[fic] Pomp and Circumstance stuff
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ickaimpNo work done on any of my normal fics today, was completely drained at work today.
Is funny how much energy gets sucked outta ya when there's nothing to do. ~_~
Did try to work on the Pomp outtakes. Will most definately be re-writing #3.
***
"Here, you've GOT to try one of these." James said cheerfully, opening a brown paper bag he had picked up in town. "World finest invention."
"The computer?" Oliver questioned.
"Not even." James scoffed. He held the bag with it's various multi-coloured wax wrapped delights out to Kaito. "Here, try one. It's candy."
"Sweet?" Kaito asked, eyeing the multi-colour almost eagerly.
Hakuba snorted. "He's got a bit of a sweet tooth." He deadpanned.
Kaito grinned happily at the understatement.
"Yup!" James grinned back. "They're good!"
"Thank you!" Kaito reached in and took one of the offered treats, un-wrapping it. It was a bit squishy under his fingers, and slightly sticky, but nothing too bad. He popped it in his mouth and began to chew.
And chew.
And chew.
And chew.
"What do you think?" James asked eagerly.
Kaito attempted to open his mouth to respond, only to discover that it was sealed shut by the sticky mass. The confusion was plain on his face as he made several attempts to talk. "Mprgh?"
Hakuba watched, his stern expression fading into one of mild amusement. He leaned over, checking the bag of sweets and GRINNED.
"Remind me to pick up a bag of fresh salt water taffy for when I go back to Japan."
-fin-
Was orginally going to be English Toffee, until I reliased that it was hard... ~_~
***
"Here." Oliver passed a wedge of fried potato to Kaito. "You've got to try one of these, they're really good."
"Chips?" Kaito questioned, taking it. They'd introduced him to the fried potatoes before and he couldn't really find anything extraordinary about them. The rest of the boys really liked them tho.
"Not just any chips." Oliver grinned as Kaito popped it in his mouth. "Extra salt, extra vinegar."
His mouth and throat promptly dried up as his eyes started to tear up from the sudden burst of flavour. He managed to swallow it, one hand on his throat as he gasped for air.
"Kuroba?" Hakuba looked concerned. "You alright?"
"Mizu!" Kaito gasped. "Water!"
"Uh...." The guys looked around. None of them had bought anything to drink.
Kaito looked around desperately. Water. Anywhere. It didn't matter -where- just so long as it stopped this burning in his mouth!
~SPLASH~
"I told you not to toss that bucket of water out the window!" A voice scolded from above. "You got some poor bloke below all soaking wet!"
The 4 Eton boys stared at the exchange student, who was completely soaking wet, a rather stunned expression on his face.
Hakuba covered his mouth and began to cough.
After all, he knew from experience that nature often came to the magician's aid.
It just did it in some very unpredictable ways sometimes.
-fin-
***
Kaito was bored.
He was also in class, which usually equated the same thing. Class in England on the other hand usually proved to be at least a little more challenging, due to the fact that he was still having a little bit of a problem with the language. It was getting easier as time went on and his vocabulary increased, but it was still frustrating occasionally.
However, Math was Math, no matter what language it was in. It didn't matter if the number was called 'dios' or 'two' or 'ni', 2 + 2 always equalled 4. Of course, in the advanced math class there were ways around that, but that currently wasn't a help to him.
If he was back home in Japan, he could have done something fun, like be chased by Aoko. He hated sitting still. And he knew this stuff. It was boring.
And now he was starting to feel homesick. Great. Homesick and bored. That was stupid of him. He made a mental note to send a letter to Aoko to tell her that he missed her mop skills.
Heck, right about now, he was starting to miss Koizumi's teasing...
On the other hand, if he did do something to liven up the class, he would get in trouble for it. Getting into trouble meant getting sent back home, which would be bad.
It would also mean seeing Hakuba's smug face and jibes about not being able to stay out of trouble for the next year when the blond came back to Japan. Which was completely un-acceptable.
Therefore, he had to find of way of causing mischief while staying out of trouble.
He hid a gleeful snicker. A challenge.
And he was never one to shirk from a challenge.
The problem was, causing mischief usually included one other person. The pranker and the prankee. The chaser and the chased. Be it Aoko with her mop, or Nakamori and his officers, you -needed- at least one other person to play with. It was pretty hard to play a practical joke on yourself.
He muffled a yawn, glancing around the room. Most of the other students either appeared to be paying intense concentration to the subject manner, or trying not to fall asleep.
Including Hakuba.
Kaito smirked to himself. The blond detective was 2 rows over to his right and a row behind, most likely in an attempt to keep an eye on him. Not that could do the detective much good. He wasn't an expert in guarding his back for nothing.
It was rather hard to stay -ahead- of your pursuers if you didn't. Heh.
He paused for a moment, debating on what to do. He had the stage, the participants, now the catch was to -not- to catch his audiences attention.
A smile flickered across his face as took a fresh sheet of notebook paper out and scribbled a quick grinning face on it, sans top hat and monocle for a change. He then folded it into quarters the long way, then folded a corner down repeatedly until he had a paper right angle triangle about 8 centimetres long, 6 centimetres wide and about a centimetre thick.
Crumbled up balls of paper was for amateurs.
He slipped it on the edge of his ruler, which was oh-so casually resting on top of an eraser. After taking a moment to calculate angles, velocity, the general awareness of the class and how liking Hakuba was to scream like a girl if he got it down his shirt collar, he tapped the other end of the ruler.
~flip!~
The paper triangle went flying through the air, over a student's head to land on Hakuba's desk with a skittish hiss of paper on wood.
Kaito cackled quietly to himself, even as he schooled his expression into one of neutral boredom.
Which, from the startled look on the detectives face that he could see from the corner of his eye, didn't fool him for an instant.
The triangle was un-folded, the scribble looked at, folded up again and tucked under some papers, Hakuba's face a serious looking slightly scowling mask the entire time.
Kaito sighed to himself, resigning himself to a few minutes of boredom until he tried again. In the mean time, he might as well take some notes down, just in case-
~twack!~
His eyes went wide as something landed in his hair, then slid forward and landed on his desk.
It was the paper triangle.
Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the blond was apparently -very- interested in the notes he was jotting down.
Except for the smirk that twisted the corners of his mouth up. Hakuba had to have the worst game face. At least to him. He doubted anyone else would have noted.
Kaito chortled gleefully to himself. Mr. Stuffy Pants was in a playful mood today.
He casually moseyed the triangle back on to his ruler. Landing on the desk was all well and good, but he was going to have to get Hakuba back for that hair buzz.
Target: Down the jacket.
He waited another few minutes, Hakuba wasn't quite as stealthy as he was and a student was glancing around with a startled expression.
~flip!~
The triangle did a nice arc into the air, then hit Hakuba's chest and bounced off. Dangit. So close and yet so far.
Hakuba filched slightly, then covertly covered the paper triangle with a hand. Kaito smirked, briefly catching the blond's amber gaze. 'Don't get caught'.
An eyebrow rose pointedly in retaliation, as if offended by the mere idea that he would.
And thus the 'Don't Get Caught' game began.
The paper triangle flew across the classroom, the acrobatic feats becoming more and more complex after it was discovered that the triangle could ricochet off of various people's desks. Kaito was attempting to make it perform a loop-de-loop while Hakuba fine-tuned the art of snipering Kaito's desk by bouncing it off the ceiling.
And through it all, the class remained oblivious. Including the student almost directly between them, who had since fallen into a dazed stupor.
The teacher however, began to get increasingly paranoid, pausing to mutter about the increase of bugs in the classroom today. As class progressed, paranoia turned into slight suspicion. Of course, the teacher walking up and down the aisles to make sure that they were doing their work just increased the challenge for the duelling pair.
Kaito made the triangle do one last flip as the teacher neared them, all the while 'innocently' working hard on the math problems. Out of the corner of his eye he winced as he saw the teacher notice the flying object. He'd gotten over cocky.
Just as the teacher opened his mouth to comment, the bell rang. "Dismissed!"
The student body scrambled to their feet, gathered their books and headed out the door, Kaito and Hakuba blending in admits them.
A hand tucking something down the back of his collar caught his attention as soon as they were clear of the mob. He yelped and reached back to pull it out.
It was the paper triangle.
"Nice practical application of today's math lesson, Kuroba." Hakuba smirked from beside him.
-fin-
Really lost the plot about halfway on this, was really drained at work.
Ann: We talked to the British tech guy at work about popular foods in London.
... I swear, the more I hear about British food, the less I wanna go there. Will make it eventually tho....
His first recomendations were Fish and Chips, Extra Salty and Extra Vinager also being good. Commented that they love spicy foods (even tho the main foods seem to be either deep fried or large amounts of meat fat) and have Indian curry places on every corner. (yum!)
He also recommened 'Lard Sandwiches', or 'Dripping Sandwiches', which are the same thing basically. Meat fat, or the drippings from a roast on bread.
... can I claim to be a vegitarian?
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/ is one of the main grocery, if you wanna check out what's currently popular and what not.
Is funny how much energy gets sucked outta ya when there's nothing to do. ~_~
Did try to work on the Pomp outtakes. Will most definately be re-writing #3.
***
"Here, you've GOT to try one of these." James said cheerfully, opening a brown paper bag he had picked up in town. "World finest invention."
"The computer?" Oliver questioned.
"Not even." James scoffed. He held the bag with it's various multi-coloured wax wrapped delights out to Kaito. "Here, try one. It's candy."
"Sweet?" Kaito asked, eyeing the multi-colour almost eagerly.
Hakuba snorted. "He's got a bit of a sweet tooth." He deadpanned.
Kaito grinned happily at the understatement.
"Yup!" James grinned back. "They're good!"
"Thank you!" Kaito reached in and took one of the offered treats, un-wrapping it. It was a bit squishy under his fingers, and slightly sticky, but nothing too bad. He popped it in his mouth and began to chew.
And chew.
And chew.
And chew.
"What do you think?" James asked eagerly.
Kaito attempted to open his mouth to respond, only to discover that it was sealed shut by the sticky mass. The confusion was plain on his face as he made several attempts to talk. "Mprgh?"
Hakuba watched, his stern expression fading into one of mild amusement. He leaned over, checking the bag of sweets and GRINNED.
"Remind me to pick up a bag of fresh salt water taffy for when I go back to Japan."
-fin-
Was orginally going to be English Toffee, until I reliased that it was hard... ~_~
***
"Here." Oliver passed a wedge of fried potato to Kaito. "You've got to try one of these, they're really good."
"Chips?" Kaito questioned, taking it. They'd introduced him to the fried potatoes before and he couldn't really find anything extraordinary about them. The rest of the boys really liked them tho.
"Not just any chips." Oliver grinned as Kaito popped it in his mouth. "Extra salt, extra vinegar."
His mouth and throat promptly dried up as his eyes started to tear up from the sudden burst of flavour. He managed to swallow it, one hand on his throat as he gasped for air.
"Kuroba?" Hakuba looked concerned. "You alright?"
"Mizu!" Kaito gasped. "Water!"
"Uh...." The guys looked around. None of them had bought anything to drink.
Kaito looked around desperately. Water. Anywhere. It didn't matter -where- just so long as it stopped this burning in his mouth!
~SPLASH~
"I told you not to toss that bucket of water out the window!" A voice scolded from above. "You got some poor bloke below all soaking wet!"
The 4 Eton boys stared at the exchange student, who was completely soaking wet, a rather stunned expression on his face.
Hakuba covered his mouth and began to cough.
After all, he knew from experience that nature often came to the magician's aid.
It just did it in some very unpredictable ways sometimes.
-fin-
***
Kaito was bored.
He was also in class, which usually equated the same thing. Class in England on the other hand usually proved to be at least a little more challenging, due to the fact that he was still having a little bit of a problem with the language. It was getting easier as time went on and his vocabulary increased, but it was still frustrating occasionally.
However, Math was Math, no matter what language it was in. It didn't matter if the number was called 'dios' or 'two' or 'ni', 2 + 2 always equalled 4. Of course, in the advanced math class there were ways around that, but that currently wasn't a help to him.
If he was back home in Japan, he could have done something fun, like be chased by Aoko. He hated sitting still. And he knew this stuff. It was boring.
And now he was starting to feel homesick. Great. Homesick and bored. That was stupid of him. He made a mental note to send a letter to Aoko to tell her that he missed her mop skills.
Heck, right about now, he was starting to miss Koizumi's teasing...
On the other hand, if he did do something to liven up the class, he would get in trouble for it. Getting into trouble meant getting sent back home, which would be bad.
It would also mean seeing Hakuba's smug face and jibes about not being able to stay out of trouble for the next year when the blond came back to Japan. Which was completely un-acceptable.
Therefore, he had to find of way of causing mischief while staying out of trouble.
He hid a gleeful snicker. A challenge.
And he was never one to shirk from a challenge.
The problem was, causing mischief usually included one other person. The pranker and the prankee. The chaser and the chased. Be it Aoko with her mop, or Nakamori and his officers, you -needed- at least one other person to play with. It was pretty hard to play a practical joke on yourself.
He muffled a yawn, glancing around the room. Most of the other students either appeared to be paying intense concentration to the subject manner, or trying not to fall asleep.
Including Hakuba.
Kaito smirked to himself. The blond detective was 2 rows over to his right and a row behind, most likely in an attempt to keep an eye on him. Not that could do the detective much good. He wasn't an expert in guarding his back for nothing.
It was rather hard to stay -ahead- of your pursuers if you didn't. Heh.
He paused for a moment, debating on what to do. He had the stage, the participants, now the catch was to -not- to catch his audiences attention.
A smile flickered across his face as took a fresh sheet of notebook paper out and scribbled a quick grinning face on it, sans top hat and monocle for a change. He then folded it into quarters the long way, then folded a corner down repeatedly until he had a paper right angle triangle about 8 centimetres long, 6 centimetres wide and about a centimetre thick.
Crumbled up balls of paper was for amateurs.
He slipped it on the edge of his ruler, which was oh-so casually resting on top of an eraser. After taking a moment to calculate angles, velocity, the general awareness of the class and how liking Hakuba was to scream like a girl if he got it down his shirt collar, he tapped the other end of the ruler.
~flip!~
The paper triangle went flying through the air, over a student's head to land on Hakuba's desk with a skittish hiss of paper on wood.
Kaito cackled quietly to himself, even as he schooled his expression into one of neutral boredom.
Which, from the startled look on the detectives face that he could see from the corner of his eye, didn't fool him for an instant.
The triangle was un-folded, the scribble looked at, folded up again and tucked under some papers, Hakuba's face a serious looking slightly scowling mask the entire time.
Kaito sighed to himself, resigning himself to a few minutes of boredom until he tried again. In the mean time, he might as well take some notes down, just in case-
~twack!~
His eyes went wide as something landed in his hair, then slid forward and landed on his desk.
It was the paper triangle.
Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the blond was apparently -very- interested in the notes he was jotting down.
Except for the smirk that twisted the corners of his mouth up. Hakuba had to have the worst game face. At least to him. He doubted anyone else would have noted.
Kaito chortled gleefully to himself. Mr. Stuffy Pants was in a playful mood today.
He casually moseyed the triangle back on to his ruler. Landing on the desk was all well and good, but he was going to have to get Hakuba back for that hair buzz.
Target: Down the jacket.
He waited another few minutes, Hakuba wasn't quite as stealthy as he was and a student was glancing around with a startled expression.
~flip!~
The triangle did a nice arc into the air, then hit Hakuba's chest and bounced off. Dangit. So close and yet so far.
Hakuba filched slightly, then covertly covered the paper triangle with a hand. Kaito smirked, briefly catching the blond's amber gaze. 'Don't get caught'.
An eyebrow rose pointedly in retaliation, as if offended by the mere idea that he would.
And thus the 'Don't Get Caught' game began.
The paper triangle flew across the classroom, the acrobatic feats becoming more and more complex after it was discovered that the triangle could ricochet off of various people's desks. Kaito was attempting to make it perform a loop-de-loop while Hakuba fine-tuned the art of snipering Kaito's desk by bouncing it off the ceiling.
And through it all, the class remained oblivious. Including the student almost directly between them, who had since fallen into a dazed stupor.
The teacher however, began to get increasingly paranoid, pausing to mutter about the increase of bugs in the classroom today. As class progressed, paranoia turned into slight suspicion. Of course, the teacher walking up and down the aisles to make sure that they were doing their work just increased the challenge for the duelling pair.
Kaito made the triangle do one last flip as the teacher neared them, all the while 'innocently' working hard on the math problems. Out of the corner of his eye he winced as he saw the teacher notice the flying object. He'd gotten over cocky.
Just as the teacher opened his mouth to comment, the bell rang. "Dismissed!"
The student body scrambled to their feet, gathered their books and headed out the door, Kaito and Hakuba blending in admits them.
A hand tucking something down the back of his collar caught his attention as soon as they were clear of the mob. He yelped and reached back to pull it out.
It was the paper triangle.
"Nice practical application of today's math lesson, Kuroba." Hakuba smirked from beside him.
-fin-
Really lost the plot about halfway on this, was really drained at work.
Ann: We talked to the British tech guy at work about popular foods in London.
... I swear, the more I hear about British food, the less I wanna go there. Will make it eventually tho....
His first recomendations were Fish and Chips, Extra Salty and Extra Vinager also being good. Commented that they love spicy foods (even tho the main foods seem to be either deep fried or large amounts of meat fat) and have Indian curry places on every corner. (yum!)
He also recommened 'Lard Sandwiches', or 'Dripping Sandwiches', which are the same thing basically. Meat fat, or the drippings from a roast on bread.
... can I claim to be a vegitarian?
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/ is one of the main grocery, if you wanna check out what's currently popular and what not.
