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8th Flight is As you please

A) Morning

[Morning is as usually filled with classes, or early training and has Sano yawning wide enough to get tears in his eyes, when he walks down the corridor to prepare the class before the students arrive. The morning air wakes him up pretty fast though and soon he's full with energy, all wide grins and loud, resonating voice with which he greets the first years.]

Ready folks? Let's do this!

[After the early clss there's breakfast in the Great Hall, which he enjoys with a nice black tea to warm him up, a filling food, the Daily Prophet, or a pleasant chat with a fellow teacher.]

B) Day

[The day is spent similar to the morning, with some afternoon classes, quidditch, or working in his office, trying to solve the Ravenclaw, or the recent Slytherin problem. Seriously, did Matsuoka HAVE TO get himself a month worth of detention? He wants to try and approach Daphne with it, to let the boy off at least for the training, but he doesn't think she'll be cooperative. She's way too strict.

If he's not working he can be usually seen in the hallways, or outside, chatting with one of his female colleagues, enjoying a little socialization.]

C) Evening

[With the peak of the Quidditch season, he sometimes works late into the night, thinking about schedules, tryouts, team rosters, private lessons and other stuff he needs to think about. It has been a while since he went out and had fun in Hogsmead, but he doesn't mind it much. After work, or maybe during a short break he can be seen taking walks outside, near the lake, or around the Quidditch Pitch. Sometimes he catches some late students doing self-practice, or meets Jiirou, or another late bird whom he chats up.

He knows he should be stricter, but he can't help himself be lenient about these late evening hours around curfew. The students had so much wor, they rarely had the time for themselves, or their private lives, so he usually lets them off easily, but makes a habit of escorting them to their room, so they don't get into trouble witht the other teachers.]

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[ Rangiku is usually not That Kind of Woman. She loves no strings attached and all the fun she can handle, but sometimes... Sometimes it gets to her. She doesn't necessarily see Sano as hers, it's not like that, but watching him flirt with other women can be difficult sometimes.

This time, in particular, during the day it lead her to brushing past him rather irritably. She didn't stop to apologize, no flirting of her own, just a soft 'hmph' as he she kept walking, head held high. Determined not to look at Sano.

By evening, she's sulking at the bar. Acting as anything other than her usual self, waving people off to tell them she's fine, smiling brightly like she was. But people can tell, and she didn't want anyone speculating as to why she was in a mood. So, instead she finds herself walking back to the castle with a bottle of ale in her hand, but it's mostly full and she's only nursing it. She's also fairly sober for once. Perhaps that's why she was walking slower than usual, enjoying the night air despite the chill. She didn't notice Sano near the pitch, though. Her eyes didn't wander that direction... ]

Edited 2016-02-03 21:03 (UTC)

[He's exiting the field, having gone in briefly to check if someone wasn't breaking in, more out of habit than anything else, when the lights of the village catch his eyes and he stops for a while to admire the sight. It's a clear night, if not a little chilly. He tries to remember when the last time was, that he went to the bar and he decides entirely too long. He had been busy with everything else so much... He wouldn't be even thinking about it now, if not the strange incident from earlier the day.

Someone had bumped into him without an apology and when he had turned around with a 'Hey watch out', he only saw the back of Ran's head and a sound he had never heard from her before. Well, not directed at him. It's true that they haven't gotten to hang out much recently, but she hadn't even looked at him. It made him wonder if he did something wrong without realizing it. It would be a long time since that lat happened, but it was of course possible. Only he has no idea what.

With a sigh, he averts his gaze from the village, only to notice a figure marching on the road, heading back to the castle. Well, talk about the devil. If he had no idea about what he did wrong, it's about time to find out.]

Ran!

[He calls out to her and jogs to where she is.]

Edited 2016-02-03 21:20 (UTC)

[ Aah, lady luck did not smile on her today, did she? Sano is the last person she wants to see, yet there he is marching toward her. Rangiku decides, for the sake of it, to pretend things are normal. To smile and force her feet to look like she's walking off kilter. But she's not sure if she's a good or bad actor, at this point, because she very rarely remembers just how she is when she's drunk. ]

Aaah, if it isn't Sano~ [ A bubbly giggle as she raises her ale to her lips. ] Beautiful night, isn't it?

[He slows down when he gets closer and stops only right in front of her. She looks like she's drunk a lot again, if the bottle is any indication, but something's off. Her speech isn't as slurred as usually and her eyes aren't as glazed over, as they tend to be, when she can't walk anymore. And the bottle is barely down to it's half. he doesn't know how much she had, but he knows how high her tolerance is.

Stalling, are we? She must be really upset, if she doesn't want to even talk. Well, no need to delay the inevitable then.]

Truly breathtaking.

[He answers her question. It might be true, but the weather's not what they're going to talk about now.]

Say Ran, I wanted to ask you something. You seemed upset today... Did something happen?

[ Ah, caught already? This beautiful bastard is far too smart for his own good, she decides. It's a comfort to at least have him not question if it was himself that was the problem, because that's indeed the answer.

She raises her hand to wave it off, still smiling. ]

Ah~ That? One of the students called me old today.

[ A lie, but hopefully he's not too smart to catch onto that. Even if lying to him felt terrible. To emphasize her lie she lets the bubbly exterior drop for a moment, only to look as annoyed as she truly felt. ]

I'm in my prime, dammit! Those brats don't know anything.

Did they?

[He really wants to believe her, but that didn't explain that huff, or the fact that she hadn't looked at him. Maybe she had been just busy, or in a hurry... But he still had a bad feeling about this. He notices that she's not wearing the pendant he gifted her for her birthday today.

He wonders if he should try to take a trip across her mind. He would have done so already, if he didn't think of it as a rude invasion of privacy. But maybe he can still pull it out of her. But he still has no solid proof it's him, even though he has the feeling it is.

Maybe falling back into their old pattern will be more helpful? He wonders what she'll do if he accepts her answer.

He gives her a flirty wink and smiles his trademark smile.]

Kid knows nothing. I know first hand that you're definitely in your prime.

[ On a day where the problem wasn't whatever she was feeling about Sano right now, she would accept his flirtations and the innuendo that they knew each other better. She might even drape herself over him and pout, practically egging him on to fawn over her, knowing he would willingly give her compliments.

Today, the flirtations annoyed her and when she speaks, despite trying her hardest to keep it out, there's an edge to her voice. ]

I bet you say that to all the girls~

[ Rangiku takes a drink of her ale and side steps him so she could start walking back toward the castle again. ]

[Alright. If nothing else, THAT was a solid proof that something was up. And that the problem was him. Any other day she would hav let him spoil her rotten, if someone told her such a thing. But now there's suddenly an annoyed line around her lips and she takes a rather big swig of the ale she's holding and that reply she gives him, speaks volumes in itself.

She turns his back on him and starts walking away, but he won't have it. They're solving this, whether she liked it or not. Before she can get out of his reach, he's grabbing her wrist.]

Wait. How about we drop this game and you tell me what's really wrong? If I somehow upset you, I am truly sorry, but I'd really wish you'd tell me straight out, so we can sort it out.

[ Rangiku is not her usual self and she knows it. She knows that her thoughts are off kilter, that she has no right to be this level of annoyed with Sano, but try as she might she can't help herself. If she opens her mouth now, she knows there's a 50/50 shot that she'll say something she'll regret.

However, him grabbing her wrist only makes things worse, and it causes her to jerk her wrist from his grasp. ]

It'll sort itself out on its own, so if you'll excuse me I'm going to take a bath and go to bed.

[When she yanks his wrost out of his hand, for a moment he's stunned. It has never happened before that she reacted like this to his touch and it sorta scares him. What in Merlin's name could he have done to make her feel like that? He can't think of anything, but he's starting to feel really horrible.]

Maybe it will. But that won't really solve anything, will it?

[He replies, because whatever happened - and he still has no idea what - and he was the cause, he was running into danger of repeating it, which is something he'd really rather not.]

If I did something wrong, I want to apologize properly. I can't do that without knowing what it was.

[He hesitates for a moment over what he wants to say next, but in the end, he figures if that won't make her spill, then nothing will and at least she'll be warned.]

You know I could just use legilimency on you, right? But I'd really prefer if you told me yourself.

[ If she wasn't actually angry before, Sano using his legilimency as a threat sure did something awful to her mood. First of all, Rangiku didn't want to solve the problem. She wanted to wait it out until it wasn't an issue anymore.

Secondly--

Rangiku whirled around on him, eyes narrowed and sharp. Threatening. ]

Threatening me into talking isn't going to make me want to any faster, Sano. And if you use legilimency on me, I'll never speak to you again.

[Whoa. If Sano was less of a man he would have taken a step back. But he doesn't. She's pissed. Honest, true-to-Merlin anger is reflecting in her blue eyes, that are usually so comforting and sparkling with playfulness. And if he's done something wrong, he can at least recieve her anger. Even if she ends up hexing him, while they're at it. He can deal with that.

He's not sure whether to feel hurt, sorry, or angry, but he wonders if he'll pry long nough, if she'll at least yell it into his face.]

It's not like you would notice I'm doing it.

[Not many people did, unless they knew what to look for. It's not that the act itself left any tracks. It also didn't give you the power to communicate, or tamper with the mind you were in. All you could do was just watch. Listen. Feel.

But it's not like he would really do it, not under that threat, so that argument is pointless and just unnecessarily egging her on. He has no idea why he even said it in the first place. With a sigh, he looks directly into her eyes, asking.]

What do you achieve by keeping it in? Even if it blows off, I already know. It will stay between us, if we don't solve it.

[And he doesn't want that kind of rift between them.]

[ Oh, it's not the act of going into her mind she'd feel. Of course not. It's the betrayal when he realized her problem wasn't necessarily with him, but the feelings she had for him that drove her to being like this in the first place. Rangiku wasn't a naive little girl, she knew she liked him. It just... had never been so obvious before, and she didn't like wearing jealousy. Such an ugly shade on her!

What was more, she didn't want to confront Sano about it. Their arrangement was already perfect because it didn't weigh either of them down. Sometimes, though, even Rangiku wanted more. ]

I would know just by looking at you if you had.

[ Whether he would laugh at her or not was up to him, but she couldn't deny that him knowing would solve problems. Only to create all new ones in their wake.

She reached up to ruffle her hair irritably, letting out a small sigh. ]

Let it go for now. It's not your problem.

[He words cut him deeper than they should. She had a problem and she had it with him. She was his friend, a companion, a partner and she was upset because of something that had to do with him. If that wasn't already bad enough, she wasn't telling him what it was and that made it only worse. Could she no even trust him anymore? Had he disappointed her so much? He was confused and no closer to the solution than before.]

How can you say that? Or course it's my problem! You're obviously angry and it's obviously got to do with me.

[He breathes deeply in, because he feels like he's being slowly overruled by his emotions. That wouldn't be wise.]

Besides, I think we're friends. Anything that's your problem, is mine as well.

At least tell me if I can somehow make it alright.

[If she was intent on playing the dead fish, if she just couldn't tell him, no matter what, he had to respect that in the end. But he at least wanted to know, if there was something, anything, he could do as an amend.]

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[ Friends. Did men know nothing?

Maybe it's her mood, maybe it's that 50/50 chance of screwing things up, but Rangiku turns on her heel and starts walking away again. She didn't want to dignify any of that with an answer, it all just made what she was feeling worse. It's her problem to deal with, not his. ]

It'll sort itself out eventually, don't worry your pretty head about it.

[ She waves dismissively as she picks up the pace, wanting nothing more than to actually take that bath she had been talking about not so long ago. ]

My pretty head...

[Was everything he said wrong now, he wonders briefly, suppresing a frustrated growl. He can't get upset here, it's not his place. He thinks that maybe he really should give up for now, that maybe they can talk it over later, when there wasn't a bottle iin her hand and she calmed down, but there's a part of him... a stubborn part of him that can't leave it alone. With every steps she takes further from him, feels like their closeness is fading away piece by piece.]

Damnit Ran!

[He dashes after her and outruns her to stand in her way.]

At least yell at me, if you're mad, but don't run away!

Edited (because I forgot to react to that and I had to add it because I think it's hilarious. Pretty boy... yeah...) 2016-02-04 13:46 (UTC)

[ Honestly, she had forgotten how persistent Sano could be. So often they meshed incredibly well together, that she never had to see it. They gave into each others whims and played with each other to spur one another on, rather than shut either of them out like she was doing at the moment.

Sano's stubbornness wasn't welcome at the moment, though. She'd had enough of trying to back out of it with some dignity and now she wasn't just annoyed he wouldn't leave her alone, she was angry over it. ]

What gives you the right to pry into my problems? [ A delicate hand comes up to shove him. ] We're not dating, so you don't get to play the 'your problem is my problem' card anyway. And I never said you were my problem, that's your assumption.

[The hand on his chest pushing him back startles him, but not enough for him to lose balance. Instead he takes two steps back, mouth parting for a moment to look at her in awe. He feels like this is the first time he really sees her, the first time she's showing him who she really is. He knows it's not entirely true, but until now, whenever she had pushed him, there had been a bed underneath his back and she had been smirking at him playfully, in a way that made him shiver, not looked at him with so much anger in her eyes.

It hurts him, though he might not admit it, or let it get to him. She's being so stubborn, when all he wants to do is make it alright, can't she see that?]

The right? Maybe the fact that I worry about you and don't want there to be misunderstandings between us, because you're dear to me, is that enough?!

[He bites his tongue, when he realizes he raised his voice and takes another dee breath, but it sounds more like he's seething. No. No they're not dating, but that didn't change they were close! Or was it just him who thought that way?]

And assumption based on the fact, that you seem to get pissed more at every word that leave my mouth. That you don't let me even touch you anymore. That for a compliment I get a sneer in return.

Merlin's balls, Ran! I'm not stupid, so don't lie to me!

[ Rather than give him his space Rangiku closes the gap. However, this time instead of a push she keeps tapping his chest with the punctuation of her words for emphasis. ]

If I didn't have a pig-headed friend trying to badger it out of me, maybe I wouldn't be so angry!

[ Sighing softly, she mutters 'this is stupid' to herself and crosses her arms in front of herself, eyes staring up at him. Her gaze is assessing, albeit still angry. This feels like what it might be like to be in a relationship with Sano, and if it was then it wasn't worth all of this. The aggravation and fighting with him made her miserable. ]

Just let me go take my bath in peace.

[He sighs a little too audibly this time, scratching his head, thinking she might be right. Alright, fine, he gives up. Fighting wasn't how this can be solved anyway. No point in this.]

Alright then. But we'll talk later. When we both have a clear head.

[His expression softens for a moment, as another, softer sigh passes his lips.]

I just don't like to see you angry, or upset.

That's something neither of us like.

[ Quietly, she smooths across where she'd been poking him, as if to apologize, and steps away from him. It's only now that she remembers that it's cold outside, the chill cutting through her thick cloak like a hot knife through butter. A shiver chases up her spine as she wraps her cloak tighter and sidesteps him. ]

Good night, Sanosuke.

[ For future reference, she's not promising to talk wit him. She just wants to get inside and relax so she can begin the process of sorting this mess out in her head. ]

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