[Day: Wednsday, March 19th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Warm and sunny. Not a cloud in the sky. Ok, maybe one or two, but not many.] [Yesterday you found out a lot of stuff from the ever-resourceful Chikako, and then a bit more from Kyon. Kaede was angsty and didn't show up today. Meanwhile, the GM has finally figured out what ^H stands for. Anyhow, you're heading to the lockers, as per usual.] [Session Start] * Satoshi walks to his locker and exchanges books, as is customary. * Haruko walks down the hall, coming from a different direction than usual. She's trying to rub a grease mark off her cheek as she walks. [The locker lets Satoshi pass customs and change books.] (Hurrah! Good thing I didn't bring the twenty pounds of canteloupe to school today.) * Katie is sitting at her locker. Shock of shocks! She's working on her math homework. * Taki walks down the hall in her usual direction, and, since most halls only have two directions, she's following a bit behind Haruko. * Satoshi finishes packing his books and sits down next to Katie, waving at Haruko and Taki as they arrive. "Heya, everyone." * Haruko arrives at the group. "Hi Satoshi." * Taki waves back to Satoshi. "G'afternoon." * Haruko looks over to Katie. "My parents were busy last night too, need the tape recorder back or can I borrow it another day?" * Katie glances up to smile at Satoshi, then goes back to homeworking. "You can keep it for a while." * Haruko smiles at Katie for a second. "Thanks." * Satoshi leans back against the lockers. He's quiet, but that's not entirely odd. * Haruko then holds her hands behind her back for a moment, looks down, and then back up to scan the group. * Katie doesn't seem to notice, which means she probably does. "Kaede didn't come to school today. Probably sitting at home and thinking about how everything's out to get him." * Taki sits down against somebodies locker, "I hope so...the way he was talking yesterday I'm not sure if he went home or not." * Satoshi sighs. "And the best thing to do now would be to leave him alone, wouldn't it?" Okay, sitting wherever it is. In the middle of a busy street, let's say. * Katie shrugs. That's what he thinks...I sorta think that too, but people we leave alone have this nasty habbit of going insaine on us. * Haruko shrugs. "I can't do him any good, maybe my staying away will be better for him." She then sighs and closes her eyes for a second. So...There isn't anything I can actualy do for him...but I still want to. If he's been hit by a car, I'm sure Chikako will come by and tell us all about it. * Katie idly comments, "Maybe it'd be better for all of us." She finishes a problem and closes her notebook. * Haruko then opens her eyes and says somewhat timidly. "In the mean time, I propose we deal with Yushiro, unless there's any more pressing business." * Katie blinks and looks up. * Taki dryly asks Katie, "Getting hit by the car or going insaine?" Yushiro. What about it? * Satoshi shrugs, too. Seems to be a popular gesture. Then he looks at Haruko curiously. "Why Yushiro?" Because it seems quite likely to me that he beat up Maki and Nanami. Because we interfered with him and his sister? * Haruko nods. "And because he knew about Nanami being beat up." He did? * Taki blinks. * Haruko nods. "He was taunting Kaede." When was this? * Haruko thinks for a moment. "After Nanami was beaten up but before Maki was." * Taki rubs her face, "Remind me again why we didn't beat him up then?" And Maki was beaten up as a warning, right. Any idea where to find him, then? Since you came prepared. * Haruko looks over to Taki. "We weren't sure. I mean, maybe whoever teleported us to meet him set him up. But we know now that Jin was the dragporter, so that theory's out." * Haruko shakes her head. "I asked Chikako I while back, she never got back to me. But if we're ready, I can just go to the office and find out." * Taki pushes herself to her feet, "It's not like I had anything special planned for today." And what do we do once we find him? (Send him to Arisu for debriefing.) * Haruko looks down. "I'll confront him, maybe insult him some, hopefully get him to confess on tape." Haruko looks over at Satoshi, "And..." Haruko bites her lip for a moment. * Katie rolls her eyes. "Look. If you want Satoshi to play goon, just say so." * Kyon turns the corner at the end of the hall, and stalks down towards the group, dangling his bag back over one shoulder. * Satoshi sighs. * Taki turns to Satoshi, "You have any better ideas?" * Haruko shakes her head and glares at Katie. "I won't ask him to do anything I wouldn't do! I wouldn't ask him to do it alone. I just, wish there was another way..." Not really. It's not that I don't want to see this guy stopped, it's just that I don't want to see us go rushing into a situation like this unprepared. * Taki nods, "That's the reason we haven't done anything yet, we haven't prepaired...and are a little light on ways to prepair." * Haruko looks down and says fairly softly. "There must be another way, I'm just not being creative enough, not being smart enough, but I can't see it." * Kyon stops at the group, and nods tersely by way of greeting. He's still wearing the dark orange jacket, but he isn't holding himself nearly as stiffly today. "To do what?" ... Hey Kyon! How do you take down a jerk when you can't prove anything yet? * Satoshi nods. "Afternoon, Kyon." * Haruko looks over at Kyon and says in a sad but certain tone. "To keep Yushiro from hurting any more of our friends." * Kyon rocks back on his heels, and looks down with a slight scowl. "Who?" Yushiro Kageri. * Kyon shakes his head irritatedly. "Doesn't help to repeat it if I don't know who it is." We met him when Jin dragported us to the suburbs. He's a recent transfer student. I think he beat up Nanami and Maki, and I think the evidence is strong enough that it doesn't make sense to wait. Jin...or somebody else who can drag us around at will to us to meet him and we stoped some punks from beating up his sister, and then he got mad at us and left after some vauge threats...Then he transfered here. * Haruko nods at what Taki says. * Taki nods back at Haruko, "We can't prove anything because both victems had their memories of the attacks erased." * Kyon turns to the lockers and leans against them, looking down sidewise at Haruko. "And that's the evidence?" * Haruko nods. "But we know it was an Arcana that did it, he was mad at us for interfering with his sister, he targeted females under our protection, and he knew Nanami had been beaten up." * Katie watches, tapping the floor with a fingernail. ...Aaand that's about it. * Kyon shrugs quickly, still favoring one side a bit as he does so. "Could be lots of coincidences. Suggestive, though." * Haruko nods. "It's more evidence than we usually have, and if we're wrong, I want to know because it means we have a different enemy targetting some of our friends. Temperence seemed to think it wasn't going to stop." * Satoshi mutters. "One of these days, I'd like to meet this Temperance." [Meanwhile the principle comes walking by for some reason. He's got a crowd of fangirls which he's trying to ignore by pretending to be facinated by some paperwork.] I'm sure you will. I'd like to meet her when she doesn't have a migrane. * Katie eyes the crowd of girls with mild distaste. "This is what you get for having a cute principal, Sakuragaoka." * Satoshi laughs quietly. * Haruko smiles broadly and waves when she sees the principal walk by. She then looks over to Kyon while the principal is still in ear shot. "Oh, and I'd like to ask you a favor at some point. I think it may be in your interests, aside from just me owing you a favor." * Taki snerks quitly. * Taki leans and waits for the gaggle to pass out of earshot. [They do momentarily.] At least it leaves the ones who have more than a pretty face open for the rest of us. * Taki grins up at Satoshi. * Kyon looks down at Haruko coolly, and shrugs. "Right. Later." * Kyon watches the principal go by, nodding a greeting as he goes. * Haruko nods and then looks back at the group. "So, any better ideas, or should we get to this?" * Satoshi half-smiles at Taki. [The principal doesn't notice Kyon, or anything else. Must concentrate on paperwork.] Drop some hints at a certain reporter and let her do the di...nah she'd just wind up like the other two... She might know already. * Kyon shrugs disinterestedly, still with the one side a bit higher than the other, and looks at the others. "Know why he transferred?" Nope. * Satoshi shakes his head. * Haruko shakes her head. "He was already planning to when we met him though. And his sister is going to a different school, much the better for her I'm sure." So. He moved to carry out threats, but was already planning on coming before meeting you? Hmm...no...I think moving just made it more convienent to carry them out. * Haruko nods. "He might have done it anyways, just would have been harder." * Kyon smirks slightly. "You ask Chikako about him?" Yeah. * Taki thinks for a bit, "I don't think she ever got back to us...did she?" * Haruko nods. "There's a lot of distractions around." * Kyon shakes his head bemusedly. "Maybe we should check back before charging in?" That would be indicative of us having the brains to think ahead and plan things out. * Haruko nods and gets walking to Chikako's office. * Satoshi looks at Taki oddly for a second. [As you head up the stairs, you see Chikako coming down them. Isn't that helpful?] * Haruko waves. "Hi Chikako! Did you ever get a chance to look into Yushiro?" * Katie snorts. "Good one, Taki," she says dryly. She waves at Chikako. * Taki waves as well. * Satoshi stands up. Or maybe he was already standing. Either way, he's up now. He waves to Chikako. "Heya, Chikako." * Kyon starts to head off, but stops as he spots Chikako, and nods quickly to her. * Chikako waves. "Hi everyone! This is so cool! I was just coming to see you!" She has a bunch of newspapers tucked under one arm. So were we! * Haruko smiles a bit, only looks slight forced. "Yup, quite cool." So what's news? * Chikako hands Satoshi a paper. Not much there. Mostly an article on the moddling contest and how so much is going wrong with it that it'll probably be cancelled. * Kyon steps a bit closer to her, and smirks. "Always one for timing." He holds out a hand. "Can I get one?" * Satoshi reads. He frowns slightly at the mention of Ayako (at least, it's a safe assumption that she's mentioned in there somewhere). I'd like to read one as well please. * Haruko holds out a hand. "Me too please. And... so.. you find out anything about Yushiro?" * Katie keeps an eye on Chikako and Kyon. "Ditto. But I bet you already knew that." * Haruko isn't the subtle one. * Chikako hands one to Kyon, Taki, and everyone else who wants one * Kyon takes it, and opens it up to read it, hard breaking news or no. * Katie reads! Woot! * Taki reads the news and shakes her head to the probible demise of the contest, it wasn't the schools fault all the entrants were evil. Well, he doesn't talk to many people, and I don't think he has many friends. That's not cool." * Kyon nods quickly. "Know why he came here?" * Haruko lets Kyon handle it for now. (I have no idea what you asked either, but I'm not supposed to. =P) * Chikako nods. "His uncle - that's who he lives with - got this cool job as supervisor of some car factory. Really. What about his parents? * Haruko continues to let other people handle it for now. His mother's deceased; deffinately not cool. And his father is... um, I dunno. * Haruko nods. "If he had a strong father figure present, I doubt he'd turn out like that." * Katie snorts faintly and starts packing up homework supplies. * Taki sits back down and lets other people talk. * Kyon smirks. "Doesn't always help." He looks down at Chikako, and moves a bit closer again as he folds the newspaper up. "And where is she staying, then? He's here, she's not... they living separately?" * Chikako shakes her head. "They live in a cool small house in the suburbs." Know the address? * Chikako nods and gives the address. * Kyon rolls one of his shoulders. "Then why is he here? This isn't a private school. Don't usually take people from the suburbs." * Haruko diligently writes it down. Maybe he thinks it's cool! Maybe it's on his fathers commute or something. er Uncle. * Kyon shakes his head quickly. "Seems strange. See if I can find out later." * Haruko shrugs. "Alright, so Chikako, I think this guy is behind some bad things that happened to some our friends, think you'd be able to find out anything more, or should we try to figure it out ourselves." * Katie leans back against her locker. "Anyway, if we wanted to talk to him... where do you think we should start looking, Chikako? He's not in any after- school activities, is he? ( It's most likely due to the GM's ignorance :P ) I can try. It's cool. * Taki looks up, "Thank you Chikako." * Chikako shakes her head to Katie. "He usually leaves school as soon as class is over." * Haruko looks down for a second and then looks up. "Think it would take long? I'm afraid something else bad will happen if we wait to long." I dunno. * Haruko nods. "It's not fair of me to expect you to know. But thank you." Haruko then looks down again and starts playing with one of her bangs. * Chikako nodnods. It's cool. * Haruko then frowns for just a moment and looks back at Chikako. "And be careful, don't let him know you're looking into him. And if you ever get worried, call us immediately. I couldn't stand it if..." * Chikako nods and salutes. * Haruko looks down again and says softly. "Maybe we shouldn't wait..." * Kyon gives Haruko a sidewise glance, then nods quickly. "Yeah." He smirks. "Why I got you that thing." * Haruko grins a bit at Chikako's salute and then returns it. We're waiting because everything says it's only probibly him. * Haruko nods. "I think we told you before, but we're looking into this guy because Nanami and Maki got beat up but lost there memory. And he has a grudge against us and it really seems to fit, but we don't have any proof. (there->their) * Chikako nodnods. * Katie snickers and idly returns the salute, too. Welllllll.... I bet Arisu could get you proof! She's cool like that! Has she been around? * Haruko then perks up dramatically, "Really? I wanted to give him a haircut, but if we could get the proof peacefully." * Chikako nods. "It's cool. She's probably still around school somewhere." * Satoshi eyes Haruko. ~Give him a haircut?~ * Taki ignores the Harukoism. * Haruko grins at Satoshi. "Well, even if we had to use violence, I wanted to keep it to a minumum. So I figure we just subdue him and see how he likes having a close cropped set of hair with his pschyo eyes visible all the time. And he did hurt Maki, and I want him to pay, but better if he goes to jail or something." * Taki nods after a bit, "Somehow that doesn't seem like it'd be enough if he is the one." Interesting idea. * Arwen is now known as Katie * Haruko nods and keeps a perky tone. "It'd take a show of force too. The haircut would just be momento, a reminder that anyone who takes on my friends, takes on me. And I protect my friends." That'd be scary, except it's coming from you. No, it's still scary, because she will manage to cary through somehow. * Haruko nodnods. "If it really came down to it, I could just run him down with a truck, but only if that's the only way to keep a friend alive." * Taki grins. A truck. Definatly an option of near last resort. * Kyon shakes his head quickly. "No reason to take it that far without trying other methods first. Prison's worked fine for the drug dealers." Did I mention you girls scare me lately? Because you do. Well, trucks are kinda fun. We could try it, just once. Sorry Satoshi. * Katie grins. "I'm not." * Haruko looks over to Satoshi. "Yup, a deisel truck. They don't need electricity, and they have a lot of mass." Haruko then looks over to Kyon. "Oh, definately, only if absolutely necessary, and even then we try every other way first." Right. * Haruko then lets some of the cheeriness drain from her tone. "But Maki was hurt because I interfered, because I pushed him. I've got to do something." You weren't the only one who interfered...all of us who were there have a responsibility... * Haruko nods and says in a slow (for her) tone. "But I would have done the same if I was alone. And I may do the same in the future when I am. I need to be willing to accept the consequences of my actions." * Kyon smirks at Haruko. "Part of your twelve-step program?" * Haruko shrugs and looks over at Kyon. "Part of becoming an adult." * Katie idly leans her cheek against Satoshi's shoulder. "Twelve steps to becoming an adult? You could write a book." * Taki doesn't shoot a glare at Katie...Satoshi's in the way... "I think it takes more than twelve steps to grow up...." * Satoshi suddenly goes very, very still. * Kyon looks very bemused. "Depends who you ask." He nods quickly at Satoshi. * Haruko glares over at Katie for a moment. "I'm not there yet, but I do what I can." She then looks down for a moment, "It's hard sometimes..." * Satoshi relaxes a little. "It does depend." * Taki takes a deep breath, "We just have to do the best we can to do what we think is right...I guess." * Haruko looks up again and glances over Satoshi and Taki for a moment with a slightly quizical expression. She then goes back to looking at Katie. * Taki stands up, "Need to go find Arisu, right? Right." Yeah, we do. So let's go. * Haruko nods. "Let's do it." See ya Chikako, thanks for news, and tell us if you find out anything cool. * Kyon shakes his head, still bemused, and looks down at Chikako. "Call you later." * Chikako nodnods to Kyon "Cool!" * Haruko smiles faintly at Chikako, "I really appreciate it." * Katie blinks at Haruko. "What?" * Taki checks to make sure she has all her things and then walks quickly down the hall. * Haruko thinks for a moment and then smiles at Katie, "Oh, nothing, sorry, I'm a bit on edge, you know how it is." She then scurries off after Taki. * Satoshi looks down at Katie. "You going with them?" * Katie looks after them. "Nope. I don't think so." [Session End]