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Procrastinating my actual work by trying to formulate that stupid german summary. Every word hurts. Physically.
#Making us write this shit in german is an act of cruelty#'oh yeah air traffic controllers :) what are they called? oh.#i refuse to use the word Fluglotse. also Luftfahrtverkehrskontrollkommunikation#is probably not the word I'm looking for#please#i don't know how german works#it sounds so very wrong to me#(i need to. continue working on my actual thesis. otherwise this will crash and burn just like those planes in tenerife 1977#i hate it so much but oh well#we gotta keep going#the pressure is finally high enough#my corona symptoms are nothing#i can work for 79 hours straight#i can finish this bitch of a thesis in time#and then I'll never think about it ever again#academic misery
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Phic Phight:Â [REDACTED] âOh Goddamnit. DANNY!â
Prompt Creator: @mr-lancers-english-class
Even Dannyâs school projects cause ghostly issues and Lancer really should have seen this coming.
Alright fine, Lancer knew this was a bad idea. He knew it. And yet... here they all are, with each of his students doing their self-chosen presentations. And as he should have expected, Every. Single. One. has been on Phantom. Sure at least thereâs been some variety. Starâs piece on his fashion and how that reflects on his personality and the era he died was actually fairly interesting (if it wasnât for the fact that Phantom spiced up his jumpsuit with t-shirts and whatnot sometimes then this would have been a very boring one). Kwan also surprised him some, apparently heâs spent the past year or so sneaking photos of Phantom eating and did a piece on Phantomâs rather peculiar food tastes (who dips their pickles in milkshakes???) as well as effectively providing proof for the existence of ectoplasmic food (thereâs no way any earth apples are neon green on the inside). Dashâs wasnât even correctly calculated, trying to figure out how far Phantom could throw footballs based on his known strength and if he could kill someone by tackling them (disturbingly the answer -regardless of Dashâs bad math- was decidedly yes. Daniel seemed particularly disturbed). And Paulinaâs was quite literally a badly written self-insert ship fan fic; the added drawings of what their child would look like only made it worse (Daniel left, not that Lancer could blame him. Lancerâs also glad for the ghost fight interrupting the presentation). Emilieâs was... disturbingly about ghost hunger and purposed the thesis that Phantom, for the good of the town, should eat the aggressor ghosts (he actually had to cut her off for getting too graphic).
But the single most interesting thing was that a ghost apparently caught wind of this and literally Every. Single. Presentation so far had words that were permanently replaced with [REDACTED], which, needless to say, caused some chaos when Samantha gave the very first presentation.
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Lancer clicked his pen, crossing his legs and resting the evaluation sheet on his thigh, âalright, Samantha. Feel free to start whenever you please, though soon would be preferredâ, by âpreferredâ he had meant required, but no need to be mean. He chooses to ignore the goth teen's eyeroll.
Predictably the projected screen doesnât work when she opens her file so Lancer has to spend ten minutes fiddling with the outdated tech that they wouldnât give the school funding to replace. Eventually, he does get it up and running showing Ms. Mansonâs title screen reading âPhantom And Hate Crimes Against Blood Blossomsâ. Lancerâs positive âblood blossomsâ are a type of flower, figures she would do something nature-focused. Sheâd make for a great herbalist or botanist someday. He does catch Daniel and Tucker giving her âdeath glaresâ, as the kids call it, though; Samatha doesnât look any less smug. The second page has what he thinks was supposed to be a detailed drawing of a flower but itâs severely pixilated, almost as if it been blurred; Samantha looks visibly upset so heâs going to assume something when wrong with the file or pasting format. Heâs not marking on artistic capabilities though, so effort is effort there.
She quickly clicks to the next page, where the actual writing of the assignment is and looks decidedly pissed; Lancer even quirks an eyebrow since at least two-thirds of the words are a very bold noticeable [REDACTED]. Lancer watches her yank out her physical copy while glaring with murderous intent at Daniel -Lancer will have to dock him marks if he messed with another student's project- before looking at the physical copy in bafflement for a few seconds. Half the class shrieking when she drops the papers and basically launches herself over the desks at Daniel, âOH YOU LITTLE FUCKER!!!! HOW THE FUCK!â.
Lancerâs sighs and stands, âlanguage, Ms. Mansonâ, moving to pick up the papers and quirking an eyebrow over them looking the same. Sighing again and eyeing Daniel, whoâs being choked -or throttled perhaps?- by Samantha yet is grinning innocently. âDaniel, messing with other students' work is against student policyâ, sighing yet again, âand Iâll let Star go while Samantha fixes her documentâ, summoning up the blonde while glaring at Daniel. Some days that boy was more trouble than he was worth but he was also insanely bright and had a heart of gold. Lancer knows heâll do good things someday, and thatâs why he still tries with him.
Half the class is snickering or laughing now and Star is very clearly trying not to laugh as she sets up.
However, as soon as it opens up the class is met with a very familiar sight. [REDACTED] litters every single page; he checked. And Starâs physical copy was in the same state.
Kwan blinks, âokay seriously, what is going onâ, before scrambling to grab out his own physical copy; the rest of the class going wide-eyed and following suit. Lancer just puts his head in his hands and sighs very audibly while shaking his head. Why could nothing go right? Sighing again as the class erupts into noise.
âMines all weird too!â.
âSame here!â.
âOkay there is no way Fenturd messed up everyoneâs workâ.
âAnd I actually tried on mine! It was about the merits of Phantom getting armour!â.
âOh damn do we just get auto hundreds now? Please please please say yesâ.
âOh damn, Phantom would actually look awesome in armourâ.
âI know rightâ.
âCan we just skip class entirely now?â.
âOh my Zone a ghost messed with or workâ.
âHoly Shitâ.
âWait! Wait! Wait! You donât think Phantom did do you?â.
âWhy the heck would he do that? How would he even know??????â.
âOh I hope Phantom was inside my computer. That would be so hotâ.
âOh I donât know, maybe someone told him or he overheard shit. Heâs a ghost, he can be invisible. Heck, he could be here, right now, invisibleâ.
âInvisible and laughing at usâ.
âNo! No! Hold up! What if he doesnât want us writing about him or maybe someone wrote some sus shit and he just nerfed us all for good measureâ.
âThat would mean Phantom totally read my stuff, aw Hell yeah man. That was some boss shitâ,
Lancer sighs and stands up, âalright thatâs enoughâ, sighing again because why did this have to happen to him, âand I apologies for blaming you earlier, Danielâ.
Samantha snaps, âoh no, I still blame himâ, and continues glaring at the teen. Lancer suspects Samantha would continue blaming the boy even if it was firmly proven he wasnât at fault.
Addressing the class again, âhereâs what weâre going to do, youâre going to read off what of your projects you actually can and allude to the rest. Please reframe from repeating what you know was there beforehand as Iâd rather not have whatever ghost responsible -Phantom or otherwise- come here pissed offâ, glaring at few students who look slightly encouraged rather than discouraged by that prospect, âanyone who does will receive automatic zeroesâ, ah and the encouraged looks have deflated. Good. Gesturing at Star, âyouâre already up here, so do continueâ. Better to not bring the clearly infuriated Samantha back to the front until sheâs had some time to calm down.
Star nods and clears her throat, thankfully everyone quiets down. âO-okay, well, umâ, gesturing at the screen, âI did my piece on Phantomâs sense of fashion and the cover image was one with him dressed in one of the Spook Sense stores meme shirts....â.
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Lancer shakes away the memory, he honestly slightly regrets giving this project. But regardless right now is Danielâs turn and Lancer is honestly slightly fearful of what his file is going to look like. Thankfully all their files were saved to his computer before the [REDACTED] debacle, so no one could go back in and edit theirs to add [REDACTED]âs for an easy grade. Lancerâs still not exactly sure how heâs supposed to mark assignments that were anywhere from one-fifth to one-third [REDACTED]. That word will be burned into his head after this grading period.
Lancer moves to find the boys file, but stares when clicking it crashes the computer. Not once. Not twice. But thrice. The fourth time rebooting the computer he inspects the file and is a bit dumbfounded, âDaniel, your entire fileâs corrupted. The file type has even been changed to redacted, which Iâm fairly sure, isnât actually any possible file designationâ. Everyoneâs silent for a bit before bursting out into laughter.
âJust what the Zone did you write, Danny!â.
âOh we so have to know what this is nowâ.
âDanny has the forbidden knowledge! We haft found him! The keeper of things forbidden and Ghostly! Haza!â.
âHa! It was probably so lame that Phantom wanted to save him the embarrassmentâ.
Lancer sighs, but Daniel gestures Tucker up, âhey Tuck, feel like trying to fix the fileâ. Tucker chuckles and walks up, though apparently glaring at the boy. Based on Danielâs smirk he finds this quite amusing.
Tucker does manage to make the file viewable at least. Lancer nods and leans back in his seat, âthank you, Mr. Foleyâ, while the file loads on screen.
Tucker sits back down with a head shake while Daniel stands at the front and gestures to the screen, âaight, as you can see from my not redacted title-â, that earns a couple laughs, âI did mine on Phantomâs portfolio of crime. Every single time our dear Phantom broke ghost law. Including such wonderful things as, that time he caused not one, not two, not even three, but five, prison breaks in one day. Or that time he invalidated a Observant spectator duel by bringing an inflatable swordâ. Samantha slams a hand on her desk, âIT IS YOUR FAULT YOU DICK!â.
Lancer has some serious questions as Daniel clicks for the next page, the entire class going dead silent as a screen comprising of almost nothing but the word [REDACTED] shows. Lancer sighs very audibly. Eventually the class starts up again.
âFenton... actually has forbidden knowledgeâ.
âIf it wasnât for the teacher computer saved thing Iâd think he was fucking with usâ.
âI mean... he is a Fenton, right?â.
âOkay the fact that this entire presentation is on ghost crimes is concerning alone. But theyâre forbidden ghost crimes at thatâ.
âShit I wanted the tea. Damnitâ.
âBetter question, how does Danny know?â.
Daniel clicking the button to go forward is very audible. And, Chicken Soup For The Soul, every single page is [REDACTED] to the point of being completely and utterly unintelligible. There are occasional lines pointing out how Phantom apparently ate confetti at a ghosts third wedding (which is apparently illegal for some reason) or that time he beat someone up with a violin that had a pie inside it (Lancer can see this one, Lancer himself has smacked a ghost with stranger). Â Literally the only photo that isnât blurred beyond recognition is one of Phantom in a prison uniform (Paulina was very vocal about liking men in uniform here). Lancer is absolutely positive the end of his conclusion â[REDACTED] are a bunch of [REDACTED]â is an insult.
Samantha chucks a boot at his smirking face, âYOU IDIOT. Of course they were going to block you from talking about them. Ancients, I canât believe youâ. Tuckerâs busy laughing into his hand.
âOh my Zone, they know tooâ.
âTheyâre really earning that weirdo trio title, huhâ.
Daniel snickers as he sits back down, âthey broke into my room and wrecked that epic puzzle I was working on. They shoulda seen this shit coming. Literallyâ. Tucker snorts, âthey probably did but couldnât do anything else about it. They canât stop you and your endless bullshitâ.
âDamn fucking straightâ.
Lancer isnât going to claim to know what exactly theyâre talking about but apparently Daniel effectively orchestrated this entire fiasco just to annoy some ghost. Lancer is honestly more impressed than disturbed. A for effort but an A- for making everyone's work nigh unusable.
End.
Prompt: For the last project of their senior year in high school, Mr. Lancer is letting his class do presentations on literally whatever topic they want. He is very, /very/ sure that this is going to go poorly, but that's a problem for later...
#Danny Phantom#phandom#phic phight#phic phight 2021#danny#mr. lancer#sam#star#tucker#basically danny's entire english class#comedy#school projects#danny's a little shit#messing with the observants from afar#my writing#fan fic#phan phic#have a fic suck my dick#phantomphangphucker#gothmoth#thetribalmoth
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January 10th, 2021
Action Button Review
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Tim Rogers reminds me of Hank Green. They are about the same age, they look about the same age which is a combination of young and old that feel eternal. They also have the same length of experience in writing in online spaces, interest in Japanese media, and apparently have Crohnâs disease? In summary, he might be the closest equivalent to Dave Green that exists in the real world. Well, I guess Dave Green is not apt, as Dave Green is not special in a way, while Tim Rogers is special, but his speciality comes from his failures rather than his counterparts' success.
Tim Rogers is a hypothetical Green brother who did not decide to publish that book. Heâs a hypothetical Green brother who went to Japan instead of Alabama or Florida. Whose project crashed and burned rather than a surprise success. Heâs forged in fire while the Green brothers are eroded by water. Both are wonderful people, but with a different ground of intensity and differing wealth of wisdom.
I encountered this series because I found a twitter post about a six hour review of Tokimeki Memorial, and a white middle-aged man talking about a dating sim for six hours with laudatory blurbs would always pique my interest, but since I didnât know the guy, I went ahead and looked if he made other videos, and found he has four other review that were all about three hours or more. Now I knew that I had to watch all the reviews to prepare myself for this six hour review of Tokimeki Memorial.
Now, I wasnât a stranger to three hour reviews of video games. I watched Joseph Anderson, Raycevick, Whitelight, matthewmatosis, and Noah Gervais-Caldwell. In fact, in the comments below Action Button Reviews, many people talked about a comparison to Noah Gervais-Caldwell (and Brian David Gilbert) and that was quite funny since I actually watched a recent Noah Gervais-Caldwell video.
His first two reviews were perfunctory, him opening himself up and trying out new things and polishing his review style, as he went through the Final Fantasy VII remake and The Last of Us. While I watched The Last of Us, I distinctly remembered and contrasted Noahâs The Last of Us Part 2 review with Tim Rogerâs The Last of Us review. I liked Tim Rogerâs defense of interactive movies (although he denies it!) contrasted with more cynical but ultimately positive connotation in Noahâs review. And Noahâs thesis pairs nicely with Timâs observation that Ellie was the main protagonist all along. That fact makes Part 2 much more understandable, even the bad parts.
When I finished watch his first two reviews, I went ahead and also watched several of Timâs videos on Kotaku, which were slightly shorter, the longest being just over an hour, which is a review of the best games in 1994, and does contain a short segment about Tokimeki Memorial, which his six hour review was my destination. To put in context, Tokimeki Memorial was #3. #1 was Earthbound, #2 was Final Fantasy VI, and #4 was Super Metroid. And I just watched a playthrough of Super Metroid basically on a whim, because itâs a monumental and a great game to play and watch.
And while the segment of the games that I knew to be great and monumental in my absorption of knowing video games was deeply personal and rightly claimed its stake that it deserved its spot, his segment of Tokimeki Memorial never got there. It was almost as if he was deliberately hiding behind something. In the end of 1994 review, Tim pitched an idea about a three hour Earthbound review, which probably was Timâs idea of floating a departure from Kotaku, which would happen two months later, and I wonder if he was trying to deliberately throw a curveball by making a video of Tokimeki Memorial instead of the promised Earthbound review. This may be a far leap, I admit.
I went back and watched the video about Doom. It was much better in quality and in darkness. I was reminded of Film Crit Hulkâs writing of The Worldâs End and James Bond, another very long essay that was deeply personal and chapter for easier consumption. Few commenters noticed that Tim Rogers was just doing a dramatic reading of his written reviews on Kotaku and Action Button dot net, and how they liked that approach, and I found myself liking that approach as well. You might believe a video review needs more than just reading an essay out loud, but just the act of reading an essay out loud in the correct intonation and inflection adds ton to experience. And Tim Rogers sounds like he has decades worth of experience to present a dramatic reading of his essay very effectively, much like Hank Green.
I continued scaling the mountain to my goal. I went through his review of Pac-Man and was delighted by his reading of Namco games, and was impressed by the opening sequence, and just generally enjoyed it. I was getting excited to set a day aside and let the six hour review of Tokimeki Memorial watch over me and reduce me to dust.
And it sure did. That six hours was a harrowing experience. What Tim Rogers is best at is telling a story, and so to go through a letâs play was a wish I never made, fulfilled. In the end, I was left with nothing and everything. It was like finishing a really good book.
I wanted to watch it again, then again I never wanted to watch it again. It was almost a traumatic experience. Tim talked about there being endless variation of love, and the love Tim Rogers went through was not the fluffy yet melancholic one that I craved, but one akin to a devotion of an eldritch god. Love made in justification for oneâs efforts in attending and maintaining a relationship. A love stronger than most kinds of love, but most draining and taxing as well. Tim Rogerâs synopsis of Tennis Monster reminded me of Asking for It by Louise OâNeill, which is also about empathizing a quite hateable character because we kind of have to. Apparently one person knows the full plot because Tim Rogers rambled on about it as he was couch surfing in his house, and unbelieve as it usually is, I fully trust that the commenter is telling the truth.
I was like a heroin addict, who really wanted a different hit, like talking to friends or hiking, my mother wanted me to go hiking with her, and I didnât because, after the pandemic started, all I wanted to be was inside. Outside felt diseased. The air outside felt contaminated to me, hard to breathe. I was stuck in this place.
Tim Rogers is an exceptional figure. He seems to be a movie protagonist, he reminds me of The Librarian, played by Noah Wyle. Tim has eidetic memory, as he has access every single autobiographical memory formed, but not other types of memory. We know that those types of memory are different because of people like Tim and people who are opposite of Tim, someone who has no memories of autobiographical memory but otherwise fine. These people tend to have very few emotions and have a hard time deciding things. Lack of emotions is correlated with difficulty in decision making.
So Tim is the opposite of that, Tim is full of emotions, complex emotions and he can make decisions and carry it out in a snap. He would be good at school, and he was, but he would be too focused on his grandeur to be under some authority, which is how he became who he was. His anti-authoritarian nature rings throughout his reviews, highlight the general Generation X vibe that Tim exudes but also the modern socialistic movement of Generation Z, which adds to this odd mix of old and new.
Not only does Tim have eidetic memory and intense work ethic that he never seems to move away from, therefore making a three hour video masterpiece at a clip that seems unbelievable for a seasoned viewer, he also has exceptional skills in fast math and language, he seems to be at least familiar with dozens of languages, and of course Timâs experience is bounded by his decade of living in Japan.
I think this is why Tim naturally gravitates towards video games. When Tim says âwelcome to video gamesâ thereâs a natural supposition that Tim Rogers is the protagonist of video games, and I think he is. Tim wants to be in video games, because he needs to be in video games, instead of some almighty god cruelly deciding to plop him into a real life. He should be an video game adaptation of The Librarian and go on world-spanning adventure and romance impossibly beautiful girls instead of toiling the grime of what real life portends to. His life is dramatic, but impossibly mundane as well. Itâs a simulacrum of a movie or a video game, which is pretty cool on its own.
But of course Tim Rogers isnât the only part of Action Button Reviews. In the ensuing five videos, Tim Rogers tries to do something. Video games are a wide net. There is so much to video games, something like Gone Home and Geometry Dash are included alongside Wolfenstein The New Colossus and Farmville. What makes a video game? Actually, the more interesting question is, why do we have the term âvideo gamesâ? Why do we put all of this mess into a single category, as if there is some throughline.
Tim Rogers starts to do that. Tim Rogers boldly states that things like Doom and Tokimeki Memorial are intimately connected to each other. And that all video games are in conversation with each other, through deep and complex meta-narratives. Tim Rogers is a cartographer, trying to map out how video games are made whole.
Iâve always strived to be that kind of a cartographer, to showcase the weave of reality, of connecting two seemingly unconnected parts, and showing to a profound implication both existing, instead of one or the other. If you donât know, I have been trying to write something out of my current obsession with Virtual YouTubers, and mostly Hololive, and while I think I stumbled upon the six hour video review of Tokimeki Memorial outside of my interest in virtual YouTubers, this video, as I expected in the back of my head, gave me plenty of thoughts about Hololive. Its rumination of cyberpunk and idol culture is so directly connected with the peculiarities of Hololive that I was quite astounded.
From the very beginning, I wonder how Tim Rogers thinks about Hololive, especially after he has done that six hour review. Iâm sure he will have a lot of interesting thoughts about the prospect. I want to get in contact with him, maybe work under him. But then I donât want to hang out with him. I want to be near him as he talks to a crowd at a party, but I donât feel safe to be near him when thereâs less than ten people nearby. I think below ten, I would be swept in some danger that I wonât be prepared for.
Tim Rogers and Action Button Review is a fascinating review series and if you have the time, I suggest you should take the journey. Itâs well worth it, just to get a different perspective on video games and the world around it.
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âyouâre the only delivery person who gets to my house in any semblance of the word fast which is why i keep requesting you but you donât believe me and tease me constantly about itâ AU
AU by @dailyau and @demineil. Enjoy!
Modern AU, Inukag and Mirsan, crack-ish I guess. Just a short little something because I liked this idea ^-^
Word count: 1,636
Kagome practically jumped when she heard her stomach grumbling. In a daze, she looked at her computer screen, glancing at the time for the first time that day.
10 p.m.
Shit. When was the last time I ate? I donât remember eating at noon⌠Did I even eat this morning? Oh, mom is going to kill me if I lose any more weight!
But more importantly (though âmurder by Mama Higurashiâ was pretty bad) she was so hungry it hurt. Food. Now. She needed to it. She got to her feet and walked in her kitchen, only to find it painfully empty. Riiiight, she hadnât gone out all week because she was working on that never-ending thesis. She cursed inwardly. Looked like she had to order some food, again, but quickly because otherwise she was going to faint.
She grabbed her phone. She knew just where to call, butâŚ
She hesitated briefly before shaking her head and dialing the number of the closest pizza place.
âHello, Shikon Pizza here, what can I do for you?â the elderly voice of Kaede greeted her.
Kagome smiled in relief. She liked it better when it was Kaede â the other woman who picked up the phone, Kikyo, was terribly intimidating.
âHi, itâs Kagome Higurashi, I was hoping I couldâŚâ
âOf course, Kagome,â Kaede interrupted her fondly. âIâll take care of everything. I suppose you want me to send Inuyasha?â
Kagome closed her eyes. She could already feel herself blushing. But the truth was, at least Inuyasha was fast as hell. Kaede was terribly slow (but why did a woman that age insist on riding a bike anyway?) and Kikyo wasnât particularly fast either, while Inuyasha had the advantage of his demonic speed.
âYes please,â she mumbled.
âThen consider it done!â
Kagome sighed as the old woman hung up. She glanced at her clothes and frowned, stepping into her room to get dressed. Not that there was much of a point at this time of day, but at least that would be one less thing Inuyasha would comment on.
The first time, he had been unbelievably rude to her, and she had promised herself she would never, under any circumstances, have him again. She had even taken the time to write herself a note to ask for someone else.
Unfortunately, situations like this night were becoming more and more common as her deadline got closer, and the time right after, she had actually asked Kaede if she could send him. He had gotten there incredibly quickly, and well, she was fucking hungry.
He had been even more rude that time, with a hint of confusion behind it though, and Kagome had sworn, again, that he wouldnât be back.
But, again, her stomach had won that battle.
The third time, he had been much more intrigued and almost defensive. That had been easier â she had been able to get rid of him fast and to eat.
Afterwards, though, it hadnât been that easy. He had started doing that thing where he towered over her a little more, and he grinned (which tended to let his fangs appear and for some reason she loved that), and his voice got deeper and somewhat sultry and then how was she supposed to focus on her thesis when her senses were filled with him and and and ugh.
Yes, she thought he was handsome. His golden eyes, particularly, filled her dreams, but his white hair, cut short, and his lovely dog ears didnât leave her indifferent either. Maybe, some other time, she would even have asked him out.
But she had work to do. She really, really couldnât get into anything right now, much less in a relationship with a moody, though terribly attractive, man. She was sighing heavily when she heard the doorbell.
She glanced at her clock in disbelief â how does he do that? â then walked, maybe a little too fast, to open it.
Sure enough, there he was, with a smug smile, and looking at her like he was going to devour her whole.
Honestly, sheâd let him.
If she didnât have a thesis to finish.
âHungry?â he practically purred, holding out the pizza.
Oh, if only he knew.
She reached out, only to have him put it out of her reach. She rolled her eyes.
âStarving, actually,â she replied, annoyed. âI havenât eaten all day. Could youâŚ?â
âSure thing,â he answered, waiting for her to get her money.
âYouâre the fastest delivery man around,â she mumbled, feeling her cheeks burning any way. She wasnât too sure why she always got the need to justify herself. Maybe she didnât want him to think she was desperate girl, doing everything she could to get a chance to hit on him. Maybe she was trying to convince herself, because she genuinely enjoyed seeing him.
âYeah, you say that every time,â Inuyasha answered, his voice dryer than it usually was.
She looked up at him and noticed his frown, but more importantly, the way his ears drooped a little.
Oh, no. She didnât want that. It hurt her more than she had expected and she hated it andâŚ
âI have a thesis to finish,â she blurted out.
âOh?â Inuyasha asked, cocking an eyebrow. His ears perked up just a little, and even though Kagome was terribly embarrassed at this point, she swallowed and kept going.
âThe deadlineâs really close and thatâs all Iâve been doing.â
âOh.â
âSo I really donât have time for anything right now.â
This time, Inuyasha gave her a toothy grin, and for a second, she wondered about how his fangs would feel against her skin ifâ Your thesis, Kagome.
âBut after thatâŚâ
âYeah?â Inuyasha leaned in. Being taller than her, he was easily towering over her, and the closer he got, the harder it got to think and be coherent.
âAfter that, Iâll be free.â
âHuh,â he said. âBut thatâll take you a while.â
She breathed in deeply as he got closer, one of his clawed hands toying with her hair.
âI mean, itâd be nice if I got, I dunno⌠A reason to wait.â
Kagome blinked. Despite herself, images of her giving Inuyasha an embroidered handkerchief passed in her mind. Ugh, this thesis was killing her. She never wanted to hear about Feudal Era, whether it was in Japan or in Europe, ever again.
She bit her lip, eliciting an almost immediate growl of Inuyasha. âWhat do you have in mind?â
He took that as a permission. He crashed his mouth on hers, and he smiled when he heard her sigh desperately. She got on her tiptoes to try to get as close to him as possible, their bodies reacting almost desperately to the otherâs embrace.
Way too soon, Inuyasha stepped back, leaving her with weak knees.
âIf you need some distraction âtil you finish your thing, youâll know where to find me,â he said, his words teasing but his voice letting on more of his emotions.
Kagome nodded wordlessly.
âBut then Iâll want you all for myself.â
Oh. Oh God.
She wanted to finish that stupid thing more than ever.
âItâs so nice to meet you Kagome!â Inuyashaâs best friend, Miroku, hold out his hand while his girlfriend, Sango, gave her a bright smile. âWeâve been so curious about you!â
âMirokuâs a real gossip,â Inuyasha told her with a frown.
He looked all grumpy, but Kagome knew heâd been dying to introduce her to his friends, and at the same time, terribly stressed to do so. She had come to see that that was very like him. He would always act annoyed when he was afraid something would go wrong, at the risk of making it go wrong that way.
âHow did you two meet?â Sango asked. âInuyasha wouldnât tell us!â
âI had a very good reason,â he growled.
âOh, well you see, Inuyasha was the delivery guy and I always requested him because he was the fastest oneâŚâ
âSure you did,â Inuyasha said, grinning, but Sango couldnât help but notice how fond his smile was.
âI did,â Kagome sighed. âI swear. Anyway, after a whileâŚâ
âThe seventh time she requested me, actually,â Inuyasha corrected her.
âYou counted?â
At that he only responded with a âKeh!â and looked away, with maybe the smallest of blush on his cheeks, and it was only Sangoâs foot furiously crashing Mirokuâs that stopped him from commenting âOh how adorable!â
âThe seventh time I requested him,â Kagome continued, smiling widely and discreetly reaching for her boyfriendâs hand to give it a squeeze, âI told him that I actually had a thesis to finish so I couldnât do anything right now, much less see someone. And then he said heâd wait.â
She giggled, keeping for herself the heated kiss they had shared afterwards. Sango bit back an âAwwwwâ, knowing it would only embarrass Inuyasha further. That being said, she had no idea why he hadnât been willing to tell them. What was the problem with that story?
âWait, so he was your deliveryman?â Miroku asked.
Sango and Inuyashaâs eyes met. Holy shit, no, she had to stop himâŚ
âYes, he was,â Kagome answered.
âSo itâs just like a porn flick!â
He knew Sango was going to kill him for that, but the look on herâ Oh, Inuyasha was not happy with him and Sango did look like she was going to murder him.
Well, heâd better start running then.
Kagome shook her head as his girlfriend caught him and Inuyasha and her both started growling and shouting at him.
âI mean heâs not wrong though,â she mumbled to herself.
Especially for the sex.
Inuyashaâs ear flicked and Kagome couldnât help but smirk when she noticed his eyes widening.
She understood why he had teased her so much in the beginning. It was so much fun.
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