RP: 5th XF [Intermission:YSS-Yugumo] A Well Deserved Break

[Andrew]

Kiyoko walked down the street, heading in the direction of the pillow store. As she traveled, Kiyoko took advantage of some serious window shopping, admiring the multitude of shops the city had to offer.

About a block from the pillow store, the PANTHEON interrupted her shopping, a communications window came to life before her and the image of Taisho Koyanagi flickered into view. "Hey sweetie...â€

 

[Tyler]

As Kiyoko drew closer to the store she caught the attention of a little girl about 4 or so walking toward her, who was carrying a small bag of things. Without much hestitation but still a little shyly the girl approached her, she had really pretty emerald green hair with pretty amber eyes that looked up at her innocently. "Hello miss, are you looking for something?" she asked curiously.

 

[Andrew]

Kiyoko looked down at the little girl who came out of the shop. "Oh...Hi...â€

 

[Tyler]

The girl smiled at her prettily but stills a slightly lopsided grin. "Oh okies!" she giggled. "My parents own the shop behind you." She said, pointing up at the sign. "Just feel free to go inside if you want, just watch out for my brother." Yuriko giggled. The child didn't seem to know anything about what happened nor did she seem to recognize Kiyoko. "You're really pretty Miss." the girl chirped happily, reaching out and playing with one of Kiyoko's hairs. "We have the same color..." she muttered happily, Yuriko's hair was cut short but in an attractive fashion with it sticking up slightly in the front

 

[Andrew]

Kiyoko didn't mind the child playing with her hair, she commented, "Yes, we do have the same hair color.â€

 

[Tyler]

Yuriko smiled and nodded. "Yes it is." she said with a giggle and looked over at an adult setup with a grown man napping on it with a little girl of a few months asleep on his chest. His dog ears twitching some as Kiyoko walked in, a little boy with medium length dark brown almost black hair with icy blue eyes. (since I forgot name) Rath glared at Kiyoko fiercely and let out a small growl and sniffed at her from where he was sitting on the counter, his ears twitching and tail swishing some. "Welcome" he said in a kind of low growl that was common in how he spoke

"Brother! Don't be rude." Yuriko said, making the boy look momentarily ashamed. "Feel free to look around miss." she smiled at Kiyoko. It may not have seemed so but their father Ritsu was listening to what they were doing but not sitting up to avoid disturbing the little girl on his chest.

 

[Andrew]

Kiyoko thought the growling boy was cute, she giggled saying "Thanks, I will just look around.â€

 

[Kett]

"Yeah yeah, sheesh. You've got quite the desire for this pillow." Roger said to Datenshi. "You're not like, a pillow fetishist, are you? I mean... I know, different strokes for different folks, but still... that's just weird." Then again Roger thought, A pillow might be the only thing that Jatsu's going to be able to cuddle against tonight. "Before that though, I need... er, would like to stop by the packie...er, grocery store for some booze... er, refreshments." He merely received the looks the others gave him. "What, too obvious?"

 

[Cora]

"I wouldn't mind stopping at a bookstore myself." Camellia said as she walked along with everyone else. "Though, also stopping for some "refreshments" wouldn't hurt either."

 

[Tyler]

Caine groaned holding his head. "Didn't we just get out of a restaraunt you guys?" he groaned as they walked along looking around at the buildings for the appropriate place. "Come on, we're not splitting up until we find Kiyoko first." He said in a firm tone.

 

[SageShooter]

Datenshi simply shrugged before she thought it over. "If there is a music store anywhere in our path, I wouldn't mind stopping in there. Anything else is fine with me though. I'll follow you guys around."

Datenshi nodded, shaking her head a little at Roger, before she shrugged.

"I just...really want a nice pillow for my bed on the ship. They probably only have those stale flat pillows. Sides a good pillow can be a big help in bed."

Datenshi winked and grinned at Roger before she clasped her hands behind her head and began to whistle.

 

[Lin]

In the window, Aoiko rubbed the bridge of her nose, her eyes squeezed shut. 'Please, do not worry about it, Jatsu-san,' she said. 'I still have a bit of money stashed away from that stint as Taisa, and there will be more to come. I will settle things here and meet you. All right?'

Surely enough, it was not long before Aoiko could be seen in her light yukata, oddly offset by an old-style walking stick, floating lazily around the shopping district and glancing around.

 

[Jatsu]

Jatsu nodded, "Sounds good, see you soon." After the window popped out of existence, he ran his hand down his face. Ugh...why the hell was she mad at me? It's my money, and I spent in on a nice place for us to stay. He shook his head and sighed, then chased after the rest of the group.

"Alright, Aoi's coming to meet up with us," he said once he caught up. He rubbed the back of his head and added, "She didn't say exactly where she'd meet us, so...uhm...let me know if you see her."

 

[Andrew]

Kiyoko continued to look around in the plushie bin, capturing a pink teddy in her grasp near the bottom of the pin; she pulled it out triumphantly "Awww...Cute!â€

 

[Kett]

"All right, all right, look, we're here anyway." Roger said, pushing open the door to the pillow store without looking. And there's Kiyoko... caressing a blanket. "Hey L-C, we're here. Hope you didn't miss us." He took a quick look around and whistled. "Good god, there's a million soft objects in this place. I bet an earthquake doesn't do shit to this place."

 

[Tyler]

Caine was standing inside near the counter looking over at Kiyoko when she let out her little squeal and gave the others a sign to keep quiet and snuck over behind Kiyoko and put a hand on her shoulder and leaned up against her. "So you like Pink teddy bears?" he asked her in her ear quietly. The little girl was smiling at everyone as they came in politely saying hello whereas her brother growled at a couple and sighed and nodded, saying hello too. The older man on the bed neaby sat up slowly, his dog ears twitching on to of his head. "Well well looks like we have a few people here today after all, what can I do for ya?" he asked with a yawn, shifting the still asleep baby girl into his arms.

 

[SageShooter]

Datenshi's eyes lit up slightly as she looked around the store, barely containing a squeal of excitement as she started to roam the store. She had seen the sleeping child, so she wasn't going to be loud. With a low purr, the neko stretched herself out on one of the beds, cuddling herself up to a rather soft silk full body pillow, wrapping her legs and arms around it as if it were a person. With her full stomach, she was almost instantly ready to fall asleep. Not to mention the bed and sheets were incredibly soft...

 

[Kett]

"Oi..." Roger grumbled, shaking his head in his hand. Only on Yamatai would something like this actually stay profitable. "Well, I guess I'd better get you that pillow, Datenshi. Datenshi?" He looked where she had been. "Yo, chickie babe, where'd you go?" The engineer was briefly dumbfounded, as the new recruit neko had seemed to have dissappeared. It was only by chance that, as he began to scan up and down the aisles of the store, he managed to spot her laid out on a bed, well against a pillow it would seem. "Hrm," he coughed as he approached, "now I can see why you so desperately wanted a pillow. Though, I will admit," he continued as he sat on an edge of the bed, "this is a pretty nice mattress."

 

[Tyler]

Ritsu chuckled looking at the neko and the nepleslian and smirked a little. "Well in any case, feel free to look around; most of the bedding except the frames and mattresses are designed by hand and most of this stuff is actually handmade." he said and walked over to Datenshi and smirked looking down at her. "Actually that's the newest one we just produced, I'm glad you enjoy it. Would you like a copy of that bedding and pillow shipped to your quarters on the new ship? I just need your name." he said. The little boy looked around at the strangers and grinned some and looked ready to fun over and pounce on Datenshi. The older man there had quite long dark brown hair with golden amber eyes with distinctly ....different features.

Caine smirked and pulled Kiyoko into a gentle hug looking over her shoulder. "This place is really nice isn't it?" he said blushing some.

 

[Jatsu]

Jatsu sighed as he mindlessly stared at a variety of pillows. I don't see what the big deal is, they're just pillows. Besides, you're unconscious most of the time you use them, he thought. He picked up a silk pillow with intricate stitching of a butterfly landing a flower. How gaudy... He looked at the price tag. Tch, and a hotel room is a waste of money? He tossed the pillow back where he got it from, then collapsed onto a nearby bed and sighed again. After a few seconds, he materialized a window.

Elsewhere, another window materialized by Aoiko. "Hello, Murasaki Aoiko!" an overly-cheery voice chimed. "You have an incoming message from Kimura Jatsu!" With that, Jatsu's face and part of the bed he was laying on appeared in the window. "Hey, Aoi," he said. "We're at some kind of pillow store right now." His hand moved up to touch something next to the viewable area of the window, and another small window with an arrow in it appeared. "Here's how to get here from where you are now."