Room 503, Monday Morning.

[dojima_hime]

Monday found Dōjima in her room, door open and music blaring as she worked on her packing. She wasn't leaving for good - not yet - but she had the 'letter' from her Father, ordering her back to Japan starting tomorrow for a week's orientation with the STN-J.

She was going to miss everyone leaving and the move to the cabins, dammit. If Yurika were a paranoid person, she'd think Father Juliano was doing this on purpose to try and alienate her from her friends.

Okay, so she was paranoid, and she did think that was a possibility. A rather strong possibility. Still, orders were orders, and therefore she was packing things into three sets; items for this trip, things that could be shipped home, and stuff for the cabins. It was just easier to deal with it all at once.



[Door & Post open, that she's packing is totes FB, any mention of sekkrit-agent-stuff or orders is NFB.]

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[withoutverona]

Romeo came back to the dorms in a bit of a mood after seeing his father and Benvolio off to the airport. He'd handwavily begged off training with Arthur, and he still needed to open the shop.

"Packing already?" he asked, leaning in Yurika's door.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Hai!" she answered, grinning at him over her shoulder. "Apparently, I have to report to the STN-J on Wednesday morning, bright and early, for an orientation session with the team."

"I'll be back by Monday, but I figured I might as well get all my packing done at once."

[withoutverona]

Romeo pouted at her and slumped against the wall. "But you have to go, now? I thought you said they wouldn't have need of you until August."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"That's what I was told, too," she said, making a face. "But apparently they just got some new IT kid, a guy named Michael or something, and they'd rather make us both sit through the lectures at the same time."

[withoutverona]

"I can give you the lecture," Romeo said hopefully. "Don't steal paperclips, show up by nine, wear decent clothes. Done. Can you stay here?"

He was being terrifically mature about this.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Aijin," Yurika said warningly. "I'm not even going to be gone a full week."

[withoutverona]

"So says Father Juliano," Romeo noted, and let out a long huff of breath. "Forgive me if I find the man hard to trust."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"It's not in his best interests to lie about this," Yurika pointed out. "Do you want to come with? I assumed you'd want to stay around for the newbie picnic," and everyone that was leaving, "but we'd be back in time for you to open the store next week."

[withoutverona]

Romeo was very, very tempted by her offer, and was about to offer to run across the hall for his bags when he came back to earth.

"I think Rikku would kill us both, if neither of us were here to see her off," he said reluctantly. "But you know if you don't come to the store Monday to greet me, I will go to Tokyo and find you."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I will get food, and then I will meet you at the store," she negotiated. "I'll also have apartment leaflets and maps and such that I'll bring back with me."

"At least, I'm assuming you decided to come with me, since your father made a point of telling me that I can have you for two years."

[withoutverona]

"I meant to tell you that!" Romeo said, suddenly happier. "I need to go to classes, and we can't get married -- which I know breaks your heart -- but yes. I'm yours for two more years. Well, yours and Tokyo's."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Mine, Tokyo's, and your homework's," she corrected with a laugh. "If you don't take and pass your classes, your father might kill me."

[withoutverona]

"Business classes, yet," Romeo said, tone only half complaining. "My father drove a hard bargain; I suppose that's why he's a success."

He made a face. "I know it's my fate, but I still have a hard time imagining myself at the head of the Montague estate."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Why?" she asked, setting aside the packing for a moment to sit on the bed. "I know what your father wants, obviously, but what do you want?"

[withoutverona]

"If I knew that I'd have an easier time with all of this," Romeo said ruefully. "I want to be with my love. I want to be a good man. I want to live in Verona someday. That's as far as I get."

He gave her a look. "Do you mind that I'm so set on Verona?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"No, not really," Yurika replied with a wry grin. "I mean, I get it."

"Instead of taking Father Juliano's offer, I could have always run away. Started over somewhere that people didn't know me, where there weren't any expectations or baggage, but I didn't. Partly because I didn't have anywhere to go, but mostly because Japan is just as much a part of me as being a Dōjima is."

[withoutverona]

Romeo quirked a brief smile at her. "We'll have to figure that out, won't we, while I'm at school?" he said. "Your Tokyo, my Verona. I don't think we can give up either."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I'm not worried," she answered. "Oh, and your father says we have to come to Verona on visits."

[withoutverona]

"That ought not be so bad," Romeo mused. "You can work on your tan and talk to Rosaline, if you want."

He gave her a sad attempt at a smile. "I'll try not to worry, if you will not."

[intraspective]

Ino was well aware that people were leaving and stuff and was of the opinion that it all ought to be outlawed and had spent most of the weekend sulking in her room. (The fact that this was illogical as she ought to be spending more time with people who were leaving rather than sulking about the fact that they were leaving was quite elegantly ignored.) Ino had no need for that bit of logic.

She'd have to be a lot more bummed out about it though to miss the signs of someone, you know, packing when they were so close to her room.

"You're leaving?" she asked, dismayed.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Not for good!" Dōjima replied cheerily as she tossed a shirt into a box. "I've got a work meeting, and I'll be back by Monday night! I'm just getting this done now, since I won't be around for the cabin-move."

[intraspective]

"That's... good," she said, making a bit of a face. "Though, I mean, you coming back and not leaving yet actually is good, don't get me wrong."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"I've got a TA position with Garrett-sensei, so you don't get rid of me that easily!" Dōjima chirped. "Seven more weeks of Dōjima, unlike some slackers who are cutting and running."

[intraspective]

"Cutting and running ought to be banned," she said, smiling slightly at that. "I'm in full favour of that, though maybe seven weeks is long enough to pretend that I'm happy to see people leave. Go on, get out, and all of that."

She considered that.

"Maybe with sticks. Wave pitchforks at people and kick them out since they're leaving anyway."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"You drive me out with a pitchfork and a mob, and you don't get any postcards," Dōjima said dryly. "You know, we ought to just sit on people. They wouldn't be mean enough to try and push us off, ne?"

[intraspective]

"You're giving warning," Ino said, "and staying around a bit, so you don't get pitchforks, you get pouting. Does pouting still net me postcards? Sitting on people might work, though, and if they're mean to us we could be mean back and burst into tears."

Because that'd show them. Or something.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Pouting still gets postcards, and even a standing invitation to come hang out whenever you want," Dōjima promised. "And we can totally guilt anyone who's mean to us. They can't withstand our powers combined!"

[intraspective]

"I do have a rather effective pout," she admitted, "and knowing you, you've got one too. Cute blonde girls tend to. Part of the package. If anyone can withstand two of us combined... they don't have any feelings at all." She'd have said 'aren't human' but at Fandom some people weren't.

"I've never been to Tokyo." Ino brightened. "Do you think I'd like it?"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Tokyo is Tokyo," she said, lighting up. "It's a city that literally doesn't sleep; filled with neon and music and clubbing at all hours. If you want to spend a night out raising hell, Tokyo is the place to be."

[intraspective]

She grinned. "I'd have to lie 'bout my age, no doubt," Ino said, "but that's a small lie, really, compared to others. And it'd be worth it for fun."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Eh. They wouldn't really care about your age, as long as we behaved. Well, mostly behaved. One of the privileges of being me is that I get away with murder," she laughed. "Figuratively, not literally. As a Hunter, I am supposed to bring the suspect in alive whenever possible."

As a spy, well, the lines were a bit more murky.

[intraspective]

But of course.

"Taking alive is harder anyway," she said dryly. "And, really now, they'd have to catch me to scold me for being a bad bad little girl who pays far too much attention to her Onee-san's ideas."

Ino grinned. "It might even pass, with a lot of fast talking."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"You could totally pass as one of my cousins or a half-sibling," Dōjima agreed. "We wouldn't have to talk that fast, even if they did that catch us!"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

And there was the ever wistful Madrox at the door.

"Dojima. The time has come," he stated gravely, "for I must leave the island and become a seller of Squishies to an untapped market made up of teenage ninjas. I'm here to say goodbye. You may hug me now."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Who says I want to hug you?" she shot back with a grin. "You didn't bring your hot girlfriend!"

"Wait, what happened to your face?"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"A toddler removed it on Saturday," Jamie explained. "And I can't believe you wouldn't want to hug me as a kind way to send me off the island. Tell you what, just give me the hug you'd give to Temari and I'll pass it on."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"A toddler? Nevermind, don't want to know," she said, waving a hand. "No one's ever accused me of being kind, but come on in. You can have a hug anyway."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Eh. You're just a big softie," Jamie teased as he went in for the hug. "Don't worry. I won't tell anyone."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Hush, I have a reputation to maintain," Dōjima laughed as she hugged him. "Squishies to ninjas, huh? That's not going to cause a collapse of the mulitverse or anything, is it?"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"If it does cause the end of the world? It will be delicious," Jamie chuckled. "And if it ends too quickly it will give everyone an ice cream headache."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"If the end of the world tastes like grape squishie, I think I might be okay with it," she replied. "If we've got to go, that might be up there in the top five ways to go."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"I'm a little afraid to ask what the other four would be."

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Lust, gluttony, lust, and lust," she laughed. "Come on, Madrox. Why? What were you thinking?"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"I think you hit them all," Jamie laughed. "Except for the gluttony and grape goodness."