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Akuba Maeko (giantfruitbyday) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-01-15 23:47:00

Entry tags:

gendou, kanaye, maeko

Who: Maeko, Gendou. Kanaye may be hanging around somewhere?
What: OI
Where: Skypark
When: Early evening.
Why: EXCUSE ME COULD YOU STOP LYING.

Maeko wanted Gendou to be responsible for this. Because if he was it meant she hadn't beem quite as gulliable in trusting Misaki ever. It still seemed unlikely, Misaki's blaming him seemed like a stunt to avoid the blame herself, but right now he was the only person who was blameable.

So, dammit, he was being blamed.

She'd told him she needed to talk to him about council business and waited at the skypark. The fact that she could see her appartment block from here was why she'd chosen this meeting place and it was a sign of agression, though not one that was likely to be read. This was her territory. Not the school, where Gendou was boss. She could see her house from here and in Maeko's mind that meant she was in charge.

She sat quietly on a bench, checking through her messages, and waited for Gendou to show up.

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giantfruitbyday
2010-01-17 10:56 pm UTC (link)

"...most people aren't quite that enthuseastic about climbing stairs." Maeko said, pausing before laughing. She entered, hanging her keys on a hook by the door.

The appartment could probably be kindly described as efficient. It wasn't a centimetre bigger than it absoloutely needed to be. This was common in appartments so close to the centre of town, but most appartments in the middle of town didn't house a family.

It was probably forunate that Maeko was an only child.

The front door led to a small living room, a good half of which was taken up by a large desk, selection of drawing boards and what was less a bookshelf and more a bizzare torture device for peices of wood with a large pile of books, in addition to the ones that were visibly bending the shelves. What remained of the room contained a small couch with a table by it.

"You can sit down if you like." Maeko said, leaving her outdoor shoes in the doorway and entering. It was strange, speaking here.

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	zealousemperor 2010-01-17 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	"..." Kanaye gaped. This...was where she lived? Wow. This was tiny. Even a salaryman's salary could pay for a bigger house, right? He really couldn't get why Maeko lived in something so small. Careful to not cause the books to fall down, Kanaye sat on the couch slowly. "Is your mother home?" He asked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	giantfruitbyday 2010-01-17 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	Maeko shook her head. "She's translating so she went on his trip with him." She smiled sheepishly. "Sorry about the mess, my dad works in here and he kind of has things organized in a way he understands." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zealousemperor 2010-01-17 11:33 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh. Right. It has got to suck to be deaf..." Kanaye sighed. "Can't imagine it would be much better to be related to them, though..." "No worries. My room's much the same." He stood up and looked around. "Speaking of which, where's your room?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

giantfruitbyday
2010-01-18 12:27 am UTC (link)

"I'm sure it does. I think I enjoyed being in a world without sound when it was small but that changes when you find out that people can talk and you just don't understand it. I think it must be scary."

Maeko motionned down a corridor to the left. A kitchen was visible at the far end, four doors along the right side wall of it. "My room's the third door. Do you want a drink or anything? There's lemonade I think."

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	zealousemperor 2010-01-18 12:38 am UTC (link)
	Kanaye nodded. "Yeah. If you don't know anything different, it probably seems like a good idea. The...teasing must have been enormous. I'm sorry, Maeko-chan." "I'll take lemonade, thanks!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

giantfruitbyday
2010-01-18 12:48 am UTC (link)

Maeko shrugged. "I didn't understand most of it, it's not like it could bother me all that much."

She quickly headed into the kitchen, digging through a shopping bag she'd put off emptying and putting away (nobody else was home to care, after all, and there wasn't anything that would go off. This might have been Maeko's attempt at being rebellious.) to produce two small lemonade bottles. she handed one to Kanaye.

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	zealousemperor 2010-01-18 12:53 am UTC (link)
	"If you think so, Maeko-chan..." Kanaye doubted this, given what he saw of her shadow, but said no more. Taking it, Kanaye smiled. "Thanks, Maeko-chan!" He opened it and drank a bit, then looked around. "I like this place. It's smaller then I used to, but it seems more...human, maybe? Lived in?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

giantfruitbyday
2010-01-18 01:12 am UTC (link)

Maeko drank. It was refreshing, less so than it would have been if she'd put the drinks in the fridge like she was supposed to. Then again, between Renju and Kigakiga? She'd had more than sufficient cold things this summer.

"Lived in's certainly corrct. Dad works from here and doesn't like being out in the noise. I think he leaves the house less than Ishinomori-san must. It's rare for there not to be anyone in."

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zealousemperor
2010-01-18 01:15 am UTC (link)

Drinking some more, Kanaye blinked. "That's certainly interesting. I can't imagine he would go out alone much, given everything, but you'd think your mom would take him out occasionally. You gotta admit, to love someone like that...it takes guts."

He shrugged. "You don't have a TV, though? I think they have subtitles for some things, and you and your mother could watch it, at least."

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	giantfruitbyday 2010-01-18 01:28 am UTC (link)
	Maeko shook her head. "Nope. He leaves the house for meetings or to attend things like his Obon trips and that's about it." She shrugged. "It's not really like that..." She took the opportunity to change the subject and shook her head. "Dad says they're noisy, even if they're on mute." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zealousemperor 2010-01-18 01:34 am UTC (link)
	"Why isn't it like that, though? Were your parents in an omiai or something?" Kanaye doubted this, given her father was disowned. "...He's deaf. Does he just hate sound or something?" He shook his head. "That's stupid." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	giantfruitbyday 2010-01-18 01:39 am UTC (link)
	"...not formally or anything, no." Maeko said, shaking her head. "He says it...'looks loud?' or something. I wasn't even allowed to listen to music through headphones until a few years ago." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zealousemperor 2010-01-18 01:43 am UTC (link)
	"...Then why...?" Kanaye really couldn't get it. Obviously, neither family was rich or powerful. "Are both of your parents hot or something?" It's the only thing he could think of. "...That makes no sense." He shook his head. "It's one thing to be deaf, it's another to force that on your family..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

giantfruitbyday
2010-01-18 02:08 am UTC (link)

"-What?" Maeko started giggling after the inital shock, then shook her head and calmed down. "My mother was his employee, he hired her to transate for him. Then her father died and she couldn't pay rent with just her wages and she had nowhere else to go so he let her stay. Then when my father's family contacted him and said he'd be invited back if he had a child they..." She shrugged. "It was all just a matter of convenience and owing each other."

"I don't mind that much. I'm allowed to watch TV on my laptop now if I need to. I don't really have much time to waste on things like that, anyway."

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	zealousemperor 2010-01-18 02:12 am UTC (link)
	"...Ah." He shuddered. "That would be rather creepy, honestly, being attached to someone you barely know because of familial relations and money issues." "Well, everyone needs to have fun somehow, Maeko-chan!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

giantfruitbyday
2010-01-18 02:34 am UTC (link)

"It's not really creepy. But they just don't get along so well." She shrugged again. "There's a lot of arranged marriages amoungst the parents of the students at Nanakamado. This situation's nowhere near the worst."

"Work's...kind of fun." Maeko realized how stupid that sounded too late to change the sentence. So decided she would stick with it and just say she was right of challenged.

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zealousemperor
2010-01-18 02:37 am UTC (link)

"I guess so..." He shrugged. "I always hated arranged marriages. I mean, I guess it's because I'm not used to them, but it seriously seems stupid, especially like Kiriko's situation, where the person doesn't want it."

"...Right..." He sighed. "I really need to take you out more, to enjoy yourself. I doubt you'd enjoy partying, sadly, but maybe we can go eat or something? With some other friends, of course!"

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	giantfruitbyday 2010-01-18 02:51 am UTC (link)
	"They seem pretty normal to me. I'm lucky that my father probably wouldn't insist on something like that but if he would I don't think I'd complain too much." Maeko still had it in her head that Kiriko had objected to that one guy specifically. "That sounds nice. You're friends with Seiko-chan, right?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zealousemperor 2010-01-18 02:55 am UTC (link)
	"Well...It's probably just a cultural thing. My mansion was more like a western country, and omiai and stuff aren't as common over there. I'm not even sure if it's legal..." He sighed. "I don't think it's a good thing. It's limiting too much personal freedom." "Oh, yeah! Seiko-chan and I go way back. She used to be in my class, but..." he shrugged. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	giantfruitbyday 2010-01-18 03:06 am UTC (link)
	"Maybe." Maeko paused to think. "It's really just doing what's expected of you. It's not like most people find relationship's they're happy with if left to thier own devices anyway." "She's in mine now. We're kind of friends, we could invite her. Or Kondo-san." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zealousemperor 2010-01-18 03:10 am UTC (link)
	"...I was happy with you..." Kanaye said quietly. "I doubt it. Lots of people are happy with relationships they find on their own devices." "That'll be great! And Kozue-chan, too! I might invite Toru-kun, but I doubt he'll want to come with us. Maybe we could...I don't know, go to a park or something? Play...something?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

giantfruitbyday
2010-01-18 03:19 am UTC (link)

It was quiet and so Maeko was easily able to convince herself that she'd misheard or she was making it up. (Why on earth she would be making up something like that was another question entirely and one which she was more than happy not to acknowledge.)

"And lots of people aren't." She said, shrugging. "Arranged marriages at least can't dissolve over time, they have to stay together because money or family honour is involved."

"That sounds nice!" Maeko said, not at all helpful.

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zealousemperor
2010-01-18 03:22 am UTC (link)

"But if neither of the people involved are in love with each other, wouldn't it be best for it to dissolve? Which would be worse on a family's honor: a marriage breaking up, or someone cheating? Cause that's what's gonna happen."

"That'll work! I'll ask Kozue-chan about it when she comes back." That's a convenient subject to bring up. "How do you think she's doing, by the way?"

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giantfruitbyday
2010-01-18 03:39 am UTC (link)

"Love and marriage aren't really that strongly connected. that kind of thing only really happens in stupid stories." Ig they hadn't been in a different room it would have been clear that Maeko's sudden glance away was aimed at the copy of Grimm's fairy tales on the badly abused bookshelf "Cheating generally involves being pretty covert about it, anyway. A broken marriage would be far more public."

"Okay!" A brief pause for thought, remembering for worried Kanaye had been, and Maeko's tone changed to one that either sounded reassuring or condecending. "Sh'll be fine, Sen- Kanaye-san." Names were difficult. "She's dealt with all of this before. It's unpleasant but as long as she's staying in contact we don't need to be worried."

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