[Closed] Just super-powered teenagers hanging out with other super-powered teenagers.

[good_ideas]

Who: good_ideas, queenofminiskirts, belfire, moribound, theshiningone, espersions
When: early June
Where: Shiho and Kaoru's apartment
What: The joy of food, Mario Kart (played with cheaters) and people literally popping into the room uninvited.
Rating/Warning: Too much food, too much Mario Kart and espers using their powers to ram their friends off the edge of Rainbow Road.

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Kaz owed Shiho a delicious home-cooked meal for two. Shiho owed Minato...well, a lot. She refused to tell anyone but Kaoru what it was, of course, but it's clear in the way her stance softened minutely around him that she believed she owed him that, at least.

So what better way for Shiho to enjoy this sudden influx of genuinely nice people than to invite them all over to her and Kaoru's apartment? The more, the merrier, right? It all starts out innocuous enough, with chips and chocolate and Mario Kart in the living room area while they all wait for food. Except Kaz was never told that the intimate dinner for two had long become a dinner party for friends, Shiho was using her psychometry to cheat while playing (because there's no way anyone can be that good), and a certain lolicon was never even formally invited.

Oh, and any game involving espers somehow always manages to devolve into all-out war. Wait. Is that someone hanging around outside the window?!

Comments

[moribound]

That's true, but... [He's not the most sociable person in groups, and is thankful for the wombat making a surprise appearance, watching as Koromaru sniffs it curiously.]

Is that a wombat? I didn't know you had a pet too.

[good_ideas]

Probably because you never asked.

[Also Shiho isn't the kind of person who goes around showing people all the pictures of her wombat that she has on her phone. Wallace the Wombat bumps its nose against Koromaru's calmly, evidently not afraid at all of either the dog or Minato. (And more importantly, not trying to attack them because they'd managed to get him reprogrammed.)]

This is-

[Sir Wallace the Giant and the Brave Wombatson Wombot I Will Really Attack You If You're Male Hope the Hero of Justice Defender of Truth Quake in Fear Underbelly of Cerealia Buster Youth Springfist Marmotarou Urashimatarou Australia Maustralia Baustralia Nero Basil the Ripper Yes He Is a Giant Wombat]

-Wallace.

[moribound]

[Minato watches Koromaru size up the wombat before sitting down on his haunches, evidently not suspicious or scared of Wallace either.

He also knows he's in fourth place, and he's already resigned to not winning.]

Hello, Wallace. [Is it just him, or did he imagine Shiho cutting off a lot of words?] I didn't know CERES made wombat CyBuddies...he's pretty cute, though.

[good_ideas]

It's a custom one. [And because Hyoubu deserves some recognition:]

The lolicon got it. [This is the kind of recognition he wants, right?] He's cute though, isn't he? And he doesn't go around trying to attack anyone anymore.

[moribound]

Yeah, he is. [Much, much cuter than the gift-giver, to boot. He stares meaningfully at Koromaru as he continues to bump noses with the wombat, thinking about that last thing Shiho said.]

'Anyone'...that's anyone who flirts with you or Kaoru-san, isn't it?

[good_ideas]

You really are perceptive.

[Or maybe Hyoubu's just easy to understand. But she'll give Minato credit for it this time.]

[moribound]

It was just a lucky guess. [His straight face doesn't betray anything including how he feels seeing Shiho virtually miles ahead of him in the game, but let's just say Minato's has had more than one over-proctective dad demanding answers from him.]

Looks like the game will be over soon. Congratulations in advance, Shiho-san. [Of course they both know this was the only logical outcome, but it's not stopping him from being deadpan about it.]

[good_ideas]

Sure.

[She lets him have that, even if she doesn't believe it for a second. Also rude: she's much cuter than any over-protective dad okay.]

As if there was any doubt? What, you don't want a pity win like Kaz does?