seigaku_no_neko | Downtown Tokyo, with Jordan

Downtown Tokyo, with Jordan

Eiji and Jordan exit Milliways into the middle of a large department store in downtown Tokyo.

Eiji blushes a little, remembering that they probably should have exited the fitting room one at a time. A woman walking by gives them a strange look.

"Okay, well just to warn you, my friends are weird," Eiji tells Jordan, pointing his thumb towards the door. "They're in a tennis shop a few doors down."

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Eiji blushes bright red, but can't resist a grin.

Fuji chuckles a little, and Tezuka only raises an eyebrow. But Ōishi looks rather shocked.

"Well, we could, um... Uh... well, where would you like to go, Eiji?" he stutters out.

"Oh, I dunno," Eiji replies. "Um, anything sound good to you, Jordan?"

"I am not fussy." Jordan shrugs. "If you guys are not tired of my face yet, maybe I can head to my hotel and drop my swag, then meet you somewhere."

"That sounds good," Ōishi tells her. "We're probably just heading back to Shinjuku."

"Oh, but won't you need help carrying this stuff?" Eiji chimes in.

Jordan ponders a bit... "Okay, you can help me, Eiji-chan." She winks to him.

"And then we can go meet the others in Shinjuku!" Hopefully it sounds like a good plan.

Sounds good to Eiji! "I'll shoot you an email when we get there. Okay, Oishii*?"

"Yeah... okay," Ōishi replies. He seems a bit hesitant, like he's thinking about something.

"What's wrong?" Eiji asks him, bumping his shoulder a little.

"Nothing. That should work," Ōishi says quickly. "I guess you guys will be going in the opposite direction then."

They've all got the day pass, so they can skip the ticket machines at the station and head straight to the platform. Eiji and Jordan's train comes first.

*Oishii = "tasty." A play-on-words that Eiji likes to use sometimes.

Jordan waits for the train, making small walk, and gets in with Eiji when it arrives.

She waves to the boys, and as the train leaves the station completely, turn to Eiji. "So... did I confuse everybody yet?"

"Huh?" Eiji turns around from where he was still looking out the window. He'd noticed Ōishi watching their train as it left.

"Oh. I don't know," Eiji replies. "Confused... in what way?"

He can't guarantee that he'll know anything, though... Eiji's generally oblivious to most of the people around him.

"Confused, as in, they are wondering where the weird girl came from?" She grins widely.

"Oh," Eiji replies. "Well, they didn't ask... which I guess is kind of weird."

He bites his lip. Maybe they'll ask him about it later, when Jordan's not around. Crap. He's going to have to make sure he has a plausible story ready...

"Well, I guess we will have to come up with a good story, in case they start asking, neh?" She nudges Eiji playfully. "But right now..."

She opens her unipack and pulls out her subcompact notebook. "Time to set up my hotel."

"I guess so," Eiji starts to reply, when she takes out her computer.

"What are you doing?" he asks, confused and curious.

"I am looking for wireless networks..." The computer boots amazingly fast. "...unprotected ones I can get into. There. Now I will set up a room reservation in the hotel for me."

Yes, she can do that.

"Woah. How are you doing that?" Eiji leans over, trying to watch her work. Not that he'd understand any of it, though.

"I get online, then use a few tools I made myself to enter the hotel reservation database." Jordan shrugs, like it's no big deal. "I set up a room for me, and add a little virus to delete it later, so I leave no traces of being there."

"Wow," Eiji says. "I didn't know you could do that with a virus."

"Well, it is not technically a virus... more like a Worm and Trojan mix: it installs itself while looking harmless, lies in wait for an order or a set time, does what I want it to do, then deletes itself." She peruses the screen. "Two nights should be enough, if you don't mind me hanging around your world that long?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah, that's fine," Eiji replies. (He was slightly dazed by her technobabble. Yes, it was simple, but Eiji knows nothing about it.) "I mean, as long as... Well, I guess it doesn't matter, since you live alone. You can do whatever you want."

He pauses. "What are you going to do for two more days?"

Jordan ponders things. "Hm... hang out with you guys if you are not tired of weird me yet? Otherwise... just enjoy a micro-vacation, hit a club maybe."

Set up some kind of refuge in case she decides to move from her world? Nah, she can do that later.

"Thanks for bringing me." She gives Eiji a bright smile.

Eiji blushes a bit at the smile-- he still think she has such a pretty smile.

"Oh... no problem. I'm glad you're having fun," he tells her, smiling back. "Umm... You can hang out with us if you want to, I guess, but we have practice tomorrow..."

"Oh!" She nods and smiles. "Can I watch?"

She is curious abut how good the boys really are.

"If you want," Eiji answers, only afterwards stopping to think about how he really feels about the idea. But he quickly realizes that it appeals to him. Tennis is the one thing he's really good at, and he's always been the type to show off.

"I'll have to give you directions to our school, though," he mentions.

"And point it out on a map too, then I should be able to get there easily." Jordan grins and nods. "I want to see you wipe the floor with your adversaries."

"Okay, sure!" Eiji tells her.

He makes a little face, though, when he thinks she's not looking. Generally, he's not the one wiping the court with the other Seigaku regulars, as much as he hates to admit it.

Unless they're playing doubles. With any luck, they'll be practicing doubles tomorrow.

Jordan probably does not notice: she is busy making sure her stay in Tokyo will be a flawless leisure trip, starting by having where to stay then vanishing afterwards without causing trouble.

She will head out with Eiji when they reach her stop.

They reach the stop, and Eiji walks with Jordan to her hotel. In the lobby, they find a map of Tokyo at a stand somewhere, and Eiji points out where Seishun Academy is.

"See you tomorrow!" he says before he goes.

He'll be there bright and early tomorrow morning, as will all his teammates. (And he'll be kind of distracted, glancing around now and then, until Jordan gets there.)

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