Father Son and Holy Ghost, who eats the fastest gets the most [Active]

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Character(s): Kariya, Sonic, eventually Uzuki
Content: Reapers' Ramen is almost ready for its grand opening! Predictably, Sonic is early.
Setting: Reapers' Ramen [G9, not too far from Niflheim Gate]
Time: Early afternoon
Warnings: None

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After a few more seconds, Kariya looked up again, and in fact appeared mildly surprised to see they were still there. "Means hi," he explained briefly.

Finally, he let out a long sigh, swung his legs forward and sat up properly. He could just ignore them, but there were a few different ways that could end less-than-optimally for him. Which was kind of ironic, actually, considering who was actually whose boss back in the real world.

He pointed - or maybe "gestured vaguely" was more accurate - to a smaller handwritten sign propped up on top of the bar. "Y'want something? Menu's over there. It's the only one we've got, though, so don't mess around with it." (This he'd added because he'd been the one who got stuck writing it in the first place, and didn't want to do it over.)

Listed were some common varieties of ramen - shoyu, shio, miso - if you could make out his handwriting, anyway. Not listed, though he'd forgotten about it, were the prices.

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Naminé didn't look too okay, but Sonic was going to let it slide for now. He'd ask her about it after they got a table and some food.

It took the guy long enough to answer, and he sure wasn't acting like he wanted them there. Why was he advertising if he didn't want anybody around? "Okay...thanks," Sonic replied to the directions begrudgingly. This ramen stuff had better be really good after all this.

Of course, that was when he realized that not only did he not know what ramen really was, but he couldn't read the menu either. Oops. He looked at Naminé and grinned, trying to play it cool. "I'll have whatever you're havin'."

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Naminé nearly jumped as the hedgehog seamlessly laid the choice on her shoulders. To be fair, it wasn't entirely because of that that she was startled; she'd been staring with a little apprehensive at the waiter's(?) strange wings, and being noticed for another reason was almost as bad as getting caught outright. She gave the man one last glance before joining Sonic at the menu.

To be perfectly honest, she was having only marginally better luck reading it than he was. The second word seemed to consistently spell out "ramen," but the first words down the list didn't seem to spell anything at all. Or be in any particular order. At random, she picked the most legible of them and sounded it out.

"Um... 'sh..shoyu ramen.'" Purely by chance, she pronounced it right on the first try, but she looked to Kariya for confirmation - and a second later decided maybe it was better to ask Sonic instead. "What's shoyu?" she whispered.

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Kariya sat back unhelpfully in his chair. It was bad enough when his bosses made him come in on his week off, but his partner, too? It was understandable if he was a little grumpy about the whole thing.

Really, Uzuki was lucky he liked her as much as he did. Sure, he wasn't much of a restaurateur, and his marketing and customer service could almost be classified as corporate sabotage, but for anyone else he wouldn't be playing along at all.

He watched the two customers with detached interest. The blue guy looked vaguely familiar, but he just couldn't put his finger on where he'd seen him before.

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Sonic hadn't really expected Naminé to know much more about ramen than he did, but he'd sure been hoping. Oh well - what was life without a little adventure, even if it was just an adventure in dining? "Dunno," he whispered back, unfazed. "Let's try it."

Without skipping a beat, he turned back to the other guy. "Yo! Dude!" he called. "Shoyu ramen, please!" See, every once in a while he did have manners. "Two of 'em."