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Ito Keiichi (伊藤慶一) (keiito) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-05-09 21:38:00

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keiichi, renju

WHO: Keiichi, Renju, possibly the rest of cooking club eventually
WHAT: Cooking Club! It exists!
WHERE: Cooking Club room
WHEN: Cooking Club Day!
WHY: Cause cooking is afoot, and Renju is back!

In the Cooking Club room, Keiichi ran about this way and that, trying to make sure that everything was in order. Today was a basic lesson: cupcakes. He figured the chances of people burning down the school with cupcakes were minimal.

Still, turnout was its usual...low quantity. And quality, for that matter.

Keiichi sighed. Why did everyone hate his club, anyway?

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keiito
2010-06-24 08:41 pm UTC (link)

Renju wasn't one for mistakes, normally.

However, in this instance, she'd made an important error. As Keiichi watched her fidget, realization dawned on him. Why would she be so embarrassed about this? Certainly, the game of Never Have I Ever indicated that Renju was attracted to Kozue in some form or another.

But this? Seeing her ears go an adorable shade of pink, and her hissing, and the stuffing of the picture into the bag, and the stirstirstir of her dough?

"You," Keiichi proclaimed, at least doing her the dignity of lowering his voice, to the point where he was almost whispering the last few words in her ear, "aren't especially good at hiding things."

He shrugged, and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Besides, I got one for myself too. I'm thinking of getting her to autograph it."

Somehow, Keiichi doubted that would be much consolation.

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lotus_beyond
2010-06-28 12:48 am UTC (link)

It wasn't. Renju started carefully pouring the cupcake dough into her tray, using the carefully controlled motions to help calm herself. "I had assumed you knew." She had assumed everyone did, but it seemed she was wrong. She'd have to be a bit more cautious about it in the future... well, if she was capable of it, which she wasn't sure she was. Apparently. "Why else would you have given it to me?"

She probably should've saved this for after club, in retrospect; if she were more clear-headed, she would've. But this was something she was just beginning to learn to deal with, and it was far more difficult than she'd expected.

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keiito
2010-06-28 01:46 am UTC (link)

"You act as if it's a bad thing," Keiichi said, placing a hand on her shoulder. Had it not been public, he'd have been tempted to gather her up in a hug like the one he gave her following her dungeon.

She seemed to have difficulty with certain emotions, Keiichi thought. It was understandable, all things considered. "I sort of knew, I guess?" he said. "But there's a difference between having a thing for someone, and it making your ears go pink and and act all adorable like that."

Keiichi watched as she poured the dough. "She's really attractive, Sonozaki-san. I don't think anyone would ever say otherwise. There's nothing to be ashamed of."

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lotus_beyond
2010-06-29 02:49 am UTC (link)

"Adorable?" Something about that word seemed to set her off, and she wasn't quite sure what. It reminded her of Nayuki being pleased about her being able to attract boys via her club endeavors, or Reizo calling her "moe" (something that still stunned her at the very thought of it). It was irritating and confusing, and it was only because it was Keiichi that she had even the faintest suspicion it might be sincere.

"That's not the--" She took a deep, calming breath as she slid the cupcakes into the oven and managed not to shrug off the hand on her shoulder. "It's pointless, at any rate. She's not interested in me." And to Renju, that was quite definitively that.

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keiito
2010-06-29 09:43 pm UTC (link)

"You are adorable," he insisted, even though it probably wasn't the most logical strategy given the way she reacted. "You just don't notice."

With the cupcakes slid into the oven, Keiichi kept the hand on her shoulder. He had considered removing it, but he figured comforting couldn't hurt in this situation.

"You don't *know* that," Keiichi pointed out. This was all a very...odd sort of inquiry, given his current not-status with the woman in question. "There's only one way to find out, isn't there? I mean...to most people, you'd probably have a significantly better chance with her than I do, and I managed to date her for a while."

The smile that he gave her was sort of "isn't the world strange sometimes," though in truth, he liked to think that he had dated (and now not-dated) Kondo Kozue for a reason.

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lotus_beyond
2010-07-01 12:17 am UTC (link)

Renju would have fought the 'adorable' matter more, but one thing she was starting to learn was how to better pick her battles. At any rate, his other assertion was significantly easier to counter.

With her cupcakes in the oven, she could start working on the frosting, and she started carefully weighing butter while continuing to speak to Keiichi without looking at him. "We've already spoken about it. I'm certain that if she were interested, she'd have said as much when the topic was aired." The butter was taken care of quickly enough, and Renju set it into the bowl and set to work on the sugar, which took a bit longer. "She doesn't want this to affect our--er--friendship, nor do I."

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keiito
2010-07-01 01:19 am UTC (link)

"I'm not entirely sure she would say something," Keiichi wondered aloud, scratching at his chin. "It's a delicate situation all around, you know. But she's not dating anyone right now. Who knows?"

Really strange at this point, but he thought they might be good for one another. They were both getting stronger on their own. Having someone to stand with, and learn with, was always important.

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