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Post by Nami "Konosuke" Ishihara on Sept 17, 2015 21:03:32 GMT -5
It had felt really good to have the girl holding onto her, as per proper passenger position for motocycle riding. Felt even better to pull up the the ramen shop and see the girl pull her spare helmet off. Dang she looked good with her hair slightly messed from the ride. She smiled and hung the hemlet on one bike handle tucking the keys in her pocket. She offered her arm to walk the girl inside.
Right away they were met with the warm atmosphere of the restaurant. She sat at the small bar-like table and picked up the menu card. It was a simple list of broth and toppings, Konosuke took up a pencil and started marking her preferences. She set the card down and it was taken by one of the servers. She turned and put her elbow on the bar, chin on the palm of her hand, smiling and staring at Arceia. She didn't say anything, but looked a little smug. At the same time, she looked excited, like a kid at Christmas. She was excited, her tail would have been wagging if she had one, she got to take out the DJ, just like she had said/threatened at the Ball. It was awesome. And she was half hoping to make her blush again.
"So," said said, using that teasing tone again, "tell me about yourself," she pinched playfully at the other's elbow, "it's not every day I get to hang out with a cute celebrity."
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Post by Arceia Kinsley on Sept 17, 2015 21:12:47 GMT -5
It was admittedly a fun ride. First time on a motorcycle, and first time out to lunch with someone other than family. But she wasn't about to give up so easily. Not now. Not after she put up such a fight beforehand. Removing the helmet, she shook her hair slightly to get it out of her face, and then opted for the simpler sweeping it out of the way with her hand. Following that, she nervously Like a smooth criminal took the offered arm, and they entered the building.
It didn't take long for her to find what she wanted on the menu herself - the spiciest thing on it, with extra seasoning for more spice if she wanted it later. And at that moment, she was asked about herself, meaning she was now tasked with explaining herself to someone. Another thing to get used to down the road. Still, use of the word celebrity made her giggle a bit.
"Celebrity? Ha. I have like six listeners a night." she joked. "The live show certainly brought in more, but I'm still pretty much a nobody around here."
And then, following that, she found herself required to delve deeper to fill a silence she unwittingly created.
"I'm from America, but that much is probably obvious." she joked. "Just coasting on by and dreaming big, you know? Loved music all my life. I joined the swim team to help pay for tuition, and so I don't have to beg for donations on my shows to keep them going. So far so good."
At that moment, she decided to turn the tables. Speaking so casually was fun and all, but imagine if she could fluster the girl.
"Not that any of that really matters anyway. Who wants to know? It's only proper for a lady to talk about herself first don't you think?" she fired back.
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Post by Nami "Konosuke" Ishihara on Sept 17, 2015 21:33:41 GMT -5
"Sign me up," she comment after the number of listeners comment. but then the tables turned.
"Pshhh who knows about being a proper lady?!" She laughed as their food was brought to them, and she accent her statement with some messy eating of her noodles, "What can I say? Japanese family raised in Canada, I speak Canadian French, English, Japanese. Dad's an Olympic trainer, or he was, but now he's doing other work here in Japan. I got a swim scholarship right away, I guess we're the same there. I like music, but heh, you knew that." she winked.
She turned her attention back to her noodles, pork and nori with a little egg, yummm.
"You know though, you gotta dream big to be big right?" she said, switching to English casually, "You're already a star if you ask me." She smiled, an expression that reached her eyes endearingly. "i just transferred in last semester, she added, "this place feels like home though. And I'm enjoying it more here every day. The company keeps getting better too." she said, shooting her a look. Then she noticed her bowl and looked impressed,
"Wow that's a lot of heat!" She leaned in as if stunned to see the girl was actually going to eat it. She'd sit back in satisfied astonishment. This was probably the most amazing person on campus right here. Definitely.
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Post by Arceia Kinsley on Sept 17, 2015 21:43:58 GMT -5
Olympic. The word alone explained so much of her skill and stance. Interesting to note that she was Canadian however, and that she spoke English. Oh, thank God.
"Oh perfect, I'm done with Japanese for today then." she said in English. :Much more natural to me this way."
The rest of what she was saying began to sit in her thoughts as well. This girl was far more descriptive in her life story than Arceia herself - probably a lot more to say, honestly. There was no denying she was an excellent swimmer, and the reason had just come up. It made sense, and the pieces that accompanied it did as well. This was without a doubt one of the most prestigious schools in the world, so of course she shouldn't be surprised to see future Olympic swimmers and such here. Really made her think about what she was doing here though. The next big pop idol, in her dreams.
"It's certainly more interesting than my boring life." she joked. "Middle class, and proud of it. Though I suppose..." she took a minute to feel proud. "That just says it all about my work ethic, huh?"
Right, but they're both swimmers, so she decided to explore her swimming history a bit.
"Ah, nothing so grandiose on my end with swimming I'm afraid. I've been doing it to keep my figure for years, since I hate running track and sports take too much time. Eventually someone noticed I don't suck and got me the scholarship here."
But then, the girl noticed her food. An abrupt change of pace for sure, but hey, maybe this was her turn to be the impressive one.
"Ahaha, this is nothing." she shook her head with a smirk. "I do this and worse as a sort of self challenge. If there's one thing I hate, it's weaknesses. I have acid reflux, see, so spicy food is murder on my throat. So I said to Hell with that concept and eat the spiciest food I can find as a challenge." As if to confirm, she took in a comical amount of the dish at once, not skipping a beat.
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Post by Nami "Konosuke" Ishihara on Sept 17, 2015 22:00:01 GMT -5
Lightheartedly she chuckled as the girl switched to English, somehow becoming even more attracted and listened with great interest as she expanded. Needless to say she was thouroughly impressed with her hardcore mentality about the spicy food, though she worried briefly about the girl's health.
It was her turn to talk some more, "I've been pushed forward by my dad, they used to call me the red mermaid when i was younger, that's a little embarrassing though," her cheeks in toned a little red, but it faded as she went on, "but my mom wanted me to be somewhat normal, it's why I'm not already in the Olympics. If my dad had his way, Of be some gold medallist by now. My mom kept me out of it, which is pretty cool, it wouldn't be as fun to be a professional athlete, so believe it or not, I grew up pretty middle class too, but it didn't stop my dad from training me 'for fun'. I think he works at the Iwotobe Public school in Osaka. But I know he was trying to coach professionally again. Who knows what he's up to now."
She paused, "So, who do you look up to? Olympic swimmer Konosuke Matsuoka is my idol. I'm not ashamed to admit i have a signed poster in my dorm," she laughed.
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Post by Arceia Kinsley on Sept 17, 2015 22:08:51 GMT -5
Interested and attentive, Arceia paused in her obvious display of superiority over the bowl in front of her. From the tone, it seemed as though Kono didn't talk much with her father anymore. Interesting fact, that. And it seemed pretty obvious that she was genuine in her words, as now that they were this far out and alone, what was there to hold back? Still, she couldn't help but get a kick out of the quip about a signed poster. Yeah, something like that wasn't what she was expecting.
"Really? That explains the nickname." she mused. "Everyone calls you that, so I'm afraid I don't even know your real name. But I did know it was a nickname, odd as that may be."
As she spoke, tears filled her eyes. Tears that she blatantly ignored, or perhaps didn't even notice. Just because she tuned out the pain of spicy food doesn't mean her body refused to react to it. She had enough control to prevent much more from a light welling up, which was fine, and she didn't even really care.
"Someone I look up to... hmm..." she had to think for a second before a sarcastic answer won out over a real one.
"If I had to give a list of musicians who have been influential to me, it would be a mile long. I mean, just look at my record collection sometime." she joked.
"No, but seriously, I don't have one person I can pin my admiration on." in a mild display of her more proud side, she continued with a smirk, which complimented by welled up tears probably looked as ridiculous as it did adorable. The heat had also flushed her face, but she wasn't entirely aware of that fact either.
"Guess I focus more on why I'm great than who made me that way, ehe."
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Post by Nami "Konosuke" Ishihara on Sept 17, 2015 22:20:32 GMT -5
Everything about her made her grin, "Of course, Konosuke is a guy name. No way my mom would have let my dad live if that was my real name. My given name is Nami, which is cool, it's not like I don't like it, but seriously, I like Konosuke, it's lucky." She joked, the girl flushed red, and Kono leaned forward, watching her tear up.
"Oi! We need some milk over here please!" She waved top the server and mock fanned Arceia, "is it hot in here or what?" She chuckled.
She sighed as the joke died down and she considered her words. Interesting, she considered telling her how important it was too think of the little people, but she didn't want to seem like a lecturer. "I don't know if I wanna be great, I mean, I feel great already, if it gets better, that's cool, if i end up some loser reading comics and betting on the olympics from a studio apartment, that's cool too. As long as I've got good people and good food, I'm happy-oh and a pool."
It was pretty clear her passion for swimming would never let her fade to the background. She probably end up coaching herself, if she didn't actually compete. "But hey, If you ever need help pointing out reasons why you're great, I can think of a few." She pointed with her chopsticks, "those pretty eyes of yours for starters, you gotta score me some of those glowy contacts."
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Post by Arceia Kinsley on Sept 17, 2015 22:30:30 GMT -5
"Heh. Sounds like a good life to me." she shook her head despite her statement, which caused the welled up tears to slightly run, and forced her to act on them, rubbing them away before continuing.
"But I guess it's the animal in me, I can't be happy unless I'm at or near the top, or at least working toward it."
At this, she probably sounded a bit more ambitious than one would expect. "I'll be immortalized as the first human vocaloid, just you wait." she says with that same confident spark in her eyes from the show. And at the perfect time, too, as her eyes had just been called out.
"E-eh? Oh, right. I got those from a friend of mine. Guy off campus named Bug Man." she responded, trying her best not to react to a compliment. "He and this guy Asken hook me up with my gear when I can't find it myself. I think they had my idol outfit tailored too, but they may have just bought it."
Still, something was nagging at her anyway. Something she couldn't avoid bringing up.
"You know we're alone right? You don't have to keep the crush act up."
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Post by Nami "Konosuke" Ishihara on Sept 17, 2015 22:48:10 GMT -5
She raised an eyebrow, "First human vocaloid huh? I'd say you're off to a pretty good start." She slurped as Arceia told her about Bug Man and Asken, "I gotta meet these guys," she said, shrugging it off. Then Cei said something else and she glanced up. Sure enough, they were alone, but she didn't follow at first.
Then it clicked and she tilted her head to the side, bits of hair falling around her cheeks. "You know, I didn't take you for the oblivious type," she poked her in the center of her forehead, and leaned in closer, making eye contact "I'm not acting girly." she said a little more quietly.
She sat back, gesturing to all of her with both hands, arms outstretched, "Look at you, cute, talented, brave, competitive. You caught me, I'm totally crushing!" she grinned and crossed her arms, then turned the grin to a smirk, eyes shining with her fervent honesty.
"Honestly though, " she faked a pout, "how could you doubt me?" She couldn't hold the expression and it quickly fell apart under her smile. She turned back to her bowl and slurped the last of it, a little bit of noodle sticking to her cheek. It made her look goofy, but she was. She slammed the bowl down and looked at her with new resolve,
"I'll prove it to you!" She said, making it into a competition, "And we'll start with this," she plopped some yen on the counter, quirking her brow. "The gentleman pays for the date right? But that's not all...."she said, putting on her game show host voice, "This lucky lady just won a free bike ride around the city, a present that I haven't thought of yet, and a BRAND NEW CARRR!" she was trying to make her laugh. No way she'd let this wonderful girl think anything remotely negative here, not now, not when she was so pumped up. Now this was gonna be fun!
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Post by Arceia Kinsley on Sept 17, 2015 22:59:37 GMT -5
Hold the fridge up a second.
"It's not obliviousness so much as it is near asexuality." she responded pretty casually for such a silly sounding statement.
"I've been told I'm pretty mute about romance, so it's no surprise I don't take approaches seriously."
That being said, she did have to think a moment. The girl had made very obvious advances several times already, but she played those off as an act for the stage, and then at the pool she determined that they were a continuation as some sort of inside joke. She hadn't considered any sort of serious tone to the statements and advances at all.
"But if you're serious, I'm afraid you've got your work cut out for you." she joked. "I'll be in the spotlight a lot, tons of guys and girls throwing themselves at me, that sort of thing." she said, as if it were the most obvious statement in the world. What she wasn't saying, her face did a great job of displaying. All of this talk of asexuality and trying to spark jealousy was a carefully said facade that was betrayed by her beat red cheeks and glazed over expression, as if she had just sank herself into her own world in order to prevent from completely melting.
"Yes indeed, if you fall for an idol you rarely get her all to yourself." she smirked with crossed arms and a nod. "So like I said back at the show, careful around birds of prey."
All of this with an overwhelmingly obvious blush.
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Post by Nami "Konosuke" Ishihara on Sept 17, 2015 23:32:21 GMT -5
She listened, looked wholly amused, an admiration reflecting on her face with a grin that widened the deeper the whitenette's blush got.
"You're too cute," she said, amusement decorating her words happily, "I'll watch my step," she said standing up and wiping her face, ruffling Arceia's hair. "Come on Cei," she started, using a nickname she made up on the spot, "I have an exciting afternoon planned, and by planned I mean I have an exciting afternoon to make up."
Back outside she tossed the helmet to her, "Round one eh? Let's see if I pass the first test." she put on her helmet and swung a leg over the lime green bike. She waited for Arceia to hold her waist and started things in motion.
First up, was going way too fast around a few local blocks just for fun, nothing too dangerous, she didn't want to do anything to put Arceia in danger, but just exciting enough to be fun. Then it was to the shopping district. This time, as they dismounted the bike, she took the liberty of lifting the whitenette off and swinging her to the ground playfully. Again, the helmets were left at the bike and she offered an arm again, hands tucked in her coat pockets. There were book stores, jewelry shops, clothing outlets. But it was the store with the glowing headphones around a few Kanji letters that caught Konosuke's attention and she made a b-line for the arcade.
Good thing she couldn't read kanji that well, it turned out to be a karaoke arcade, with dance dace revolution games out front a small public karaoke coin machine and then private rooms for rent for real karaoke nights. "No way!" she shot off like a kid in a candy store to the a car racing game and marveled at the graphics. She glanced over her shoulder at Arceia, "Well? What do you wanna play first?" She was already moving to the change converter to exchange from yen for game tokens.
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Post by Arceia Kinsley on Sept 17, 2015 23:42:10 GMT -5
Everything was happening far too quickly for her to react to. A nickname, no taking no for an answer, and suddenly there they were on another ride. Admittedly, she enjoyed this a lot. The wind felt great and it was nice to be outside for a change. But then they stopped. There was still much left to be done, and this area seemed to be the perfect spot for it. She had to agree, it was going to be great.
Heh... She wasn't in practice but she could do a little.
"How about I beat you at DDR, then we do a little as it comes? " she joked. Much as she wanted to, she knew better than to go all out in public without her idol ensemble.
" Tell you what, I'll make it interesting. You win, and I'll let you take me out again."
She remarked this last bit with heavy confidence, but her face betrayed it entirely again. She was nervous and there was no denying she actually kind of wanted to see where this would go.
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Post by Nami "Konosuke" Ishihara on Sept 18, 2015 0:04:26 GMT -5
"Oh, then I guess it's on!" she offered a fist bump to make it official and handed half her handful of tokens to Cei and headed for the DDR machine.
"You choose the song dancing queen, it's your game, and I'll have you know I owned this game back in the day." She hopped over the bar on the back of the machine onto the dance button floor and put in two tokens to start it up. She let her date do the rest and then it started.
Of course, she was unfamiliar with the song but that wasn't gonna stop her. She had to win if it meant Cei was the prize. There was a fire under her for sure and her feet moved with impressive speed, even though she made mistakes, she had fun trying. In the end she lost, but she wasn't going to give up that easily. "Best two out of three," she said, snapping her fingers and pointing at her, "c'mon, another song. I'll pick this time," she chose an anime theme of a certain swim team themed show and got to stomping. Now that one, she dominated, closely matched by the amazing dance partner beside her.
A few songs later and it was more about fun and two out of three had turned into seven out of ten and so on as the wins went back and forth. Then it was on to the next game, race cars! She slid into the seat as if jumping through the window of one of the sports cars on the screen. "Put it in gear girly!" she exclaimed, "If I win, I get to hold your hand while we walk to the next place. What do you want if you win?" She asked with a cheeky grin and raised eyebrows.
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Post by Arceia Kinsley on Sept 18, 2015 0:12:24 GMT -5
It certainly didn't take much for her to be pleased with the results. However the two of them behaved on stage before was coming out again, but this time, there was no mask. No character to play to. It was just her, and someone she had barely met, on a date- a concept she had only just now admitted.
"If I win? Hehe. " she had to think carefully, as this would be important. She had never been on one of these date things before, and it was all quite foreign, but with how much fun it was to simply compete, she had to wonder if she wanted anything at all other than more of that.
"If I win, you go first at karaoke." she smirked, deciding their next activity for them without consideration for the other. She was a tad selfish that way when someone had her interest, but at least she knew it.
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Post by Nami "Konosuke" Ishihara on Sept 18, 2015 0:26:13 GMT -5
"Ooooh, look who's raising the stakes! You got it," when the game started she blazed ahead, ramming her car into Cei's for fun and speeding off. She loved these kinds of games and was pretty good. All things considered she was having a great time already. Full on date mode, and it wasn't like she did this all the time either. Honestly her outings were usually with a group of friends, or her old team mates out together to celebrate something or get pumped up for a competition. This was fun, no chaperone, no big group, just her and someone awesome.
The first win went to Konosuke, but she wasn't satisfied with just one race, so a few more were required, to which she lost at least one. Happily, she accepted the fact she'd be singing at karaoke *and* get to hold her hand.
She ran up on the little mock stage ,noting this place was pretty empty too. She tossed a coin into the machine and clicked through the song list. For fun, she chose the same song from the DDR game she'd won. "What a great crowd to tonight!" she acted with extra flourish, "You ready for this? This one's for a special girl in the audience where is she?" she preteneded to look for her, putting a hand over her eyes and looking this way and then and then pointed at her, "There she is, give it up for the lady of the hour!" Then the song started, and Konosuke began to sing. She wasn't awful, but she wasn't really good either. Still she kept the energy up, jumping and dancing and really putting her heart into her performance, waving the mix around and holding it to the pretend audience during the most memorable parts of the chorus. When the sing finished she bowed with enough dramatic flare a drama teacher would cry and tossed the mic to Arceia.
"Your turn, and then.." she held up her hand and wiggled her long fingers, looking at her sideways. They were almost out of tokens already, after all those games. She was excited, holding hands outside with her, it would really feel like a date then.
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