{Thread} {Ino & Kaiba}

[yamanaka]

Who: Ino & Kaiba
What: Meeting up to ... talk. About things.
When: After this.
Where: Game room.
Rating: PG? Maybe PG-13.

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[inexorabilis]

Prior to his arranged meeting at the game room, he had been.. well, in the game room. He had in a sense claimed it as his own and decided that since no one else seemed to be taking advantage of the features, he would go through everything, take apart what he felt needed to be disassembled, and then return to "his" room to work on his own games. Currently the room he had been residing in for the past few days looked more like a junk yard (he'd taken apart everything inside, the most that was put together would be the computer he'd been working on with parts taken from the city) than something that belonged in a gaming facility. All in all it wasn't so bad, he personally thought the progress he'd made thus far was astounding; what with having to go through the games, take things apart, drag parts from the city in, and then build his own super computer from scratch, this slow pace was fine.

So yes, Kaiba had truly been residing in the game room and avoiding social confrontations when possible. When Ino asked for his name, however, he felt the need to respond. If someone really needed his attention he wasn't going to ignore their calls, though he already had an idea in mind for what she wanted. Talking about that kiss? Hn, she was really a simple girl sometimes. There was potential, more than she may have realized, but she didn't use it to its fullest extent. If he cared more about aiding those in need of it, he may have decided it was in his best interest to help her. As it was, he didn't. If someone didn't want to push their limits it wasn't his concern.

Despite Kaiba already being in the game room, he'd left, gone up to his floor, showered, changed into some cleaner clothes (they were more than a little casual for Kaiba Seto, just a button-down shirt and pants) then headed back down. He reached the room not long after Ino, meaning that if they'd both walked down the stairs they'd been a floor or so apart. Maybe they'd seen one another and ignored it, who knew? Them, but shush.

"Yes." He'd come up behind Ino, spoke into her ear, then took a step back. The shower had been refreshing, but it was obvious his body was tired.

[yamanaka]

Ino did a small jump. She had sensed some kind of presence behind her, but she definitely wasn't expecting it to be, well, him. And she definitely didn't think he was RIGHT THERE. She looked back to see Kaiba. Wow, he looks good in tha-- She mentally kicked herself. This was most certainly not what she came for, and she wasn't going to let herself be sucked into anything. Plus, she didn't have TIME to be standing here drooling wasting time. She suddenly realized she had been observing him for way long than she intended, though. She opened the door a little further, trying desperately to hide the red she knew was going to creep onto her face sooner or later.

"After you. And uh, a-are you okay? You look like you haven't slept in a week. And yes, I would know from experience."

And he really did. She had no idea what he had been doing, but he hadn't been writing in the journal and it definitely looked like he hadn't been taking care of himself. Something was up.