Megumi Mushikabe-Sensei and Yu. Don’t View Porn in the Cafe!

<Pose Tracker> Yu Narukami [KDA] has posed.
It’s a warm, somewhat arid, day in Sumaru and a busy one at that. It’s a cloudless, bright, day out today and ever so inviting for the common person to be out in. There’s a gentle breeze blowing through the sparse trees surrounding a little cafe on Aoba drive, and people are milling about the place. The door of the cafe is semi-permentantly swung wide to receive the gentle breeze, most likely so the penny-penching owner does not have to turn on the air conditioning, and it’s jammed currently by a wooden triangular doorstop at the base.

         Reflected in the clear glass of the window of the cafe on the eastern side is the form of a graying young man, wearing casual dress clothes, and sitting slouched over a dark gray laptop – staring into the screen with fog gray eyes. He appears fairly oblivious to all around him for the moment… transfixed by something on the screen.

<Pose Tracker> Megumi Mushikabe [DS] has posed.

          Megumi looks towards the cafe entrance and smiles. After all the work lately, it felt relaxing to come to this place as it had quickly become one of her favorite cafe’s to visit when she moved here. Why exactly she couldn’t tell, but it was probably the atmosphere. Even that waiter that worked here seemed to add to it despite his less than optimistic attitude.
 
          As she enters the establishment, the first thing that strikes her is that the air seems to be a bit more… hot than she’s used to. It made her wonder if something was wrong with the air condition or if the owner was feeling a bit greedy today. On the internet she’d read about people who did the strangest things just to save some money, but as long as it didn’t do any harm, she didn’t mind.
 
          “Hm… not a lot of available places today…” Mumbles she quietly to herself while looking around for a place to sit. While not crowded per se, there was certainly a fair amount of people present today. Mostly regulars with one or two strangers. The one that stuck out the most was the young gray haired man sitting next to where she was standing. Seeing as she was looking in his direction anyway, she can’t help but sneak a peek at what the teen was looking at on the screen…

<Pose Tracker> Yu Narukami [KDA] has posed.
…To one gazing upon the screen of the young man seated alone at that eastern table, deeply engrossed in its display, several things would be immediately obvious: 1. Several windows open at once, arranged on the screen space to provide roughly even amounts of screen economy, 2. There’s at least two windows filled almsot entirely by Chinese text (or to those unfamiliar with eastern languages, it could be any of them), and 3. The center window appears to be that of a bookstore… but the book being looked at currently looks to be rather… racy – judging by the cover. There are a pair of barely clothed persons, male and female, clutching each other on the edge of a rocky cliff…

         Blinking his tired, unfocused, eyes at the display… the graying youth lets out a bit of an extended sigh. He then brings his right arm to rest upon the surface of the table and promptly rests his chin in the palm of it. “Mm..” Perhaps, he should have gotten coffee on the way here.. it occurs to him. It’s then, that his eyes catch the barest reflection of something in his monitor.. causing him to turn his head toward whatever was behind him. Then… his eyes go wide suddenly. “Can I.. help you?”

<Pose Tracker> Megumi Mushikabe [DS] has posed.

          Far be it for Megumi to judge someone based on the strange things one can find being looked at on a computer screen, but was this teen really looking at what it was coming across as? While it was perfectly natural for people to look at these things, well for those who’d swing that way that is, she would’ve thought that doing it somewhere else than in a cafe would be smarter. The fact that it was in chinese baffled her a bit as well. Surely if one had to go looking at it, one could’ve just looked up a japanese site instead or something…
 
          “Interesting choice of.. uhm…” She’s completely lost for words when she tries to respond. Then realizing that what she was about to say wasn’t really answering the teens question at all, she says the first thing that comes to her mind.
 
          “… Is that seat taken?” Says she and points towards the available seats right next to the two. However regret soon follows as this may have just made it slightly more awkward rather than be helpful.

<Pose Tracker> Yu Narukami [KDA] has posed.
…Awkward indeed. Judging by her reaction, Yu’s fears had been realized. She thought he was looking at lewd material. Well, okay, he was! But that’s not really the point of it. Before he can justify himself, however, he turns his eyes to where she’s pointing and processes yet another dilemma: she would like sit here. What comes out of the young man’s mouth, despite his reluctance however is… “..Sure.” He offers a nod of confirmation to that and then promptly waits for her to take a seat before explaining further… taking the time to gather his thoughts so he doesn’t make matters even more awkward.

         “..I-I’m not looking at pornography.” He stammers, and then realizes this sounds even more suspicious, “I’m a translator. … I’m actually translating this to Japanese.” He then takes a deep breathe and leans back in his chair a bit, turning his eyes back toward his monitor once more. He suddenly felt his face burning with a blush his was just barely managing to contain…

<Pose Tracker> Megumi Mushikabe [DS] has posed.

          Megumi feels like walking away before the teen has a chance to answer, but he’s quicker and since her current feeling of laziness wins out over the awkwardness she’s feeling, she walks over to the available seat and sits down. Then she begins to ponder how to undo the awkwardness that both of them must surely be feeling right now.
 
          “Is that so?” Is the only responce she manages to muster when the teen tries his best to explain it to her, while she pulls out her own laptop from a small backpack she’s carrying and places it on the table.
 
          “I’ll take your word for it as I doubt someone your age would look at ‘interesting’ pictures in a place like this without good reason…” She lifts her arms and motions them towards the surroundings. Then her curiousity begins to get the best of her and asks… “Though why are you doing that then…?”

<Pose Tracker> Yu Narukami [KDA] has posed.
Yu sighs a prolonged sigh when she finally takes a seat and responds, producing a laptop from the pack she was carrying. Well, at least she wasn’t running away. That probably would’ve made Yu decide to close up shop and take his work home. He does question the wisdom of doing his work here, however… far too late.

         Sitting up straight in his seat again, and leaning slightly forward once more, Yu offers yet another quick nod as she asks him if that is indeed true. “Yes.” He then promptly moves his hand towards the laptop’s touch pad and, with a gliding motion of his index finger, finds the ‘X’ button to that window and closes it as another patron walks by. He then silently turns his gaze toward the person who walked by, perhaps confirming they hadn’t saw anything. To her next question, he offers, “..Is this a bad place to work?” He hadn’t thought so initially… this is where he always came when class let out… to relax and get things done. It was more privacy than his home offered anyway..

<Pose Tracker> Megumi Mushikabe [DS] has posed.

          After quickly booting up the laptop and starting the good ol’ browser, she looks towards the teen again to see if he’s still feeling awkward over the whole thing. Given the situation at hand, it could’ve gone way worse, especially if someone more prudish had seen it. The words ‘think of the children’ sprang to mind.
 
          “That depends entirely on what you intend to work on and -when- you do it.” While there were a fair amount of customers was likely not the best choice however, but everyone had their days when they didn’t think on things as much as they should’ve. As a teacher she was all too familiar with that fact.
 
          “That said, I think you’ve avoided any incidents since I’m by no means a prude. Besides I’ve caught students looking at far worse.” Megumi sighs slightly as she thinks back to those times. The students at her new job were thankfully a bit more mindful of what they were doing.
 
          Once she’s finishes replying, she quickly looks through the darkside newsboard before turning her attention back to the teen.

<Pose Tracker> Yu Narukami [KDA] has posed.
Whilst waiting for her answer, Yu turns his eyes back toward his monitor and places his index finger on the touchpad again, mousing over to the window containing the bit of script he’d been given as a demo and enlarging it. His eyes then slowly begin to scan the length of the document again, as he muses over whether he should take the job. Without immediately turning his eyes from the document, he replies to her first statement simply, “Yeah.” He then turns his foggy gaze upon the woman seated nearby and offers a bit of a shy smile. “It was kind of thoughtless.” But, Yu could be absent-minded at times. Oh yes he could!

         Having replied to her comments, momentarily, he then turns his gaze toward a nearby vending machine… and stares at it for a while in thought. Standing up suddenly after a few moments of silent pondering, he offers generously, “Do you want anything?” He then points toward the machine with his right hand, in case she wasn’t paying attention. Maybe some momentary kindness would make things less awkward.

<Pose Tracker> Megumi Mushikabe [DS] has posed.

          Megumi decides to quickly check her email, but when it shows that she’s gotten one from a certain someone, her expression darkens and becomes harsh. However she’s snapped out of that when the teen asks her if she wants something, causing her to turn her gaze towards him, offering him a kind smile.
 
          “No thanks, but I appreciate the offer.” She quickly moves the mouse over the mail she reacted to and deletes it, having no interest in even looking at it’s content.
 
          “I don’t think I’ve seen you here before. What brings you to this place?” There is a hint of genuine curiousity in her tone. It is however a bit obvious that this is just an attempt to pull up a topic that’ll diffuse the still lingering awkwardness.

<Pose Tracker> Yu Narukami [KDA] has posed.
Yu watches her inquistively for a moment as he processes her reactions to the unseen e-mail. He wondered for a brief moment if the ill gaze was at his offer, but then very quickly realizes this was not so when he receives her reply. “Yu.” He briefly utters at her last question, then realizes she did not request a name! Working quickly to rectify the situation, he adds, “I’m a Sumaru Unversity Student. Yu Narukami.” His heads bobs again every so slightly, again, in confirmation. Seems he has a fetish for nodding maybe. “..I’m from Inaba. Pretty far, right?” Having said that, he then immediately treks off to the nearby vending machine and produces some Yen from, his pocket… sliding it into the machine’s curreny slot. “You don’t want anything?” He inquires again, out of courtesy.

<Pose Tracker> Megumi Mushikabe [DS] has posed.

          Did the teen just give her his name? While she did appreciate the politeness of doing so, she’s a bit surprised as she’d never asked for it. None the less now that he’d done this, it’d be rather impolite to not introduce herself in return.
 
          “My name is Megumi Mushikabe, a teacher working over at Sevens.” Says she in the most polite tone she can muster and puts on a more polite, rather than gentle, smile. “And I know of Inaba. It’s a nice and quiet place that I’ve visited a few times.”
 
          “N-” Megumi doesn’t get the opportunity to finish her polite refusal as she’s interrupted by her cellphone’s ringtone, some sort of european opera tune by the sound of it. After quickly pulling it out and checking who the caller is, she turns the phone off and looks towards the teen.
 
          “Ah the busy life of a teacher… Anyway as I was about say… I’ve no need of anything right now, but once again thanks for the offer.”

<Pose Tracker> Yu Narukami [KDA] has posed.
*Kerrrrrrrrrr KLUNK*

         Bending down to retrieve a small snackbar that dropped into the machine’s trapdoor, Yu turns a curious glance towards Miss (Mrs?) Mushikabe as she offers her name to him as well. He then promptly stands from his squatted position at the base of the machine, and proceeds to walk across the carpeted floor back toward their shared table. “..Well..” He says, thinking to himself how to explain his offering his name absent mindedly.. “I wasn’t paying attention, sorry. When I offered my name, I mean.” ..and decides to offer the truth instead. “But it’s a pleasure to meet you, Mushikabe-sensei.”

         Having offered a polite reply, he then takes his seat again at the opposite side of the table and stares silently at the wrapper of his snackfood. “So, you teach?” He turns his head upwards again after a few moments of quietness, leveling those fog gray eyes of his at her again.

<Pose Tracker> Megumi Mushikabe [DS] has posed.

          “Don’t worry about it Narukami-san. There are worse things to do by accident.” Like getting caught watching a racy picture when sitting in a cafe. Granted even then she’d caught people doing worse things so there was that too.
 
          “And it’s a pleasure to meet you as well.” Megumi turns her attention back to the laptop screen and quickly looks over something. Whatever it is, isn’t visible from where Yu is however, but it does seem a bit important as it takes a while for her to realize she was asked a question.
 
          “Yes I do. Started my new position not long ago.” Replies she and pulls something out of her backpack. It seems to be a small bag of snacks. The brand doesn’t appear to be anything particularly special however. “Though I hadn’t expected to run into a student of any sort today.”

<Pose Tracker> Yu Narukami [KDA] has posed.
By the time she replies, Yu has already proceeded to peel back the wrapper of what appears to be a generic choclate bar – possibly something akin to a Snickers bar – and proceeding to nibble on it silently as he works on something on his own computer again. Both hands being occupied with the keyboard, the snackbar is left to be suspended in the air between his lips as he gazes at the monitor silently. As she returns his pleasantries, however, he does lift his eyes from the screen once more to gaze at her across from the table. He then grabs the snackbar from his mouth between his right index finger and thumb, removing it and lowering it to just below the screen, and smiles in a friendly manner. “Yes. It’s always nice to meet a new person.”

— the discussion tapered off here, and Yu started making his way home shortly after. (OOCly Yu’s player was head-desking and Mushikabe Sensei was very sleepy at 2 AM. It was a good scene Sensei, rests well!.)