The Dango shop.........

"Shou, you want some dango?" Tenshin asked the eagle perch on his arm.
Tenshin stop in front of the Dango shop since the saw the Shou was pointing his wing there.
Shou nodded as his respond.
Tenshin went in and asked for a booth. The waiteress smile at Tenshin and the bird and nodded, shown a table near a Sakura tree. Shou flew up on a branch and Tenshin sit down seeing that Shou is happy.

Yori walked into the dango shop, humming a soft tune to herself until she noticed Tenshin sitting over by a Sakura tree eating some dango. She smiled to herself before she walked over to his table. "Hey, mind if I join you?" she asked.

Tenshin smile and whistle to get Shou perch on his arm.
"What do you think, Shou? Would you like her company?"
Shou nodded in respond and perch on Yori's shoulder.

She smiled before taking a seat across from him, gently petting the small bird on the head greatfully. "Thanks Shou..."

"So, what have you been doing lately?" Tenshin said as he ate another dango.

"Not very much," she said. "I did a little training here and there today at the training grounds, then went to relax at the hot springs for a bit. I figured I could come here and order myself some lunch afterwards. How bout you Ten-kun?" she asked.

"Shou here has come back from a mission I just gave him. I wanted to treat him to a job well done" Tenshin said, throwing a piece of dango in the air as Shou caught it.
Shou soon went back to Yori's shoulder.

"Well that was awfully nice of you. You were always the kind of guy to do something nice for someone..." she teased with a small laugh. She ordered herself some dango and a tea when the waiter came by their table.

"Ha ha, very funny...." Tenshin said, blushing in embaressment.
He could hear Shou laughing in the background.

"Ah c'mon Ten-kun, you gotta learn to lighten up a little. Just joking around with ya, no harm in doing that right?" she nudged him gently in the side with her elbow.

"I guess so- wait a minute, Ten-Kun?" Tenshin question about his new nickname.

"Yeah," she said with a meek shrug. "I figured since we're really good friends, I should give you a nickname to address you with now since I haven't already." she grinned.

Tenshin just sigh and said, "Whatever, I just hope Ken doesn't get any wrong idea though......"

She sweat-dropped while rubbing the back of her head sheepishly. "Yeah, but you know how he is. He only does it because he knows it bothers you. I honestly can't get angry over it anymore, not worth wasting all that good energy..."

"Yeah, watching Ken all this time, I just learn something........" Tenshin said with an emotionless glance at the table.

*I walk in and jump onto the table you guys are sitting on*

"Gah!" she twitched nearly falling out of her chair, completely startled. She quickly shot him a glare staring up at Ken. "K-Ken? What the hell..."

Tenshin detected him before he even jump on the table. He didn't even flich on what Ken did. Tenshin click his tongue, indicating that Shou should come here.
"Good day Ken......" Tenshin greeted him.

"Honestly...can't you just say hello like a normal person?" she said, heaving a loud sigh. She turned back to Tenshin. "Anyway, what did you say you learned from him Ten-kun?"

Tenshin look at Ken with a dead look in his eye.
"There's no avoiding it. Almost everything Ken says and does is complete nonsense. He like a unstoppable force of nature. It's use less to fight it, and when I try, I just get exhausted." Tenshin explained as he sink lower in his seat.
Shou, feeling the depressing aura, flew to Yori's shoulder.

She frowned at Tenshin when Shou sat perched on the side of her shoulder. "Don't take it so personally Ten-kun..." she said in a soft tone.

"Sorry.....I just really have a bad day...." Tenshin aplonize as he remember how he lost one of his sword and have to take his apartment apart just to find it. He also remember on how he slip on a banana peel in his morning jog, and how a bucket of water just splash on him.

"Oh, did you feel like talking about it?" she offered with a small smile.

"No...." Tenshin said as he sigh. He thrown a dango that Shou caught.

"Alright, if you're sure..." she shrugged it off. A couple minutes later, her tea and dangos arrived. "Finally, I'm totally starved right now."