[RL with Naoto- We'll Always Have London]

[clockmaster]

Hakuba eased through the doorway like a... well, like he owned the place and was surprised by the lack of sound and light that greet them. The boy quickly turned off the security system and turned up the lights.

"Looks like we are alone. "He turned to face Naoto, an apologetic smile in his lips. "I guess that our housekeeper is with my mother in Siena, I don't have as much servants as you do." Too bad because after walking up and down the whole city some help would be good.

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[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

The boy nodded, still flustered. He usually wasn't distracted so easily but with Naoto around that proved to be hard to control.

"It's all about practice." He said automatically and then turned to face her when she mentioned the tears. He couldn't just tell her that he was not able to cry, or that he didn't allow himself to do it. he could, when he was a kid, but now...sometimes he wondered what kind of freak that make him. "I..guess I'm lucky."

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

"I guess so..."

Naoto sensed that she might be treading too close to sensitive territory, so she thought a change of subject was in order.

"Say... You never told me what you intended to do with those photos that Rufus took of me. Don't think that taking me on a date to London would make me forget all about it!"

And to think, it was her asking about those photos that started this strange turn of events in the first place. It was still awkward to think about... She'd practically frightened the poor boy into asking her out on a date. Naoto had never really thought of herself as intimidating before... Maybe Kanji's attitude was beginning to rub off on her?

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

"I never asked him to took that photos, he did it because he wanted!" Hakuba said quickly, maybe to quickly but it was true. he really didn't knew why was Rufus snickering and taking photos all the time. He didn't wanted to know.

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

Well, Naoto could certainly believe that. She'd suspected that had been the case all along. Still...

"Well, what are you going to do with them now?" she asked with a playful smirk. "Put them in a special scrapbook or something?"

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

"What make you think that I have them?" Hakuba finished cutting the onion. He took care of it and then cleaned his hands. "Rufus never gave them to me. He just wanted you to think that he did it."

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

Naoto's mouth dropped open, the knife held tightly in one hand. Oh, that sneaky little bastard! Playing mind games, was he? Then what became of those photos? Was he seriously going to use them to blackmail her?

"Oh, I knew it!" Naoto said, stabbing the knife into the cutting board. She continued to grip the handle in a white-knuckled grip, eyes blazing with righteous fury. "That manipulative, silver-tongued bastard! He's going to hold those photos over my head for the rest of my natural life, isn't he?"

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

Hakuba touched her back and moved a hand over hers, caressing her white knuckles, trying to convince her to ease the grip with his touch. Naoto was kind of sexy when she was that angry. But he imagined that she will get mad if he mentions it. "Naoto.." His face was close to her. "Rufus is a complicated person, he likes to make other's people life difficult. it's nothing against you."

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

Naoto felt her fingers relax their grip at that gentle touch. Didn't mean that she still wasn't angry, though.

She heaved a sigh of exasperation. "Like he doesn't have better ways to waste his time?" Finally, she leg go of the knife handle completely. "No matter. Those photos are useless as blackmail material anyway. It's not as though I participated in the swimsuit contest."

Yes. She had some pride, after all.

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

"Let's do something." Hakuba said, trying to make her relax. "I will make sure that he doesn't use those photos for anything and that they end destroyed."

[truthinfortune.livejournal.com]

Naoto shook her head. "It's all right. I have to learn to accept that there are some situations in life that I have no control over. This is one of those situations. But I appreciate the thought."

The girl chuckled to herself as she began scraping the now minced vegetables into the pot containing the sauce. "I have to admit, you have some very strange friends. Not that I'm really one to talk. I'm not exactly a 'normal' girl, am I?"

A member of the Clan of Noah. A Gundam pilot. The President of an electric conglomerate. Witches, wizards, phantom thieves, and various other strange and wondrous personages had become close to the young detective. If it weren't for the fact that Naoto could wield a Person, she would have felt relatively ordinary next to them.

"Let's hurry up and get this sauce cooking, shall we? I can't wait to eat!"