[Day: Friday, February 21st. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Sunny, and surprisingly not too cold. Pity the forcast for tomorrow is more snow.] [Yesterday you made a new friend! ... or maybe enemy. It's hard to tell what exactly he wanted, but you fought the Four of Swords, then he left. Today, you gather at the lockers!] [Session Start!] * Katie sits at her locker, sketching. Perfectly normal, except she's also wearing a white cowboy hat. * Satoshi walks up to his locker, reaches in, and pulls out a large sports bag that looks like it really shouldn't be able to fit in there. * Kaede steps down the hallway, starts towards the lockers, stops, blinks, and stares at Katie. * Kaede starts to turn around. "I must have the wrong lockers..." * Satoshi slings it over his shoulder, turns around, spots Katie and starts laughing. * Katie speaks up: "Oh, come on, Kaede. Like cowboy hats are that scary." * Katie looks up at Satoshi and grins, tilting her hat. "Howdy." * Taki comes walking down the hall from her usual direction, "Hi Satoshi, Kaede what's so funny?" * Kaede stops short and turns around again, adjusting his glasses. "Oh. For a moment there, I thought some field transported us to an alternate wild west dimension." * Satoshi manages to stop laughing and grin back. "" * Taki catches sight of Katie, "Uhm.... Why are you wearing that?" * Kaede takes a deep breath, and the look on his face shows he might not be actually joking about that last statement. * Haruko walks up to the group, and pauses as she chuckles at Katie's hat. * Katie waves at Taki. "It's a joke. Besides, I figured it would be fun to use my first violation on a cowboy hat." * Kaede wipes his glasses on his collar. "I don't even think snowballs can keep you sane." Sanity is relative. I'm sure we've all learned this by now. Hmm, maybe Haruko can make her a six-shooter snowball gun. I think so. * Katie giggles. * Kaede takes a deep breath. "Yes. And trying to keep mine is relative on you keeping yours." * Haruko stretches then leans up against a locker. "Hmmmm...." * Kaede puts his glasses back on. * Katie goes back to sketching. "Oh, Kaede. What's the name of your company again?" * Kaede blinks. "Company? It's not really a company...it's just a local thing.." Okay, what's the name of your local thing? Takeuchi Bike Repair. It's not really all that unique... ( It's not really a company :P ) (Isn't that what he said? :P) (It's a front!) (For drug lords!) (::snickers::) ( It's part of a cartel! ) ( You didn't realize? He IS a pentacle :P ) ( ;_;) (Nanami's my dealer. I'm the supplier.) * Katie nods, filing that into her memory. "Okay." (Now that i've told you, I have to kill you.) (^_^) (Get in line with everybody else who wants to kill us. ;p) * Haruko ponders for a bit, "'Suppose it'd be possible, though not hurting people would be tricky, and six-shooters aren't really...." She trails off as she realizes people have moved on and resumes relaxing. * Kaede takes out his notepad and taps his pencil against it slowly. "Tomorrow..tomorrow...say, did Nanami talk about it?" * Katie looks up. Talk about what? She mentioned something about having everyone over for dinner as thanks...but she couldn't remember if she'd told you about it or not.. * Kaede frowns a little. "Which is funny..I've never known her memory to slip." * Katie snaps her fingers. "Right, she told me." * Satoshi blinks. "Dinner?" * Kaede looks up from the pad, keeping a neutral expression. "Or yours either, Katie. Though I suspect you have other things on your mind right now..." * Kaede sighs and slips his pad away, looking slightly down. "We all do." * Haruko rubs the side of her head, and asks herself in a quiet but audible voice. "Mmm.. What am I forgetting..." Sounds like fun, but I need to make arrangements to keep my dad from trying to burn the place down when I'm not looking. * Katie smiles sheepishly. "Sorry." * Kaede nods slightly then turns embarrassed. "Though I wish she didn't just...volunteer me for these things." * Satoshi looks at Haruko. "Couple of things I wanted to ask or remind you about." I think she told me while I was thinking about Taro, and Jin showed up and we went to see Saori... where is Jin, anyway? * Kyon turns the corner at the end of the hall, holding his bag in one hand. He waves curtly back over his shoulder to whoever he was talking to before. He heads down the hall towards the others, and stops a few meters off when he sees Katie. He crouches a bit, lowers his head, and starts laughing very softly. * Haruko glances up at Taki. "Oh, my dad would be happly to bless your equipment at some point. But that's not it." She then looks over to Satoshi and starts to remeber. * Katie winks at Kyon and tips her hat. Jin's at my place. He's more or less okay on his own if I give him instructions and promise him chicken. Something to do with the hockey booth? Saori...we should see her again... * Kaede turns towards Kyon. "A laugh...from Kyon. And I don't think it's sarcastic. The world is ending as we speak." * Satoshi indicates his sports bag. "I brought the stick and the bat, Haruko." * Kaede shakes his head. "You're some piece of work, Katie Andrews." * Kyon looks up a bit at Katie, and straightens a bit, laughing harder. He brings his free hand to his forehead, and holds it there, just under his hair. * Haruko smiles at Satoshi. "Great, I'll drop it off by the shop room when we're done here. Oh, and you're heater's there too. But, there's something else..." * Katie grins. "I try my best." Yeah, you were gonna tell us all something yesterday. * Kyon makes himself stop his rough laughter, and gives Katie a hard smile. He points at the hat. "Planning on shooting someone down?" Shoot them down with a glare. She does it all the time. * Katie aims her finger into the air. "Watch it. My finger's loaded." * Kaede smiles just ever so slightly and puts his fingers under his locks of hair. "I wonder what Chikako's going to say when she sees this..." After stating over and over again how cool it is, that is * Taki makes a show of hiding behind Satoshi. "Don't point it at me!" Oh, she knows. We eat lunch together. * Haruko nods to Satoshi, she then stands up and straightens up her back and looks rather dignified. "Alright, I missed my chance yesterday, so before we get distracted, I need to get the opinion of the group on something." * Kyon fades the smile to a smirk, and shakes his head bemusedly. "If that's all you're packing, no need to worry." Hmmm...I've always tended to have it..alone. * Kaede leans back against the locker and goes back to his normal expression. * Katie blinks and looks over at Kaede. "Maybe you should do something about that." * Satoshi grins briefly at Katie, then turns his attention back to Haruko. Like what? * Taki steps out from behind Satoshi and looks a bit more serious. I've got plenty to do during my lunch anyways. * Kaede shrugs. * Haruko removes a piece of paper from her pocket and unfolds it. She waits for people's attention. (Poor Haruko. She's never going to be able to tell us anything before we distract ourselves. ;p) * Katie studies Kaede for a moment, then shrugs and goes back to her sketchbook. * Kaede raises an eyebrow at Katie but says nothing, looking slightly off to the side. * Haruko adopts a slightly stilted tone, it's clear she's practiced what she's going to say, and is choosing words carefully. "Alright, I may have discovered what my path to finding Reiji is...." * Kaede looks up at Haruko, giving her full attention. * Kyon looks sidewise at Haruko, shrugs, and speaks to Katie. "White isn't your color, either. Try something in grey." He quiets, and listens to Haruko. * Taki nods. * Katie glances over at Kyon, about to reply, then pays attention to Haruko. But I'm not sure. I don't see the connection, but this option seems to have a fated quality... (Then she can be Katie the Grey, almost die to a Balrog and THEN become Katie the White!) ( I am not Gandalf! Really!) I could be wrong, and it could refer to working with the band or something mechanical. But I might not be. Fated? What connection is this? * Haruko nods at Satoshi. She falters for a moment, glances at her paper and keeps going. "The trouble is, I'm honor bound to not give much information about this. I can say it feels arcana related but there aren't any clear connections to judgment or other dangerous arcana." * Kaede takes a deep breath. "A secret then..." * Katie tilts her head. So, what are you going to do? * Haruko pauses for the moment. "Yes, but that's not the really trickey part." She reads the paper again then closes her eyes. * Kaede closes his eyes too. "It never is.." * Kyon leans forward a bit as he listens and glances down at the paper. * Taki thinks and listens. * Haruko waves off Katie's question for the moment. "The trouble is, there is a connection back to our group, which is why I will only proceed on this with everyone's permission." But you won't say who, am I right? * Haruko sighs. "Right, I'm afraid." * Kaede takes a deep breath, and looks around. "Brilliant." * Katie nods. "Is that everything?" * Haruko ignores Kaede and shakes her head to Katie's comment. "Fortuantely, the first step is information gathering only. I don't think it will draw Judgment's attention or affect any one of us." * Kaede closes his eyes again. "I'm fine if you follow up on it, Haruko...on one condition..." What is done with that information might, but I can check with the group again then, and probably some of the secret will be out. * Haruko pauses. "That's it. Yes Kaede?" * Kaede opens his eyes and looks Haruko pointedly in the eyes. "If things start to get hairy, in any way shape or form, you don't go at this alone..." * Haruko keeps her eye's shut but smiles gently. "Thanks Kaede. I can accept that condition." * Katie taps at her chin with her pencil, then sighs and looks over at Haruko. * Taki tugs on her braid, "It's a mess either way, but I think Haruko should do what she thinks is the right thing to do." * Haruko keeps her eyes shut and waits. Do what you think is best. You know more than the scraps of information you're handing us, so we're just going to have to trust you. You seem to have a good idea of what you want to do, so I say go ahead. * Satoshi shrugs. * Taki looks at Kyon. Not like I've got all that much to add. * Kyon turns on his heel and puts his back to the lockers. He looks down at Haruko thoughtfully, then shrugs and smirks. "You need to talk, talk. Figure out what you need to. Working towards getting Reiji back is a good goal." He gives Haruko a cool look. "Just try not to give back too much." * Haruko nods and opens her eyes. "Thanks." Alright, one other thing, this is an easier one. I can have one assistant on the first part if somoene would like to volunteer. What do you need? I just hope it's in the right direction...every time it seems like we find something out, it's two steps forward, 5 steps back.. You just took the words out of my mouth Satoshi. What first part was this again? Not much, I just can take someone without breaking my word. All they need to be able to do is take the back seat to me as I handle this. I can do that. If you think I'd be okay for it, I mean. * Katie blinks and looks over at Satoshi. * Kaede leans back against the lockers, looking down thoughtfully and not saying anything. * Haruko waits a second to see if anyone else is volunteering. I'd go too, I'm just not sure I'll be the sort of help you'll need. * Satoshi looks back at Katie. "Well, Haruko's helped me out already, and she's going to help me out even more, so it's only fair that I help in return, right?" * Haruko thinks for a moment. "Yeah, thanks Taki, but might actually be easiest with Satoshi." If Kyon wishes to go, I think he takes... I mean, I think he should go instead of Satoshi if he wants. Reiji is more his friend, or ally, than any of ours. * Katie looks over at Satoshi and nods. "Other than that, Satoshi or Taki should probably go." ...Kyon won't take a back seat to anyone though, Katie... * Haruko blinks at Katie's comment, but otherwise doesn't react. Neither will I. Well, there we go. Good luck Satoshi. * Katie turns to Kaede. "If he doesn't think he can, or if he doesn't want to, then he won't go," she says calmly. * Kaede slumps a bit more against the locker, sighing. * Kaede just repeats. "Kyon won't take a back seat to anyone." * Kyon shrugs, gives Katie a swift look, then back over to Haruko. "You want me to go, I'll go. I'm your best choice if there's a fight." He smirks. "But if you thought I was a good idea to have there, you would have asked." * Kaede finds an interesting corner of tile and looks at it. * Haruko shifts her weight from one foot to another, she doesn't exactly make eye contact. "You are the best fighter Kyon, but there's no real risk of that. So Satoshi continue's to be simplest." * Kyon eyes Haruko quietly. "Do you know if the person you're dealing with is Arcana?" * Haruko shakes her head. "Not yet." * Kaede looks at the ceiling for a bit. A good change of view from the floor. * Kyon jams his hands into his pockets. "But someone you know well enough that you don't think asking them pointed questions is going to get you smacked around." * Satoshi listens intently. Haruko's not the type TO get smacked around easily. That's my department. * Katie frowns, then picks up her sketchbook, flips to a new page, and starts drawing. * Kaede shuts his pad hard and stands up, heading down the hall a bit. I think she's smart enough not get to the point of sma... * Haruko frowns a bit. "True, but the person isn't nece... it shouldn't come to fighting." I hope not. * Kyon nods quickly and waves a hand at Taki. "Sometimes it doesn't take as much as you think." He eyes Haruko for a few more seconds, then shrugs and turns away. "Do what you need to. Take the Ace." * Haruko folds up her paper and puts it back in her pocket. She nods at Kyon. * Haruko then sits down with her back against a locker, exhales, whipes some sweat off her brow, and starts to relax. * Kaede turns down the hall a ways down and keeps walking, out of site. * Satoshi watches Kaede depart. "Oh, what did we do this time?" * Kyon looks off down towards where Kaede was, smirks, and waves sarcastically. "Does it matter?" Probably not. Ignored him for the past five min? ( Nah..you do that ALL the time and I never mind :P) * Katie snaps her sketchbook shut and stands, shouldering her satchel. "I'll talk to him." He wasn't contributing anything useful. What were we supposed to do, applaud? * Taki nods...at Katie. * Katie eyes Kyon, then walks after Kaede. * Haruko drops the stoic mask she'd been keeping on. She looks to be calming down, but she still looks tense, and perhaps a bit afraid. * Satoshi sighs. "Well... um... how'd your date yesterday go, Haruko?" He silently prays that things went well. * Kyon shrugs and straightens himself against the locker. He looks down at Haruko and his eyes glint, but he doesn't say anything. * Haruko brightens considerably. "Pretty well, had fun, but.." Awww, shit! Field! * Satoshi looks around for the source. "This is starting to get old..." ...And just when we were getting to the good part too. [Over by (ta da!) the door are three people, all dressed in the black uniforms of Serizawa High. The one on the left is a rather handsome man with short, wheat colored hair and small red earrings. He's somewhat on the short side, but stands tall, and has his school jacket fully closed. To the right is a much larger man with a posture that just screams 'thug!'. He has dyed black hair that looks very much like an L, thick lips, and strong arms.] [And in the center is the guy who must be their leader. He's rather tall, nearly Kyon's height, and incredibly handsome (one might say bishonen ^^). He's got serious, deep brown eyes. His hair is purple and short in the back, but his bangs are long and fall almost over his left eye. He wears a black trenchcoat like a cape: the collar is buttoned, and his arms aren't in the sleeves.] * Satoshi eyes the trio, then looks to see if Katie and Kaede are anywhere near. [They're down the hall.] * Haruko quickly stands up. * MainGoon nods to the group. "Kyon." This is going to be one of thoes weeks isn't it? * Satoshi nods quickly, then folds his arms... then blinks as the main goon calls Kyon by name. When *hasn't* it been one of those weeks? Uhm...give me a few hours. ::looks over at Kyon:: * Haruko watches the thugs, she looks a bit scared, but nonetheless far more at ease than she had been a few minutes ago. * Kyon doesn't push off the lockers. "Matthias. Any reason for your visit?" * MainGoon nods and moves forwards. "Wouldn't be here if there wasn't." * Taki lets Kyon do the talking, he seems to know what's going on. * Kyon nods curtly, and smirks. "Going to tell me?" * Katie walks back quietly, stopping near Kyon. She looks over the Serizawa students, her face carefully neutral. * Haruko relaxes a bit and watches Kyon. * Satoshi watches Kyon and Matthias carefully. * Matthias doesn't return the smirk. "I haven't heard from Reiji in a while. Seems he's vanished. And it seems his sister followed soon after she informed me." * ThuggishGoon looks everyone over, a confident grin on his face. He has bad teeth. * Taki blinks. * Kyon scowls. "Reiji's been gone for a while. When did Kyoko talk to you?" * HandsomeGoon looks everyone over as well, without much expression. * Matthias shrugs. "Some time last week." * Haruko frowns. * Katie clutches her sketchbook a bit harder. * Kyon blows out a breath. "Explains why she never answers her phone. Is that all she was there to talk to you about?" * Satoshi frowns as well. This isn't sounding very good. * Matthias smirks. "Does she ever talk about anything else?" * Taki closes her eyes and slowly shakes her head. * Kyon smirks. "Yeah, sometimes she does. Especially before Reiji left." * Haruko quietly whispers a few prayers on Kyoko's behalf. * ThuggishGoon looks over at Haruko and sniggers. * Katie glares at the goon, but doesn't say a word. * Haruko pays no attention to the goon. ( pay no attention to that goon behind the curtain. ) * Taki is torn between glaring at the goon and waiting for his leader to elaborate. * Satoshi narrows his eyes slightly, but keeps on listening to Kyon and Matthias. ( No one suspects the ugly goon is actually behind everything) I'm betting Judgement was responsible. Did you know that it's here? * Kyon pushes off the lockers, and steps forwards a couple steps. "I've heard rumors about that. Where'd you hear that from?" * Taki blinks again and looses the glare. * Haruko tenses a bit. * Satoshi's frown deepens, and he has to work hard to keep from saying anything. A reliable source. It's here, in your school. * Kyon rolls his eyes. "A reliable source named what? Someone I know?" * HandsomeGoon speaks up. "We came to stop it!" He's got a rather deep voice. (For a sec I thought he said, 'it's your school' Buffy cornered the market on evil high school's ) * ThuggishGoon snickers. "Heh. Yeah. See how this abstract thingamathing likes a baseball bat to the head." His voice is high and seedy. * Kaede looks up from the hallway, his calm expression faltering in a look of confusion as he drops his kaban on the floor. * Matthias glances over his shoulder at the goon. "Idiot." * Katie feels the corner of her mouth quirk a bit. That the guy knows the word 'abstract', but is insistant on baseball bats... Abstract thingamathings have heads? * Kyon gives the goons a cool look, then turns back to Matthias. "You came to stop it. But you won't tell me who told you?" * Matthias turns back. "Of course not." I did tell you. A reliable source. * Kaede pushes his glasses up and sighs. 'Bad timing." * HandsomeGoon eyes Kaede. * Kyon rocks back on his heels. "You think you know who it is? Convince me, and I'll help you." * Kaede eyes the goon right back, not breaking his expression. (Which is slightly less happy than usual, aka Kaede's normal mode ^_^;) * Matthias shakes his head. "Of course I don't. If I did I'd have handled it already." This is your school. If anything, you ought to know. * Matthias flicks his eyes towards the rest of the people besides Kyon, as though acknowledging them for the first time. "... These people. Are they all like us?" * Kyon nods curtly. "Right. Like I said, I've heard the rumors, but they don't seem credible to me." He shrugs. "If I know yours, and I think it's credible, then I'll share what I know." * Kyon smirks. "They're in a field. What do you think?" My fields aren't that powerful. * Matthias gestures to the goons. "That's why they're still around." * Haruko smiles a bit. * Taki blinks in surprise. * Kyon nods again. "Yeah, they don't really look the type." Hey, don't get any ideas! We can still mop the floor with you freaky types if we wa- * HandsomeGoon cuts him off. "Shut up, moron." * Katie smiles to herself just a bit and keeps watching. * Satoshi files this bit of information away. * Kyon gives a quick, dismissive gesture with one hand. "So. Tell me, if you're not willing to share with me, why should I be willing to tell you?" * Matthias considers a bit, then finally says. "A reading. You're apparently closely connected with Judgement." I took it to mean you might know who- or what- it is. Although it could mean you're next... * Kyon nods curtly. "I've done readings of my own. Led me to believe that finding Reiji will lead through Judgment. And I'm looking for Reiji." Or maybe looking for Reiji will lead you to Judgement. * Kaede keeps back, looking from one goon to the other. * Kyon shrugs. "Either way. It's a risk, but I don't have enough information to close off looking." He smirks. "Not just going to give up because the cards say that there's some danger involved." * Haruko looks pleased that Kyon is far more ept at withholding information than she is. * Taki watches the air fill with bits of truth. * Matthias shrugs. "Suit yourself, but this... thing... has already taken one of my men. I'm going to be watching this school for it." * Kyon nods tersely. "Do want you want. I'm watching this school for it, too. Not just here, though." * Kaede mutters under his breath, not loud enough for anyone more than 2 feet away to hear. "Sounds like a drill sergeant." Fine. * Matthias turns to go, but stops after two steps and half turns around. "There is one other matter." * Kyon nods quickly again, and looks sidewise at Matthias. "What?" Have you met with the Four of Swords yet? * Satoshi blinks. * Haruko looks at Matthias, curious, but she tries to cover up the expression. * Taki looks thoughtfull for a second and brightens, but doesn't say anything. * Kyon rocks forwards, and nods quickly. "I fought him yesterday." He smirks. "He was very polite about it." * Kaede keeps his eyes on the goons. Not that he's intimidating or anything. * Matthias snorts. "Polite. He politely put one of my men in the hospital." What did he want? * Kyon shrugs. "To fight. That was all. He said we were to fight three times, and thought getting one out of the way on good terms was intelligent." * Matthias frowns. "I see." He heads for the door. "Kaoru, Goro. We're leaving." * HandsomeGoon looks up at him. "Um, boss?" What? ... Oh, right. Meet us back at the school when you're done. * Haruko tilts her head and watches the handsome goon. * Matthias heads out the door. "Goro. Come." * Taki wonders what they're up to. * Satoshi eyes Kaoru. * ThuggishGoon frowns. "Aww, but I wanna see wha- eegh!" He howls as Matthias grabs his collar and yanks him out the door. "Alright, alright! I'm comin' boss!" * Kyon shakes his head irritatedly, and looks at the one staying behind coolly. "Playing the vanguard?" * Kaoru folds his arms and takes a few steps forwards. "Not exactly. I just wanted to talk to you." * Katie tilts her head, studying Kaoru. * Taki lets out a small sigh of relief. * Satoshi doesn't relax quite yet. * Haruko smiles. * Kaede makes a show of not paying much attention to either of them. * Kyon rolls his shoulders, and rocks back on his heels. "So? Talk." You know, we're not all as bad as Goro makes us seem. * Kaede is instead keeping firmly intent on the door. * Haruko smiles a bit more. "Glad to hear it. The boss makes us look rough, but that's mostly... well, sort of just for show. * Satoshi nods. "I can understand that." * Taki nods. * Kyon shrugs. "Judging the many on the actions of the one isn't sound." He smirks. "Especially when the one acts like that one does." Yeah, you see? * Kaede states absently. "Could go both ways." And me, I don't just follow the boss mindlessly. I've got a personality and hobbies of my own. And I'm a pretty good cook too. * Kaoru fidgets a bit and blushes, then asks. "So... would you consider going to dinner with me?" * Taki nearly falls over. * Kaede looks solidly at Kaoru, his voice monotone. "....what?" * Katie tries *really* hard not to laugh, and just barely succeeds. * Satoshi blinks several times and tries to figure out who Kaoru is asking. * Kaoru is looking at Kyon. * Haruko tilts her head and grins. She actually restrains laughter for once, she's trained herself well to keep quiet when people are looking for dates. * Satoshi looks at Kaoru, then at Kyon, then attempts to suppress a grin. He fails. * Taki uses the wall to straighten up and looks back at Kyon. She has a huge smile plastered across her face. * Kyon smirks, and shakes his head quickly. "I've already got plans for the evening." He rocks back on his heels, and regards Kaoru. "Maybe some other time." * Kaede 's trying to remain serious through all this. You people make it SOOOOO hard... (Take that, Kaede! ^^) * Kaoru sighs. "Damn." * Kyon shrugs, and reaches a hand into his pocket to pull out a name card. "Ask again later." () (... You know you want to. Do it!) * Taki manages to get a straight face on and turns back to Kaoru. * Kaoru nods. "Okay. Thanks." * Haruko watches Kaoru, and looks somewhat sympathetic. (Don't want an angry jealous goon on my hands ^_~) * Kaoru does cast Satoshi and Kaede glances, but not for very long. He must not be as interested in them. :P (Nah, Satoshi's ugly. ;p) (Kaoru could do much better. ;p) (Feh. You just don't want him to ask you out.) (But Kaede's above average ;_; Not by much but he IS!) ( Yep. He could go for Ryuji :P ) (Ha!) (That's Ok, Satoshi has most of the female arcana population after him, and Kaede's got most of the 'normal' ones) ( I can take him ) * Kyon nods quickly, and holds out a hand expectantly. "Not going to give me one in return?" He smirks. "Bad manners." Ahh...? * Kaoru smiles. "Don't have any." * Kyon blows out a breath. "That's even worse manners." He looks at him coolly. * Katie idly straightens the cowboy hat she's been wearing this entire time. This is amusing. * Kaoru sighs. "Sorry. Don't usually use them." * Kyon nods curtly. "I can see that. Fine." He jams a hand into his pocket, only to pull out his cell phone, and punches up a new address entry. "Just fill it out." * Kaoru smiles and does just that. * Kaede shakes his head a bit more at Kyon and avoids looking at him a bit more than usual. * Kaoru hands the phone back to Kyon when he's finished. "Great." * Kyon takes it, and shoves it back into his pocket. "Get yourself some cards." * Kaoru nods. "Yeah, I'll have one for you next time." * Taki makes a mental note to get some of her own, and a cell phone, and car and driving lessons would be nice too. * Haruko continues to grin. * Kyon nods quickly, and turns on his heel, walking back over to the lockers and the rest of the group. He waves tersely back over his shoulder. * Kaoru smiles and waves, even though Kyon can't see he practically skips out the door. * Taki waves to the departing figure. * Haruko chuckles. "So, who is this Maathis guy?" With friends like that, who needs enemies, eh? * Katie laughs now. Or...right. Allies probably is a better word, right? * Satoshi grins and shakes his head. * Kaede looks sternly at Kyon now. * Kaede keeps looking. If he's amused, he's doing a good job of hiding it. * Taki lets the grin take over again. Nice going, Kyon. What are you going to tell Chikako? * Kyon shrugs and looks down at Kaede from his spot at the lockers. "Can't have all your allies be the nicest people. He can still help." * Haruko nods. "He didn't seem all that bad, no reason to be mean to a guy who asks nicely." [Speaking of Chikako, guess who show's up?] (Yay!) Yes. Everyone's extremely helpful. Sure you don't mean USEFUL? What's useful? Is it cool? * Kaede turns his back to Kyon and waves to Chikako. * Kyon smirks down at Katie, shakes his head, and starts to reply before nodding to Chikako. * Chikako grins at Katie. "Hey, cool hat!" * Katie waves at Chikako. "Hi!" She's still grinning, despite the conversation. Hi Chikako. * Haruko waves at Chikako. "Hi!" * Katie tips her hat. "Glad ya like it, pardner. You helped me pick it out." Oh, heya, Chikako. It's the coolest thing, Chikako. Kyon has a secret admirer. * Chikako giggles. "It's cool." * Chikako looks at Kaede. "Oh? Cool! Who is it?" ... Wait a minute. That's not very cool for me. * Chikako pouts. If I said, wouldn't be a secret admirer, now would it? Don't worry..don't think he's competition for you. * Katie blinks, then looks over at Kaede. * Taki eyes Kaede. * Kaede walks over to the other side towards the doors. Keeping a secret like that's not very cool. * Haruko glances at Kaede for a second, but stays quiet. * Satoshi frowns briefly at Kaede, then decides to ignore him. * Kyon nods quickly. "I'll tell you about it at dinner tonight. Still on, right?" * Chikako beams and nodnods. "Yeah! It's all cool." * Katie watches him go, the tiniest frown gracing her face. * Kaede heads out the door. You can see him going to his favorite tree from here. * Kyon nods again. "So, Harajuku station at 7:30." * Chikako grins. "Hey! I brought papers. Cool, huh?" * Chikako nodnods. Cool. Trade you. * Katie takes her hat off and sticks it on Chikako's head, then holds her hand out for one of the papers. * Haruko grins. "Yup, may I have one?" She holds out a hand. Kaede...doesn't seem like himself, and papers are allways cool. * Satoshi chuckles, then politely requests a paper. * Kyon gets one of the papers, too. He barks out a laugh at the hat on Chikako's head, too. * Chikako grins at the hat. She hands everyone a paper, which doesn't have any real info, but does remind people that the festival is only about a week away. Hey, how does it look on me? Is it cool? * Haruko giggles at Chikako wearing the hat. "Definately!" She actually reads the paper closer than usual, but is still quickly done. * Katie looks up from her reading and grins. "Hey, Kyon likes it." * Satoshi grins. "Very cool." * Taki gives Chikako an appriasing look, "It's as cool as you think it is." * Satoshi skims over the paper. Only a week left until his watery doom. Oh, yay. * Chikako smiles. "Cool!" * Taki unfolds and reads. * Kyon shrugs, and reads through it, ignoring the conversation in the meantime. So, how are you doing Chikako? ( The paper is full of typoes and misplaced brackets. certain sentences have +() after them, there's missing endquotes, and some of the articles say "By Chikako (ack!) Arisu wrote it x.x" ) (*cracks up*) * Chikako grins. "I'm cool." (Which is why I never turn in anything without getting it proofread.) * Katie giggles. "Yup." ( ) * Katie blinks, then turns to the majority of the group. "I did tell Chikako about our secret. Just so you know." * Kyon folds up the paper, and looks down at Chikako pensively. "There's a hat shop near the restaurant. Could go there, too." He looks at Katie sidewise. "Go well?" * Satoshi blinks. "Yeah?" * Katie looks over at Kyon and smiles faintly. "It was cool." * Haruko smiles. "Good." She glances over at Chikako. "We could certainly use your help in figuring out the disappearances." * Taki blinks, "Ah, I'm sorry for keeping you in the dark so long Chikako." Shoulda told me sooner. Wasn't very cool. * Chikako pouts. "How come I don't get cool powers?" * Satoshi shrugs. "Don't know. Sorry." * Haruko grins. "You already have a cool information network, what more do you need?" Cool powers. Look on the bright side, you don't get to mysteriously vanish without a trace either. * Kyon leans against the lockers, and looks down at her quietly. His face is remarkably blank. * Katie winces. "Taki..." I'm sorry, it's just that I've had a long, long week. * Satoshi sighs. "We all have." It's cool. I'm sure everything'll be cool in the end. I sure hope so... * Haruko nods. Know what else'll be cool? Hrm? What? I could use some cool right now. The Hockey team's dunk tank! * Satoshi hangs his head. "Gah. I'm so doomed." * Chikako giggles. * Katie laughs. I'll have to take a break from my own booth just to dump Satoshi. I think that's going to be more cold than cool. So very, very doomed. We'd better win our game, or else I'll be even more doomed. You have a booth? * Kaede 's standing back in the doorway, leaning against the frame. * Haruko beams. "Not too cold, he'll have a heater!" * Katie looks over at Kaede and nods. What of? Not cold, yes. But still doomed. * Kaede walks over towards Chikako and sighs, slipping her a small piece of paper. Aw, it'll be such a cool festi- huh? Face painting. Some of my stuff will be raffled off, too, but that doesn't have anything to do with the booth. Ooh, sounds like fun. * Chikako reads the note, then peers at Kaede. "Ok, it's cool!" * Haruko looks at Kaede, confused. * Kaede walks a bit down the hall, gesturing with his head. "Is now fine?" * Satoshi watches Kaede. * Chikako nods and follows Kaede. "It's cool." * Haruko looks more confused but shrugs. * Kyon rouses himself. "I've got to do both the government booth and the baseball team booth." He watches them walk off. * Katie watches them go off. "I just love secrets, don't you?" she asks quietly. * Haruko shakes her head. "Not really." Y'know, just once I wish Kaede could actually have a conversation with more than one person around. Yeah...but they're confusing. * Katie blinks, then grins and shakes her head. * Kyon shrugs. "Least it's easy to guess what this one's about." So, Kyon, who is this Matthis guy? He seemed sane enough, but it's hard to tell lately. * Kyon turns back to look at Haruko sidewise. "Student council president at Serizawa. You know the place?" * Katie speaks up with amusement, "He's the president? Who voted for him?" ( Info! Serizawa High WAS mentioned waaaaaayyy back in session one ) * Haruko shrugs. "Heard of it, but don't really know it, didn't realize there were any Arcana from there." ( I assume it's not known for it's technical education. ^^) * Kyon smirks. "Highest goon to student ratio in Tokyo. He was going to reform that, but doesn't look like that's really what he wants." ( It's known for its deliquents :P ) Aww, and here I thought we were winning. I'm so disappointed. * Haruko giggles a bit. "Well, looks like he reformed at least one of them." I didn't know they kept records of a school's goon to student ratio. True. * Kyon rolls his eyes. "Unofficial title." Darn, I would have liked to have seen those records. So, is he basically what he appears to be? An Arcana with a few, loyal associates, who wants to find and stop Judgment? Somehow I don't think goons will help. * Kyon nods tersely. "Worked with him a couple times before. Doesn't give away anything if he can't get something back for it. But he is committed." * Kaede walks back towards the lockers. As he's coming, his face is losing a bit of smile, but it was there. * Haruko nods. "So not an enemy, necessarily, so long as we can keep him out of the band's camp." * Chikako comes too. "Cool, what'd I miss?" * Kyon shrugs. "Yeah. Seven of Pentacles. Don't know where his powers lie, though." (I misread that as "band camp." Memories of summers in middle school came rushing back. ;p) Looks like he has a field, at least. He does. The field went down as soon as he left. What kinda field? Baseball? Another Pentacles... ( God help us if him and his goons show up at band camp. ^^ ) * Katie waves at Kaede and Chikako, then sits, opens her sketchbook, and goes back to drawing. "No, an Arcana field," she says absently. * Kaede sighs. "Why am I always paired with the bad guys?" Though it's not as strong as most of the others. But they took it down when he left? That's not cool... Oh. Hey, you're with us, and as far as I'm concerned, we're not the bad guys. So you guys play sports in an Arcana field? That's so cool! Yes, but it seems like I'm the only decent pentacle out there...at least so far. Like Swords are that much better. Um...not..exactly, Chikako. * Kaede looks at everyone else and mouths out. "She knows?" * Kyon shakes his head irritatedly, and looks over to Chikako. "No, it keeps Arcana in and others out. And contains damage." * Satoshi shakes his head. "No, Arcana fields are generally designed to let the Arcana talk about stuff... or fight, if necessary... without affecting the outside world." * Katie looks up and nods at Kaede. Oh. * Kyon smirks. "Best to be a Wand." * Kaede takes a deep breath. "That's a relief..." Hey, that's so cool! Wish I had one. * Chikako pouts. * Satoshi grins at Kyon. "Can't disagree with you there." Hey, none of us have one, either. We think. I like over here in the cups. I can sense fields, but as far as I know, I can't make them. And people disappearing generally give it away anyhow. * Haruko laughs and smiles at Taki. "Yup, we're great, 'cept for what's his name." * Katie sticks her tongue out at Satoshi and Kyon. * Satoshi sticks his tongue back at Katie. * Kyon shrugs, and points at Kaede without looking. "Maybe he can, and he doesn't know it yet." And people don't always disappear, Kaede. Like today with the goons. * Chikako checks her watch and eeps. "I gotta run!" * Kaede shrugs too. "I don't even know what I CAN do that I've seen me do." * Katie blinks. Bye Chikako! Looks like a weaker field won't- oh, bye, Chikako! * Haruko waves at Chikako. * Kaede turns and waves to Chikako. "Take care. No hard feelings, right?" * Chikako runs off down the hall. "It's cool. Later!" Bye Chikako. * Katie waves, then snickers. "Wonder if she's going to wear the hat to your date, Kyon." Anyway, looks like a weaker field won't immediately exclude non- Arcana. * Taki nods at Satoshi. I wonder if he can be selective about it though. If he could be selective, he wouldn't have had to ask if we were Arcana. And what's the point of having a weaker field like that then? I thought the whole point of the fields were to keep non-Arcana out of it I'm not sure. He said his fields weren't all that strong, and like Haruko just said, he did ask. Of course, he could have been pretending. ...So...what on earth would the point of puting it up be? * Kyon nods, and smirks. "Probably get changed before she comes." He looks over to Satoshi. "It just traps everyone in. Once someone leaves, they can't come back in again." * Kaede nods to Taki. That'd do it, then. Oh. So you put up the field and push everyone you don't like out? Seems a bit of a hassle. * Katie idly twirls her pencil. "If nobody you want in isn't around in the first place, then it's not nearly so bad." * Kaede frowns. "That's true...and the body could disappear without witness..." * Kaede sighs grimly. I don't think it would work that way. The field would go down, and the body would still be there. So no, not good for murder. But no one would be able to find out who did it. No witnesses Exactly. You'd have to come out of it at some point. ...did I just actually consider that in a fairly rational manner? * Katie shrugs. "At least, not good for destroying evidence. When did this take such a morbid turn?" You could transport it.... Huh. Do motorized vehicles work in a field Kyon? Tape recorders and cell phones don't. * Kaede smiles weakly. "I'm just mister optimist. Don't mind me." * Kaede blinks slightly. This has gotten strange. Wait a moment... * Haruko tilts her head. "They don't. Huh... That could be useful..." They don't work because they're non-Arcana...right? Right. But you might be able to get around that... ...what if they were MADE Arcana? * Katie blinks and looks over at Kaede. * Kaede nods a bit. "I was thinking that..." How would you do that? Using your powers somehow? * Kaede wriggles his fingers. "May be useful after all." * Haruko shrugs. "We could experiment, maybe Saki could help." * Haruko frowns. "Shame Kyoko...." She cuts herself off. We'll find her. * Kyon looks down at Haruko, and jams his hands in his pockets. "I'll check their place later. If we find Reiji, we'll find her." And her brother. * Katie nods. * Haruko nods. "That's why I wanted to deal with that thing today. Hopefully it'll help." * Taki forgets something, "Remind me again, which path had something happening to her on it?" Yeah. Haruko, did you want to do... whatever it is you need me for today, or should we... ah. * Kaede looks over at Kyon for a moment, then focuses on something more pretty: Katie. * Haruko shakes her head. "Think it's too late right now, we could deal with it tomorrow though. I just meant the conversation with the group." Okay. Tomorrow's good. * Kyon looks at Taki sidewise. "Both paths." * Katie looks back at Kaede, still twirling her pencil. (And Kyon is plenty pretty. Ask Kaoru. =P) Nuts. (Different shades of pretty) * Haruko thinks for a moment and brightens. "Hey, if electronics don't work in a field, it'd be really easy to rig up field dectectors with a bunch of cheap digital watches." If I'm not around and somebody uses a weaker field... Well, we don't know how exactly they work though.. Besides, we have our detector right there. * Kaede gestures to Satoshi. How's it supposed to let you know? Suddenly, I feel very much like one of those birds. The ones they used to use in mines. But if he's not around...usually some Arcana tends to tell us anyhow. * Kyon smirks. "The difference is, we don't expect you to die." * Satoshi grimaces. "Yeah, I really hope not." No one's going to die. * Haruko smiles. "In it's simplest form, just look down at your watch and see when it isn't working. With some rewiring, it could set off a bell or something when the electronics fail." * Katie glances at Satoshi. "Canaries." * Kaede just notices he's staring at Katie and looks off to the side. Thanks. Shouldn't be surprised that you knew it. * Katie laughs lightly. "Probably not, no." She goes back to sketching. Maybe she'll finish this darned thing. ( How is rewiring the watch going to get it to set off a bell if the electronics fail? :P ) * Haruko is absorbed in her ideas and doesn't notice the conversation's new morbid tone. (Set it to go off when the current is grounded? ^^;) Don't worry about it, that's what I'm here for. (Don't know if that's possible though :P) The trick would be to have a simple machine set off, maybe a magnet holding something in place. (Electromagnet holding a spring down) * Haruko looks pleased with herself. "I mean, presumably levers still work in fields." * Satoshi watches Haruko go off into her own little world and grins. * Haruko gets out a pad of paper and sketches a mix of ideas. Some are almost descernable. The really important thing though, is finding a way to get a motorcycle to work in a field. How big ARE these fields anyhow? Don't know. Has anyone tried to get to the edge of one when they've gone up? We've teleported out of them, but I'm not sure if we've ever walked out. * Kyon looks down at Haruko, shakes his head bemusedly, and shrugs. "Find me a field, and I'll test it." I mean...I just walked down the hall. One moment you weren't there, suddenly you were. * Taki nods at Satoshi. Bigger than a couple of rooms. Of course, you said his was weak... * Haruko grins up at Kyon. "I'll ask Saki next time I see her. We may need an older bike, one without all the onboard computers." Motercycles have computers on them? The onboard computers are the best part though... GPS usually. Digital speedometers too. * Haruko laughs at Kaede. "Hardly.." * Kaede smiles faintly. "I'm not COMPLETELY sheltered." * Haruko stands up, she has a manic grin and speaks in a rather excited tone. "I mean think about it, riding in a bike in a city without people." Some even digitize the gauges too....I'm not sure why they do it. (BTW Brett, what happened to vehicles when Jin was in the middle of the street? Still there just stationary?) * Kaede takes a few steps away from Haruko. * Katie shakes her head and checks her watch. ( Yeah. ) No police.... No speed limits... No stupid drivers to get in your way... I mean you'd have to navigate around the parked cars. ( You didn't notice if anyone was driving in the area before it went up, though ) * Kaede stares at Haruko. * Kyon leans against the lockers, and listens quietly. His gaze moves from person to person. You know... (We walked the streets, no moving cars appeared right? ) I don't think we get these sort of things lightly, Haruko. They shouldn't be used as such... ( No moving cars appeared, no. ) ( I've just come to the realization that you're completely insane. Excuse me. *runs*) You could go anywhere in Tokyo in fifteen minutes! Less! I think I'm going to visit Meimi today, then get home. Dad's actually supposed to come home on time, so we can have everyone home for dinner. (What do you mean JUST come to it? ^_~) Sounds like it might be fun, but I don't know how you'd pull it off. ( Doesn't mean they wouldn't work, though. Maybe if Arcana were driving the cars, they would have :P ) * Katie smiles faintly. "Heaven forbid. I'll see you guys later, okay?" (Right) * Kyon regards Katie coolly. "You want to visit the Moon?" Okay. Bye, Katie! * Kaede nods to Katie, still keeping one eye on Haruko. "Yeah..I..." Tell her I hope she gets better soon! * Kaede blinks slightly. "Remi." Yeah, say hi to her for me, too. * Katie glances up at Kyon, then chuckles. "She gets lonely." Imagine, driving through Ginza at 300 kph... ::Her eyes are a bit glazed over, she doesn't notice Katie leaving:: Haven't heard from her...in a while... * Katie packs her things and stands. "Sure." She waves and heads out. * Kaede gets pretty quiet and waves half-heartedly to Katie. She could be pretty busy with catching up on school and recovering and everything. Just because we haven't heard from somebody in a while doesn't mean something bad's happened to them. * Kaede doesn't seem like he hears Satoshi, lost in thought. ...we thought that with Kyoko too... I mean, if you're that worried, you could always call or e-mail or something. ...I'm going to call. * Haruko obviously doesn't hear Satoshi. She's entirely absorbed in her own mind. * Kyon waves at Katie's back, then looks down at Kaede before rolling his eyes and pulling out his cell phone. He flips it open and hits the numbers. * Kaede looks up and glares at Kyon. * Taki nods at Satoshi, "It took me for ever to catch up." * Kaede walks over and goes to close his phone. "I'M going to call." [The phone responds with a busy signal.] * Kyon shrugs, and rolls his shoulders. "Busy anyway." * Kaede takes a deep breath and takes out his own cell, dialing the number and walking back and forth. [Kaede gets....! A busy signal.] * Taki watches Kaede and Kyon. * Kaede waits a bit, pacing and hits redial. Anyhow, I might as well head home and make sure Jin's behaved himself. * Haruko comes out of her trance. "Uh, where'd Katie go?" She went to go visit Meimi. Off to visit Meimi. Oh. Okay. Did you want me to drop the hockey stick and bat off anywhere for you? * Haruko nods and gives directions to the school's workshop. "Just leave a note on it that say Haruko, no one will touch it." Okay. Guess I'm off, then. See you guys tomorrow! For fear of what you'll do to them, or for fear of what you're making the items INTO? Bye Satoshi, see you! * Kaede still paces and redials the number again. * Satoshi waves cheerfully to the group and heads off. * Kaede waves off to Satoshi. * Haruko waves. "Just respect Kaede. Most people don't fear me y'know." [Kaede gets...! Another busy signal.] * Kaede pauses for a bit and is going to redial again. He's stubborn, so he may be at this a while. ^_^; If there's nothing else going on here, I think I'll head home. * Kyon rolls his eyes, then leans down and picks up his bag. "Yeah." He heads off down the hall, and waves back over his shoulder dismissively as he goes off. * Haruko shrugs. "Think I'm going home too. Kaede should definately run field experiments sometime, maybe figure out you're power." [Everyone winds up going home except Kaede. Session End.]