A Cat's Shopping Time (OPEN)

    Wandering around, eyes flickering to her phone from time to time, a blonde girl seemed to be doing some sort of shopping. Ugh. Maybe she should have brought company along with her. Clothing shopping was so weird alone.

    "Are we done yet?" A totally-not inconspicuous voice whispered from within her purse. Oh, yeah. Maia most certainly wasn't alone. Fingers rapidly tapped on the bag, in some attempt to silence the beast within, before she went back to looking at her phone. Texting and walking. Always a safe way to do things. And, always productive when it came to looking for new clothes! Or not.

    At least the primary thing on her list was just 'new socks.' Considering someone kept making them go missing.

    Still, there always came a problem from not watching where someone was going. Running into people. Or, at least, almost. Coming to an abrupt stop, amber eyes flashed up from the screen, automatically mumbling a, "sorry," despite no damage being done to either of the girls that had been in her path. But, now that she was looking at them, the teen couldn't help but stare at one of their hats. Cat! "I like your, uhm," the blonde started, making a motion toward the hat. Why was it so weird to talk to strangers?

    Oh. Yeah. Because it is weird to talk to strangers. Derp. It seemed that the overly-friendly residents of the Digital World, or just other tamers, had worn off on her. Why would Maia ever consider talking to someone she didn't know for no reason?! "Hat. It's, uh, nice."

    "Ah, that's a shame," Maia mumbled, thinking about the hat. It probably really wouldn't suit her anyway, so it would have just ended up being a cute thing that Kuu ended up sleeping in, ultimately. She really couldn't imagine herself wearing a cat hat! But, it was so cute! "Your friend did a nice job making it." It looked like it was professionally made, as far as the blonde was concerned!

    Though, with the thought of a girl wearing a hat based on her cat, now Maia was stuck thinking about having a hat based off of her Digimon. Would that be more strange than a cat hat? ...Why was this even a consideration? Of course wearing a Kudamon hat would be more strange. And not nearly as cute.

    But, with Digimon being a rapid subject change, the tamer instinctively moved to place her hand on the bag's zipper. "I'm sure he's fine," the teen responded, carefully. It didn't seem like the girl was saying it in any hostile manner. "He's used to it."

    "I mostly smell candy," a muffled voice commented through the fabric of the purse. Really, Kuu? Hopefully he wasn't licking all of the candy wrappers again. They always got stuck to his fur when he did that!

    So much for being inconspicuous. Maia would think that her partner would learn that she would eventually stop taking him out on trips with her, if he couldn't learn to stop talking! But, there were introductions taking place, and the tamer needed to beat her Digimon to the talking. After all, nobody wanted to explain why her bag was chatting with people! "My name's Maia Quinn. Maia being my first name," she was quick to add, having heard Karin's specified. Especially when she still felt weird doing the whole 'last name, first' thing that everyone else in Japan did. Her name really didn't fit that kind of introduction! "The disembodied voice is Kuu," she explained, with a small motion toward the purse. Though, that was probably unnecessary. Ah well. Introductions were always weird for her. "And, uh, no. I'm from America." Go figure.

    At least Maia was familiar enough with Digimon to understand that she was probably staring at a holosuit. But, what could the suit be concealing? It was probably rude to ask, so she'd refrain for the time being. After all, the tamer still didn't really know Digimon etiquette, and Kuu certainly wouldn't be a good teacher for such a thing! "It's nice to meet you?" Why did the girl never sound so sure when she said that line?

    "I think that makes sense," Maia murmured, thinking about it. If someone had made something specifically for her, she'd probably feel the same! Not that it was the case with anything. But, that just made an item more sentimental, rather than something store-bought. Though, the tamer had to wonder why Karin's friend was holed up in the Digital World. Unless, of course, said friend was a Digimon.

    But, why suggest a holosuit for Kuu? Oh, yes, these people didn't know the personality of the little fox! "I assure you, it's a bad idea to give him the freedom of a body," she admitted. Sure, that didn't sound great, but all of the things Kuu would do, if he were a person, wouldn't be great. The little fox just never learned! And, it was far easier babysitting something that could fit in her bag, than chasing down someone disguised as a person.

    Ah, shoot. She was called out on the uncertainty! How did one make the response not sound rude? "Uh, well," the blonde hesitated. Wording. Do not make anyone feel like you're saying they might not be a decent person -- Digimon. Whatever. "We've had our share of meetings that weren't really that nice."

    "If you're talking about Gellatin, he was weird!" That... That still wasn't that kid's name. But, it wasn't like it really mattered. As far as Maia knew, he was long gone. So, she wasn't going to bother correcting Kuu on the name.

    So, moving onto a more relevant statement, from somebody that wasn't her purse... "Yeah. Most of my socks went mysteriously missing," she hummed, tapping fingernails on the side of her purse. Gee, she had to wonder who or what might have gotten to her socks! "Though, I'm not really sure what the best option for a store really is around here." After all, she hadn't done much serious shopping since arriving! Mostly just for groceries, and hopefully everyone knew the strong difference between clothes and buying milk. It just wasn't quite the same. Any grocery store should carry milk that people would willingly drink. Not every clothing store would carry something that everyone would willingly wear.

    "Soldier puppet?" Maia didn't think that she had seen anything that fit that description yet. Ah well, it wasn't the place for it! "The only good a holosuit would do for us, is make it so that I can stop pretending my phone's speaker is on." Was that really how she justified a random voice popping up from time to time? ...Well, yes. There really wasn't any other excuse for it, and Kuu had a hard time shutting up, unless he was asleep!

    There was a small shuffle from the bag, as the monster tried to keep himself quiet. Did that ever work, though? Ha! "I wanna look like a person!" Oh no. Now, Kuu had a new kick. First, it was being a hero. Then wings and ninjas. Now, a holosuit? This was going to be a problem. Especially when holosuits were actually something attainable.

    Wait, a spirit user had killed police? That just sounded terrifying. "Berserked? Can, uh, you clarify that?" Just the thought made the girl's stomach feel like it was sinking! "That's not something that happens often in them, right?" Without even thinking about it, the teen found herself biting her thumb nail. Oh, no, she was not about to pick up a nail biting habit.

    "Gallatin, really. He didn't look particularly special. Only a few issues with him being, ah," did the blonde really want to be blunt about it? "I don't think he was entirely there, before the spirit. I haven't seen him in a while, either." Huh. Maybe spirits did mess with some people's minds. Then again, Gallatin was hard to tell with. Was it influence from spirits, the Digital World's insanity, or just the boy's total lack of understanding how the real world worked to begin with? It was probably for the best that he had completely vanished.

    Maybe he was dead? Or, just tormenting some poor soul, hopefully incredibly far away.

    "Not a nest! They taste good!"

    Stop talking, Kuu!

    "Er, yes," the teen confirmed, "he does seem to eat most of them. Or sleep in them. But, I haven't found any nests." If only! She'd gladly buy him something that worked better for a nest, if that were the case!

    ...Maybe, just Digimon in general were crazy.

    But, the girl had to wonder what Jeanne was talking about. "All dressed u--eep!" Maia didn't even have a chance to protest, instead letting out a tiny squeak, as she found herself pulled along into one of the stores. This might end horribly for the girl!

OOC: Hope you don't mind, I saw the thread was open.


"You've got a cup noodle addiction, you know that right?" Gabe stated, exiting the noodle store, arms folded behind his head with a large smile on his face as his partner Darian followed close behind him.

"Listen man, they don't have noodles like this back home. Sakata's great and all but noodles from the home country. Can't just pass those up." Darian responded with a chuckle.

The two had recently taken a 2 year trip back to Canada in an attempt to regulate their lives again. After being assaulted, stalked, beaten, and dragged through the dirt together through all the various events that happened in the Digital World, Darian knew it had been time for them to take some time off. With that time off completed, and them back in Japan, it was time for them to get their lives back in order.

This all started with a few trips to the mall too get their apartment back together. Darian wasn't pleased with how barebones their living space was and decided he wanted to get some things to fancify the place up. That didn't mean he couldn't find the time to stop for noodles first.

The two were dawdling through the mall, they had all the time in the world to get their shopping done, essentially the two were just enjoying their day. It wasn't until the D-Arc attached to his hip beeped as he walked past a clothing store that he knew that his day may just get a little more interesting as it went along. Reaching for his Digivice, he pulled the card slash device out in front of him, staring at two red dots on the map nearby.

"Huh, haven't seen that in a while." Darian lamented, looking into the clothing store from the entrance to see if he could see the Digidestined from outside, but found no luck.

"Well come on, let's go see if we can spot them. Been a while since we've talked with others who know about Digimon other than your dad. And your dad kinda sucks about it." Gabe stated as he lackadaisically passed by Darian with a grin on his face and moved into the store.

Darian sighed. A day back in Japan was all it took for Digimon to become some sort of spontaneous involvement in his life again. This had to be a record. Taking another bite of his cup noodles he was quick to follow Gabe into the store.

Matching socks would be good, yes, but that still doesn't make Jeanne all that happy. Girl should be trendy she thinks! Trendy girls are the best, and honestly would make any guys look at them with all sort of amazed look! Jeanne start imagining what sort of clothes that would look nice on Maia... Well, she already found some! How nice. Meanwhile Karin noticed that her D-3 beeped.

...Dear me," she muttered. She saw the person making beeline for their position, but seem to take their time. At this moment, Jeanne only could evolve to child stage, which... means not a good thing the slightest. If fight breaks out, high chance that they'll only become a burden, but... wait, she's probably thinking too much. Afterall, what sort of human would approach them just to attack them? That doesn't make sense!

She was kind of surprised from the screech from whatever Digimon inside that purse tho. That was way too sudden!

"Oh, someone important?" Karin asked, smiling. "Don't worry, there's nothing between us. He just helped, that's all." She really hope she's not the jealous girlfriend kind. But at any rate... While Karin waited near the entrance, Jeanne already pushed several articles to Maia, mainly a sleeveless shirt and vest, black for the vest, white with purple tone for the shirt, then blue miniskirt, black hot pants, boots and a cowboy hat

"Try these first for chic look~" she suggested.