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Junko had gone out, having felt cramped in her room and needed fresh air away from the locked box she had placed on the highest shelf she could reach. Away from the box of stuff she had packed that didn't belong to her, that belonged to the boil she'd given two years of love to. She'd changed from her usual attire of a kimono and skirt to a dress she had made on a whim, going out for a quiet walk just to be out of her room.

When she returned she did feel better, but she was surprised to see Shun in the lobby checking his phone. The ghoul smiled, giving the reaper a wave. She hadn't seen him in some time! She hoped he was still well. "Hello, Shun! Looking for Mitsu?" Strange..wouldn't he know which room was Mitsu's? The monster dorms were a maze, sure, but most students could figure out where their friends' rooms were!

"Me?" Junko blinked. "Um.." Did he have time? Well, yes. Lots of time. She had all the time in the world now.

...She had more time than she probably knew what to do with now. The corner of her mouth twitched as she fought off a frown, keeping her smile firmly on her lips. "Yes. I do. What's up?" Junko began walking in the direction of her dorm, assuming Shun would just follow her.

A kimono for his ghoulfriend. How thoughtful! Junko's smile was more sincere than the strained expression she had had a moment ago. "I have some coats I'm making for TG, but I just freed up a lot of..spare time that can now be devoted to commissions." Saying that stung. She cleared her throat and continued down the hall with Shun, twirling some hair around her finger. She was flattered Shun was coming to her to commission a kimono to be made! She was excited. The last time Junko made a kimono for someone else...wow..she couldn't even remember! Usually she only made them for herself!

"What would you like? A full length? Long sleeves, short? Simple? A pattern?" Junko unlocked a door and stepped into her room, stepping aside to allow Shun to follow her in before she closed it behind him.

The room had been cleaned since the strange minipet thing attack. Her dresses were fine, her minipets were napping peacefully, though part of her table had been eaten. She liked that table. There seemed to be a lot of space on the shelves awkwardly unfilled, having previously been filled with picture frame after picture frame of photos of her and...well..Seiji. They were now in a box hidden under the half-eaten table along with a few other things that didn't belong to her.

"Make yourself at home~. Would you like anything? I think my tea pot survived.." She hadn't checked, but she hoped.

Black, white, and red. She could definitely work with that. Junko already had a few ideas bouncing around in her head, ideas that had her smiling excitedly. She was going to make something beautiful for Mitsu, oh yes. Junko was searching through a cabinet pushed up against the wall for her tea pot and a tin of tea when Shun remarked on the state of her room. Junko nodded and closed the cabinet doors with her foot. The pot was electric, allowing it to be portable and placed safely anywhere. For now it was put on the table after being filled with water, the ghoul turned it on and let it sit for now.

"Yeah, I had to take a broom to them." Junko pouted. "One of them tried to eat my minipets. Did your room get wrecked?" While she spoke she plucked a notebook from a shelf and flipped through it. Did she have Mitsu's measurements already? She thought she had all her friends...hm..no, she didn't have Mitsu. The ghoul would get a new page.

Oh...but wait. "Um..is this a surprise? Because I don't have Mitsu's measurements already. I usually keep all my friends in this book and I don't have a page for her yet." Junko felt a little guilty anytime she realized she was missing a friend in these pages.

Oh delightful! Junko grinned and took the paper, quickly jotting down the numbers. "Great! Ohhh, we're almost the same figure. This will be easy. I think I'll do something white with black and red painted on." She squealed with excitement and clapped her hands. Ohhh! This was the most excited about something she'd been in days! Already she was taking out another sheet of paper and sketching out a design.

"That's fine! I trust you~. Um..yeah, it might be a lot. The materials for these tend to be kind of expensive, but you're looking at Halloween's best negotiator~." When it came to haggling for prices, Junko was Queen. It was something she'd learned to do from her mother as a scareling and it had proven to be quite useful. With what she had in mind she would probably only need..two colors for the kimono itself, and then maybe three for the obi. Ohhh, she was too excited for this.

The kettil startled to whistle and Junko quickly got up to get cups, returning to properly prepare the tea and serve it to Shun. "How are you, by the way~? I haven't seen you in awhile."

Turn out better? Junko blushed, embarrassed by the compliment. Oh no. She couldn't make something..better. Junko didn't think she was nearly skilled enough for that. She could hope for 'just as nice', 'just as lovely', 'relatively the same quality' or something close to that but..better? That sounded like something Riley would say, and Riley was too nice. "Th-thank you. I'll do my best." Junko smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of her neck. Her friends were too nice. If only they knew half of how terrible a ghoul she was right now.

She sipped her tea as a distraction, listening to Shun explain he visited his father. Poorly? Oh dear. "Well that's good to hear. Me? Ah..." What was safe.. "Nothing much, really. I've been here. Working, classes, hanging out with friends. Same old same old, really." Yup. Nothing terribly exciting here. "You thought meeting your father would go poorly?" He didn't have to answer if he didn't want to, she was just steering conversation off herself. They could go back to business after a bit of catching up. Every now and then Junko still picked up her pencil to play with the design she had been drawing. So many ideas. Too many ideas. If Shun wasn't careful Junko would give him a second kimono for Mitsu just because she felt like it.

Letting Junko make a kimono was dangerous.

Ah, so that was it. Junko chuckled and nodded. "It's fine, I understand. At least your father will meet with you~." She sipped at her tea again and finished her first draft of a design. For the most part the kimono was white, with what would be a forest silhouette painted in black along the bottom that climbed up the length of the kimono at various different height levels, never quite going all the way up. Among the trees there was a single wolf silhouette, an arrow pointing at it with the word 'red!' written beside it, howling up to a moon with the same label. The obi design and colors she kept drawing and erasing, unable to make up her mind right away. When she had everything she'd figure it out.

"Any suggestions or changes so far?" Junko asked when she noticed Shun watching. "I think if I go with this design I would do the forest sumi painting style. It's fun to do, I'd just need to get a new kit for it." Considering the one she usually used was, well, not her own. "Hmm...tell me some things you two do ad stuff, that I could incorporate into this." Junko was chewing thoughtfully on the end of her pencil now, staring down at the sketch.