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Reno of the Turks ([personal profile] raspberryturk) wrote2009-01-20 09:23 am

A Zoo on the Mainland, Tuesday, After Classes

Okay. It had been... a week. To say the least. It was only Tuesday and Reno already wanted it to be over, already.

But that wasn't going to stop him from making an ass of himself in public. After all, so far as public outings went, some things were practically sacred.

"Think they'll let me take home a penguin if I ask real nice?"

[For the partner in crime! NFB for being all mainlandy and stuff, woo!]

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, it's not like I have anything else to do with my time," she joked. "It's all set up, all I have to do is my job!"

"Besides, what else would I do?" Dōjima grinned at him faintly. "Be a shop girl? I'd get fired in the first week."

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
"You're working for an insane rabbit and a dog in a suit. That's totally not the same as being a secretary," Dōjima answered.

Really, it wasn't. Most secretaries didn't have to deal with the man in the closet quite so literally.

The comment about 'odd jobs' however had her giving him a sideways glance, and Dōjima waited for a moment before meandering after him.

"What is it with you and the strange ones?" she asked, making a face at the creature. "And do I even want to know what sort of job you'd term 'odd'?"

It had to be clarified. He could either mean 'random' or, well, Fandom-style 'odd'.

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yurika leaned back against the fence to watch him, abandoning all pretense of looking at the animal inside.

"Are you telling me this because you think I need the practice, think I want the action, or because you're trying to talk me out of SOLOMON?" she asked bluntly. "Did Romeo put you up to this?"

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yurika nodded in apology. "Someone seems to think he's coming to Japan with me," she said by way of explanation. "There have been... disagreements."

Knowing how Romeo felt about her job, you couldn't blame a girl for thinking perhaps her boyfriend had gone running to his BFF to try and find her a way out.

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, well, next time you take off for Gaia with good intentions, you're leaving an itinerary. I don't feel like walking all over town looking for you again." The card disappeared into her pocket, and she gave him a crooked grin. "I get a name or face to match that number, so I know I'm not talking to the wrong person?"

That was her way of saying she was going to do it.

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"You just have a thing for blondes."

What? He did!

"So, what, I dial the number, and say you sent me? I know it's not Aly-sensei, since she left..." Which, really, depressed Yurika to no end. She fixed him with a mid-level pout. "Come on, Red, give a girl a hint. I don't want to screw up by walking in blind, here."

Father Juliano would be furious if he found out, but, well, that just meant he wasn't going to find out.

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That was more than enough, and she flashed him a grateful smile as she headed towards the next area, reaching out to snag his arm and drag him along.

"Everything's all about the blondes. We're irresistible, you know," she informed him smugly. "It's what makes us so good at what we do."

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That startled a sharp laugh from her, and Yurika resisted the urge to reach over and yank his ponytail.

"Of course I know where I stand. I'm a Hunter. I can be as okay or not-okay with it as I want, but at the end of the day, I am what I am. This - " here she patted her pocket lightly, " - if it works out, is just a bit of fun. I made my choices, and it's not something I can change, even if I wanted to."

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't really regret anything I've done so far," she said simply. "I made choices based on what was available to me, and I still think they were the right ones. But."

She fidgeted slightly, not looking him in the eye. "I think I might have accidentally lied to Romeo. I mean, I thought I was telling the truth, I did, but, I'm a Seed, Reno. I'm not ever going to be done with SOLOMON, even if they hold to our agreement."

"And if I ever do manifest, well, all deals are off." She shrugged, watching the baby giraffe. "Craft users and their talents belong to SOLOMON, not to themselves."

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"'Sorry honey, I might have fibbed? Again?' That'll go over fantastically," Yurika sighed, tugging at her hair. "I don't know. I mean, he knows the part about me being a Seed, I did explain that, and I do trust Juliano to hold to his word. Mostly. I just... I got thinking about it, after I talked to him about my thaumaturgy class. I just don't like the idea of using magic, and now it's got me looking over my shoulder."

She grinned faintly, trying to muster up happy thoughts. "I'm probably just worried over nothing, right? I mean, I can't even manage to hex a rock."

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know what this means, right?" She held out her water bottle and stuck out her tongue. "We need to go find the penguins."

[identity profile] dojima-hime.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't denial! It was just a different form of coping. Really. Shared denial was totally different from plain denial.

"Everything is going to be fine. I know this, because you two still owe us a night out on the town, we have Spring Break coming up, and you still have to moon Tseng at graduation for me. Clearly, the universe is on our side."

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