad it lasted as long as it did.

Neyvahn slept better that night than he did in the last year or so. All it took was thorough exhaustion before hand, couldn't be easier! Overnight, his magic was able to help mend his body from the previous fight. Everything major was healed, now the magic was just working on smaller cuts and bruises.

Sunlight rose above the roofs of Rose Garden's buildings, slowly seeping in through the windows of the inn room. The light crawled up the side of Neyvahn's bed, onto the top of the sheets, and eventually onto Neyvahn's face. The warmth tickled his cheeks, and lit against his eyelids, urging him awake. Neyvahn's eyes began to open, only to shut close against the bright sunlight. He raised the covers up against the sunlight, placing it over his head. Neyvahn yawned, rubbing his messy silver hair splayed out on the pillow. He felt much better after a night of good rest. His magic really has healed him. His entire body felt so much better, and he could freely move his limbs without any pain. Neyvahn sighed in content, his hand falling back down to his stomach. He expected to feel the side of his abdomen, but he felt something different there. It was skin, but it wasn't his. He felt around the surface, realizing that it was a hand, but it wasn't his. He knew that much.

Neyvahn also noticed something against his back... a warm breath on his neck. He sat up and lifted the covers off of him... and Rei, sleeping peacefully next to him... in his bed... and not the empty bed on the other side of the room.

"AAH!" Neyvahn lurched to the side and fell off the bed, hitting his back against the floor. He quickly leaned against the wall and caught his breath. "R-Rei!? What the hell are you doing in my bed!?"

After Rei had finally got into a position she found comfortable, all she could remember was the blackness of sleep. It clouded her eyes as she slept, hours going by in what seemed like less than a few seconds. She began to wake up, as she tried to get comfortable again by tossing and turning on the bed, hugging pillows on the left and right with no ease. it was the middle of the night, or rather... only four in the mourning. they went to sleep about two... so she'd only been out for two hours.

She groaned to herself spreading her limbs in all directions and staring at the blank ceiling. she flopped back onto her stomach, and decided now she couldn't sleep any longer. Her body still ached from the bruises she had gotten from their mighty endeavor... She decided to get up and head to the bathroom, she got a cup and filled it with water in the sink before heading back out to her bed, there were three pillows all in a row, perfect for cuddling, she loved to hug pillows when she slept, she found it to be very comforting.

These pillows seemed to be very warm, just the right tempurature to send her back into sleep...

"R-Rei!? What the hell are you doing in my bed!?"

Rei slowly opened her eyes with a soft sleepy moan, realizing the sun was coming through the window, she was much closer than her own bed was... and Ney was on the floor, yelling at her.

wait..

"AAAH!" Rei suddenly flipped out of sleepiness and squealed at the top of her lungs before she flipped out of bed and falling off the other side between both the beds, hitting her head on the nightstand and hitting the floor with a loud thud. she grunted at yet another bruise, rubbing her head.

Neyvahn peered up from the side of the bed as Rei panicked, screaming out and falling off the side of the bed like he did, just on the other side. Neyvahn's cheeks felt really hot, and his heart was pumping harder than when he was fighting. Why was she in his bed? Sure she helped wash him and folded his armor for him, but Neyvahn only recently re-met her. Besides, she's a completely different person than the young child he remembered as. Rei's basically a stranger to him now. This is all just too weird, too sudden. Taking a job with her? Sure, Neyvahn could manage that. Share an inn room with her? A bit weird, but manageable. Take a bath with her? That's pushing it, even if they were both wearing something. Sleeping in the same bed as her?... That's a BIG no!

Neyvahn cleared the messy curtain of silver hair out of his eyes, pulling on the choker on his neck. "... uh, Rei? Mind telling me what you were doing?" Those were the only words he could manage to say. Neyvahn pushed on his chest, just to make sure that his lungs didn't burst from the pressure he was feeling.

Rei sat on the floor with only her eyes peering over the edge of the mattress, her face was as red as a fresh tomato, she had her knees folded into her chest as she hugged them close. why the hell was she there? did she sleep walk!? She didn't sleep walk! 'oh god.. Ney will never forgive me then it will always be awkward and he'll never want to talk to me and we can never be friends and go on fun jobs and have kids wait what?!'

Rei's face got even darker as she felt on the edge of passing out. she couldn't even believe she just said that in her own brain...

"I...I" she stuttered out but it sounded muffled due to her knees being shoved into her face by how tightly she was holding them.

"I got up to go t-to the bathroom last night... I-I thought I went back to sleep in my bed... but...I m-must've been...sleep walking..." she nearly whispered, keeping her head down not bearing to be able to look at him. what the hell was she thinking?! first they go on a job, thats fine, but then sleeping in the same room? ehh.... giving him a bath even wish his underwear on was REALLY pushing it.

she slowly rocked back and forth on the wood floor in the most awkward moment thus far in her entire life, Expecting to be slapped for crossing the line.

Neyvahn didn't even know how to react. He wasn't exactly mad, but the instant rush of contact and embarrassment absolutely devastated his common sense. Neyvahn couldn't think straight, but he wasn't exactly thoughtless, that was for sure.

"Warm..." Before he knew it, the word seeped out of his mouth. Realizing what he said, his eyes went wide and he panicked. "Nothing, nothing! I said nothing!"


Neyvahn and Rei had went up to Mr. Triaz's house and collected the payment. The man himself seemed very happy with how things turned out. Because of the defense Neyvahn and Rei provided, the wedding went smoothly and the bride's crazy ex was behind bars. Guess it really was a happy ending. Neyvahn and Rei, fully healed, walked down the street from the Triaz home carrying their payment. Things were still very awkward, even a week later after their little incident. Neyvahn was hoping that the silence would gradually disappear over the week, but turns out sharing a room only amplified the awkwardness. So much for that plan.

Neyvahn didn't like the silence, and things weren't really getting better. He couldn't bring himself to face Rei, even when they were talking to Mr. Triaz. It was killing him, so he turned to Rei and momentarily set their payment onto the ground and held his hand out to shake. He did his best to hold eye contact, even though his eyes wanted to pull away. "Well, it was a pleasure working with you, Miss Katsura."

Miss Katsura!? That's the best I can do!?

Neyvahn rubbed the back of his head with his free hand and looked down at the ground. "Uhh... B-By the way... I-I'm sorry about what happened. Guess I was just a little surprised." He laughed to lighten the mood. Now that he actually thought about it, the whole thing was really kinda fun to go through. Better than the usually dull day he goes through. Neyvahn genuinely smiled at Rei, his heart lightening a little more.

Things between Ney and Rei had been really awkward since their incident a week ago. Rei couldn't stand it. she wasn't one to be awkward ever, or have it last this long, it wasn't really that bad...was it? Rei was often lost in her own thoughts when she was with him hoping that what happened woulnd't get stuck with them forever. She was totally lost in her mind as they collected their reward, which she was very pleased to suddenly have such a large sum of money, the job was fun but the things she learned and earned were totally worth it.

As they walked, they still walked in silence. It was almost pissing her off that Ney couldn't get up the guts to talk to her. But she wouldn't say anything first, Ney needed to gain some confidence and definitely be LESS AWKWARD, she swore she would punch him for being so awkward it was just sad to watch.

then finally, much to Rei's relief Ney dropped his bag of earnings and turned to Rei. He looked very shy and hesitant to talk to her, but Rei just dropped what she was carrying, crossed her arms, and raised her eyebrows at him. He made eye contact with her, and Rei knew more than anything he wanted to look away. she watched as he extended his hand out to shake, Rei looked down at it and back at him.

"Well, it was a pleasure working with you, Miss Katsura."

Rei's eye's narrowed, a frown suddenly on her face.

She lifted her hand up, and slapped him across his cheek. Hard. she woulnd't put up with this shit. He was took quiet, and needed to come out of that shell. She watched the sudden burst of shock on his face which made her anger fade a little and almost made her want to laugh. Rei shook her hand off as it went numb from hitting him.

"First of all," She started, glaring at him. "THAT was for calling me Miss Katsura, because I've already told you NOT to call me that!" she lectured him, her foot tapping on the sidewalk concrete. "And this.." she said a little softer, walking the few steps towards him and wrapping her arms around his torso. "Is for being a great partner" She said much more... soothingly.. but, the moment didn't last long. Because when she released her hug she was angry again, and smacked him upside the head, though this time it was more playful that before. "But Seriously, get your head straight DAMMIT!" She huffed before picking up her bag again with her nose in the air and walking in front of him. "you walk like slower than a damn turtle!"

And with that Rei and Ney returned back to lavenitir port city where they lived with the guild. They got together often and tried to figure out what to use their new found jewels on.