[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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[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!"