1490/Love n' Tuna

Love n' Tuna
Date of Scene:	19 May 2016
Location:	Pikarigaoka - Old Church
Synopsis:	Norie talks to Ayana about Sora, Love and also there's Tuna to be had.
Cast of Characters:	Norie Okana, Ayana

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Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana has been waiting for a text from Ayana for a while. Instead, though, Norie has questions for Ayana since earlier today. They're bothering her enough that she texts.

'I'd like to talk. Nothing important. But. Questions. I have questions! Meet me at the Church.' then a pause-- before sending, she adds. 'I have some snacks.'.

Indeed, Norie is sitting in the church in the later evening with a bag of snackable items. Ayana is a fox, so she her common school education tells her meat should be on the menu. That means!------ well she got a couple pop top cans of tuna fish. That seemed different. She also has a fork. along with that and crackers for the tuna. Yeah NOW she's misjudging.

She has also aquired various bags of chips. Candy bars. And canned juice drinks of berry red colors.

She politely waits sitting in one of the pews as she always is, looking around at the decor as she always is. Her view of this place hasn't changed at least. It just feels... comfortable. Not the location itself. Just the decor.

She purses her lips a bit in thought as she taps her chin.

Ayana has posed:
Convincing Ayana to come is not difficult without the mention of snacks. Mentioning food, however, is like baiting a hook for a fish. It's effective, cruel, and absolutely guaranteed to work instantly.

The text message isn't even ten minutes old when the doors to the church open loudly, and Ayana comes stumbling in dressed only in a pair of tight-fitting shorts, an ill-fitted tank-top, and one stocking. She didn't bother with shoes or her other tanktop!

Don't they feed this poor girl at home!?

"Norie-chan!" she calls, bounding through the aisles with ears and tails all a-visible. "Hi!" she says as she drops down into a pew next to Norie. She's not panting, but she must have run the whole way here. "Sorry I haven't seen you in a while, I got distracted with school things. Um. Sorry. Hi! You said there's snacks?!"

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana blinks at Ayana's state of dress. She blinks again and looks down at the bag and opens it and begins setting out the cans of tuna and butter crackers, with the fork. "I got your tuna." pause. "Because foxes eat meat. Right?" pause. "Not sure if you'd like the other stuff. Like the chips. Or candy. but it's there. If you want it." she says as she steals a candy bar from her own bag and unwraps it and takes a bite.

Chew. Chew. Swallow. She shakes her head. "It's fine. I figure when you're ready, you'll call me. But. I have. Um. Potentially...?" she asks.

"Unrelated questions." she says with a frown.

"I know a boy that you know-- Kukai Souma?, and he seems upset at you and Sora is upset at him and he said they should both be upset at you instead." she asks as she pauses.

"May I ask what happened?..." she asks softly.

"He said stuff Like. You hate his entire gender, and stuff like that." she says softly.

She head tilts softly. "Sora was .. /really really/ upset...." she says softly.

Ayana has posed:
"T--tuna," Ayana says with a reverent whisper as she takes the can from Norie's hands. The crackers get entirely ignored as Ayana tears the can open and begins noisesomely eating the fishy deliciousness. Her tails are wagging excitedly, ears bouncing happily, and for all the world it looks like the kitsune has found true heaven in this church, today.

Right up until Norie mentions Sora.

Ayana's ears flatten instantly against her head, and she looks up nervously. With one hand she clasps the little marble dangling from her choker, and with the other she protects the can of tuna.

"Kukai?" she asks confusedly, uncertainly. "I don't think I know a Kuk--" Ayana pauses mid-sentence, mid-name, as her memory catches up with her. "Oh! Was his name Kukai?"

She frowns, then shakes her head, "Well I mean, boys are smelly and mean. I don't really like boys. They pick on girls, and lie to girls, and do mean things to girls. They also pick on each other and do mean things to each other. I don't like boys," she reiterates.

Then she sniffs, and says, "I dunno why he and Sora-chan would be mad at me, though. All I did was tell them they should kiss after their date! And then they did, and they both seemed to like it."

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana head tilts. She purses her lips as she regards as Ayana eats tuna like the tuna might dissapear within the next fifteen seconds if she doesn't eat it all first. She thinks a bit about those statements...

"I think I agree with those statements." she says softly. "A friend of mine has been teaching me how to find creeps to drain. They're /always/ boys, who will tell you lies, because they want you to leave with them somewhere else." she says softly.

She head tilts. "So they kissed?" she purses her lips in thought about that. "...oh!" she says in sudden rememberance. Kukai did say something about that.. right? That.. that Sora intiated that!

But... if she was egged on by Ayana...

"I think something happened then." she says. "But I wouldn't worry about it. I guess something about that kiss is bad? Kukai mentioned it he said that... he didn't make Sora kiss him." she says as she crosses her arms with a curt nod.

Ayana has posed:
"Wull," Ayana mumbles, ears slowly folding back up, "She kinda asked him to kiss her. But I did tease her into it," she admits. "She's really mean to me," Ayana explains with a sigh. "She thinks I'm an evil trickster and that I'm bad for Ikiko-chan. She keeps trying to get me thrown out of the house, or ... or .. other things." She sighs, then admits, "Sora-chan and I don't get along very well. But she's also now tutoring me in chemistry. But I think if you want to drain boys instead of girls, that's okay. Especially if you're draining boys who are being creepers. Girls make so much better girlfriends than boys do."

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana nods. "She doesn't want me to visit you alone but..." she looks down. "...and I wanna do my own thing too. She said you're not to be trusted. But you've helped me a lot." she says softly with a matter of fact nod.

"Nrg... boyfriends... girlfriends..." she says softly looking down. "I never really had a crush... or felt that way towards anyone.. before.. before I turned into this." she says softly. "So I wouldn't even know how that might feel now, or if I'm capable of feeling that..." she says softly. "It's something I've been worried about." she says softly.

She looks up and head tilts. "How did you know?" she asks. "When you had a crush..or were in love?" she asks softly. "How does that feel?" she asks softly.

Ayana has posed:
Ayana's ears fold down slowly to either side, uncertainty crossing her features. "W..well," she admits, quietly. "Well." Ah. How does she answer that question when she isn't quite sure she knows, herself. "I just ... did," she says quietly, hunching her shoulders a little. "I didn't really know," she admits. "Ikiko-chan and I ... got this weird bond, one time. It was kinda like my bond to Riventon-san, but it was ... different. We sorta got to see each other through the other person's feelings. And I didn't know I liked her, but she figured it out because she was able to see how I felt and understood those emotions better than I did. And then ... she started to like me. And then I realised I did like her. And I don't ... I don't know how to describe it, Norie-chan. It just sorta happened."

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana listens. "So you got some kind of bond and that's how you know." she sighs and shakes her head. "I'll never have something like that. If I did. Things would be easier for me. You know. Someone... feeding me feelings I can't feel anymore? That would be nice." she says softly.

She sighs and shakes her head. "Still." she says. "I guess I'll figure it out if it's important.. right?" she asks more for reaffirmination than anything else.

"How was your bond made?" she asks softly. "Is there a way to replicate that...?" she asks questioningly.

Ayana has posed:
Here, Ayana blushes and looks away from Norie, clearly ashamed. All of her tails lash restlessly, once, and she ducks her head. "W...well," she mumbles, "I don't ... it wasn't ..." she trails off, then sighs and stares down at the pew.

"See," Ayana says, "When I worked for Riventon-nii-san, I wasn't a good person," Ayana explains quietly. "I was exactly the evil trickster Sora-chan thinks I am now. So I kinda ... tried to steal something very important from Ikiko. Her henshin power. I wanted to make it so she couldn't fight against him. Or me. Because if she could fight, he could hurt her. And if she couldn't, he probably wouldn't. So ... I tried to steal it. But while I had it she tried to activate it and it ... sorta ... well it broke a little?"

Ayana looks up at Norie, now, and sighs. "And then we had this weird soul transfer. I don't really understand how it happened. But I don't think it's impossible for you to get a bond like that. It'd just ... not be done like that. Who do you think you like?"

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana head tilts. "I see." she says softly. She head tilts. She frowns. "That.. must not feel very good?" she asks. "To get out of doing that, but still being thought of like that?" she asks softly. She sighs and shakes her head. "I mean. I think. Right?" she asks.

Another situation she can only guess at.

When Ayana asks her who she thinks she likes, she just purses her lips tersely. No blushing. So she's probably telling the truth. Or maybe she just can't blush? Who even knows. "I'm not sure." she says. "If I 'like' anyone." she says. "I don't know how that feels, and I haven't felt like I should be feeling something I'm not. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't though." she says softly.

"I know I... 'care'?..." she pauses. "Yeah.. 'care' for some people. But that feels like it did when I had friends." she says softly. "or reminds me of that feeling." she says.

"So.. I'd say that. I have people I care for I see as friends so far, but that's it." she says. "But I worry anyways."

"Because..."

"...because it's strange. You.. know? For a girl my age. To not seem intrested in stuff like that. It's bad enough... I'm already the weird girl now." she says softly.

Ayana has posed:
"I don't think it's strange," Ayana tells Norie honestly. "Not everyone likes other people," she says softly. "Sometimes boys like girls, sometimes girls like boys. Sometimes boys like boys, or girls like girls. Sometimes boys feel like they are girls, and sometimes girls feel like they are boys. Sometimes they don't like anyone. And sometimes ..." she trails off, then shrugs. "Sometimes a fox is a girl. Or a girl is a fox? I don't think it's weird, Norie. You shouldn't worry about that. You ahve friends. That's important."

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana sighs. "You don't think it's odd. But I know the other kids in school might think it's odd, and everyone extra judges me because-- because how I handled most of what I was at first. But pushing everyone away and--and calling everyone mean names-- and avoiding all the friends I used to have... and I quit my club and..." she just shakes her head.

She just sighs. "I don't know what I want. Like. Like three days ago I knew exactly what I wanted! then I talked with Utau and then I just went back to square one..." she mutters.

She sighs. "Just. Like. All this love talk... it started because someone read my horoscope?... and they it said that-- someone would had flirted with me that month. But. How would I even know!?" she asks.

"And I got scared...." she sighs.

"It's really easy for me to feel nervous and scared and angry and sad..." she mutters.

Ayana has posed:
"No offense, but," Ayana says quietly, "boohoo? I mean ... other kids say mean things to mea all the time. My first two dances, I just hid under a table and played otome games because I didn't want to deal with it, but Riventon-sama told me I had to go. The first time, I even wound up dancing with a boy who felt sorry for me."

She scowls, then says, "Then at the next dance he completely ignored me and forgot I existed even though he promised it wasn't just because he felt sorry for me. I was super mad. Everyone picked on me even more after that."

"People are mean," Ayana explains to Norie. "That's just the way it is. Especially people who are teenagers. Everyone wants to be cool, so they make others think they aren't cool so they can feel better about themselves. Don't worry about that. Just ... worry about your friends."

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana sighs. "I just...remember when that wasn't the case. You know? I want that back.." she says softly. She sighs. "Friends? That's.. I don't even know..." she mutters. "Utau? And.. Natsumi and... you and...." she mutters and sighs. "That's it." she says.

"I mean.. there might be one other? But she's more of a cinnamon bun.. then a friend." she says.

"Right. Riventon-san." she says. "That's another one." she says.

A pause and sighs.

"None of them like dancing though... except the Cinnamon bun." she says. "And the kind of dancing Utau likes isn't really the theactrical style I like. Nightclubs.. n' all that." she says.

"I mean I can't even help some of my friends. One of them had to deal with some sort of creature called a starless? All my power did was feed them..." she mutters. "It was stupid."

Ayana has posed:
"I like dancing," Ayana says pleasantly enough. "But I'm kinda terrible at it. I stepped on Ikiko's toes when we danced the one time. But it was fun anyways. And I stepped on Mamoru-baka's toes, too."

She tilts her head a little, then asks, "Do you like to dance? Are you hoping to find someone who likes to dance? I'm sure you can. There are lots of people who like to dance. Maybe next time there is a school dance you can go with me and Ikiko and we can find someone to dance with you."

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana eyes light up. "I like dancing. I'm very good at it!" she says with a bemused expression! As close to 'happy' as she'll get. "Nrg, dances though." she says. "Even before this I was awkward at events like this. Maybe I won't care now..." she says softly.

She head tilts. "Mamoru? Was that the jerk who danced with you because he felt bad?" she asks softly. She frowns. "Boys...really are jerks aren't they then?" she asks softly.
Shehe sighs. "You can.. keep the tuna. But I should probably go now." she says softly.

"Maybe when I have my thoughts better gathered, I can say stuff like I know what I'm talking about." she sighs a bit.

"Can you say Hi to Ikiko for me?" she asks. "Is she doing well?" she asks as he begins to clean up the small area and small mess she's made herself with candy bar wrappers.

Ayana has posed:
Ayana nods her head. "Yea, Mamoru-baka. He apparently had a girlfriend and was only dancing with me because he felt sorry for me and he was drunk and she wasn't around. I dunno," she says with a sigh. "Anyways, yea, I'll say hi to her. She's doing ... good." A silly grin crosses her features and she says, "really good. Take care, Norie-chan! And ... you do have friends. I'm your friend, even if we don't see each other much. And you don't have to like people. It's okay."

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana nods as she gives that bemused look. "I know Ayana-chan. That's why I'm here talking to you even though Sora says you're not to be trusted." she says softly. She finishes cleaning. She nods. "Well. That's a jerk thing to do, if he already had a girlfriend." she says softly.

"I wonder if..." a pause. "Mmmph. I'll wait until I can talk to Sora."

She nods. "Be well. Call me when you're able to talk more about teaching me some things. I'm not pushing I hope... nrg. Anyways..."

"Bye~" she says as she takes off, making sure she takes care of the trash!

She didn't clean any tuna juice away though. The priest is gonna have a field day figuring that one out.