Room 429, Sunday Afternoon

[raspberryturk]

Okay. Sunday afternoons were officially boring. The days of the week had classes and radio and reports to write for his job, and mornings and evenings meant that the ferret was awake and totally willing to be harassed, but Sunday afternoons?

Reno would like to vote that boring, lazy Sunday afternoons be stricken from the record.

He was in his room, sitting by the window and playing with his lighter. Fire go on. Fire blow out. Ooh. Exciting.

The door was open slightly in case something interesting happened to wander through the hallway, at least.

[Open, like the door~]

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[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

She sneezed, couldn’t help it with the poor mutated kitten chewing at her nose, and batted playfully at his head.

Petey? Not Petey, Yei! Another wriggle and a roll full of kitten grace (read: tumbling limbs and fur) and a mew. Not a ferret either. Silly!

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Mako took the thump on the head, earing a chuckle from Reno, and then he attempted to mirror the graceful kitty-flop with a ferrety somersault of his own.

A study in the grace and beauty of the animal kingdom, really.

Yay it's Yei! I'm Makodumbass! Hi! Mako wriggled over and plopped himself down beside the not-Petey, sniffing again.

Reno's pet names were, at times, misleading. Unfortunately.

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Yei eyed the sniffing… Makodumbass for a long moment before purring louder and attempting to lick his nose.

Hihihi! Are you nice? You seem nice! Nice was, after all, Very Very Important.

So was grooming, and Yei attempted to so to his face. It was only polite really, the licking.

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I'm nice if you're nice! Nice was important. Mako could be nice if Yei was nice, and the licking was nice, so Yei had passed the nice-test.

Which was a relief to Reno, who had been ready to dive in and rescue one pet or the other when they had started rolling around.

Mako closed his wee little eyes and wiggled and squirmed. Yeis were fun.

"You two are the weirdest freakin' critters ever," Reno decided, making a reach for the ferret treats again. Ah, critters.

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That of course meant that she had to wriggle and squirm right back and go on grooming.

And purring. A lot.

That would be when Hinata tapped lightly on the open door and peeked inside. “R-Reno-san have y-you seen…”

She took in the kitten-ferret pile on the bed. “Yei.” That came out amused, really.

[raspberryturk]

"Oh, yo, Hina!" Reno grinned sheepishly at the girl in his doorway, instantly tucking the treats into his pocket. Nothing to see here. Totally not spoiling the cute things. "This is Yei, huh? She, uh. Kinda met Mako."

Mako honked. That was totally a reference to him, wasn't it? Hiiiii!

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Hi, Mommy! Yei purred from where she was but didn't bother with the getting up thing. She was comfortable.

"A-And you as w-well," she noted, smiling and cautiously stepping into the room. "Y-Yei would hardly i-ignore someone n-new and exciting. And M-Mako too, of c-course."

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"Of course," Reno agreed with a smirk. "How you been lately, Hina? Keepin' busy? New semester ain't stompin' all over you or nothin'?"

Mako, too, was comfortable. Today was full of daylight-things and he had done a lot of bouncing. He was ready to snuggle into the purring Yei and settle in for a nap. Daylight was snoozy time.

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

“B-Busy enough,” she conceded. “I have b-been trying to t-talk to more p-people, but that’s b-better some days than o-others. I e-even went to the p-party on F-Friday though, which w-wasn’t bad.” She’d sat on the sidelines. “My c-classes… one w-will be r-rather easy, I f-feel—Survival Skills. L-Leadership will b-be harder, and Alchemy w-was simply a c-curiosity. W-What are y-you taking this s-semester?”

Yei, for her part, was all about the snuggling and the sleeping and yawned a kitty yawn and put her head down.

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Reno watched the critters as they each drifted, and then grinned up at Hinata again.

"War tactics, some kinda lit course, and that chem class. Made soap on friday. Wasn't really expectin' that so much, but at least the teacher seems cool." There was a pause, and then a but of a softer smile. "Good to hear you're gettin' out and meetin' people, though. It'd be a cryin' shame if a nice kid like you wasn't out gettin' friends or whatever."

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She flushed a bit. “N-Not so many people,” Hinata admitted. “Just t-two of the new students and a-another who is n-new but from my w-world, just a few years i-in the future.”

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"Hey, that's good too," Reno chided gently, crossing his arms. "You don't gotta have a hundred friends, you know. Just so long as you managed to get good ones. You at least got that?"

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"I do," Hinata said, smiling. "That, a-at least, I can say with confidence."

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"Then you're doin' good," Reno decided, grinning. "Just so long as you got that, then you're doin' good."

Mako had started snoring. Snoring ferret. Reno was going to ignore it. Because if he didn't, then he'd totally be busted for being all 'awwww' at the pet-snuggle-pile.

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Hinata had no problems with thinking it was adorable, and grinning a bit at the picture they made.

"I t-think so," she admitted. "T-Though my f-father would r-rather more."

[raspberryturk]

"Looks like Yei is bent on gettin' you out more," he mused. "I think gettin' a cat's probably a good way of meetin' people, too."

And, you know, of making people like Reno go 'awwww, kitty.'

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"She i-is rather," Hinata admitted. "No matter how m-much I keep a-an eye on h-her she i-insists on g-getting out o-of the r-room. I m-might b-bring her to w-work with m-me on T-Tuesday just s-so she c-can explore."

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"I bet she'd like that," Reno agreed. "Mako'll take any chance he can to get out and poke his nose into things. Cats don't seem much different, that way. I dunno. I never owned a cat."