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Marcus waved to Yoku as he headed to the corner. He figgited some as the bear was placed on the counter. He frowned a little about the skirt comment, but shurgged. He smiled a little as Renji kneeled down. MArcus snagged the bear and returned it to it's posstion under his chin. "Thank you Renji-san!" He said loudly his face bright with happiness as he squezed the bear.

Marcus smiled "But sounds like fun." He said brightly. "I'd love to meet your friends, especail if they are as nice as you." He looked down some messing with the bears arms. "Who are these people we are gonna meet Renji-san?" He asked tilting his head some.

Marcus looked up a Renji nodded. His eyes where kinda big as he nodded adsorbing the information quietly. "So the stuff is for him then?" Marcus asked nodding his head towards the bag. "Because It was realy nice of you to buy he such expensive stuff." He new the number for he had heard them as the cashier spoke them.

--->Hallway

---> F-11

Elizabeth slid in the door quietly in her pajamas, and looked around. Spotting the rack of books, Elizabeth walked over and looked at them. Flipping through a few, she picked out one she thought was interesting. Walking up to the counter, she shyly placed her book and ID card on the counter.

The clerk gave her an appreciative look, staring at her body outlined by the pajamas. She blushed when she noticed his look, looking down at the ground. She nodded when he told her how much it was. When she reached out to take her card and book, he touched her hand. Blushing harder, she heard his comments as she left.

"Nice a**. If you need someone to....talk to....I'm here."

Walking out the door, she heard a whistle and blushed harder as she went back to her room.

--->F-11

=========> from Main Hallway

Ariko walked around the store slowly, a hand on his chin while he bit his lower lip. 'What would she like? Pencil's? That's so lame. Um....A bean bag chair. Nah, too bulky, couldn't hide that. Uh....Hair clips?' Ariko's face lit up as the present seemingly dropped into his lap.

"Yeah, hair clips are perfect." Ariko began to rummage through the hair clips until he lucked up on two purple hair clips. One a purple butterfly, the other a small violet. "These would look great with her eyes. I can just imagine how they would look in her hair now." Ariko began daydreaming about Sachiko, seeing her eyes, looking at her smile. He felt like he was floating on a cloud until.

"HEY!! HURRY UP AND BUY!!" the clerk screamed at the boy standing between aisles with an unsettling grin on his face. As the boy walked to the counter and placed the items down, a sneer crossed the clerks face as he scanned the ID card for the purchase. "I better not have to mop that aisle again."

Ariko laughed a the clerk as he made his comment about mopping before snatching the bag from his hand. "Oh, I wouldn't imagine making more work for you. But you might need to throw away the out of place issue of Cosmo." Ariko walked to the door and turned back to the clerk. "The pages could be a little sticky." He turned back with a huge grin on his face and bolted out the store off to the student union.

==========> to Student Union

<-------hallways

Renji entered the store amid a small group of gossiping girls... the same group who always hung outside the store. Naturally they'd be the first ones in to pick their kimonos, but for the most part, he and Jezz had managed to avoid the crowd that would soon be appearing following the announcement.

"Oi, Jezz-chan, what colors do you think we should wear? we definitely should match, don't you think?"

<----student union

Sachiko practically skipped inside, she was so excited at the prospect of a kimono. She released a squeal of delight as her violet eyes landed upon all the colorful outfits, the green hued ones st out higher on display as if encouraging you to get those. She chuckled softly under her breath at that.

"Yatta!" The girl ran across the store to snatch up an amethyst hued kimon from a rack, dancing from one foot to the other and spinning it around. "it's perfect! Perfect! This is the one I want!" She didn't even want to bother looking through any others. It was like fate that she had spotted this one.

Reiku cringed as Sachiko started squealing and running, resisting the urge to cover his ears. Girls could be so shrill. He wandered away from the group a bit, just to clear his head. He wondered vaguely if he should go visit the infirmary, but he decided against it. He was fine, he was sure. Sighing, he began to finger through the boy's yukatas.

He rembered that Michael had made a comment about him wearing some color other than green when they first met, as with his hair coloring he looked like a walking christmas decoration. SO he'd get another color.... just what, he didn't know.

A bit of shimmer cerulean blue materil caught his eye and he smiled to himself, rrunning his fingers along the sleeve. Butterfies were embroidered in gold along the edges of the sleeves.

"Pretty...but that's a kimono, not a yukata..."

Rei spun around to find Sachiko peeking over his shoulder. As he blushed, she was smiling warmly at him.

"A kimono?"

"Hai, looks like someone stuck it on the wrong rack." Sachiko reached forward and pulled it out to reveal the folds of the pretty silken robes, then held it up to Reiku. "Too bad, too, it looks about your size. And I think th color would look awesome on you."

Reiku's blush deepened He'd been thinking almost the exact same thing... but if it was girl's clothing...He didn't realize ow dispappointed his face looked as he took the garment from Sachko.

"Hai, too bad....

Sachiko tilted her head curiously at Rei's expression. he looked like he really wanted the kimono. She looked around, making sure they avoided notice, and smiled as she spoke to him in hushed tones.

"You really like it, ne?"

"Huh? Oh... uh... hai..." the boy admitted, ducking his head a bit. He hated to admit it, but he was reluctant to hang the garment back up.

"So.... get it. There's no rule that says you can't. And I bet that Nyas girl would be getting a yukata.... she just doesn't strike me as the girly sort, ne? So get it. I bet you'd lood kawaii... Oh, and I can do your hair for the dance! It's such a pretty color, and it's definitely long enough to do something with, what with the way you hide behind it all the time."

Reiku didn't know what to say. Or how to respond to Sachiko suddenly treating him like her BFF. Didn't she have other friends to get ready with, what did she care how Reiku looked.

"Um... I dunno... I mean... My-kun... he might not like it...."

Michael had been looking through a selection of Yukatas nearby, listening in on Rei and Sachiko's conversation. He grinned. It was very beautiful, and it would be a great contrast to Reiku's hair and eyes.

When Michael heard his boyfriend's comment he was quickly but silently near, standing behind Reiku he said, "Of course I like. Not only that, I love it! Besides, it goes great with the one I picked out!" Michael produced a deep blue yukata with light violet sakura blossems on the sleeve edges and down one side of the bottom.

"The blossems go really great with my eyes, and I think this light shade really goes with your hair and personality. Eh, Sachiko-chan, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind giving me a hand too. I can't really cut my hair, and I want to do something with it so that it's not so... bland." He fingered his dark locks hopelessly.

========> from the Student Union

Sanzo was chuckling at the thought of Cyndir dressed in a fire red kimono, his hair matching the color of the garb to perfection. "Orange and red sounds good Cyn-kun, but it's up to you which one you pick. I'm taking an orange Yukata since it'll match my hair, you should definitely go red." He kissed him on the cheek before releasing his hand and made way to a rack of yukatas. "You would be so kawaii in a kimono, but like I said, it's up to you."