[Day: Friday, February 7th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Overcast. It's supposed to snow later tonight. It's cold out.] [Yesterday, the group went back to the mansion, and met with the most boring philosophy professor EVER. Later, they plotted out a raid with Remi over dinner.] [Unfortunately, the raid didn't go quite as planned. Satoshi and Kaede never showed up. Kyon and Eriko did, but they weren't supposed to be there. And Remi was already inside getting drugged up by Katsuchiyo, who was the murder of Miki Tanaka and a drug lord. He was nuts, too :P] [After the first fight they had in AGES, Katie used some fancy schmancy wind power to toss everyone around the room, possibly killing Katsuchiyo in the procress. After the field came down, Eriko saw what had happened and suggested they split. So they did.] [And now it's the next day, and eveyone's gathering around the lockers! That enough exposition for you? Good!] [Session Start] * Haruko meanders down the hallway, to the annoyance of hurried students who bump their way past her. * Kaede comes walking down the hallway, his cellphone up to his ear, not looking too happy. * Satoshi waits next to his locker, looking annoyed. * Katie sits at her locker with a distant look on her face as she fiddles with a pencil. It looks like she's been trying to draw, given the number of eraser marks in the sketchbook in front of her. * Taki makes her way twords the lockers, her hair is still black, and she's not looking forward to tonights load of makeup work. * Haruko reaches her locker, dumps a few books, then leans against it, strumming her fingers against the metal. Hey Taki, I'm surprised you haven't dyed your hair back yet. * Kyon leans against the lockers, for once, about two down from Katie. He's wearing a different jacket today, in a very dark shade of orange. He looks down at Katie's sketchbook. "Problems?" Hmm? Actualy it grows like that. ::graps the end of her ponytail:: If I spend all weekend in the bath I should be able to get this to wash back out. * Kaede turns off the cellphone and leans against the lockers sighing deeply with closed eyes, under his breath. "You'd think I'd get a little break for all I put into it.." * Haruko looks confused for a moment. "Oh? wow...." * Katie doesn't look over to Kyon. "I guess." * Satoshi looks at the others and frowns. * Satoshi mutters, "So, who do I apologize to first?" * Kyon stretches a bit, and shrugs. "Should just be able to work through them. Looks like the beginning of a good drawing." It's weird having black hair again though, I used to dye it like this all the time before I got tired of pretending I was an average quite little kid. ::Sighs:: * Kaede looks down at the drawing over the rim of his glasses, then pushes them back up. You'll mess up the paper with too many erasures. * Haruko nods. "I Guess I'm lucky that cars are a socially acceptable obsession." * Satoshi wanders over to the K-crew. "So, Kyon, how'd you like to play goal for the hockey team, being as our goalie just quit." He sighs. "That's where I was last night, trying to track him down and talk him out of it. Didn't work. I'm sorry I missed everything." Mmm. Most people say they're all good. * Haruko looks to Satoshi. "Don't apologize to me. I was there but wasn't any help." Well, at least you have a legitimate reason...Nanami decided to bar me in the house and lecture me.. * Kyon looks over at Satoshi, and shakes his head bemusedly. "Right. Between fencing, baseball, and the student council, I have time for another set of practices." * Kaede looks at his cellphone and sighs. "She was still lecturing me today in fact..I don't know how she can go on for so long..." * Satoshi chuckles. "S'what I thought." * Satoshi then sighs. "Well, looks like there aren't going to be any games anytime soon, then." * Katie picks up the sketchbook and tries again. [Chikako arrives! She almost runs past the group, literally screeching to a halt. "Look everyone!" She waves a copy of the school newspaper. "Big news! It's so cool!"] If I knew how to skate I'd offer to help. Heya, Chikako. What's the big news? * Kaede flattens himself against the locker, wide-eyed and protectively holding his kaban against his chest. * Kyon shrugs. "We did it, anyway." He turns to look at Chikako. "Hey." He holds out a hand for the paper. Hi Chikako, what's the news? * Chikako happily hands Kyon a paper. On the front page is an article about the murder. * Satoshi turns to Taki. "Um... if you really wanted to learn to skate... I'd teach you." He looks slightly nervous. They caught the real killer. It's so cool! * Katie blinks up at Chikako. "Really?" * Satoshi then turns his attention back to Chikako. C-..cool? * Kaede blinks, trying to keep up with the conversation. * Chikako nodnods at Kaede. "Cool!" Oh? umm wow, could I have one of the papers please. They did? How about that... * Chikako hands Haruko a paper. They actually got the person? * Kaede seems to be mouthing the word a bit to himself, but keeping one leary eye on Chikako. * Kyon looks over the paper, and starts reading the article. Can I see one of thoes Chikako? * Haruko reads her paper. Which is exceptional in that she is actually reading not skimming. * Chikako hands Taki a copy. * Satoshi waits for Katie to get one, so he can read over her shoulder. ;p * Taki reads about thei...er ...sombody who she has no idea who realy is's exploits. [The paper states about how Katsuchiyo's father caught him in a seriously injured state, and called the hospital.] [When the ambulance arrived and revived him, he started babbling about how it wasn't fair, and that he should have gotten away with it, etc. etc. They managed to get an entire confession out of him.] * Haruko murmurs to herself. "Nut job." [They also stumbled across the drugs, and he admitted to being a dealer (although in a triumphant "My plan was perfect"esque way.). His father confessed he knew his son was getting money from somewhere, but he didn't know how.] [At any rate, the charges against Eiko have dropped, and Katsuchiyo's been thrown in jail.] Cool, huh? * Kaede looks too stunned to respond, so just nods. * Satoshi finishes the article, then blinks a few time in shock. "Wow... that was totally unexpected." [And for the record, Remi's in the hospital; I'm going to assume you took her there yesterday :P] * Katie sighs, gives up on the drawing again, and looks up. "Can I have a paper?" * Taki stares at her paper, "I thought you could only find people like this in the movies." * Chikako nodnods and hands Katie a paper. * Katie takes it and reads the article. * Kyon finishes reading, and looks over at Chikako. "Yeah. It's good that they got him." He looks thoughtful. "This all happened late last night, it says. You must really have gotten this quickly." * Chikako chuckles and rubs a hand behind her head. "I have a super-cool information network." * Haruko skims the rest of the paper and looks a good deal happier. [Haruko notices an article about how Toshiro Kojima quit the hockey team.] (Chikako is *good.*) * Kyon nods again, and smiles thinly at Chikako. "Yeah. It's a cool thing to have." He reads the rest of the paper quickly, too. * Taki reads on. * Katie lets out a long sigh. "That's good." [There's also a reminder on the back of the paper of the upcoming Cherry Blossom festival in March. Chikako points it out.] (Naw she's just behind everything, that way she knows whats gonna happen ^_~) This is gonna be so cool! Did you guys decide what you're gonna do yet? Do? For what? * Satoshi gets to the part about Toshiro and frowns deeply. Uhm...no? For the festival, of course! It's gonna be so cool! A festival..? Um. Didn't I already say I was going to do facepainting? * Kyon nods quickly. "The Student Council is planning a lot of different things. And the fencing club will probably give a demonstration." He leans back against the locker. "Perhaps with the kendo club." Hmm... festival? I'd totally forgotten about it. I think the team was planning some sort of booth, but we'd never really figured out what. * Kaede looks worried, momentarily forgetting about his freaking out from Chikako. "We have to do something..?" And now there's one less of us to do it. * Haruko attempts to inconspicously remain silent and avoid volunteering for anything. * Chikako grins at Satoshi. "Dunk the coach! That's what the basketball team is doing. It's gonna be so cool!" * Taki comes up with an idea and then dismisses it... "No, wait you'd need a goalie for that" (Haruko! You know you want to run the automotive design booth!) * Chikako looks at Kaede. "Why wouldn't you want to? It's so cool!" But...um...I can't really DO anything... I don't think our coach would go for that, Chikako. He's... pretty serious about things. (She'd rather just design automobiles without an audience, other people tend to get in the way. ^^) * Kyon shrugs. "Could always do a skating demonstration. We don't have anyone doing one. No ice stuff, in fact." Everyone can do something! That's what makes it so cool! (Er... you know what that means. Yeah. ^^;) * Katie considers, then grins at Satoshi. "We could dunk you." * Kaede shakes his head. "Not me..I don't even know what it's all about really.." * Chikako giggles. "That's so cool! You should do that, Satoshi!" * Satoshi looks at Katie and Chikako and waves his hands in the air. "Oh no. No, no, no." * Haruko attempts to slink away from Chikako while Satoshi is making a spectacle of himself. Why not? we could probibly find somebody to build you a heater for between dunks. * Chikako turns to Haruko. "And what about you, Haruko? You'll do something super-cool, right?" * Satoshi pictures the rest of the team, all holding balls in their hands, with a huge line of people behind them, and shudders. * Kaede scoots away from Chikako down the side of the lockers. * Haruko siezes the opportunity. Yeha, heater building, that'd be cool. I'm doomed, aren't I? Yes. * Chikako grins. "Yeah! It's so cool!" It'll be a good heater! * Katie grabs Kaede by the pant leg as he passes. "Where do you think you're going?" Yes, but it'll be fun. * Haruko sighs with relief. * Kaede yelps as he falls flat on the floor from being grabbed. * Chikako starts down the hall. "Well, I gotta go distribute more newspapers. See ya later!" * Satoshi gives in to his inevitable (and wet) fate. "Okay. But it'd better be a *really* good heater, Haruko." * Chikako giggles to herself as she leaves. "This'll be so cool!" * Katie blinks. "Sorry, didn't mean to do that." Bye Chi..Ack Kaede! * Kyon nods quickly to Chikako. "Yeah, later." Seeya, Chikako. * Katie lets go hurriedly. "Are you all right?" * Kaede gets up and rubs his nose, watching after Chikako. "It's..alright..um..what..WAS that?" * Kaede points down the hall where she left. Ah. You've never met Chikako before, I take it? Not..really..I think..she was with Katie when I bumped into her. * Haruko looks vaguely miffed. "Course it'll be *really* good. I'm making it." She then drops the attitude and grins. That's Chikako, she runs the school paper...::unfolds hers and looks for a Meimi article:: * Kaede looks blankly at them all. We have a school paper? Chikako is sort of a force unto herself. She Knows All. And, yeah, we have a school paper. What'd you think we were all just reading? [Meimi's article is there, not that it's very interesting.] * Katie sighs and goes back to playing with her pencil. * Kyon nods tersely. "She's got a better information network than the real papers." Well, I didn't know it was local.. * Kaede rubs his head, searching for bruises. * Taki reads the article and then hands her paper to Kaede, "Take a look for yourself." * Haruko looks to Kaede, "You hurt?" * Kaede takes the paper and unfolds it, waving Haruko's concern off as he skims it. He..what? He was behind it? Apparently. What exactly happened last night, guys? He was waiting for us. * Kaede folds the paper back up and hands it back to Taki, listening intently for an explanation. * Kyon looks up and down the hall. [Kyon doesn't see anyone interesting yet.] * Haruko glances at Kyon to see that all is clear, and then continues. "Yumi and Yuji are the same person, but not the same time." Uh. Wha? * Satoshi looks thoroughly confused. They switch places. * Kyon nods tersely. "One of the changes to the other." * Katie frowns a little, flips to a clear page, and starts sketching. Anyways Katsuchiyo killed Miki in order to frame Eiko. * Satoshi puts a hand to his head. "And here I was thinking that you were making all that up earlier." He frame Eiko, becuase Yuji likes Eiko, so by letting Eiko hide out at his place he gets to be engaged to Yumi. Wow. He had all the complex evil plans set up and everything. I take it you guys were responsible for his injured condition? I suppose it makes sence if you're insaine. He's a sick bastard. Twisted and evil, like the article said he also was a drug king pin. But why would he want to...? I'm not going to try to understand that.. Don't. It's easier that way. And you encounter these people all the time do you? * Katie says quietly, as she sketches, "I'm surprised he wasn't dead. Kyon set him on fire, Taki punched him, and I broke a lamp over his head. And..." She sighs. * Haruko looks a bit downcast. "And I didn't do a thing. I don't like to see people get hurt and it all worked out. But I need to get less skitish about combat." [About this time, Ken comes along! ^_^] * Kyon looks sidewise at Kaede. "Often enough." He looks down at Katie. "And... what was that, anyway? You, wasn't it?" * Ken peers at Katie's drawing. "That line's crooked." * Katie shrugs. "I guess so. I tried to do it again later, but all I could manage was a breeze. But still." Maybe it's supposed to be that way, Ken. And it's covered in erasier marks. * Satoshi ignores Ken. * Katie eyes Ken. * Kaede grumbles and rubs his nose under where his glasses lay. "Great..maybe Sis was right about hanging with strange people all hours of the night." I'd like to see you do better. * Haruko looks at Ken, that looks at Katie. * Ken grins. "I would, but artwork is a sucky hobby." * Kaede stands up slowly, blinking at the two..."And you are..?" * Ken walks on down the hall. "Just leaving." Oooh, insulting something becuase you aren't any good at it. Classy. * Kyon looks at Katie for another moment, then leans back up against the locker, hands jammed in his pockets. "Maybe you just can't use your hands to work with." He smirks at Ken's back. * Katie blinks at Kyon's comment, then bursts out laughing. Heh. Heee. * Katie eyes the sketch. "Besides." She flips the page. "*This* is the one covered with eraser marks." She flips back. * Haruko glances at Katie. "I take it that was not a friend of yours." So, he wastes time just making inane chatter...so pointless. Inane is one of his specialties. More like my greatest enemy or... something. He likes trying to make me miserable. We haven't seen much of him lately, thankfully. Of course, now that Jiro's not hanging out with us anymore, that's probably part of it. * Kaede takes a deep breath. "I mean, I thought it was a little crooked too but I wouldn't SAY anything.." * Haruko frowns and looks a bit confused. "That jerk was a friend of Jiro's? Funny, Jiro had struck me as nice guy, never got to know him though." * Katie sticks her tongue out at Kaede. "That's why this is a sketch." You don't make perfect lines the first time around. No, no, he hates Jiro too. Nah, he's Jiro's archenemy. I just meant that since Jiro's not with us, Ken's not coming around to bug him. Well..I've..never sketched before. * Katie chuckles. "I'll teach you how, if you want to learn." * Haruko nods "Ah, I get it." I don't think I have enough time. [Meanwhile, this nerdy guy with really messy hair and thick glasses comes bounding up to Haruko, waving a wrench. "Say, you're kinda cute, and I hear you like mechanical stuff. How about we catch a movie?"] ( Wow. I've dumbfounded everyone :P ) (Hey, he's not asking me. ^^) * Satoshi just looks at him. * Haruko smiles. "Thank you, you did hear correctly, but..." * Katie blinks at the guy. But? I don't think there's anything out I want to see at the moment. Aw... ;_; * MessyHairGuy sighs. "Oh well." * MessyHairGuy turns to Kyon. "How about you? You're cute too, ya know." * Kaede raises an eyebrow but says nothing. * Haruko looks dumbfounded. * Satoshi cracks up. Uhm, I think you need to put a bit more thought into who you ask out, I mean when you just jump on people they get surprised and you don't make a good impression. Sure I do ^^ * MessyHairGuy focusses on Kyon. "So, how about it?" * Kyon eyes this new guy, and smirks. "Not exactly my type, kid. You're too short, you've got bad hair, and I'm not a mechanic. Oh, and you're a guy. Right." He turns half away from him. Aw ;_; Dang. * Haruko nods, then tries to suppress a fit of giggling. Well, Meimi thinks you're ignoring her. Just thought I should tell you. * MessyHairGuy vanishes! * Kaede learned his lesson from last time and doesn't edge away. * Taki blinks Wait..Meimi..didn't you say she was..? * Satoshi sighs. "Not again..." * Taki looks up and down the hall. [Taki doesn't see anyone of note.] (Yeah, but do I see anyone at all?) * Katie looks at where the guy was blankly. "Go figure." * Haruko giggles outright. "Even if that was a segment of Miemi's personality. I'd have never thought Kyon and I would be the same persons type. Leaving aside the whole gender thing." * Kaede rubs his eyes and looks where the guy was. Probably just as well we turned him down. He probably would have vanished when the bill showed up. * Kyon scowls, and pushes off the locker. "She's just screwing around. And she should be happy I'm ignoring her." [Way off in the distance, Taki sees two guys conversing about something. They're drawn in little detail, so they're probably not important.] * Kaede closes his eyes and lets out a deep breath. "Alright..I think I'm slightly more inclined to believe you now.." (Jubei-chan fan, eh? =P) (Thumb people!) Yeah, I thought we were actually trying to ignore Meimi. She probably resents that, it certainly seems like she acts out to get attention. Well, it doesn't seem as if she's ignoring you though. * Katie shrugs. She looks up at Taki, then follows her line of sight to the two badly drawn people. * Satoshi eyes Taki briefly. "She's gotten it." (sketch the badly drawn people ^_^) (Ha!) ( They're not *really* badly drawn c.c ) * Taki shakes her head and looks away from the badly drawn people. "I'll say one thing, she's got an odd sense of humor." Well I'm amused. I'm not. * Taki nods "It's funny, but it could get annoying after a while, espicaly when she's running around as people you know." Well, I'd say it seems she wants to talk to you, whether you do or not. * Kaede pushes his glasses up his nose. * Kyon rolls his shoulder. "Not amusing at all." His scowl deepens. "Still think my way of getting through to her would work best." * Haruko frowns. "I don't doubt it, this was cute because it was quick and ended. What she's pulled in the past certainly doesn't qualify as amusing." * Katie starts putting her supplies away. Let's go do something. Yeah. * Haruko frowns at Kyon's comment and then shrugs at the suggestion to do something. We could go ice skating. Or just get food. That always works. I..wouldn't think sis would want me going out unless it was important.. Hmm, if we go visit her she'll try this sort of thing again to get our attention...on the other hand if we don't she'll probibly try something worse. You don't need to come if you don't want to, Kaede, but I have to wonder why your sister refuses to let you have any sort of social life. * Kaede looks over at Katie. It's not really..her..she's just..concerned..we both are. My suggestion for Miemi is still trying to get someone to help her, a faith healer type. Not guaranteed to work, but... It's worth a try. * Katie finishes and stands, scooping up her satchel as she does so. I've got no idea where we'd look for one though. * Kyon shrugs at Kaede. "Still sounds like someone running your life to me." He leans down and picks up his bag. How do you even JUDGE the quality of those people? * Satoshi sighs, as this probably means no food and no skating. * Kaede glares at Kyon. "She doesn't run my life! She's got her hands busy too taking care of Grandpa Shiro so..." ( ;_; ) (No food, no skating, and no goalie make Satoshi something something. ^^) * Kyon smirks. "Sure, you're both busy. But she's making you go home. Do you make her?" * Kaede folds his arms across his chest and harrumph. "Don't comment on something you know nothing about, Mr. VP." Every day I don't show up puts us a day further behind on our payments. It was MY decision. * Katie tilts her head. "Payments?" * Taki blinks, "Why don't you tell us the story from the top?" * Kyon shrugs disinterestedly. "Either way, you get dragged around." He straightens. "And if you're giving us a story, we should do it somewhere else." And why don't we find someplace a little more comfortable tha...yeah. Fine fine..if you want to hear it. It's weird, no one else has even really asked me before... Sorry, I just thought your sister was the over protecive type. * Katie snickers. "You always run off too early for anyone to ask." * Kaede 's shoulders slacken slightly as he looks crestfallen. "Is...that it?" * Haruko nods. "Yep, but you've got us now, so don't worry about it." It might be. I tried to talk to you when you ran into me, remember, but you rushed away so fast I couldn't get a word in. So..where are we going to go then? Well, we probably won't be able to do much talking if we go to the ice rink. So, food? * Kyon shrugs. "There's a good Indian place around the corner." Indian food? I haven't had that in a while. I guess I could just have curry.. Whatever, just so long as its not too expensive. * Haruko smiles at Kaede "I'm mostly in it for the story." It's not really that interesting a story.. * Kaede pushes his glasses up his nose. They'll probibly have something we can afford, and if not there's allways the ramen place down the street. Well you could always lie.... ::grin:: Don't worry it'll be fine. Anything's good with me. * Katie digs out her cash and counts it. "Actually... I don't know if I have enough money. That sushi place was expensive." * Haruko nods. "OK, so Ramen then?" * Kyon shrugs. "They've got cheap stuff at the Indian place, but whatever. Doesn't matter." I guess so. If you don't mind, I mean. You know, someday we're going to plan one of these things far enough in advance that I can actualy cook something and we wont have to eat out. I could help if you need it, Taki. * Kaede picks up the kaban. "So lead the way." I dunno, I've never had a helper in the kitchen before, the only one around is my dad, and I've banned him from ever setting foot in there again. * Katie does that! So, ramen and storytelling. Let's go! Come on, come on, you guys are being slow. * Kaede follows! [And so they walk the short walk to the ramen stand!] * Taki hurries after Katie. "I'm going I'm going!" * Kyon shrugs, and stalks along behind them. * Haruko skips along behind Katie. * RamenGuy smiles as everyone comes along. "Hi, every-bo-dy!" What can I get you to-day? * Kaede looks at the Ramen Guy, then back to the rest of them. "Is he..?" * Katie grins. This guy's great. "One bowl of pork flavored ramen, please." ( My best NPCs are always the ones I put the least amount of work into ;_; ) I'll have a large bowl of chicken ramen and a hot chocolate. * RamenGuy happily takes down orders. * Kyon gives Katie an odd look. "Kitsune ramen." And I'd also like an order of the chicken ramen, please. Um..one fishcake ramen and some miso, and a glass of water. * Taki blinks at Kyon. Small bowl of chicken ramen, for myself as well please. * RamenGuy prepares the orders with passion! * Kaede sits down at the stand. * RamenGuy finishes quickly and hands out the meals. "Here you go, every-bo-dy!" Thanks! * Katie hands him his money (yay for cheap ramen!) and takes her bowl to her seat. :9 * Taki takes her bowl and says the word that is translated diffrently in every anime. * Kaede looks at the ramen and looks for once impressed with the efficiency * Satoshi pays for his meal, grabs his bowl and drink, and sits down. * Haruko pays and sits, and looks expectently at Kaede. * Kaede pays for his meal and takes a deep breath. * Taki then belatedly sweatdrops and hands over the money. * Kyon takes his, looks at it critically, drops down a coin for it, and snaps apart his chopsticks. * RamenGuy goes about his work, always grinning. He must love his job. It's just..well, my sister. She's in junior high. She really shouldn't have to take care of Grandpa... * Haruko nods. "Go on." Our father..he passed away from us 3 years ago...and our father was already in bad health..hearing his son died didn't do much to help his condition. * Taki nods and slurps. He owned a shop...Dad was supposed to take care of it..the deed was just about ready to be signed over for his shop..we own a small little bike shop in town. * Kaede looks slightly irritated as he remembers. "It didn't help that Kaori ran out on us either." Kaori? My mo...my father's wife. Or I guess I should say widow now. * Kaede chuckles nervously and stirs his ramen. * Satoshi murmurs. "You too, huh..." * Katie looks at Satoshi, then Kaede, then Taki. "Does everyone have missing parents except me?" Anyway, the deed couldn't be signed over, so it's still in Grandpa Shiro's name..only he can't take care of it..so he needs both of us..we can't afford much.." * Kyon eats slowly, and listens. "No, both my parents are alive." Mine are both alive, but... * Haruko looks quite sympathetic and nods at Kaede, then comments quietly to Katie. "I'm also lucky enough to have both." So I'm an assistant at the shop while my sister looks after my grandfather. We both look after each other too. * Katie nods. I told you it wasn't all that interesting..sorry to bore you. It wasn't boring. Helps us understand you better. Not boring at all, and now I know why you had to go. Well, I didn't think THAT.. * Kaede stirs his ramen some more, his face blank of any expression. How far are you from paying off the deed? I..I can't say really..it's a lot just to keep the place coming out even.. Hardly anyone rides bikes any more, you know. (Boy, you haven't been to Japan recently, have you. =P) ( In Japan? :P ) That surprises me. (Everyone rides bikes. @_@) (Back to Kaede's warped view of the world ^_~) Maybe if you found a way that people could ride while talking on cell phones. ^^ Maybe you just need to get the word out about your shop? * Kyon nods tersely. "Set up a stand at the festival." A stand? For what? Advertising. * Kaede groans suddenly and mutters under his breath. "I must sound really pitiful if Kyon is being helpful." * Kyon shakes his head irritatedly. "For what. What do you think? Show off your wares. Get people to notice you. Then they buy stuff. That's elementary business." Maybe you could set up a little track and have people race or something. Yeah, I'd be willing to help, after making Satoshi's heater. Bikes are fairly cool for things without motors. ( You can open a stand outside Sakuragaoka ^^ ) * Kyon shrugs, and smirks. "Nah. The festival doesn't have anything like that yet. As the vice president, I need to find something." Maybe...I'll think about it..I've never been to a Sakura festival before.. * Kaede tries some semblance of a smile, however briefly. "Thanks" Whee, this'll be fun, and make up for me compleatly missing the dance. * Katie slurps up some noodles. "You should ask Chikako for help." It can't hurt to try, and I'd be glad to help you out before I go off and get soaked. She could advertise your shop in the school papers. Yeah. She'd think it was cool. * Kaede looks wide eyed at Katie. "Hu-her?" * Satoshi grins. Oh no..nonono.. * Katie eyes Kaede. Do you want to pay off the deed or not? There's nothing wrong with Chikako. * Kyon raises an eyebrow. "Why not? Chikako's good." She's not that scary, Kaede. * Haruko giggles at Kaede's fear. * Kaede meets Katie's gaze for a moment before his shoulders fall and he looks down. "Alright, alright..." * Katie smiles. "Good. I'll help you with it, if you want." * Kaede goes to sipping his ramen quietly, not wanting to be caught up in anything else. ( Too late! ) (I know that, but Kaede can at least hope can't he? ^_^;) (You fool.) * Haruko tries a gentle smile. "Chill Kaede, you have important and meaningful stuff to do, but not everything needs to be so serious." * Katie goes back to eating ramen. Mmm, ramen. * Taki eats her ramen before it gets cold. * Satoshi drums his fingers against the counter. "Goalie... must find a goalie." * Katie hmms. "I bet Taki would make a good goalie." * Haruko doesn't quite have the equipment to build a robot goalie, so she simply eats her ramen. * Katie grins. She could just vanish the puck away. * Taki pauses a bit between slurps, "I don't think that'd be legal. How long do you have to find one anyway?" Heh. That'd be interesting to watch... although people might get suspicious after a while. * Satoshi frowns. "We have a game scheduled for next week. We might be able to reschedule for the week after, but we need one pretty soon." Otherwise, we're going to be disqualified for the league playoffs. * Kyon shrugs. "The hockey league is small, so it doesn't have rules against girls on the team. And it'd look bad if we got disqualified." Real bad. ( Don't look at me. I just serve Ramen ) So, Taki, if you're actually interested... I'd be happy to teach you. Really. * Katie scratches the back of her head as she considers, then laughs. * Taki nods "I'd be happy to help you out...after I get out from under all this make-up work, with all the stuff we've been doing lately..." * Demota is now known as DemoX-Com Well... um... I could help you with that. It'd only be fair. * Satoshi smiles a bit, though he seems somewhat nervous. ( The Ramen Guy--A HS hockey team needed a goalie, a Ramen guy needed a second dimension to his character. Can they come together despite their differences and win the playoffs?! I bet disney would make it.) (No, The Ramen Guy would suddenly be a coach.) ("Let's all do our best to-day.") (What would his motivational speeches be like?) ( "Free Ramen if you win" ) ( Can't get much more motivation than that :P ) ( That and bizarre extended metaphors using ramen ) (But his ramen is so cheap it's practically free already..) (Teleports the puck into the other goal) * Haruko still has nothing to contribute and begins to glance around for entertainment now that she's finished her Ramen. Thanks Satoshi, lesee Katie's helping me with the English...how are you with math? Not too bad. My grades are decent. I can't see how it could hurt then. Thanks. * Kaede lays his bowl on the counter and slides it forward. * Kyon rolls his eyes, and sets his bowl down. * RamenGuy takes the empty bowls. * Satoshi smiles, relieved. "No, thank you. You just saved us all." * Haruko hands in her bowl and looks a bit bored. * Satoshi idly wonders exactly how the rest of the team will react, but Taki is certainly much better than no goalie at all. I hope I live up to your expectations. You can be the Japanese counterpart to Manon Rheaume. She played goal for Montreal. Realy? Yep, really! [About this time, a pretty young girl approaches the stand. "Excuse me, can I get a bowl of beef ramen to go?"] * RamenGuy nods and happily prepares the meal ^^ * Kaede stands up slowly and checks his pockets a bit. "Were we going to do anything though?" * Haruko pays no attention to the new arrival, and by all appearances is simply staring into space. * Kyon looks quickly over to see if he recognizes the person. Well, we could go study, but there are more interesting things to do. [Kyon sure does. It's the girl with a huge crush on him! ... I mean, the girl who wants to crush him. Literally.] * Satoshi recognizes her and mutters. "Oh, crud." * Riko hasn't actually paid any heed to your group. She's watching the ramen guy. * Kaede turns to Satoshi strangely. "What?" * Kyon breathes out a curse in Chinese, and narrows his eyes, looking over at her more closely. Who's she? * Satoshi answers quietly. "She has some sort of grudge against Kyon." Why..doesn't that surprise me much? * Katie puts her chin on her hands and looks over at Riko. * Haruko stands up and stretches. [She's cute, but in this series, that's no surprise.] ( Everyone's attractive to some degree except for really minor people and some of the PCs :P ) * Taki looks between Kyon and Riko and wonders how to get out of this. (Even the Ramen Guy? He probably has Appearance: 6...) ( He's one of the really minor people. ) (Darn. :P) * RamenGuy hands Riko her ramen. "Here you go!" * Riko thanks him and hands him some money. She finally notices you when she's turning to leave, and stops, staring in surprise. * Katie waves rather cheerfully at Riko. "We eat too, you know." * Kyon stands up, and smirks. "Hey." Hmph. * Haruko begins to realize that something is going on and keeps an eye on Riko. * Kaede pushes his glasses up his nose. "Interesting how much information can be contained in one word..or noise in her case." * Taki watches Kyon and Riko. * Kyon jams his hands in his pockets. "That's all you have to say? Can't even say hi properly?" * Riko looks Kyon over carefully. "I'm wondering whether or not I should start beating you up." * Kaede mumbles under his breath. "You're one to talk.." Please don't. You'll waste all that nice food that the gentleman back there so lovingly prepared for you. Yeah, I'd recommend not beating him up, it'll make it easier for everyone involved. * Riko looks at Satoshi like he's stupid. "Well, obviously I would put it down first. Geez." It'll get cold though. * Kyon gives Riko a hard grin. "Then your ramen would get cold. Whether or not you put it down." Well, as long as there's a conversation started, even if it doesn't seem to start off on the right foot, I guess I can introduce myself. I'm Kaede Takeuchi." So I'll microwave it. * Riko eyes Kaede and points to Kyon. "You with him?" * Taki shakes her head, "it's just not the same that way." Indirectly I guess..I don't think we get along perfect..but who does? * Riko smirks. "Yeah, who does?" Yeah. It's better when it's fresh, and unspilled. * Katie rolls her eyes. "It's better when you don't fight near this wonderful stand. Let's not hurt each other right now, okay?" Fine. * Riko hands Katie her ramen. "Here, hold this." Then she moves away from the stand and falls into a fighting stance. * Kyon shrugs. "There are some people. There have been before, too." He watches her. "Guess you won't be one." * Katie sighs and shakes her head, then sets the ramen down on the table. * Kyon pulls his hands out of his pockets, and rocks back on his heels. Uhm, just out of curiosity...what did Kyon do to her? * Haruko apologizes to the Ramen stand owner that this should happen near his business. No one knows. Not even him. * RamenGuy doesn't mind terribly, as long as it doesn't hurt sales. d6+6 (Not really. I'll just suppose not rolling init means a permanent held action. ^^) * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyon (d6+6) and gets 10. (I'd like to ask her why she's doing this) d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Haruko (d6+6) and gets 12. (It really depends on what happens and what's said) ( Well, if you're gonna do anything, roll init. If not, don't :P ) d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Taki (d6+7) and gets 8. * Satoshi just sighs. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kaede (d6+6) and gets 12. (Might as well. ^^) ( That everyone? ) d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Satoshi (d6+5) and gets 7. ( So... everyone but Katie :P ) (^_^_v) (She has to watch the ramen. =P) [Order: Haruko, Kaede, Riko, Kyon, Taki, Satoshi] [Haruko's turn] * Haruko tries to look nonchallent, and fails to do so. [hold] [Kaede's turn] * Kaede starts to look worried and adjusts his glasses. "Now look, this isn't going to solve anything." [Riko's turn] It will too. * Riko skips back a few steps, further away from the stand. [Kyon's turn] * RamenGuy was watching, but attends to other customers who just showed up. * Kyon steps off a bit as well, and then stops and rocks back on his heels again, facing Riko. [Taki's turn] [Keep in mind that those customers at the stand are watching, interested at how this turns out.] So, I know Kyon can be an ass, but what'd he do to piss you off so much? [Satoshi's turn] Despite appearances, I'd rather talk than fight, honest. What's the story with you two? [Haruko's turn] * Haruko chimes in. "Yeah, couldn't we try talking it out?" [hold] [Kaede's turn] * Kaede curses mildly under his breath, watching the two of them, looking for who makes the first move so he can try to stop them. [hold] [Riko's turn] * Riko grumbles at the others. "It's none of your business. Kyon's a jerk, and-" She blinks as her cell phone rings, and pulls it out. Yeah? What, now? But I was just- Ok... okay, fine, I'm coming. * Taki does not facefault, she comes close, but doesn't. * Kyon relaxes slightly, but doesn't take his eyes off her. "Who's that?" * Riko hangs up and glares at Kyon. "Well, you got off easy today. But next time I'm gonna hurt you a lot." * Riko turns on her heels and walks away. "None of your business." * Kaede rubs his brow slightly. "But we still don't know WHY you want to hurt him a lot..besides the obvious I mean..." * Kyon straightens, and smirks. "I'd find it easier to believe you if you didn't keep trying to fight." * Kaede groans. "And I thought that other Seiryuu girl didn't listen." Does this happen to you a lot Kyon? Must be something about our school and stubborn girls. Did she forget her ramen? * Katie sweatdrops, then walks out of the stand, bowl in hand. "Hey, Riko!" she calls after her. * RamenGuy sighs in relief. "I'm glad that didn't turn into a fight, every-bo- dy." His customers look a bit disappointed, though. I'll take it to..um..or not. * Riko keeps walking, giving no indication she heard Katie. * Katie grumbles and hurries after the girl while trying to keep from spilling ramen at the same time. * Haruko keeps with Katie in case Riko turns violent again. * Kyon shrugs, and calls after Katie, "Just keep it. She obviously doesn't mind." * Kaede watches Katie go and picks up his kaban, shaking his head. "Honest, she goes through too much trouble sometimes.." Yeah, but that's why she has so many friends. * Riko is walking slowly and angrily, so it's not hard to catch up. Riko, stop for a second. You forgot your ramen. * Taki walks after her. I've got to get going if there's not anything important...thanks for listening and all..um.. * Riko stops and blinks, then looks towards the side, trying not to blush. "Oh, yeah. That." * Kyon turns and goes back into the ramen shop, and picks up his bag. * Riko takes the ramen from Katie. "Thanks." * Katie laughs. You're welcome. And I'd really like it if you weren't so eager to get into fights, yeah? Just let me know if you ever want to talk about it. But I like fighting, and he deserves it. It's a mutual benefit. * Riko starts walking away. "Thanks again." * Katie smiles a little at that. "But fighting won't solve anything, I think. Good luck with whatever it is you need to do." * Taki stops walking twords them and heds back to the ramen stand. * Haruko relaxes and watches Katie with an impressed look on her face. * Katie blinks at Haruko's look. Well, she's better than Remi... What? That was classy, that's all. * Katie chuckles. "Nobody's said that to me before. Thanks, I think." She starts heading back. * Haruko smiles. "You're welcome." She also catches rejoinds the group. * Katie rejoins and gets her satchel. She missed her poor satchel! You've got an amaizing way with people. * Katie blushes a little at that. [Session End]