deathdefied | (no subject)

Sounds like it's about what I'd expect if you crammed six people into a single apartment and told them what their lives were going to be from then on out. Not that that makes it any easier to live, I'm guessing.

[Looking over the menus, which means he isn't looking at her when he says:]

We could get a hotel room tonight, if you wanted.

No, it doesn't. We've all got our foibles and addictions. Like you, for instance!

[She chuckles.] Which is to say, I like that idea but ask me again after dinner, hmm?

Do the others know about me? Most of them were asleep when I got there and I had to leave pretty early...

[He shrugs.]

Can't blame a guy for trying.

We woke up the twins. [Given that grin, she's not sorry.] But I hadn't decided if they'd all been well-behaved enough for me to actually tell them anything yet.

[She leans forward on the table, chin in her hand.] Which conveniently gives me time to find out just who I'm describing you as.

Well, that's certainly up to you. You've even got a couple names to choose from!

[He laughs a bit at that, and, oh, hey, waiter.]

[Well, yes, let's order. ...Let's order a kind of ridiculous amount of food. Good thing she was clear about going dutch, huh.]

Oh, sure, but it's one thing to be picking from a special friend's names and a boyfriends, you know? I don't want to make any assumptions.

Oh yeah? Assumptions about what, Saori?

[...He's just kind of blinking at that food order a bit. Because damn that's a lot. He probably got like a sandwich or something.]

I told you, Yasuhiro, I'm pretty rusty at this. But I'm pretty sure not everyone considers one hell of a night and a dinner date enough to make that call, and reading minds isn't in my skill set.

[...Which rather implies she's already made her own decision about it, doesn't it.]

It sounds like you already made that call, Saori.

[Just grinning and taking his coffee from the waiter while he waits for a response.]

Hey, it's not every day I tell people about both my old job and my current one and that just seems to interest them more.

[She takes her tea and looks down into it.] It...means a lot, I don't think you really realize how much.

What was I going to do? Walk out on the poor girl who's spilling her heart to me? Ignore all her niceties and everything that came before because she has some issues?

[He grins at her over his cup, leaning in.]

No one's perfect. But you're cute, you're considerate, and you seem like you need someone... why not me?

...Why is it it's only Michio people notice, you're practically the Devil with that silver tongue, Itto Yasuhiro.

[She does lean just that much more forward with a flush and faint grin.] And you learn quickly, too..oh, I have such things to teach you.

For now,let's take it one step at a time, right, Saori? Because I'd hate to see what would happen if we caused a scene in a cafe as nice as this.

[He'll just be taking his sandwich from the waiter, who is wondering why he had to get this table out of all of them.]

[Let's take the great deal of food, then. And...

...well that's one sandwich that just vanished and we can't be sure she didn't actually unhinge her jaw to do it.]

Oh, of course. Teaching requires a proper setting, after all. Besides, all we've done is talk about me...I want to hear what you've been up to.

What is there to say? I wake up, I go to class, most days I go immediately from there to stand around and explain art galleries to bored rich men while their wives and mistresses flirt with me in all manner of fashion.

[He sighs. Then kind of stares at how that sandwich just vanished in a flash.]

So this is a welcome change.

Flirt all day? Well now I might be jealous... [She's slowing down for the fancy hipster pizza, but still. Where is she even putting it all?]

Still...don't you have off-time? You don't get a physique like yours just switching off from bio student and hoity toity host club, I'm pretty sure.

[He's actually stopped eating because this is sort of amazing to watch.]

I do, but, really it's mostly used for studying and working out. I haven't found an dojo I really like in town, so mostly it's a gym, or I jog, you know? Nothing interesting.

...That's a fair enough. [She actually stops to consider the dojo mention.]

I grew up here, but I probably couldn't tell you where to look even if I knew what you were looking for. We never had the money for that...what I learned was off the streets, which is practical but doesn't exactly win you friends in a competitive sense, let's just say.

[Turns out people don't like it when you fight dirtier than the floor of a movie theater. Who knew?]

It's fine. I don't really have the time to keep up with it anyways, it's more just something that I want to get back to when I'm done with school, or find a better job. That kind of thing.

[He'll poke a little more at his sandwich.]

What about you? You've got to have some hobbies or something, right?

...It's actually a little embarrassing. My degree would be for history and folklore but, uh...

[She sort of rubs at the back of her neck.] Well, I made what I'm wearing right now, is the best way to put it.

No, that's great! It explains why it looks so good on you, too. So are you hoping to open up your own boutique or something, after college? Or is this just a hobby?

[Of course, he'd be completely earnest.]

[He has just discovered the fastest way to get Saori blushing and obviously flustered, also.]

I--I don't really know. I just started designing and making them to save money, I'd never considered anyone would buy these.

Well, most girls don't have the same figure to work with, but I bet they'd want to buy them all the same. You should talk to some of the little shops around here, seriously!

I...You think so? I didn't think it was that impressive...

Well, you look great. And if that's anything to go by, then, I bet they'll look great on other people, too.

[Pointing at her.]

So do it already.