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LOG: birthday party - open to anyone

WHO: Mikaela Hyakuya and YOU
WHERE: Kaneki's café :Re, both in the reguar and the private part
WHEN: May 1th, early in the afternoon
WHAT: It's Mika's birthday ~~and he'll cry if he wants to~~ and he's going to drink some birthday blood.
WARNINGS: blerb. blood drinking. talk about death and all that jazz.

"I wish this cafe was a little closer to our apartment."

Mika's voice is a little softer than usual, and a little less grumpy. It's not because he's looking forward ot his birthday (he knows better than to expect nything). However, after Yuu surprised him with a thoughtful present earlier, he has felt tentatively hopeful. It might turn out okay after all. Perhaps the day won't be as bad as he thinks it will be, even if it's a reminder that he can't age anymore. His friend seems to think that it's a good occassion to celebrate.

Yuu does't seem to notice that anything is wrong. He's too busy chatting about all the wonderful things they should be doing to celebrate. The vampire finds a table, plucking a book with him as he walks. The cafe has an assortment of bloodwine, doesn't it? Perhaps he can persuade Krul to buy him some. Unlikely, but he doesn't lose anything by asking.

"Could I borrow the menu?"

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Instead of a menu being given to him in any way, shape, or form; Mika will have two things coming to him. For one, a rather unusual gift wrapped item that was in a odd shape will be place in front of him before a pair of arms will find their way around his shoulders into a tight embrace, but it wasn't too difficult to miss the light orange hair and voice that follow those arms soon after,

"I finally caught up to you! Happy birthday, Mika!!"

Guess who was a little too ecstatic over a certain someone's birthday? If the hug or bright smile weren't any indication, then she's hoping her present to him will be.

There's nothing that can make Mika prepared for such a warm welcome. He blinks stupidly, looking at her like she has grown horns. Of course it's Nike. Of course. Even without her memories, she hasn't changed that much. There's still a core that cares deeply for people. Mika relaxes in the embrace after the initial shock.

"...Thank you, Nike."

It's only after that he manages to gather his thoughts enough to look at the present. He looks up at Nike again, as if to ask 'is that for me?'

It wasn't too difficult to miss his reaction towards her more touchy greeting. She would've brought him a flower crown instead, but after learning more about him through Yuu that it didn't feel like enough. A hug was much more powerful, in her opinion. Mika needed to know he had more friends that cared as much as Yuu did.

"It's fine, it's fine. You don't need to thank me or anything like that," responded the other girl before giving him one more squeeze before her attention turned to the gift in front of him, "That's yours, you know. I sorta made it."

She had to buy some of the materials, but she formed and assembled it.

"You can open it," she added as she releases her hold on him and grabs a nearby chair to sit on for the time being. If Mika decides to open it, he'll find a medium size tree decoration with a handful of empty talismans made of special paper with strings on top.

"The location wasn't up to us. Kaneki has other customers too. And this is probably the best location for him. It's fine."

For his part, Yuu doesn't seem to mind. If this is something Mika wants to do on this particular day. He doesn't mind giving suggestions, but this is Mika's birthday after all. So of course he doesn't mind joining in whatever his best friend wants to do. He's trying to focus on the good - that he has a chance to celebrate another birthday with Mika at all. When for years, he'd never thought he'd get this chance.

So he follows, sitting next to Mika at the table, absently glancing around for a moment himself before joining in with requesting for another menu. Though his will likely be different to the one given to Mika.

Mika has been secretly walking on egg shells all day around Yuu, so he's relieved when the other boy finds his seat right by his side. Good. Then things can't have changed that much between them.

"At least we found it easily. And it's worth it."

He gives Yuu a small smile that seems to be just for him, before opening the menu to look at the different drinks. Even if Mika can't drink any of them, he wants to make sure that they have a good assortment for Yuu, at the very least.

"What do you think milkshakes are like?"

"Like a milkshake? I might try a strawberry one..."

Yuu says absently, probably more to himself as he then turns his attention to the menu and leaning over to look over it with Mika. But Yuu has arranged to come here sometimes after school to get Kaneki's help with his studies so he trusts the other, the rest of the staff here. He has a sip of the water while waiting and considering what he wants.

"From the normal menu?"

Mika holds the menu so they can both read easily. He's saying it out loud and that might not be the most discreet, but if Mika is completely honest with himself he doesn't see the point of being subtle. Most of the patrons in the cafe surely already know of its other reputation.

"I shouldn't be surprised. This is the closest they have to strawberry shortcake."

"This -- okay, I guess it is, without them having actual cake. You know I'd have tried to make one for you if you could actually eat it."

[It probably wouldn't have turned out as perfect as what Akane could have managed, or something from a store. But he'd have tried. Yuu might only be vaguely aware of the particular clientele Kaneki caters to with his specialty menu, not having paid all that much attention to the rumors, and knowing Krul comes here sometimes.]

Mika is nervous. People have been walking around the apartment all day and there's a general feeling that Something Is Going To Happen there. He's not used to the flurry of activity and he's not sure he likes it. He has had some blood, so he should be relaxed. Everything should be well. He doesn't know why he expects the other shoe to drop.

At least Yuu seems happy, and Krul hasn't demanded that they stop. Maybe things will work out. He finds a comfortable spot on the couch, pulling his legs up.

It's been a very long time she's ever had to deal with something like a birthday celebration and, in all honesty, she doesn't really understand the need for celebrating this when... Mika is never going to age. Ever. He will remain this way until he is killed. So what exactly is there to celebrate? Another year that has simply whisked by while the blond doesn't even show the faintest signs of it having taken its toll on him physically? Emotionally? Well, that's another matter and something entirely different. But, still... this seems strange to Krul and it's why she's mostly kept to herself while hanging around.

It's only when they're back at the apartment that she decides to give Mika his gift. Normally? She wouldn't bother... she's already given him the best gift of all with granting him an eternal life that has given him the chance to see Yuu again. What more could this child of hers possibly want?

Still, she has brought something along with her and it's as she stands before the blond vampire in front of the couch that she drops the bag down onto Mika's knees... yes, there's a bow tied around it, very sloppily and shiny but, it's there.

"Here," she mutters, a smile on her lips regardless. "For your little birthday."

The gift? Well... that would be an arm... a very bloody arm... so much that the blood is very close to seeping through the bag that she's dropped it in. And just where did she get this arm that is still warm and considered fresh? Well... she works at a blood bank, remember? Sometimes things happen but it's not from anyone living... not anymore.

"What... What is this?"

Mika means to keep his voice level, of course. It isn't his fault that it rises with alarm the more he realizes what must be in the bag. Against his own will, his eyes are quickly drawn to where Yuu is, suddenly scared that he'll see. Mika would get up from his seat to get away, but with the bloody bag in his lap he's simply forced to sit, He settles for staring at Krul stiffly. She hasn't brought him corpses since he was little so he's almost forgotten just how twisted it feels. It takes him right back to their first time, and how the scent of blood and death had repulsed him.

Mika gives her a wide-eyed look, simply not understanding why she'd do this now, of all times. And where would she even something big and bloody and dead? He doesn't want to open it and scar Yuu forever.

What is this? Is he really asking her such a question? It's his birthday and here she is giving him a gift and he has the audacity to ask her what this is in his lap? She really does have such a difficult child of hers, doesn't she?

Krul stares to Mika and slowly smiles as she stands there before him on the couch, crimson red eyes glancing down to the blood that seeps through the bag and drips a little on the floor. Here she goes out to get him a gift and he's already letting it spill everywhere. Talk about ungrateful.

"It's your birthday present," she mutters, still smiling to him. "That's what people do around here, isn't it?"

He's a vampire, so what exactly did he expect her to get him? A car? A new set of clothes? Money? What use does he have for any of that when blood is the very thing he needs to survive? Honestly, it just makes sense to her.

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