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Leyu Yoshida ; "Sunpyre" (sunpyre) wrote in x_fluff_x,
@ 2008-12-14 23:45:00

Entry tags:

rogue, sunpyre

Who: Sunpyre and Rogue.
When: Thursday, October 18, 2007; (Afternoon)
Where: Her room. (Door's open)
What: Hanging out (reading and listening to music), mostly.
Status: Completed.
Rating: PG to start off with.

iPod? Check. Book? Check. Comfortable spot to read? Check.

Leyu had been spending a lot of time holed up in her room after the news of the Sentinel attack had come out, nearly three weeks ago. It wasn't that she was terrified to leave the comfort of her bedroom and face the outside world (or maybe it was), but she was tired of hearing people talking about it incessantly. Quite frankly, it made her neverous.

This school was full of mutants. What if one (or more) of those things were lurking nearby and one of them lost control? Just the thought of one of those hulking, scrapes of metal coming for one of them scared the Hell out of her (as it should). This was a very serious matter and it had to be dealt with, as soon as humanly possible; therefore they all needed to stop talking and actually do something about it.

Plopping down on her bed now, she slipped the headphones of her iPod over ears and settled back against her pillows and cracked the book open. Shan, the school's librarian, had recommended a few excellent titles for her to get to work on. (She had never encountered a person with so much enthusiasm for books in her entire life.) The one she was getting ready to immerse herself in was about John Quincy Adams.

Leyu liked to think that she had had a very well-rounded education in pretty much every subject taught in school, but her knowledge about the American Presidents was lacking and she wanted to know more. Originally, she'd never had the desire to know more than she needed to know about American History. But now that she was living in America, she thought it was her duty to learn as much about the country she now resided in, and that also included absorbing its history.

Shiro would probably just laugh and shake his head at her "need" to do something like that, but he was lazy and she didn't expect him to understand. If he wanted to go coast through life, only learning the things he needed to know, that was his prerogative.

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white_streak
2008-12-19 01:26 am UTC (link)

"Hey," Rogue had nearly jogged completely past the open door, but took a few steps back when she noticed Leyu's door was open and the girl looked involved. Perfect person so pester. Rogue grinned and repeated herself after seeing Sunpyre's headphones. "Hey!" she took a moment to lean on the door and catch her breath. "Ah was gonna go rake some leaves. It's a nice day, you wanna get outside?" The Japanese girl would surely be better company than no one at all. "Ah was lookin' out mah window and thought, 'Ah guess Storm's been busy lately. The lawn's lookin' shabby'. So, here Ah am, bundled up and ready to earn dinner." Her green coat was fastened as fully as possible and she wore a pair of black gloves that went to just below her elbows. It was only after Rogue had spouted quite a bit of gibberish at the girl that she realized Leyu might have been doing something important. "What're ya readin'?"

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sunpyre
2008-12-19 09:53 am UTC (link)

Leyu'd heard her the first time but by the second 'hey,' she had already slipped the headphones off and she sat up a little straighter. Rogue wasn't exactly her most favorite person in the world, but she didn't dislike her either; it could've been worse, right? It could've been Bobby or Troy. Those guys annoyed the hell out of her.

After she had rambled on for a bit, she took her words into consideration for a moment. It was beginning to look a little 'shabby' (the lawn) and despite the chill in the air, it was rather nice outside....

"I guess I could help you," she replied with a nonchalant shrug of her shoulders, before her eyes averted back to the book setting open upon her lap, which had closed after she sat up. Then she looked back up at Rogue, who was leaning against her door. "John Quincy Adams," Leyu answered her second question. It was a biography, or one of the many biographies she had seen in the library about the man, at least. Karma had suggested this particular one, though.

"Read it?" By the time Sunpyre asked this, she had already gotten up and went in search for a coat (or a warm sweater) to throw on.

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white_streak
2008-12-20 03:52 am UTC (link)

"Ah can't say Ah have," Rogue answered bluntly. Her lips twisted to the side a bit in blatant consideration of the choice she'd made in asking Leyu to join her outdoors. She didn't seem too enthused. "If you were busy readin', there're loads of folks Ah'm sure have cabin fever." She smiled finally, attempting to seem friendly.

"Some folks say that foreigners know more about America than Americans do. It's a pity, really. Our history is so crazy." By 'crazy' she meant 'interesting'. It was getting more interesting by the day, as a matter of fact...

Marie fidgeted briefly before taking a step further into the room. It was tidy. Leyu seemed much different from her brother. For one, Shiro actually seemed to like Rogue. Maybe Sunpyre was still adjusting to everything. It had to have been hard...

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sunpyre
2008-12-21 11:13 pm UTC (link)

"I'm not busy," Leyu insisted. Not really, anyhow. She had just been reading, because she thought if she was going to 'waste time,' she should be spending it wisely. And reading seemed a better way to waste it, rather than sitting in front of a television set playing video games.

As she slipped her jacket on, she spoke again, "If I was busy, I wouldn't have agreed to help you." That was just fact. If Leyu had been busy with something important, she wouldn't have hesitated to tell Rogue she was preoccupied with something else. Besides that, it wasn't like it was mandatory that she read the book anyway.

"It is a pity that Americans don't take more time to learn about their own country's history," she concurred with a small smile.

Leyu was a very guarded person and could come off as unfriendly most of the time, but she wasn't used to being in a place like Xavier's. It was more set up like a family than a schooling environment, and that sort of confused her. Especially since she had grown up in fiercely competitive environments, where your friends were also your greatest rivals. Academically, at least.

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white_streak
2008-12-22 06:13 pm UTC (link)

"Well, all right," Rogue said. If Leyu wanted to come, she wasn't going to stop her. Might do her some good to get out of this stuffy old place. The girl was almost continually reading. Or writing something, or working on a computer... Hey, her grades were probably through the roof!

"Well, some Americans, Ah said. Ah mean, I know a lot more than some folks, Ah guess. And Ah know loads of people around here know our history like the backs of their hands. Lotsa history buffs at Xavier's." She smiled back, and moved from the door frame and into the hallway. "It sorta feels like we're makin' history 'round here, some days." Lots of big things had happened in Rogue's life in a very short time. It was most likely the general consensus, she supposed. For now, it was to the stable shed for rakes. Not so epic.

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sunpyre
2008-12-26 08:37 pm UTC (link)

Or cooking or baking. Leyu wanted to go to school to become a chef, and she spent as much time in the kitchen that Gert allotted her—which wasn't as much as she would’ve liked, but the older woman seemed to want to help her in anyway she could. It was a very nice feeling to have someone else, who wasn't her brother, be so encouraging about her culinary ambitions. Her father, on the other hand, seemed to be less than enthused about her future pursuit and felt she should pursue a more practical goal, like going into politics or the education field. Leyu was annoyed with him, especially since he didn't seem to be so interested in what Shiro did with his future.

Hmph. Whatever.

"So I’ve noticed," she said. She had meant to say 'some,' but English wasn’t exactly her first language, and even though she had been speaking it for a long time, she occasionally forgot to add a word or two. "History is being made every single day." Here, there, everywhere. But she assumed Rogue was already aware of this. She wasn’t dumb or that lazy, and that made her okay in Leyu’s book.

"Do you wonder if you will ever go down in the history books someday?" Leyu had often wondered this about herself, and if she'd ever go down in history as someone of great importance—be it as a world-famous chef or.... something else.

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white_streak
2008-12-30 12:43 am UTC (link)

"Ah think I've got some pretty crazy stuff under mah belt," being the single hostage during one of the greatest terrorist attacks in U.S. history sort of made one feel as though they'd see and done things that would at least be remembered. But those were events out of her control. Rogue had loads of plans, but none of them were really so big that she assumed they'd matter in the grand scheme of things. "As for history in general, of course it is. Every day brings new opportunities for the world to change. Ah just meant that everyone around here seems more prone to be involved with stuff that matters. The world is changing, right?" The X-Men were creating the first chapters of a new era. But, so were the humans that opposed mutants. And the mutants that opposed humans, come to think of it. She was just thankful that she had a chance to change things for the better.

"Ah don't so much care if what I do gets written down. S'long as it matters to someone." She smiled, simply, and headed down the stairs as they reached them.

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