beachside beauties
01-05-2021, 08:07 PM
Oh whoops, well that was embarrassing. Hanako forced a laugh, light and airy as though that had most certainly been her intention all along. It was a joke you see? Ha ha ha ha! He didn't seem all that offended anyway and corrected her gently, giving her the chance to store his name somewhere in the back of he head. Hopefully she wouldn't lose it again this time. Like any good gentleman he went onto offer her a sweet compliment, the likes of which she'd been starved of for quite some time, to be honest. It had been chipping away at her sense of self esteem and worth, souring her mood and slowly pushing her into jaded and bitter territory. But this was enough to put her at ease, for now.
The same could be said of him, sorta. He'd grown quite a bit since they'd last met but he wasn't nearly as tall or as imposing as Hattori or some of the other shinobi were. Which wasn't a slight against him, of course, folks came in all different shapes, sizes and colours but well...what was he doing here? Koi wolves were not common in this part of the world, for a long while she'd been smug in the knowledge that she'd been the only one. Official or not. But then Hattori had came and well it seemed as though koi wolves naturally followed suit. She wasn't really sure how she felt about that, a bit miffed perhaps. But not aimed at Hikaru fore sure.
"Ahh thank you! You too! You've grown so much, I remember when you were up to here!" She lifted a paw to about elbow height. Most certainly an exaggeration but shhh.