Misono had been thinking of Yesung's reaction to her infant-squid ceviche and how he'd called it slime later. Some people were just babies about food. Misono liked eating in general because she could still remember the novelty of doing so. But she also knew Court and food and would have agreed with Nino about how sometimes Court got it all wrong.
Not like Kazunari. "Doesn't have to be a reason," she said softly, adding the chocolate to the milk as it began to foam. She had to take her hand away from Nino to do so, needing to hold the pot as she stirred vigorously. "Sometimes they're just the ones you love best even if they're not the best person. Yesung is sometimes a big brat and sometimes he's just not very thoughtful but he's been my best family in a long time." She smiled as she stirred. "Sometimes they're the best because they are who they are."
Which was why her impatience was part of her charm, perhaps. She was who she was and it was good enough. "Ahh, so you just know them when you know them. Definitely different from me," she said as she listened to him talk. "I don't have to love them at first, I just have to get them to take me in. Then I love them. Sometimes I'm ridiculous about it at first and then I go back to being normal and getting irked when they leave socks all over the house." She'd keep an eye out for anybody she thought might be special enough for her Kazunari. Though aside from Yesung, Meisa would have been her choice for him. Maybe he needed a full human? But there was no rush, there was time to look.
"It's mostly a kind of cream color," she said, moving on to the scarf as she turned the heat off. "Mugs, please!" They were on the counter behind her but she wanted him to feel involved in what was going on. "But it's also got stripes on the ends. Green and orange and brown. Not bright colors! Neutral ones that look nice together." She'd been tempted to make him a rainbow one but she didn't want it to attract a lot of attention. "And it's super, super wide. You could fold it in half the long way and it'd still be a wide scarf. With tassels at the end, I think." She dimpled at him. "I wanted it to be warm even if you don't really feel the cold. Just in case! And the honey bear is also behind you. I got honey in a bear-shaped jar. I like bears."
The chocolate started melting into the milk, swirling out and away from the spoon as Misono stirred. Soon enough the whole pot was turning different shades of brown, getting deeper and deeper. It smelled good.
"It's irrational," he said absently. "Loving humans. I can't think why I do, you know. It doesn't matter what they did, or how people look at their memory later, or now. I still love them all."
He pushed away from the counter and picked up the mugs, holding them out for Misono to pour into. The scarf sounded nice and it would probably be warm because that was the point of scarves. Though why it needed to be super wide Nino wasn't sure. It sounded nice. He wondered if it would shrink with him or if he'd have to stay at this size to wear it.
Nino reached out and poked Misono's dimple lightly. "I'll look forward to it." He frowned lightly. "I don't know what to get for you, though. Because there's a holiday coming up, isn't there? Aside from Christmas. The one where they eat turkey."
He looked over his shoulder and Pushed the honey bear towards them. When it was close enough Nino actually picked it up. He studied the bear. "Bears are nice. I like wolves better. Canines. Canines and cats."
Misono had never really considered before the idea of loving humans. She just did. "I guess it's pretty strange, loving people. They do stuff we don't understand and have rules that don't make sense and they leave us behind. They always leave us behind. But..." She smiled as she poured, the scent of chocolate and spice wafting up with the steam. "But I guess it's like the way the cherry blossoms bloom and fall, or the fireflies coming and going. Like a sunset, they're beautiful because we can't hang on to them." She made a face looking up at Kazunari. "That's kind of poetic! I'm not a very poetic person so it's not very good but if we love who we love, that's enough to go on with, right?"
And thinking of enough...she tried to eye the honey as she squeezed a bit into each much. Not TOO sweet, she hoped. It smelled okay. "I only know two wolves. One is Yesung's and it eats up our apartment all the time and the other one is Wolf-san who walked me home one night. And jumped on me. I liked him okay. And you know, I met a kitsune at the zoo. They're all right, foxes. I love cats, though. I've got one. You could have a cat! Only you can't because you live at the Cloisters."
She looked up at him and smiled as she set the remaining hot chocolate down and turned a very, very low flame on under it. "Sorry. I didn't mean to say that if it made you feel bad. And that reminds me! You don't have to get me things. I'm making you the scarf" and a hat, eventually "because I want to give something to you for being you, for being here. You're the first person I've ever had who can stay with me for a hundred years and then some." Her and-then-some friend, her darling Kazunari. "So for Christmas and for Thanksgiving, it's enough for me to know you're here and that you're warm and safe and happy."
Well. Maybe she could wheedle a bit. "But if you want to come over for those days, and have turkey for Thanksgiving or Christmas ham or goose or something, that's good too. You're always invited, any time, any day, all the time." Yesung would have to deal with that but that was okay. Yesung needed to meet more people anyhow. She raised her mug and clinked it against his. "Let's taste this stuff!"
Humans always left behind those who loved them. But humans could join their lost humans. Nino didn't have that option. Not that he knew of. When he became too old for this world, he'd return to his own home. Fay weren't made to die.
Nino wrapped his hands around his mug, allowing himself to feel the heat. It wasn't much, but it was nice. It made him feel fuzzy even without Misono's magic. If there was more warmth like this to be felt he'd have to keep himself open to it. "I like that. The idea of humans as cherry blossoms and fireflies," he said, smiling. "Maybe you should write that down. Good wisdom in that."
A kitsune in a zoo didn't sound very good at all, though. Nino cocked his head, brow furrowing. "A kitsune? In a cage? Which zoo? Is it being kept against its will? I never really knew foxes. They're kind of like cats - or maybe cats are like foxes? They just wouldn't come to you because you asked. The wolves were nicer... when they wanted to be."
Wolves had also been vicious, in protecting their territories or their young. Nino had never had any trouble with them, but he was fay. Fay seemed to get passes with animals. "I'd like a cat, I think. But not at the Cloisters. They'd never feed it right."
He clinked their mugs and put his to his lips. For a moment he just breathed, inhaling the scent of the chocolate. Then he tipped it slowly into his mouth. The chocolate's sweetness hit his tongue first. Honey next. Then the tang. It wasn't terrible. Strange, but not terrible.
Misono felt a puff of a laugh escape, like dandelion fluff. "Kazunari is a god person," she said. "I won't write it down; I'll remember because normally nobody says I say wise things."
Point in case: "Ah! No, no, he's not in a cage!" She hastened to reassure. "His name is Masaki and he works there! He feeds the animals and he let me help! He's not a nine-tail, he's still kind of young, and he walks around looking like a person only sometimes he still has a tail by accident." She tipped her head, thinking about tails before shaking it off. "He's really friend and nice. We decided we're a little bit of kindred spirits, me and him. A different way from me and you." She and Kazunari were Fate, they were joined.
She sipped her hot chocolate and sorted through the tastes. "It's not bad!" she agreed. "Next time maybe I'll use cocoa powder with honey so there's a bit more bitter to it." She generally preferred chocolate but the honey needed something more. She made sure she slurped her next sip. "Sometimes I wonder what all I can put in a cup and make work." She liked to experiment.
Experiment. Wondering. "Sometimes I think I should have a cat here in the shop, a shop cat! One to help greet customers and be pleasant to have 'round. Only I can't because Yesung and Kitty von Catcat wouldn't like me bringing a stranger home every night. There's territory issues. And Kitty von Catcat does NOT like it here." Silly cat! She smiled at Kazunari over the rim of her cup, trying to be as cute and sweet as she could be. "If you lived in the shop, you could have a cat here~~~" she hinted. And then he would be RIGHT THERE. It wouldn't be the Cloisters and there were people everywhere but maybe he needed to meet more people. Kind of like Yesung. She turned up the wattage on her smile.
Nino pursed his lips slightly, nodding around his mouthful of hot chocolate as he took in Misono's words. A kitsune, huh? Young and walking around with a tail, working in a zoo. That sounded funny - a fox working at a zoo. But it was better than a fox being in the zoo. Maybe Nino could go if it was early enough, because zookeepers had to open early to feed and take care of the animals before the humans got there and he'd never met a kitsune before.
"I think bitter and honey would be better," he said, considering the dark liquid in his mug, "I like honey in tea. Dark tea. That gets pretty bitter sometimes."
He took another careful sip. He wasn't sure he could drink all of it. Sweet things just didn't taste good on his tongue after a while. But he'd try. Nino leaned on the counter and looked at Misono. His eyes narrowed at her unbearably cute face. "A shop cat, huh?"
Would it be so bad? Checking in on a cat at night? Or early in the morning? ... Or even staying the night, when it would just be him and the cat? He wouldn't have to leave the building. Nobody would even need to know he was there.
Misono's smile was kind of blinding.
"I know what you're doing... So do I get to find the cat?" he asked.
Honey in tea. Misono wrinkled her nose. "I like lemon. But then, I like green tea to be bitter." She shook her head. "Next time you can make tea and I'll drink it, just like I made the hot chocolate and you're drinking it." Because there WOULD be a next time, oh yes.
She dimpled, turning up her beaming smile to blinding. "I don't care if you know what I'm doing if it's working~~~" she trilled. "And you can pick the cat. Or anything! If you said 'Misono-chan, I think we should have a teacup pig' that would be all right, too! Even if you said 'Misono-ne-ne, I want to have a very large and grumpy snake as a shop-pet' this would also be okay!" She just liked the idea of Kazunari in one of her favorite places and she loved the idea of sharing a shop-pet with him. Still. She suspected that change wasn't the easiest for her friend. "And if you didn't want to stay here with him or her or it, you wouldn't have to. The Cloisters is a nice place! So you don't have to live here at all if you don't want! Just visiting on Sundays or before bedtime or in the morning before opening, maybe, would be enough."
Taking a gulp of hot chocolate--the faster to drink it and have regular hot chocolate--Misono leaned against Kazunari the way that Kitty von Catcat often did her. "I like the idea of you being around people more, but mostly around ME more; I like that part the best."
"Lemon is okay, but only in some," Nino said. "The British made that one up. I won't out it in many teas. Tastes funny. Like green tea tastes funny when anybody puts anything in it. I don't know why you'd do that to it." Humans had funny ideas about tea sometmes. Like they had funny ideas about a lot of things.
"If anything is okay then I want a wolf," he added, keeping his face straight. "A full sized one, a real one. I want to be able to ride on his shoulders." He'd done that once, before humans had forgotten to be afraid of wolves.
Nino let Misono lean, and rested his head briefly on hers. "I'll come more, if there's a cat. If it makes you happy."
"You can't put lemon in green tea unless you've burnt it," Misono agreed. "But I like to put it in black tea, the English black tea, not regular Japanese tea." Somehow she always tasted the difference.
Except the tea wasn't important and neither was the stuff to put in it because Kazunari wanted a wolf. Holy crap. She felt her eyebrows shoot up. She'd said anything. But. "Wolves make a mess--well, maybe not I only know part-time ones but the ones I know either try to eat me or they pounce on me or they bust up the furniture and chew on the couch and I don't want the wolf to eat the customers! But if you want one to ride and keep in the shop then I...I...I think you're teasing me!" she realized. Something about his eyes gave him away. She laughed, snuggling against him.
She drank more hot chocolate, too sweet with honey, and considered what made her happy. "I don't want to make you do things. If it's troubling for you to come for a cat or if it's just troubling to come here, then I don't want that. But I'm pretty pushy so if you don't say anything I will push at you to share a pet with me and be in Come Again and with me. I like being with you. I like being around the people I love the most out of anything I do."
Still. She really wanted more. More pets, more Kazunari, more fun. She gave him the big-eyed look that made Yesung make faces at her. "It's all up to you," she said while her eyes said that she wanted her way to be his 'up to'.
Nino felt his lips twitch when Misono's eyes widened at the scope of his request. He bit down on his tongue to keep from laughing. Misono's expression went from shock to what was probably worry and then to mildly indignant. She'd figured him out. Nino ducked his head and laughed.
It was hard work, keeping a straight face! Nino could be one of those entertainers that humans liked so much! The acting ones!
"I am," he confirmed. "I like wolves but they'd be very unhappy inside like this. Cats are much more suited."
The idea of staying so close to humans all the time was hard to imagine as reality now, but it was something he knew he needed to do. Misono would psuh and that was probably a good thing. And if Misono was here, and Nino didn't have to be seen, then it couldn't be so bad.
Nino had been telling himself that for weeks.
"I don't have anything to move," he said quietly, sipping more of his chocolate. "So I can move in whenever."
Misono giggled. "You're good!" she told him. "I totally thought it was really what you wanted at first!" She giggled again and straightened away. "But you're right, wolves really really don't like to be cooped up! Cats don't mind so very much." Misono had known cats that wanted nothing more than to be OUT but she couldn't imagine that any cat that Kazunari found would be that type. It would be a good cat and only want to go out if Kazunari would take it for a walk.
It was still not something she was going to push-push. "Whenever you're ready you can come to stay. If you want to spend time visiting first, that's fine. Anything is all right! We can decorate up here any way you like! We can get you stuff that you'll have to move later! You can find the shop-pet first!" She was excited! This was exciting! She drained her mug in one long, breathless drink, slammed it down, and threw her arms around her dearest friend in the world. "This is going to be FUN!"
A wolf would be nice. Nino probably wouldn't give up on having one. But you couldn't do it in New York. Maybe out in the west, where there were still open areas...
A cat for now. Nino was trying to open himself to humans again, not run farther away from them. He'd never get better if he went off and became some wild wolf-fay.
He registered the sound of a slamming mug, and should have known what that meant, but the armful of Misono was still a surprise. The wind knocked out of him, but luckily he didn't need much of it, and drops of chocolate sloshed over the mug. "Ooof- oops. Sorry," he muttered into Misono's hair. He didn't let go, though.
Misono laughed at his apology. A few stray drops (or cups or gallons) of hot chocolate wasn't anything she'd not seen before. "I'm not sorry," she beamed, hugging. "I'm excited and I'm happy and I can clean chocolate with my eyes closed!"
Well. She opened her eyes and took a quick look around. Then she shut them again and kept hugging, mopping up the drips with a paper towel no-handed. "Is this too much for you?" she asked. "All at once? All the people outside and now this? Do you want to make plans? Do you want to think it over and make plans in your own head before I start making plans for you? Do you want regular hot chocolate now? And breakfast? Or a snack? If you're going to be here a while, we can make bread! I have stuff here to make lavender herb bread! I saw the recipe on tv and I like bread and I thought it'd make the shop smell nice!"
Right. Misono had told him that she was good at cleaning when they'd first met, and she'd proved it at the Cloisters. Nino hadn't stayed to watch the mops going through the halls before their nap, but he'd heard them sloshing around. Nino pressed his nose to her hair.
"It's a lot," he said slowly. Considering. He shook his head. "Not too much yet. I came down, though, so I have to put up with it. I... I don't know about plans. I think maybe... maybe I'll try to walk around first. I flew today."
He poked her head lightly with his nose. "Bread is good. I can stay for that if you let me help." He liked bread and making it was fun. Nino liked the kneading and the smell as it baked. "Do these ovens work for bread?" The bread ovens he remembered had been so big.
"It's okay," Misono said. She cuddled into him and rubbed hands up and down his arms. "It's all love!" she declared. "Start with walking around and everything else follows!"
And she really should stop hugging him! Otherwise they'd get nothing done! She stepped back and beamed at him. "Bread! Yeah, you can totally help! We can make one together a few smaller loaves! Like I said, it's all love!" She flashed him a peace sign, holding it cutely against her cheek.
But the ovens... She looked at it. "It does work for bread! Not as good as one with bricks and fire but they do all right." She shook her head, planting her hands on her hips. "But it definitely works!" She smiled. "I have aprons! If you want to poke around and find everything, I'll get them!" They'd have to use aprons from downstairs so that they could match but that was certainly all right. "I'll be right back!"
Only Misono could say something like 'it's all love' and not sound completely stupid. Nino smiled fondly and shook his head. He let her leave to find aprons and turned on his heel. The kitchen up here was small and bread was at once complicated but simple. They wouldn't need many ingredients or tools - just a lot of time. It was too bad that they didn't have a proper oven.
It took him a few moments to find everything. Every kitchen had its own system of organization after all. But find everything he did, and he started setting it all out according to memory. He'd made enough bread in his time on earth that he certainly didn't need a recipe.
Not like Kazunari. "Doesn't have to be a reason," she said softly, adding the chocolate to the milk as it began to foam. She had to take her hand away from Nino to do so, needing to hold the pot as she stirred vigorously. "Sometimes they're just the ones you love best even if they're not the best person. Yesung is sometimes a big brat and sometimes he's just not very thoughtful but he's been my best family in a long time." She smiled as she stirred. "Sometimes they're the best because they are who they are."
Which was why her impatience was part of her charm, perhaps. She was who she was and it was good enough. "Ahh, so you just know them when you know them. Definitely different from me," she said as she listened to him talk. "I don't have to love them at first, I just have to get them to take me in. Then I love them. Sometimes I'm ridiculous about it at first and then I go back to being normal and getting irked when they leave socks all over the house." She'd keep an eye out for anybody she thought might be special enough for her Kazunari. Though aside from Yesung, Meisa would have been her choice for him. Maybe he needed a full human? But there was no rush, there was time to look.
"It's mostly a kind of cream color," she said, moving on to the scarf as she turned the heat off. "Mugs, please!" They were on the counter behind her but she wanted him to feel involved in what was going on. "But it's also got stripes on the ends. Green and orange and brown. Not bright colors! Neutral ones that look nice together." She'd been tempted to make him a rainbow one but she didn't want it to attract a lot of attention. "And it's super, super wide. You could fold it in half the long way and it'd still be a wide scarf. With tassels at the end, I think." She dimpled at him. "I wanted it to be warm even if you don't really feel the cold. Just in case! And the honey bear is also behind you. I got honey in a bear-shaped jar. I like bears."
[Ooc: This is the scarf.]
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"It's irrational," he said absently. "Loving humans. I can't think why I do, you know. It doesn't matter what they did, or how people look at their memory later, or now. I still love them all."
He pushed away from the counter and picked up the mugs, holding them out for Misono to pour into. The scarf sounded nice and it would probably be warm because that was the point of scarves. Though why it needed to be super wide Nino wasn't sure. It sounded nice. He wondered if it would shrink with him or if he'd have to stay at this size to wear it.
Nino reached out and poked Misono's dimple lightly. "I'll look forward to it." He frowned lightly. "I don't know what to get for you, though. Because there's a holiday coming up, isn't there? Aside from Christmas. The one where they eat turkey."
He looked over his shoulder and Pushed the honey bear towards them. When it was close enough Nino actually picked it up. He studied the bear. "Bears are nice. I like wolves better. Canines. Canines and cats."
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And thinking of enough...she tried to eye the honey as she squeezed a bit into each much. Not TOO sweet, she hoped. It smelled okay. "I only know two wolves. One is Yesung's and it eats up our apartment all the time and the other one is Wolf-san who walked me home one night. And jumped on me. I liked him okay. And you know, I met a kitsune at the zoo. They're all right, foxes. I love cats, though. I've got one. You could have a cat! Only you can't because you live at the Cloisters."
She looked up at him and smiled as she set the remaining hot chocolate down and turned a very, very low flame on under it. "Sorry. I didn't mean to say that if it made you feel bad. And that reminds me! You don't have to get me things. I'm making you the scarf" and a hat, eventually "because I want to give something to you for being you, for being here. You're the first person I've ever had who can stay with me for a hundred years and then some." Her and-then-some friend, her darling Kazunari. "So for Christmas and for Thanksgiving, it's enough for me to know you're here and that you're warm and safe and happy."
Well. Maybe she could wheedle a bit. "But if you want to come over for those days, and have turkey for Thanksgiving or Christmas ham or goose or something, that's good too. You're always invited, any time, any day, all the time." Yesung would have to deal with that but that was okay. Yesung needed to meet more people anyhow. She raised her mug and clinked it against his. "Let's taste this stuff!"
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Nino wrapped his hands around his mug, allowing himself to feel the heat. It wasn't much, but it was nice. It made him feel fuzzy even without Misono's magic. If there was more warmth like this to be felt he'd have to keep himself open to it. "I like that. The idea of humans as cherry blossoms and fireflies," he said, smiling. "Maybe you should write that down. Good wisdom in that."
A kitsune in a zoo didn't sound very good at all, though. Nino cocked his head, brow furrowing. "A kitsune? In a cage? Which zoo? Is it being kept against its will? I never really knew foxes. They're kind of like cats - or maybe cats are like foxes? They just wouldn't come to you because you asked. The wolves were nicer... when they wanted to be."
Wolves had also been vicious, in protecting their territories or their young. Nino had never had any trouble with them, but he was fay. Fay seemed to get passes with animals. "I'd like a cat, I think. But not at the Cloisters. They'd never feed it right."
He clinked their mugs and put his to his lips. For a moment he just breathed, inhaling the scent of the chocolate. Then he tipped it slowly into his mouth. The chocolate's sweetness hit his tongue first. Honey next. Then the tang. It wasn't terrible. Strange, but not terrible.
"It's pretty good!"
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Point in case: "Ah! No, no, he's not in a cage!" She hastened to reassure. "His name is Masaki and he works there! He feeds the animals and he let me help! He's not a nine-tail, he's still kind of young, and he walks around looking like a person only sometimes he still has a tail by accident." She tipped her head, thinking about tails before shaking it off. "He's really friend and nice. We decided we're a little bit of kindred spirits, me and him. A different way from me and you." She and Kazunari were Fate, they were joined.
She sipped her hot chocolate and sorted through the tastes. "It's not bad!" she agreed. "Next time maybe I'll use cocoa powder with honey so there's a bit more bitter to it." She generally preferred chocolate but the honey needed something more. She made sure she slurped her next sip. "Sometimes I wonder what all I can put in a cup and make work." She liked to experiment.
Experiment. Wondering. "Sometimes I think I should have a cat here in the shop, a shop cat! One to help greet customers and be pleasant to have 'round. Only I can't because Yesung and Kitty von Catcat wouldn't like me bringing a stranger home every night. There's territory issues. And Kitty von Catcat does NOT like it here." Silly cat! She smiled at Kazunari over the rim of her cup, trying to be as cute and sweet as she could be. "If you lived in the shop, you could have a cat here~~~" she hinted. And then he would be RIGHT THERE. It wouldn't be the Cloisters and there were people everywhere but maybe he needed to meet more people. Kind of like Yesung. She turned up the wattage on her smile.
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"I think bitter and honey would be better," he said, considering the dark liquid in his mug, "I like honey in tea. Dark tea. That gets pretty bitter sometimes."
He took another careful sip. He wasn't sure he could drink all of it. Sweet things just didn't taste good on his tongue after a while. But he'd try. Nino leaned on the counter and looked at Misono. His eyes narrowed at her unbearably cute face. "A shop cat, huh?"
Would it be so bad? Checking in on a cat at night? Or early in the morning? ... Or even staying the night, when it would just be him and the cat? He wouldn't have to leave the building. Nobody would even need to know he was there.
Misono's smile was kind of blinding.
"I know what you're doing... So do I get to find the cat?" he asked.
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She dimpled, turning up her beaming smile to blinding. "I don't care if you know what I'm doing if it's working~~~" she trilled. "And you can pick the cat. Or anything! If you said 'Misono-chan, I think we should have a teacup pig' that would be all right, too! Even if you said 'Misono-ne-ne, I want to have a very large and grumpy snake as a shop-pet' this would also be okay!" She just liked the idea of Kazunari in one of her favorite places and she loved the idea of sharing a shop-pet with him. Still. She suspected that change wasn't the easiest for her friend. "And if you didn't want to stay here with him or her or it, you wouldn't have to. The Cloisters is a nice place! So you don't have to live here at all if you don't want! Just visiting on Sundays or before bedtime or in the morning before opening, maybe, would be enough."
Taking a gulp of hot chocolate--the faster to drink it and have regular hot chocolate--Misono leaned against Kazunari the way that Kitty von Catcat often did her. "I like the idea of you being around people more, but mostly around ME more; I like that part the best."
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"If anything is okay then I want a wolf," he added, keeping his face straight. "A full sized one, a real one. I want to be able to ride on his shoulders." He'd done that once, before humans had forgotten to be afraid of wolves.
Nino let Misono lean, and rested his head briefly on hers. "I'll come more, if there's a cat. If it makes you happy."
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Except the tea wasn't important and neither was the stuff to put in it because Kazunari wanted a wolf. Holy crap. She felt her eyebrows shoot up. She'd said anything. But. "Wolves make a mess--well, maybe not I only know part-time ones but the ones I know either try to eat me or they pounce on me or they bust up the furniture and chew on the couch and I don't want the wolf to eat the customers! But if you want one to ride and keep in the shop then I...I...I think you're teasing me!" she realized. Something about his eyes gave him away. She laughed, snuggling against him.
She drank more hot chocolate, too sweet with honey, and considered what made her happy. "I don't want to make you do things. If it's troubling for you to come for a cat or if it's just troubling to come here, then I don't want that. But I'm pretty pushy so if you don't say anything I will push at you to share a pet with me and be in Come Again and with me. I like being with you. I like being around the people I love the most out of anything I do."
Still. She really wanted more. More pets, more Kazunari, more fun. She gave him the big-eyed look that made Yesung make faces at her. "It's all up to you," she said while her eyes said that she wanted her way to be his 'up to'.
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It was hard work, keeping a straight face! Nino could be one of those entertainers that humans liked so much! The acting ones!
"I am," he confirmed. "I like wolves but they'd be very unhappy inside like this. Cats are much more suited."
The idea of staying so close to humans all the time was hard to imagine as reality now, but it was something he knew he needed to do. Misono would psuh and that was probably a good thing. And if Misono was here, and Nino didn't have to be seen, then it couldn't be so bad.
Nino had been telling himself that for weeks.
"I don't have anything to move," he said quietly, sipping more of his chocolate. "So I can move in whenever."
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It was still not something she was going to push-push. "Whenever you're ready you can come to stay. If you want to spend time visiting first, that's fine. Anything is all right! We can decorate up here any way you like! We can get you stuff that you'll have to move later! You can find the shop-pet first!" She was excited! This was exciting! She drained her mug in one long, breathless drink, slammed it down, and threw her arms around her dearest friend in the world. "This is going to be FUN!"
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A cat for now. Nino was trying to open himself to humans again, not run farther away from them. He'd never get better if he went off and became some wild wolf-fay.
He registered the sound of a slamming mug, and should have known what that meant, but the armful of Misono was still a surprise. The wind knocked out of him, but luckily he didn't need much of it, and drops of chocolate sloshed over the mug. "Ooof- oops. Sorry," he muttered into Misono's hair. He didn't let go, though.
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Well. She opened her eyes and took a quick look around. Then she shut them again and kept hugging, mopping up the drips with a paper towel no-handed. "Is this too much for you?" she asked. "All at once? All the people outside and now this? Do you want to make plans? Do you want to think it over and make plans in your own head before I start making plans for you? Do you want regular hot chocolate now? And breakfast? Or a snack? If you're going to be here a while, we can make bread! I have stuff here to make lavender herb bread! I saw the recipe on tv and I like bread and I thought it'd make the shop smell nice!"
She should probably stop hugging him.
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"It's a lot," he said slowly. Considering. He shook his head. "Not too much yet. I came down, though, so I have to put up with it. I... I don't know about plans. I think maybe... maybe I'll try to walk around first. I flew today."
He poked her head lightly with his nose. "Bread is good. I can stay for that if you let me help." He liked bread and making it was fun. Nino liked the kneading and the smell as it baked. "Do these ovens work for bread?" The bread ovens he remembered had been so big.
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And she really should stop hugging him! Otherwise they'd get nothing done! She stepped back and beamed at him. "Bread! Yeah, you can totally help! We can make one together a few smaller loaves! Like I said, it's all love!" She flashed him a peace sign, holding it cutely against her cheek.
But the ovens... She looked at it. "It does work for bread! Not as good as one with bricks and fire but they do all right." She shook her head, planting her hands on her hips. "But it definitely works!" She smiled. "I have aprons! If you want to poke around and find everything, I'll get them!" They'd have to use aprons from downstairs so that they could match but that was certainly all right. "I'll be right back!"
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It took him a few moments to find everything. Every kitchen had its own system of organization after all. But find everything he did, and he started setting it all out according to memory. He'd made enough bread in his time on earth that he certainly didn't need a recipe.
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