{"id":7631,"date":"2013-07-06T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/07\/06\/hate-date-in-osaka-9\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T06:15:00","slug":"hate-date-in-osaka-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/07\/06\/hate-date-in-osaka-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Date in Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/meitanteiosaka.tumblr.com\/post\/54722271910\/whiteknighthakuba-it-frustrated-hakuba-that\">meitanteiosaka<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Heiji reared back, dumbstruck. Hakuba chastising him in that annoying condescending tone he was used to. But this? Well, the Brit was being honest, he supposed. He just hoped that was a good thing. And he felt a little guilty; he hadn\u2019t <em>meant<\/em> to embarrass the other boy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/404d13c564e81477348cf7852ca66b55\/tumblr_inline_mphvoeLa5X1qz4rgp.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Of course I can,&rdquo; he replied in English. His accent was American, with a slight Japanese lilt. \u201cIn fact, I think it would be interesting to take classes abroad. England, America, Australia, any of them. I like trying new things. And it might not even matter if I was at the top of my class or not, because <em>I<\/em> know I would have done my best. And if I didn\u2019t succeed, then that\u2019s more reason to push myself. No one\u2019s perfect, after all, and there\u2019s always room for improvement.&ldquo; He took another bite of okonomiyaki, ignoring the stares from Katsura. That\u2019s right, the man had never heard him speak English before, had he?<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I\u2019m sorry for embarrassing you. It wasn\u2019t intentional.&rdquo; There. He\u2019d apologized. All that was left was to see how Hakuba reacted. And if the detective wanted, he\u2019d continue to speak in English.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/c28adbb2d9067643ee24fe7330c58b20\/tumblr_inline_mpi4075kNH1qz4rgp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a moment, all Hakuba could do was stare. Slowly, as the Osakan went on his self-important ramble, the foreign detective&rsquo;s jaw actually dropped. The words that Heiji had said were ultimately unimportant and easy to dismiss; he couldn&rsquo;t care any less for his aspirations of being his best and ego, but the way that he said them&hellip; The accent, the diction, the&hellip;\u00a0<em>everything.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Good God,&rdquo; Hakuba said, voice a whisper and also in English, without realizing it. &ldquo;Flawless. Utterly&hellip; flawless.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The chopsticks clattered as they fell from Hakuba&rsquo;s hands and onto the plate and he turned toward Heiji, wide-eyed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Y-you&hellip; you&rsquo;ve been able to speak perfect English this entire time&hellip; with.. with\u00a0<em>that voice<\/em> &hellip; and you&hellip; insist on&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hakuba ran a hand through his hair. &ldquo;Bloody hell, Hattori-san&hellip;&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>meitanteiosaka: Heiji reared back, dumbstruck. Hakuba chastising him in that annoying condescending tone he was used to. But this? Well, the Brit was being honest, he supposed. He just hoped that was a good thing. And he felt a little guilty; he hadn\u2019t meant to embarrass the other boy. &ldquo;Of course I can,&rdquo; he replied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,6421,76,556,6538,75,6537,6536],"class_list":["post-7631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hakuba-bait","tag-hate-date-in-osaka","tag-ic","tag-meitanteiosaka","tag-remember-this-well","tag-rp","tag-this-is-bait-for-hakuba","tag-yes-you-read-that-right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}