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Naruto rocks on his feet as Rikku orders their drinks and pays and he smiles at her when she apoligizes, "It's ok, as long as I get to buy some ice cream later!" he says, giving her a wink and a grin, his tail wagging about happily. He wondered if coffee would have the same effect that chocolate had on Moochi.

Miranda squeaks a little and turns to see Kaleb there. Putting a hand to her chest, she lets out a breath, "Kaleb, I didn't know you were there! Shows how much I pay attention!" She looks to where he is pointing and she squeaks happily, clapping her hands, "Yes, that's it, that's exactly it!! Thank you so much Kaleb, you're the best!!!" Without realizing what she is doing, she kisses his cheek in thanks and then grabs the book, bouncing off to find Naruto and see if she can get some money.

Keme's ears flick as he catchs Relms voice, but his attention is suddenly pulled when he sees a CD he was always searching for, "Aha!!" he exclaims, picking it up and looking over the contents, his dark colored tail swishing about.

Kaleb didn't have a chance to reply before Miranda bounced off, but he probably wouldn't have been able to anyway. With a bright blush creeping across his nose, he quickly snatched the first book his paw came in contact with. He deftly flipped it open, looking down so his bangs fell into his face and sort of hid his blush.

What do you know, it was a book of chocolate desserts.

Once the scrawny mage felt he had his blushing under control, he gently put the book back on the shelf where it had come from, and went looking to see what everyone else was up to.

Seeing that the ninja does not appear to be moving himself, Rikku happily drags him along to the chair she had in mind & gently pushes Naruto into it. Mischief sparkling in her deep green eyes she sets her drink on the side table beside the chair. Rikku then hops onto Naruto's lap once he is seated & giggles -exceptionally happy with herself. She vaguely wonders at the angry sound, but shrugs it off.

Relm's ears perked at the voice too, but not knowing what caused it or even where it is she keeps her attention on the CDs presented to her. Besides, she was kind of excited that someone would ask for her opinion. "I think I've heard them around the house. Pretty good. Though I think I like this one the most." She points at the last album with the handle end of her brush.

Naruto had just settled down into the chair when Rikku hopped right into his lap. He blinked a few times, but then blushes brightly and chuckles shyly. Putting his drink on the table, he wraps his arms around her, gently kissing her neck as he holds her close.

Miranda sniffles a little bit, but looks up in surprise when Kaleb came to her defense. She blushes a little bit when he does so and takes his hand, grabbing her dropped book, "Y-yea, I-I'm fine..." she says softly, looking down.

If there was anything that Keme couldn't stand was someone yelling at someone else. His attention taken off Relm for the time, he turns his head, looking to see where the voice is coming from. Spotting Kaleb and Miranda being confronted by a human, he gently hands the cd's to Relm and stalks over. Grabbing the mans shoulder he spins him around so he can look at the tall Audio, "If you want to yell at someone, why don't you yell at me. Or you can back the hell off from my sister and her friend and go back to doing whatever it is you were doing." he growls deeply, leaning over in intimidation, arms folded across his chest.

Kaleb smiled lopsidedly as he helped Miranda to her feet, although his stomach had twisted into a terrible anxious knot and his legs shook just a bit. Keme's angry approach had also frightened him somewhat, even though he wasn't on the receiving end of the growl.

He gently pulled her away from the confrontation, towards where he had last seen Naruto and Rikku. Whatever the human had to say, Miranda didn't need to hear it.

"You were going to get that book, right?" He asked, still smiling and holding her hand. He just hoped she didn't notice his paw shaking. "I've never had Greek food before."

Only Rikku's battle honed skills take note of the human hastily leaving the shop. The thief quickly pays it no mind being much more interested in her chair. She feels a shiver stretch down to her toes as the ninja breathes into the fur of her neck. A giggle escapes her & Rikku ruffles his hair fondly. "We probably should drink our cappuccinos. They taste better warm." By now they would have cooled down a decent amount at least. "besides, these should taste more like coffee flavored hot chocolate than plain old boring coffee! They've tons of sugar." She tilted her head to wink at Naruto, having enough sense to wonder first whether she should kiss him here.

"Says the audio towering over most of the people here." As soon as she spoke, Relm regretted her words. The artist blushed even as she diverted her gaze to hide the fact. She held out the CDs for the hummingbird male, still not meeting his gaze. "That was great, what you did for them Keme." Her words lacked some of her usual bite; she did not even notice her slip in using Keme's name. "I'm impressed."

Hugging her book even tighter to her she continued to the checkout counter so she could buy it before getting her coffee. Inside, a mini-battle ensued arguing over whether to apologize or not. Apologies were not usually her thing; why put a crack in her shell for something that might not even have been bad?

Still it bothered the artist & she did not know why.

Naruto chuckles, loosening his grip so he can grab their drinks. Handing her her cup, he lifts his cup up to take a sip and he is quite surprised by the taste, "Hey, this half bad! Really sweet!" he exclaims, happily sipping his latte, his tail wagging about.

Miranda can actually feel herself calm down, her slight fear ebbing away while she is in Kalebs presence, but she decides to keep that to herself for now. She squeaks quietly when she sees Naruto and Rikku and she giggles to herself, "Yea, they are. Let's look around a bit more, maybe we can find you something you would like to read when you aren't studying!" she says smiling.

Keme blinked when he hears someone speak to him and he turns to see Relm had followed him. He really didn't think her comment too much of an insult, he was tall, just another fact of life he had deal with. He takes the cd's back and watchs her go and he can't help but feel....guilty over her rushing away. What was with him chasing everyone away? He sighs and follows after her and calls to her, Relm? I'm sorry if I upset you?" he says softly.

This time Kaleb couldn't help but turn and look at her, with a somewhat perplexed and curious look. "What do you mean?" He asked, rather innocently. Since he was able to take pleasure from reading the textbooks that were important to his studies, he never considered reading purely irrevalent books just for the fun of it.

Somewhere between Miranda's resurfaced good mood and his mild confusion over what to read that wasn't textbooks, the little healer seemed to have forgotten he was so nervous a minute ago.