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and you ignore it; you implore it

Who: Sayuri and Yuri, Sayuri and Kisa.
What: Sayuri decides to go do research in the library on certain things and gets grilled about it and then later due to her absolute lack of sleep ever since the deal with Miyume she manages to fall asleep in the middle of the library.
Where: Library.
When: After school, Tuesday May 9th.

( i'm putting the actual seperate threads up as comments below! )

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She would prefer to not answer the first question. After all, she lied just now, and that would already be the same as doing something wrong.. but she couldn't admit that, no matter what. She's sure the secrecy she's sworn is supposed to take priority over everything else. Besides, she didn't even really have time to answer the question since then the other one already happened-- and that one was enough to completely distract Sayuri from the other thing altogether. Just the mention of her former roommate was enough to make her wince. Of course it was because of the guilt she felt over the girl's death, but it could easily be taken as her subconsciously admitting to what Yuri was asking.

Even if that wasn't what she was scared of. Since she didn't believe it. If only her ghost was here, then maybe she could still have asked for forgiveness..

"H.. H-Hazama-san's ghost..?"

Yuri stood, arms akimbo and that fox gaze sharpening as she sized the other girl up.

"That's what's been going around. Unless you have another theory you want to share." She leaned in. "What's really bugging you?"

Sayuri quickly shook her head.

"N.. no, I was.. just worried about that possibility as well." She was mentally apologizing to Miyume even as she said that. It wasn't really what she was scared of, but even so, the idea of ghosts themselves was scary enough, so it wasn't hard to just try to focus on that feeling and fake it that way. "Do you think it's very likely..?" God, she just really wanted to step back the closer the other girl leaned over, but somehow it seemed impolite, so instead she just started to look really awkward.

"No way," Yuri said bluntly, and there was that dismissive, disappointment again before she added, "If her ghost is around I sure haven't sniffed her out yet." She said that like she'd actually checked.

"So all this research is for her? Really?"

Yuri was so blunt that it was practically hard for Sayuri to deal with all around, but.. on the other hand, the girl knew that she at least had to cover up their secret. Even if she was just feeling majorly uncomfortable in the situation. After a quite moment of thinking she replied, "Wouldn't you be scared if your roommate suddenly died..?"

There was a sudden shift. It happened over a split second where Yuri went from her pushing and confident to looking like she'd been tripped up horribly to full on guilt.

"Oh shit - you're her roommate?" She tried drawing herself up but her stance wasn't as confident as it was when their interrogation started and she tugged at her hat before saying in a much less blunt tone, "Why didn't you say so!? Now I look like a complete insensitive-" she made a hand motion as if to say the other girl could finish the word herself.

Too bad Sayuri wasn't the type who could ever insult anyone. Especially not out loud. So she just stared at the other girl as if she was waiting for Yuri to finally finish her sentence, but after a moment or two of uncomfortable silence even Sayuri could understand that wasn't really going to happen anymore. Instead she awkwardly pushes her glasses a little further up her nose.

"You didn't ask.. I apologize if I should have." Because it was far from this girl to ever lie the blame for things with anyone else than herself.

"Don't apologize! Get angry or indignant or throw a book at me!" Yuri snapped, looking even more irritated now. "Honestly, if someone were an insensitive twit to you what you should be doing is getting angry! You should be holding onto that so if you really wanted to you could whip out 'Btw didja here? Yuri Kurashiki was a total insensitive twit to Hazama's roommate. What a bitch amIrite?'.

"Ugh, now I look even worse for chewing you out!" She thunked the book she was holding against her head.

Edited 2014-02-09 23:09 (UTC)

Sayuri could only stare at the other girl with wide eyes as she rambled on. She didn't understand a bit about what was going on-- weren't they supposed to always be polite to other people in society? Like she could ever really get that mad at anyone and call them a.. well, the b-word! Her eyes grew wider as Yuri kept on going and when the girl started to hit herself with the book, Sayuri weakly reached out with one hand.

"A.. ah, p-please don't hurt yourself..! Really, it's okay, you couldn't have known.."

Although it was sort of insensitive to harass people like that in general, but still.. Sayuri almost looked apologetic, like she was the one who did something wrong here.

"I'm sorry."

That seemed to calm Yuri down for a moment. She pulled the book away and nodded to herself, "Well, yeah, like I said you should have said something. But still-"

She pointed the book at the other girl and ordered, "You still don't get to say you're sorry for someone else being an insensitive bitch. So as your senpai, I order you to never say I'm sorry over this again."

It was almost as if Sayuri was shrinking on the spot. Then again, maybe it was just because of the way she was starting to bend her head forwards more and more..

".. I understand, senpai." As if she could ever ignore a direct command from anyone who was remotely superior to her, either way. "I promise I won't say sorry over something like this again.."

"Good." Yuri nodded with a grin before adding, "And this isn't just with me! You aren't allowed to say you're sorry over something like this to anyone else. Got it?"

For all Yuri's previous direct pushiness before, she seemed much lighter now, more like she was giving general advice than an order.

"N.. not in any case?" This was definitely going to be a tall order. Not that Sayuri wouldn't try to keep to that advice all the same since it was one of her senpai telling her it, but still, saying sorry usually came to her so naturally..

"I'm not sure if I'm entirely allowed to judge though whether other people are being.. um.. out of line or not though.."

Really obviously trying to avoid repeating words like "insensitive bitch" there, yes.

"Um, yeah, of course not in any case!" Yuri said leaning in again, that directness back,

"And what do you mean you're not allowed to judge other people? Everybody does! If you feel uncomfortable, you should say so. If you're feeling like someone's pushing to hard you should shove back. And if you think someone's out of line, you should speak up and remind insensitive bitches and bastards of their boundaries. This is another directive."

"S-.. senpai, that's.."

.. Going too far, but putting it that bluntly felt rude.. So Sayuri tried to quickly - even with her panicked thoughts - find an alternative way of putting it that wouldn't come across as blunt.

"That might be.. um.. a little too harsh.."

There was the urge to try and hide behind the books again. If only it was a feasible option, really.

"I don't see why," Yuri replied, with a slight shrug of her shoulder and a dismissive gesture that implied she really didn't. "All you're doing is speaking your mind. Which is much better than making things awkward for you and the other person when it comes out that they went out of line."

How was she supposed to answer to that? She should probably explain that the polite thing to do was to not speak up and speak out of turn, but on the other hand, Sayuri didn't really know how to put that either.. it was like this whole conversation was just about her trying to avoid saying certain things, huh?

".. If you say so, senpai."

Yeah, she was exactly doing what Yuri was talking about there at the end, but Sayuri didn't really care. She just had to do what was expected of her, after all.

Something flickered on Yuri's face for a moment. It looked strangely blank and unreadable before Yuri 'hmphed' and said, "Whatever. Just remember to do what I say and you'll be fine. Got that?"

Not waiting for a reply, she adjusted her hat and reached for a card that'd been tucked in it. It was actually a small stack, on closer inspection, and on it was neatly printed kanji 'KURASHIKI YURI - SCHOOL PRESS AND INFORMATION SERVICES'. She grinned as she held it out to the other girl, "Here. If you want to talk more or if you want a little bit of knowledge at your disposal."

Sayuri took the card from the other girl with a small nod, her gaze immediately falling to it to read the letters on it. Kurashiki Yuri, huh.. Sayuri might not be the kind of person to go out of her way to seek out contact with others necessarily since she sucked so much at it, but the thing about knowledge might come in handy in the future. Maybe they'd have to investigate something at some point to do business related to that other world.. although then there would be the problem of thinking how to ask Yuri's help without her noticing what for. But that was all just a hypothetical if scenario, either way.

"Thank you, I won't forget it.." A small bow followed. "I should get back to reading now though before it gets late."

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