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Ito Keiichi (伊藤慶一) (keiito) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-02-01 11:34:00

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keiichi, kiriko

WHO: Keiichi, Kiriko
WHAT: Difference of opinion?
WHERE: The Butterfly Room
WHEN: Post-K1 dungeon, pre-beach episode.
WHY: Because Keiichi's head isn't fond of her, and Kiriko's not fond of the rest of him.

The Butterfly Room was one of the few truly quiet places around Nanakamado for Keiichi that wasn't his own too-familiar room. The door to the garden beckoned to him, but he still had difficulty going back into *that* place, nice though it was.

He sat on the couch, surrounded by a wide variety of hugdolls. The hands were off in a corner of the room. As of late, they'd seemed particularly wary of him.'

The arrangement of hands and hugdolls was not lost on him, given where each came from.

Keiichi held his journal in his hands, scribbling away at a new entry. He was trying very hard not to look at all of the torn out pages. Better than anyone else, he knew what was written on them.

The new entry was far less stressful than most. It was essentially planning for Cooking Club. Ways to get more money from the school. Ways to try and make the Club, well, not a joke.

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apathyisboring
2010-02-01 09:00 pm UTC (link)

How could he not know why? It was a mystery to her. If nothing else, you are the master of what goes on in your own head. Her Paradise had been entirely intelligible to her. Could it be he was just too embarassed to share the explanation he had? That would make more sense, really - she'd been embarassed too and hers had frankly not been half as bad (though perhaps it might have been had that elevator made the few pitstops it did upon her entry).

She canted her head. What was she to make of that apology? It didn't really change how he thought of her, did it? It was hard to believe he didn't like her, and even if that was true, something inside of him certainly had it out for her. The guilty look was all that enticed her to speak.

"Shouldn't you have an explanation ready before you try to explain?"

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keiito
2010-02-02 02:57 pm UTC (link)

"It's...well, most of the reasons you and I haven't been the warmest with each other are reasonably obvious, I'd say," Keiichi replied. "You're...a lot more pragmatic than I am. Cooler. Calmer. I've...got more of my father in me than I'd like to admit."

It was probably the first time he'd been willing to admit it. Which, considering how Keiichi WAS, tended to be somewhat impressive prior denial on his part.

"I'm not quite comfortable with how my head treated you, to be absolutely honest," he continued. "Some of it was probably just residual jealousy -- I don't think it's a secret I wanted to be team leader. But the rest..."

Keiichi sighed. "I'd like to think that you and I have both at least gotten along with each other," he said. "We might not ever be great friends or anything like that, but we at least get along better than Akuba-san and I, for example. That's why it bothers me, really. It's not like you've done anything to me to make me dislike you. At the end of the day, I guess it's just...professional disagreements? That's not exactly what I'm going for, but it's close."

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apathyisboring
2010-02-02 05:41 pm UTC (link)

She'd gathered that from his shadow, really, but now she was beginning to wonder if that meant his father was a lot more like him than he'd care to admit. She couldn't really picture Ito-sensei in cooking club, but maybe the megalomaniacal streak ran in the family.

She listened while he spoke, waited to see if there was anymore, then nodded - a little sharply, a little curtly, though with no intention to be rude. The conversation was irritating her for different reasons than she had anticipated. She'd been expecting a Ito Blow-Up(TM) - some speech on how much of a horrible, irresponsible leader she was, how little she had ever deserved to be put at the helm, and how while his shadow was over the top, he was planning to stick to his guns on that point. On some level, she'd have preferred it. She was braced for it. And it gave her a good opportunity to shout back.

This just left her cold.

"So why did you need to tell me all of this? You'd prefer we didn't speak to one another?"

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keiito
2010-02-02 11:48 pm UTC (link)

"No, that's not it. I told you all of this because, well, I owed you some sort of explanation. Considering we *have* been cordial at least with each other, the whole head thing probably came as sort of a surprise."

Sort of, probably, but not totally.

"Do I think you were the best choice for leader? No. Was I slightly irritated when I saw your reaction to what happened with you and Kanaye in Paradise? Absolutely, I was. But beyond that... at this point, I think the arrangement we have is probably best -- any possible claim I could have had is pretty much justifiably dead. I wanted it for the wrong reasons."

He nodded. "I think that's more or less it. I'd like for us to continue being able to go on as we have: working towards figuring out just what's happening."

Quietly, he bowed. "I apologize again for what you had to go through."

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