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Deja Vu [Closed/Neku and Shiki]

Shiki brought that hand to her mouth and giggled into it quite heartily; she had to admit she was happy that Neku didn’t call her a freak or run away from her on the spot, her laughter grew a little louder.

“Pshaw, it’s just a friendly peck, of course you’re not my boyfriend!” this was probably just some really extreme teasing right here. “Do you want me to go kiss some other guy on the cheek?”

What a mean girl.

To be honest, he was a bit surprised that he didn't run away either. He felt the area that she had so carelessly kissed then pinched - it felt like his cheek was slightly sore and red for all the wrong reasons. After a while, Neku sighed, though still flushed a bit. How could she be so casual about this?

...Right, because they were friends, and friends teased each other. "Geez." He pouted a bit, looking down at the ground while pondering an answer the last question she had asked.

But he didn't answer.

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Yayoi flinched when she heard that he hadn’t made many friends. How could someone with such a laid back personality like him not have that many friends? Was he not as magnetic as she first thought he was? She bit the tip of her thumb, trying to figure out what could have put people off from him. Perhaps Yayoi had just been attracted by his attitude as she was to Asuka’s somewhat arrogant and proud one. “W-Well, I can be your friend! If you want, I mean. I can be kind of a cry baby, and a lot of people get annoyed by it.”

Even Yayoi knew that was a rather pathetic attempt at invoking friendship between them. Even five year olds didn’t just say “Hey, let’s be friends!!!!” and then walk off to play in a sand box. They just kind of became friends, but here was little Yayoi blatantly asking someone to be her friend. Nevertheless, she couldn’t help but pray in her head that he said yes. She’d always wanted a friend that had such cool demeanor, almost like one of her favorite manga heroes.

Neku's eyes widened for a bit at her optimism - she wanted to be his friend that badly? He found it weird; though not in a sense that everyone else would take it, he just... wasn't used to people wanted to get acquainted with him at all. He had some mixed feelings, he was shocked, and initially turned off by the extreme straight-forwardness, but it didn't look like he could refuse unless he was completely willing to break her heart. "Alright, I'll... I'll be your friend." He felt his heart skip a bit of a beat.

"Yayoi, right?"

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Yayoi shifted her body in a short circular motion, back and froth, still struggling to figure out what kind of things she could say to stop the older boy from just walking away. “I see, so I’ve only been her a week or two longer than you! Have you been able to find your way around the school easily? A few of my friends got lost frequently when they first started here.” she giggled, looking up at the boy and giving a head tilt. “Actually, never mind that question. Someone as cool of you can’t have any problems as silly as that, right?”

“I bet you’ve made a lot of friends, too! I definitely have made a few very good ones!” she hoped that he had in fact made friends, otherwise that statement may have been somewhat awkward. Someone who was as calm and collected as him was sure to obtain the interest of some people, right?

"Yeah, it was pretty easy." The school was big, though luckily Neku had an easy time remembering where most of the locations were due to his memory. If not for that one trait, he would've gotten lost around the school frequently the first time he got there. He was a bit surprised at the fact that she had just labeled him as "cool," no one had called them that before; save for Shiki, who had only told him that he had the potential of pulling off stylish clothes.

Friends? "I've met a few people here, but I wouldn't exactly call them friends." He made that sound less awkward than how it was supposed to be; except for about two people, the rest of his friends weren't here. Contrary to what Yayoi thought, he mostly just scared people away with his demeanor. "It's... good that you've made a few friends here though."

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Deja Vu [Closed/Neku and Shiki]

Even if she didn’t look at him, she felt the feeling and seriousness behind his words and it made her feel even more stupid. He was right.. some string wasn’t going to tell her who she could or couldn’t be friends with. The appearance of the string may have been reassuring in some ways, but she still felt close to him even with its disappearance.

“I decided I want you around.”

She grinned cheekily again, implying she was ready to tease him full throttle once again.

This time she leaned in and pecked him on the cheek, before quickly distancing herself and pinching the place she just kissed. “So you have no choice but to hang around me even if I do things like this!” she sure cheered up quickly.

He had patiently awaited for her response until she spoke up; and afterwards he smiled. Not exactly paying attention to how "cheeky" her grin was, the kiss had caught him by complete surprise. Neku felt blood rush up to his face - he had almost completely reddened, his cheeks heated up, and he felt like steam was blowing out his ears. The redhead stared at Shiki with a look of bewilderment, though looked as if he was at a loss of words.

"H-hey, you...!" Those were pretty much most of the words he could form during the time, he had to look away for a few moments before looking back at her. He lightly slapped her hand away from his face, completely flustered. "I'm not your boyfriend, stupid...! G-go kiss some other guy on the cheek." He continued to blush, his tone filled with slight doubt at the very last thing he said.

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Shiki looked down and sighed a little, her eyes avoided Neku’s for a short while and she was honestly a little embarrassed at taking the thing seriously. “Yeah, you’re right.. I just worried that it meant we weren’t fated to be friends forever after all.”

Wow melo much.

Shiki was having a bit of a hard time the last week, that was for sure, a lot of things had happened even though she wasn’t even dead or in the UG. “It made me a little happy, to think we were fated to always be connected.. because you’re a really different part of my life, yet a really important one.”

Without really being able to help it, she’d begun taking it all seriously anyway; even if by concept alone.

Their eyes were averted from each other, though that didn't keep him from listening intently. What she had to say wasn't at all meant to be taken lightly, and Neku couldn't help but flush just a little bit. Though he was a bit surprised that she took the concept so seriously, however slightly irritated that she allowed a little legend to bring her down like that. "Just be quiet already.

"You're going to let some dumb red thread decide whether or not you're going to be my friend? Bullshit." The tiny little thing was most likely one of the school's doings, though he wasn't going to bring that up. "You're my friend, I'm not going to let anyone else tell you or me otherwise." Even though Shiki wasn't looking at him, he looked straight at her, his expression serious and his eyes confident in what he had just said. "It's up to you to decide whether or not we're going to continue being friends for a long time from now."

Deja Vu [Closed/Neku and Shiki]

She winked at him and giggled, did her pinches really hurt that much? “You wuss.”

“But don’t worry I won’t drag you, but just don’t forget about me and hang out by yourself too much instead, kay?” even if hanging out by yourself was nice sometimes she wanted to feel like she wasn’t the only one who wanted them to spend time together like this, even if it was nothing really special..

Then she also noticed the string, seeing Neku’s bare pinky. “Huh.. that was easy.” she pouted, hoping it didn’t mean their connection to each other was ‘over’ or anything melo like that. “It’s a little bittersweet..” or maybe that was just her.

"..."

I'm not... a wuss...

"Don't worry." He said that figuring that he'd spend most of his free time with her anyway. But he did genuinely want to spend more time with her considering that she was practically one of his only friends, he just... didn't know... how to have fun usually.

"What, did you want to be stuck together like that forever? You'd have a hard time getting to class tomorrow." He shot a little grin then flicked her forehead. "The string doesn't mean anything, you're still my friend and partner."

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“Oh, Shanks? He’s this really great pirate! He helped me decide that I’d be a great pirate too!” Luffy smiled more calmly.

“And he gave me this hat! And scared off a huge sea monster!” The way Luffy talked about him was almost like a child talking about a hero. “I haven’t seen him in aaaages though!”

He was a... pirate. Those still existed? Neku first figured that he was some kind of sailor given that he talked about having a ship, but he was a pirate.

...But he didn't really seem like one, 'side from the big scare on his torso. "Sea monster..." Either Luffy was from a different time or world, he figured either was possible. The school could bring in people like that after, so he wasn't as surprised as he could be. "So let me get this straight, you're a pirate with weird superhuman powers." Why did was he suddenly reminded of a really popular manga that a lot of people read in Shibuya

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04. return.

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[ His brows furrowed upwards and he clenched his sharpened teeth, unsure of what to say. Well, that’s probably how he would’ve acted too, if he got hit with a book, so Rin really couldn’t blame him. Sighing, the demon slung the Kurikara and the bag he’d been forced into carrying, shoving the notebooks and books and assorted other things inside. He wasn’t a delinquent, really…!! ]

Y-Yeah, that was my bad.

Yer sure yer alright…? It didn’t hit you that hard or nothin’?

[ If he wanted to fit in here, he would have to force himself into trying to converse with people. Normally he would have been on his merry way and taken his things but…he felt bad for having been so foolish. Plus, he didn’t want this kid to think he was some sort of bag of dicks that threw books around all the time. He looked, for lack of a better word, interesting, with that whole orange hair get up and the headphones, too. If Rin didn’t know any better, he would have said he looked straight out of the comics he used to read back at home.

But, that aside, at least the Kurikara hadn’t fallen out of it’s place or something. That would have been awkward, because of the whole “I’m the son of Satan” thing. His tail flicked nervously to one side, obviously not burdened by the things he was carrying—super human strength and all. In fact, he probably shouldn’t have been carrying all the books in the first place; too bad he was dumb enough to think he needed all of them for the first day he was back. ]

"Yeah, don't worry about it." Under his breath he whispered 'I'm used to it...' and hopefully the ebony wouldn't have noticed it. After Neku had finished picking up Rin's belongings, he handed them to him, astonishingly nice despite the look he gave.

Neku could have said the same about Rin, he didn't take too long to inspect the other male, but his sharp teeth and ears were pretty definable traits. The tail was a plus. His image already had been burned into his head, given how easily Neku could remember things.

After the large textbook was handed to Rin, it was then that he noticed that it was the same one of the few that Neku carried around; geometry. "I haven't seen you in class before." A bit vague, but he was referring to that specific arithmetic class. Though the ginger couldn't really blame him for skipping or anything, most things relating to math weren't his favorite either. Though not completely intending to, he continued to stare with a slight intimidating expression and stoic gaze.

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Deja Vu [Closed/Neku and Shiki]

Shiki pouted once more, not at ‘being dragged around’, not even at ‘genki girl’, but at ‘pig’!

“You’re still calling him a pig?!” she pinched his ear again, this time a little harder, maybe she could scold him until he learnt that Mr. Mew was a cat! “And I don’t drag him along carelessly, I drag him along lovingly. Would you like that, Neku?”

Still, the emo’s warm smile warmed her heart a little, she didn’t particularly mean for things to go really cheesy but it was still nice to see that he was always in a good mood around her - at least it felt that way. “Oh yeah, these red strings made sure of that.”

She wasn’t really paying enough attention to notice, but the red string slipped off her finger the moment she uttered those words.

"Because it's a pi- ow!" He felt at his ear after she pinched it, it was probably swollen or extremely red by now because it certainly felt that way. "Just... don't drag me." He furrowed his eyebrows a bit before eventually calming down, though still rubbing his ear.

The red thread finally came off, though he didn't really pay attention to it either. It was then that he was about to raise his pinkie and show it to her, but when he had looked, they weren't there anymore. He looked further down to see the the string had fallen down between them.

"Looks like they're off."

#sof string event #shiki

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Yayoi was relieved to hear he was kidding. She was honestly a bit worried that she’d be doing some kind of horrible physics problem all night to make up for such a minor accident. However, she was stuck on what to say next. While she hadplenty of things to bring up during “girl talk”, speaking to guys was a whole different story. The only male she’d ever really gotten along with was her father, and he hadn’t been around for nearly 10 years now.

“S-So, how long have you been going to Tancho? I’ve only been here a few weeks, but I really like it here. Everyone is pretty nice and there’s always something going on, even if I’m not participating.” she chuckled, remembreing how she opted to skip out on that slumber party and the pool party.

“I haven’t seen you before today, so you can’t have been here long, right?”

Neku could really be better with girls, though in all honestly, he just wasn't really good with people. Throughout most of his life, he only had one friend, and made a few more not too long ago. However, he was still learning, and in retrospect he could have acted much more rude towards others if not for that.

"I've only been here for about three weeks I think." He hadn't really counted; compared to a lot of people, his time spent here was not long at all, though he had already gotten used to everything.

And the people here were definitely something else, but he wasn't going to say that.

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This young man didn’t seem too enthralled by the academy. Canti wondered what he was doing here if he wasn’t interested in learning, but decided not to ask. He probably had his reasons.

Regardless, Canti enjoyed being at the academy so far, having met quite a few people - most of which were friendly. Some of the teachers were a bit scary, but that didn’t hinder their ability to teach.

In short, he was kind of dragged here on his own whim, but didn't mind it too much in the end. Tancho's levels of academics were a bit difficult, though with Neku's whit he didn't have a lot of trouble in most of his classes. He was the kind of person that didn't really need to try hard in school to succeed.

He just kind of stared, though after a bit of silence, he decided to break it. He still wasn't very good at this talking thing. "So erm, what grade are you in?" he asked, figuring that he was either a junior or senior considering he hasn't seen him in any of his classes before.

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Luffy crossed his arms again, pondering Neku’s question. “Mmm…”

“Shanks found my fruit, I just ate it.” He spoke as if everyone knew all of his acquaintances. “I heard they’re hidden all over the place, dunno where they come from though. They’re just weird-looking mystery fruits! Never found one myself.” Luffy was rarely asked many questions, most questions directed at him were often answered by the more… informed members of his crew.

He didn't expect Luffy to be really thorough with the explanations by now, so he just listened to what he had to say. He assumed "Shanks" was another acquaintance or friend of his for now.

And huh, so they were real fruits.

Neku simply stared at the ebony for a few moments, though decided to speak up after a moment of silence had passed. "So who is this... Shanks guy."

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04. return.

[ Man, just how long had he been skipping classes?!? How was he not kicked out of school yet?!?!??!!?!? The world may never know.

But hey, at least he was sort of attempting to be present, now. That much was obvious by his actually wearing the uniform, and actually being in the school’s buildings, instead of sleeping in his dorm or outside in the sun. It just so happened that, hey, he was strolling outside the front entrance with his hands sunk in his pockets and his shoulders slouched, tail hanging low to the ground. He’d decided that people probably wouldn’t care about his demonic heritage, so there was no use hiding it.

Besides, it just seemed like this place had way too many people for his liking. Rin really didn’t enjoy being shoved into being around so many people; he didn’t like it one bit. But…he was supposed to be trying to be a little more social, so he made it his personal mission to at least hold a solid conversation with someone, today. He’d been wondering if there was a market around here, cooking was always the way to bring people together— ]

!!!!

[ Wow, he really hadn’t been paying attention (it didn’t help that he was quite the klutz) and it looks like he tripped on the last few steps of the stairs!!! And oh no, it looks like all of his stuff is flying in random directions, including a certain heavier looking book that he’d been carrying with ease due to his demonic strength. It just so happens that this book hits an unsuspecting person in the back, ouch!!! Rin manages to catch just about everything in a tumble, save for a few pencils and…well, the book that just assaulted the poor person. ]

Uh—

A-Are you alright…?

[ Shoving the contents of what he’d caught back into his bag, he approached the other person slowly, not wanting to aggravate them. He really was a screw up, wasn’t he? ]