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Post by Makino Tori on Sept 21, 2016 15:15:57 GMT -6
Makino's eyes lit up. "Mmm brownies! I have not had brownies in months." She jumped up from her sitting position on the couch. "Deal! But you're helping make them." She disappeared into the kitchen as clattering of dishes and rattling of pans escaped from the kitchen. Cabinet doors opened and closed as well as drawers. Finally, the room fell silent. Hearing footsteps she turned to see Ryusuke standing in the entryway of the kitchen.
She looked back to her mixture. "You can butter the pan." She motioned with her head over to the pan on the table, the butter sitting next to it.
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Post by Ryusuke Tanahashi on Sept 21, 2016 17:56:32 GMT -6
Ryusuke sighed and went to the pan, chuckling slightly, "I swear. I came here thinking I'd get my ass chewed out because of what I said. Now I'm helping make my favorite treat."
He grinned as he buttered the pan with brisk speed. He couldn't help but remember when he was younger, the times he spent in the kitchen with his parents making sweet treats to eat.
He stopped abruptly and shook his head as he finished, "What next?" His tone was slightly hushed.
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Post by Makino Tori on Sept 21, 2016 18:51:05 GMT -6
"Well," Makino looked around then up at the clock. "About an hour of your time I guess." She lifted the mixing bowl and walked toward him and the table where the pan waited for the mixture.
"Everything is done now. All we have to do is wait for them to bake." She poured the brownie mixture into the pan spreading it out as she went. Once the bowl was empty she handed Ryusuke the bowl and the spoon. "Here. You really want something to do. Lick the bowl clean."
She giggled softly as Ryusuke looked into the bowl his eyes growing round and a wide grin across his lips. Picking up the pan she walked over to the oven putting them in and setting the timer for thrifty minutes. She turned looking at Ryusuke and started to laugh. He had chocolate around his mouth his out tongue licking the spoon off. He froze in mid action and looked at her then went right back to the brownie mix stuck to the bowl.
"Is that good?" she asked him sitting down at the table.
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Post by Ryusuke Tanahashi on Sept 21, 2016 21:59:19 GMT -6
Ryusuke growled at Makino's comment and sat the bowl down, "My apologies, you have seen my weaker and more childish side." He turned away slightly, "I don't like that part of me. It isn't me."
He glanced back at the brownie mix and wiped his face, "Damn that was good though..." He sighed and chuckled at himself, "Guess food is the way to a man's heart."
He quickly realized what he said, "No. That was not meant for you. Just was saying I enjoy food."
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Post by Makino Tori on Sept 21, 2016 22:23:27 GMT -6
Makino giggled softly and pointed to the other chair at the table. "Sit, and enjoy. I don't care what side of you, you want to show. As long as I know it is you I am seeing when we hang out together." She stood and walked over to the counter getting two water glasses, filling them with water.
She carried them back to the table and sat one in front of Ryusuke as he looked down into the bowl. "Will you finish the mix please if you were enjoying it so much? I swear I wont tell a soul."
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Post by Ryusuke Tanahashi on Sept 21, 2016 23:25:28 GMT -6
Rysuke took a seat and shook his head, "I'm good on the mix." He waited till she went to take a drink and stuck his finger in the mix and ate it, a sly smile across his face.
"The side that you see you aren't supposed to see. I just really like brownies," He narrowed his eyes and grinned at Makino, "But every soul has their weakness." He paused to take a sip of the water, "What is Makino Tori's?"
He chuckled and waved his hand at her, "I have let you know my greatest weakness, it is your turn to return the favor~"
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Post by Makino Tori on Sept 21, 2016 23:29:52 GMT -6
Makino's eyes widened as she shook her head. "No way!" She exclaimed softly sitting up in her chair.
Ryusuke grinned and snapped his fingers, "It is only fair! You have to now!" He sat forward on the table before taking another drink.
"Nooooo." Makino relied shaking her head as she turned beat red looking down at her feet. "You will think it childish." She told him sheepishly.
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Post by Ryusuke Tanahashi on Sept 21, 2016 23:50:21 GMT -6
He chuckled as he thought on Makino's comment, "Childish.... You just saw me eat out of a brownie bowl, Makino. A top tier intellectual, eating out of a damn brownie mix bowl," His eyes narrowed once more as he chuckled.
"Tell me what your childish weakness is. I promise I won't tell," He smiled, holding his hand out, "Just like I won't tell Mitsuo that you might be single."
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Post by Makino Tori on Sept 22, 2016 0:51:35 GMT -6
Makino took his hand and shook it then mumbled. "Baby birds."
"Huh?" Ryusuke question. "if you're going to tell I have to hear you."
Makino looked to him and blurted out. "Baby birds!" A warm fuzzy feeling came over her as she held up her hand in a cupped manner like she had a baby bird in her hand looking at it as she started talking like a three year old. "Their so cuteee~ and fluffy. They yook yike a yittle fluff ball of cotton. SOOO CUTE~!" She squeaked.
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Post by Ryusuke Tanahashi on Sept 22, 2016 0:58:08 GMT -6
Ryusuke blinked a few times before laughing, "Oh my, Makino. Baby birds is your childhood weakness?" He held back the rest of his laughs before continuing, "That is so adorable, even for you."
Makino snapped out of it and smacked him in the arm playfully with the hand she was pretending to hold the baby bird in. "Hush you!"
"OH NO!" Ryusuke shouted as he jumped back and looking to the floor. "You crushed the baby bird!"
Makino looked quickly to the floor as Ryusuke chuckled reaching across the table and tapped the end of her nose, she looked quickly up at him.
"Got ya."
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Post by Makino Tori on Sept 22, 2016 1:12:30 GMT -6
Makino could not help but laugh along with him. "Did anyone ever tell you you're an ass?"
"Oh yes, many times. My parents all the--" Ryusuke fell silent as did their laughter as he looked away from her his hands folded in front of him as he mumbled. "A long with other hateful things."
Makino sat there not sure what to say. She then reached across the table and touched his hand causing him to jump as he quickly looked at her pulling away. "I am sorry Ryu-kun." She sat back again watching him. "I am here if you ever want to talk about it." She did not push it any further as she got up and walked over to the oven to check the brownies.
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Post by Ryusuke Tanahashi on Sept 22, 2016 1:41:09 GMT -6
He said as he watched the brownies, "My past isn't the best, but it isn't Sayoko's. My parents weren't the best. They only cared about what would bring the Tanahashi name better repuation to be pushed to a noble family. When we are high enough up in the rankings."
He turned and leaned on the oven, "I valued knowledge over what they wanted. So I bolted." He let out a soft chuckle, "I also don't hold back anymore because of how they raised me. It is the reason I have no filter."
Ryusuke walked back over to Makino and smiled, "Brownies are almost done."
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Post by Makino Tori on Sept 22, 2016 1:58:05 GMT -6
She smiled inwardly as he checked the brownies again after she just did. "That's good." Her head shook quickly. "I mean, the brownies being almost done that is." She then squirmed in her chair looking to the floor. "So you're a noble as well?"
He nodded slowly. "Not as high on the ranking as your family. Miss Masanobu~" He said to her leaning closer to her as he walked past her back to his chair. "Why didn't you tell me?"
Makino turned in her chair and looked at him with a shrug of her shoulders. "Same old story. I am Makino Masanobu of the Masanobu Assassins."
Ryusuke started to chuckle. "Riku could learn a few--" he cut himself short, shaking his head. "No! Riku could learn A LOT of things from you." He tilted his head slightly. "So your family really are assassins, huh?"
Makino giggled nodding her head. "And be nice. At least he is working his butt off to get what he wants."
Ryusuke folded his arms over his chest as he lounged back in his chair stretching his legs out under the table. "Yeah. Like your boyfriend, and I am being nice."
Makino smiled at him shaking her head as it slowly started to lower. "Maybe it's good this came out." She looked back to Ryusuke. "I don't even know if my family is going to allow me to be with Sojiro."
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Post by Ryusuke Tanahashi on Sept 22, 2016 2:01:44 GMT -6
Ryusuke grinned over at Makino, "Now you can learn a thing or two from me," He poked Makino's forehead metaphorically, "You don't have to live by your family's standards. Live by your own."
Makino giggled, "Easier said then done here, Ryu-kun. The Masanobu thrive on excellent bloodlines to create the clan. I am the only female of my generation with Masanobu blood. I can't ignore that."
He chuckled, "Well of course you can't ignore that. But you can certainly stop pressuring yourself with everything under the sun. You are your own person," Ryusuke waved his hand and turned his head, "Not just another person in this world."
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Post by Makino Tori on Sept 22, 2016 12:16:25 GMT -6
"I know that." Makino started. "And I have always been able to be my own person and still be a Masanobu." Her head shook as she rested her folded arms to the table in front of her. "Why do you think I am here? We are Noble, yes, but they really only ask us to stick to three rules. Train daily, marry and reproduce with a good, strong bloodline and never reveal who or what you or our clan is."
Makino looked down at the tables surface a sad tone entering her voice. "My father was a good man. He loved us all very much and he wanted nothing more than for us to live and be happy. He never put us through what other Noble families had to endure. Sure he taught us how to behave and what was right and wrong," she looked to Ryusuke, "but don't that apply to all walks of life? You don't have to be Noble to know all this."
A huge smile crossed her lips as she giggled softly. "My mother told me my father was so happy when I was born." She shook her head. "He thought after four boys he was never going to get a girl. And when I was born there was a huge fight between my Grandfather Tori and my father. Grandfather was all about raising me like my mother was raised. My father was against it. He wanted me to be free willed."
She looked quickly back Ryusuke. "Not saying my mother is not, but it took my father decades upon decades to get her like that and still she is a Noble woman through and through." She giggled softly. "But don't think for a minute she won't put you in your place or call you down if you get too big of a head for your own good. And she will speak her mind if the moment calls for it." She shrugged, "The thing about my parents was their marriage was arranged to strength the bloodline even more. The Tori and the Masanobu clan were and are of the two strongest Assassin Clans in Soul Society. My father refused to do that to his children. Instead he sat us down when we were of age and explained to us the importance of keeping our bloodline strong and thriving, and then told us he trust us in make our own choice in who to marry." She giggled softly, "though when it came my time for him to have this talk with me he add an extra catch. Of course he was joking, but he did want to push that point that he wanted me taken care of by the man of my choosing."
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