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It had taken weeks longer than he meant for it to, but Yuu finally found a gap of time after school where he wouldn't have to explain his absence to his parents. The tutor for his cram school had fallen ill (a nasty bit of food poisoning, according to the hastily scribbled note on the front of the classroom door) and had to cancel the session. It

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When Aya notices her cousin enter she drops the change she was giving to the man in the business suite. She quickly helps pick up the change with a hastily murmured apology.

She runs to Yuu with open arms.

"You came!"

She turns to Kakyou, "Take over for me, please."

Kakyou looks between Aya and Yuu and nods. There is a moment of stillness in the air, such as when predators sense weakened prey, while the fan girls note that Kakyou will soon be by himself.

Aya tries to drag her cousin out of the shop by the arm before her friend has the chance to change his mind.

((I've been given permission by the mun to NPC Kakyou while the mun is otherwise occupied.))

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"Heh, I said I would, didn't I?" He assumes the open arms mean that Aya wants for it to be huge tiem now and obliges before being dragged out. He waves over his shoulder at Kakyou as they hurry out the door.

"Thanks, guy!"

He waits until they're seated on a bench set into the sidewalk before continuing to talk with Aya. "So, how've you been? And... I take it that it's been a rough day at work so far since you we're talking here instead of there?" Yuu had picked up on the tense, predatory stillness but hadn't known how to interpret it, not knowing anything of the shops clientelle.

((Aw, hooray for Kakyou-mun. ^_^))

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Aya takes her apron off and straightens her hair.

"You said you would," she agrees with a smile. "Work has been fine, but I didn't think you were ready to get molested yet. The girls seem to think any pretty piece of man-flesh in the shop is fair game.

"Let me buy you lunch? There is a great burger place just down the street."

Aya never had fast food before coming to the Nexus. She isn't sure if Yuu has.

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Yuu quirks a brow and looks back at the shop with a mixture of amusement and incredulity. He's not sure if Aya is being hyperbolic or not.

"I appreciate the warning. I'll have to make it a point to be on my guard in there."

"I wouldn't mind a burger I haven't had one since our school trip last year. Are you sure you want to pay, though? I can handle it..." The underlying tone says that he has parents that give him an allowance that is purely expendable income and Aya... doesn't anymore. Taking her money feels a bit wrong and awkward.

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Yuu follows along, linking arms with Aya so that neither of them are lost in the croud. "Quite the welcome, hm? You weren't joking when you said they weren't fussy about checking i.d."

The club is aglow with blacklights, strobes, and the erratic neon patterns thrown off by the glow stick dancers. Eventually they pause at a spot not too far from the DJ and right beside one of the cages holding a dancer (it's not entirely clear if the occupant is an employee or a patron) that seems marginally less crowded.

"So, does this look like a good place to start?" Yuu has already started dancing but will follow if Aya finds a more optimal spot to drift to... while still dancing. Because damn if this beat isn't infectious. The song was one he hadn't heard in a few years but this remix was fairly impressive by his standards.

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Aya giggles. "It looks like you already started."

She can't blame him. It's easy to lose herself in the music and let it shut out everything else.

Aya only notices the girl in the yellow T-shirt because she looks even younger than Aya and Yuu. The girls seems to be looking for something. A clean cut man in his thirties steps behind the girl and taps her on the shoulder. She smiles excidely at him and starts to follow him to the back of the club.

Aya's glad the girl found who she was looking for and keeps dancing.

((Okay, normally I would run this by you in IM: What if in pure WK style this club weren't checking i.d.s because it's trafficing in kids?))

[x_onceremoved_x]

Yuu is switching between really getting into the scene, alternating between dancing and blowing bubbles from the wand in his 'poison bottle' necklace to see how the bubbles glow in the black light. Through one particularly big bubble he sees a couple in their mid-to-late twenties approach before the man walks right through the bubble, bursting it. He sidles up to Aya to dance as the woman he is with drapes an arm over Yuu's shoulder, matching the rhythm of his dancing quickly and flashing him a very white smile that practically glowed under the club's unique lighting.

"Hey, cutie. My name's Yoshiko. I was wondering if you'd join me at the real party in the back?"

He flashed her a smile of his own, still dancing. "Hm, that is tempting..." After all, the lady was pretty. However, it seemed just a tad odd that he'd just heard her friend over there ask Aya something very similar. Also, was it his imagination or was Yoshiko moving him further away from Aya and the man as they danced? He looked over at Aya, trying to see if he could read

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Aya is shaking her head and making placating motions as she smiles at the man. She glances up to see her cousin being moved further away. She reaches out to grab for Yuu.

"Back off lady, he's with me."