A roommate lost, a roommate gained.

[foreignstorage]

Who: Taue and Kura.
What: With Mirai moving out, Kura's moving in; Taue can't catch too much of a break.
Where: The dorm; Room 618 (Taue's room)
When: Moving day; aka, Wednesday 10th May.

Kura had kind of gotten informed that if a suitable situation appeared, he'd be moved to that a week or two ago; the administration didn't seem to want to put him in a single, and his... Well, relationship with his now ex-roommate had kind of gotten off on the wrong foot and taken a stumble down a very rocky mountain. By the time they hit the bottom, their relationship was pretty much irreparable - they argued and certainly weren't friendly. Kura didn't like him, and he didn't like Kura; that was just how things were. (His depressing pessimism and dedication to his country (and being rude to Kura) and authority were far too much for Kura to properly deal with.)

But now, well! It seemed like a vacancy had sprung up somewhere, because he was being given a new room number and told to make the move! To be honest, he didn't mind the idea that much at all - maybe he'd get along better with the new guy then with the old one? Man, he hoped so! No, he knew so! Not everyone was a really rude dick, right?

So, with that in mind, Kura let himself in to his new room - since he had a key and all - and knocked on the already open door as an afterthought. He was trailing a school bag and a suitcase he seemed to have no trouble carrying - it just had clothes and other things in it, and it was the kind of cheaper suitcase that you wouldn't want to throw into an airport bag claim for fear of it coming out torn up like tissue paper from rough handling.

He wasn't sure if his roommate was in, but if he wasn't, he could settle his stuff in in the wake of the previous roommate! With that in mind, he called out to the room - "Hello? Are you here, uh..." Shit, he hadn't learned his roommate's name. He swore it was on the notice, but he hadn't actually read that too thoroughly, and the name escaped him now. He peeked in a little further than the entrance, suddenly feeling a tad anxious before he assuaged himself that naaaah whoever it was wouldn't mind? Probably. "I'm supposed to be your new roommate, if you are!"

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[heirofkobe]

The door opened fully a few moments later. Ordinarily, Taue wouldn't have been here, but the housing department had explained to him what was going on. Losing Mirai was, to put it mildly, a net positive. Shinichiro had hoped the room would just remain his, but no such luck.

Even so, he was in decent spirits. Most anything was a significant improvement over Mirai.

Taue had taken care to clean up the room - and hide his alcohol, lest his new roommate be the goody-two-shoes sort.

"Yo," Taue replied, as he threw the door open. "Welcome to Room 618. I'm Shinichiro Taue, sole survivor of the room. My old roommate is gone, thank God, and I don't think you can be any worse, so I'm looking forward to this new arrangement."

He sized up the other, taller (and that was a rarity for Taue, looking UP at someone) boy. Definitely foreign. Well. Not that he minded, really. Probably better than Mirai. With a chuckle, he made a grand welcoming gesture with his arms.

[foreignstorage]

The room just remaining Taue's wouldn't have promoted making connections and friendship, Taue! Come on, have a friend. A large, gaijin-looking friend. As it was, Kura was pretty much never in a bad mood; so he smiled when Taue opened the door, offering a large grin.

Good call on the alcohol, though. Kura might have disapproved.

"Hey! Nice to meet you!" Booming voice, much loud. Hope Taue didn't mind that much; Kura had a distinct lack of volume control. "I'm Nishiyama Kurausu, but everyone calls me Kura!" He seemed to almost bounce slightly, happily. Loud and positive, this guy was.

As it was, he had no 'accent'; at worst, Japanese at least sounded like his first language. "I'm looking forward to the new arrangement, too! My old roommate and I didn't get along, so, y'know! This'll definitely be better!"

[heirofkobe]

"Same with my roommate and I," Taue explained, the exuberance of his new roommate making him inwardly wince, even as Shinichiro reminded himself of the upgrade that even exuberance represented over the Mirai Experience. "Actually, I'm fairly easy to get along with - in large part because I live in Kobe, so I usually spend three nights a week back home."

Better to get that out of the way now, this Kura seemed the sensitive sort, and best to head off awkward "why don't you spend much time here" conversations in the here and now.

"Otherwise, your side of the room's over there, feel free to do whatever you want with it, really."

Shrugging, Taue returned to his bed, plopping down on it with a shrug, and began playing some game or another on his phoen.

such beautifully peaceful roommates (lemme know if you wanna do chatter or cut here on AIM)

[foreignstorage]

The Mirai Experience was basically 'roommate hell'. At least with other potentially dangerous roommates, you got compensation. Anyway, Kura nodded. "Okay! My mom lives up in Osaka, so I don't get to go home that often. I'm jealous!" He laughed a little, not really meaning that.

It was good he mentioned it, though; Kura might not have minded, but he would have felt Weird about it, like his roommate was deliberately sleeping elsewhere to avoid him, or something. He wouldn't have brought it up, or anything, but that would have been his guess.

"And will do!" He properly slid his nameplate into the door in a burst of remembering bringing it, before stepping into the room. He settled in fairly quickly - he didn't really seem to have much. He set down a picture or two of what seemed to be an older Japanese woman (which was, of course, his mother), and a few books, before settling all his clothing where it belonged and settling down on his bed.

Unless Taue interrupted him at any point, he'd probably avoid interrupting Taue's game and just pick up a book and start reading.