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[yokunaru]

WHO: Yuuri & Karamatsu
WHERE: Shopping Centre
WHEN: Backdated to 1/15
WHAT: A casual friend date
WARNINGS: None, unless Karamatsu needs to come with a warning of his own.

[After exchanging texts with Karamatsu, the morning seems to pass by more slowly than before. Volunteering for the gamma mission and being on high-alert for a couple days means that Yuuri mentally has to adjust to being back on the ship again. Finally, though, the clock hands just about reach the numbers he's been watching for and Yuuri dutifully clocks out before he heads for the elevators.

He's still a little early when he reaches their meeting spot, and there's no sign of Karamatsu yet. Yuuri ends up firing off a quick text, if only so that he has something to do while he waits.]

I'm here.

Comments

[yokunaru]

All the alien substitutes we’ve had here so far have been fine, but I sort of wonder what these alien fish look like. [They’ll probably know what they taste like soon enough…]

Mmm, I don’t know if I have a favorite type of sushi, but I always stuck with salmon and tuna back home whenever I had sushi. I actually preferred eating rice bowls instead.

[glitterpants]

_{[ By the time they're talking about this sushi, they're both almost to the restaurant. ]}

I am more fond of karaage myself.
_{[ it's so nice knowing that Yuuri knows what that is and he doesn't have to explain it. ]}

As far as sushi goes, fried Godzilla roll has to be one of my favorites.
_{[ He wonders if eating space sushi will give him the feeling of how foreigners feel in Japan when they try sushi for the first time. ]}

[yokunaru]

I like karaage a lot, too. [Yuuri's in a similar boat, finding it somewhat comforting to be able to use some of the terms from home and still be understood.]

Didn't get to eat it too often, though. When you're an athlete, your diet's really restricted.

[He adds the last part a little mournfully, but brightens as they finally reach the restaurant.] Oh, here it is. [And don't mind him just opening the door for Karamatsu as someone chimes a greeting from the reception area.]

[glitterpants]

_{[ Karamatsu walks on in, but blinks a few times. An athlete? Why didn't Yuuri mention this earlier? ]}

An athlete? What is it you do for a living then?

[yokunaru]

Ah, I never mentioned it? I'm a figure skater back home. I started competing when I was around twelve.

[Yuuri flags down a waiter, who grabs a couple menus and then leads them to a booth. Once they're sitting down, Yuuri smiles shyly at Karamatsu over the table.]

It's sort of reassuring that we can find places like this here. I think it'd be much harder to adjust to space if there weren't.