{"id":7677,"date":"2013-07-05T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/07\/05\/hate-date-in-osaka-11\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T06:14:00","slug":"hate-date-in-osaka-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/07\/05\/hate-date-in-osaka-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Date in Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"

meitanteiosaka<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Heiji looked confused at the statement. \u201cWha? No, I don\u2019 think yer a stupid foreigner. I think yer a stuck-up, annoyin\u2019 prat with an attitude problem, but I don\u2019 think yer stupid.“ Ah, his dish was done, and he dug into it, savoring the bite. Delicious, as always. \u201cThis ain\u2019t about th\u2019 Detective Koushien case, is it? That was an easy mistake ta make. Anyone coulda done the same. That doesn\u2019t make ya stupid.” It just makes me smarter than ya<\/em>, he wisely refrained from saying. He didn\u2019t think that statement would go over too well in their current conversation.<\/p>\n

Another bite. Oh-so-good. He\u2019d missed this place. Hadn\u2019t been here in far too long. \u201cAn\u2019 yer a Half, right? That doesn\u2019t really make ya a foreigner.“ He leaned back and frowned slightly. \u201cUnless ya don\u2019t consider Japan yer home?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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There had been the smallest spark of hope at the beginning of Hattori’s response. The, ‘no I don’t think’ part, but then, as he continued to speak, the hope was crushed. More like it was poisoned, strangled, stabbed in the back, and drowned in the waters of that odd combination of first and second hand embarrassment.<\/p>\n

Hakuba clenched his fists in his pockets, listening to the Osakan ramble on near unintelligibly, expression even and stone. \u00a0He’d admitted his failure in the Koushien then and there. Why was there any reason at all to bring it up again? It wasn’t as if Hattori were any more a detective than he was. In fact, he’d looked at the data himself, and knew<\/em> that he was more accomplished than Hattori. With all of the infractions that the god damned brute had committed, he shouldn’t have even been allowed to participate. He didn’t have the right to call himself a detective. And as the son of the Superintendent Supervisor, he should be ashamed<\/em> for his behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He wanted to get up and leave right then and there. But with food already ordered, it would be rude to the restaurant owner to do so.\u00a0Nevertheless, the bitterness never went further than the white knuckled grip inside of his pockets and the silence that he so tangibly gave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The question, however, was addressed after another moment of quiet contemplation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I am a ‘halfer,’ yes,” Hakuba said at first, briefly wondering if Hattori had any idea just how insulting the term was. “I have dual nationality so I am technically a citizen,\u00a0<\/span>but Japan is ‘home’ only in that my father is here."\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Food was delivered, set before him. He offered his thanks, then looked at it with a stab of painful regret. It looked delicious, certainly, but he’d very much lost his appetite. \u00a0Hakuba reached for chopsticks, not wishing to offend.<\/p>\n

Let Hattori talk his mouth off. He didn’t care.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

meitanteiosaka: Heiji looked confused at the statement. \u201cWha? No, I don\u2019 think yer a stupid foreigner. I think yer a stuck-up, annoyin\u2019 prat with an attitude problem, but I don\u2019 think yer stupid.“ Ah, his dish was done, and he dug into it, savoring the bite. Delicious, as always. \u201cThis ain\u2019t about th\u2019 Detective Koushien […]<\/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":[6421,76,556,75],"class_list":["post-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hate-date-in-osaka","tag-ic","tag-meitanteiosaka","tag-rp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","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=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}