destinystrings | A Date to Remember

Who: Yu Narukami, Yukiko Amagi, and their stalkers (add in your character's tag as you post).
Where: Starting in Libra at the apartment building, coming to Scorpio and the theaters there.
Summary: Yu finally bit the bullet and asked Yukiko out on a date. Naturally, everyone needs to watch and marvel at the end results of the Amagi Challenge finally being beaten.
Warnings: Excessive silliness, flailing, and a popcorn.gif goddess.

Right now, Yu felt like the world could end, and he'd still be pretty damn happy.

He held the door out of the Libra apartment building open for Yukiko to exit first, sure to be the perfect gentlemen during their first date. He had wanted to ask her out for awhile on their world, but school work and TV work had made that near impossible. He almost got the chance during the summer, but ended up taking up a million jobs instead to help out Nanako -- not that he regretted a single moment, no matter how difficult it had been.

But here in Hinoto-Ri, there was plenty of opportunities for that date to finally happen, even with all the work he was doing to save up for a bigger apartment for him and Nanako. It had taken every bit of courage he could pull up, but he finally got the chance to ask during the Halloween party. And it was so damn worth it.

Not that he'd ever come out and say it like that.

Yu waited for Yukiko to exit before following after her. He kept his hand near hers, a subtle offer for her to take it if she wanted as they walked to the tram line that would take them to Scorpio district.

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If someone asked her on a date around a year ago, she would politely (in her mind anyway) decline or Chie would step in front of them, telling them to back off. She was so busy at the inn and with school plus add in all of their adventures into the TV realm that the very idea of going out was pushed back to the farthest depths of her mind.

Then picture getting dragged into a city where the weird IS the norm. Luckily there's friends as well making it feel a bit better: one happened to be the one who she was going to spend time with tonight. It seemed simple: just a movie between the two of them. But since the Halloween party, Yukiko felt a little more giddy as time went on. Maybe realizing that this indeed WAS a date with a guy she really did like.

So when the time came, she walked alongside him with a smile on her lips. She noticed that small nudge (without her persona's help mind you) and slowly took her hand into his.

Well, all in all, this day had gone fairly well for Rise. She'd figured out that, in spite of randomly appearing in a weird new world again, she had not technically been kidnapped, her friends were here, and she'd gotten briefed on the general situation. Serious stuff - depressing stuff, really - but she could make the most of it.

More to the point, she was going to go see Yu-senpai! It was especially nice that she was in the same building as him, and she was walking up to the building when, suddenly, she saw something she hadn't really expected to see. Firstly, Yukiko touching a guy in a manner that wasn't punching Yosuke in the eye. Secondly, she and Yu were...holding hands. Affectionately. Very much datingly.

Rise was stunned for only a second before ducking behind a wall near the entrance to the apartment building to observe further, unobtrusively. She wasn't so much angry or jealous right now as in shock, and she wanted to make sure she was seeing what she thought she was seeing. For science. Or something.

And Kanji, meanwhile, was returning from a round of job applications looking a little worse for wear. Nonchalantly, he greeted Rise with a wave.

"Yo Kujikawa." Wait. "Uuuh...what you doin' exactly?"

Kanji wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box. To be fair, he hadn't noticed Yukiko or Yu farther away, just that he was dead tired and needed to go to bed soon if he was to try continuing with his search tomorrow.

Rise immediately grabbed her giant classmate and pulled him out of sight with her. "Shh! I'm trying to figure out what's going on."

She peered out from her hiding spot again, and whispered "I didn't even think Yukiko-senpai knew what a date was! What is she doing with him?"

Yu frowned slightly; did he just hear something? He turned just after Kanji disappeared from sight, a confused look on his face. Izanagi was chuckling in the back of his head, but he could not see anything that was obviously amiss; was he missing something here...?

Yukiko didn't hear anything but she noticed the look on Yu's face.

"Is everything alright?"

Even her own persona was a little confused.

"I... think so?"

He wasn't entirely sure, but it was entirely possible that he was hearing things. Besides, he had more important things to worry about. Yu turned to her, giving her hand a gentle squeeze.

"Shall we go?"

MEANWHILE back behind their sight...

"W-what the hell was that fo-" Kanji suddenly went quiet as she talked, and peeked directly from above her head. He was far less conspicuous. "What d'you mean trying to figure out something?"

He narrowed his eyes, seeing Yukiko and Yu at the far end of his view.

"Wait, are you saying Senpai and Yukiko-senpai are....dating?"

Wooha. Imagining a childhood friend dating Senpai was completely out of the left field and left him utterly confused. It made him thin about--

--Kanji was suddenly blushing like HE was the one going on the date.

Meanwhile away from the 'peepers'...

~~Yes, you two are peeping therefore peepers.~~

"Y-yes, we don't want to be late do we?" she asks, keeping her smile up. There was no way someone was going to try and mess this up. Or at least Yukiko hoped not.

"If they are it's news to me!" Rise hissed in the way only a person who's trying to yell in secret can. "Senpai was the same old too-cool-for-everyone pillar of manliness the other day, and now he's all lovey-dovey with Yukiko."

She stole another glance. There was definitely not only hand-holding, but hand-squeezing there. She looked back at Kanji and gave him a hard tap on the shoulder. "Focus, Kanji. We need to follow them and find out what's going on."

WHAAAAT.

"No way! Senpai can do what he wants and we ain't gonna spy on him!" Even if Yu himself had spied on him once, Kanji was not going to be bitter about that. Yet at the same time he was still peeking from his pillar. Imaging himself doing the same thing with...

...no he had to stop thinking about that.

"It's not spying! It's investigating!" Rise said, as assured of that as she'd ever been of anything. "You've known Yukiko-senpai forever, right? Has she ever been on a date? This is a mystery here!"

Quietly walking up behind Rise, Ruri stops with her usual deadpan and looks from her to Kanji.

"If you are spying I'd be more quiet. I heard you half a block away. Do you want me to get the two before they go so you can just ask them directly?"

Sorry you three, but Yu's already walking down the street, hand-in-hand with Yukiko, sparing her a warm smile that would make any girl melt with jealousy.

...someone may need to mop Rise up from the pavement.

It certainly said something for her rapt attention to the melting process that she didn't even register Ruri's comment except to shush her automatically while she watched the couple go off.

After a couple of seconds, though, she reacted with delayed appropriate surprise, registering the other girl for the first time. "H-hey! We're not spying! It's none of your business anyway," she said, proceeding to grab Kanji by the arm, fully intent on following Yu and Yukiko. "Come on, Kanji."

A Date to Remember

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