Into The Rose Garden (Seidou x Kanae/Karren)

Chapter Eighty-one - Planned night

Seidou and Kanae walked peacefully, side-by-side as Kanae looked around. The two talked and talked, sharing more facts about one another.

"Wait, you were a model?!" Kanae asked with shock and slight mockery. "Haha! My, you must've been quite popular with the girls, huh?" Seidou covered his face in embarrassment. "I really wasn't, they weren't popular. It was for my work as a cop, a-and I wasn't the main modeler. I-I should've kept this to myself..." Kanae pulled her head back, sighing. 

"Nein, I'm glad you told me. It's one of those littler things I get to learn about you~..." Seidou looked around, noticing how many people were listening in and whispering. "Are those two dating?" "Aww, that's so adorkable!" Kanae raised an eyebrow. "Seidou, what does 'adorkable' mean exactly?"

Seidou blushed and cleared his throat, shrugging. "Y-You know, someone who is an adorable little dork." Kanae gave a soft gasp. "Oh, you mean you!" Eveyone who heard the female, burst into a fit of laughter, causing Seidou to hide his face. "Aww, cute~!" "K-Kanae...maybe we should go somewhere a little private." 

The male then proceeded to grab onto Kanae's arm, dragging her away. He quickly turns his head to the crowd, blushing. "W-We're not a couple!" Causing a few eyes to roll. "Sure you're not...!" One woman called out as the male left.

They entered a café, taking a seat and ordering a good cup of coffee. "Kanae, maybe we should...be less...clingy with each other." Kanae tilts her head. "What do you mean?" "Random people think we're actually...d-dating..." Kanae scoffed rudely. "Well, so? They don't know us, and we're just friends!" "Yeah, but I don't like it when people assume."

Kanae rolled her eyes. "News flash Seidou, but people ARE going to assume. It's hu-! Um, sentient being nature! And besides, you don't...like for us to be seen as a couple...?" Kanae gets up to the male's face, causing him to quickly flinch away. "W-What are you going on about?!" "I'm just asking...would it really be so wrong...if everyone just...saw us...together as..." Kanae started blushing softly, as she was two inches away from Seidou's face. "More...?"

Seidou closes his hand into a gentle fist, close to his chest. Gulping harshly as the female leaned closer. Kanae scoffs softly, moving back. "Goodness, you really hate me being so close, don't you?" The female joked slightly. "N-No, i-it's not you! Kanae, come on let's just go."

Kanae raised an eyebrow, turning her head slightly away. "But I actually want coffee. Come on, we can just talk. Like about that upcoming dance, and how we should go clothes shopping for it." Seidou scoffed. "Again?" "Well yeah, we need to look our best."

Seidou wore a doubtful and questioning look. "Do we though?" "Come on Seidou, I just want us to go all out, and to do this..." Kanae looked away, smiling softly. "Kanae, what is it with you? Why do you want to go so badly?"

The conversation was paused for their orders to be taken, with the waitress leaving the two soon after. Kanae sighed in small defeat, holding a hand out as to tell some sort of tale of hers. "I remember my parents always hosting dance parties, and I was never allowed, because I was always too young... My father promised me that once I was old enough, I could attend. I looked forward to that time, so excited that I had spent hours as a child thinking about what I would actually wear. How to act and socialize, but unfortunately I never got to experience that..."

Seidou lowered his eyebrows. "Oh, that's a shame... But, you guys have hosted dance parties yourselves, haven't you?" Kanae scoffed softly. "Not normally, and when we did, the servants were in charge of taking care of things. I don't mind too much, because our masters really are so very kind to us, but..." "Oh, I get it. I know what you mean."

Kanae folded her loose hair strands to the back of her ear. "Though, I am curious on how current me will pick out her gown. I-I mean, how I will pick out my gown."