Catching Up || Yumi

Yumi smiled gently as Jaz settled a little after the flick and gave her a cheeky little wink as she mentioned missing her, Yumi very easily replying. “Missed you two blo- well. Guess I should just call you silver or something now…
~” She teased with an idle smirk, while also not trying to make too much of a thing of it, shifting a little more comfortably and feeling herself warm up a bit more as Jaz offered her the practical compliment of saying she was one of the only people she’d have really wanted to stay in touch with, but as she mentioned Mia Yumi had to sit up a little. “Mia? That… shark girl in the first year?” She asked, the gears in her brain slowly turning for a second before it finally hit, and she snapped her fingers. “OH! KEARNEY! You mean Red Horn right? S-sorry I totally blanked that was her real name for a moment, hehehehe!~” She rubbed her head with a sheepish grin, definitely feeling like a low level dunce for a second there. “Right right… shoulda figured… though er…” She nervously scratched her cheek. “Red’s.. actually pretty cool about that? I-I mean I’m not trying to get in your pants or anything but we had a talk and… well he admitted he’d get jealous if I was with another guy but he apparently doesn’t mind girls so much so… yeah…”

… Okay hello awkward beat of silence when did you get here?

Thankfully Jaz did her a mercy of brushing it all off as one big joke which was definitely a relief of some sorts, taking a calming slow breath and leaning deeper into the couch as she relaxed a bit. “Hey I mean, if anyone’s the weak one out of the two of us it’s me. I literally joined this school to help not just fry everyone around me when I freaked out a little too much, and while you were away that still ended up happening so…” She gave an idle shrug, not wanting to rain on Jaz’s own sharing time so to speak with her own crap. “Bottom of the line, we all need help sometimes. If anything you’re the stronger one for reaching out for it. Or, well, you’re at least stronger than any stubborn asshole who never would.~”

Still, the mood lightened and Yumi managed a giggle as Jaz teased her about her own tough girl act, shaking her head and rolling her eyes, blushing mildly at a memory or too flitting out of her head. “Well… I dunno. With girls I tend to prefer how soft they are and… showing them what to do most of the time… with guys its more feeling them take control… with you though. Hoo boy. Best of both worlds there. Didn’t know what to do with myself half the time.~” She teased with a playful smile.

With the question of what she’d missed Yumi sat up a little. “Er… in our year not much… I really dropped the ball on the art club I’ll admit. You left it on me about when my cosplaying was taking off and I started making money on it… I actually got onto a teaching course which I do sometimes on the weekend or through online classrooms so er.. hoping to maybe be a UA teacher when I graduate? Who knows?” She smiled soft but… she felt she should maybe be a bit open so Jaz wasn’t blindsided if she found out another way. “And…er… I kinda. Went through some stuff. Iguess? Not as bad as you by any means but er… well its why I moved off campus really…” She tried to think how to put this but could only preface it with. “I-I’ve forgiven Kirk since but… he was going through some stuff with how he felt for Tetsuko so… Darren… knowing I’m ‘easy’ advised he ‘dip his biscuit’ with me and… Kirk wasn’t very tactful so… I kinda realized I’m kinda just seen as… the school slut? K-kinda had to rethink my image a lot from there…”

Now the dark cloud was over her, letting out a heavy breath, unsure what to really say from there.

“Hehehe, I don’t doubt it. I mean have you seen some of the shit she pulled since you’ve been gone? The woman nearly dropped Thunder! The only reason she didn’t pull it off is that military railgun from Semper fi was being aimed at civilians!” She chimed out with some excitement in response to Red Horn being called a tank. Most of the shinagawa event was supposedly meant to be under wraps, but no matter how far away you were it was hard to hide the huge ass rail gun that fired a shot into the air over the city, Yumi grinning ear to ear as she only tried to picture the effort it must have taken to divert military grade hardware like that. “Apparently this huge shot was gonna go through a bridge but she managed to force the barrel skyward! Still left Thunder with some hefty damage too from what I’ve heard.~” Yumi let out another soft giggle as she even heard that Red Horn was a sweet heart, shaking her head. “Ah I don’t doubt it. From what I see of her on TV she’s great with kids who make it into the crowd around her take downs. She seems pretty down to earth really, all things considered at least.”

Yumi chuckled a little more gently when Jaz spacily let out that she wouldn’t be able to share, nodding along, a little disheartened by the comment but… she was coming to terms with the reality of that a lot more these days. “Yeah, that seems to be the typical answer…”

Despite the emphasis she didn’t drop the ball on the whole arts club thing Yumi still felt a bit sheepish about the matter, rubbing the side of her neck and giving a half hearted shrug. “Maybe if making my cosplays counts as ‘arty’ enough I might try and devote some time to it over the next year but… really I’m balancing so many plates now I’d be surprised if I can find the time… still if you start running it again, I’ll maybe give it a shot.” She’d offer with a somewhat ‘weak’ little wink.

When she divulged more about the year that Jaz missed and… the big thing that happened, Yumi wasn’t sure how to take he response. Awkward silence was right. Yumi… yumi MIGHT have…? Kirk was a nice guy and all and she liked him and… it wasn’t like that used to be much of a boundary for her. She just… liked having fun with her friends but… hearing it from him the way he let it out and… the way she processed what that meant for how other people saw her… it’d hit hard, to say the least, and she’d really had to re-evaluate herself a little.

Still, with awkward silence to her… ‘jokey’ question, she nodded along to what came next. “I… I know, but I still had to re-think myself a lot. In some ways it did me a lot of good… think I’ve matured a lot without losing my ‘spark’ ya know? That… that probably sounds kinda self-congratulating making it sound like I’m special or something but you get it right?”

Yumi shrugged a little idly as Jaz talked about how she saw relationships. Yumi felt a smidge guilty getting all down about how Jaz didn’t directly relate to her when she reminded her of the Rin situation, but by the end of the Ashen haired warriors musings on the matter yumi did end up feeling a little better than when they’d started on this one, letting out an idle little chuckle as she hugged her knee to her chest. “Well that sense of respect for how I see things is better than I gest from most. I either get sheer bewilderment and confusion from someone like Red or I get… well I get people trying to take advantage of it, as you well enough can see.” She gave an idle shrug, not wanting to linger on that bummer of a topic, just glad she had someone like Jaz back who, even if she didn’t see things the same way, could at least see where she personally was coming from…~ “I’m getting better at seeing things from you guys’ angle too o’course. There’s still some… disconnect? Like I can’t fully relate but… I do get that sense of wanting to be your one and only’s one and only too…”

She scoffed a little as the girl brushed off the relationship talk herself and said it was best handled over a drink, nodding along. “I don’t think I’ve ever really had a proper drink but… hey with someone like you looking out for me it might be a good chance to give it a try. Maybe once you get back into your old eating habits we should plan a night out to reeeeeeally catch up hm?~” She teased with an idle smirk, sticking out her tongue to make it extra playful.

When Jaz mentioned she wasn’t doing art anymore, both on a personal level, in that she’d just pretty much dropped a sense of art beyond her cosplay, and also on a more empathetic level of how Jaz likely didn’t want her past experiences crawling into anything she created, Yumi easily understood. Hobbies like that could hold an odd sense of weight especially if you took them seriously which, judging from how good she was, Jaz definitely did. “I get ya, I get ya. Don’t worry about it. I think Miku or… maybe somebody else took over the reigns pretty much, so it’s not like your ‘leaving it behind’ or anything weird like that.” She gave a firm nod and smiled, though her eyes flared a bit as she noticed the scarred skin where once had been tattoos. “O-oh… where they covering the scars or…?” She asked, she may have vaguely remembered Jaz having rougher patches of skin when they’d… ya know. But- “B-but yeah… new leaf. I definitely get that. Truuuuuust me…”

Yumi couldn’t help but blush when Jaz leaned across, as if that alone wasn’t charming enough coming from her. Being called special certainly helped and… oh. Oh fuck. She whined deeply as her already blushing cheeks turned a deep red and she slowly turned her face into the back of her couch, groaning as she was reminded how caught off guard she’d been by Jaz’s… physique. “Uuuuuuuuuugh. Why do you have to remember that. Of all things…” She groaned out into the couch cushioning, shooting her ‘so called friend’ a sharp, blushing glare for reminding her of that specific choice of words her brain had managed to fart out the first time they met.


Still, she managed to drag her face off the couch, nodding along at her following words. “Yeeeah me too. I mean I’m glad I’ve had a bit of growing up… couldn’t remain that naïve little air head forever but… yeah. Definitely havn’t lost what makes me me, as far as I’m concerned.” She grinned right back, jabbing Jaz’s shoulder a little harshly, perhaps a little too used to all the beefy UA kids taking those playful jabs.

“Hey what you got against my boyfriend?~” She’d tease with her own grin as she too rose to her feet, stretching her arms above her head a bit herself. Pizza huh? Probably just an easy excuse to get out of here. Who ordered pizza while they were out somewhere else? Whatever the case she’d start walking Jaz to the door. “Nice to see you too. And…you too. I won’t lie things have been busy enough for stuff to slip my mind but… really. It is great to see you doing well enough to be standing on your own too feet.~” She teased with another smirk and a pull of her tongue. “And yeah… we can hit that place up the moment things settle back down again for you.”

When they got to the door, Yumi would gently hug Jaz around the shoulders, giving her a mild squeeze in her arms and just resting her chin over her shoulder in a way that made their cheeks brush together, Yumi definitely not losing her sense of intimacy in moments of contact like this. “It really is good to see you again, ya badass.~”