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Post by Hotaru King on Jun 9, 2011 21:19:14 GMT -5
Hotaru entered the room with Jack, being careful so she didn't step on anything. It made her a little nervous... she didn't wanna step on anything and break something on accident.
Shaking her head and ignoring that mindset, she followed Jack and watched him tug at one of the boards. "Do you need help?" she asked.
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Post by Jack King on Jun 11, 2011 13:11:59 GMT -5
Jack shook his head as the first board cam up. "I got it now, finding the first one's the hard part." He placed the board aside and tugged at the ones around it, slowly opening up a hole in the floor. After a moment he beckoned Hotaru closer to see.
Hidden behind the floorboards was a pile of what could be junk if Tekka didn't treasure it all so much. Odds and ends, baubles and bits, jetsam and flotsam, all in a pile that actually glittered. Tekka made sure to clean the items often, and with all she had if she decided to sell it all she could easily make a thousand dollars or more. Blinking, Jack reached down into the hole and plucked something a little away from the main pile. It was a small sapphire necklace, and underneath it was a note.
The brunette read it aloud. "'It came back, gang-boy!'..." He turned it over, wondering if there was more on the page, but there was nothing. He furrowed his brow. "I wonder what that means..."
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Post by Hotaru King on Jun 11, 2011 13:31:40 GMT -5
Hotaru tilted her head a little as Jack read the little note. "So she met a gangster?" she asked, laughing a little. "It doesn't say who the guy might have been? I might have known him..." It would have been kinda funny if she did know him.
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Post by Jack King on Jun 12, 2011 10:29:06 GMT -5
Jack shook his head, "Nah, doesn't say anything else I don't think..." He glanced back down into the cache of treasure to see if he had missed another note. And there it was, probably had slipped out when he had pulled up the necklace. The Ookami plucked it from the pile. Judging from the handwriting it was more recent, probably only a few days old compared to the first note which was probably done when the blond was ten or eleven.
He blinked, there were only two words, but they were underlined twice. "'Tell Ru-ru'..." He turned to the redhead. "Any clue what she might've needed to tell you?" He was honestly curious, gang-boy must have been from Hotaru's gang, and he must have been important for Tekka to want to tell Hotaru...
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Post by Hotaru King on Jun 12, 2011 15:05:40 GMT -5
Hotaru blinked. "Must've been someone from my gang..." she muttered in thought. "But, no one I knew would really even pay attention to a little kid like Tekka would have been." Yusuke she knew for a fact wouldn't have, and Eva had her reputation to keep up with. Anyone else wouldn't have paid a kid any attention... Except...
The redhead's eyes widened slightly, face painted with her own curiosity. "Greg?" He was the only one she knew that would have had enough of a soft spot at the time. Not to mention that would probably be the only reason the blond would find it so important to tell her. But still, she had never heard from Greg about meeting some kid. Then again, he probably purposefully kept that to himself so not to hear any crap from her or anyone else at the time.
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Post by Jack King on Jun 12, 2011 18:06:48 GMT -5
Jack shrugged. "Maybe..." It made sense though. And it made him feel a little odd that he had only ever met one member of Hotaru's old gang in the flesh. At least, as far as he could figure... "She had to learn how to be a thief from someone, after all."
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Post by Hotaru King on Jun 12, 2011 18:18:48 GMT -5
Hotaru nodded. "Good point." she said. There was a small grin on her face. "Kinda funny that I gave her his lucky hat then..." And for some reason, it helped her relax a little more about trusting her with it. She wondered if Greg would have given it to Tekka had he been still alive(and if the two still saw each other).
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Post by Jack King on Jun 12, 2011 18:38:59 GMT -5
Jack blinked in surprise. "You did?" Okay, he wasn't completely surprised by that, it was actually a really good decision on Hotaru's part. Tekka would take very good care of a hat like that, but he was caught a little off guard that she would give it away like that... It almost made him feel guilty, Hotaru moved on from Greg for him, and all he had done was put her life on the line with Aiden. Boy, did he feel like an ass...
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Post by Hotaru King on Jun 12, 2011 18:56:50 GMT -5
Hotaru nodded and scratched the back of her head a little. "That's right, I forgot to tell you..." she laughed, smiling a little awkwardly. She put her arm back down and shrugged. "I just figured it was time to move on, and I wanted to make sure the hat was in good hands."
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Post by Jack King on Jul 16, 2011 11:25:18 GMT -5
The Ookami grinned. "Can't do better than Tek, if my hunch is right she moved her huge collection of hats from here to the HQ." He glanced around. There was still a wall of hats, but it was only a fraction of all the hats Tekka had. He pointed to them. "See that? That's maybe a quarter of her collection." And there was no repetition in the hats. There was always a difference between them.
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Post by Hotaru King on Jul 16, 2011 18:19:25 GMT -5
Hotaru looked over at the hats. She figured Tekka would have a lot of hats, but she didn't think she had THIS much, and to think this wasn't even all of them. "Wow." the redhead said, laughing slightly. "That's... quite a lot."
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Post by Jack King on Jul 16, 2011 23:14:57 GMT -5
The pianist grinned. "And most of their stories are ridiculous." Jack pointed to a hat up on the wall, a rich-looking purple one with a wide brim and a large black feather sticking out of it. A leopard-print hatband gave the whole thing a too-tacky-to-be-taken-seriously feel. All in all, a typical pimp hat. "When I told Tekka a few years back about my first girlfriend, she declared that I would grow up to be a pimp and THAT would be my hat."
Chika had only saved him by declaring that it 'wasn't his color, get something black for him.' Jack was just lucky Tekka hadn't been able to FIND a black pimp hat that she wouldn't have to actually pay for.
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Post by Hotaru King on Jul 16, 2011 23:26:57 GMT -5
Hotaru couldn't help but giggle to herself at the story. "A pimp, huh?" she asked, hugging him. She couldn't see Jack being a pimp, but trying to was kinda funny. "Well if you're a pimp, What's that suppose to make me?" she asked innocently, tilting her head.
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Post by Jack King on Jul 16, 2011 23:31:16 GMT -5
"My prized bitch." Jack said after a moment, grinning and ruffling her hair a little. "I don't really how things like that work, but that's probably it."
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Post by Hotaru King on Jul 16, 2011 23:46:53 GMT -5
Hotaru laughed. "Well I don't know much about them either but that does sound about right to me." she said.
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