InsaneJournal

The sun was out again in full glory today, a shining golden coin in the sky that winked in between fat, lumpy clouds.

Reizo cast an eye up at the sky, at the ponderous white clouds, and frowned to himself. Rain would be a double-edged sword today. It could make her call the entire thing off or it’d make her huddle closer to him under the umbrella in fear of the wet, and wouldn’t that make the nice picture? The weather service said that the rain wouldn’t hit until late in the evening, so hopefully he wouldn’t have to deal with trying to coax her to stay if it did show up early. His wallet was already going to take a beating, but it should hold out ..

He muttered to himself when the mental image of his huge water cooler full of money surfaced, half-empty and looking gutted. Reizo wasn’t a scrooge by any stretch of the imagination, at least not when it came to his bike or his boys, but he’d never dropped a serious stretch of cash on an operation like this, let alone a girl. Oubai had better appreciate all the money he was spending on him. That camera had cost a good chunk of money, and now he was taking his girl out for whatever she wanted!

He grunted, lifted a thick wrist to check his watch for the time, and went back to looking as thoroughly un-dour as he possibly could as he shifted weight from one foot to the other. Trains kept arriving, and passengers kept spilling out in eager rushes to get out of their crushed quarters, but still no Kozue. Not that he’d seen.. And knowing Kondo, she’d definitely be noticeable. Maybe not as noticeable as a 6’4” slab of muscle with a shock of white hair with an angry red stripe of a scar twisting one corner of his mouth up into a constant smirk, but pretty damned noticeable.