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Sumi (yakuzaprincess) wrote in devils_tower,
@ 2009-06-15 14:55:00

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jax, sumi

Week Fourteen -- Saturday
WHO: Sumi and Jax
WHAT: She's doing what she normally does (namely not much) and he comes across her
WHERE: The Lodge
WHEN: Late afternoon
RATING: PG, perhaps?
STATUS: Incomplete // Closed

Saturdays for Sumi were exactly the same as every other day. The same as Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, etc. Mainly because she didn't do much like the others in the tribe. Having been raised like she was, she really hadn't ever done an actual honest day's work. Cooking, cleaning and sewing didn't count. She'd thought that once she became a part of the Jackals that work would be entirely inevitable. And yet, for some reason, Jax didn't make her work. She didn't quite understand it, but she was entirely grateful for it. Goodness knows that she wouldn't be entirely useful at all. So, even amongst the Jackals, Sumi was still the princess that she had always been. Nothing different than normal, save for the fact that she was no longer among the family that had sheltered her and brought her up since her birth. Although, there was no doubting that the Jackals had just as much capacity to do horrible things as the Naotaka family ever had.

That morning she'd done the exact same thing as normal. She kept some semblance of a routine that she'd had before the virus. Of course, now things were a bit more limited than they had been in the past. So, Sumi spent most of her time that morning reading a book. Something that she'd taken from her father's library when she was a little girl. Oddly enough, it was a book about the family that her entire family had been descended from. Valiant and loyal samurai of an emperor of Japan. Hence the symbol that her family had always been known by. The kanji for the word 'samurai'. Every member of the Naotaka family had it tattooed on them and Sumi was no exception.

Sitting by one of the large windows of the lodge, Sumi was curled up on the windowsill and intently reading her book. She caught the scowls that some of the others gave her as they passed and it made her smirk to herself. Not all of them could possibly be treated like a princess.

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jaxjackal
2009-06-15 03:47 pm UTC (link)

Jax felt like he'd been going non-stop since the beginning of time. He had pretty good endurance, and could go quite awhile without food, sleep, etc, but like anyone else, he needed a break sometimes. He'd spent the morning and greater part of the afternoon at the power plant, making sure that things were in the best shape they could be in. He'd also had some of the other tribe members showing him some of the basics about the plant. Unlike Azrael, he wanted to try and learn as much as he could about the way everything worked so that he wouldn't have to complete rely on other people.

When he got home he took a quick nap and a shower before venturing from his room to wander around the lodge. It had been a few days since he'd really seen Sumi or been able to talk with her, so when he saw her sitting by the window in one of the lounge areas he went right over to her. He crouched at her side and leaned his head over to look at the book she was reading. It was all in Japanese, and he couldn't understand a lick of it. Although she'd taught him a few words he was often too busy to put any serious effort into it. He knew Arabic, Hebrew, and a smattering of a few other languages but none of them had ever come in handy since the virus destroyed things.

"How are you doing beautiful?" He looked up at her with a smile, "Do you like this place better than the woods?" He laughed goodheartedly, knowing that living in the woods and on the move had perhaps been harder for her than for anyone else in the tribe. When he'd first agreed to let her stay with them he'd received a lot of flac from the other tribe members. Flack that he of course shut down immediately. In Jax's mind she was not the liability that the others thought she was. If it came to something like that, then he could easily leave her behind, and therefore she was not a liability.

He didn't explain his reasons for keeping her around to anyone, not even Sumi herself. And by now her presence was a fact that most people accepted, at least around Jax. He was completely enthralled by the fact that she was genuinly unafraid of him. He couldn't say that for most men he was around, let alone women. Her lack of fear, combined with the fact that she was one of the most fragile people he'd ever met attracted him to her very strongly. As a result, he let her get away with almost anything and gave her anything she asked for if he could find some way to get it for her. It was her general weakness and the way that he spoiled her that made the other tribe members think that she was a liability, and perhaps they were right, but Jax was in complete denial.

"Did you want to take a ride with me?" As nice as the lodge was, Jax had seen enough of the indoors lately and was hoping she'd consent.

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yakuzaprincess
2009-06-15 04:48 pm UTC (link)

It was interesting, being able to just sit back and watch how things worked now that things were under Jax's control. From what she'd seen, the Mountain Lions were intimidating in their own right, but they hadn't stood a chance against the Jackals when they'd come in and taken over. Sumi had seen the difference and now she'd watch the goings-on of her tribe from day to day. But of course, she most often watch Jax when she was more than sure that he didn't notice. He was always going, always doing something. He had more endurance than anyone she'd ever seen in her entire life. How he managed to do everything and not tire out, not eat or not sleep...it was impressive. Sumi's teachings would have made her want to tend to him. But she refrained. It wasn't her place in the way this new world worked. So instead she just watched. And her interest never faded.

Although she'd been watching him, she hadn't actually talked to Jax for a few days. Her attention was so absorbed in what she was reading that she hadn't noticed Jax come over to her until he was at her side and looking at her book. The text was entirely in Japanese. No English words, but just kanji characters. She was more than sure that he had no idea what it said. She'd only been able to teach him a few words in her language. But surely he didn't have any use for it. And that was alright. He was far too busy doing other important things to learn Japanese.

When he called her beautiful, it made her smile. "I'm just fine. And you?" She closed the book and set in her lap. "It is better, yes. But I'm just grateful to have a place at all." And she meant that. Had Jax and his followers not saved her from New Haven, she would certainly be dead. Living in the woods was most definitely not to her highest expectations, but it was certainly better than not having a life to live at all. Sumi fully accepted the fact that it was under Jax's good graces that she was allowed to remain in the Jackals at all. He could easily leave her behind and she would understand if he did. His decisions were law, after all.

She had no idea at all why he did keep her around, but she was grateful for it all the same. And of course it meant that those below Jax had to accept her presence. Not that all of them accepted it so openly. She didn't care what they thought, although she kept her less than pleasant thoughts to herself. That's what a lady did. Her training and her teachings had taught her so many things. Including not being afraid of men as ruthless as Jax. She'd been raised around them, so she didn't fear them despite her fragile and delicate nature. He couldn't possibly be so terrible if he treated her the way he did.

When he asked her if she'd like to take a ride with him, she immediately smiled and nodded. "That would be wonderful."