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Matsumoto Shin (playing_sandbag) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-07-20 22:05:00

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akiyama kiyoshi, shin

Who: Shin + Kiyoshi
What: Working
Where: Used bookstore
When: After school
Why: Gotta earn money somehow

It wasn't that Shin hated his job. Really, compared to helping out at the bar this was the better alternative by far. But while he was always kept busy at the bar, be it tending to a customer or cleaning off something, there was never anything to do at the book store. Because it was a used one, they didn't get many customers. And while Shin could always organize the books by genre and then alphabetize, the fact that there was so many always dissuaded him from being a good employee and actually doing his job. Being the expert slacker he was, he would usually sit behind the counter and let one of his more motivated coworkers do the work while he sat and read a book.

But with the less-than-pleasant weather practically guaranteeing they wouldn't be getting any customers tonight and his back hurting from sitting in an uncomfortable position for so long, Shin figured he might as well earn his pay for once. And what better way to help his younger coworker with whatever task the kid might be working on at the moment?

"Akiyama?" Shin called out, placing a bookmark to mark his spot before placing the book down on the counter. "Where are you?"

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but_siriusly
2009-07-22 03:41 am UTC (link)

"Matsumoto-senpai? I'm back here." Kiyoshi waved from his position at the back of the store, tucked behind a stack of boxes filled with books that needed to be stocked. As short as he was, only his arm and the top few locks of his hair stuck out over the highest box, and he was hardly visible even in the middle of waving.

The books were all recent acquisitions, mostly textbooks that had outlived their usefulness or popular novels that were only worth reading once. Those were easy enough to stock — Reference : Mathmatics : F - I, Fiction : Romance : Q - T — though he'd barely made his way through half of the first box. At the moment, he'd hit a snag with one of the few books that was in English. He was a good student, but he wasn't quite familiar enough with the language to figure out whether How to Barbeque a Sacred Cow was about cooking, theology, or something else entirely. The cover gave nothing away, and skimming pages had only left him more confused. As much as he hated making a nuisance of himself, it looked like his only options were to ask someone a few years ahead or to risk putting it in the wrong section, and at least the former wouldn't be a disservice to the customers. Plus, the older boy seemed personable enough from what he'd seen around the store, and too laid back to get out of sorts if it turned out to be a stupid question, so Kiyoshi decided to buck up and ask.

"Ah, Senpai, how would you sort this one?" He indicated the book in question and let out a laugh that came out sounding just a little nervous. "I don't think it's a cookbook, but, uh. I'm not really sure."

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playing_sandbag
2009-07-24 09:23 pm UTC (link)

Angling his head up as though he could see past the shelves and boxes, Shin slunk out of his stool and maneuvered his way over to where his young coworker was dutifully shelving books. Such a good kid. Were Shin a better person, he might feel a little guilty for wasting his own youth away by slacking and smoking cigarettes. Ah, well. It was too late to change his habits now. He was fully into the slackers religion.

Ambling his way to where Akiyama currently stood, Shin listened to his kouhai's question patiently before he extracted the book from Akiyama's hands and flipped through it. Eyes looking at the text but not really taking anything in, Shin hummed to himself thoughtfully.

"Probably theology," he said with a light shrug as he reached for a full box. Pushing the books aside, Shin dumped the questionable text into the bottom and continued speaking. "We'll just leave this for the next shift, alright? Just in case I'm wrong~"

He grinned, and were he anyone else he may have felt a tad bit of shame for teaching his young, impressionable Akiyama-kun how to slack off at work. But he was simply being a good senpai and imparting his knowledge to the underclassmen. That was all.

"Need any help then?" he offered, running a hand through his black hair and musing the already messy strands further.

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