Some Things Never Change, Do They?

[Hirosame]

Hiro reached around to his back, scratching at one spot in particular. "Man, this sure is weird..." He spoke silently to himself. He wasn't used to having a sword strapped around him quite yet, even though he had made it for himself, in order to be able to learn how to fight with one, despite it being a katana. Sure, it might be kind of childish to be a kid with a katana as a Monk, but hey, he liked it. Along with this, he had fastened a pistol to his side, concealed underneath his clothing at this point. All of these things he'd made were now usable, in some cases. This didn't mean a thing, though, in the grand scheme of it all. Hiro was walking throughout the city for no particular reason today, mostly just for the sake of being out and about. He had no real aim for the day, except to just do something to preoccupy his time. A few days ago, he'd had no time to do things on his own, let alone have time off, but today he had more time than he knew what to do with. Nothing to really research, as he had planned out more than enough things to do at Capsule's place when he helped her out, so that was out of the question.

No major guild movements he had to make, no mentoring or fighting, not even needing to head out to his personal house in the forest, as the locals offered to take care of it this week while he was in the city, doing all sorts of planning. He was really at a loss of things to do for the moment, but he didn't really want to hang around the guild house all day. So, he took to the streets, and began to temper himself to wearing weapons around his body. Hiro was so used to just walking around that it felt exceptionally weird to have the sword and gun on his person. He wasn't going to stop using his fists to punch everything into the dirt, mind you, but he wanted to try and see how the other halves lived, with weapons impeding their movement slightly. It wasn't that much of a problem for everybody else, but after having been so very used to just moving around as free as can be for the entire time he'd been in this world, it served as a reminder that Monks truly had it easy with weaponry. As for armor, though, that was something completely different. His freedom of motion was definitely preserved in the type of armor that he was allowed to wear, as one would expect.

All this thought about movement, things to do, and the idea of living, all started to give Hiro a bad case of the grumblies in his stomach. He found himself growing increasingly hungry as time went on, and decided that it was a good time to try and have some food. He started to turn a corner, when he noticed a noodle stall just up the way, one that he hadn't seen before. Stopping his forward motion to look at this place, Hiro decided that he might as well give it a go. It was an old-style Ramen hut, with only one or two customers in it. Thinking he was getting hungrier by the moment, he walked towards the place, and pushed aside the small curtain-type blind, and found himself a seat. He looked at the menu, ordering just some simple Miso. The smell of the ramen all around him made him feel quite relaxed, if a bit warm in the collar with all the heat going as it was. Hiro smiled as the bowl of soup was put onto a plate, and placed directly in front of himself. Breaking apart the chopsticks, Hiro began to slurp up the soup almost instantly. The hot sensation in his mouth and on his tongue felt oddly good, despite the entire city being warmer than usual for late Summer. "Mmmmmm~" A soft sound could be heard from him in between the slurps of the food. Today was gonna be a good day, he felt.

[700 Words]
Tag: Shizu
Notes: How about some lunch before we get this started? XD

[Shizu]

Shizu had a whole lot of adjusting that she had to do in her life. She couldn't say that being small was exactly easy on her. She hated the fact that she made such a dumb mistake, and the fact that she had to try and survive with the changes she was seeing. It wasn't easy to try and get people to actually take you seriously when your 3 feet tall. Even the fact that she joined Halcyon wasn't really helping. Granted it was a small guild but she thought that at least its members would take her seriously. Sadly this was not true. Adorableness just can't be contained, even by Shizu's very pessimistic expressions.

She decided that one of the first things she needed to do was to try and gain some new gear that actually suited her new appearence. That would be a long term goal though, since she was a bit tight on money at the moment. She decided that the best way to actually start this day was to actually feed herself. She found a place in Londonium that she thought would work for food. She was excited as she entered the resturant, as she was starting to like trying new foods more and more.

When she entered the resturant she saw a familiar sight however. It was her friend Hiro. He certainly seemed a lot bigger thanks to her loss of her height, but none the less he looked normal. She wasn't really sure how she would break what happened to him, so he just decided to wing it and walked close to him and said, "Hey Hiro... Im Shizu... long story..."

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Notes: Sorry if bad post, I just wanted to get something out there.

[Hirosame]

Hiro was enjoying the Miso just before him, as the warmth of the food began to seep into his stomach, filling him up fairly well. The smell of it all was just delightful, as well as the taste and feel of the food as it passed through his body. This, however, was cut off by the sudden sound of a voice behind Hiro, one that seemed fairly familiar. Turning around to see who it was, he was greeted with a blonde bundle of hair that extended fairly far, some bright red eyes, all atop a fairly short girl. Hiro had heard the words that the girl had said, but nothing had registered quite yet. Just as he was about to turn back around, and have another bit of the soup, the words finally clicked in his mind. His eyes immediately widened in surprise, and he nearly dropped the utensil in his hand. "Sh-Shizu?!" Hiro yelled, causing the other patrons to look at him strangely. "S-Sorry..." He apologized to the others in the stall, who then went back to their food as they had been beforehand. Giving a wry, defeated smile to them for just a few seconds, his attention shifted directly back to the girl nearby him.

"Uhh..." Hiro began, confused as all hell, as one would be in this kind of a situation. "H-have a seat, Shizu." He tried to be as nonchalant as he could given the current predicament, but didn't know quite exactly how to react. Something similar had happened earlier in the week, where Capsule had shown Hiro her new appearance, which also caused him a good deal of shock. That day, however, was rather productive, all things considered, but even that was strange in its own way. Then again, there must be a definitely good reason as to how and why the girl beside him had changed her appearance to what it was. Either that, or it was some kind of a mistake. Despite this, though, her new form was actually rather adorable. The short body, blonde hair, and clothing made Hiro think that she had turned into something like a 10 year old. And not the loud, rambunctious type of ten year old, more like the ones that would look up to an older sibling with a burning passion, and be more than just a decent sibling. Kind of like right out of anime or manga. But, none of that mattered right now. Hiro knew that she probably accepted his offer to sit down, and figured he'd be a good friend.

"Anything you wanna eat here?" Hiro slid a menu over to Shizu, wondering if she was hungry. "If you'd like, I can pay for it." He looked ahead a bit, and took a little but of the noodles out once again, and started to eat them slowly, a thousand questions in his mind. "So..." He began, after a few moments. Perhaps Shizu would've placed an order in that time, and was getting some food her way soon. "Am I allowed to ask... What's this long story that you mentioned beforehand?" He probably shouldn't ask about it. He might just make her angry. But, he was genuinely curious. More shocked and surprised than anything else, he just wanted to know. Hopefully by offering to pay for the food, she'd be a bit more open to explain, even if he wasn't her #1 friend. Maybe he'd get a rather vague answer like he had from Capsule, when he asked her about her changed appearance. But, that might just be how Cap responded to it all. Shizu was definitely much different from his Enchantress friend, so maybe she'd be more open to conversation. Hiro figured it might be better if he didn't come up with some kind of expectation to place upon the young girl, so he abandoned that thought entirely. Instead, Hiro would wait for Shizu's eventual reply, and maybe they could just talk and hang out for a little while from there.

[668 Words]
Tag: Shizu
Notes: Sorry if the post kinda dragged on, but I hope there's enough for you to go on. ^-^;