cute sushi lunches.
Who: Heiwajima Shizuo and Orihara Izaya; Amalthea; Maya Fey (OPEN)
When: December 20th (daytime)
Where: Wandering around Sector 4
Summary: Shizuo caught the news about a new sushi restaurant and is now on a mission to find it. Plus, getting a lay of the land might be good.
Warnings: Should be pretty tame so long as he doesn't get pissed off.
( pretty raw with it )
When: December 20th (daytime)
Where: Wandering around Sector 4
Summary: Shizuo caught the news about a new sushi restaurant and is now on a mission to find it. Plus, getting a lay of the land might be good.
Warnings: Should be pretty tame so long as he doesn't get pissed off.
( pretty raw with it )
That was always the problem, though. Even if he got along with one person, if it went beyond that -- well, he'd always end up screwing up somehow, wouldn't he?
The serious way she was acting about all of this almost made Shizuo want to believe that this was more than just a childish joke. He stared into the girl's eyes and nodded after a moment -- if she was going to treat it so seriously, then he could do the same. Not that he got too passionate about things like this, but...
From what he knew, Christmas gifts were supposed to be a surprise, so she probably didn't want him blabbing to anyone. He didn't really know many people in this place either way, so it would be fine.
Straightening again, he nodded. "Don't worry. I'm not much of a talker anyway."
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Well, that was the end of her serious moment. "I knew I could count on you! And don't worry, if you want to buy any gifts, I'll definitely keep them secret! We'll be like secret agents, weaving through the stores stealthily to find stuff."
Having that said, she turned back around to look. What store next. "I wonder where we should start? Maybe the sunglasses... What do you think, Mr. Shizuo?"
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He didn't have the heart to tell her that he didn't really have anyone in this place who he cared to buy a gift for -- not to mention the fact that he didn't feel too comfortable wasting money on that sort of thing. Not when it wasn't his own money, anyway.
Still, when she asked for his opinion he gave her a blank, clueless look before looking around at the rows of shops. There was a lot to choose from, which he wasn't a stranger to either. After walking a bit further down the road, he noticed a store that was for eye wear. "Something like that?" he asked, pointing it out.
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Or that's how it went in the movies, anyway. And considering how much TV Maya watched... Well.
"Hey, good spotting! C'mon, let's start our investigation!"
His company was... surprisingly nice. She hadn't realized how long it had been since she and Phoenix had done something like this - just walk around together and look at shops. Or investigate. And Shizuo wasn't Phoenix, but he was nice to spend time with in his own way. He was pretty quiet, but she didn't mind that, although she felt the urge to talk more to fill the silence.
Regardless, this was turning out to be a lot funner with him along for the ride. Suddenly re-enthused, she made as if to start bounding over to the store - but her legs felt wobbly again.
"Ah!"
It was little more than a stumble, but she did have to flail her arm a bit to keep her balance. It looked like she'd have to take it slow for a while.
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But that was something he'd at least gotten used to over the many years that he'd dealt with it, even if he would never completely accept it.
As the girl headed off toward the store, Shizuo was quick to follow, and happened to be close enough behind her (his legs were quite a bit longer than hers, after all) that -- well, his hands were full of bags, so in the end he just let her stumble back against him for a moment.
Part of him thought it would have been easier if he could just carry her as well, but he doubted that would go over well in Maya's opinion or in the opinion of the other shoppers.
"You might want to walk a bit slower," he suggested instead with a slight shrug of his shoulders.
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"S-Sorry!"
She laughed a little self-consciously, not bothering with the ground jokes. For the moment. "Ahaha... Yeah, probably."
Luckily for her, Phoenix wasn't around to see that. Total mother hen that he was, he would have probably fussed forever. And possibly thrown her over his shoulder and taken her home or something.
...On second thought, Nick wasn't nearly manly enough for that sort of thing.
"R-Right, so um! The eye-wear shop!"
She did take it slowly and carefully this time.
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Staying just a half-step behind her with one hand ready to grab her by the shoulder if need be, they made the trip into the store without any further incident.
Though, as would be expected at a time like this, the place was rather busy. And now Shizuo remembered why this could be a bad idea. If someone ended up shoving Maya in their need to get to a certain pair of glasses, he just knew he was going to lose it. You didn't shove someone who'd just gotten out of the hospital!
Just thinking about it made him annoyed, and so he did his best to think about something else, focusing instead on the displays of glasses. "What do you think?" he asked the girl with a tilt of his head. He didn't even know what this friend of hers looked like, so...
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And yet... even more embarrassing... It actually soothed her nerves a bit. She almost felt... safe (and that was increasingly elusive feeling since her first encounter with Grimmjow). At least when it came to walking around outside.
She'd stayed quiet as they'd entered the shop, reflecting- but all the hustle and bustle snapped her out of it.
"Oh! How cool!"
It was hard to see with so many people around, but Maya weaved through a few people to siddle up to the display. "Maybe something like that!" She pointed at a particular pair of glasses. "Hmm, I don't know if it would go with his spiky hair, though..."
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The last thing he needed to do was accidentally break an expensive pair of glasses.
It sounded like the girl wanted his opinion, but Shizuo didn't really know what to tell her. He'd picked his glasses out on a whim, and because Kasuka had said that they suited him. Shizuo didn't know if that was true, but...
"What color is his hair?" He didn't think that glasses had to match hair and eye colors, but maybe it would at least help Maya think it through. He handed her the pair of glasses so that she could also look over them.
He was also wondering how it was that the girl could pay for all of these gifts, seeing how she didn't look old enough to work, but he couldn't think of a polite way to phrase the question, so he just left it alone.
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She took the glasses and turned them over to look at them. She either hadn't noticed the price or was willfully ignoring it. "Ooooh, they're pretty nice. I bet he could attract lots of clients if he just--" she paused in consideration.
"... Hmm... You know, I dunno if this would work for his goofy face."
Having that said, she put them on, and looked up at him with her best "intimidating" face. Said face was not intimidating in the least (quite the opposite, actually.) "What do you think, Mr. Shizuo?"
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"Clients? What kind of clients?" That could imply all sorts of professions, but Shizuo didn't want to jump to any conclusions.
The girl was a bit mean toward someone who was supposed to be a friend, but Shizuo knew that that was sometimes how it went. He just knew that he tended to be sensitive to even the stupidest jokes himself.
Though when Maya put on the pair of glasses herself and tried to look tough, Shizuo just blinked down at her and shook his head. "They're a bit big on you."
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"We haven't had too much luck with cases in the last couple of months... And with me in the hospital, well... I haven't been able to help him out. Plus, he spent more time fussing over me than looking for work."
She paused, and a mixture of guilt and concern flickered over her face briefly. "... I think he's discouraged right now, so something like this might help him feel more confident. Plus, looking cooler is always good, and that'll help with the clients!"
Having that said, Maya couldn't help but pout at his response. "But still cool, right?"
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It wasn't the sort of thing he wanted to get into an argument about, though. From what little he knew of Maya, he didn't think she would be the type to get involved in anything as immoral as keeping criminals on the streets, but...
"Well, if he'd stayed focused on his job even while you were injured, he wouldn't be much of a man, would he," Shizuo commented in a matter-of-fact tone. To get a young girl involved in something like that was iffy enough. Shizuo didn't know if she'd ended up injured because of her friend's profession, but either way, it wasn't something that could just be ignored.
Part of him wanted to ask her for more details on how she'd ended up hurt, but he didn't want to make her uncomfortable. So maybe it was better to stick with the glasses.
"...Still cool, yeah," he eventually said with a nod. "They'd probably fit him better."
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"Yeah, but... I mean, I recovered pretty well. Aside from the first few days. And I'm really grateful for all the time he spent with me, but..."
Whether or not he wanted to bring it up, she found herself talking about it, regardless. He was a pretty good listener, and it felt easy to talk to him. "...He can't just stop his life because some creep tried to kill me. I mean, it's bad enough he blamed himself for it when it totally wasn't his fault." She frowned. "He's got to take care of himself, instead of worrying and fussing over me all the time."
That was... a bit more than she intended to say. Self-consciously, she fell quiet, and took off the glasses to fiddle with them.
"Yeah, I think so... They'd probably work for him."
And then she saw the price. Yikes.
"W-Woah!"
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Then again, Shizuo knew that he didn't like people fussing over him that much, either. Mainly because it was always the wrong sort of person who did it, like that doctor...
Shaking his head in order to stop him from thinking about that, he paused as something else she'd said registered. "So it was a person who attacked you? Not the monsters?" She'd brought it up, so he didn't feel quite so bad asking about it. Who the hell would attack someone like her? Shizuo had a hard time believing that Maya had done anything to deserve it.
But then the girl was back to looking at the glasses, and the way that she let out a startled noise distracted Shizuo from his own troubling thoughts. "Ehh?"
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"Ah... yeah. He's not exactly human, but... he's a Newcomer like us." She did look a little uncomfortable, but she didn't have any reason not to answer. Plus, he was new himself, wasn't he? The least she could do was warn him. "Um, most of the people here are nice... there are just a few that are really, really dangerous. That guy is one of them."
She puffed her cheeks out - pouting right at the glasses. "Look at how much it is! That's waaaayy too much! No one's gonna buy it at that price!"
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