[Day: Friday, February 21st. Time: 7:30 p.m.] [Weather: Clear and not very cold, but it should snow tomorrow.] [Kyon meets Chikako at Harajuku station for a date!] [Mini start] * Chikako is already there. She's wearing a long white skirt and a blue overcoat. And a wide-brimmed hat. Fortunately, it's not a cowboy hat. * Kyon comes through the turnstiles and looks around. He's wearing his ash jacket, open to show the dark blue shirt underneath, and dark orange and grey pants with lots of buckles. Also, nice boots. But no hat. * Chikako spots Kyon and waves, then bounds up to him. * Kyon smiles thinly, and looks down at her. "Hey. Been waiting long?" * Chikako smiles. "I just got here a few minutes ago. It's cool." * Kyon nods quickly, then gestures curtly ahead of them towards the street, and walks out of the station. He looks back at her. "Seems like your kind of place, Harajuku." * Chikako nods and follows closely. "Uh huh! Harajuku's so cool!" ( What'd you expect her to say? :P ) (I wasn't really thinking about it. =P) * Kyon nods and rolls his eyes as he looks up to the giant TV screen with the people looking for dates on it. "Here often?" Ummm... Not really, but when I am, it's cool. * Kyon nods curtly, and heads off to the right, down the somewhat less trendy looking street. He waves a hand at the area. "Where I come. My part of town." He smirks. * Chikako follows. "Cool!" * Kyon turns his smirk back down on her as he walks. "Where's the cowboy hat?" Oh, I left it home. It's cool, but it's not mine. I have to give it back to Katie tomorrow. * Kyon nods, and keeps walking down the street. He gets to the first intersection, crosses to one side, and waits for the light to change. He's not really checking much to see if she's following along. * Chikako gets lost. Not really, but that'd be funny, wouldn't it? But no, she follows happily along. (That'd be so sad. But it's why he has a cel phone. =P) * Kyon heads down the street, and turns onto a side street. He stalks down past the first intersection, and waits in front of a shop. * Chikako stops when Kyon does. She looks at the shop. "Are we going in here?" * Kyon points at the display in the window. It's a hat shop! He smirks. "You want to?" * Chikako nodnods. "Yeah! It'll be so cool! I can get my own cool cowboy hat!" She grins. * Kyon nods quickly, opens the door wide, and heads in. He surveys the shop quickly. It's good, large, and pretty trendy, but they still have cowboy hats. * Chikako follows Kyon in. [You're greeted by a middle-aged woman wearing one of those bushy Russian hats. "Da, comrade! Welcome to Hatland! Please take your time!"] * Chikako giggles. "This shop is so cool!" She starts looking at hats. * Kyon heads over towards one of the other displays, looking at it critically. [There are some pretty trendy hats on that display.] * Kyon nods tersely at the trendiness. He looks from them to Chikako and back again with a thoughtful look on his face. * Chikako is examining hats as she goes, mumbling to herself about how cool they are. Funnily, she hasn't found an uncool hat yet :P * Kyon smirks a bit at the cool mumbling, and gestures at the display. It's got some fedoras and some crinkly fabric hats. "What do you think?" * Chikako peers at the hats. "They're so cool!" * Kyon looks her over critically, and picks one out. He takes it off the rack and holds it out to her. "Try it." * Chikako takes her hat off and puts that one on. She holds it to her head and giggles. "How is it? Do I look cool?" * Kyon nods. It's a dark blue fedora with some lighter grey accents. He gives her a hard smile. "I'd say so." * Chikako grins. "Cool!" * Kyon nods quickly, and looks around for the salesperson. [She's at the counter. You're the only people in the store, so she's watching you.] * Kyon walks part of the way over to the counter, and gestures curtly for her to come over. [Which she does!] * Kyon gestures quickly back at Chikako. "How much is it?" he inquires in a low voice. [The clerk offers a slightly-expensive-yet-reasonable price.] * Kyon nods curtly, and heads over to the counter. He looks back over his shoulder quickly to see what Chikako is up to. * Chikako is still wearing the new hat, and is now looking at cowboy hats. * Kyon pulls out his wallet, and puts the appropriate amount of money down in the payment dish. [The clerk smiles and bows politely.] * Chikako meanwhile comes back with a black cowboy hat. "Hey, what do you think of this? Cool, huh?" * Kyon nods quickly, and asks for a bag before turning back to Chikako and smirking. "You're not a black hat." I'm not? * Kyon shakes his head bemusedly. "No. You're not. If you were, you'd be very uncool." I would? * Chikako looks disappointedly at the hat. * Kyon looks back for the bag from the person as he talks. "Black hat means you're evil. White hat means you're good." He smirks. "In the movies, anyway." Oh. * Chikako considers, then runs back. She quickly exchanges the black hat and returns with a white one. "Like this? Is this one cool? It looks like Katie's." * Kyon cocks his head, and smirks. "You want to have the exact same hat as she does?" Well... That'd kinda be cool, right? * Kyon shrugs. "Your call. I try not to look just like the people around me. She's your friend." * Chikako looks down at the hat. Then she runs to the back of the store and returns with a blue one. "What about this one? It's cool and unique and not black so I won't be a villian." * Kyon looks down at it, then at her before shrugging. "Try it on." * Chikako tries it on. "Cool, huh?" * Kyon shakes his head very bemusedly. "Think the other one was better, but it's your call." *Chikako looks down at the hat in thought, and after a minute exchanges it for the white one again. "Okay, if you think it's cool." * Kyon shakes his head quickly, and jams his hands in the pockets. "No, I meant the one you tried on before." Huh? Not the cowboy hats? * Kyon nods quickly. "That looked better. Your clothes, though." * Chikako tilts her head. "Well, okay, I'll go with that one." It's cool. * Chikako puts the other hat back on and smiles. * Kyon nods, smiles thinly, and starts to head out of the store. * Chikako follows! * Kyon turns sharply as he exits, and heads down the nearest side street to the front of the restaurant. Again, he's not really checking to see if she's following. [When Kyon turns down that street, he comes face to face with Jin!] * Kyon stops as he passes Jin, and regards him coolly. "Let me guess. You don't know why you're here." Of course I do! It's because... um... * Jin frowns. "... I'm not sure." * Chikako blinks. "Hey, isn't he that guy who hangs out with you?" * Kyon rolls his eyes. "Right. Yeah, he is. Don't know why he's here, though." Me neither. Oh... Is he lost? That's not cool. * Kyon shrugs, and rocks back on his heels. "You want me to call your host to come get you?" Nah. I'll walk home. * Kyon nods curtly, and waves dismissively. "Yeah. See if you can remember what you're doing on your way." * Jin nods. "Okay." He walks past. * Chikako watches him go, then giggles. "He's cool!" She blinks. "But what was he doing here? Did he really forget?" * Kyon shrugs, and moves to be ready to walk next to her. "Yeah. Hasn't remembered a thing since he's shown up." He rolls his eyes. "Except chicken." * Chikako grins. "Well, that's cool, at least." * Kyon smirks. "Be cooler if he could tell us anything. All he does is hint." He straightens, and starts walking slowly. "Probably important, though." * Chikako follows. "Does he have cool powers, too?" * Kyon tries not to get too far ahead. "He's a pretty good fighter. Can pick any card he wants. And can apparently drag people around without them realizing he's doing it." Oh. That's kinda cool. It can't be very useful if he doesn't realize he's doing it, though. * Kyon shrugs. "Maybe he does realize he's doing it at the time, and forgets after. Doesn't really matter. Just have to deal with the fact that that's what he does." He stops in front of the restaurant. Oh. * Kyon looks up, and into the windows of the restaurant. "He seems to be on our side. That's what matters." * Chikako looks at the restaurant. "I see. Hey, this place is cool! Are we going to eat here?" * Kyon nods quickly and smirks. "That's why I brought you here, yeah." He heads up and into the restaurant. * Chikako grins. "Cool!" She follows Kyon in. [They enter the Thai restaurant. Wood panelling, small tables for 2 or 4, and a counter. Coatrack and register next to the door, kitchen open behind the counter. Old framed Thai movie posters on the wall.] * Kyon looks over the place, and takes off his jacket to hang up. Then he goes over and grabs a table for two next to one of the windows. * Chikako follows suit. She looks around, grinning. "I like this place already. It's so cool!" [Despite that the place is relatively busy, a waiter comes along very soonish after you've had a minute to look over the menu.] * Kyon nods quickly, and tries out a somewhat warmer smile, but it comes off a bit awkward. "I like it here. Their chef is very good, so the food's very spicy." He glances cursorily at the menu and orders chicken with basil leaf and rice. * Chikako nodnods and orders the same thing. "Cool!" * Kyon looks back over to Chikako, and cocks an eyebrow. "That's really spicy. Can you deal?" * Chikako nods. "Sure! Don't worry about me. I'm cool." * Kyon shrugs, and looks out the window down at the street. "Impressive. Can't wait to see you try it." [Before long, the waiter returns with food! Looks like Kyon will get what he asked for.] * Chikako takes a bite, then reaches for her drink. * Kyon looks back from the window over to Chikako, with the smile back down to a smirk. "Too hot?" * Chikako takes a gulp from the glass and grins. "Nah. It's cool! But I'm gonna need another glass, I think." * Kyon nudges his across the table, and gestures for the waiter to bring over more. [The waiter does. And it doesn't even take long.] * Kyon eats some of his food, and looks quite satisfied with the spiciness. "Service here is good, too." * Chikako smiles. "Yeah. It's really cool." * Kyon looks down at the food, and tries to get a good mix between the rice and the main dish. "Haven't had a chance to just do stuff by ourselves before." * Chikako nods. We're always so busy. * Kyon nods again, and doesn't look up yet. He's really trying. "Always have the others around, too." Well, yeah... But they're cool! * Kyon looks back up again. "Sometimes, and some of them." * Chikako tilts her head. "Not all?" * Kyon shrugs. "Can't get along with everyone. They're not bad. Good allies, if nothing else." * Chikako blinks ub confusion. "Allies? I don't get it." * Kyon looks back out the window again. "Can talk about it later, if you want. For now..." He looks up at the moon. "Remember before, about the secret admirer thing?" Uh huh. * Chikako snickers. * Kyon turns back with a smirk. "Didn't think you had that kind of laugh in you." Well, Kaede said it was a guy. * Kyon nods quickly. "It is a guy. Though it's not much of a secret who it is." Oh? * Chikako blinks. "So you can tell me? Cool! Who is it? Someone I know?" * Kyon cocks his head. "Sure, I can tell you. Don't think you know him, though. Goes to Serizawa." He pulls out his cell phone, flips it open, and opens Kaoru's entry. * Chikako peers at the info. "Nope. Don't know him." * Kyon smirks teasingly. "There's someone you don't know? I'm shocked." * Chikako pouts. "It's not like I know everyone. I've got a cool information network about our school, but I don't know much about others. Except when I do cool things like research. Yeah. I know. Just sometimes, it seems like you do. Just that good. * Chikako grins. "Really? Cool!" * Kyon nods seriously. "But even if he's interested in me, I need to keep in touch with him. He's a good source." He cocks his head. "You all right with that?" * Chikako nods. "Yeah, it's cool! Maybe you can tell me what he says!" ... Wait, you're not seriously thinking of going out with him though? * Kyon smirks. "He might think so, but no." He fades the smirk into the warmer smile, a little less awkward this time. "Got you, after all." * Chikako beams. "Cool! I thought so, but I wanted to hear you say it." * Kyon nods, and eats some more of the chicken. "Yeah. Didn't want them to give you the wrong idea. Trusted you to know better." * Chikako smiles and also does so. [Session End!]