[Day: Wednsday, February 12th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Cold and Rainy.] [Yesterday, you talked, then a buncha people visited the hospital, where they met someone who must be important 'cause he's got character art on the main page.] [Today, everyone is gravitating towards the lockers.] [Session Start!] * Satoshi leans against the lockers, as usual. * Kaede taps one of the cards that he got the other day against his chin, his eyes slightly closed as he walks carefully down the hall, deep in thought. * Haruko wanders down the hallway, waves to Satoshi, then leans with her back against one of the lockers. Heya, Haruko. * Taki walks down the hall, her backpack much lighter than it was, sever hours of scrubbing are also appearent because the last of the dye has been removed from her hair. * Satoshi folds his arms and half-closes his eyes. He looks a bit tired. ( If you guys had done that one Saturday a bit faster, I coulda done Valentine's Day on Halloween ;_; ) * Katie sketches quietly. * Kaede takes one last look at it and shakes his head before slipping it into the pocket, letting out a deep sigh and adjusting his glasses. * Satoshi opens his eyes and looks over at Kaede. "Heya, Kaede. What's wrong?" * Kaede says quietly under his breath. "Doesn't make any sense..." Hi everybo...what doesn't make sense? * Kaede snaps out of his revelry and frowns a little, looking flustered at being caught off guard. "It's..no it's nothing." * Kaede gets up and dusts his slacks off. "Just idle thoughts, that's all." * Kyon turns the corner at the end of the hall, and walks towards the others. Got the bag, got the stack of papers, which is only half the size as last time. Still looking at it, though. * Katie speaks up. "You have very few idle thoughts, Kaede." * Taki nods, "Well, I hope you get it figured out then." * Kaede gives Katie his usual awkward smile. "Call it an unidle thought then." * Haruko watches Kaede for a bit. "Fair enough, nothing you'd care to share I take it?" * Kaede nods solemnly and looks down at the floor, adjusting his glasses back up his nose again. Fair enough. * Katie glances up at Kaede, then shakes her head and goes back to sketching. * Satoshi spots Kyon down the hall. "And here comes Kyon. When he gets here, there's something that all of us need to know." * Kaede looks up slightly at Kyon and stares at the stack. "That's..quite a bit." * Satoshi looks at Katie. "You want to tell them, or should I?" You go ahead. I'll fill in if you need it. * Kyon nods to the others, and smirks. "It's half as much as yesterday." * Kaede takes a deep breath. "Not pleasant news I take it." When is it ever? Is it ever? * Taki checks to see if she's suddenly turned transparent or something. * Satoshi looks at Katie and half-grins. * Katie smiles faintly at Satoshi, then opens a tin of colored pencils. * Kaede lets out a mild groan at expecting that response. * Kyon shakes his head bemusedly, drops his bag, and looks down at Satoshi expectantly. Okay. Katie and Taki and I went to the hospital yesterday, like we said. * Haruko listens with a curious expression on her face. First we stopped off and saw Remi. She's doing better. And we got to meet Eiko, which was really nice. She said to tell you all thanks, and that Yuji and Yumi say thanks as well. * Taki nods. * Haruko smiles at the news. So that's the good news. * Kyon nods quickly. And somewhat impatiently. * Kaede lets out a breath he was holding. "And the bad overtakes it by far I imagine.." After that, we went to visit Meimi. When we got there, there was another person there already. Takeo. Or rather, we think it's the real person Takeo's based on. Right? * Satoshi glances quickly at Katie and Taki for confirmation. Who's this Takeo? I never meet the Illusionary one so... One of Meimi's illusionary friends. I guess Katie, Kyon and I are the only ones who met him. * Kaede nods slowly. "But..how do you tell the illusion from reality...?" * Katie looks up and nods. This Takeo wants to kill me. But then, who doesn't? * Katie goes back to coloring. Yeah. He thinks Katie's Judgement. Which she *isn't*, but, yeah. He threatened her... threatened us, really, and then left. * Kaede lets out a sudden cough. "Kill you? For what, being a gaiji.." Slaps his hand over his mouth remembering what happened last time he said that. * Haruko shakes her head at Satoshi's comment. "I saw him on the day Meimi broke down." We don't know if he thinks I'm Judgement. He just wants to kill me. Wait..Judgement? * Taki mutters to herself, "I'm going to find where that started and do something about it." * Katie flicks her eyes to Kaede. "No, that's Ken's department." You're right. He never said that, but I kinda inferred it from the way he was acting. * Kyon shakes his head, and looks down at Katie. "What'd he say exactly?" * Kaede blushes. "I didn't mean.." Oh, so did I. * Kaede shakes his head slightly and sighs. "Well, all things aside, I don't want to see anyone die..I don't think anyone here would, good or evil." I don't. * Katie sighs. "That he's been too busy to kill me, and that he won't let me get all of his kind. That they're more organized than the ones that were taken in the past. Or something like that." I'm going to do everything I can to prevent it. More organized..so there's a group...wonderful. Did he indicate who they were? Him and Meimi? Or did it sound like there were others? At first I thought he was worried that we were going to do something to Meimi, but it was Katie he was specifically angry at. Taki and me by extension, but Katie was really his main target. * Taki nods again. I don't know about this...making enemies we've never even met...what is this even all about really? I mean we've been trying to survive, but... * Kyon nods thoughtfully, and looks down at Katie. "Never ran into this guy before? The real one?" * Katie shakes her head. "He had some differences to him." Different hair, for one. Same color, same length, or close to it. Not spiky, though. Eyes were a different color, too. He didn't wear a school uniform, either. * Kyon nods tersely. "What was it?" Blue. I think...what we need to figure out is why ARE they mistaking Katie for Judgement. * Kyon shakes his head quickly. "What was he wearing?" He has no reason to know or fear you. I guess Meimi told him something or the real Shingo talked to him. Or there's somebody else out there with that same idea, although I'm at a loss as to who. * Haruko nods. "True." * Katie closes her eyes, trying to remember. "A bracer, or armguard, or something like that over one arm. A spiked choker. Sleeveless, open t-shirt, black bandages on his chest." Photographic memory? I'm impressed.. I wish I could do that. Me too. I only remembered some of that. * Katie opens her eyes and smiles sheepishly. "Not photographic. Not perfect, anyway." It's good enough..most eye witnesses have enough trouble remembering even that. Much less from someone who intends to kill them..usually they're too busy concentrating on not dying. * Kaede pushes his glasses up his nose nonchalantly. Well, I don't think he was going to kill us yet... although he did put up a field briefly. * Kyon turns and leans against the locker two down from Katie. He looks down at her. His expression is unusually thoughtful. "Either way, you're attracting enemies. Need to prove to them you're not who they think." I think that was just because we wouldn't get out of his way. * Kaede glances at Kyon for a second. "You're one to talk.." * Kyon smirks at Kaede. "Yeah, but I am who they think." * Kaede sighs very deeply. "That just makes things worse then.." Perhaps we should go talk to that computer guy. Two people who strongly reacted to Katie were previously used by Meimi as illusions. We may be able to get to him first. * Katie looks over at Kyon. And how do I prove that, exactly? They're the ones attacking me without any apparent proof. I can't disprove anything if I don't even know where they're coming from. Are we sure that he's not still an illusion though? We'd have to go find the real Judgement, and nobody's been able to do that... * Satoshi shudders. "And I'm not sure we'd want to." * Kyon looks at Taki sidewise, then speaks to Haruko. "Three, actually. There's something to that." That's what I said..if we can, we need to find out what information they DO have that points to Katie as Judgement.." Three? Who's the third? Shingo, Takeo, and...? * Kyon nods at Taki. When did I think she was Judgement? * Kyon shakes his head. "You didn't. But you did react strongly to her. Just in the opposite way." Ahh. I see. True. * Katie blinks and looks over at Taki, then back at Kyon. She sets her pencil down. "How do you mean?" I don't think that really counts..Katie just has..a unique personality is all. They want 'Ak, kill!' and I went "Ak, friend!" * Haruko smiles at Kyon's acknowledgement. "Can we check out if this guy has history at this school. I don't think Meimi can hold together illusions like that at this point, but better safe." * Kyon looks down at her. "The people we know were illusions around us all either really liked you, or really hated you." * Satoshi laughs at Taki's comment. * Kaede looks at Kyon thoughtfully. "You think there may be an emotional link between Meimi and Katie?" Is there a connection between the Moon and any other cards? * Katie opens her mouth, then closes it. She frowns a little. * Kyon leans back, and looks reflectively down at Katie. "Maybe. Even the Moon's illusion of herself liked her." * Katie says distractedly, "Hey, stop talking about me like I'm not here." * Kaede thinks as he closes his eyes. "It could be too though that the Moon can actually deceive emotions..that's a little more far fetched but.." About the only connection I could figure out between the Moon and the Page of Swords, Satoshi, is that in some ways they're opposites. One creates deception, and the other destroys it. Maybe because of that she sees you as a threat. So maybe she's attracted to you by that opposition? * Kaede frowns deeply. But it still wouldn't explain Taki... I don't know. We got along really well. Had a kind of, um... understanding between us because of it, I think. * Taki shrugs, "She's my friend, what more do I need?" Yeah. You guys did get along really well. So maybe she was drawn to you. * Katie sighs and runs a hand through her hair. "" * Kyon shrugs, and pushes off the lockers. "Maybe. Should talk to the computer guy. See what comes of him." Taki was special though, she was a replacement for a person a few of you already knew. I agree..at the very least, it'd confirm our theory. I'd much rather have the real Taki. * Satoshi smiles at her. * Haruko nods at Kyon's comment and stands up. "We could certainly use more information." * Taki smiles back at Satoshi. "I'd rather have the real me too." * Kaede thinks. "You know...I could try to be part of the club again.." * Kyon waves a hand dismissively, and gives Katie a piercing look. "Can work that out later. What I want to know is why the Band is so focused on you." * Haruko giggles. "Or Kyon and I could ask him to tea, if Meimi was reflecting this guy at all he'd definately come." You think Takeo's from the Band? * Katie blinks. "The Band?" She looks directly at Kyon now. Wait... Shingo - the *real* Shingo - was playing a sax. Does the Band have a sax player? Yes..that makes sense.. I never thought of that... * Kyon nods tersely. "And that guy you described sounds like he's in it, too." * Kaede frowns. "I don't know whether I feel better or not now that some of this starts to make sense.." How do you mean, Kyon? * Kyon jams his hands in his pockets. "I mean that you've had two people who sound like they're in the band attack you. Thinking you're Judgment. That guy from the hospital sounds like he fits. The clothing, the attitude. And then the real Knight, with the saxophone." And the one from the hospital said they were organized. You don't happen to remember how THAT Shingo was dressed, do you Katie? Um. * Katie frowns. * Satoshi shakes his head. "I don't." * Haruko leans back against the locker, trying to follow along as best she can. I wouldn't expect you to, but it would have helped.. I don't think I caught it. First he was kind of shadowed, and then I was too shocked at seeing his face to notice anything else. * Kaede frowns and rubs his chin. "Would he be in the computer club now you think?" Yeah. Especially since back then, we didn't know about the illusory Shingo versus the real one. * Kyon shrugs. "If he is, it's worth checking." He leans down and picks up his bag, then smirks at Katie. "Getting as good at making enemies as I am." * Katie rolls her eyes. "Better. I don't put any effort into it." * Katie starts packing up her pencils. * Kaede frowns. "If I'm going to check out the computer club though, maybe I should stay behind though..I mean, if he sees me with the rest of you and DOES think Katie's Judgement, then he'll be less apt to give up anything.." I have some other things I can attend to while you go.. [About now, Chikako arrives!] Oh, heya Chikako. Hi everyone! It's such a cool day, huh? * Kyon shrugs. "I don't try hard, either." He turns and nods to Chikako. * Katie grins at Chikako. "If you mean freezing, yeah." * Kaede looks up, adjusts his glasses and waves casually to Chikako. * Taki smiles at Chikako, "I don't have a huge pile of homework looming over me anymore, of course today's cool." * Chikako nods. "Like I said, it's cool." * Haruko nods and smiles at Chikako. * Chikako hands out papers. "Here, have a copy of the school's newspaper. It's so cool!" * Kyon nods, and reaches to take one from her. * Taki takes a paper when it's handed to her and thanks Chikako. * Kaede looks at the paper for a moment before reaching his hand out for one. "Thank you." * Satoshi accepts a paper and says thanks. * Haruko takes one. "Thanks!" She then proceeds to skim, checking out Meimi's column if today's paper has one. * Katie laughs and takes one. * Taki reads. * Satoshi reads as well. [It sure does. Otherwise, there's the usual reminders of the Cherry Blossom Festival and Valentine's Day. There's also an article about how Taki's going to be on the hockey team.] * Kyon flips it open, and starts reading. Hey, Taki, you made the news. * Taki reads and blushes a bit, "Yeah...thanks Chikako..." * Satoshi smiles as he reads the article about Taki. "Chikako's as good as her word. Not a surprise at all." * Chikako nodnods. "Isn't it cool? I'll have to interview you before the first game. It'll be so cool!" * Kaede groans and checks for unusual news. * Katie giggles. ["A comet will hit the earth in six hours!" ... is the headline Kaede does not see.] * Satoshi looks mock-offended. "Hey, I never got interviewed... except for that piece you did a while back when we were having trouble getting games scheduled. Then all I did was complain." (Do I see one that says it will hit in 5? ^_^;) 'Cause you're not a girl. * Kyon looks casually for the Sorazawa story. * Chikako peers at Satoshi. "Are you? It'd be cool if you were." * Katie cracks up. [Kyon finds it. I KNEW I forgot something.] * Satoshi turns very, very red. "Err... last I checked, I was still a guy..." * Haruko glances at Chikako. "That doesn't seem fair... oh, right, single gender sports. Silly things, never mind." Well, there you have it, a guy is a guy! * Kyon smirks at Satoshi over the newspaper. "Maybe it's worth checking again." A guy on the hockey team isn't cool news. * Satoshi *glares* at Kyon. I think I would have noticed. * Kyon doesn't notice, as he's gone back to reading. I'm not the first, Satoshi said there was a female goalie playing in America, her name was...uh...Uhm....What was it? Manon Rheume. And it's Canada, actually. But you're the first girl around here, and that's what's newsworthy. * Katie shrugs and skims the paper some more, blinks at the story, and starts reading. * Kaede figures there's nothing else to read and starts folding it up, sighing. "Valentines..such a waste of time.." Is that all that's going to be talked about for a while? Is not! Valentine's Day is so cool! * Kaede blinks at Chikako. "How do you mean?" * Haruko giggles at Kaede's complaint. Right, Canada, sorry. What are you complaining about, Kaede? You'll get chocolate. Don't turn down the chocolate. 'Cause! It is! * Kaede glances at Haruko oddly, as he doesn't really see the humor, then to Katie. "Chocolate? Me? Hah!" Even if I did, I'd... What, you'd refuse to eat it? * Kaede blinks suddenly and looks up. "Come to think of it, I'd never even considered that possibility." * Katie snickers and keeps reading. I'm sure you'll get lots of chocolate, then you'll see how cool it is. * Haruko keeps giggle but attempts to politely restrain herself so as not to further confuse Kaede. * Kyon finishes reading, and folds the paper. He smirks at Kaede. "You do talk with girls. You'll get chocolate." * Kaede blushes slightly and looks away. "No, not me. Never." * Taki looks over at Haruko and winks. Will too! * Satoshi glances very quickly at Taki, then tries to look as nonchalant as possible. Won't. Will! Kaede, stop for one moment. * Kaede sighs. "Nanami tries the same trick all the time..it's not going to work." You're talking to a girl, and she says you're going to get chocolate. Now give it up. Yes...but..I...oh forget it. * Kyon nods quickly. "It's the way things work, kid. You'll get some. Not a bad thing, either." Now, if you don't *want* me to give you chocolate, just say so, and I'll keep it for myself. * Kaede throws his hands up in the air. "Totally pointless." * Satoshi grins. "Accept the chocolate, Kaede. And if you don't want it, I'm sure somebody will be happy to take it off your hands... like Katie, for example." * Chikako smiles triumphantly! * Kaede looks over his shoulder. "But it's just out of pity, isn't it?" * Katie rolls her eyes. No! * Haruko smiles back at Taki and then simply turns away from Kaede so she doesn't have to restrain herself. No, it's 'cause you challenged me, and that's not cool! * Kaede blinks and turns to face Chikako. "What...does that have to do with anything?" * Katie deadpans, "Yes, I glorify all of you with my presence completely out of pity. You are not actually worth my time, but I decided to speak with you lowly mortals anyway." 'Cause! It's cool! * Haruko laughs outright at Chikako's aggressiveness and then further cracks up at Katie's comment. ...I give up! * Katie blinks and looks at her watch. She swears in English, then stands and starts hastily gathering her things. * Satoshi laughs, then blinks at Katie. "What's wrong? Late for practice or a meeting or something?" Yes. Kendo club starting up already? ( Someone actually going to a meeting in this game. What has the world come to? ) * Kaede rubs his forehead then looks over at Katie and frowns. "Sorry to keep you.." * Chikako looks at Katie. "You're gonna join a club? Cool! Which one?" (I always wonder when the hockey team actually practices. ;p) * Chikako grins. "Join the paper! It'll be so cool!" * Katie slings her satchel over one shoulder. "Yup. Kendo club. It's okay, Kaede. Walk with me there, will you?" * Kyon looks at Katie, and nods quickly. "Try not to get killed." ( 5:00 A.M. :P ) Good luck! * Kaede looks at her weirdly. "Me?" * Katie grins at Kyon. "That's my line to you." Sure. Come on, I'm the shy one. * Katie grabs Kaede by the arm and starts pulling him after her. (Well, that's Satoshi's practice. ;p The hockey team only seems to practice if a) Satoshi needs to be absent or b) we need a mini-session. ;p) * Chikako pouts. * Kaede gets dragged along, adjusting his glasses quickly and trying to get a foothold so he can walk normal. Um... bye? * Kaede waves hurriedly to everyone else then looks down at Katie appraisingly. * Katie notices Chikako's pout and pokes her in the side. "We can go out for ice cream after, okay?" * Kyon waves tersely at Katie's back, and looks over the others. * Haruko again laughs at Katie's action, then tries to restrain herself, then coughs as she hasn't really been breathing for a while. * Katie waves and moves it. * Chikako beams. "Ok! Cool!" * Haruko waves. * Taki waves to the departing pair. Guess I'd better go, too. I've got lots of cool things to do. Okay. Later, Chikako. I'll give you that interview as soon as I have something to say! Cool! * Kyon nods, and gives her a thin smile. "Later." Bye Chikako. * Chikako runs off down the hall. "Later!" * Haruko returns to normal breathing, having successfully supressed laughter. (Oh, and baseball doesn't practice yet, and fencing practices are on Sundays. =P) Some day I'm going to have to find the shrine where he lives...It must be in a time warp or something. * Haruko hten looks at Taki. "We've got to think of a fun way to give him friend chocolate, something neat that won't make him more uptight." ( Of course :P ) (I think the hockey team does practice on weekends, with the occasional weeknight practice. ;p) ( Haruko does shrine time whenever stuff isn't happening, convenient really. ) Hmm, I wonder if they make little chocolate torii. ( I'm sure the shrine will come up, eventually. ) I'm getting him a chocolate bicycle. ( Well she did get a brief sweeping cameo, and now I've got to hide from Ard or she'll make me sweep too ^_~ ) * Taki nods, "That sounds like a good idea...wait I saw a chocolate CD at a store once." * Satoshi listens to the girls plot. We could wait til the end of the day, and let him rant and gloat about not getting any chocolate, then give it to him all at once. Do you think Chikako could wait that long? * Haruko frowns. "Although, he may just end up embarrassed." * Haruko smiles again. "We'll just have to convince her how cool it will be!" True...true. * Kyon leans back against the lockers. "It's not like you're the only girls he knows. He could get from other people, too." * Haruko shrugs. "But he hasn't in the past, he may just not have many female friends." * Kyon shakes his head. "It's obligation chocolate. Any girls he deals with regularly should give it to him. So people he's in class with might." * Kyon smirks. "Unless he's really that unpopular." ...And thus the comment about pity chocolate. * Haruko frowns. "Stuff that's given to everyone in class doesn't count anyways, it doesn't mean anything." Hmm, so we have to convince him that it has some meaning, and that it's not from pitty...I suppose I could write something on the chocolate. * Kyon rolls his eyes. "Write, 'this isn't pity chocolate.' That'll let him know you care." * Satoshi chuckles. * Haruko ignores Kyon's quip. "Yeah, we give him stuff that specific to him and make a show of it. He'll be embarrassed but I think he'll be happy." * Taki nods, "Sounds like a plan." We can talk to Chikako and Katie and have them wait, although if he gets particularly uncomfortable any of us could jsut give it to him immediately. * Kyon shakes his head. "Figure it out later." He leans down and picks up the bag again. "I'm going to go pay the computer guy a visit." * Satoshi looks at Kyon. "Mind if I come with you?" * Haruko stands up. "Sounds good. I have a reason to see him, I could just claim I heard he was interested in the mechanics club, but we don't have to go with that." I don't tend to bother with recruitment, but I don't think the other guys in the club will be to jealous, they're about to get their own chocolate after all. * Kyon shrugs. "If you want to come, come. Just don't spook him." I hope I'm not that scary. I'll try to avoid bringing up... well, anything. * Taki blinks, "I'll just tag along because this'll be the first time I'll have met somebody that Meimi has copied and me the illusion of...I mean I have met myself." * Satoshi chuckles. * Kyon nods quickly, then stalks off down the hall towards the computer labs. * Haruko smiles and tags along. "So Kyon, as leader of this expedition. What reason are we going with?" Well, I haven't met my illusion...:: continues to babble for a bit:: * Satoshi follows along and listens to Taki babble. ;p [The computer labs are on the first floor, somewhere "in the back" Amusingly, you find Eriko leaning against the wall outside the door.] * Kirby is now known as Eriko * Satoshi looks surprised to see Eriko. "Oh, hey. How's it going?" * Eriko looks up and blinks a few times. "Huh? Oh, you guys." * Taki waves. * Kyon stops, and rocks back on his heels. "Yeah. Hey." You want somethin'? * Haruko doesn't notice Eriko as she is busy giving Kyon an annoyed stare, or at least as close as Haruko can come to an annoyed stare. * Kyon waves to the side at Haruko, shakes his head quickly, and focuses on Eriko. "Just student council business. Need to talk with the club president here." * Haruko rolls her eyes at the explaination, but lets up on the stare. * Eriko shrugs. "Go right ahead." * Kyon nods, and cocks his head. "Anything you need? Why're you here? Wouldn't have thought you the computer type." * Eriko blinks a few times and turns her head to the side. "I'm not. I'm just... killing time." * Kyon nods quickly. "Waiting for the kendo club president?" Ryuji? Not really. * Kyon shrugs. "So why kill it here? This isn't near anything." * Eriko shrugs. "No reason." * Eriko turns her head back. "'Sides, what do you care?" * Satoshi folds his arms and waits. * Haruko impatiently leans against the wall near the door. * Kyon shrugs disinterestedly. "No reason." He goes to the door, and opens it. * Haruko glances in. [And inside the room are 5 guys who all wear glasses. They're all crowded behind one screen.] * Satoshi hangs back. Computer geeks make him nervous. (Wait, we need dice for that ^_^;) * Haruko glances at Kyon. "I really hope what's on that screen isn't what I think it is." * Kyon goes in, and looks over the 5 of them for the club president. * Haruko cautiously follows Kyon in. [The (excuse the term) geeks are eying the screen happily. They're practically drooling. The one doing the typing is none other than that guy whose name I can't remember.] * Taki stays near the door. * Satoshi stays with Taki. * Haruko makes a decided effort to not see what's on the screen. * Kyon manouvers quietly around, trying to see what they're looking at. (I feel a club disbandment coming on! =P) [Kyon manuvers around carefully to see... A screen filled with 0's and 1's.] * Kyon clears his throat. "I need to have a quick word with the club president." * Haruko watches Kyon in an attempt to figure out indirectly what's on the screen. [The geeks all turn around. They eye each other, then one of them speaks up: "I'm Hirokazu Ashi..." He stops and peeeeeers at Haruko. "... kaga."] Vice President, that is. Prez isn't here. * Haruko suddenly looks self-conscious and smiles politely at Hirokazu. (I feel Haruko's pain.) * Kyon nods quickly. "That's enough." He looks around the room. "Anywhere in here where we can speak more privately?" Privately? * Hirokazu looks at Haruko. "Sure, I'd love to speak with her privately." * Haruko let's the polite smile fade. * Kyon rolls his eyes. "Reign it in, Vice President. The business is with me." [The other geeks stop paying attention to the conversation, and start talking about the stuff on the screen.] * Hirokazu is visibly disappointed. "Oh." Fine, fine. We'll go somewhere else. * Taki shakes her head. * Hirokazu stands up. He looks pretty much like the illusionary one did, except without the wrench. * Kyon looks him over quickly, checking for changes, and nods. "Here? Or the student council room? Should be free at the moment." * Hirokazu shrugs. "I don't care, but make it quick. We're doing important stuff." * Haruko backs up to stand next to Taki and Satoshi again. * Kyon shrugs, and points to the corner of the room. * Hirokazu gestures at the computer, which (to anyone with a skill of 3 or higher in computers) isn't actually all that important. * Hirokazu goes over there! * Haruko comments quietly to Taki and Satoshi. "Suddenly I'm glad Kyon is handling this." Heh. Yeah, I'm no good at any of this stuff. * Taki whispers back, "This one seems to have a bit more self restraint than the other." * Kyon follows him over, and puts down his bag. "There are a few matters I want to discuss. First, you are aware of the problems the council has had before with the club, are you not?" But only a bit. * Haruko looks less than impressed with the self-restraint. "I continue to thank whatever Kami where watching out for me when I got mechanical skill rather than computer skills." I don't have either...perhaps I should look into a new kami...but then again I am still alive. * Haruko grins. "That's certainly something." * Satoshi blinks at Taki, but doesn't say anything. * Taki runs a hand across the scarred side of her face and waits for Kyon. * Haruko glances at the scar. "I wonder if there's something about the cups suit that gets us facial scars." She then pushes aside the bang that partially blocked the burn marks on her face. * Satoshi looks at the two of them. "What, Cups give you scars, while Wands just gets you beat up?" He grins, revealing his missing tooth. Then again, Kyon doesn't have that problem. * Haruko smiles. "It might be a hockey thing." And the same thing that makes half the guys act like jerks to eachother. * Satoshi chuckles. "You got it exactly, Haruko." Tip number one: when you're a hotheaded young player, you *don't* challenge a guy who's older, taller, and much larger. Learned that the hard way. They aren't going to go easy on you just because you're new. I'll try to remember that. Goalies generally don't get into fights, Taki. Unless you're playing against Patrick Roy. ...I don't think that's something I'll ever have to deal with. * Haruko looks happy for Taki, but also confused. And trust me, you're nothing like I was when I first started out. Which is a really good thing. I'm not sure about that, knowing how to skate was probibly big atvantge. * Haruko looks curiously at Satoshi "Got in a lot of fights when you were starting?" * Satoshi nods slowly. "It... really helps, but thankfully you don't have anything close to my attitude." * Satoshi looks at Haruko. "Yeah, I did. I was under the impression that everybody was looking down on me, so I wanted to show I was as tough as any of them." Well, you seem to have convinced them, but I think I'll try a diffrent method all the same. * Haruko nods. "I can see that, I never really had to prove myself as a kid, I was good enough at what I loved that it wasn't a problem, but then I didn't have to show my toughness." Heh. I wish I'd used a different method, too. But having it beat out of me was effective enough, I'll admit. * Haruko then grins. "Yep, good thing you grew out of it, it's nice to have a guy around that isn't constantly awkward or demeaning." * Satoshi grins back at Haruko. "Thanks." * Haruko gives a relaxed yawn. "Well this is fun, but I wonder what's taking Kyon so long. Hopefully he's finding stuff out." Hope so too. * Hirokazu finishs his conversation with Kyon and goes back to work. * Kyon picks up his bag, and walks back to the group. * Taki looks over to the corner where Kyon is talkin. (Gosh, we should have asked that sooner. ;p) Find out anything? * Kyon shrugs, and walks out into the hallway. * Hirokazu is now known as Eriko * Taki follows Kyon out of the room. * Satoshi rolls his eyes and follows. * Eriko is still out there. * Haruko walks looking more than a bit relieved. * Satoshi nods politely to Eriko as they pass her. * Kyon smirks at her as he goes by. "Still here?" * Katie comes walking down the hall, distant look on her face and all. Yeah. So? * Satoshi waves to Katie. * Katie waves at Satoshi. * Taki waits untill Katie gets closer and then says, "How'd it go Katie?" * Katie chuckles. * Haruko gives her default smile to Eriko and then looks happily on Katie's arrival. Ryuji didn't tell me to get lost, so I think it went well. Hi Eriko. * Kyon shrugs. "Thought you'd've gone by now." He looks down at Katie, and checks her over quickly for broken parts. * Eriko shrugs. Anyway, Kaede left for parts mostly unknown. Anything interesting happen while I was gone? If it did Kyon hasn't told us about it yet. * Katie snickers. "Then I'm just in time." She turns to Kyon. "Tell me a story!" * Haruko glances at Kyon. "Yep, although I did get leered at, Chikako's right about that guy." I'm glad Kyon handled the interview. The comp club? Yeah, they're like that. * Kyon rolls his shoulders, and smirks. "Hallways don't make for the right atmosphere." He looks down at Eriko curiously. "Thought you said you didn't deal with the computers." I don't. If you need a computer expert, look somewhere else. * Kyon shrugs. "Right. But you know them?" Not really. Not in the club, if that's what you're thinkin'. * Kyon nods, and waves a hand, speaking in a lower tone. "Don't think a girl would get on well in there. The VP spends all his time staring at anything with breasts if they're there to be seen." Probably. * Haruko grimaces. * Katie rolls her eyes. * Kyon stretches, and nods. "Right. Say hi to the biker girl for me." He heads off down the hallway, making for the student council room. * Eriko lights up a cigarette. Bye Eriko! ::follows Kyon down the hall:: * Satoshi nods again and leaves. See ya. * Katie watches Kyon walk a ways, then turns to Eriko. "It was nice seeing you again. I'd better get moving before Kyon tries to weedle out of that story." She waves and heads off. * Haruko further grimaces at the cigarette and quickly moves to catch up with Kyon. [Session end]