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Characters: Sugata Shindou (

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itaidakimasu)
Location: some restaurant.
Rating: very g!
Time: backdated to June 7th, evening.
Description: Takuto suggested that they go out on a dinner date. lord help his wallet.

Sugata wasn't exactly sure what to make of this.... supposed dinner date. He knew he should have asked Takuto (or Yako, for that matter) when the other didn't have alcohol influencing his thoughts, but he never really had the time to. So, here he is waiting outside of Yako's apartment door. Because that's what gentlemen do, they go pick up their ladies! Though, he can't really make any quick wardrobe adjustments. So he's hoping the outfit he has on matches a little with what she's wearing (which so happens to be a nice blue and white stripped button up that looks a lot like this and a nice pair of black jeans.) Not that he had much of a wardrobe to begin with seeing as most of it was borrowed from Takuto's closet. He at least managed to buy a few shirts of his own though!

He did, however, take the time to make a quick stop and get a cold bottle of water for Sasha. He... probably should have mentioned that, but oh well. Knocking at the door now, to announce his arrival!

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"Ah, that sounds nice." Her voice turns wistful. "Homework and my job back home always ate up my time—" That is, the scant few free moments she wasn't eating. "—so I never had the time to join a club or anything. I know he was at your school for a under a year, but how long have you been acting?"

He nods at her once more. "Mmm, it is. Especially if you have a lot going on. It's nice to be able to fall back on to something and have it take your mind off the matter completely." he pauses once more as he looks up wistfully. "I've had an interest in it ever since I was little. But I joined the acting club in middle school."

He glances over at Yako. "Takuto mentioned something when I first got here about you being a detective. What kinds of things did you solve?"

"Murders." She rubs the back of her neck. "Mostly...the ones that went unsolved because there was some sort of complex twist to them. My partner liked those best." For multiple reasons. "I started when I was sixteen, after my father was killed." It's easier to say now, but she still feels awkward. She tries not to talk shop when out on da—social gatherings with friends.

"I work at the Agency here now, though, and I'm taking on a lot of different cases!" She bounces a little. "A lot of them are radically less...well, less dramatic compared to what I'm used to. It's a nice change of pace."

He frowns slightly as he looks down at Yako. "Ah, my condolences...." Even if he wasn't particularly close to his parents anymore, they still meant a lot to him. In that weird family way.

"But I bet that's interesting nonetheless. Do you have a leg up on the other people in the Agency?"

"Oh no, not at all." Yako shakes her head. "Most of us are professionals who have been doing this sort of thing for years. It's fun though. Before, I was a private investigator, and my partner has been...away, for the past year or so. It's nice, getting to work with lots of different people at the same time for once."

"The important thing is having fun though." If you can't have fun at your job then you either have a problem with the workspace, or just.... need to move on to something else.

"I can kind of relate to that with acting. It's refreshing when rolls are divvied out equally amongst the five of us." he pauses. "Well I guess technically the club has raised to seven members if I count Takuto and Mizuno."

"True," she agrees. There's no need to ruin the mood by letting it slip that she was basically forced and threatened into her job back home at first, and that every day brought with it a new and terrifying amount of abuse courtesy of her 'partner'. They'll be eating soon, after all.

"Mizuno-chan seems like a real sweetheart," Yako remarks. The alcohol and large amount of food at the party had distracted her from the poor younger girl's reaction to finding out she was Takuto's girlfriend.

"She's very kind and thoughtful when it comes to others." he pauses as he rubs his neck with his free hand. Animals more so than humans, though. But understandably so when the kids at school would call her a witch. "I'm surprised she's doing so well for being away from her twin sister, Marino though. They were practically attached at the hip back on the island." Though.... for all he knows she could just be putting on a brave face.

"Oh." She winces. "I can't say I understand how that must feel, since I'm an only child. But I can't imagine it's easy, by any means. I hope she can make lots of friends here." She falls silent as the restaurant's sign came into view.She wonders if it would be too forward to invite Mizuno out for cake or something.

"I can kind of relate." He looks down sadly. It definitely wasn't a very good feeling either. If he felt lonely being away from Wako, then he didn't even want to know how Mizuno felt about being away from Marino. "But she's pretty strong, so I know she'll be able to make it through this."

"Strength and durability can sometimes only look good from the outside," Yako says, and there's something in her voice, something quiet and solemn and understanding that, for just one moment, makes her seem infinitely older than her eighteen years. It passes soon after though, leaving as she begins tugging him towards the noodle shop eagerly. "We're here!"

Edited (my phone' autocorrect dislikes that restaurant's name) 2013-06-25 21:53 (UTC)

He glances up slowly and stares at her before nodding his head. She did have a point there. As sad as it sounded. He seems to shake out of his stupor though when she announces that they've arrived. He speeds up quickly and opens the door for Yako.

"After you."

Yako blinks at that, then offers him a bright smile. "Thanks!" It's only a small gesture, really, and it isn't like Takuto and some of her male friends here don't do the same thing when she goes somewhere with them, but it's still a nice touch from somebody she is still getting to know, like Sugata.

They are able to be seated fairly quickly, leaving yako to pour over the menu with stars in her eyes.

It doesn't take Sugata long to know what he's getting. After all, he did say he wanted some soba! So he closes his menu after a few moments of looking at it. Thankfully his outings with Wako has taught him to somewhat prepare for his dinner date with Yako. He brought everything he had saved up.

"What are you planning on starting off with?"

"Hmm..." Yako taps the table thoughtfully. "To start? Maybe a bowl of miso or two, some pork, some chicken, some beef....for the ramen, and after you mentioned it, I'm really in the mood for udon! Some Katsudon would be nice too, and then there's..." She keeps going in that same vein, chattering merrily as she makes short work of the dishes available.

She has matured a little from the time she was sixteen, however, and dating has helped solidify her resolve to pay for her own food, somewhat.

He smiles warmly at her. "That sounds like an excellent start." He definitely knows he's going to make this place some nice money tonight. Though if this keeps up he's... probably going to have to either go on more missions, or find a job here. Why can't he just be loaded here like he is back home? That would surely solve all his problems. But alas, this isn't his tiny island back home. And you have to start somewhere, right?? Also he's not entirely sure why he's preparing for a second dinner date. This isn't... they aren't dating. And it'd be really weird....

He takes his mind off of that part when the waiter comes over and gives him his order.

It's surprisingly refreshing, not getting a shocked or disbelieving reaction for once, even if the waiter balks slightly before taking down her order. Even Takuto, on their first official date, had been taken aback at first. Not that this is a date, of course, because even if there may have been a certain kiss of some length and intensity a few days ago, he happens to be her boyfriend's best friend. There's nothing untoward about going out to eat together, and besides, she fully plans on paying for herself.

She just doesn't realize that he doesn't plan on letting her do that yet.

If there's one person here in this place that won't give Yako a shocked reaction, it would be Sugata. He did, after all, grow up with a glutton back home. So he's definitely used to this sort of thing!

"So what other things do you do here when you're not working or going on missions." He would include eating, but he hopes that would be obvious.

Familiarity with gluttony included, Yako knows that she sometimes takes it to extremes—the word 'monster' has been bandied about before, and a rural village had since given her offerings in fear of being eaten, which had been...a little embarrassing. Not that she hadn't eaten what was given to her, of course.

"Cooking," she ticks off in her fingers. "For me, my friends, and some of my coworkers, sometimes. I usually bake something to take to the Agency as a snack for the day for all of us. I play with my dog, Kerberos—and Sai used a bunny as a hostage/house-warming gift combo earlier today, so I'll probably be playing with him too, soon enough. Feliks, I mean. The rabbit, not Sai."

"Have you ever thought of opening a shop or cooking in a bakery?" Though he could understand if she didn't want to, what with the temptation of being around sweets all day. But, she did make a great cake. And the snacks she brought over to Bakura's party were really good too.

His eyes widened slightly as he set his cup of water down. "He did what? Why?"

"I...can't be trusted around food I'm intended to sell," she admitted sheepishly. "A bakery or anything like that would be a huge failure. Besides, I'm really happy working at the Agency! Solving cases can be pretty fun, when it isn't a matter of life or death." Those sorts of cases had never caught Neuro's interest before, so it wasn't until Death City that Yako had the opportunity to try them.

She grimaces. "Probably because threatening to rip it apart was the only way he knew we'd let him through the door. I had hoped it might take longer for him to find out where I'd moved..." She was under the assumption that Takuto had filled Sugata in about the Sai situation.

"I understand," he pauses. He can see why she wouldn't want to be out there in a store full of baked goods. "But still, I'm sure you would have had an amazing business. You are a talented baker. I've really enjoyed everything you've made for me and the others so far." And that was definitely the truth! He has enjoyed everything he's been able to taste so far!

"Ah, I.... see. Is he going to be too much of a bother to you though? Now that he knows your new address." She's sadly wrong in that assumption. The only thing Takuto ever told him about Sai was that he should stay away from him. Everything he's found about the boy has been on his own though. But of course he doesn't really know too much about his relationship with Yako.

She would love to be out there in a store full of baked goods, actually, which is the whole problem. But his words earn him a bright smile all the same. "I'll have to make you something else soon," she says enthusiastically. She had made bento boxes before, and those seemed to go over well. Cooking for people who appreciated it is almost as good as eating it herself in Yako's book.

"I'd say he lives to be a bother to me here in Death City but that sounds arrogant. He's...he could be worse, compared to what he has done in our world. Comparatively what he does here is only mischievous instead of malicious. I'm sure he'll find some new way to mess with me soon enough. Takuto and I have talked about this, and we've agreed that I should try to ignore him as much as I can."

He shoots her a warm smile as he nods her head. "I look forward to that, Yako."

As she goes on to explain her situation with Sai, he crosses his arms and remains silent. Once she's done he gives a small sigh. "I wouldn't ignore him for too long. He might try different ways to catch your attention." And that could be potentially bad...

"See, that's the way I've been thinking!" She shoots him a small smile, visibly relieved at being on the same page as somebody else for once. "Sai is like a cat mixed with a little kid when it comes to attention. He's...contrary and egotistic, selfish and unpredictable. But everybody I talk to keeps telling me that I'm just enabling him, and that I need to stop."

She blows out her cheeks, frustrated. "What's worse is that he knows exactly how I think, feel, and function. So he knows, even if I'm taking the highroad and ignoring him, that I'm worrying about what he's doing when I'm not keeping track of him."

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