Momo tugged on the collar of the light blue sweater she was wearing as she followed her nurse to wherever these buses were, winding her hair up into its customary bun as she went. It was an odd feeling, knowing she was about to go outside of the institute's borders. Maybe the Head Doctor was about to make an error and the shinigami, as well as
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The narrow bus aisle was difficult to manage with crutches, but Ken moved toward the back with his muffin and juice box anyway. He figured he might as well make an attempt at being social, since there was only one other person on the bus.
"Morning," Ken said absently, falling into one of the seats nearby. If the girl didn't want to talk, then he would just wait for someone else to show up.
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The shinigami held the little plastic package containing the straw up in the light and tilted her head at it. Did they expect her to somehow gets the tiny edge of the weak plastic straw through the thick paper that the liquid was contained in? She set the juice box onto the seat next to her where her muffin sat so she could use both hands to extract the straw from it's cellophane confinement.
... and promptly dropped the thing, still in its packaging, onto the floor.
"Oh no!" Momo exclaimed, flustered that she couldn't quite figure the whole juice box thing out. She leaned over and attempted to find where the straw had run off to.
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Ken stabbed his own juice box and held it out. "You can just take mine if you want." He didn't care for the overly-sugared fruit-flavored water these things usually contained.
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"I'm Hidaka Ken. Nice to meet you." Friendly smile in place, Ken settled himself in with his leg stretched out into the aisle, thinking it distinctly awkward to be sitting on a bus when he couldn't bend his knee. But even if his nurse had given him the option, he wasn't going to miss the trip into town. Like Aya had said last night--it was an opportunity. Now that he was free enough of angst to actually think about it, he could appreciate that.
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She took another sip of her drink and then examined her own muffin. It had some kind of berries in it and crunchy things on top. "Mmm, I'm Hinamori Momo. Nice to meet you Hidaka-san," she said as she poked experimentally at the muffin. Odd Western foods. "Do you know what this is?"
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"It's a muffin. Sort of a cross between cake and bread, usually with fruit of some kind in it." Decent, for western food. Just not something Ken would usually eat for breakfast. At least not without eggs and whatnot.
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"Juice fights..." A mischievous twinkle sparkled in her eye as she thought of the look on Hitsugaya's face if she conspired with Rangiku to have one of these juice fights with him in the middle. It would be priceless.
Unfortunately, thinking of Ran right now made her think of Gin. Such thoughts were never pleasant nor happy.
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"Having one of those would lighten the mood around here, at least." Ken drank some of his juice, frowning slightly at the taste of it. It was alright, at least.
When Momo fell silent, Ken looked over--almost worried, but it wasn't really his place to ask.
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She giggled again and eyed what Ken was wearing. "You can tell they put a lot of thought into their choice for each of us," she teased.
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The bus was starting to fill up, so Momo cast a look up the aisle and giggled seeing what the nurses had dressed Hitsugaya in. It was adorable. She would have to tease him about it later. Though who she really was looking for was Captain Jack. She was hoping he wouldn't end up on another bus and was purposefully not sharing her seat with anyone since it was reserved for him. She also hoped, for his sake, he wasn't standing her up again. At least she had pleasant company while she waited.
"Oh, I don't know - I kind of like the smiley faces." She grinned impishly at Ken. "Sometimes people need to be reminded what a smile is."
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Ken also looked around the bus--but he didn't see anyone he knew at all. ...scratch that, there was Farfarello. Oh happy day, stuck in an enclosed space with the crazed assassin. Oh, and there was the kid who'd beaned him with a book yesterday. And Hitsugaya...Ken still felt a twinge of guilt when his eyes passed over that particular head of white hair, even if he hadn't so much as laid a finger on him the other night.
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The shinigami really liked the muffin. "Do you know what these berries are called? I've never had them before."
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"They're blueberries, I think," Ken replied, scrutinizing said muffin.
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A few more bites and a sip of juice later and the shingami tilted her head at Ken. "So Hidaka-san, what sort of things do you like to do for fun?"
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