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Ikeda Kiriko | 池田妃凛子 (apathyisboring) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-08-06 22:34:00

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kiriko, kozue

Errands, etc.
Who: Kiriko and Kozue
What: Shopping and Socializing
Where: Places there are shops
When: After the meeting, before the party.
Why: I consider the why part of this form to be useless!

Kiriko met with Kozue just outside of the girl's dorms, greeting her with a wave and a friendly sort of simper that was better than her usual deadpan expression, no matter how halfhearted. She really did appreciation that her classmate was offering to help, whether or not she was doing it entirely out of the goodness of her heart. Her other friends were too high-energy and chatty, but she didn't much feel like going alone either.

Besides, surely Kozue needed a distraction from all they'd been tasked with, too.

"I haven't really decided on anything, but I do know where we can go for the stuff. It's a little party shop with good prices. I can pick up some ornaments and wall decals and some other stuff. If people think it's neat enough to tear off the walls and take home, that's less clean up for me. I don't really care where we detour, but I did want to pick up a dress to wear, at least."

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apathyisboring
2009-08-10 06:19 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, sixteen. Technically I'm already sixteen, the party's a bit late..." Kiriko didn't mind the evasive subject change - she'd said all there really was to say about the newcomers, who all seemed thankfully boring compared to the likes of Tom, Kanaye and Reizo.

"I'm coming out, take a look for me? I'll look at yours too, if you want."

She stepped out in one of the later dresses she'd added to the pile, which was a deep purple and thankfully devoid of animal print. She chewed the inside of her cheek and tried to inconspicuously investigate how it made her bum look before looking to the changeroom where Kozue was.

"I didn't ask you what you think of our current team, though."

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anthesphoria
2009-08-10 07:10 pm UTC (link)

"It didn't really fit - it actually kind of fell off, but hold on a second, I want to see," she said, grabbing her skirt from the floor and putting it back on hastily - her white shirt followed, and she poked her head out the door.

"Oh, I like that - it's a good color on you." And it wasn't eyeball-hurting loud like the blue-and-zebra number that Kiriko had picked up first. Although blue would probably look even better... animal print. Honestly.

"The current team?" Kozue made a noncommittal thinking noise, buttoning up the last part of her shirt collar, that she'd left undone when she popped out to see Kiriko. "Well, it's made up of a few very strong personalities - that are going to constantly butt heads - I really don't know if there's any solution for some of them..."

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apathyisboring
2009-08-10 07:23 pm UTC (link)

"Who are we talking about in particular?"

She flashed an amused sort of smile at Kozue before ducking back into the changing room. The purple was nice, but she still wanted to try out the zebra print one.

"Shirai is an obvious problem," she mused, squirming out of the dress and unzipping the next one. "But he's one I'm used to dealing with, so I don't mind him personally. Sagaki is a real piece of work, though, huh? I think he actually has some, like... disorder, or something like that. I mean, the way he is, that's just not normal."

Kiriko's voice sounded slightly more animated than it had for most of the day. Complaining about her teammates apparently had that effect on her. She stepped out again in the zebra-print dress this time, still adjusting it around the top.

"Satou's completely shameless and never takes anything seriously - can you believe anybody finds him charming? I guess if you like a really direct approach, direct like 'Look at me, I'm staring down your shirt'..."

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anthesphoria
2009-08-11 04:38 am UTC (link)

Kozue dropped into a convenient chair to wait while Kiriko changed, laughing a little at the portrait of Kanaye. Well, that was definitely accurate. "I think he's probably well-meaning, but he just never shuts up."

She kicked the leg of the chair a little, thinking. "Sagaki-sempai is... You know, I'm not sure, maybe he does have some kind of problem. I sometimes get the impression that he was raised under a rock or something, but he's not cruel. Shirai-san is exactly the opposite." Not strange, but quite cruel. She sighed, quietly, in a slightly resigned way. How long would he stick around--and what was keeping him there, anyway? Kozue couldn't imagine that he stayed out of some sense of responsibility or concern for other people; it simply wouldn't make sense to her.

"Do you have a good way of making sure he doesn't hurt anyone?" Anyone else, that was?

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apathyisboring
2009-08-11 05:17 am UTC (link)

"What do you think of this one?" she asked, turning full circle in front of one of the mirrors on the outside of the changeroom, still in the zebra-dress.

"Maybe he was raised under a rock, or maybe he does have some kind of problem. I don't know. He's all over the map, I really don't get him, but I don't think he likes us very much. As for Shirai..." Kiriko grimaced. She had a better idea of what he was like than the rest of the group, but didn't really want to be considered the authority, and therefore blamed whenever anything went wrong.

"He isn't really the loose cannon everybody thinks he is. I don't mean, like, he's sunshine and rainbows on the inside, I just mean that... well, he's a yakuza," she dropped her voice at the last word, not wanting to be overheard, but the effect was giving it more significance than she would have liked. "And he acts like one. Which is to say, if you don't get in his way and don't challenge him, he'll leave you alone. Everything's fun and power games with Shirai, and the best way to win is to not play."

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anthesphoria
2009-08-11 05:27 am UTC (link)

"Maybe he's a yakuza, but he's also just a jerk. Fun and power games?" Kozue asked, blinking a little. "What's that supposed to mean? And I don't think that's necessarily true, about him leaving people alone if they don't bother him." She sighed again, and turned her attention to the dress, instead of the problem of Shirai Reizo. Things like that really shouldn't get to her, but...

Whatever. Maybe Kiriko's advice was sound. "Do you like the print?" She asked, trying for diplomacy instead of it looks like it belongs in a zoo. That was her grandmother's voice in her ear, of course; it was, actually, rather exciting, and the blue was nice.

"What about our other teammates? Do you know any of them well?"

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apathyisboring
2009-08-11 05:37 am UTC (link)

"Well, yeah. Anything that doesn't fall into the 'staying on top' category falls into the 'fun' category, which is the hard-to-predict part... I usually just steer clear when he looks like trouble. You can tell when that is, his smile gets way too big."

She wondered absently if she should be telling the rest of the team these 'tips,' but they seemed to her like they'd be wasted - not that they wouldn't be somewhat wasted on Kozue. She was usually a pretty polite person, Kiriko couldn't see him giving her trouble. The ones she could see getting in trouble probably wouldn't listen to her anyway. Really, the more she thought about it, the more pointless it seemed to talk about in the first place. Kiriko shrugged and held the ends of her dress out.

"Yeah. I don't have much of it, though, my parents think it's hideous. I just think it's more interesting this way."

Deciding that she would come to no further revelations about the dress, she slipped back into the changerooms to try on a third one.

"Our other teammates? I know Misaki-chan well. But, you probably do too, she really wears her heart on her sleeve." Kiriko sounded slightly disapproving at this. "I've known Emi-chan for a while as well, and Tanaka-san likes to come to Ikebana club and lecture people. I've got no real prior experience with anybody else, though I'm getting to know Ito-san and Oubai-san a bit. They seem easy enough to figure out, but I could be wrong. What about you?"

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anthesphoria
2009-08-11 05:56 am UTC (link)

"I didn't really hang out with any of them before this, no," she replied, shaking her head as Kiriko headed back to change again. "I mean, I certainly never dated any of them." She laughed a little--it was a bit too well-mannered to really be a giggle, though it came close.

"I know my parents--well, my family--would never pay for a dress like that - then again, if I wanted to host a party like this, I'd probably be in trouble, too." She covered the parents slip - her mother would, probably like that kind of dress, and had been telling her she should have a sweet sixteen party, but her grandmother was the one who made those decisions, in all practical senses.

"I think people would be surprised to see you in that dress, but it suited you. What is the next one like?" Meaning, was it one of the tasteful ones, or one of the loud ones?

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apathyisboring
2009-08-12 06:45 pm UTC (link)

"Not as interesting."

Kiriko stepped out, and indeed it was one of the tasteful ones, this time a teal colour. Again, she frowned and investigated its fit in the mirror.

"My mom mostly manages my clothes, and she tends to go for whatever's in style. I just usually get paraded past my dad for an 'acceptability check...' but neither of them are around right now, so I can get what I like as long as I look nice in all the pictures."

Family was usually a tricky subject for Kiriko, but Kozue had already met her parents. It was much more comfortable mentioning them, however sparse the details were.

"I think I know what I'm getting, anyway. Did you want to look around any more or should we move on?"

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anthesphoria
2009-08-13 04:28 am UTC (link)

"At least she likes what's in style," Kozue said, with a short nod, looking at the teal dress. It was nice, if bright. "You picked already? Hm, I should probably get the rest of my stuff from the dressing room."

My, but that was a lack of enthusiasm. "I'm pretty much done," she said, standing up. Or, she could be done: if she was going to stay to look at more dresses, it might take her a really long time. Longer than she'd wish to inflict on Kiriko--and probably longer than they had for shopping, for that matter. She'd have to try on everything she liked at least twice, if not three times, for one thing.

"So they want nice pictures from the party?" She grinned, as she scooped up her blazer and the rest of her things; "Should be fun to find the acceptable ones for parents to see."

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apathyisboring
2009-08-19 04:28 pm UTC (link)

"I'm just going to take a few of them outside at the beginning when everyone is still fairly.. upright, I guess."

She emerged from the dressing room for a final time, now back in her schoolclothes with the dresses slung over her arm once again. When they approached the counter, it seemed she'd opted for the purple.

"I've got a belt at home that would go really nicely with it, I think," she explained as she set it on the countertop and searched her bag for her wallet. "But yeah, I don't think my mom would mind the drinking as long as I keep a handle on myself, it's more my dad who has a problem with that type of thing. He'd say it was 'unattractive behaviour,' which I guess means I'm still okay as long as I'm not getting wasted, personally. Either way, a couple of acceptable pictures from throughout the night should be enough."

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