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[Eunmi's Flasback]

Salieri abruptly stopped washing the dishes and turned back to Eunmi with a slightly incredulous look. "Ninjas? Pssh, yeah right. This is a school for kung fu and a Pokemon gym for Fighting types. We're martial artists."

She turned back to the sink and started washing again. "I don't understand why anybody would ever run away from home." There was a tinge of frustration in her voice. "Don't you know that you're lucky to have somewhere where people want you around?"

Takamaru looked at the obese lad a tad awkwardly before speaking, but this itself was a waste of time, he could be upstairs eating his mothers delicious cooking!

"Um...the weathers nice i guess, nice an' cool?" he said figuring he could answer the conversation like question first, truth was he himself has bad at conversations as well.

Then before he could continue on to the next answer out bursts his mothers voice. "Takamaru~" came her sing song voice "Dinners ready!" she continued, half her body hanging out the window as she projected her voice by cupping her hands around her mouth.

'I thought windows weren't supposed to open at hotels!?' Tk thought as his face instantly turned a deep shade of crimson.

"anyway the gym is right ove-" he began before he was cut off by yet again, his mother.

"Takamaru, who's your friend?" she yelled, making sure every one in the vicinity heard her. the fact that she was making this embarrassing for her son wasn't entirely abnormal but that fact that she was surprised he made a 'friend' was. "Why don't you invite him to come for dinner? i made plenty" she continued.

'but why doesn't that sound like a good idea?' he thought looking at Robby's girth. Truth was he never liked to poke fun at some ones weight since there was in fact a thing called Karma. but boy did it look like he could eat a ponyta. still, he followed his mother wishes and said the following words, "Robby, mama want to know i you'd like to come over to our hotel room for....Dinner" he finished as he would await his reply..

Henrietta was lost in her thoughts when Emi shouted. She eeped and tensed up. She looked in the direction of the two girls and slowly got up. She picked up Frate, who had been rolling around the table, and made her way over to the two.

"I-i brought it," she told Salieri and she'd set Frate down before taking her shinai in proper form, pulling the handle from her belt, almost fully unsheathing the shinai. Then she'd offer it for Salieri to take, handle first.

All the while, her eyes were on the ground, with a brief glance toward Eunmi, to try and catch her expression, to see how mad she looked.

you know those situations that happen when your insulted and you just don't know how to respond? well this is one of those situations.

"wh...what?" Tk said with an irridiculous look for he was thrown off by both the statement and facial expression.

the youth performed kind of a' face palm maneuver out of irritation, "Anyways, yea, food." he simply stated as he would then lead Robby inside the hotel and then to the elevator but stopped before entering, 'wonder what the weight capacity is..'

he would let Robby enter first and then enter in hesitantly.

[Flashback]

Eunmi frowned, rubbing her arm lightly as she pushed off of the counter she was leaning on. Then she extended her hand to reach for the sink, standing next to Sal, silently offering to help with the dishes.

"I'm sorry you didn't get to spend time with your brother," Eunmi said. She was an only child - she didn't really know what it was like to have siblings. But Eunmi was also a pretty charismatic child. She made friends pretty easily, and it wasn't fun being in Lavender Town when she knew her friends back in Nuvema were probably spending their summer at the pool or whatnot.

"What do you guys normally do when you hang out?" Eunmi asked, smiling lightly. "I mean... I don't mind hanging out with you."

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[Present]

"Mmm? Yeah, prolly," Eunmi nodded, positive she would remember someone like Sal. She tilted her head as Salieri took Henrietta's shinai, wondering if it was alright. Eunmi didn't know Henrietta's fighting that well, considering since meeting her, today was the first day she looked like she could even stand to take a shove, let alone a fight in a tournament. But she remembered yesterday, when Henrietta had disarmed her with ease.

"You sure you're okay with that?" Eunmi asked Henrietta, looking concerned.

Robby would follow Takamaru, unaware of his mistake, and simply look at where they were going envisioning just what kinda food there would be. Was the mother a good cook? Or a not-so-good one? Or would it just be average? Did it matter? Not really. The obese lad followed up to the elevator, then looked to the kid skeptically.

When it was apparent that he was supposed to enter, Robby would shrug and take a step forward, but before he could manage to step on, as if from nowhere, a kid would step in front of him, hand up, eyes serious. "Uh-uh," he would say, and then the door would close to the elevator behind him, fate saying that Robby probably shouldn't step onto it...

With that, Tobb looked to Takamaru, and frowned. Then to the stairs. Dammit. "What floor's she on?"

[Present]

Salieri shook her head without words at Henrietta's question, opting to keep eating what she had instead of getting more. The girl had wanted a sandwich all day. She was definitely no Robby, but boy did she have an appetite for what she desired. That sandwich would be no more within the minute.

[Apple juice please!] Chen Zhen called out to Henrietta, although he doubted she knew what he was talking about. He was far more intent on mastering vertical movement, anyway. So far, he wasn't really going anywhere.

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[Eunmi's Flashback]

Salieri moved over to allow Eunmi to help with the dishes. She had always followed Moze's lead for whatever they did when they hung out together. It was more predictable when they were in the dojo, but when they were out in Saffron City or beyond then things got interesting. Moze was full of surprises.

"I usually do what Moze says is cool. My big bro is always right," she told Eunmi in a matter-of-fact way. The dishes were almost done at this point. "We can check if he's still here, but I don't think he is."

Sal realized that she had never showed anyone who wasn't a student of the dojo her home before. Eunmi wasthe first guest she had since...ever. "I can show you around the dojo, though. The kids at school say this place is weird, but I think it's pretty cool."

"Oh my... what a hearty young man~" chimed the mother, "Here, let me take care of you" continued Mai, that ever present smile etched into her features as she pushed, yes pushed, a feat indeed, Robby into an awaiting chair. There, upon the table was laded out with various dishes of minimum wage bought food, expertly cooked to makes ones mouth water at the very sight.

Takamaru followed suite, guiding his little sister into into the spacious Hotel room, the door slowly shutting by itself on it well oiled hinges.


"Aww...awwwesome" the silver haired youth exclaimed as he took a set, one seat away from Robby, where as his mother and little sister too there seats on the other side. "Thanks for food!" Tk said quickly but politely to his mother before he began grabbing anything that was in front of him. The dishes that where presented among the table included a Large rack of individual bone meats glazed in a a special Barbecue sauce which would be acting as the main course, scalpt potatoes with rich cheese sauce, a large basket of french crasousants. Along with a variety of other smaller dishes including various vegetables, and other smaller portions of random foods Mai felt like cooking.

Mai wasn't an ignorant person, she knew full well that Robby would more than likely not be hesitant when placed in front of food. Still, she felt inclined to say the following, "Dont be shy Robby, Dig in" and that was that. Mai had finished dishing out Kari a plate with sliced steamed carrots, two slices of corn meal, and some slivers of the BBQ bone meat from a Bone of her own. where as her plate was already filled with small portions of this and that, the wrest of the food on the table, which was a considerable amount, would be entirely left to Robby and Tk.