[Day: Tuesday, March 25th. Time: 3:30 p.m.] [Weather: Warm. Calm. Sunny.] [Haruko is at the Ramen stand! Everyone else has left by now.] [Oh. Mini Start] * Haruko smiles to herself for a moment and puts away her sewing work and gets out her cell phone and calls up Akemi. [The phone rings for several seconds before Akemi picks up.] Hello? * Haruko responds cheerily as she stands up. "Hi, it's Haruko, could I talk with you for a moment?" Sure! What up? ... Oh, hang on a second. * Haruko gets walking over to the garage, she takes a roundabout outdoor way, as she's in no hurry and it is nice out. "Sure." * Akemi makes Haruko wait for about a minute before coming back. "Sorry about that. The massager had a nose bleed when I turned over. What's up?" * Haruko giggles for a moment before continuing. "I've got a potential resource for to further your efforts at the bike shop, if you think an extra head with business saavy would help." * Haruko emphasizes extra, as she figures Akemi is probably no slouch in such matters. Does it come with a big chest? If not, I don't think that kind of savvy will work with my business plan. * Haruko giggles again as she keeps walking. "No, he's kinda cute, but more for the finances side of things. Thought he might be able to help Kaede capitalize his resources, whatever that means." "What resources?" * Haruko frowns for a moment as she keeps up her slow walk. "That bad?" She then sighs for a moment. "I don't know exactly, I ask Kyon if he'd be willing to help, said I'd pay him back with a favor for whatever he could do. He's pretty smart and has helped run his family's big business, he said if he looked over Kaede's books he may have some ideas." Well.... I guess. I'm not one for business, really; I let my manager handle that. I just show off and people give me money. * Haruko stretches a little and her step picks up. "If he's not helpful, you could just tell him to shove off, but he might see something there, I mean, with your sales and Kaede's mechanical, not to mention computers, skill there's got to be something there." Hmmm.... You know, I wonder if he's looked into the internet? I hear it's popular these days. * Haruko keeps walking along, she seems to be getting more into the conversation. "I know, just everything he's got weighing him down keeps him from seeing that sort of thing, but he should be rich!" With a bike shop? * Haruko trips on an uneven patch of sidewalk as she says that and flails and manages to catch herself with one hand, scuffing it up a little. "Owww...." She then slowly starts to get up again. Are you ok? * Haruko groans for a moment. "Need to watch where I'm going and figure out a way to heal my own injuries." SHe then manages to gets up and shakes herself off a little. But yeah, I'm alright. But I'm not really good at business ideas, that's why I asked Kyon to help. * Haruko rubs at her side and keeps walking, a bit more tenatively. Hmm... Welllll... Oops. Did it again. One sec. * Akemi comes back a few seconds later. "Well, I don't mind, if you think there's something he can do. And an extra person wouldn't hurt." * Haruko giggles again for a moment and then sounds a bit more somber. "Alright, I'll make sure he has your number. Oh, and in case you didn't know, Kyon and Kaede aren't really on the best of terms, not that I am either really." * Haruko then cheers up slightly. "You're a lot smarter about helping him than I am." She then sighs. "Or ever will be, I'll leave it to you how to handle the rest." Ooooooh... THAT's not good. * Haruko sighs once more before continuing in a sad tone. "Maybe it can't do any good. Or you should have Katie there too to keep Kyon in check. I just wanted to do one last, maybe one single thing for Takeuchi-san." Hmm... Well, we can try it! * Haruko nods and smiles a little. "Yeah... So, I'll stop interrupting your massage and go pout to the mechanics on how I've struck out with Ryuji until they offer me a ride or something to cheer me up and change the topic." Would you like to try it? This place is great! * Haruko rubs at her side. "Sure! Once I'm healed up." She then grumbles. "Not like I can spend the money on something I need like a motorcycle." Okay! I can get you a discount. * Haruko grins a little. "Even if I don't have a body that'll make the massager nose bleed?" * Akemi giggles. "That's my little secret to discounts." * Haruko giggles too for a moment. "Well.. I'll take you up on that, maybe next week." Thanks! Sure! * Haruko smiles as she turns the corner and can see the garage in the distance. "Well bye then, and thanks so much for your help in this, I really couldn't pull it off by myself." "Okay! Bye!" * Haruko hangs up and frowns for a moment and says to herself. "Well.. if this doesn't work Takeuchi-san, I'm sorry, but I give up." She then puts her phone away and heads off to see her friends. [Mini End!]