[Day: Wednsday, January 29th. Time: 6:15 P.M.] [Weather: Snow is on the ground, not in the air. And it's not melting any time soon. It's beginning to get a bit colder now that the night is coming on. The sun is low over the Western sky, casting a funky orange color.] [After the fight in the pool yesterday, the group split up. Later, Kyon and Jiro ran into Meimi, and the three decided to go to Seiryuu Girls' High, only to find Saki there as well. She left with a note, taken from some of the girls there.] [The group then paused to consider their next move, but came up blank. Instead, they returned to the Sakuragaoka area, where by amazing coincidence, they happened to be passing the hockey rink as Satoshi finished practice.] [Session Start] * Satoshi steps outside. He's dressed casually and has a sports bag slung over his shoulder. He notices the group and waves, surprised. "Oh, hey, guys." What are you all doing around here? * Jiro blinks and turns to Satoshi. "Huh? Oh, hey, Satoshi." Just trying to figure out what to do next. ^_^ Next? Did I miss something? * Kyon stops walking and looks down at Satoshi. "Just on our way back from Seiryuu." Oh. * Jiro nods. * Satoshi blinks, puzzled. "You went back there?" There's something going on with those drugs, but we don't know where they are. Saki does, but I doubt she'll tell us. * Satoshi frowns. "Yeah." * Kyon nods tersely and shrugs. "I followed a lead there. All there was was the biker girl, though." So I guess she was telling the truth about investigating. With a little time and that girl's address, I might be able to get the address from her. But we don't have her address, and I'm not sure if that's a step I want to take anyway. [The old man speaks! "Of course not. You'd do best not to get involved. In anything, with anyone."] * Satoshi nods, and then notices something. "Hey, where's Katie? Did she have to go home early?" * Meimi looks around. What the hell? [Naturally, as soon as you look for the old man, you catch just a glimpse of him, and he's gone!] Who said that?! * Kyon rocks back on his heels, and jams his hands in his pockets. "Yeah. She helped enough. I don't think she knows much else." He looks around warily. * Jiro blinks. "Huh?" What? I just asked where Katie was. Not, you. It's that damn old man again. * Meimi glares off into the distance. Old man? There's an old man that's been showing up to taunt me and then disappear. * Meimi scowls. Okay... * Kyon looks oddly at Meimi, and shrugs. "He'll show up, and we'll get him." Then again, considering everything else that's going on, this probably isn't all that weird. * Jiro looks confused, but shrugs it off. Hey, I was gonna go get something to eat on my way home. Do you all want to come with me? We can plan our next move along the way, or something. * Kyon looks past Meimi, off down the street. "Yeah. Haven't seen Katie since she went off to chase Kendo boy." She needed to go home. She was starting to feel sick. On the upside, she's got a date for the dance. Good for her. That means we're all gonna be there, then. Even if I did have to help her out a little on that one. * Kyon looks coolly at Meimi. "Help her?" Just a little prodding, nothing big. She almost chickened out, so I gave her a little nudge. Heh. Good for you. Heh. * Kyon shrugs, and glances sidewise at Satoshi. "Think we're all going to be there?" He flicks his eyes at Meimi, and smirks. * Meimi blushes a little. Yeah, why wouldn't... * Satoshi realizes. * Jiro remains cheerfully oblivious. ^_^ Oh. You mean, you two aren't...? Who? * Meimi gives Sato a thoroughly puzzled look. * Satoshi motions to her and Jiro. "You and..." * Meimi turns beet red. * Kyon turns more towards Meimi, and smirks more heavily, staying quiet. * Meimi stares at her toes as she walks. * Jiro gets an odd feeling, and frowns. Oh. Um... sorry. * Satoshi walks over next to Meimi and speaks quietly to her. You see, when Jiro said earlier that he wouldn't mind going out with someone who could tell the future, I thought that meant he was gonna ask you. Or something. Then again, I probably should have known better. * Kyon rocks forward on his heels, and starts to walk again, getting out in front of the others a bit. * Meimi turns redder, rivaling a ripe tomato. [The group gets to a small outdoor place. Some guy is eating a tomato for dinner, if you'd like to compare.] (*laughs*) * Satoshi finishes talking to Meimi. "I'd try to nudge him along, but I'm not really good at this sort of thing. I kinda ended up asking Taki out by accident." * Kyon looks slightly disdainfully at the place, and shrugs, looking over his shoulder at Satoshi. "You wanted to come here?" * Satoshi looks up. "Yeah, here's fine. It's not my usual place, but it's pretty good." * Meimi whispers hoarsely to Sato, "It's okay. If he doesn't ask tonight, I'm gonna ask tomorrow. I promised Katie I would." * Satoshi grins. "You did? Great! Then we'll all be together. This'll be awesome!" * Jiro suddenly sneezes. [There's some tables indoors, too. It's a small deli-type place.] Are you okay, Jiro? I hope you're not coming down with whatever Katie's got. * Kyon rolls his eyes. "Right. Fine." He stalks to the door, and opens it, heading inside. * Meimi follows Kyon inside. I'm fine. Dunno where that came from. * Satoshi says nothing and follows Meimi. * Jiro follows everyon in. ['Tis a quaint little place. There's a few people milling about, but it's certainly not crowded. There's two foreigners behind the counter, both with a big moustaches. One is short and fat, the other's tall and skinny.] * Kyon grabs a table near the door, and sits down next to the windows, surveying the crowd. * Meimi waits for Jiro to sit down, then sits down next to him. ^_^ [The fat guy waves. "Hi, welcome to Caesar's Imperial Deli. What can I getcha?"] * Jiro sits, thus enabling Meimi to sit next to him. ^_^ * Satoshi walks over to the table. "What do you guys want? I'll put in our order at the counter." [Despite the name and stuff, this place seems only a slight cut above Subway.] Um... a steak sandwich, please. ^_^ Steak sandwich. *_* I'll take two. ^_^ [The tall skinny guy prepares two steak sandwiches, likety-split.] * Kyon thinks very briefly. "Chicken breast sandwich, extra hot peppers." [The tall skinny guy prepares the order, likety-split.] And I'll have the large turkey, hold the mayo, extra lettuce. And can I get a bottle of water, too? [The tall skinny guy prepares the order, likety-split. The short, fat guy hands Satoshi the water.] * Satoshi takes the water. * Satoshi sets the water at his place at the table, then holds out a hand to collect money from everyone. * Meimi digs out enough money to cover her sammich. * Jiro manages to scrounge enough money out of his pockets to cover his food. * Kyon rolls his eyes, reaches down for his wallet, pulls out a large bill, puts it in Satoshi's hand and takes back everyone else's money. * Jiro blinks. * Kyon stuffs everyone else's money into his pocket, and nods curtly to Satoshi. "Bring me the change." * Satoshi takes the money, then hands Kyon enough for his sandwich. "Okay." * Satoshi walks over to the counter and pays the appropriate guy. [The short fat guy takes the money with a smile.] [The short fat guy gives Satoshi change :P] * Satoshi puts the change in his jacket pocket, then picks up the tray with the sandwiches and carries it back to the table. He hands everyone his or her sandwich, then takes the change out of his pocket and hands it to Kyon. * Satoshi then, having accomplished all this, sits down in the remaining empty seat, next to Kyon. * Kyon shoves the change in with the rest of the money, and takes a bite out of the sandwich. "So. The biker girl was looking for drugs?" * Jiro accepts his sandwiches and devours them. I doubt it. Yeah. You remember when I said Shingo and I ran into her the other day? Saki doesn't seem the sort to do drugs. She seems more the sort to deal them. * Satoshi frowns. I'd considered that, actually. But what she told us was that she was investigating. I'm not sure how much faith we can put in her word, mind you. * Kyon frowns slightly, and shakes his head. "Don't think I heard about that. She said she was investigating? How?" Yeah. I guess you weren't around when I told everybody else. She wouldn't say how, but it sounded like she wasn't working alone. * Satoshi looks down for a second. "She said that the guy who shot Taki was on them." The drugs, I mean. * Kyon nods, and scowls. "Right. She has the lead on us. Maybe we should try tailing her tomorrow, see where she goes. We could find out more that way." * Satoshi blinks. "Follow *Saki*?" * Kyon shrugs. "Yeah. Got a better idea?" No, it's just... well, investigation or no, she *did* attack us once. More than once, actually, but none of us were there any of the other times. * Kyon smirks. "I said tail. Not confront. I want to know where she's going. Who she's meeting with." True. I guess I'm just worried about what would happen if she found us. * Kyon takes another bite out of the sandwich. "She doesn't. Then we don't have to find out." * Satoshi half-smiles. "Yeah, well, if you put it that way, it sounds really easy." * Kyon swallows hard, and smirks again. "And before, when she beat you, I wasn't there." I could probably do it, if I tried real hard, and kept my distance. * Jiro frowns. I'm not exactly the master of stealth, but I'm agile enough, I guess. * Kyon finishes off the first half of his sandwich. "Right. Keep a good distance, and follow her. With a couple people, it'll be easy." Still... I don't know. I'm not exactly thrilled with this, but I can't think of anything better. Well, if one person tailed her, and had some way to communicate with the others, they could call the rest in. Something with cell phones, maybe? Nah, they'd be too loud. * Kyon nods curtly. "I've got a cell. Set to vibrate. That's not loud." Does anybody else have one? I do, but it doesn't have a vibrate setting. I can set the ringtone fairly quiet, though. Well, what matters more is the sound it makes on dialing. I'm pretty sure I can turn that off. * Satoshi pulls out his cell phone. I got one, too. It's always loud, tho. * Satoshi pushes a key. It beeps. He then fiddles around with the settings, and then pushes another key. It beeps louder. Ooops. Hang on a sec. * Kyon takes another bite, and looks at the phone mistrustfully. * Satoshi fiddles around a bit more, then pushes a key one last time. It emits a barely auidble sound. Okay, there. Lowest setting I can manage. Will that work? Probably. * Kyon shrugs. "As long as you aren't anywhere really quiet, yeah." * Meimi smiles. * Satoshi puts the phone away. "I'll keep it on this setting and give it to you tomorrow when we go after her." Now we just have to find Saki, and be fast enough to trail her. * Kyon gives Satoshi an incredulous look. "Why give it to me?" * Jiro grins. "I can do fast." He frowns. "I'd be kinda' obvious, tho." He's talking about giving it to me, o mighty VP. ( ...and I swear, the first person who misparses that dies. ) (I would not have thought about anything until you said that. ;p) ( Yeah, but Yu and Cappers would. ) * Satoshi nods. "Yeah, I thought you were going to use yours. Unless you're giving yours to her instead." ( Actually, Meimi, I think you're the first one to misparse that. Therefore I declare you dead :P ) ( *kills herself* ) * Kyon shrugs. "Whatever. I'll keep mine." (And I wouldn't have misparsed that. ^^;) * Satoshi turns back to Jiro. "And, yeah, I think that would be a bit too obvious." * Jiro nods. "Prolly, yeah." * Kyon rolls his eyes. "She's biker girl for a reason. I'll trail her if she takes her 'cycle." He nods to Jiro. "How fast are you without running full out?" * Jiro blinks. "Uh... I can do olympic-athlete-fast without doing bullet-train-fast, if that's what you mean." * Kyon nods curtly. "Think you can follow her without her noticing?" * Meimi blinks. Er... how fast _Can_ you run?! On foot? Maybe. On her bike... uh, everyone would prolly notice. ^_^; * Jiro turns to Meimi. "Really fast." ^_^ *_* [Time: 6:40. The sun has gone down, but much of the sky is still red or blue.] * Kyon shakes his head. "I'll cover her if she goes on bike. I've got one, too, and I can trail her. Can you do it on foot?" On foot, _I_ can trail her. I've got _much_ less chance of being spotted than you guys. * Kyon glances mistrustfully at Meimi. "Yeah? You think you can?" * Meimi gives Kyon a disbelieving look. Being able to change who I am with a thought sorta gives me a little advantage. * Satoshi blinks. "You can do that?" * Meimi smiles. [The old man speaks. "Oh, she can try. Yes, she can certainly try..."] [He's gone when you look for him!] * Meimi slams her fist down on the table. * Kyon looks around warily, then bemusedly at her. "What's up with that?" * Satoshi blinks again. "You forget something?" -_- The old man again. [It doesn't look like any of the other patrons noticed the old guy.] [Maybe you've all just gone crazy.] * Jiro blinks. (I would not argue with that.) * Jiro shakes his head as if to clear it. "Weird." Great, I'm hallucinating again. If you're hallucinating, then we're all hallucinating. Personally, I think it's somebody trying to toy with my mind. I don't like that thought very much. * Jiro blinks in confusion. * Kyon gives her a cool look. "Why would someone want to do that?" * Meimi scowls. I don't know. Enough weird crap's happened to us lately that I really shouldn't be surprised by any more. As long as he doesn't get in my way, I can deal with his insults. * Kyon nods, and looks her over appraisingly. "Right. Anyway. You can trail her? Need backup?" He nods at Jiro. * Jiro blinks. "You askin' me?" * Kyon shakes his head exasperatedly. "No. The Lunar girl." I can call you guys in when she gets wherever she's going. * Jiro nods. Yeah. I guess I'll stick with Jiro. I may not be as fast as he is, but I can probably keep up pretty well. * Kyon nods decisively at Meimi. "Fine. You take her by foot, I'll take her by bike. The other two wait to back us up." Fine with me. * Kyon finishes off the rest of his sandwich, and turns to the others. "Right. Good? Meet by my locker after school." Fine with me. * Satoshi nods. "I'll be there." * Jiro nods. "Sure." [Session End]