[Day: Thursday, April 20th. Time: 2:50 p.m.] [Weather: Rainy and chilly.] [You gather at the lockers! But not Satoshi or Haruko. They're elsewhere today.] [Session Start!] * Katie is at the lockers! SHOCK. She's sitting and doodling. She may or may not have switched books, but that has nothing to do with the doodle. Probably. * Taki shambles up the hall, looking like she hasn't slept in weeks, which can't be right, since she was recovering yesterday. * Katie looks up at the upcoming girl. "Hi Taki." Pause. "Sleep okay?" * Kyon turns the corner a few minutes later, carrying his large sports bag over one shoulder, and wearing his grey leather jacket over his uniform. He's got some papers in his spare hand, and he cocks his head as he gets closer, seeing so few people there. * Taki blinks at Katie. "Must've... I woke up." * Katie blinks. "... Yeah." She looks at Kyon, now, and waves. * Kyon gets closer to the pair of them, and nods tersely to Katie. He smirks. "Drive off the maddening crowds?" * Taki slumps against a locker and eventually winds up in a sitting position. * Kaede comes walking down the hallowed halls of institution to the lockers as well. He's got a pencil out and in his mouth as he flips a page of the notepad in his hand. * Katie points out Kaede. "Not all the way." * Kyon looks up at Kaede, nods tersely, and shifts his bag around so he can lean up against the lockers. "Not trying hard enough, then." * Katie grins. I can try harder. * Kaede looks up from his pad, flips it closed and actually remembers to take the pencil out first. "Trying hard enough for what?" * Taki ignores the witty banter since it doesn't seem to directly involve her doing anything. To chase you all away. Hi Kaede. * Kyon nods again, and stuffs his free hand in his pocket. He glances down at the pad to see what Katie is drawing. * Kaede puts his pencil away and looks in his pocket while speaking, "I thought that was my job." * Kyon shakes his head quickly, and smirks again. "Need to have multiple experts there." * Kaede adjusts his glasses and looks at Kyon. "We learned from the best, after all." * Katie goes back to doodling. * Kyon looks up from Katie's drawing, and shrugs quickly. "Only teach the useful skills." He surveys the scene. "Not getting the hockey player and the mechanic today?" * Kaede turns to look at Kyon, a bit surprised. "Haruko's not here?" She isn't? * Katie looks up now, too. And looks around. "Have you seen Satoshi?" * Kaede takes off his glasses and rubs the bridge of his nose now. "That'd be twice she flaked then." * Taki looks bearliy at Katie and then around. "Satoshi's ... not here?" * Kyon shakes his head tersely, and tugs his cell phone out of his pocket, flipping it open. "Easy enough to check." He looks bemusedly at Taki. "Can't be bothered to notice?" I was going to say to call. * Kyon stabs a button on the phone to call Haruko, and shifts his bag again so he can lift his phone to hear. * Taki looks up at him. "Mhm... hi Kyon, wake me up when he's been kidnapped so I can do something stupid to rescue him... Then they'll be even again." [Kyon gets Haruko's voice mail, which is approximately "I'm at shop right now, don't bug me." but nicer.] * Taki closes her eyes. * Kyon blows out a breath, and says, "It's me. Check in when you get this." He stabs the close call button, and then hits a different button to call Satoshi. ( orz. What would Satoshi be doing? Can't say hockey or Taki would be there. ) (Taki slept through practice anyway) (His tryout with the interpretive dance club?) [Either way Kyon gets Satoshi's voice mail, too. Maybe he and Haruko are on a date or something. I dunno.] (Well, does Satoshi's voice mail say where he is, like Haruko's does? If so, they won't try to hunt them down, I imagine.) ( I'll say sure. ) ( He's cleaning the classroom. Yeah. ) (All right, then.) * Kyon rolls his eyes, then says, "It's me. Check in when you're done sweeping." He hangs up, and stuffs his phone back in his pocket. "All accounted for." But not here. * Kaede lets out a breath. "Wonderful. And someone's seen them?" * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Voicemail messages say where they are. They don't check in within a couple hours, then we hunt them down. Can leave it for now." * Katie nods. They're letting us know. * Kaede nods and opens his locker. "As long as they check in." We've had a notoriously high ratio for kidnappings lately. I'd hate for it to go up. [ Kaede is kidnapped by strippers. ] (Do they send back pictures?) ( Nope. ) * Kyon nods tersely, and scans the hall for anyone interesting. "Got our prospective dealer's contact info. Going to try to work more info out of her later." * Kaede isn't interesting. How sad. * Taki is asleep, how sadly typical. [Nobody interesting in the halls, save Makoto and Makoto.] * Katie lets out a sigh. "Did you get anything good? What is she?" * Kyon doesn't pay attention to that pair. "She's doing something that she's lying about consistently. Could be the drugs. She's Arcana, but doesn't know what she is." He smirks. "I do, she doesn't." She doesn't know what card or she doesn't even know that she's Arcana? * Kyon stretches his back against the locker. "Both. Not that good an actor to hide it. Seemed surprised when I told her about the Two of Wands." * Katie scratches at the back of her head. Maybe we can use that. Has she at least noticed something a little strange, though? Her powers, I mean. * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Whatever she has, she probably doesn't know. Or doesn't know that's why." Or she's just incredibly dense. All of them. * Kaede snorts. "Probably." * Kyon looks at Kaede sidewise, and nods quickly. "Could be. She had no idea about the tarot cards. Can't hide a thing; can't cover well. Easy to buy that someone's just using her, but that can help us." * Kaede looks over at Kyon. "Must have been a weird first date. Some guy pulls cards out on you..." * Kaede rubs his head and mumbles. "Though no weirder than mine with Remi, I guess..." (Hee. Ah, still the funniest Arcana thing ever, that.) ( :O ) (Let me take your sweater o/~) ( "Can I take your sweater?" XD ) * Kyon shakes his head quickly, and smirks. "Everyone loves having their fortune told. Comes off interesting, not weird." * Kaede rolls his eyes. "I suppose if you're desperate enough..." He pushes up his glasses. "So where do we go from here?" I don't know. You sounded like you wanted Haruko to be here. ( Must be luv ) (Is Kyon cheating on his goon and Chikako again?) * Kaede rubs his head. "We were supposed to go in looking into the Jackals some more. She's got the only real "in" with them. But she got caught sweeping the shrine yesterday." * Kyon shrugs quickly. "Going to meet up with Chikako later. Can contact Hiromi after that. Might get new leads, too." * Katie sighs. Everybody's got a date but me. ( You've got Taro ) Wait. What date? * Taki would probably have something to say here if she were awake. You have a date with Haruko, right? Checking out Jackals? * Kaede raises an eyebrow at Katie. As if she'd just asked him to wear pantyhose and lace. * Katie smiles prettily. That's not...very funny. At all. * Kyon looks up and smirks. "Got to run that by her later. Got to see whether her look is as good as yours." I'm sure she would be much more expressive. Though I should really check in at the shop. * Kyon shakes his head bemusedly. "Not the expressiveness. The overall look." * Katie blinks at Kyon. "Overall look?" * Kaede rolls his eyes. "You just know how much Haruko-san grates on me." He picks up his phone and flips it, pressing the quick dial for the shop. * Kyon gestures offhandedly at Kaede. "See? Not just the eyebrow. The demeanor, the bearing. It all adds up." * Kaede breathes a sigh of relief and sounds a bit calmer. "Hey Nanami. Has the order arrived yet?" * Katie hms at Kaede, putting her chin on her hand. I don't know. He's pretty good at it. It's his. * Kaede walks and talks. "Just wanted to make sure. You know where everything goes right?" * Kyon nods quickly. "Right. My point, there. The mechanic will have a stronger reaction. But he sells it well." * Kaede shakes his head. "Listen, I'm just checking in. I'll probably be there in a bit. Do we still have a backlog on repairs?" He does. Girls go crazy over it. * Kyon barks out a laugh. "They do." He scans the hall again, and shifts the sports bag to the other shoulder. * Katie shifts a little, then eyes her sketch. Back to it! * Kaede draws in another breath. "Figures. Listen, we'll try to get things cleared up. So we can accept new orders. I'll be right down." * Kaede nods slightly. "Alright then." He turns off the phone. "I guess you'll have to call me if something comes up. We've got a lot of work to catch up on." Like if Haruko shows up? ...can't one of you go with her? * Katie shrugs and keeps sketching. "Guess so." * Kaede rubs his forehead. "Fine. Call. But excuse me if I don't automatically jump to Haruko's call. She's had enough chance." ( We'll send Taki, she can't object. I approve of this plan.) * Kaede slips his cell into his pocket and goes out to his bike and the shop! Sure. Have fun, Kaede. * Kyon watches him head off silently, and shakes his head quickly again. "Should check his business plan out again soon." * Katie erases something. "Yeah, it's good for him. You're better at that stuff than I am." [Session End!]