Chef's Orders (Sharaku, Lost)

"Thank-you!" He said as he walked out of the little grocery store he found to buy the ingredients he needed for his meal tomorrow. Usually when a teenager cooks something up it's simple, but Raian likes to go all out. In his large brown paper bag he had the ingredients he needed to make a delicious pot of stew. Carrots.. celery, onions, potatoes, cubed beef.. you know the essentials plus a few other extra ingredients

Walking down the sidewalk on the way to his dorm, being as weak as he is he needed to take a short break. Cause y'know carrying all the groceries was too much for a puny guy like him.. or he's just lazy. So he proceeded to sit down on the sidewalk for a bit, the grocery bag to the side of him. "I really need to start working out.. my stamina is like little girl status." he sighed aloud.

The boy glided around the people with ease, weaving through them like a bee through a meadow of flowers. He found the people to be quite a dizzying mess, preferring to be sitting on a bench watching them rather than meddling with them. He continued down the side walk, aiming for a bus stop or an alley to duck into to avoid the onslaught of people, but to no avail. He continued walking before being bumped to the side by an especially rambunctious fellow, almost tripping over a person sitting on the sidewalk.

"J-Jeez... Why are people so rude...?" he said to no one in particular, "Regardless, why are you sitting on the ground...?" he asked the boy, wondering how someone hadn't already trampled him. He then looked over the one approaching them, tilting his head to the side.

It was Sharaku, the 'phantom' he met at the beach during the meteor shower. He waved lightly to him before looking into the crowd, hoping to find a way to re-enter the fray safely... If at all.

"Oh! well hello there.. hehe." he looked to the two laughing to himself a bit. "Well, I'm the kind of guy to enjoy a good trampling." he continued to laugh saying this before swiftly changing to a serious face "Joking aside, I enjoy sitting on the sidewalk, not completely sure why... Anyway, I'm really super good at being lazy, so instead of carrying these bags to my dorm I'm sitting here 'til I feel like taking them there. Haha." he scratched his head, he didn't think there was really any problem with sitting here. You'd think people would have the common decency to walk around him, but there are some rude people in the world. Anyway, he stood back up looking to the two "I'm Raian Auric, by the way. Nice to meet you." (I hope I wasn't.. in the way of them. I don't think I was but..)

"Hello, Sharaku." he said politely in response to the 'phantom's' greeting. He looked down at the boy as he gave his explanation. It was an odd one to say the least, not something the boy was used to hearing. But most things considered, people have done odder things. He twisted a stand of his hair, not having brought anything with him this time.

"... Is being lazy something one can be good at?" he asked, truly curious to this before continuing off into thought. "However, it's quite unsafe to sit on the ground... You should look for a safer place to sit next time." he said politely before turning back to the swarm of people, sighing lightly as he did so.

"... My name is Nilo Lockwood, a pleasure to meet your acquaintance." he said with a polite smile towards Raian.

"I didn't think I was in the way, didn't seem like most people cared. Plus benches are for losers." he continued to chuckle to himself while he looked at the two "Let's just say yes, it's not hard to be good at being lazy." he smiled at Nilo "It just takes practice." ... "Again.. joking aside I'm just tired, I was planning on bringing these groceries back to my Dorm but I've been procrastinating. Didn't think enough to sit on a nearby bench--and yes before you ask you totally have to think before sitting on a bench." he was honestly surprised that the two thought it was a problem to sit on the sidewalk, where he's from homeless people sit on the sidewalk constantly--he wasn't homeless but... "Now now I'm not some brainless idiot if that's crossed your mind by now.. I'm just in a good mood right now." He smiled again at the two before bending down and picking up his grocery bag, wouldn't want someone taking it while he wasn't paying attention.

The boy stayed quiet, not really sure how to respond to the boy's eccentricity. He seemed to be happy, that was known, but he was so odd about it. He also seemed to be quite gleeful, to say the least; continuing to make jokes that didn't require much amusement. It did, however, seem that the boy was perfectly fine with what he was doing, not really seeming to see the oddity in it.

"Oh, I never meant to come across that I thought you where brainless." he said politely, nodding his head. "And I agree with Sharaku, your excessive joking is quite odd... Forgive my rudeness." he said, again in a polite voice.

"Aha! You got me there" laughing at what Sharaku said about thinking before sitting. He noticed the odd looks he was getting and decided it's probably time to tone it down. Turning to Nilo, "it's alright, honestly when I joke around I tend to overdo it, most of the time I don't find it funny myself. It just keeps me thinking positive whether it seems odd or not. Sorry if I'm coming off strange, I'll probably just stop the 'joking'" he smiled before going back to being uncharacteristically talkative. "I'll be honest I didn't think before I sat down, I'm just pretty tired, sorry for being in the way truly." he bowed down to them while a single potato rolled out of the bag while he did so, he looked to it as if his life had ended there "Crap! There goes one!" he stared at it as it rolled into the crowd of people "I'll be fine with one less potato I guess.. haha.." he looked a bit disappointed, standing there in silence while he looked to it in the street.

The boy smiled lightly towards Raian, nodding at his apology. "It is quite alright, do what you would normally do. I'm not to sure we warrant you to change you attitude for us." he said politely, looking into the crowd. He continued to listen to the two, taking a note at how odd the crowd just walked around the three. He stayed contemplated for a moment longer before, glancing towards the bowing Raian and the rolling away potato.

"... Forgive me, but Raian... You could simply reach for it..." he said in slight confusion, taking a step and quickly scooping the potato up. "... I'm honestly surprised, but it does indeed seem you are a master of laziness..." he said truthfully, some what shocked at this revelation. He looked over to the boy, analyzing him up and down.

"Is it mental? Or maybe something due to your body?" he asked Raian, blinking and falling silent for a moment. "... Er, this is odd... Forgive my personal stupidity... How and why you are lazy is none of my business. I should not have intruded, sorry." he said with a light nod of his head, going to hand the boy the potato.

"Yeah.. I'll get better at joking around eventually... I'll just practice? if you can even practice at that." smiling again "I wouldn't be able to use it, it's been tainted from the ger-" he started staring at Nilo as he picked the potato up in disgust "N-no it touched the ground.. the ground is dirty! Peeling it isn't an option for this stew!" he refused the potato shaking his head back and forth "That wasn't a matter of laziness it was a matter of keeping the germs away from me!" even Raian knew the limit to his laziness, why waste food.. unless it's been contaminated by the ground, normally people would simply pick it up and wash it off. "It's super important that the skin stays on the potatoes when I cook it with the stew. They are the healthiest part of the potato, anyway." he was still completely confused on why Nilo thought it was a good idea to pick it up off of the ground.. but I guess not everyone's super anal about germs like himself.

The boy blinked at Raian's reaction. He didn't expect it to be honest, holding the potato in hand and looking down at it. He raised a brow, bringing it up to his eyes to investigate it. He sniffed it, trying to deduce if it was truly to contaminated to be edible.

"... I must agree with Sharaky on this, Raian..." he said as he glanced over to the boy. "Potatoes are naturally dirty, simply cleaning it up would be a wiser course of action, and a less wasteful one." he said with a polite nod, holding the potato still in hand.

"Oh, but of course, if you are a germaphobe, please don't take these words to mind." he said with a deciding nod. "I wouldn't want to cause you grief at this realization..." he said with a frown, looking over to Raian with a smile.

"But you said you where going to make a stew?" he asked with a polite smile. "What kind is it? My mother makes chicken noodle soup... Is stew any different from soup?" he asked the boy, glancing over to Sharaku. "Where you out buying groceries for food as well?" he asked the pale man in a polite and curious voice.