300/V, I Know

V, I Know
Date of Scene:	16 August 2015
Location:	Earth Court Frat House
Synopsis:	V drops by Mamoru's place to visit, basically. Visits yay!
Cast of Characters:	Mamoru Chiba, Minako Aino

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Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Finally evening, and finally by himself oh god, and then-- there are concerned texts from Sailor V. Mamoru rubs the side of his nose, looking at the screen of his phone, and then huffs out a breath and answers. 'Come by,' he says. And so he leaves the door to his apartment unlocked and pads into the kitchen to put the water on for tea.

He has had more than enough coffee today.

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino comes by and politely knocks on the door like a normal person, alebit a normal person in grey-silver blazers and and neat brown skirts, looking very much the clean-cut image of an Infinity Student.

If not answered promptly, she does let herself in and throws her bag on the couch before snooping. "Yo! What's up!" she shouts, leaving the door ajar and searching for you by shouting your name until she gets a response.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Yo yourself!" comes Mamoru's voice from the kitchen. "Making tea. There's also cakes in the freezer but apparently there was a cake youma at the bake sale after I left, so it's all a little suspect--"

He sticks his head out the door: he actually doesn't look like a trainwreck or anything, but he also doesn't look like a spotless Infinity student. Just like a rich schmoe on summer vacation. "Do you want cake anyway?"

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino looks perturbed that Infinity Student Minako gets no response as well as your choice in snacks. She does agree she wants snacks (that's her goal any time she visits somebody), but she seems like she has a more important issue to address next.

"Wait... wait... you... wait. Wait. You killed and froze a youma? And now you're eating it?" she asks, preparing to go into an accusatory spiel about how terrible and dangerous this is but not quite sure how to start.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
The kitchen table is the best place for tea and snacks, at least in this apartment: the kitchen is so much friendlier than the rest of the place, even if all the labels are lined up with each other and the counters are clean and the calendar days have X's in them. So that's where he stays, and puts a cup out for Minako and one for himself.

When she comes in the kitchen proper, he doesn't have to look over his glasses at her, and he gives her a dubious once-over. "No. I went to a bake sale and bought A LOT of cake. It was a fund-raiser for the kickboxing club. After I left, some cake youma showed up and trashed the place... why are you in uniform? School hasn't started yet. Oh wait! You did transfer?" he asks, eyes brightening.

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino gives your explanation a careless wave and your question another equally careless wave.

"Psssht, whatever. I always knew you were some sort of cake-feind. I heard about you richy Infinity kids," she says, making druggy motions with her fingers. They're inaccurate motions.

"But yeah. I'll do some cake. Roll me out some cake, please," she says, before explaining that no, she didn't in fact transfer.

"At least, not full time. I just am working on the costume to go hang out there. Some mighty suspicious stuff happens in all the top schools, so bein' able to sneak in is important. And you gotta' work on disguises ahead of time or you just can't slither in. It takes hours or even days to get a good disguise going."

"Also I wanna bother your girlfriend teacher!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru is setting cake on top of the oven, which he's just turned on, so it can defrost--

--and at Minako's last line, his hands freeze for a second before he sets the plate down a little too hard, closing his eyes. "V-chan, that woman is not my girlfriend OR my teacher. She's creepy and inappropriate, I wasn't kidding around. So yes, bother her a lot, but please don't call her that."

The electric kettle shuts off, and Mamoru turns from the defrosting cakes to actually make the tea, let it steep. "Anyway! I told Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter, and now I'm telling you: Nephrite basically mugged me in the park to ask me a bunch of questions about who was stealing my energy because apparently he's been watching me, and he thinks that me and my energy are the property of the Dark Kingdom. Like, I wasn't in henshin. I was going home from a party."

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino clucks her tongue to you and gives you some advice on how to get away with illicit steamy teacher/student affairs, but gets (minimally) more serious when talking about Nephrite incidents.

"That's weird. Real weird. He's obviously an enemy who could target you. If he knows you, he'd probably be able to start zeroing in on you."

"But he isn't. So obviously they have some other bigger target. Someone a bigger threat than you. Who is stealin' your energy?" she asks, going to snoop around on your balcony where it's nice and windy since cake-time is going to take FOREVER.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Not FOREVER maybe five minutes. Which is probably forever. Cake time, so far, so distant. And Mamoru, taking his glasses off, drags his hand down his face because he does not want any affairs. In fact, he admits straight up to already liking someone anyway, but does not say who.

"Well most of Tokyo is a bigger threat than me," he finally says, trailing out after Minako, but staying more or less at the other end of the balcony, starting to adjust the telescope that's pointed up at the stars. "It's weird and unnerving that he knows who I am, and I don't like it. Uh-- lately it's been that princess with the wings on her boots and her crew. A guy with a fire sword. That's why I was in hospital last weekend."

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino immediately demands to know who. 'Who do you like' talk completely distracts her from 'clever tricks to fool Nephrite'.

"Anyway, yeah, I need to figure out more about those weird guys. And fight 'em. But either way, I don't think Nephrite is worried about 'most of Tokyo'. Right now, they're doin' stuff that gets attention from specific people," she claims.

She also plucks a rose and throws it off the balcony extra-dramatically, letting it tumble towards the ground far far away.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
She'll eventually-- EVENTUALLY-- get him to admit to liking not one, but TWO girls. Two. (It's actually three but he doesn't think the Moon Princess conversation is one he really wants to have with Sailor V right now.) Two. Sailor Moon and... this girl who's a big fan of hers, to the point of even having the same hairstyle? Tsukino Usagi.

However! These are the times that try Mamoru's sanity: the times he really wishes he knew Sailor V's name so he could say it in complete exasperation. "That's a real rose bush!" he protests, then pulls a rose out of thin air and lobs it at her, paf!, in a fit of pique. He grumps back into the apartment. "Cake's defrosted. And tea is ready," he calls. "So obviously if Nephrite is hassling me, then, he's trying to get someone's attention. But whose?"

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino shrugs her shoulders. "I dunno. But next time you talk, you need to put him on a false track, see how he responds. Say Sailor V is taking all your energy every day!" she declares.

"Also I will find both those girls and give them roses!" she adds, throwing a (normal, plucked) rose at your back as she returns to the apartment and stands in front of cake and tea, waiting for them to be served.

"If he comes after me, it means he believes you but has some ulterior motive for finding these energy suckers. I can play with my ear from there."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Well... I told him the truth already," Mamoru says, turning around to STARE at the rose on the floor, then GLOWER at Minako, then pick it up and bring it back into the kitchen to put in a glass of water. Only once his poor non-magic rose has been seen to does he put cake on a plate and tea in a cup for Minako, and set them down in front of a chair at the kitchen table for her.

"That a princess used a glowing crystal to steal my energy." He looks super innocent. "For some reason he got really excited about that. And no offense, but I really hope I don't see him again unless I'm wearing a cape and backing up the Sailor Team, because that was super uncomfortable. If I do, though, I'll definitely tell him Sailor V's been stealing my energy. And also wrecking my rosebush."

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino wrinkles her nose a little bit. "Oh. Uh. Hm. Don't say that second one. It sounds like a euphemism," she says, not approving at all. "But yeah, it's a deal. Push him to me. I'll beat him up for you. Gotta' start killin' off the enemies," she says, sighing a bit.

"Which princess used a glowing crystal anyway? That sounds like a potential lead. Someone else to look into. I don't got enough leads lately!" she complains, starting up on cake and tea as if time might run out and she won't get to have more.

"With all the crazies out there, I'm getting a lot of false positives. Lots of weird stuff or crazy peoples doin' stuff, but not the sorta' stuff I wanna find out about, ya' know!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru gets his own tea and cake, and sits down across from Minako. He lifts an eyebrow. "Then stop wrecking my rosebush," he says reasonably. He drinks some of his tea, which in some circles, is a way of casting shade.

"It was the one I mentioned already, with the wings on her boots and the knights? She's not our princess." 'Our princess' he says. "I don't have a lot in the way of updates for that, but I did a sketch of what I could see of her in my dreams and gave it to Sailor Jupiter, so I don't know, maybe there's something there you could follow up on. I don't have one handy. On the other hand, this girl I know, Hannah Sharpe? She got a vision of her when she touched me, and it was probably more detailed than anything I've been able to see, but she's blind, so she's not super good at description. If you want to ask her, I can tell her you're looking for her..."

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino sips her tea the same way she does her noodles, with extra ostentatious slurping to demonstrate how much she likes her food. "Sure. I'll meet a Hannah Sharpe. Anybody who gets visions needs to be on my radar! Who is she anyways," she asks, mouth full of cake.

And speaking of booty princesses, if she's going around beating people with crystals, she's definitely not one of the good guys. But I *still* need to find her sometime. She might need more attention than criminals," she says, not really sure where to put her attentions.

"A lot of the time, I'm just going with the flow. Criminals are criminaling a lot, but them weird energy people are harder to find. Sometimes you just miss 'em 'cuz you're not even in the right area," she says, a little whiney.

"Gotta get some better communication. Help me out, Chibbles. Please? Not with drawing pictures for girls, but with informational stuffs!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Toss out a lot of energy. Like when you flashed a crescent beam across half of Tokyo to catch my attention. Do it fairly regularly until one of them comes after you. It'll definitely work, like moths to flame," says Mamoru, then eats some of his cake placidly. He's legitimately gotten to the point where the oddities of conversation with Minako can't actually phase him.

For now.

It's probably because he has tea and cake.

"She's in my study group, she's really nice. She knows I'm weird and kind of magic? But she's American, so I guess that's normal. I'll tell her to tell you everything she's got on what she saw. But-- what kind of information do you want? I don't know much about what the Senshi are doing, but I can tell you all about Puella Magi and about Devices and Witches and Prism Keepers and what a jerk Riventon is..."

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino starts to complain about those other groups. "I needa' meet with the senshi more, but I don't want to interrupt their flow, ya' know! But... grr, witches. They're really weird. Have you seen them? I'm *constantly* being attacked by them. Like all the time," she complains.

"Who is Riverton?"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"What do you mean, their flow? Hey, why aren't you with them, anyway? I mean, you're a Sailor Senshi too, aren't you? --oh. Riventon. He's... he basically wants to steal everything that has magical power and do mad science to it, and he lasers little girls on their first day being magical, and if you ever meet him you should just straight-up Sailor V kick him," Mamoru says firmly. "And yeah, Witches are a Puella Magi thing-- when they're killed they drop grief seeds, which the Puella Magi need to live. If you want me to introduce you to some, I can do that."

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino nods her head a little bit. "I'll be sure to kick 'em," she promises.

Then she briefly explains the concept of giving people space and how it's important to do, especially when you need for them to mature properly. "You know. A little space to grow. It's a good lesson for everybody to learn, be it Sailor Vs or Infinity teachers," she says with a wink.

But her complains about grief seeds are the worst. "They don't just bother Puella Magis, you know. I killed a few witches a while ago, but almost every day or two, more witches come after me. Five last week, six the day before. It's pretty extreme. I can barely deal with 'em!" she complains. "I hate witch droppings."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru sideeyes Minako some. "Really? If you're killing them, give the grief seeds to a Puella Magi. If they don't use them up, they do respawn," he notes, sipping his tea again. "And seriously stop joking about that teacher she gives me the creeping horrors. And she seems familiar. Like maybe she was awful to me before, some time I can't remember and we were both younger, or something."

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino accuses you of skipping grades. "Or maybe she really liked you in your first grade class and transferred to high school? That's what you think? I don't think that's likely," she says, ignoring your entirely relevant 'respawn' advice and saying she doesn't know any Puella Magi.

"I mostly just go to a warehouse and feel glum there. No witchy friends there. It's tragic. They should all love me. Everybody should love me."

"Looove me, even half as much as the teachers at Infinity do. What's it like in there anyway? I haven't been in there for reals yet."