Post by kazusa on Nov 30, 2012 8:31:31 GMT -5
“Pffft, refresher tests,” Kazusa snorted as he moved around the room, from Kura’s desk over to one of the student’s desks, “Is there really something in there to refresh?” With the goodie-goodie kids like King and Queen perhaps, but the scientist highly doubted that a kid like Nine could remember the stuff he’d learned last year. Even if Kazusa didn’t particularly cared about Kurasame’s students, Nine was hard to ignore, being the loud-mouthed idiot that he was, everyone around the school had probably at least heard of the blonde before. Whatever, that boy wasn’t his problem. He was about to jump off the desk to remind his friend that Nine was his problem and do a little mocking dance to add insult to injury, but ultimately decided against it. Maybe if this had been anyone else, he would’ve gone for it, but Kurasame was one of his best friends, and aside from Emina, the only person he really respected and cared about. A little teasing and playing around was alright, but Kurasame wasn’t the type who would just sit around and take it too long, and Kazusa didn’t want to piss his pal off. Crossing his legs, he leaned back onto his palms as he sighed, “Ugh, whatever… ‘every mind can be molded into something beautiful’ or whatever crap they want us to spout in order to cheer the kids on,” he wondered if that sort of hippie talk actually had any effect on anyone at all. His own teachers had said similar things in the past, and it certainly hadn’t inspired him to work any harder. Then again, Kazusa was naturally smart, so perhaps that talk wasn’t even directed at him. Even so, he didn’t like it. No one was equally intelligent, and it was wrong to put pressure on the less fortunate by saying stuff like this.[/blockquote]
Kazusa chuckled audibly when Kurasame more or less complained about his long-winded bullshit tale on why his hair was wet and whether or not he had slept in today. That was Kurasame for you, never appreciative of nonsense like this. “But I technically didn’t wake up just now!” he started again, but decided not to repeat the whole story again, “I know you secretly wanted the details, is all,” he smirked, “And I’m such a great friend that I won’t make you ask for them. You got a reputation to uphold, I know. I got your back, buddy!” with a quick wink he hopped off the desk again and began to wander around the classroom a little. It was still exactly the same as he remembered it from when he’d been a student here. Though this room hadn’t been his classroom, all of these rooms looked similar enough that it easily could have been. His trip down memory-lane took up no more than five seconds before he got bored and turned towards Kura’s desk again, though he did keep a respectable distance between himself and the intructor’s beloved desk, not wanting to get shoved away again for dripping water onto Class Zero’s tests.
The somewhat crazy scientist didn’t miss Kurasame’s dodging his first question by simply skipping it over. Even if he spent a lot of time working alone in a lab, and even though scientists weren’t known for their excellent people skills, Kazusa counted himself amongst the few that did pick up on signs like these. Besides, he’d known this guy for years… by now, it wasn’t too difficult to see when he was purposely hiding something. One of his eyebrows rose ever so subtly as he wondered what it was Kurasame didn’t want to discuss with him. He supposed it could be something big, maybe he had some issues with his pink-haired lady friend? Or maybe his meeting the in-laws hadn’t gone according to plan. Kazusa knew Lightning’s sister had been looking for him, and he… might’ve accidentally cracked a joke at the absolute worst time imaginable about Kurasame’s supposed skirt-chasing ways. He sincerely hoped his comment hadn’t bitten Kurasame in the ass, he’d feel pretty bad if that were the case.
“What, he has a non-angry mode?” Kazusa replied before getting into his own story, deciding to just go with Kurasame’s topic-change for now. “You can say that again,” he started as he went into scientist mode for the first time today, “I’m in the process of developing a new weapon, one that automatically reloads itself so long as the user has any bullets left. I’m trying to see if I can set up some sort of link between the gun and a set of bullets that aren’t anywhere near each other. If I can get it to work, we’d be able to create bunkers to store bullets in, and so long as there are still bullets left, the user can pretty much keep shooting indefinitely,” he scratched his chin thoughtfully, “If I can also fix the recoil so the physically less powerful can easily use it, it should be a great help during upcoming conflicts, but it’s also quite risky. Only those who truly know how to use a gun would be able to safely use it, I think. Imagine if someone died while their finger was still on the trigger, it’d be a huge waste of bullets, not to mention the increased risk of friendly-fire,” he sighed and took a seat in an actual chair this time as he laced his fingers together on the desk, “Maybe if I can build in a mechanism that detects its user’s life signs…” he muttered to himself, almost forgetting for a moment that he wasn’t sitting alone in his lab, but that he was visiting and talking with a friend. After a few more brief moments of pondering, he finally caught himself and smiled sheepishly at his friend across the room, “Sorry, spaced out for a moment,” he chuckled, “Anyway, it’s a difficult project, but you know I love a good challenge!”
He quieted down after that as he wondered about how to handle this situation with Kura clearly having a problem but dancing around the issue. Kazusa had seen him stare at that feather of his before, but he hadn’t thought much of it… until now. He had stared at it like it was something important, and then he talked around how he was feeling… something was up, though Kazusa didn’t know exactly what it was. Of course, the easiest thing to do would be to accept Kura's silence and change the subject to something fun and exciting, but not even Kazusa was all smiles all the time. How could he possibly crack more jokes when there was something up with a good friend of his? There was a time for joking, and there was a time to be serious. And now didn't seem like the time to play around. “So what’s bothering you, Kurasame?” he asked seriously as his eyes flicked back from his own desk over to where Kurasame was sitting. It wasn’t often that he used his full name, but he wasn’t afraid to use it during serious situations, which he suspected this was, “Anything I can help you with?”
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Note: I still weep for this thread of seriousness. ;-;