Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 10378743)

Kurumi had to cover her mouth to muffle a giggle that was threatening to escape her when she saw Treyen touch his jaw. Could...she touch it too? She flushed a bit at the thought. She probably would end up burning her hand in doing so. Getting so close to the source of the glow of his smile could be dangerous. "Alright, no more discussion about losing bones in one's body," she smiled offering him a playful salute.

"Are you sure you haven't met my father?" she asked raising an eyebrow. It was uncanny how much his thoughts and her father's overlapped. "Father mentioned to me once that my older brothers had too many rocks in their heads to be able to control it. I am not sure I agree, Takashi was sorted into Ravenclaw after all, but father is always saying that things happen for a reason and that everything should be seen as a gift..." She shrugged her shoulders a bit and relaxed with her back against the arm of the chair. So many people were telling her to believe in herself, or some variation of that. She supposed it was about time she started doing so? This would probably require more conversations with Lexi.

"That's two more than I can do!" she chirped feeling the excitement bubbling in her stomach once more. "I am sure you are more than fairly good if you are teaching yourself. Lexi told me that she was getting some training from Mr. Ikenna last term." Speaking of that man, Kurumi wondered where he had gone. "Hugo and I have actually been thinking about asking Professor Descoteaux to teach us." Although, Kurumi wasn't very close with that particular professor. "I...I suppose it is a little advanced for a third year though." She had had a hard enough time with casting a Disillusionment Charm last term.

Kurumi nodded at his comment about Gryffindors - no statement being more true - when....wait....had he just held her hand again? Kurumi thought she felt something warm and gentle to the touch wrap itself around her hand, but when she took a quick glance down, she saw there was nothing there. However, she did notice Treyen's hand retracting. A shy smile appeared on her face and she felt like she were about to burst. QUICK! Time to think about ice!

After taking a few moments, Kurumi was back to her relaxed state - although her hand still felt all warm and fuzzy.

Numbers. Right. They were talking about numbers.

"If I recall correctly," she said slowly tugging on her long pony tail for a moment - which was usually the case when it came to route memorization. "8's are people who find themselves on a path that leads them to work out the difference between money and the real value of life and learn what to do with your natural power and authority." Come to think of it, she supposed that it did sound rather fitting. Those bits anyway. She wasn't too sure about the whole natural leader notion though. Only thing she was good at leading people towards was the kitchen or a box of cookies.

"Sometimes they called us by our last names," she nodded. "I wasn't usually though. I was the only student in the class with a foreign last name, so they always called out jyuu ichi ban no jyoshi, or number eleven girl when they called on me."

Originally Posted by Lockhartian (Post 10383947)

Good. They agreed not to discuss Potions, or Lafay, or bones. It was rather likely that they'll be bringing up that lesson if any of those topics came along. So, the fifth year nodded and smiled. A small smile, by the way.

That was rather funny, though, how her father and Treyen seemed to think alike. "No, really, I haven't...but I kind of want to," he sounded awesome, just as awesome as his own. "I do agree with him," and if they agreed on this, then they'd probably agree on many things, no? Mostly things involving Kurumi, right? "Where do you get your violet eyes from, by the way?" such a random question, but Treyen was sure they could both agree on what a beautiful shade of violet it was.

He smiled at her, "And I'm two years older than you. I'm sure by the time you're a fifth year, you'll know even more than I do at the moment," by the time Kurumi would be a fifth year, he'll be a seventh. Meaning...his last year. That was certainly not a good thing to be thinking about. "I didn't think of asking a Professor this time, I kind of wanted to focus on it with Kingsley, but...that's not happening," his expression was saddened by a moment, but he could still ask some other Professor, right? Hadley probably knew, and since he was helping her overcome her fear of heights, then she could help him with non-verbals, right? She ought to know those.

Treyen had been wrong. It hadn't been HIS hand what had brought up that odd behavior in Kurumi. So, he could still hold it without anyone getting hurt, right?

'If I recall correctly'. That was amusing. Of course she'd do such a thing. "Actually, I don't think that number is too far off," but it didn't particularly read 'Kurumi', "We really shouldn't focus on numbers, they don't really tell what a person is like," whereas in Divination...you could actually learn more about someone.

Maybe that's what he didn't like about numbers in the first place.

Then he listened as Kurumi started to answer his question and couldn't help to smile as widely as possible when she spoke Japanese. So, his comment had nothing to do with what she'd said, really. "You sound so lovely in Japanese," he said, still smiling. Eyes on Kurumi.

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 10386269)

"Father would love to meet you as well," Kurumi smiled as she began aimlessly playing with her long black ponytail and now hung over her right shoulder like a silky waterfall. "He's told me himself actually." Her cheeks flushed a bit. If this meeting ever happened, she wasn't sure if she would rather be present or not at all. Weighing both options made her sink into her seat a bit.

When she was practically wedged between the cushion and the arm rest, Kurumi peered up at Treyen and blinked a few times. "Oh...um...I am really not sure myself," she said as she bit her lower lip in thought. "Father did mention that it had to do with my metamo...my ability. I think he mentioned that he was born with a strange eye color as well, just not purple. Father was able to gain control much quicker over his ability, so I suppose he was able to change it back to a normal color. I might be able to do that too..."

Kurumi sat up a bit more in her seat. Well, she sat up enough to not be looking up Treyen's nostrils - which were also remarkably charming for nostrils. She had, almost forgotten that Treyen was a 5th year and not because of his height. "I hope you are right," she whispered before her eyes grew a bit wide again. "N-Not that I want to be smarter than you or be better at magic. I-I-I am not that sort of person..." she began waving her arms a bit for emphasis. Awkward much? "I miss Professor Kingsley as well...especially with THAT man teaching us Transgifiguration." Kurumi shivered. "I didn't get to speak with him much though. I-I was too nervous to speak with many professors my first term, besides Professor Zookara anyway."

Kurumi scooted a bit further up in her seat to where she was almost back to a normal sitting position. "Really? I don't consider myself much of a money person really," she mused as she rested her right hand on her cheek as she thought. "You do have a point though. The descriptions are a bit narrow. Reminds me a bit about how we, um, Japanese think about blood types." The country was obsessed with them really. People often made assumptions on you based on it as well. Just another thing that put her into a mislabeled box.

She almost missed his comment about her Japanese. Almost. Her cheeks flushed another shade of rosy pink and she found herself looking at the cushion for a moment to compose herself. "T-T-Thank you..." she squeaked. Truth was, she hadn't really spoken her mother tongue much since coming to Hogwarts, even when she went back home. Unless you wanted to count the few times she had sang to Heather in the girl's dormitory.

Originally Posted by Lockhartian (Post 10387552)

Treyen smiled, had Kurumi mentioned him to her father already? Because that's what it meant, right? What she'd said. That was the only way for her words to make sense, and the meeting will have to be arranged over the summer, of course, unless her father came to Hogwarts. But he didn't know how it could even be possible. "You've told him about me?" he asked, chuckling softly.

It was a rather amusing thought. Yet, he remembered the day he met Kurumi and hoped she didn't tell her father about how he made her cry.

Oh. Say no more. Her abilities. Got it. Treyen nodded as he explained and then frowned a little, "I'd prefer if they kept that color, though," he said, and said nothing else on the matter. Just that. Imagining Kurumi with brown eyes or something...just...wasn't Kurumi.

No, really, she was incredibly adorable, and he laughed at her reaction, "I didn't mean that, and I know that's not what you meant either, but it's only normal to acquire more experience over the years," if one practiced, of course. At the mention of Kingsley and the new Professor they had, Treyen just shook his head, "I haven't been attending those lessons," the ones with Shaw, that was his name, right? According to Aparecium.

Ah! But that was the point! "That's what it means, actually, that you'll focus more on value than money, so, that works," kind of, but the whole interpretation may not refer to her, "Still, they're just numbers," and should be seen as just numbers, to him, just don't tell Hadley.

He smiled again, "My pleasure," always.