looking for some trouble tonight

[taijiya]

Date & Time: August 31st, before Ella's part.
Location: Um. An apartment. Probably Sango's.
Characters: Sango (taijiya) and Blaine (strategic_guile)
Summary: What are odd friends who occasionally make innuendos at you for, except to braid your hair and quiz you on guns and drag you to parties?
Warnings: Probably none, unless Blaine gets his own.

Straightening up the kitchen and digging in the pantry was proving a fruitless distraction, and not a very good excuse. She really did need to keep better track of where the groceries were going--but with the recent random flux of roommates coming and going and her own often busy schedule, she'd been eating out far too often and little in between.

"Alright, point taken," Sango noted finally with a sigh, a delayed response to Blaine's earlier statement that there would be food at the party he'd mentioned. It'd been a subject that kept cropping up today almost organically, even while at the shooting range. Some party that a girl Sango didn't know was throwing, open to anybody. It didn't seem to make much of a difference to Blaine that she had no idea how 'modern' parties worked, didn't know anyone but him that was going, and had precious little knowledge of the social etiquette presumably required for such a situation.

She quit rummaging and crossed her arms, uncertain. "But I hope you know I've got no idea how this works."

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[taijiya]

She looked around for the nearest clock. "Do we have time for that?"

[strategic_guile]

"As long as I braid fast and you don't take forever to pick something to go under it."

Blaine reached over to undo the dress shirt and lay it on the bed. Wrapping it back up would be quick, but mostly it was her hair that would take time. "Let me do your hair first. We can do that in the living room. Go sit on the floor in front of the couch."

He went into his drawer to get a brush and comb and a few hair ties he had collected over the past few months.

[taijiya]

"...my hair? What's wrong with it?" She asked somewhat defensively, pulling it to the side. For some reason, when it came to her appearance, she proved a pushover; Kagome's fiddling had seen to that time and again. But at least with Kagome messing with her hair Sango wasn't left wondering extensively towards the gender roles established in the future. (She couldn't decide if it was good or bad or neither, really.)

So she somehow found herself sitting in front of the couch anyway, Kirara curled in her lap.

[strategic_guile]

The strange not-quite-cat sitting in Sango's lap was cute, but Blaine still didn't endeavor to touch it. For the most part, he was trying to avoid getting yellow hairs in his braids, and secondly he didn't want to get bitten. No matter how much the cat seemed to like him, they all bit him eventually.

"There's nothing wrong. I just want to braid it." A ponytail would be fine for the party, since it wasn't anything fancy. There wasn't enough resources for fancy, even if Vanadi tried his best, but Blaine just wanted to sit for a while and fuss over someone. She was too young to be his younger sister, but that wasn't the point. He sat behind her and pulled her hair free of the tie and combed through it.

[taijiya]

It had been a long time since anyone had fussed over her like this. She wasn't about to admit to enjoying it, because what could that be but vain, but she did think it was nice.

Strange, how her life in Exsilium was at many times much more domestic than the state of her life at home. If you could overlook the cultural discrepancies.

"Where'd you learn this?" she asked as he worked.