[Day: Monday, March 29th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Cloudy and warm.] [You gather at the lockers, as per usual. Hopefully nobody will be falling off rooftops today.] [Session Start] * Haruko meanders down the hallway, she isn't holding anything and doesn't seem to be distracted by anything in particular, but has a slightly dreamy distant look in her eyes. * Kaede walks off the rooftop and crashes. If by "off the rooftop", you mean "down the hallway." and by "crashes" you mean "carrying his kaban with him and being likely followed by Katie." * Satoshi is at his locker, as usual, waiting for the others. * Katie is, yes, tagging along. Kind of to the side, kind of behind... she peeks around Kaede to see the Haruko and Satoshi and catch them in the eye. ( Katie's been reduced to a grunt. ) * Satoshi looks unblinkingly back at Katie, as is the custom. * Haruko doesn't quite notice Katie at the moment, but her eyes check out, she's got an odd look, but nothing else strange. * Katie eyes Haruko extra long, then scurries out from behind Kaede and to her locker before fiddling with the combination. * Taki arrives later than most of everybody else. In other news the sky is blue and grass is usualy green. Of actual interest she looks a bit more together than she did at this time yesterday. * Kaede sighs and pushes up his glasses as he sticks stuff in his locker as if nothing happened. "You're more fidgetty than normal today..." * Haruko eventually gets there, leans against a locker and slides down to sitting on the floor, and then gives a wave to the group from the ground. * Satoshi watches Katie with a concerned look. * Kaede then glances over at Haruko and raises an eyebrow. "And you too. Are you alright, Haruko?" * Katie takes a breath. "No reason, really." She blinks. "I'm okay." One pull and she has the locker open, and she starts messing with her books. * Haruko smiles over at Kaede. "Quite, had a very pleasant Sunday. Not quite everything I hoped, but in a way a lot more." * Taki waves to Satoshi and waits for Katie to finish with her locker so she can get the eye check over with. * Satoshi glances quickly at Haruko. "Ryuji?" * Haruko nods and smiles. "No more dates for just now, but maybe when he's ready." * Kaede blinks but nods at that and shuts his locker, sliding out his laptop and opening it up as he sits down. * Taki grins at Haruko, "Congrats." Well, you seem really happy about it, so, yeah, glad it went pretty well. * Satoshi is still keeping semi-watch over Katie out of the corner of his eye. * Haruko nods to Taki and Satoshi. "Thanks." * Katie closes her door and turns to tilt her head. "So you're sure he likes you?" * Kaede starts typing away at his computer. "Shame there's no more for right now though.." * Taki blinks at Kaede. * Kaede doesn't notice. Busy typing! * Haruko looks to Katie. "I'm sure he'll only ask me out again if he does." She grins. "He even said as much, he doesn't know how far that like goes, but I'll give him time and space to figure that out on his own." * Katie nods. "At least he told you." She pauses. "Good for you. And him." She looks Taki in the eye. * Kaede hits the enter key and leans his cheek on his knuckles, idly staring at the screen. "Well at least he's honest." * Haruko smiles back at her. "Thank you." She then goes back to her little dreamworld til Kyon gets here and it's time for business. * Taki is currently looking at Kaede's laptop, but at least one of her eyes is the right color. * Satoshi looks like he's thinking about something, but since he's not accidentally broadcasting, who knows what it is? ( ~There are too many provences now'a'days. We should eliminate three.~) * Katie mmms faintly, then pulls a camera out of her pocket and takes a snapshot of Haruko-in-Wonderland. (Sadly, I do not get your reference.) (Simpsons. Grampa writing a particularly bizarre letter to the editor I believe. ) * Kaede doesn't note Taki and keeps his eyes fixated on the computer. * Haruko blinks and glances up at Katie. "New hobby?" * Satoshi chuckles a little. (Isn't that the one where he also says "These are words I never want to hear in the media again in relation to old people?") (Quite possibly.) ( Actually, it was addressed to the President. ) ( Oooh.) ( "Dear Mr. President, there are too many states these days. Please eliminate three. No, I am not insane." ) ( /me snerks. "I forgot the last bit, that sells it.") * Taki looks away from Kaede and his work when Haruko comments and then follows her eyes to Katie. She looks confused for a moment and then asks, "...Going to use it for refrence?" * Dicesuke has joined #arcana * Katie smiles a little. "Maybe." She twirls the camera's loop around her fingers. * Haruko nods and smiles approvingly. "Neat, if any come out really well I'd like to see them." She then slips off into her own world again. * Taki tugs on her braid for a moment and then nods. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (2d6-2) and gets 5. * Kyon turns the corner at the end of the hall, with his bag slung across his back. He's carrying a foil in one hand, and is turning it deliberately in an arc as he walks. * Haruko doesn't notice his coming just yet, she's still off in happy-Ryuji land (now open on weekends). [Kaede's cell phone rings.] * Katie looks up to Kyon as she hears that, trying to meet his eyes. * Taki eyes Kyon, "That...new." * Satoshi watches Kyon approach, eyeing the sword. * Kaede looks up at the screen and types some stu....well stops mid-sentence, digging out his cell phone and flipping it open. "Yeah? This is Kaede Takeuchi." * Katie jumps slightly. * Kyon watches the weight of the sword turn with red-brown eyes as he stalks down towards them. He's not paying much attention to them as of yet. * Kaede curses and almost fumbles the phone, putting it back to his ear. "Gah! What? What?" * Katie winces. * Haruko glances over briefly at Kaede as he starts to have trouble. She doesn't seem sure yet whether it's something that matters to her. * Satoshi looks over at Kaede. "What's going on?" * Kaede looks over at Satoshi and cups his hand over the mouthpiece, shaking his head. His expression's still one of surprise though. * Taki looks between Kyon and Kaede, unsure of what she should do. * Haruko then glances up at the arriving Kyon and waves// * Kaede looks around at everyone a little nervously but continues. "Yeah. Yeah...what about it?" * Haruko looks over at Kaede and loses the dreamy expression and starts to listen carefully. * Satoshi quiets down and watches Kaede. * Katie looks down at Kaede, a little confused, then back up to watch Kyon as he approaches. * Kaede coughs and almost falls over his laptop. "WHAT? I didn't...I mean..." He looks around at the group and tries to regain his composure, lowering his voice. "I don't THINK it was supposed to be like that anyway..." ... * Kyon keeps his eyes on the sword as he says, "Client coming onto you again?" * Satoshi blinks and decides that he definitely wants an explanation when the phone call's finished. * Kyon waves tersely with his other hand back at Haruko, without really looking at her. * Taki blinks at Kaede and watches him untill Kyon speaks and she looks up again. * Haruko digs through her bag and gets out a pen and a piece of paper. She writes on the top. 'If we should know now, you can write it.' She then faces it towards him and pushes him the paper and pen. * Kaede doesn't look too pleased, types on his computer a little bit and closes his laptop, shutting it down. He eyes the group a little irritated. "Excuse me a minute..." He walks down the hall. FAR down the hall, trying to get out of even Katie range. ( He's gonna have to go farther than that :P ) * Haruko throws up her hands, retrieves her papers, and then looks up to Kyon. "So has fencing season started or something?" (Down the hall, around the corner, on the roof keeping his voice low...whatever :P) * Katie watches him go, then frowns. "He shouldn't go off by himself. Kaede?" She hurries after him. "Hey, idiot!" * Haruko smirks slightly at that. Doesn't say anything though. (You'd probably have to... well, she can hear stuff on the roof if she makes a good roll. Hmm.) * Kaede looks behind him and waves Katie off. "I'll be back, promise!" Yeah, just because you don't want us to know you're talking to Akemi about... whatever. You shouldn't- * Katie sighs, throws her hands in the air, and stalks back to the group. She does *not* look happy about this. * Taki takes a brief look at Kyon and plays a game of which eye color did the real one have again, before taking a few steps after Katie, but by that time she's coming back. * Kyon swings the sword to point in Haruko's general direction, so she can see the point has a safety button on it. "Testing the new weapons for balance." He keeps his eyes on the sword, then shifts them to Satoshi. * Satoshi exhales, then looks back at Kyon. "Yes?" Go along with him. Out of listening range, in eyesight. * Katie returns, sits down with a huff, and busily digs into her satchel. She pulls out her sketchpad and pencil. "Please do, Satoshi?" If I go, he'll think I'm trying to listen in. * Satoshi looks slightly reluctant until Katie seconds it. "Sure." He heads after Kaede. * Kyon smirks. "If you go, you will be listening in." * Taki waves to Satoshi as he goes, "Thank you." * Haruko looks the sword over and nods. "Neat. If any ever need tunning lemme know, I'm not too bad with metal work." * Katie sticks her tongue out at Kyon before going to her sketchpad. "But not trying." * Kyon shrugs quickly. "If they're not balanced, we'll trade them in for better ones. Don't take inferior products." * Haruko thinks about that for a moment. "Makes sense, if not quite as much fun." * Katie scratches at her cheek for half a moment before picking up a pencil and getting to work. * Kyon swings it one more time downwards with a flourish, then lays it aside, upright against a locker. He looks sidewise at Haruko. "You want to be a smith, be a smith." * Taki sits down next to Katie and watches her draw. * Haruko looks up. "I just might, my next project is to recast my lockpicks. I think they're more important than socks, but less important than a jacket or pants." * Katie bites her tongue and works. Much faster than usual. * Taki starts to grin as Katies drawing takes shape. * Kyon smirks. "Besmirch your honor before your kendo captain, no telling if he'll have you back." * Haruko blushes. * Katie doesn't look up, but she comments, "He got you." Sets down a pencil and picks up a different one. * Haruko tilts her head. "What to you mean?" Kyon made you blush. Good job, Kyon. You get two points. * Kyon turns sharply on his foot and presses against the locker, still smirking. "Didn't know I was competing. Should be trying harder." * Katie picks out a gray and keeps working. She snerks. * Taki continues to watch, "Now if it just talked about having too many other things to worry about and followed you around and not quite intentionaly insulting Haruko it'd be just like he hadn't left." * Haruko looks embarrassed but blushes a little less. (*RDM takes a bag of commas and spreads them through that sentance.) * Katie puts that down, grabs the black again, and keeps working. * Taki grins wider, "Then again that never happens." and then mock yells, "Lookout behind you!" * Kyon turns his head against the locker to look at Haruko. "Still, making him a sword would be a good present. If it's good." * Katie snickers. * Katie looks through her pencils, carefully for the first time, and picks out a yellow and an orange. * Haruko tilts her head. "I... I couldn't manage a ceremonial or a traditional one. I don't know if he'd want something more modern...." * Haruko then grabs her pen and starts sketching out a few ideas. * Katie keeps sketching. * Kyon watches Haruko for a moment, then shakes his head bemusedly. He then looks down at Katie's picture. Well... new materials can do a lot, but I don't know I could sharpen it as much, well, not with the equipment I have here. And that still doesn't solve the traditional problem, I think he likes tradition. * Taki continues to grin wider. * Kyon nods quickly, the smirk firmly in place. "Because that Chinese food means tradition." * Katie lets Kyon see, much like she let Taki see. She gets to work on coloring the thing. * Taki shakes her head, "Poor, poor Kaede. I knew him. If only he'd listen to the rest of us sometimes..." * Haruko tilts her head. "Huh, good point. What kind of sword should I make? A false katanna would be sorta insulting." Yeah. He never learns. * Haruko smirks slightly and nods as she sketches. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Never know. Experience like that might do him good." * Kyon glances up at Haruko. "One made of old bike parts?" He smirks. "From the heart." * Katie colors! "You think so? Satoshi might save him." * Taki doesn't take her eyes off the drawing, "Yeah, but unless Satoshi can run a lot faster than I remember him doing...it's ..." * Taki trails off. * Haruko laughs. "That'd be silly." She blinks. "Well..." She starts sketching out a few possibilities. * Katie snickers. "Maybe if I gave him a cape. Would he move faster with a cape?" She pauses. "Nah, that'd be silly." * Haruko looks up at Katie. "What'cha drawing?" His stick might help. * Kyon nods quickly. "Capes slow you down." * Katie raises her pencil. "Let me sign the corner." It could be a cape of speed! * Haruko shakes her head. "That'd be silly. Now a cape could help you keep airborne or something, but the air friction would slow you down." * Katie puts her pencil down, looks through her satchel for a pen, and signs the sketch. Katie Andrews. * Haruko keeps trying to see, leaning forward a little towards that goal. * Kyon looks at it critically. "Stick it to his locker." * Taki tilts her head to look at it, "Nah, give it to his sister." * Katie then lifts it up so Haruko can see. It's Kaede, looking at his computer with intense concentration and the phone lifted to his ear. Behind him is a semi-cartoony zombie, hands hovering around his head. There's a thought bubble going from Kaede that has cheese in it. In the distant background is Satoshi (he's wearing a jersey!), pointing and yelling, "Look out, Kaede!" in English, with a red exclamation point. (*laughs*) (Mwahaha!) * Haruko laughs. "What's the text say?" He's telling him to look out. Ah. ::she laughs a little more and then gets back to work:: * Katie tilts her head as she considers. "His locker? I could..." * Kyon shrugs quickly. "If you give it to someone, give it to his client. Get better use out of it that way." * Taki nods, "Wait... that's not right." * Katie says, perfectly straight-faced, "" * Haruko blinks for a moment, "Oh yeah. Yay!" * Taki blushes a bit, "I need more practice." I can take that massage this week. Any of you want to come? Akemi can get a discount. * Katie blinks. "Massage? What?" * Haruko nods. "I had called her a while back and she was getting one, and she mentioned she could get a discount for me." * Kyon looks down at Katie bemusedly. "You saying that English is like the bike salesman crowing optimism." * Katie grins as she keeps looking over her picture. "I have no idea what you're talking about." * Haruko gets to back idly drawing. She's got a variety of art deco-y to steampunk looking swords, some with adjustable weights based on one or two handed use, some with electrical chargers, but mostly pretty straightforward swords. * Taki smiles and nods, it's a winning combination. * Kyon glances at Haruko's page. "Make him one that glows blue. Kendo people like that." * Haruko takes a moment to bat a bang behind her head as she looks down and works. "Really? I could use neon light or.. not, that'd break... maybe a heated metal that'd go blue." * Katie selects a nice cloudy blue and rolls the pencil to Haruko. * Haruko doesn't look up as she tries some possibilities, grabbing the blue pencil as she works. "So, massage, wanna come? Should be fun and relaxing." * Kaede continues stalking back towards the lockers, probably ahead of Satoshi. He's glaring right at Katie as he approaches. * Katie is smiling, a little, but she loses it before she even looks up at Kaede. "What?" * Satoshi follows Kaede with a resigned look on his face. How could you do that?! * Taki shrugs and looks at Haruko, "Sounds like it would be fun, it's just that we never know what's going to come up, so if I can I will, and if I can't, we'll go later. Sou..." * Katie winces. "Do what?" She glances at Satoshi, then back to Kaede. * Taki trails off again and looks her returning friends, "What happened?" You think I need a babysitter every moment of my LIFE, Katie Andrews? * Haruko nods at Taki and then looks over to Katie, forwns, looks to Kaede, shrugs resignedly, and gets back to her drawings. * Satoshi , in a remarkably Kyon-like moment, rolls his eyes. (Freudian slip there >_>) * Katie blinks, and her mouth drops open a little, then she shuts it. She gets to her feet, snapping her sketchbook shut and scooping up her colored pencils. "I'm sorry?" * Kyon looks up from Haruko's drawing, and looks at Kaede sidewise. He shoves his hands in his pockets. You---you.... * Kaede points at Katie for a bit then throws down his hand in frustration, swivelling away from her. "Urggh!" * Haruko frowns and shoots Kaede what would be a dirty look, if she was actually facing him. She hands Katie back the blue pencil. Wha? * Kaede picks up his kaban and storms out towards the exit. (and laptop of course too) * Haruko makes no move to stop him and keeps drawing. Okay, I had no idea he'd react like that... I'm sorry, Katie. * Taki pushes herself to her feet, and then looks at Satoshi, "Whatt'd I just miss?" * Katie takes it without really thinking. "But- I didn't follow you. Satoshi wouldn't-" She looks at Satoshi. "You wouldn't. So..." And she reaches out, grabbing Kaede by the arm as he storms past her. "Hey!" No, I wouldn't, and I didn't. * Kaede swivels back at Katie and outright GLARES at her. "You have NO right to invade in my personal life! Got it? My privacy is my own!" * Kaede yanks his arm away from Katie and goes back to walking towards the entrance. * Satoshi looks at Taki. "Kaede's mad because Katie wanted someone to keep an eye on him. Look, if it's going to make her feel better..." * Taki blinks at Kaede and then takes a few steps twords him, "Hey! You were the one who wanted everybody to travel in pairs remember?" * Katie grimaces, and Kaede manages to yank his arm away. The pencil she was holding flies out of the collective grip and breaks on the floor. * Haruko keeps drawing, her strokes getting faster and thicker. She slightly rips the paper after Kaede tears his hand away. She frowns and starts a new one. * Kyon smirks, and calls out after him, "Not her fault." I don't care any more! If no one's going to trust me, then I don't see the point. I'm going HOME! Like I should have been doing all this time before this...this NONSENSE started happening. * Haruko , if she has any objections, doesn't show them. Instead she's working on listing ways of putting together metals that would shine blue in the light. * Kaede slams the door of the school behind him as he walks out. Kaede, don't- * Satoshi is cut off by the slamming door. * Taki takes a moment to rub her face, "He...it...argh...It's his own advice we were following!" [The door doesn't really slam. It's one of those kinds that is designed to slow as you close it so it can't slam. It closes by itself.] * Katie winces again, biting her lip, and she looks down at her broken pencil. She rubs at one ear. * Taki sighs, "Sorry I yelled Katie..." I'm so sorry, Katie. I didn't think he'd react like that - I though he, of all people, would understand. * Kyon shakes his head bemusedly. "Why should his rules apply to him?" * Katie crouches, scooping up her cloudy blue, and puts it in the case. She doesn't say anything to that. * Haruko puts down her pencil and stands up and gingerly moves to put a hand on her back. "Wanna go do something? Could get that massage or I could go get you a new pencil or..." She kinda trails off. If we go after him he yells at us, if we don't we don't trust in his advice and he'll yell at us later when he has time to think about it. He's scared of me. I just... Damned if you do, damned if you don't? * Satoshi looks at Katie. "Scared of you? Why?" He's got a lot of pride, he likes to be able to make his own decisions, even if they're risky. * Katie opens her book and tears out the picture she just did in a quick, violent motion. "Because I know everything right after he does. Why else?" She bites off those last words. "Anybody want this?" ...I'll take it. * Katie pretty much shoves it into Taki's hands. ( He's finally alone, take him down. ... Fencing talk, don't worry about it. ) * Satoshi shakes his head. "I guess I really don't understand him at all, then." * Taki carefully rolls it up, "Thank you." * Katie puts her hand to her face, leaning against the locker. * Satoshi walks over to her and gently puts a hand on her shoulder. ( Curse you Kate! /me takes a few steps twords Katie and lightly puts a hand on her shoulder) * Haruko puts her papers away for now. She then takes a few steps towards Katie but nods approvingly at Satoshi's choice. (Haha, I type quickly!) * Taki grips her drawing with both hands as she watches Satoshi and Katie. * Katie sniffs. "I don't- I mean, it's best... even if he hates me, right?" * Haruko shakes her head. "He doesn't hate you, that's not the way he'd get angry if he despised you. I know." He...doesn't hate you...it's just that he doesn't know what else to do...I think. I know you didn't mean anything wrong by it. And nothing bad happened. I didn't hear anything, and I was barely paying attention to what he was doing. And he doesn't hate you. He was already upset about something. * Katie moves the hand down and plays with her satchel strap. "Yeah, his secrets that I'm not supposed to know. Bet it's something stupid." Probably is. * Haruko grins ever so slightly. "He's ashamed of his secret liasons with Akemi, he's afraid you'll get jealous since he's your 'girlfriend.'" * Taki nods, "It's cheese. You drew it yourself." She unrolls the sketch to check. * Katie giggles, wiping at her eyes. * Satoshi looks over at the picture and laughs. "Hey, I really like that!" * Haruko smiles slightly and stays quiet for the moment. * Kyon looks over his directory in the phone, and picks out a familiar looking number. Maybe buy him some flowers and jewelry and he'll get over it. Wonder what kind of flowers he likes... * Katie shrugs. "Probably thought they were a pointless waste of time." We should get him a very small maple tree. * Kyon talks back tersely. "Queen of Wands. Can you give me the number of the girl you had watching us?" * Taki grins. * Haruko laughs at that. "That could work, very stoic." * Katie doesn't seem particularly amused. She's turning her camera in her hands. * Haruko then listens for a moment, blinks, and waves her phone in Kyon's direction. * Taki glances around, "If he is going home we can still get there before he does." * Kyon smirks, and it shows in his voice. "Won't do anything bad with it." He doesn't want to see me, and I don't want to hear him yell. * Haruko scowls ever so slightly at Taki's suggestion, she quickly surpresses it though. (I want to hear him yell. =P) I'll talk to him later. I don't care if he yells. * Taki nods, "Could drop him a note....except that'd make him mad too." * Kyon keeps smirking. "Yeah? How so? Anything I should know about?" * Haruko stops waving her phone and looks up Akemi's number, just in case Kyon doesn't get it from the call. * Haruko also doesn't seem to have anything more to say on the Kaede matter. Perhaps taking an old adage to heart. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Easier to get it from you, but all right. Want anything from me now?" He waves quickly at Haruko, mouthing "got it" at her. * Taki slumps against the lockers. ("Do not meddle in the affairs of bike salesmen, as they are subtle and quick to anger?") (Ignore Kaede at all costs, more like.) * Haruko nods and puts her phone away. (Kaede. Subtle? ;P) (he is not being subtle right now) ( And this is why I follow Kyon, such good ideas.) * Satoshi gives Katie's shoulder a gentle squeeze. "Want me to walk you home?" (I am also sarcastic. ;p) * Katie sighs. "Okay." * Taki tugs on her braid again, and then looks at Haruko, "Uhm...Satoshi and I have hockey practice in the morning, and I've missed way too many of them last week...So uhm..." Well, whenever you're ready to actually leave, that is. Yeah. I could... * Katie looks up at the exit, then nods. "Yeah." * Satoshi nods. "Okay." He looks at Taki and Haruko. Just in case he's still mad... * Haruko looks up to Satoshi and over briefly at Katie and then Kyon, and then back to Satoshi. She seems to be in need of guidance. * Taki rubs her face and then turns pink and then rubs harder. I'll worry about that later. (Wait. And she's looking to SATOSHI?) * Taki turns to Katie instead, "I'm trying to ask if one us should walk you to school in the morning." ( Satoshi looked at her. :P ) You staying here, Haruko? (Still find it amusing. ^^;) * Kyon nods quickly. "Right. Let me know. Later." He hangs up, enters a new number into his directory, and dials. * Haruko nods. "I could meet you too, some mornings, if you like." She then looks thoughtful for a moment and looks at Satoshi and Kyon before looking back to Katie. "Would you like me to come too?" * Katie blinks, looking to Taki in surprise. "I..." She pauses, then swallows. "I'll try to have faith in him being there. But-" If he's not, I'll call you? * Taki grins, "I do door to door deliveries if needed. Which I hope isn't." * Katie smiles, faintly, and then it's gone. * Haruko glances at Taki with a rather approving expression. She then looks back to Katie for any sign if she's wanted at the moment. * Kyon listens at the phone for a second, his face going cool, then shrugs quickly. "Hey. This is your captain's opposite number at Sakuragaoka. Good time to talk?" He'll be there, and I'll be at practice geting pelted with hockey pucks, Haruko will be...doing shrine stuff? * Haruko nods. "We get some visitors before work starts." Right, and Kyon will feed his cat or something and it'll be just another morning. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "If you can do that with one hand, sure." * Haruko looks over to Kyon and snerks despite herself. * Katie shakes her head. So should we be going now? * Katie sighs. "Yeah, I guess so." She waves to the others and looks particularly at Kyon. "Call me, okay?" * Haruko waves back and stands by Kyon, waiting. * Kyon nods and waves quickly at Katie and Haruko. * Satoshi waves to Haruko and heads off with Katie. * Taki waves to Haruko, "I'll see you later, soon if you call." (And Taki? Or just Katie?) * Katie nods and walks off. With Satoshi! And, um... no idea if Taki's coming with, but whatever. (You'd have to threaten to kill somebody to keep Taki away right now >_>) * Kyon nods quickly. "Right. Just don't hurt yourself. You hear from your manager recently?" (I'll kill Meimi if you go! =P) (Ahahaha!) (Yup, Kaede being Akemi's manager is a biiiiig secret. 9_9) * Taki follows the other two out and is failing to keep a grin off her face. (Is it? Awww... OK, we can take that back, then!) * Haruko tilts her head and looks slightly confused with Kyon waving at her and Katie waving at her and ponders if this would be a good time to go meet up with the mechanics. (I was being sarcastic. ;P) (He sure hasn't told anyone about it though :P) (I hold that the first retcon was somewhat unnecessary, but I'm fine with taking this one.) (Well, he got the offer at the prison. And Haruko tells Kyon stuff. :P) (I wasn't sure if he'd ever officially accepted, though. And Satoshi still doesn't know, so. ;p) (That's true, we didn't know he'd accepted) ( Now I'm all confused. ) (Basically, just go with it.) ( Ok, will do. ) * Kyon rolls his eyes and elaborates. "Your potential manager? The bike salesman? Two of Pentacles? Grey kid, grey life?" (That's an awesome descrip of Kaede. Point for Kyon!) (Hee) (Hey, I like it) * Haruko shrugs and gets out a piece of paper and scribbles a note to Kyon saying "I'll be with the mechanics in the garage with my cell on if you want me." She shows it before heading off. * Kyon reads the note, nods, and smirks. "Got interesting taste. Hear from him today? Ran out of here before." * Haruko heads off on her own. * Kyon cocks his head. "Just called him as in right before I called, or ten minutes back or so?" * Kyon shakes his head quickly. "Nothing big, then. Just doesn't want to deal with us now. Keep an eye on him for me?" * Kyon nods quickly. "I know you're good at spying. Don't tell him I asked. And unless something happens, no need to report back." He stretches against the locker. "Just not taking chances now." * Kyon smirks. "Right. Want some suggestions on date locations?" * Kyon sounds very amused. "Know some good places around here, restaurants, etc." (/me snerks. "Kyon's so helpful.") (Are you kidding? Having this info would give enough Kaede-mocking data for a year!) (...it would) (Let it not be said that Kyon can't go for having it both ways. ^^) ( /me would so stand around amused and snickering at Kyon's quips. She's such a flunky. ^_~) (I got a spine while you sacrificed yours to Kyon?) (better than giving it to !Katie) * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Right. Change your mind, let me know." ( Haruko's got a spine, she can act autonomously, she's a high value flunky. ;P ) (Bah. No she's not. High value flunkies are the ones who you tell to get beat up and they just stand there and take it.) ( No, those are martyrs, rather different. :P ) * Kyon nods quickly. "So. Later." He waits a second, then hangs up the phone. He picks up his bag as he shakes his head bemusedly. "Girlfriend..." He grabs the foil, and stalks off towards the fencing club room. [End!]