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Kazuma Koto

"Hai Hai Taisha-Sama~ heh..."

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a character in “Soul Eater: New Beginning”, as played by DreamerOnTheStars

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Kazuma Koto
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-Age: 18

-Gender: Male

-Weapon/Meister/witch/teacher: Meister

-Partner: Taisha

-Description: Kazuma, being a meister, requires training at a daily bases, thus he has a nice build. Its hidden under his clothing however, but by his legs and arms, you can tell of his efforts. Though, along with that muscle, his body is rather lanky giving him agility and dodging power. A good mix, he is balanced. Now for looks, he has nice fluffy white hair that flies in the wind and lands perfectly. And to match, he has soft pink eyes that glows a crimson red when angry. Even with that anger though, he gives off the best smile that just reassures. It almost intimidating to the enemies because he appears so calm and its eerie when he's mad.

-Height: 5'9

-Weight: 135

-Hair Color: White

-Eye Color: A light red/Pink

-Skill(s)/Ability(s):
  • He is fast, flexible and agile with his moves
  • Observant, and perceptive
  • Despite his lack of noticeable muscles, his attacks shoot out to rather strong and direct.

-Personality: Kazuma is the most energetic, while being enigmatic at the same time. He appears to be happy-go-lucky and good-natured, and acts very carefree. With his very hime like partner, Taisha he is often laughing weakly in defeat and acting as he always does. However, Kazuma has been shown to be as perceptive and a skilled fighter. He also appears to carry a deep emotional burden, and values his own life very little. In battle, Kazuma doesn't bother to fight very hard for his life, and will only do so if someone he cares for is in danger, for example Taisha. Though he hides his unhappiness well, When he is confronted about it, he usually gives very dark and enigmatic answers and quickly returns to his happy side. His past is a profound motivating factor for his actions and is something Kazuma cannot seem to overcome; instead he masks it all with a smile.

-Bio: Kazuma had a very bad past and its barely mentioned. He appeared to be involved with gangs, and sketchy acts. Even his personality was bad and unhealthy. Though he admits that new friends, specifically Taisha changed him for the better good. However despite this big change, Kaze still holds his past and hurt within him, and behind a smile. Even his bad habit of caring little of his own life lingers. Anyhow, after meeting Taisha, he honestly was very annoyed by her. It is said that Taisha continued to bother him until he slowly grew used to her unconsciously. She broke him in, Kaze quotes. Now he has a debt to pay with Taisha and he promises to protect her like she did for him.

-Other:

So begins...

Kazuma Koto's Story

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Character Portrait: Leon Silverking Character Portrait: Taisha Dokidorie Character Portrait: Chamile Leon Character Portrait: Professor Ellis Greyworth Character Portrait: Roxie McKelly Character Portrait: Hibiki Fuuma
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It’s been a few weeks since Lord Death has heard of any movements from the witches. This could be considered a good thing or a bad thing, especially considering who it was that had brought them all together, the witch Chamile.

Now of all days Chamile has initiated their plan to test put just how well Lord Death has trained his students. Each witch has chosen to go up against a student to test out their magic as well as the students almost like an experiment of sorts.


Chamile has chosen to go against Meister and Weapon#3
Howler the Hunter has chosen to go against Meister and Weapon#4
And finally their new addition, Quick Silver has chosen to go against Meister and Weapon#1

The Kishin will go against whomever he chooses to fight, whether it be a random student pair or Lord Death himself.

At first the student pairs will be hunting a Kishin Egg until a witch confronts them.

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Character Portrait: Taisha Dokidorie Character Portrait: Chamile Leon Character Portrait: Hibiki Fuuma Character Portrait: Kiego Forstein Character Portrait: Quick Silver Character Portrait: Kazuma Koto
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Kiego

He didnt really feel like going to the nurse but knowing Lord Death he might end up getting a Reaper Chop if he didnt. As they left Lord Deaths room they passed by another Miester/Weapon pair who looked just as beat up as they did and they looked like they were in a hurry.

"Hey you two didnt happen to be attacked by some weird guy who uses tonfas did you?" Although they were pretty much complete strangers despite the fact that they were probably in the same class as he and Hibiki, Kiego just couldnt help but know.

Chamile

Her fight was pretty damn fun at least for her that is. The dWMA students had gotten frusterated when she showed them her magic. Chamile had managed to seperate the two and nearly succeded in poising as the weapon.

It failed in the end when he tried to get her to change into "her" weapon form. By then the kid was smart enough to make some distance between the two and search for his partner. While he had done that Chamile had chased him, mocked both of them and tried to almost kill them a few times. In the end she let them get away since unlike Quick Silver she had no real desire to kill them. This was only a test run to see how things would happen.

Grinning a savage smile Chamile walked forwards opening a portal as she did so and was gone. Chamile then stepped intothe presence of the Kishin and Quick Silver. "So where that big oaf? He's still hasnt been able to deal with those two students?" she snorted but knew Howler could take care of himself.

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Taisha


"Hey you two didn't happen to be attacked by some weird guy who uses tonfas did you?"

Taisha wasn't really in the mood for chit chat when she heard a male voice address her and her partner but nonetheless, felt obliged to respond with something. She turned her head in the boy's direction to find herself faced with one of her classmates. What was his name again.. Kissy? Kinky? Keester? Klepto? Shaking her head and deciding the name of this particular brown-haired male was irrelevant, she responded in a tired manner.

"No, we were attacked by a naked-looking witch.. of whom you males would have probably preferred... hm?"

The corner of her lips twitched upwards to form a slight smirk as she observed the two male partners, the other boy being a mysterious blonde whose red bandanna made his eyes hard to see. She wondered how they would react to her comment before nudging her elbow against her partner's stomach whom was standing behind her.

"We would have won too if not for this idiot."

Taisha released a sigh before boldly pointing at the first boy to talk to her with her right hand's index finger. It looked like she was about to place the blame on him next but she had other things to say.

"Besides, it's rude to talk to someone without first giving your name. If you don't tell me now and introduce yourself properly you will be known to me as Kinky until further notice."

Her hand moved upward and in a sudden motion was brought back down again to point at the so-called Kinky's partner.

"And you.. you're so quiet I almost thought you weren't even here but you're sort of cute like that so..."

She said without hesitation and as straight forward as ever. She stopped pointing to adjust the sleeve of her arm before holding her hand out to offer a handshake to him.

"I'm Taisha. Shake it."

The stubborn girl seemed to be demanding the gesture as her eyes became serious, cold and automatically daring. Her hand continued to be outstretched and solid, not even for a bit wavering as it revealed her strong level of confidence.

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Kiego

"No, we were attacked by a naked-looking witch.. of whom you males would have probably preferred... hm?"

"We would have won too if not for this idiot."

The girl had a smart mouth to her and already he was getting irritated by her attitude towards him.

"Okay first I'm not that kind of guy whos into erotic stuff. Which means there was more than one witch. And give the guy some slack Missy-"

She then pointed her index finger at him. Which surprised him then it began to irk him. What the hell is up with this chick?

"Besides, it's rude to talk to someone without first giving your name. If you don't tell me now and introduce yourself properly you will be known to me as Kinky until further notice."

Kiego was now not only annoyed but he really wanted to choke this girl. "K-Kinky! How the hell did you get that as a name!!" She didnt answer him but instead pointed her finger at Hibiki in a similar dramatic way. Kiego was expecting a similar smartass remark towards Hibiki but her next choice of words truly broke his heart.

"And you.. you're so quiet I almost thought you weren't even here but you're sort of cute like that so..."

Cute! And I'm frikin Kinky! What the hell! he grinded his teeth trying to bite back a nasty reply to all her remarks. He glanced over his shoulder and glared at Hibiki hopefully he would get the memo. If not they were going to have to have a serious lesson on understanding each other.

She stopped pointing at them to adjust her sleeve. Kiego watched her cautiouy expecting some kind of torture this girl so easily brought for butit was unexpected to find she actually did have some manners. She held out her arm for him to shake it and he did.

"I'm Taisha. Shake it."

Still somewhat cautious, Kiego returned the shake. "I'm Kiego and this is my partner Hibiki" gesturing over to his friend.

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Character Portrait: Taisha Dokidorie Character Portrait: Chamile Leon Character Portrait: Hibiki Fuuma Character Portrait: Kiego Forstein Character Portrait: Quick Silver Character Portrait: Milo Caswall
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Hibiki Fuuma


Hibiki begrudgingly followed Kiego out of the Death room. Well the report went about as well as I could have hoped and Lord Death seems to be happy with our progress so we're not in trouble there... still I feel like Lord Death was hiding something... It bothers me that he won't tell us what's going on I know he knows more than he's told us.' By the time Hibiki started paying attention again Kiego had stumbled into another meister/weapon pair who'd apparently stumbled upon a witch during their mission. He began to pay closer attention.

"No, we were attacked by a naked-looking witch.. of whom you males would have probably preferred... hm? We would have won too if not for this idiot."

Hibiki kept quiet not really caring about the comments the girl had only wanting to learn about their fight with the witches. 'Not the kindest of speakers... Though she is very direct in her thinking and doesn't beat around the bush. I rather respect that.'

Kiego of course went ahead and opened his mouth falling for her bait as he attempted to defend himself. "Okay first I'm not that kind of guy who's into erotic stuff. Which means there was more than one witch. And give the guy some slack Missy-"

Not to disappoint the girl had quite the rebuttal. "Besides, it's rude to talk to someone without first giving your name. If you don't tell me now and introduce yourself properly you will be known to me as Kinky until further notice." At this Hibiki had to exert quite a bit of self control to stop himself from laughing at his meister's expense.

He was so distracted that he didn't hear Kiego's response to the girl but was brought back to reality as he watched the girl's finger fall this time onto him. 'This will be interesting. I wonder what she has to say about my performance.'

"And you.. you're so quiet I almost thought you weren't even here but you're sort of cute like that so..."

A slight blush appeared on Hibiki's cheeks, but still he said nothing preferring to let Kiego take care of the talking. 'Cute? No one's ever called me cute before. Granted no one's ever noticed me before... What does it mean that I'm cute? Should I tell her that she's cute or would that be stupid. GAH people are hard enough when they ignore me now I've been complimented I can't even think of anything to say and there's no way I could actually talk to her she's way to pretty to talk to someone like me.' Hibiki was lost in his own world with a new question that he'd never thought about before. He went on thinking in his head. He fell back into reality as he heard his name mentioned by Kiego who was shaking the girl's hand. 'Damn it I was so engrossed in my thought I didn't catch her name. I'll just ask Kiego when we get home.'

Before long their discussion concluded and Kiego was off to the nurse. Once they were alone Hibiki spoke up. "Hey Kiego... I'm going to go train for a while. I've got some stuff to think about and it'll help clear my head. I'll catch up with you back at the house." Hibiki turned and left after his brief goodbye to Kiego and headed into the forest clearing where he had his solo training set up. 'No matter how well Kiego and I are working together I still need to be able to fight on my own...' Hibiki started his normal training routine working his strikes and blocks before taking to the trees jumping from branch to branch like he always had. He came to one of the easiest jumps and allowed himself to relax for a minute. Then he saw her. The girl from earlier just flashed into his mind. His foot slipped on the branch and he fell 10 feet to the ground landing flat on his back knocking the wind out of himself. "FUU---" He laid there on the ground trying to regain his breath and think. 'Why? How? What did she do that she can not only pop into my head but distract me so much that I couldn't even finish one of the easiest battle patterns I do. What is going on?!'

Quick Silver


As Silver stepped through his portal he was brought before 'Him' the kishin. 'No matter how many time I see him I'm never going to get used to this aura surrounding him. It's so infuriating! It makes everything else seem boring.'

Shortly after his arrival Furor addressed him. "Ah Silver, so good to see you. How did it go? Oh, PLEASE tell me they were terrified. Angry perhaps? Oh I would just LOVE it if they were mad, angry that you attacked them, mad that they couldn't beat you. It would be perfect."

Silver bowed slightly before speaking. He knew better than upsetting the Kishen. "Kishen Furor, My mission was a complete success. I found and engaged the team of Hibiki Fuuma and Kiego Forstein. They haven't been paired very long their combat skills are to sloppy for them to have been paired long. The weapon is a shuriken that can collapse into a sword like weapon. They attacked me shortly after I'd arrived. They were sloppy and completely at my mercy for the duration of the fight. They entered their resonance form and the weapon became a pair of hand claws and granted the ability to shift through shadows. They made to flee but I chased them down to get an example of their combat skill in their resonance form. They were capable of more powerful strikes, but they were still unable to gain ground until they maxed their resonance and charged me knocking me off balance momentarily. I'd decided I'd learned enough and let them flee after inflicting only minor wounds to the meister." Just as he finished his story Chamile appeared through a portal and greeted the pair.

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Taisha


"Okay first I'm not that kind of guy whos into erotic stuff. Which means there was more than one witch. And give the guy some slack Missy-"

Taisha had heard it but ignored it as per usual to go about what she had wanted to say which was really amusing as the K- dude whose name escaped her from class, continued to react in an irked manner as time went by.

"K-Kinky! How the hell did you get that as a name!!"

Taisha heard that as well but again, ignored it. She liked how she was just being her natural self and feeding someone's fire. It was pretty funny how defensive he had been and it allowed her room to assume that he was offended and she had hit a nerve. Just the way she liked it. Even so, she was a proper lady and shook the guy's hand respectfully although her words weren't of the same nature.

"I'm Kiego and this is my partner Hibiki"

Taisha turned her attention to Hibiki, the boy she had referred to as the cute one so easily.

"Ah ha.. He.. Hee-bee-key? He is the bee's key? I like it."

Taisha spoke aloud, not leaving her thoughts unknown as she poked her right hand's index finger against her bottom lip. It just sounded like a fun enough name to say.

"Key-ay-goh? Key, hey where you go? So you must be the bee... you guys make quite a pair.."

She smirked to herself as her hands' fingers entwined behind her back, body slightly leaned forward in a girly but somewhat cheeky fashion.

"Nice to meet ya.. behind me is my dear partner, Kazuma."

She continued to smirk, shutting her eyes for a brief moment as she introduced her partner without turning behind her or gesturing. Without wasting another second, she started stomping one foot impatiently before making her way to where they were originally headed- Lord Death's office. Taisha naturally plopped herself at the table in the center without an invitation to be seated. "I'll have some tea." She said at the precise moment she poured herself a cup while her partner explained the situation to Lord Death. Taisha hated having to report every little minor detail of every major failure. At least, she had considered the fight with the witch a 'major failure'. The meeting then concluded as a blur to Taisha. While she liked Lord Death and wanted to become a death scythe eventually, she didn't like the idea of having to say, "We messed up big time." or "They took us by surprise. We were ill-prepared." so she left the talking to her reliable partner whom she hoped understood her reasons and sense of pride. As they excited the office, Taisha puffed her cheeks before releasing the air and sighing out loud. "This blows.. I'm going to get some fresh air m'kay Kazuma?"

Taisha headed for the forest hoping to find a quiet and isolated spot to sew and contemplate her recent defeat but instead, was surprised to see that somebody was already taking up the clearing space. She neared the individual about to open her mouth and kick them out of the spot she had claimed in her mind until she was standing over the familiar male who looked out of breath.

"Oh it's you.. the quiet one."

She muttered before kicking his side a bit, not enough to hurt but serving more as a tease or method that tended to irritate people.

"You are.."

She kicked.

"In my..."

She kicked again.

"Spot."

One more kick.

"Taisha's exclusive spot for Taisha and Taisha alone. Good bye."

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Kiego

Kiego chuckled saying his goodbyes to Hibiki, he had never seen Hibki blush before and it was funny. Thinking back to how Taisha had treated him he growled raking his hand through his hair trying to keep from punching the walls around him. “ God Dammit! What the hell is up with that chick!?” realizing he had gotten worked up over her comment Kiego slouched a bit depressed with himself.

Leaning his head against the wall tears of shame going down his cheeks, “to think a girl I only just met could get me this worked up, what’s wrong with me?” Sighing Kiego headed to the nurse sulking a bit. The lucky bastard got a compliment while I was called kinky what the hell! frowning Kiego dragged his feet across the floor and opened the door to the nurses office.

The nurse was pretty cute at least today and it put a smile on his face to see her. Yes at least I get to be treated by the cute nurse so there’s nothing to worry about . . . His skin paled when he realized the pretty nurse was leaving and the new nurse was, well she couldn’t even be called a woman she looked like a gorilla in a nurse outfit. “I spoke to soon. On second thought I’m fine I think I’ll just go home for now.”

Pivoting on his heel Kiego didn’t even make it past the door when a giant ham-sized hand gripped his shoulder and flung him onto one of the beds. What happened after Kiego won’t say all you need to know was Kiego didn’t plan on going back there for a pretty long while least he be treated by the gorilla nurse.

The nurse shoved him out of the room and tears streamed down his face. In the next moment Kiego was on his knees banging his fist against the floor. “Damn you Hibiki damn you, you lucky bastard.” Realizing he was no longer alone in the hallway he looked up to find Taisha’s partner. Jumping up from the floor he quickly composed himself and walked up to the guy. he was Kazuma right?

Walking over to the guy he put his hand on his shoulder, “If you here for the nurse don’t bother trying, it’s every man’s worst nightmare.” he frowned a bit, “Your that guy who was behind Taisha right, are you her partner?”

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Kazuma was out of it as he thought about the meaning of life and how the sky works.. but he soon snapped back to reality as he realized he was alone without his hime next to him. He blinks. First the small girl was there and now.. everyone was gone. He stood there stupidly for a moment before grinning bubbly. 'Guess she left, Ill catch up to her~' Taking bouncy strides down the hall, he slowed down. Purple hair, short stature... "Taisha-sama!" Suddenly the grown man was pressed against the window like a dog seeing his master. What was she doing? An imaginary dog tail wagged ferociously as he watched her socialize. "hehe-" BANG. Kazuma froze.

“Damn you Hibiki damn you, you lucky bastard.” Kazuma looked over his shoulder and seemed to turn normal. He blinked with curious pink eyes. 'What was he doing?' Was he crazy? He continued questioning as the man seemed to suddenly compose himself within seconds. 'Strange.' He stared at his hand [which was on his person] for a moment and then him. Another student.
“If you here for the nurse don’t bother trying, it’s every man’s worst nightmare.” 'What was he talking about?' “Your that guy who was behind Taisha right, are you her partner?”

He smiles. "Yeah, my name is Kazuma." A sudden memory hit him. "Keigo...Kinky.." "Your name is kin... no keigo right?" He chuckles. "Nice to meet you ^[]^" As he spoke, a bubbly air just surrounded his very person and it was very hard to feel indifferent..


[Sorry its kinda crappy! I want to get this story on the rode]

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Kiego

"Yeah, my name is Kazuma." Kiego smiled but it dropped to a grim line at Kazuma’s next choice in words. "Your name is kin... no keigo right?" It really irked him considering the guy was just about to call him kinky. Running a hand through his hair Kiego looked aside, “Yeah nice to meet you two. At least you seem like a nice person unlike that other girl, Taisha.”

Kiego frowned a bit at having to say her name and remembered Hibiki and his blushing face. He chuckled remembering it but then looked back to Kazuma noticing a slight change in his demeanor at what he had said before.

(wow that was incredibly short^^; well why not get this started eh Dreamer its alright to move Kiego.)

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“Yeah nice to meet you two. At least you seem like a nice person unlike that other girl, Taisha.” His eyes seemed to sharpen as he heard his partners name used with distaste. But he closed them in a happy way and tilted his head. "Thats what people say.." Kazuma opened his eyes and it shined with sincerity. "but she isnt that bad. You should get to know her better." With that he went back to his bubbly self. "Anyways, I guess we both dont have our partners, so that means!-" He was suddenly closer to him, the bubbly aura grew larger, consuming keigo [and the aura seemed to becoming darker ^^]. "we should get to know each other."

[MWAHAHAHA Creepy kazuma slips out.]

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Kiego

Kiego left Kazuma in the woods as the two barely even started their brawl when a teacher came in to pull them apart. So now he was at he and Hibiki's apartment glowering at the ceiling above him. Kiego stayed this was for the next hour or so but after about half an hour he got up and found himself a tennis ball to throw against the wall to keep him occupied.

It helped in relieving himself of his frustration but not much really. Then Hibiki came home all happily which only annoyed Kiego even more than how he already was. "It was downright terrible!" to answer his partners first question. Kiego was about to ask Hibiki similar one but it seemed his friend beat him to it by answering the unsaid question.

Hearing that Kiego couldn't help but smile in a teasing manner, "Ha so you have a crush on that girl then huh? Damn I met her partner and to be honest with you Hibiki I don't particularly like either of them." Throwing the ball one last time, Kiego threw it pretty hard and surprisingly managed to catch it without too much of a problem. [color=orange] "So any way you gonna ask her out or something?"[/color'] he asked giving HIbiki a smug look. Of course Kiego was expecting his friend to give him a smart reply as he so often did but he mainly hoped to fluster him.