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This Can Only Go One Way [Katsura]
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Post by vating on Feb 9, 2018 5:30:45 GMT
So... Blind dates. This was not something Timothy was expecting himself to sign up to ever. If he wasn't pressured by his sister, his sister's partner, and his partners to do it, he wouldn't had done it in the first place. Why did he have to do this? He didn't know, he really tried to actively avoid dating because well... Yeah, he just wasn't interested in any of the people around him, except Kat, as much as he refused to admit it. Everyone outside of his head knew, he probably didn't know, but that didn't matter.
He had dressed a little nicer for the experience, wearing a nice pair of jeans, a collared navy shirt, and his usual jacket. It wasn't anything too crazy to put it simply. It was just his usual attire, just a bit nicer. He decided to meet up at Scramble Crossing, because it was easy to meet up in this intersection, due to it being so connected to everything. It just made the most sense to him.
Now who would he be going on a blind date with? He at least hoped she was nice and forgiving for his completely unsure of what to do attitude. He was not at all great at this dating thing, but it might work out, who knows. If the person was mean or something, this was gonna be a terrible experience, if not, then great! Maybe the person would be a bit in the middle, which would be perfectly fine too.
After a while, he stopped thinking about that, finally arriving at his destination and meet-up location. He looked around and pretended to check his watch, what he was really doing was checking on Bibi and Faluo, wishing he could tell them how big of a mistake this is. They, of course, weren't gonna listen as they were currently hiding in his Digivice and not easily available to talk to. Looks like he was on his own in this adventure.
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Post by Katsura Ise on Feb 9, 2018 14:09:38 GMT
The story actually begins a couple of hours earlier not in a noodle shop, not in street but in a dormitory inside Calysta's academy. In their a familiar girl in underwear was sitting uncomfortably on a chair in front of a vanity. That girl was Katsura and right behind her stood a Ladydevimon armed with a brush in one hand and a scissors in the other that Ladydevimon was Nyao and she was about to style Katsura's hair. "Why did you have to sign me up for this?" Katsura said, Nyao made a calming giggle while she brushed Katsura's hair. "Because I care about you, I can't stand you being alone." "I'm not alone, I got you." "This is different darling." "How?" "Hehe you'll find out soon enough. Now sit still for a moment""Sigh..."Nyao began cutting Katsura's hair, in no time Katsura's hair was about the same length it used to be before she became a tamer. "There we go. By the way Katsura, I got a present for you. Please try it on."
Nyao handed Katsura a shopping bag, confused Katsura accepted the present and looked inside. Katsura opened her eyes wide, inside the shopping bag was not only a new ribbon for her hair but a beautiful little dress. Both things were blue. "I... Umm... Isn't this a bit much?... For a first date you know."Nyao grinned. "Mhmhmhm not at all, believe me. When you see your date you'll be thankful I did this." "Wait? How can you be so sure?" Once again Nyao grinned while she helped Katsura in the dress. "Mhmhmhm, let's just say that I took precautions." "Precautions? What did you do?" "Oh nothing in particular." "Nyao!" "Okay darling you got me, I maaay have fixed the dating system." "You mean you have rigged the blind date?" "Oh just a bit. Now the important part"
With the ever suspecting Katsura now in a dress, Nyao began placing Katsura's hair in a bow similar to the one she used to wear. "So who's my blind date then?" "Can't say that'll spoil the surprise, almost done."
True to her statement after adding the finishing touches and a layer of makeup, Nyao finally allowed Katsura to look at herself in the mirror. "There's the most adorable human in the world. And I have taken the liberty to input the coordinates in the digiportal. Just click the return button afterwards." "You mean, you're not going with me?" "Not this time but don't worry, I know you are in good hands."
Now Katsura was extremely suspicious, who was this mysterious stranger and why did Nyao so uncharacteristic allow her to go alone? Katsura shrugged, not wishing to disappoint Nyao or her date she meekly opened and entered the portal. As it turned out, the portal lead to a part of Scramble Crossing. Katsura looked around for a bit and saw a nicely dressed boy looking at his watch, this boy was Timothy. Much to Katsura's confusion her heart pounded faster the closer she got. Eventually she managed to sneak up at him from behind, it took all her courage to bring attention to herself. "Umm hi?... A-a-are you my umm date?"
OOC: Aren't we supposed to add "Valentines" to the thread title? Not really! As long as you report the thread when you're done. Chances are I'll look at it! It's not like everyone doesn't know what this thing is about, anyway.
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Post by vating on Feb 12, 2018 5:19:36 GMT
This was a bad idea. He knew it. He liked being with himself with his two birds and their random travels. This dating thing they all put him up to was most definitely a mistake. Like, what girl would they have to have seen on this list to forcibly put him on it? It made no sense as to why they would do that...
That was, until a certain girl had sneaked up behind him, causing him to jump in surprise. He turned around to see who it was... "Katsura!?" Wait, so Katsura was his surprise date!? This was rigged, it had to be! Someone manipulated it! Was this fate speaking? Maybe? Maybe it was Nyao? No, definitely Nyao, Alice, Bibi, Faluo, and Leo not to mention the entire god damned site all teaming up to bring this relationship forcibly closer.
All these thoughts caused him to start blushing uncontrollably. "Uh... Yeah... I a-am..." Oh Yggdrasil save Timothy please! This was beyond awkward, why did they have to force him into this scenario!? "Uhh... Umm... So... Wha-... Uh... Did we uhh get... You know... Paired together or something? This is um... Uhh... Who?" That last word sounded incredibly serious. Like, that was probably the only part of what he said that was remotely stable and serious.
Well, guess it was time to start? How do you start a date!? Okay Timothy, it's easy, just like talking to other people, only harder. Just start with a compliment. "You uhh... Look nice." Okay, good start. Now onto the rest of the introductory section of the date. "Do you uhh... Want to go get something to eat?" Why did you say that! Of course you want to go get something to eat, that's what people do on dates, right? Wait, do they? Or do they do something else? Oh Yggdrasil!? Will he have to go that far!? Hopefully not! Anyways, there were so many better ways to start this, why that one!?
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Post by Katsura Ise on Feb 12, 2018 17:32:37 GMT
The moment Timothy turned around she could finally see him her face turned red. Then she let out the one word she thought simultaneously with the boy loudly. "Timothy!?" So this was Nyao's secret Valentines? Now Katsura could see where Nyao was going with her plan. Katsura was part proud and part disturbed over why Katsura couldn't figure this out. Now that Katsura knew who the valentines was, her heart won't stop beating. Katsura avoided Timothy's eyes for long time, just glancing to the side while blushing. It was then that Timothy was stuttering and apparently he was just as nervous about this as Katsura. Slowly by seeing Timothy going all this struggle just to ask about how this happened, Katsura started to relax. Even going as far to let out a small smile. And then Katsura made a shrug to reveal that she was just as surprised as Timothy was. Now was the time for the date to start, wait... What is a date anyway? Come to think of it Katsura had never been on a date before, she had no idea how to do one. But then it looked like at least Timothy knew, so you were supposed to start out with compliments? Maybe? Oh well it was worth a shot if Timothy did it, normally this was the time where she would have asked Nyao for guidance but Nyao wasn't here right now. There was thus only one thing to do: Taking a leap of faith. "Thank you very much, you look very great. So umm" Once again Katsura had absolutely no idea what to do on a date, she looked puzzled at Timothy hoping he knew. Seemly Timothy knew it that now they had to eat. Oh well if that's the norm. "Umm sure, what would you like to eat?"
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Post by vating on Feb 13, 2018 13:08:24 GMT
"I uhh... Umm..." Where do you go for food on a date Timothy!? How do these date things work!? Okay, calm down, she's clearly as surprised and nervous as you are. This is Katsura, nothing can go wrong, other than ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! Okay, it's easy, calm down. He took a few breaths.
"Uhh... Noodle place, like when we met? It's down the street, has the private rooms and everything." Okay, good. Stable sentence structure, you have successfully spoken words. Okay, now you just gotta do everything else right in this date... What could possibly go wrong? Stop asking that, everything can and will go wrong! Okay, just motion towards the way to the noodle place.
With that, Timothy made a gesture in the general direction of that Noodle place, he was finally smiling in his own weird, mildly surprised way. Okay, you just gotta go there, sit down, eat, and leave. Then this whole thing is over. Okay, just start heading that way and don't forget anything. Wait, don't you have to hold her hand or something!? Okay, just try that and hope for the best.
Before he continued onward, he went to hold her hand. Okay, just have a firm, but comforting grip. This shouldn't be too hard, it's just holding someone's hand. Upon contact however, his face started reddening. Okay, it's fine, it's fine, this feels weird, this isn't fine. He just needed to survive getting to the noodle place or wherever they decided to go.
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Post by Katsura Ise on Feb 14, 2018 16:02:47 GMT
Katsura couldn't stop herself from making a giggle at Timothy when he got nervous. For some reason seeing Timothy being insecure and bothered in this setting made him not only approachable but endearing. Awww he's so shy and nervous that's kinda... Cute? Still Katsura had to come up with a way to get even with Nyao when this was over, maybe? It looks like Timothy finally got his words straight to suggest a place to eat. When she found out that Timothy had not only suggested a special place but remembered where they met, she blushed all again. "Umm that's sounds... I... Ehnm... I'll like that." Following Timothy's lead Katsura then walked towards the noodle place, Katsura took several glances at Timothy only to look away shortly after. It was like meeting Timothy all over again, what is going on? Did Nyao use her mind control? No that doesn't make sense but what was going then? Emotions have always confused Katsura but this time more than usual, how come everything she was currently thinking about somehow ended up being about Timothy? If only Nyao was there right now to tell her what these feelings meant. Before Katsura could answer any of these questions Timothy reached out to hold her hand. "Umm" Katsura didn't resist and in time she even started to tighten the grip, as nervous as Katsura was she genuinely wanted to do this the right way. It started to occur to Katsura that Timothy had been talking the most which meant that maybe she should start doing her part of this thing. Think Katsura, what can you talk about? Come to think of it she doesn't really know a lot about him how he lives, where he studies his family. Wait! She knew that thing at least, he has a sister! That's something to talk about, right? Well it was worth a shot now that there was time until they arrived. "So, umm how's Alice?"
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Post by vating on Feb 16, 2018 3:03:33 GMT
As they made their way to the noodle place that shall never be named, Timothy felt the grip on his hand tighten... Did that mean success or well... Wait, did that mean he was doing things right and she was actually enjoying their time!? That wasn't possible. He couldn't be doing this whole thing right. That just wasn't possible.
Oh but it was, he might have successfully infatuated some girl that he most definitely has a crush on. Every word of this made a very loud "AWWWWW" in the back of his head only grow louder. It was as if about ten to twenty different souls were watching this romance grow and flourish and were eating it up like some sort of candy. Was that good? Maybe? He hoped it meant good things.
Then a question from Kat came up, an interested question at that. "Oh, uhh... She, Leo, and TWO BIRDBRAINS." At that, he looked down at his wristbound digivice to see a thin sheet fly off the screen. Bibi and Faluo were never there... He let out a sigh, then chuckled a little, "Of course... They were in on it too. Anyways, they all dragged me into this whole thing. I have no clue if I'm doing it right or if this is how people do dates... Anyways, back to Alice. She's doing fine. She is doing fine, she still is paranoid about everything out to kill her or something."
With that, they were almost to the noodle place. Maybe this would all work out. Maybe he wouldn't be murdering a nine year old today. If this all turns out well... Maybe, and just maybe... He won't. The odds of this turning out well in his mind though were so low that it was nigh impossible, so what's the point of assuming that it would. He'll at least make it a quick death.
"Okay, here we are. I'll pay for it since I guess I'm supposed to or something..." With that, he pushed open the door and held it for his date. This was getting easier by the minute, and that scared him. Also, she was getting seemingly prettier, that scared him even more. People don't go prettier or less pretty actively, that's not how life works. Once they were both in, he put some money down for a private booth and followed the waiter there to it, leading the way for Katsura. He hoped that's what he was supposed to do at least.
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Post by Katsura Ise on Feb 17, 2018 16:48:58 GMT
Katsura was still rather confused by her emotions but at least now she was getting used to it enough to try enjoying herself. But now she had another problem, what did Timothy think of her? Why did Nyao rig the lottery specifically to set up this meeting? And perhaps the most important question for Katsura at the moment, if he knew Katsura would be a date would he still come? Katsura started getting nervous again, come to think of it what could she even offer Timothy? She had a rather dark troubled past, if it weren't for Calysta she would still have been living on the streets. She had a bad habit of conning people even now when it wasn't needed anymore did Timothy knew about that? Maybe he did, she had trouble remember it right now. The best Katsura could hope was to keep up the conversation. Katsura heard him calling his digimon birdbrains where they in on this too? It sounded like it when she allowing him to finish. Along the road she learned that Alice was doing fine. "That's nice to hear, she's a really nice girl. Nyao dragged me in too and she had spent the whole morning dressing me up and stuff like that. It's sad she's so afraid of the digital world" Almost as if Nyao knew where this was going the whole time, Katsura would really like to know just how many people and digimon was in on this plan. Was this a prank? No that can't be, Nyao would never harm Katsura let alone humiliate her in public. They arrived at the noodle place, Katsura was still nervous but looking at Timothy doing everything he could to be a gentleman helped her relax and fall into the role. She thanked him for holding the door and allowed him and the waiter to lead her to the booth.
There Katsura started to place herself on a chair.
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Post by vating on Feb 18, 2018 16:05:47 GMT
Wow, this was actually going pretty well. This wasn't actually going poorly a all. Okay, he might be able to actually survive this mess. "She can be a little witch from time to time, but she's nice enough most of the time." He ordered some generic bowl of noodles and rested in this chair. This feels impossible, but at the same time, in practice, it was going too well.
"Anyways... How've you been doing outside of the whole Liliana mess?" It was good to make small talk like that, from what he thought at least. It had been working up until now, so he just kept having to do what he was doing. Of course, that would mean he'd have to know what to talk about. Definitely not the warm, fuzzy feeling inside of him right now, that's probably not a good conversation topic.
He kept trying to look right at Katsura, though every time... He felt a need to start eyeing around her, as if looking directly at her might cause a mess or something. Every time he did look to her left or right side behind her rather than directly at her, he'd blush a little. Yeah, he should get that checked out...
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Post by Katsura Ise on Feb 19, 2018 18:01:38 GMT
Katsura actually had a hard time seeing Alice as a witch, so far she has been nice most of the time but rather scared. She reminded herself a bit almost as a gasp little sister. But why would she think of Alice that way? This was so confusing for the poor girl. "Witch?" Katsura mimicked Timothy by indicating that she too wanted the generic noodles, this time around it felt wrong to ask for more than than absolutely necessary. No scams up her sleeve, this was literally just something she needed to eat and make an impression. Now what was it Nyao always said? Oh right you should actually eat once in a while without needing to control everything. At least this time Nyao couldn't just make her eat a giant steak as last time that was a bit embarrassing for her. Now she had to think about those things herself though. Still Katsura couldn't let Timothy down so she tried her best to just relax in her chair the same way she saw Timothy was doing. Then he spoke to how Katsura was doing aside from Liliana. "Been great actually, I got adopted by a headmistress so I get to study, I overthrowed a lord and met a lot of nice people. How about you?"
One of them weren't like the others... Not that Katsura noticed it. She felt like she could just tell Timothy everything right now and the excitement of sharing her life was leaking out of her. While waiting for her food Katsura noticed that Timothy seemed aloof as if he didn't want to look directly at her. This made Katsura worried, had she done something wrong? Was there something behind her? Strangely sometimes she caught him blushing not realizing that so did she. "Umm are you okay?" Katsura asked. Now worried that he was getting a cold or something like that. Hopefully it gets better when the noodles arrives.
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Post by vating on Feb 20, 2018 6:20:30 GMT
Oh no, he said something wrong, she didn't get the witch thing at all! Okay, time to reel everything back in and hope for the best... "Not really a witch, more of she's my sister and she well... Likes to cause trouble for me because of that reason." Okay, hopefully that reeled it back in safely, this dating thing only kept getting harder and harder by the second. Who knows how this thing could turn out. Just keep your cool Timothy, you've almost survived the word count.
He noted that she also just wanted generic noodles. Huh, nice. Okay, so that part he did well, seeing as she wasn't against this food. Next he just had to succeed in the thing in general, that couldn't be too much harder. Other than he couldn't not think about her, it was weird. Was this what it was like to be mildly infatuated with someone? This was a weird feeling to say the least. Maybe... This would work out well in the end either way now...
She them seemed to notice him awkwardly glancing away... Dangit! Now she might think that he isn't interested or something, which even he couldn't deny anymore. "N-nothing... Just mildly nervous about this whole thing... I'm not great at this relationship thing... Nor do I know what I'm doing..." Great, now he actually admitted it... Okay, just hope she understands...
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Post by Katsura Ise on Feb 21, 2018 15:30:37 GMT
Huh, once again it surprised Katsura that Alice had another side to her. She seemed so nice except for her bad luck which wasn't really something she could control. Now knowing that she causes trouble and as his sister it's often problems for him. This time Katsura understood. "It's so kind of you to take care of her. I always worry I'm a burden to Nyao." Oh Katsura, you have no idea how far from reality that is. Truly Nyao would never see you as a burden. Though Katsura had to admit that Nyao had dedicated lots of effort in making her happy, this meant however that Katsura felt she somehow owed Nyao more than what she gave her. Maybe this was why Nyao would intervene in her dating life like that? Could it be? Had Nyao saw something there that Katsura couldn't? There had to be a reason why the at times seriously overprotective digimon suddenly decided to let her go alone. Katsura kept staring at Timothy every time he wasn't looking she just couldn't help herself at this point. This date was going so well, far more than anyone could expect. She then heard Timothy nervously defending himself, again this made him look endearing and it gave her the courage to admit. When Timothy said the word 'relationship' Katsura blushed a bit, why that word affected her so much nobody knows. "It's okay, this is my first time too."
As they were speaking, a waiter suddenly showed up carrying 2 plates of noodles. He gave one plate to Katsura and one for Timothy. He also lit the candles on the table before sending Timothy a wink. Now even the waiter joined in! He then started walking away to do what else a waiter do.
Bits please
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Post by vating on Feb 23, 2018 15:12:17 GMT
"Oh you're probably not... Nyao seems seriously protective of you at times. She probably enjoys it." He was figuring out how to talk well on a date. Slowly but surely... He leaned into the seat, still clearly nervous, but getting better. Okay, this wasn't going terrible, in fact... Yeah, why does he keep contemplating this? It's getting repetitive... Well that's because he's nervous and needs to remind himself this every other second.
Katsura admitted that this was her first date too... Huh, so they were both new to this thing... So neither of them knew what they were doing... So he was trying waaaaaay too hard... Maybe he should ask first. Yeah, go ask Timothy. "Huh... Does this mean I've been trying too hard?" Hopefully she said no and that he was doing just fine or something.
Then the waiter came in and gave them their food... Did he just give him a wink? How does every single person who ever meets these two together instantly push them closer? Welp, guess it's time to just hope for the best, what could possibly go wro- Why did he light the candles!? Okay... Now it looks like Timothy is trying TOO hard for sure. "Uhh... Okay... I didn't expect that... Uhh... Anyways..." He eats a few of the noodles, they were pretty good, like before. "They taste good... Yeah." Wow, great response Timothy... That was totally the best option you had, there definitely wasn't any better ways to talk to your date. The entire site is sooooo proud of you.
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Post by Katsura Ise on Feb 27, 2018 16:05:51 GMT
Katsura sent a content nod, she knew exactly how deep Nyao's protective nature went. But Katsura wasn't going to spoil the mood of this date with her own insecurity issues. She heard that Timothy thought he was trying to hard, oh no it wasn't her intention of criticize Timothy and his efforts to make this a good date. Katsura started to nervously shake her head and hands in a desperate attempt to calm Timothy down.
"Nonono this is fine, you have been doing great, I..."
Katsura couldn't muster the strength to finish her sentence she was getting flustered mid-sentence and had to briefly look away from Timothy to regain her confidence. Katsura dived into herself again, she really hoped that Timothy wasn't hurt by what she said. As she came back to her senses the light was lit. She didn't know what to say about it, fortunately Timothy had changed the subject to the noodles which Katsura was now eating. He had just said that they were tasting good. "Mhmm" See everyone? Katsura totally knows how to respond during a date! The site probably applauses right now.
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Post by vating on Mar 3, 2018 7:57:38 GMT
The simple notion that Timothy was in fact doing fine from Katsura was enough to have him let out a sigh of relief. He slurped up some noodles rather quickly, "Oh... That's a relief... I've been nervous about this whole thing for a while now and really didn't want to mess up for you." He let out another sigh of relief for good effort. That made this a lot easier.
As he ate, he couldn't help but to glance up from time to time to try and read what she thought of this, or just to see her? He didn't really know which one, up to the reader to decide. Either way, he kept glancing up. He hoped that she really was enjoying this and not just being kind to him. He really was trying hard to succeed at this dating thing.
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