The best way to meet people is running them down with a bike.

[foreignstorage]

Who: Kura and Haruka.
What: Kura goes out for a jog without looking where he's going, and Haruka can't really look where she's going, either...
Where: Sidewalk in the shopping district near Chitoku.
When: Saturday May 13th

Kura had always been a jogger - it was how he burned stress, and how he kept himself in shape! He'd never had to go to a gym or anything to do it, either, so he never really had to deal with the looks he knew he'd get. Not that it really mattered! It was just people weren't comfortable with how he looked, and that was... whatever! He just didn't care that much about it, everything considered. He just picked up jogging instead.

At the moment, Kura had changed up his uniform for his beanie plus a simple short-sleeved shirt meant for runners and proper shorts! If it were colder, he would have probably gone for a hoodie, and even now he really kind of wanted one, but it was maybe too hot for that; he'd get sweaty long before he was tired! That'd be bad. (Still, he'd made sure to bundle all his hair under his beanie - meticulously, even.

Anyway, today, Kura was a bit more distracted then he'd liked to have been: distracted enough to not notice a blind girl on her bike heading basically right at him; he was used to being visible enough people went around him, and not the opposite. He was about to pay for that mistake, from the look of it: by being run down by a blind girl. Wow. What a great hafu.

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[allisnothing]

Haruka hadn't gone biking for a while but she'd woken up with an urge to go today. After a few moments of internal debate, she was off to the bus stop and into the city. She hadn't been getting much exercise lately. She hadn't gone to swimming club the last few practices and 'critical thinking' hadn't done much recently.

The couple who ran the bike rental shop were used to seeing her by now and stamped another marker on the card (though she heard an extra two stamps pounds), saying she'd get a rental discount the next time and they gave her a candy since they said it looked like she needed something to pep her up. She simply said school was exhausting right now but she'd be okay soon and that candy'd at least up her energy levels to max.

She wearing a black skort and a loose, flowy sleeved shirt, her pony tail was tied high, and her cane was folded up and tucked in the bag's backpack. As usual, she had one head phone in her ear feeding her information about the surroundings while she biked at a slow pace. She didn't have a set location in mind so she let the bumped path* underneath her guide her. It was a nice change of pace and the breeze was refreshing.

It wasn't that she hadn't heard the incoming person. She suddenly registered that blip in her mental map by the fast clomping and laboured breathes. However, most people moved aside when they saw her or she had enough time to swerve to the side or slow down enough. However, this time the person was moving very fast-

They crashed, sending Haruka scrambling to get her leg off the pedal and under her but the rest of the frame caught her and knocked her over with a loud yelp/

((*In Japan, many sidewalks have yellow bumpy section that the visually impaired tend to use))