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Our generation makes things interesting!

Who: Masaomi and anyone who comes
What: Birthday Shindig
When: 18th, Midday-ish (it's really on the 19th, but draft)
Where: Rec Center
Summary: Masaomi wanted to see his friends before the draft and ts' his birthday tomorrow. So he took the thing Mikado Announced and decided to make it on the day before to make it easier on everyone
Rating: idk??

[Well it's a "party" - Masaomi at least didn't plan for things like decorations or a cake, so there's just the video games, pool table, air hockey, and whatever else is normally here. If other people brought cake or food though, that's good! His message said that this was't planned (mostly because with is broke arm he can't lug anything and he didn't want to force that on Shikamaru. But yeah!! Let's... okay so it might not be the most enjoyable thing ever given the date, but let's interact!

I'll be making subthreads for gifts and food (the later because it's not supplied so people know what's there) but other than that make your own thread, mingle, mass log stuff ♥ If you character is a friend of Masaomi's assume he rang them about the date-change. Same for anyone who replied to Mikado's entry about it. If you want to crash it that's okay too, or say you heard from someone else or just followed someone there or... anything...]

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[And now he leans in a little closer still, a smile playing at his lips] I won't! I wouldn't want to damage your handiwork that badly.

[Her gaze sliiiiiiiiiiiiides back to him.

Why are you getting closer?]

Good. I'd hate to come back and see you worse than when I left. [A small smile.] You're supposed to be getting better.

Haaah, I swear on this bracelet to my speedy recovery!

[Which, is emboldened by him holding up the arm with it on there. Most likely, he's made nurse comments when she's visited him as had been necessary. But he still appreciates it. And is fond of it, actually.]

Edited 2012-06-24 08:12 (UTC)

[Again, the mention of the bracelet made lightly uncomfortable, and again, she rolled her eyes.]

Don't swear on the bracelet.

[And then she truly smiled at him.]

Just get better.

[Why did I drag her out here, after all?]

[Ah, instinct. It was an impulse - a mad one. But it is his birthday, he is "eighteen" even if he has been for a while and she's bound off for a war tomorrow. He's an injured dame waiting for her back home. He's a "friend" even though they both know that such a thing is a fallacy. He dips his head just a bit to the side and then mutters out]

Ah, I will.

[...You know what fuck it. He goes in to steal a kiss from her. It's very, very likely in his brain this'll be stopped out intercepted or something, but it's his birthday, she looks gorgeous, and it's just one of those times in his opinion]

[Masaomi has the benefit of surprise - Katara never, ever thought that he would try to do something like this. She'd already let him get quite close.

So by the time she'd registered the meaning of his quick movement and thought to dodge, his lips were already on hers.]

[How he would love to prolong this. He really, really would. But he can tell she's surprised (of course she is) and he knows he'll probably get flak for this but M ission A ccomplished. He pulls back before she can because he knows if she does it'll spoil the moment and then kisses his bracelet once he does pulls back]

And that one was for luck.

[His lips were no stranger to hers, but this was the first time since Christmas that it had been truly them, for a moment, kissing - though she had been too startled to return the kiss and irrationally she's furious that he had ruined it like this, ruined their chance for a real kiss to be a real kiss. She didn't even know if she wanted to return it or not - he hadn't given her a choice. He'd just kissed her.]

Edited 2012-06-24 15:47 (UTC)

[She took a deep breath, oddly fighting back the urge to cry, and hating the way her lips tingled.

"And that one was for luck."

How could you?]

[She wants to hit him.]

I just told you you can't kiss me just because you feel like it - it doesn't matter whether we're in there or out here, you don't get to treat me like that!

[She shoved him back, hard, on his good shoulder.]

Never do that again!

Never? [His face comes into this expression as he stumbles back, looking dully at her. He was prepared for her to have a negative reaction,but never just sits poorly in his mouth]

Of course never!

[Hands on her hips, she leans forward. She meets the flat look in his eyes with furious indignation. Because her lips are still tingling. Because he just made it that much harder for her to stick to her choice. Because it was her choice, and her lips, and her kiss, and he had no right at all to violate that.]

What is the matter with you! You crossed the line, Masaomi, and you don't get to take us across that line without my permission!

[Because he might want to pass that kiss off as a simple token, but he knew better. It wasn't simple to her, and he knew it, and it was no token to him, and she knew it. She could just scream, she was so frustrated and angry, her heart so suddenly aware of all the longings and aches she was trying to ignore.]

[It makes sense, what she's saying. It had been rude, and even if he doesn't like these "lines" even someone like hum can objectively see what she's saying. But never is really pissing him off. So much so that he's smirking in a way he's found himself doing when he's fighting an opponent he knows he probably can't beat lately - in his training with Silver and-

Oh, he had been smirking like this at the one with the warhammer, hadn't he?

In any case, he crouches down a bit again, now with his footing in place and tries to calm his face to something more sensible to use a more sensible tone]

Absolutes don't sit well with me, so let's make this an instance and I'll ask your permission - How about you can kiss me for a once only free time birthday special, or you could hit me in the face for the same special?

[Because really, who's met him and doesn't want to punch him in the face at least once]

[Oh, no doubt about it, she wants to hit him in the face. And that desire doubles after he makes his dubious offer.

Kiss him? Ha!]

Even if I hit you, it doesn't cancel out what you just did! This isn't a trade! You deserve it after what you just did, but it doesn't make it even. It's not okay, Masaomi!

[Acknowledgement of wrong-doing, apologies, a sincere vow to change - those are the only things that can start to restore balance. Not her making it seem like he could do whatever he wanted as long as he was willing to pay a price.]

Eeeh, I never said it would cancel it out? I said this choice would be an instance for you, removed from time. [A beat, ad he tilts his head a little.]

As for my good luck charm, sorry. [Forcing was wrong (of course it was). At the same time though, he doesn't completely regret it]

[She deflates a little at his persistence in calling it that. Maybe that was how he meant it. It had been wrong, but they were going to be separated and they did care for one another and...

It was his birthday. That whole time, a kiss from her was all he'd claimed to have wanted.

Her expression changes to a strange mixture of remorse, consideration, and pout.]

I'm not sure I believe you're actually sorry.

[Sorry I'm upset, maybe.

Shikamaru had said it was like that.

Her expression smooths into something more accepting, even hints at a wry smile.]

But I'm not going to hit you either.

[Somehow, he hasn't lost her trust in this.]

[...Maaah, he's not going to get it, is he? (or so he concludes in that moment) His expression fades into something more relaxed. Maybe a bit resigned. But he's smiling and it's only a tiny bit forced]

For hurting you? I'll be sorry every time that happens. [A light tut. There's more to say, but he'll hold back for now]

I know.

[But that doesn't stop you from doing it.

And it doesn't stop her from being around him, even though she knows that.

She sighs a little and glances towards the door.]

We should get you back to your party.

[For any number of reasons - they'd been out here long enough, someone could be looking for them, Aang could have noticed, someone could walk out at any moment, it was rude, she wanted distance...]

[He frowns now, looking down at the bracelet on his wrist. Huh. You know what, while he turns to head back inside, he also decides to get in a last word] My word to you still stands and I hold no illusions I can change anything with subterfuge. So when you make you triumphant return with Sokka-kun and the others, this friend of yours will be right there to embrace you.

[There. That's sufficient, right? Let's go back inside]

[And sometimes what he says slips inside her like a knife and cuts with the purity of his emotion and the intensity of his expression, and it's beautiful.

She stops short.]

[And then takes two quick steps to catch up with him, a third to come right beside him, and turns him around by his good shoulder. She uses the same movement to step closer, wrap that arm around him, and hug him.

Don't worry about me, I'll be fine.

Please be careful.

Happy birthday.

I wish... a kinder fate for you as well.

I...]

I'll be counting on it.

[And then she slips away, gives him a tremulous, beautiful smile, and turns to precede him through the door.]

[....Holy Shit.

Wow. Okay. Um. Wow, he totally just lucked out there and his eyes are wide for it for a moment before a grin spreads wide over his face to outdo the blushing to follow her on back inside. To his birthday]

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