黒木 智子

“Thanks for saying that Tomoko.” And Ruby gave a soft smile at the other, before deciding to seat herself again and remind the other. “Eat your food and drink please. Otherwise they’ll get cold…As for the reason for why I am so nice.” And the Rose remarked/added to herself. “Let’s just say there are far too many assholes on this planet. I may as well be one of the good people, no?”

Yang then smirked as she began to slowly remove her coat, showing off her metallic arm as well as the weapons that were contained within it. “You wanted to see something cool like this right? Well then I’ll tell ya something, I’m a huntress and a mercenary that fights against creatures known as Grimm. This metallic arm of mine contains a number of weapons, like a scythe blade, claws, blasters, all of that good stuff”

But she couldn’t deny reality. “You... things like that are...??” Tomoko had no idea where to even begin. Something she could have only imagined in her wildest fantasies was coming true - someone she could have only imagined up actually wanted to give her the time of day, and she was getting so excited and worked up over it that she began to shake.

“Now don’t say that.” And Ruby had calmed down from her, at’least in her own opinion, rather eccentric attitude. “Every life is interesting in its own way. For example my life could be interesting or boring to you, and it depends on a lot of things. Perhaps I’ll tell you some secrets as well, but I just want to let you know one thing, okay?” And she leaned across the table to pat Tomoko on the head. “I know that it must be hard to be as socially anxious as you, but you have a friend in me too, so just relax and take your time.”

“Hey Tomoko? I was wondering if I could show you something pretty cool, I mean you look like the kind of person that likes anime and stuff like that so…maybe you’d wanna take a look at my right arm?” She asked with a slight smirk, hoping that her jacket would be removed to show the metallic weaponized arm

Perhaps this was the day her fantasies would come true, and she would be whisked away from her painfully boring life to participate in some quest across a mystical land, making loads of friends and finally feeling like she was worth something. Or she could just be getting tricked into opening herself up to an elbow in the face. That sounded fun. “Alright...”

The blonde then slowly put her hand down on top of Tomoko’s head and began to slowly rub, “Hey, kid. You don’t need to get all anxious about this, if you’re nervous then I’ll try and keep it so you don’t get too flustered” Yang joked as she showed a very genuine smile toward the younger girl

“R-right. Then...” Tomoko paused. She was reluctant to bring an end to Yang’s wonderful headpatting, but she stood up and gently brushed her hand away, her own hands coming together to pass over and squeeze one another.

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“You up for grabbing a drink? I mean that’s only if you’re OK with it. I know I probably look like a fuckin’ idiot right now trying to start up a conversation like this. But it’s like how my Dad told me, friends are people that you might no even know yet”

“There, all done. Now tell me about yourself, Tomoko and I shall do the same once you’re finished, okay dear?”

“I’m Yang. Yang Xiao Long, nice to meet’cha…uh, what’s your name?” She asked whilst extending her hand

“Tomoko... Tomoko Kuroki...” she introduced herself, directing her gaze away from Yang. She was good looking. Probably smelled nice too - Tomoko had no idea what someone like that could want with her, but her musing over the matter led to her forgetting to take the hand offered to her.

“We’re going to get ourselves some food and because I’m generous, I’m going to pay for the food. Take it as a token of becoming my friend or whatever else your minds can come up with.”

... She ended up just looking down with a face red as a tomato, fidgeting. Good work, Tomoko.

“Yo. You there, you doin’ OK? I mean if ya don’t mind someone like me askin’?” Yang slowly walked over and began to lean down a little so she was almost at eye level with Tomoko, today was gonna be a long one for sure

"Uuu... I’m.. I-I’m fine.” she forced out a reply and turned her head away, trembling in the face of *gasp* interaction with another person.

“Oh my, what a rather adorable sounding nickname.” Ruby smiled, before going back to teasing. “A pleasure meeting you, Tomoko, and while I do know you seem to suck rather big at this social event, why don’t we just skip the crap and call ourselves acquaintances, perhaps even friends?”

“Y-yeah. I’ll.. we can be f-friends.” she said with a smile, restraining her excitement. Wow! She was going to make an actual friend today!

“Way too nice, but either way, introduce yourself now.”

“K-Kuroki... ah! No! That’s... that’s my last name. Uhm...” Tomoko tried the deep breathing again, then opened her mouth to speak. “Tomoko... Kuroki. I.... nice to meet. Yeah.”