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"Of course we'll share!" Rikku agrees, her insides already flipping happily at the thought. The sounds of the city both excited her & set a fear within the thief. Her hand clutched extra tightly to Naruto's, as if still afraid on some level. She enters the city a little on edge but still quite excited. Turning around, she flashes the others a bright smile.

Relm perked up at the strange sounds, nodding her agreement at Keme. She had never been to the city before. Any city. The artist mage buckled down her courage, looking for anything that resembled the cafe's & book stores she had seen in books. Her light green eyes narrowed. "There... What is that?"

About four blocks up on the right there was a corner display with an oversized open book & take out cup juxtapozed together.

Naruto can feel Rikku squeeze his hand and he understands why. Letting her hand go, he slips his arm over her shoulders to hold her close, smiling reassuringly at her. He lifts his head as he hears Relm as what is up ahead and looks and sees the sign, "Hey, I think that's what we are looking for!" he says happily, still not letting Rikku go.

"Everyone says I am, but I would like to get better!" she says softly. She looks over at him when he mentions the last time they talked, and she smiles softly and reachs over and grabs a free hand gently, whispering, "It's ok, she's not mad at you."

Keme folds his arms across his chest, looking on ahead. He enjoyed coming to the city, but he did like to walk around in the forest and sing. But he might as well have fun while they were all here. He looks on ahead when he spots what Relm is talking about, looking over alot of folks heads.

Kaleb smiled and nodded, "I feel the same way about my magic. There's always going to be something more to learn."

When Miranda took his hand, he froze for a second before realizing he'd better start walking again if he didn't want to be bumped into. Then when he did start walking, he promptly tripped over his own feet and only narrowly avoided falling over entirely. "A-are you s-sure? I-I'm glad for that..."

He blushed darkly and looked away. If he hadn't needed his free arm flailing to keep his balance, he wasn't sure if he would have pulled away.

"Booyah!" Rikku exclaims, her green eyes dancing. Somehow the thief manages to clap her hands & make little hops of joy without getting out of Naruto's embrace. Towards the back, Relm snickers behind her paintbrush -which is in her hand as usual. The little bit of a laugh made up for her disappointment that Kaleb had pulled his hand from Miranda's -even if it was to balance himself. At least blushed. That's promising.

"Come on! Let's go inside!" The hyper blonde urged as she grabbed Naruto's hand where it was & tugged playfully.

Behind them Relm was smiling, walking a little faster so that the couples were a little less spaced. Keme's humming beside her was kind of endearing. At least it affirmed that he was the source of song Relm thought she had heard before Miranda had tackled him & her nickname for him was fully apt. As the windows could be seen, Relm had an unpleasant thought. I hope they don't have a no shoes no shirt no service policy. That could make it difficult.

She kept her fears to herself, hoping her sister did not notice the artist's prolonged silence. There was no need to alarm the others for no reason. Then she laughed. Rikku was not likely to notice much of anything with Naruto!

Naruto yelps a little bit when he is suddenly tugged forward, but he laughs as Rikku drags him inside, glad to see she is laughing and smiling. He is incredibly tempted to pull her close and kiss her again, just because of her smile, but he figured this wasn't the time or the place, besides, if he did, he would never hear the end of it from Miranda and Keme, and then Morgana would find out, which meant the pervert would find out and he would never be able to show his face again!

Miranda enters inside, looking around in excitement as she looks around. So many different humans were about, some of them sitting down and drinking coffee, others browsing the aisles for books. She herself starts to look for the cookbook section, wanting to see if she could find what she is looking for.

Keme chuckles at them all, lowering his arms as they walk inside. Letting everyone go on ahead of him, he looks around to see if they would have a small selection of cd's he could look at. If there was any he liked, he would probably snag some money from Naruto since he was the only one with pockets and more likely the one with all the money. He ignores the giggles from a couple of girls hanging out at the cafe portion of the shop, humming again as his tail swings.

Kaleb stood still for a minute as everyone wandered off around him, gazing around at the aisles of books with a little smile and a contented expression. Even though this cafe didn't seem to have the type of magic books he was interested in, the type being the ones which never had less than 2000 pages and you could only barely carry without help, the place itself had a relaxing atmosphere that the scrawny mage could appreciate.

Not needing to find books for his own purposes left him somewhat curious, so he trailed after Miranda to the cooking section. Maybe they would have a book for chocolate desserts.

Giggling, Rikku charged the counter, giving the young man behind it a bit of a scare. Seems he was not used to anyone being chipper before having their coffee. "I'd like two medium extra mocha cappuccinos, please! My treat!" She winked with a grin to the poor befuddled human. He rang up their orders with a worried glance at the audio ninja. Clearly the youth was jittery. "S-sure. Right away."

Taking the bills Rikku handed him he set to making their drinks. "Sorry for not giving you a choice, Ruto." The thief apologized with an impish grin. "But I thought sugar would be far more fun than plain ol' coffee." The tone of her voice left little to be imagined where her thoughts were going. Well, at least to most beings.

The artist practically skipped back, clutching a good sized book happily to her chest. It's wonderful what you can find when you know what you want! So engrossed was she in her happy thoughts that she almost bumped into another patron as she turned the corner around a bookshelf in view of Keme at the CD rack. "Oh! Pardon me!"