See you all in a week or two...

[cigs_n_sarcasm]

I'll be leaving late tomorrow night to visit my brother.  I should be back in a week or two.  If anybody needs me for anything, let me know today or tomorrow, 'cause we don't have a computer back at Kazuma's apartment.  (I don't have one here either, but at least I have access to one

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[miroku_okinawa]

Give my regards to your brother (or sympathies, depending on how badly you may end up beating him during your visit).

Dinner or something sounds great. Depending on the nature of the "or something," maybe I should pick up some protective gear....

[cigs_n_sarcasm]

He won't need your sympathies, I swear.

And I think you'll be able to get by without a helmet or anything of the sort, provided you keep your hands to yourself unless given permission to do otherwise.

[miroku_okinawa]

I'll have to take your word on that, I suppose.

Yes. Because that's the protective gear I was referring to. Because I would never do anything at all without permission.

I jest, of course. For the most part. :)

[cigs_n_sarcasm]

I was refusing to acknowledge any other potential meanings of your statement.

And I never said you were the type of guy to try anything without permission. You'll say all kinds of things without permission, which is what makes you so entertaining, but you're too considerate to actually do anything unless you know it's welcome. Which is good, or you really would need a helmet for a date with me.

[miroku_okinawa]

I figured as much. ;)

You seem to know me rather well considering we've only had one meeting out in the "real world." I'd normally warn girls about being so trusting of guys they meet on the Internet... but then, that'd put me in a rather uncompromising position. I don't much like uncompromising positions.

I foresee myself wearing a lot of Kevlar on our first date.

[cigs_n_sarcasm]

Well, you're a pretty open person. It's not like it's that hard to get to know you. And I'm not the kind of girl who needs those warnings. I can take care of myself.

...Do I need to promise not to hurt you to get you to dress normally? Unless you're planning on taking me out for something well outside the realm of semi-normal dating, I'd prefer you left off the protective padding.

[miroku_okinawa]

I am pretty open, actually. Too much so for my own good, sometimes. But that might lead us into a serious discussion, and I'm just not that kind of guy.

Kevlar's not normal? And here I thought the leather and chains might freak you out a bit.

[cigs_n_sarcasm]

I don't mind serious discussions, but we should probably get through a first date before starting one...I've already discussed some serious things, but I'm just blunt like that.

I don't really care about clothes, but Kevlar's a bit extreme. It makes it look like you're scared of me. Usually I don't mind people being scared of me, but I don't date anyone who visibly shows it. It's not like I've made any serious threats toward you, and I probably won't in the future unless you do something really drastic.

[miroku_okinawa]

Serious discussions tend to lead to serious relationships. Which, granted, can be nice, but once they end, things can come back to haunt you.

I'm not scared of you. In fact, you're probably one of the few women I'm not at all scared of. Promising to hurt me if I do anything forward is definitely better than pretending to be a sweet, innocent person who suddenly beats me with a stick just because I put an arm around your waist (yes, that's happened to me before... and I still pursued that relationship, so I guess you can say that I don't discourage easily).

[cigs_n_sarcasm]

Yeah...

That's...unique... By the way, I didn't promise to hurt you if you did anything forward, I said I'd hurt you if you did anything forward without permission. Which, if I'm in a good enough mood, you may even get.

And I think you'd survive putting an arm around my waist unscathed, provided you don't make me mad directly beforehand. I like you well enough not to hurt you for that, or I wouldn't agree to go out in the first place. (You went out with a girl who hit you for putting an arm around her? Did you make an off-color comment before/as you did it, or was she just crazy? It's not possible to have a relationship like that, is it?)

[miroku_okinawa]

For a moment, I thought you were saying that you made no promises not to hurt me. I've finally got enough of a handle on what you've said to know that it should be my aim to get you in a very, very, very good mood.

(She had some intimacy issues and never really relayed how deeply they ran. I was actually kind of entertained by the different reactions she had, depending on where I tried to touch her or what I managed to say. And notice I never said that we actually went out with one another... I just pursued. Did a lot and a lot of pursuing. Never quite caught up. Which might just have been better for my skull, in the long run. My tastes in women tend to give an all-new meaning to the phrase "love hurts.")

[cigs_n_sarcasm]

You up to the challenge?

So are you a masochist? You tend to keep hinting in that direction, but then you seem to contradict yourself. I'm just curious, since you keep bringing it up. And what exactly does that say about your view of me, if your tastes in women tend to be so painful for you? I'm violent on occasion, but I'm not sadistic, not toward people I actually know anyways.

[miroku_okinawa]

I love a good challenge. Keeps things interesting. ;)

I don't necessarily enjoy pain so much as I'm just a firm believer in the idea that the more one suffers now, the better the rewards later on down the line. So I tend to joke about it, proclaiming that I'm a masochist. Whether or not I might enjoy pain for the kinky aspects of it, I'm afraid I don't know from experience. If you'd like to... actually, never mind. That could be dangerous. The girls I go for tend to be more assertive than they are sadistic, so I suppose I would take that as a good sign. I'm fairly certain that you won't kill me (at least, not on the first date), and if you did, there'd be a fair reason for it.

[cigs_n_sarcasm]

Well, we'll see if this turns out to be one. I'm back. When's good for you? I'm probably going to be busy during the week, but next weekend might work. I get off work at 5 if you want to go out to dinner. (I can rearrange my work schedule if you can't do the weekend. My weeknight boss is fairly easygoing...I'm never sure whether it's because he's a nice guy or because I'm twice as strong as he is.)

Karma-based semi-masochism? ...That's a new one.

[miroku_okinawa]

Welcome back. As far as I can tell, my weekend's all yours. Not that I'm presuming that you'll want me for the entire weekend, but I'm a hopeful kind of guy. Where do you work? I can swing by and pick you up. And if there's any particular place you'd like to go, let me know. Most of the places I like to frequent tend to be a bit of a ways away.

I never quite thought of Karma as having much to do with a relationship, but it would answer some questions about my past... though it'd also raise some entirely new ones.

[cigs_n_sarcasm]

Your weekend may be all mine, but I work most of the day Saturday and on Sunday morning. If you insist on sticking around the whole time, you can play video games with Yachiru. I'm available Saturday from 5 onward, and Sunday any time after noon. I work at the hairdresser's 2 blocks from the library. And I don't really have anything in mind. I'm open to suggestions, though I recommend you not make any that are too perverted.

I don't really believe in karma, but then again, I've never believed in much other than my fists, my mom, and my brother. My belief system is based on people rather than theology or ideals.