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[Claude enters from the hallway]

There was one thing that Claude immediately noticed upon entering the room. The beds. He hated those sort of beds. However, he decided not to let this bother him, and hoped that he'd remembered to pack something before leaving that could be used to improve the situation.

Fortunately, his room-mates were at least of a more acceptable choice. He'd already got well acquainted with Chisame, and Makie seemed like a nice enough girl; if perhaps a little on the slow side. Then there was Mr. Aussie; and whilst Claude had nothing against fans of music of any kind, there were certain things you just don't do. Such as setting it as a makeshift alarm clock so everyone in the room hears it, regardless of whether or not he wanted them to. Still, for now, he'd tolerate him. He seemed harmless enough - he, like Makie, probably just didn't think everything quite through.

Then there was another girl that he didn't recognize. Then again, he'd hardly been the most social student at Mahora Academy. The one thing that caught his attention was the logo on the hat. Claude was fairly partial to video games - particularly first person shooters, real-time strategy, and stealth action games; but he fiercely disliked most other games. To him, games were sport and nothing more - the ultimate test of reaction and skill. In real life, any coward with enough money bulging out of his back pocket could go on a killing spree; but to get such an achievement in a game was a different matter entirely. A level playing field, where everyone must compete to outwit and outsmart their opponents or die.

He smiled as he casually waved to the students he'd be spending the next few days with. "Good evening." He said, dragging his case into the room, planting it over in one of the corners of the room. He looked towards Yuuna and nodded. "I don't believe we've met. My name is Claude Espion." He said with a smile, holding out his hand for her to shake.

"Ah, a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Yuuna-san." Claude smiled, but paused for a moment over the offer. He was pretty damn hungry, and if he was going to eat food he hadn't prepared himself, today would probably be the best day to do so. Unless someone had been keeping a very close watch on him, they'd yet to know that he was even in Kyoto - if they even knew he'd gone to Mahora. So he should be safe for now, at least. He nodded, and smiled. "Oui, I will join you; but first I would like to get changed."

Bowing slightly, he turned to his suitcase and unzipped it, taking a quick look through, before grabbing the suit that was on top -a simple grey one with a white shirt. Rummaging through deeper, he pulled out a small unmarked brown paper bag. He looked over at the door, counted the number of bags and such that were in the room, and calculated that someone was in the bathroom already. That or somebody had far too much luggage.

Not to worry, though, he'd just do what he did every night to get changed out of his uniform. He chuckled, smiling to himself, looking towards Yuuna. "Pardon me one moment." Without so much as another word, he walked over to the nearest 'uncalled' futon, and dived underneath the blanket, totally concealed, taking the suit and the paper bag with him.

Whilst underneath, in an act he'd practiced many times (albeit not necessarily in beds - especially not futons), he changed out of his uniform and into his suit, transferring his cigarettes, his lighter, and his butterfly knife - which had been in the bag. Throughout this whole process, the blanket barely moved at all, and of course, you couldn't see anything - even if you did try to look. He was finished within less than a minute, and climbed out, now holding his bundled up uniform under his right arm, wearing his suit. Just knowing that he had his knife in his suit pocket made him feel instantly safer. Walking over and putting the uniform away in his case, before closing it up again, he looked over at Yuuna and smiled. "Well, I'm ready if everyone else is. Shall we?"

Lukas really didn't need to change, he had put clothes on underneath his uniform, which in a sense to him saved time. Slowly unbuttoning his blazer and then his shirt, he took both of to reveal the Soilwork t-shirt[x], it was one of his most prized shirts, he had packed several for the Kyoto trip too. This one he had to wait several weeks due to difficulties it faced in getting from Sweden to Australia. Upon pulling his pants off, there were just normal long cargo pants underneath. Standing up, he shoved his uniform against his suitcase and then said.

"May as well come..."

"That's fine, Chisame-san," Yuuna said, already out of her uniform and halfway into her normal clothes. Speed-changing clothes was something of an art to her, having to do it all the time for practice. She was done almost within seconds of Chisame entering, and then stepped out herself, heading over to where she'd left her bags and draping her uniform over her suitcase. Then she sat down and pulled on her sneakers, tying them up quickly. The hat was the last thing she picked up, pulling out the hair band holding her ponytail in place, thus letting her hair fall free down around her shoulders, and then pulled the hat on over her head.

Slightly blushing, Chisame nodded, replying," Thanks. You're not too shabby yourself, I guess." Putting on her shoes, she looked at everyone else. "I think we should go now. We look about ready," she said as she opened the door and held it open for her group.

Makie smiled up at Chisame. "Yup! Let's go, guys!" she said excitedly as she went to the door. She thanked Chisame for holding the door open, and exited the room into the hotel hallway.

[Makie leaves for the hallway.]

"Yeah, let's go, I'm hungry!" And she followed the others out the door.

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Wow, she was coming closer, he himself closed his eyes and readied for the moment where their lips would lock. It was happening, another kiss, this was epic beyond all reasoning. But then she said 'no' and she backed away, sending a shockwave of disapointment. Lukas, placing his index finger on his check, he slowly ran it down imitating a teardrop falling down his check. But she was still smiling, why was that?

"Don't have to be mean about it."

He teased in a childish manner.

"But being happy is always good and the only thing we can do is look foreward to things happening."

Lukas replied, arching an eyebrow as he teased back, sure he was a dork and acted inapropriately at times but look at him, he was Australian! And he heard from a lot of people that girls digged Aussies. As he watched the confused expression appear on her face, he slowly cupped his hand gently around her chin and faced her.

"Whats the matter, lost in my awesomeness?"