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Kosuzu Motoori | Touhou Project

[allswellthatendswell]

[Network- Voice]
Such a nice library! My family ran a bookstore that specialized in imports, but the selection is still nothing compared to this school. Is there a literary club around here? Please tell me there's a literary club.

[Action]
[So what do most new students do when they show up? Maybe explore the grounds or try and make friends... But instead of doing those things Kosuzu has raided the library and is now lounging in a common room. Never mind that those books seem to be in several languages, including the original French version of Le Petit Prince the young teen is currently reading. She certainly doesn't seem to.]

[Action]

[musou_tensei]

-Reimu plops himself down in a seat next to her, unceremoniously and pretty obviously without any intention to get in on the Magic of Reading. Somewhere, LeVar Burton is shaking his head and sighing in disappointment.-

I thought I'd find you here.

[Action]

[allswellthatendswell]

[It is her hope that one day Kosuzu will be able to convince Reimu to read some of her favorite books. Sadly she can tell that today is not the day to try. She pauses and slips a thin braid of string she carries as a bookmark into the novella so she can put the book down. She has had a few power slips lately and knows Reimu would appreciate being spoken to in a language he can actually understand.]

At least you didn't expect me to come bother you, I guess. How are you today, Reimu-kun?

[Action]

[musou_tensei]

Hungry, for the most part. Haven't had a snack since this morning. -And given how his own powers worked, a constant calorie supply was a must.-

[Action]

[allswellthatendswell]

[She giggles. Gee, there's something she's heard a million times before. It's almost comforting to hear now that she's in a new place and far from home.]

I bet you're eating more than ever now. Or are you able to get a hold of that much food?

[Action]

[musou_tensei]

America has quite the bounty of cheap snackfood. I'm usually pretty okay.

[Action]

[allswellthatendswell]

Then why haven't you gone and snacked already, instead of coming to find me?

[Action]

[musou_tensei]

... I wanted to see if I could pry you out of here to grab some food.

[Action]

[allswellthatendswell]

Prying a bibliophile away from the thrill of a new library is pretty bold. This isn't some ploy to get me to buy you food is it? [Because let's face it this has probably happened before. She waves her hand as if to let Reimu know that her question is more teasing than serious and gathers up her books, making sure that the one on the bottom is in Japanese.]

Where are we going?

[Network-Voice]

[stardustreverie]

Dunno, Unless one was started after I left the last time.

But it does sound like a good club ta join!

[Network-Voice]

[allswellthatendswell]

Ah I didn't know Marisa-san would be here too!

If there really isn't one I wonder if I could get enough interest for it... I'm so used to club membership being mandatory that I can't imagine not being in one.

[Network-Voice]

[stardustreverie]

I wasn't sure if I was comin' back or not else I woulda told ya!

Schools here are weird but hey, I'm not agruin'. You know I'd join up and I'm sure there are others still there that would join as well. Maybe ya could get Reimu to join up to, get him ta do somethin' other then laze about.

[Completely teasing obviously.]

[Network-Voice]

[allswellthatendswell]

How else are American schools weird?

I didn't realize you were so interested in books and writing other than what you wanted to "borrow" from our store. Honestly I think the two of us could get Reimu-kun to do most anything if we offered him food.

[Network-Voice]

[stardustreverie]

No uniforms....Don't have ta clean the class room afterwards..Unless ya get a teacher who wants that. But there are things that are okay still.

I can be interested in other stuff from time ta time. Just depends.

Could just offer snacks at the meetin' at he'd show up.

[Network-Voice]

[allswellthatendswell]

Well I'm all for no uniforms! Still, I'm so used to dressing in traditional clothes at home that it feels weird wearing so many Western things.

If I offered snacks half the school would probably show up, and I doubt they'd all be there to talk books and write together.

[Network-Voice]

[stardustreverie]

It's a bit odd ta get used ta, I agree.

That's why we only tell Reimu. It's the only way we can get him ta come around. Either that or promise him food afterwards as long as he somewhat participates.

[Network-Voice]

[allswellthatendswell]

Oh I wouldn't say it's the only way to get him to do something, but a little incentive never harmed anyone. We should all go out together sometime anyway, it's been a while since we all spent time together.

[impersonal_space]

[ It seems that one of those books near the young girl had magically disappeared! It wasn't a small book, either, and no one was around who could have pilfered it unless they were invisible or maybe super-fast and stealthy.

How did it happen, then?

It's a mystery~. ]


[[ ooc: For the record, Yukari never made her mutant ability apparent to anyone back home in Japan at all, but she would have made a habit of coming and going from the store as she pleased. ]]

[allswellthatendswell]

[Finished with the novella, the girl sets it down on the other side of her seat and reaches for the next book in the stack. Kosuzu pauses when her hand touches the cover though. It's not the right book. It should be Jane Eyre, but she suddenly has French going through her head instead of English. Glancing at her stack confirms that somehow the order is off and Persepolis is at the top.]

Looks like my books are back to walking off on their own. I can't say I'm not slightly disappointed... but I suppose I can enjoy this as well.

[Kosuzu readjusts how her glasses sit on her nose and takes up the comic collection. She's pretty sure of someone who might be involved in this little shenanigan. Yet so long as the missing book returns to the library before it becomes overdue she won't have any real complaints.]

[impersonal_space]

You can keep this one after all. [ Came the aloof voice from around one of the bookcases. The gloved hand snapped the title shut and held it out as the woman stepped forward from her hiding place to place the book down with the rest. ] I did not anticipate it would be written in the first person. [ Yukari is not a fan of seeing things from the eyes of others, inside their minds. Not in fiction, anyway. ]

[allswellthatendswell]

[Well, she wasn't quite expecting... that. But her parents had told her that Yukari liked to drop in on the shop as she pleased, more unexpectedly and unnoticed than any other patron, and that there was a possibility she might be here.]

Ah... Yakumo-san, isn't it?

[She tries to tone down the look of surprise on her face while she considered the other books in her stack. Old bookstore habits die hard and what not.]

Is there something in particular you're looking for?

[impersonal_space]

[ It would be difficult to mistake her look for anyone else. Not many Japanese women out of cosplay walk around with wavy blonde locks and those distinct, natural purple eyes. Yet, due to the eccentricities displayed by her family, everyone she met had always assumed she was wearing a wig and used contacts, even from an early age.

It's funny, really, the lengths society will go to in order to rationalize that what they are seeing is within acceptable standards. ]

Nothing in particular, though I have found something all the same. [ Being called by name narrowed down a few possibilities, but she still played the ignorant woman, for now. ] Someone that I do not recognize carrying knowledge of my identity. I wonder who that might make you, little girl.

[ She knows the answer, of course, but what fun is the game of life if it can't be played? ]

[allswellthatendswell]

[After closing the book in her hands she neatly folds her glasses and stores them in the special pocket of her tote meant just for them. She doesn't bother marking her place, what use is there when she had barely begun? She would have to start from the beginning again anyways.]

You are familiar with a store by the name of Suzunaan, yes? It's owned by my family. When my parents decided to send me here they told me about you.

[impersonal_space]

[ She taps her chin with the end of her closed fan. ] My, that takes me back quite a while...

Why on Earth would I come up as the subject of a conversation at such a critical time? [ Moving from home isn't easy, but Yukari spends almost literally half her time here and half her time at home, managing her many businesses; the gift shops primary amongst them. It's like she's never gone anywhere at all, as far as most people know — because no one can take weekly flights to and from Japan on such a humble salary.

What does she know? What do her parents know?

Recognition lights up in her eyes as if on cue and the woman smiles kindly. ] That must make you Little Kosuzu~.

[allswellthatendswell]

Yes ma'm, Kosuzu Motoori. Pleased to meet you.

[She was far too comfy to stand, and given that this was a rather informal situation the girl settles for a bow of her head as she properly introduces herself.]

It started as a bit of a joke, to be honest. Something about our family attracting people who were "different". I thought they simply meant Reimu-kun and Marisa-san, but mother said she always wondered about you as well. She couldn't stand to alienate a good customer by asking such a thing so outright though.

[Kosuzu however can be a bit more straightforward when she wants to be, especially in the pursuit of new information.]