Enough was enough. Wade had been cooked up for way too long with the same people, doing the same thing every god damn day. And now they weren't in Africa, and they weren't in Russia, but Japan. Merely miles away from Okinawa to be exact. This was his home field. This was where he'd gone to train to become a mercenary. And god dammit, he had to get
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As they neared the building he could sense a change in her demeanor and watched her carefully, frowning. "And why would we do that?"
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Just places where she'd burned stone and scorch marks that were never going to be able to be removed.
"Come on... we can stop and grab some take out before we go there if you want?" It was a ploy. Get him distracted with food long enough to get the idea of taking a slightly longer route out of his mind.
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While food was tempting Wade was much more interested in what she was trying to hide. He stopped in his tracks, pulling his hands from his pockets and folding them. "What are you trying to hide?"
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Wade watched her unusual behavior, following her slowly, taking in the odd environment. The mood had severely changed. If not in Alyssa's aura, the entire place. He could feel what she was talking about as she described it. What she was telling him was deep and meaningful but unfortunately he was inexperienced in how to respond. So for what seemed like the longest time he was silent. "...We can get that take out now if you want."
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"The building is close to the entrance to Fushimi Inari shrine. Just up the road a couple of blocks." Quietly the woman started to move away from where they were standing. She just couldn't look at it any more. Reaching up, Alyssa lowered her sunglasses back over her eyes that had been perched on her head. "There's a little place just close by I used to go to when I couldn't sleep. If you're interested."
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"Wherever you want. Lead the way."
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Rounding a corner the woman lead him up a small hill towards an old style house not very far up. Quaint, and overlooking the entrance to the Shrine, it looked just like every other classical styled house in Kyoto except a smidge larger. "That's it. Home sweet home."
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Cruel as it sounded Wade just didn't like her requesting that out of him. He hadn't known her long, not that it mattered, but it was most likely due to the fact that for some reason he didn't like it. Rousing from his thoughts ont he subject he looked up to observe the shrine. "Not bad."
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"You just have to promise me you won't climb any of the trees in the backyard. I did that once before and he took a switch to me." Of course she had done it just to get the old man's goat so...
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"So is your master here?" Wade was interested in meeting the one who trained her. Maybe they could tell him what happened to his own sensei.
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He waited as she searched about, slipping his shoes off beside hers and then scooting inside. Now this was quite a place, and he immediately took to exploring it. "Think he'll mind?" Not that he cared of course, but again, for her sake.
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It was way to quiet. To peaceful.
Somewhere above wherever Wade was at the floor squeaked. One of someone trying to be quiet and possibly had blown their cover.
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Immediately he became still when he heard the floor above his head squeak. Wade frowned, closing his eyes for a moment before looking up at the ceiling, and then at Alyssa. Reaching up and behind the hem of his jacket and fluidly pulled out his tanto, twirling the blade along his fingers and into his hand. Wade was never unarmed. But he did wonder who was there and he had every intention of finding out.
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