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The Park, Late Tuesday Afternoon

It was turning out to be a pretty busy Tuesday for Sakurazaki. After archery, she gets a few things together and heads into town to get some more prints of her photographs and a cup of tea from The Perk. And it's a pretty nice day, so, instead of holing herself up in her room to work on things, she just finds a nice spot on the grass in the park, setting diligently to translate her scribbled Japanese notes for her questionairres into English, but getting easily distracted by the occational butterfly or bird. She's laid out on her stomach, books spread around in front of her, legs slightly kicking in the air as she hums, sips, and scribbles.

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There's a tell-tale clattering, then Setsuna's sun would be effectively blotted out as a figure on a skateboard cleared both her and her books, landing without incident on the other side of her and turning with a grin.

This was a much better flying distraction than any butterfly or bird. "Jude!" she says with a very impressed grin, setting down her pen and looking up at him. "That was amazing! You gotta teach me some of that; moves like that could be very useful in ninja-ing."

Jude chuckled and scratched the back of his head, embarrassed. "It was nothin' much," he said self-effacingly. "I'm kinda surprised I landed it."

"It looked like a very smooth landing to me," she says with an encouraging nod. She pushes herself up with her arms and swings her legs forward, switching from laying down in the grass to sitting among her books in one, smooth action. She rests her hands in her lap, looking up at him with a rather fond smile. "How are you today, Jude?"

Ack, fond smiles from pretty girls. Jude's kryptonite. His ears went a bit red and he dropped the board in his hand, catching it before it hit the ground.

"Uh, pretty good. Busy, but it's Tuesday so I'm always busy." He set the board down and sat on it, his hands flat on the grass between his knees so he looked rather like a frog. "You?"

She grins at the swift catch. "I'm doing well; Tuesdays are pretty busy for me, too." She holds up one of her notebooks, the one with her sharp English writing. "Making some questionaires for my documentary stuff. Still have to type them up before the end of the week, but I've got to finish translating it first."

What else made her day busy? Demon stalking was not to be mentioned at this point in time, but there was the reason she came into town. "Oh! I have something for you, too!" She reaches across her books for her sachel, and starts sorting through through it. She locates the pack of pictures, but keeps it hidden in her bag until she locates the exact print.

Jude nodded. "That's cool." Then he blinked. "Somethin' for me?" He perked up, his seat rolling back and forth for a moment. "Really?"

"Mmhm," she nods, shifting, shifting. "Ah, here it is!"

The moment it leaves the hidden protection of the bag, though, her face is instantly pink and there's a bashful grin on her face. She hands over the picture of him kissing her very red cheek while trying to calm down a sudden fluttering in her chest. "Remember that?" she asks, mostly to make sure her voice is still working. She suddenly doubted that it would.

Jude took the picture carefully, not smudging it with fingerprints. "Yeah, I remember," he said with a soft smile, before teasing lightly, "You accused me of cheating when all I was doing was taking advantage of the opportune moment." He hesitated, counting. "That was . . . number three, wasn't it?"

The blush deepens fiercely, and there's no hesitation when she answers. "Yup." She stops herself from listing all four of them off, despite that the list is perfectly rehearsed in her head and on the edge of her tongue right now.

"It turned out pretty well, didn't it?" she adds, nervous smile.

"The picture or the kiss?" Jude asked immediately, his smile slowly widening. "'Cause right now I'm kinda thinkin' both did."

Jude would strenuously deny that he had the same list memorised.

She didn't think it was possible, but the blush deepens even more. "Y..yeah," she says, having a little trouble getting it out. "I..I'd say both, too..."

Oh, God, was she ever going to shake this?

Jude chuckled, guilty of a little bit of a blush himself. "Good," he said. "Real good, 'cause if I was makin' all this effort for nothin', I'd really be harshed." His tone was teasing, though.

"Well," she says with a grin, leaning forward slightly, "I know it's not for nothing, but I doubt if it's really that much effort."

Jude wasn't sure if this was an insult or a compliment. So he just fish-mouthed for a moment or two, lost.

The confused expression confuses her. And then she falters as she tries to figure out how to explain it, because the only thing she can think of certainly does not help with the blushing. "I mean, well, it...it certainly doesn't seem like you have any trouble getting things to work well between us."

"Oh!" Jude nodded, clearly relieved. "Oh, okay. Yeah, I dunno. You're easy to get along with. Well, I dunno if you're easy to get along with but you're easy to get along with with me." He paused, trying to think his way clear. "Or something."

Sakurazaki smiles, blushing, biting her lip a bit. "We get along great together," she says, smoothing it out for him, although it makes her feel like her heart is skipping along, exploring the entire space of her ribcage.

"Yeah, that's what I meant," he chuckled sheepishly. "At least ya can translate Jude-speak."

There's that incredibly fond smile again. "It isn't really that difficult to interpret."

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