That one Weekend [Open]

Finally a day off from school yet there was nothing Naito truly wished to do. Being rather new to the Ueitawa region, seeing how his family shipped him out there to get him out of their hair, he wasn't familiar with the area as of yet. Instead of wasting his time to go see the sights his new home had to offer, he chose to stay indoors instead. Sitting upon a chair in the school dorm lounge, he'd have his arm propped up on the arm rest while his free hand held a book for him to read. He had comfortably folded a leg over the other, and sat in a refined posture in the chair, which showed alot about his character. There was not an ounce of slack in his disposition, even when relaxing on an off day. Being somewhat of a perfectionist who trained himself to appear above the rest of the insolent fools he surrounded himself with, Naito made sure to display his superiority even by appearance. That could even play tribute to how he was currently dressed. Average teenagers, on their day off, probably wore slacks and comfortable clothing. In his case, he wore black trousers, dress shoes, and a black fashionable jacket that surely had cost too much to comprehend. The book he was currently reading was one of Isaac Asimov's masterpieces titled: "The Gods Themselves". It was a story that led to a main character acting out of jealousy and pride to find a means to reluctantly save a world that didn't believe him. Obviously this man was incompetent of gaining control of the situation, which caused such a dilemma in the first place. That was all Naito could think, while he nonchalantly flipped the page of the book with his usual expression of indifference.

Even though Naito shared the school dorm with other students, male and female, he never payed anyone any mind. After all, he didn't think too highly of his fellow classmates and literally saw them as his sheep. There were times where he was invited out by others, yet he declined every one of them. If it was so easy to get them to want to be around him, then he already had enough influence to control them when needed. His main objection was spreading his influence over those he hadn't had much connection too. After all, a world that didn't buckle to his order wasn't one worth living in. They would be grateful with his type of guidance.

With another flip of the page, Naito's expression turned to that of a slight smile thanks to the cynical thoughts running through his head. If there was one thing that made him happy, it was his ambitious drive to become the best: above the rest. He wasn't even aware of his surroundings at this point. People came and left the lounge, yet he was more focused on his own thoughts than any others. This superiority complex he was falling into was really going to become a problem if he didn't settle it soon.

During a day like this one, Reiguu Ejji had better things to do than be at the Kizuna Academy. On weekends he liked to spend his time in the safe seclusion of his home. He would read a book or two, meditate in his room or practise with a sword. Usually he would take a few hour long run around the neighborhood, making sure that he stayed well fit. Surely, he would have nothing to do with being on the Academy Grounds, more-so inside the Dorms. However, today that was the exact same place he had found himself in.

With sure, measured steps he had entered the Dorm Lounge area and proceeded to quickly look around, as if searching for something. A small huff escaped his nose, as an almost invisible trace of a frown appeared on his face, and vanished as quickly as it came. Few would be able to notice that sighn of irritation, and it seemed that nobody did, seeing as most of the students now present in the lounge had their own business to attend to. Ejji did, however, notice a few students break thier activities to take a look at him as he made his way closer to the section of the lounge, where the chairs and couches were situated. He took some small merit of pleasure as he noticed the looks of wonder and admiration. Most of the second years and the third years knew of him - either for his excellent studies or perhaps of his success in the Kendo Club.
It was funny - he hated the attention, yet he loved it as well. Perhaps it all depended on the dosage, really.

And so, Ejji came up to one of the free couches. Before sitting down he made sure to straighten out his clothes. A few swift movements with his hands and his dark-blue shirt looked impecable. A quick glance at his black pants and equally colored shoes, and he knew that he was all set. He had to look his best all the time.
Without so much as even a smirk or anything, Ejji gracefully sat down in the chair, making sure to cross his one leg over another and placed his right elbow on an armrest, which he used to prop up his chin. His face slightly changed it's expression, making sure to leak some of the annoyance he was feeling. The pose was used specifically to show that he disliked waiting for the one he was supposed to meet. She had better show up soon, and then he'd make her squirm just with the intensity of his displeasure. He'd tune it up a bit, making sure something like that never happened again.

In his boredom he let his eyes survey the surroundings, until they reached a young man, sitting on his left in a separate chair. He looked familiar. In fact, he knew who it was. Ejji unintentionally held his gaze for a longer than neccessary, not thinking that he was kind of staring, for once.

kii has a distinct dislike for weekends. Not all of them, just a certain few weekends, the type that broke one of the few schedules she kept in life. The type of weekend Kii disliked were weekends with baseball matches on. Not little baseball matches down within town. But big ones that were aired on television. These painful mistakes of life interrupted regularly scheduled programming which more than often happened to be her cartoons. Sure they were reruns but that didn't mean they weren't important! Now what was she suppose to do with her day off?

However even with this interruption some parts of her schedule had continued as normal. For instance as it was a weekend she hadn't bothered waking up early, or anywhere near to early. In fact she'd woken up rather late and hadn't really been out of her room since the day before. She'd also neglected to change since her sleep, still in a set of black pyjama bottoms and top (Complete with ninja star print pattern) she strode into the lounge in a rather grumpy mood, looking for something to cheer her up or give her something to do.

The lounge was pretty empty, there weren't many people about at all. However luckily for Kii the two people who were around served all the necessary requirements to snap her out of her grump. They seemed to be mimicking each other, both in the exact same pose of eminent smugness. However one of the boys seemed to be busy reading something, the other was just sitting there, waiting for something or other. She let out a short giggle at the royal twins of the lounge. Kii couldn't remember either of their names being fairly new to the dorm as a first year, maybe this was a regular occurrence for them?

"Oiii, guys." She called out, stifling another laugh. "You two always sit so formally or is it only around each other?"

Hoping to finally talk to someone around the dorm building she gave them her best smile. But remained reluctant to approach and sit down with them. Instead leaning on the back of another of the lounge coaches, keeping her smile on for added effect.

"So what are you two up to down here? Everyones usually out with friends on the weekends."

Naito hadn't even noticed the other who had appeared upon the scene. His eyes stayed plastered to his book, paying no attention to the dangerously similar posture the other student had taken in waiting for whoever. These were things that could easily be annoyed with a book in hand, and a wandering mind. However, when someone directly spoke to him, his eyes moved on instinct to find the source. Standing abit of ways from him, Naito's eyes caught notice to the weirdly dressed female speaking towards him. His eyes narrowed, as his facial expression remained neutral. With this distraction away from his book, his eyes continued to look about the area to see another student. His eye slightly twitched the moment he took in the detail of this other student. The way he was sitting. His appearance... Everything about him was like a clever way to mock Naito, or he was just trying to live in Naito's example. Of course, either of these two thoughts could have been wrong, but with Naito thinking he was always right he never imagined a third answer existed.

Looking back towards his book with a nonchalant shrug, the second year student would finally speak. "How shameless. Walking around the dorm with nothing but your pajamas on? And to falsely associate me with this...other...is perhaps the biggest mistake you could make this afternoon. I have no connections to him." Naito flipped the page of his book with his usual calm expression. Though his bangs were falling well over his forehead and obstructing his view, he made no attempt at brushing them aside. When she asked her next question of what they were doing, Naito almost didn't answer. But that would be entirely rude, and could make her reluctant to trust him in the future. If you wanted complete control, you had to take everyone and not choose who you wanted licking your boots. "I'm reading. My acquaintances have their own plans that didn't interest me. I could ask the same of you, though." The student's eyes would flick to look towards her, and off of his book. "You don't even seem like you plan on doing anything today. Getting dressed is included in "anything" aswell, it seems. Would it be wrong to say you either have no friends, or you're just too lazy to go out yourself?" Naito licked his finger at this time and used it to crease the corner of the page he was currently on. With this done, he slowly closed his book and awaited the young woman's answer. There were many things to read in the room right now, and the book was becoming more and more mediocre when compared to the rest.

Being roughly jerked out of his thoughts was something Ejji was never really getting used to. When he heard a loud female voice, seemingly adressed to him, he quickly snapped his eyes up and away from the student sitting nearby, so not to get caught staring. All kinds of weird rumours could start that way, and that could be very annoying. Instead he decided to direct his attention to the speaker.

He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, really. For all his supposed cool and collected attitude, the sight that greeted him was anything but something he was used to. There was a girl, leaning back on a couch opposite of him, a cheerful and bright smile on her face. She was cute, the Reiguu heir had to admit... but right now that wasn't the problem.

The problem was... she was wearing her pajamas. Naturally, it wasn't anything revealing at all, but Ejji still had to suppress a gulp. It was supposed to be improper to go out of one's house or bedroom in a state of dress such as this. Had this girl no shame? Or maybe...
No! It couldn't be - he saw her for the first time in his life, he was sure. He was probably misunderstanding things and overthinking all this. No way! But perhaps... Ejji's popularity was ahead of him once again, and the girl who used to following him through the shadows of the Academy decided to make him see her? Was this some sort of seduction attempt?! "Is this it?" Ejji wondered, bewrilled.

Outside of his mind thought, he appeared to have calmed down. His brows going back down and his face assuming it's usual calm facade. He thanked whatever gods in this world tha no one could see his internal worries - he was supposed to be stronger than this.
And Ejji decided to wait this thing out, not saying anything on the matter. He would, however, adress the girl's question and the look-alike's remarks. Wait - he could take the initiative in a way he would not be misunderstood or suspected!

"Hn." Ejji willed a soft, graceful smile to appear on his lips, after Naito had finished speaking. "Please, do not mind his rudeness..." Ejji made a small nudge of his head towards the boy. "... and, really, he is nothing like me it seems. Not being able to appreciate new comapny."

Ejji hoped he did not come off as overly... well... dare he say - flirty? He wasn't really used to being like that, seeing as the girls were usually all over him, worshiping the ground he walked on. He had no reasons to be cautios with those.

"As for your question - I am merely waiting for someone." He concluded, without going into detail. All this time Ejji tried to look at the girl's face, and not anywhere else.

"Uwaa... Shameless?" Kii blinked, looking down at herself. There wasn't much wrong with pyjamas was there? They covered everything pretty well, what time was it anyway? Still felt like early morning for her. She paused a little only really giving a little pout, biting at her bottom lip as she tried to think of a suitable answer.

"Nyeh... Friends... uhh... Nah I don't plan on doing anything today, I did loads in the week already. It's day off day today." She giggled a little awkwardly at her own sentiments.

The ruder of the two boys seemed to be still stuck reading his book. Which seemed a little odd considering his hair was like in the way of a lot of his face. How could he read like that? Didn't the hair bother him. Weirdo. Maybe he wasn't reading at all, just pretending to read to avoid the other boys conversation. Kii changed her gaze to the other boy who'd been nicer in reply to her greeting.

"Nah I don't mind him, he's probably just stingy 'cause we interrupted his reading time." Well actually she'd interrupted his reading time, they were being pretty quiet before she came in. Was this the way the rest of the dorm acted all the time? She casually hopped over the back of the sofa to sit on the seats instead, making a quick peak to read the title of what the ruder boy was reading first; "The God's Themselves" whoa, conversational dead end.

She switched back to looking at the nicer boy. He'd said that some girl was coming to meet him. Kii made a quick look at the door, if visitors were coming then maybe it really was inappropriate to be in pjs at this hour. The boy with the book had said it was already afternoon. Letting out a nervous laugh in embarrassment she tried to salvage the situation with more conversation.

"Ah, so who're you waiting for? Someone special?" It seemed rude to talk to the nicer boy without considering the reading guy, but he'd been rude first. So fairs fair she thought.

Naito watched the girl's cute expression to his comment, and it caused his eyes to widen for a split second. It almost reminded him of his sister, which caused his eyes to shift to their corners and off her for the time being. However, his attention would snap back towards the conversation when the other spoke of him. Instead of lowering himself with a snide response back, Naito would place his book upon his lap and lean his head down upon his propped up hand. With a nonchalant expression, he'd let out a subtle sigh. It wasn't like he was going to be clashing wits versus wits with this girl before him. She seemed rather slow in that department, but that was okay. It had its charms aswell. When she mentioned him being stingy, Naito would close on of his eyes while keeping the other narrowed. "I'm sitting right here. How rude to speak of me like I'm gone..." He mumbled under his breath as his cheeks puffed like a child's for a flash of a second. Making a choice to leave the conversation altogether, Naito would open his book and continue to read where he left off. That was the best excuse not to pay attention to the two. They obviously had much to talk about, as he wasn't that interested in who the other one was waiting for. And seeing how the weird girl was still walking around in what she slept in, she probably wasn't going to be doing anything important either.

"I wonder what someone like him is doing here, anyway. It's obvious he doesn't belong in this dorm. His attire screams Nokawia brat. Maybe this person he's waiting on lives here... Yea, that seems like the most likely answer. The female, on the other hand, certainly stays here. She's a strange one... Worth looking into perhaps." The student thought this to himself, of course, as he'd listen in to the two's conversation. Not like there was anything else to do at the moment. It was another boring day it seemed.

Ejji decided to do the wise thing, and leave the Tsurinai boy alone, since it was clearly something he wanted to do. He could understand wanting some alone time, without being bothered by anyone else. Solitude, however, was a hard thing to find sitting in the Dorm Lounge, filled with students at certain times of day. It may have been empty now, but soon enough it would be bursting with life. Or in the evening, at least.

Ejji made sure to listen to the girl as she spoke. It seemed he really did misunderstand the situation... curse him and his inexperience. From then one he decided to pay no mind to the girl's state of dress - after all, she was just another face out of hundreds of faces he paid no real attention to. Regaining his inner composture, Ejji then proceeded to answer, his previous charming smile slowly vanishing into an apathetic expression.

"No one special." he began, recalling why he was here in the first place. "Just a person I have a project with. She is late." was all he said. There was really no need to explain it further.

In truth he was really irritated with that. She was supposed to meet him here ten minutes ago, and he was beginning to think that the girl in question would not be showing up at all. A waste of time it would be, and Ejji did not like to waste time.
Ejji held back a sigh. Perhaps he would find something else to entertain him while he waited? But what?

Kii thought she heard the ruder boy mumble something for a second or so, taking a quick glance over at him she shrugged before writing it off as nothing. Turning her attention back towards whatever make shift conversation she was trying to draft up.

"Ah sorry to hear that she's uhm... late, oh a project huh? What kind of project?" She tried to hide the fact that whoever this guy was waiting for seemed to have left with all of the others, probably in the morning too. She gave a smile that was a little too consoling before trying to change the subject to something else that wasn't as "You got ditched" as this one seemed to be.

"So uhh..." She paused a little before finally thinking of something. "Uhm, right. So I never caught your name... zis, names." She caught herself, trying to include bookboy back in the conversation, giving him a quick look of acknowledgement as she did so before introducing herself, a little too fast and half heartedly. "I'm Yiruna, Kii. Nice to meetchu both."

She wasn't sure quite how well she'd come off but if she'd been annoying the others would have told her already. Though the first boy had already insulted her, but that was neither here nor there. Hopefully they'd give her a little personal information so she could bask in glorious social interaction, even though she hadn't really given any, but pyjamas were personal enough right?

Though she had asked the question to both of the boys she found looking at king bookworm a difficult task that made her somewhat nervous, so instead she focused her eyes on the nicer boy who she found a lot easier to talk to from his lack of insulting her pyjamas.

"What a sudden shift... " Naito thought to himself, as his piercing silver hues looked towards the other male in the lounge at the time. That smile of his seemed to fade rather fast. This forced conversation was going no where, and you didn't need to be a genius to notice that. When she asked for their names, Naito would close his book and stand from his chair. Closing his eyes, he'd place a hand in his pocket and begin to walk towards the stairway of the lounge. Once reaching the first step, he'd tilt his head slightly back, but refuse to turn back to look towards the two. "I have zero relevance to this conversation between the two of you. As such, an introduction and exchange of names is not needed, nor required, from someone like myself. Nor will I remember your name after this first meeting. Sayonara." His tone was rather calm, though the words were surprisingly blunt. With that said, he'd begin his ascension on the staircase to leave the two together. The aura of his superiority complex would slowly leave the area. Maybe then the girl could speak normally, without forcing herself to acknowledge his presence. And as simple as that, Naito left the scene so the two could have their conversation.

Ejji watched the other boy leave, content to let him do as he pleased. The youth these days could really learn some manners. Some were immodest and tactless, others blunt and rude - what was this world coming to? Ejji had to admit he felt a certain sense of pride that he could adhere to the proper rules of conduct at any time, any place. He might have always thought one things and spoken other things - but he had at least the decency to attempt to be a nice, benevolent person to others. They should all be grateful, really.

Finally, Ejji's eyes turned to the girl - Yurina Kii - as she just introduced herself. She was a wonder, but Ejji didn't know whether he wanted to deal with her right now, or not? On the other hand he was stuck in here until the person he was waiting for decided to come and take responsibility for her inaction.

Ejji decided to give the girl his own name, since it was only proper after her introducing herself. "I am Reiguu Ejji. But I have no doubt you've heard of me."

Ejji was sure she did. She had to know of the name, if not about his person in general. Anyway - moving onto other subjects...

"The project is nothing truly worth mentioning. Just only the fact that my partner is late." he concluded.

"Ah, Reiguu huh?" She did the obligatory pause to test the name, then sending that polite smile that one usually does when introducing them self she continued onto the next part of her reply, which was to tell the boy she had not heard of him without hurting his feelings. However before that part came the mental struggle to see if she could actually remember him. Being fairly new to the school, and only having lived in the area itself for a couple of years she hadn't actually picked up that much local knowledge.

"Reiguu... Eiji... It uhm... rings a bell... I think" She nodded to herself, believing her own lie. After all nobody would claim to be part of common knowledge unless they were like super special famous or something. At least that was Kii's reasoning. She looked him up and down for conformation, trying to decipher the mysrery of this famous boys famousness with wide curious eyes.

"Yes!" She clapped her hands together happily, pointing a finger at Reiguu. "Reiguu Eiji, Your in that boyband right?" She guessed completely at random, judging by his looks and whatnot. The only people who paid that much attention to being well groomed, and who wore what seemed to be custom made clothing must be in something super famous like a boyband. She grinned to herself, so superficially that she actually closed her eyes as she did it before opening them wide and happy with herself, looking back to the boy. "Oooh, so was I right, Rei?"

Ejji had to restrain himself from sputtering saliva all over his face and in front of the chair, hearing the girl's guess and her last words. What actually happened was that Ejji's eyebrows shot up and his mouth slightly opened. It was really an actual equivalent of shock for the restrained teenager. He had never been taken for a boyband member... and worst of all - the girl gave him a NICKNAME. This was just... Ejji really had no words for describing what she had just done to him, how she ridiculed him! He thanked the heavens and the gods for his "Ice Facade" as he came to call it, himself. It was a real saver from public embarassment.

Finally, overcoming his shock, Ejji lowered his brows and closed his mouth. He felt the need to stand up and advance on the girl - and so he did. Bringing his face closer to Kii he made sure to speak quietly, calmly but intently. She would not misunderstand.

"I am not in a boyband." he began, keeping himself from grinding his teeth as he spoke. "I have nothing to do with silly boybands and their... fans." he finished that thought, omitting a small insult ready to fly off the tip of his tongue. Weird - did she annoy him that much? Usually he didn't lower himself to petty insults, it was beneath him. No - he knew what upset him more. The other thing.

"And don't call me that!" he raised his voice just a bit, hoping that it showed more frustration or annoyance than.... embarrasment. No one gave him nicknames like that! And "Rei" was certainly not something he'd go along with.

He really hoped the girl would listen to him. If she persisted... well... he didn't know actually. He just hoped she did not. The one and only Reiguu Ejji called "Rei" in public was something he'd avoid atall costs. He'd rather strangle himself. Or at least something a little less drastic.

The more physical approach of Rei made Kii flinch back a bit, her eyes lost the wide eyed affect and she shrunk back in on herself slightly, scrunching her shoulders close to her body. A more sudden change happened when she noticeably flinched detecting the boys raised tone, edging a little backwards. Her face took on a slightly childish pouty expression, as if she was being told off, not helped by the fact she was still in pyjamas. "I'm sorry..."

For a long moment she kept quiet before speaking again, and was unable to make eye contact with her companion all the while. She brought her hands together onto her lap, putting one in the palm of the other running her fingers over her other fingers while she thought about what to do next. She could leave now, but that would make her the silly girl from the dorm who says stupid things and runs around in her pyjamas all day. She'd already gotten onto bad terms with sir readsalot today, she really didn't want to upset another person, especially not if they were super famous or something. She decided to try again with conversation.

"So... Rei- Uhhh Eiji- Uhhh... Reiguu" She decided the full last name was a safe bet, super polite was better than accidentally hurting someone's feelings. She remained avoiding eye contact as she spoke, fidgeting with her fingers a little bit as she went. "Uwaa.... Uhh... What kind of things do you like then Reiguu? Y-your an upperclassman right? So you must have chosen a club or hobby by now" Her tone perked up slightly, trying to direct the conversation more towards Rei and his feelings so she could offer a nicer view of herself.

She hurried onto giving more information about herself first before waiting for a reply. Shuffling a little nervously in her seat first. "I'm in the anime club. it's a little silly but the upperclassmen are lots of fun, and we get to talk about what kinds of tv shows we like and stuff. It leaves me a lot of freetime to do stuff outside school so I like that a lot, means I get to go home to Hayabusa whenever I feel like, cause I'm not really used to living in a dorm yet." Her dropped and apologetic tone didn't leave her while she spoke, so realizing she was probably being creepy and sad she ended on a really nervous laugh, before catching eye contact with Rei once more and then quickly losing it before expecting a reply. "I'm not really good at talking to people... I uhm... Sorry if I offended you..."

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At first Ejji had felt satisfied, seeing that Kii had understood her mistakes and apologized. It was a good thing, since there were kinds of people that seemed to just "not get it" whatever they were being told. Obnoxious and rude, or perhaps simply silly by nature or due to bad upbringing. Ejji did not voice his thoughts of course, but he did make sure to make a mental remark about the girl wearing pyjamas to a public place, even if it was the School Dorms - in fact - everyone could possibly see her here. But, he was going into his own world, it was time to return to the real world.

And what he found there made his mood take almost a full turn around. The way she spoke, the way she looked, the direction where she faced - all these things quickly told him that the girl was upset, hell, maybe even scared. He didn't want to go that far, really - just tell her that some things were unacceptable. Perhaps he could have done it in a nicer way, and not be such... a jerk? Did he really look like that just now, sound like that?
Ejji kept listening to her speak, wondering how to apologize. He wasn't too good at it, but he'd give it a try, since he started feeling bad about treating her the way he did. She was probably just too naive... and cute.

"I'm sorry." he started, rubbing his hand on the front of his neck, covering a small gulp he had to force down after those words. "I am... indeed an upperclassman. Second Year." he decided that the best way to appease the girl was to answer her questions without a fuss. "I am indeed a part of a club - two, in fact. The Literature Club and the Kendo Club. They are... useful activities, so I spend time on them."

He was telling the truth, omitting that he liked to read or practise sword arts. He just answered questions - and that didn't require him to spill his soul onto his apparent kouhai.

"I am not offended. Let's just forget that little nuisance and move on, yes?" Ejji tried a more diplomatic approach. He hoped the girl wouldn't treat it like nothing though, and would stop with the nicknames and boybands. He was not the type.