You Serious- Yes I am being serious. Look I see where you're coming from and I love Popuri to death. It's hard to see from the way I portrayed her here. Besides Elli, she's my favorite girl in the whole series. She's so cute and adorable it hurts. Her and Kai are the only characters I allow to get married besides nearly all the couples in HM 64 and occasionally Gray and Mary
You don't like the way I wrote Popuri which is fine. It's your opinion and I respect that. I'll write her my way and you write her your way. After all, this is FAN FICTION. Characters are bound to be out of character a lot of the time. Perhaps I should have put an OOC warning. Even then, I'm sure you'd say the same thing anyways. And no it isn't hard, but I chose not to. I'll do what I please in this story, thanks. You're free to try and change my mind, but I like my story the way it is thanks.
Kai was outside kicking a can when he saw the blonde woman making her way to the beach. Kai quickly went to catch up to her. "Hey! Miss!"
"Who me?" asked the young woman turning around.
"Yeah." said Kai as she stopped walking. "I was wondering when I'd see you again."
"To be honest, I was hoping I wouldn't." confessed the blonde adjusting her overall strap.
"Oh?"
"I hear Popuri's not too keen on letting another girl near you." she said looking around nervously. "I'd better go..."
"Wait!" he grabbed her wrist. "Could you at least tell me your name?"
"It's Claire! Gotta go!" she quickly slipped out of his grasp and left. So her name was Claire, huh? Well it was a start. Claire suddenly came back to the beach, picked the purple grass that grew on the beach, and left again. That was kind of odd. Hm.
Kai went into his restaurant and watched the out of town workers going at it. Gotz had thrown his back out during the first day on the job and couldn't get back to it anytime soon according to the doctor. Gotz of course had been insulted when Kai called in out of town carpenters and let him know about it in a strongly worded letter. Kai of course didn't care about this fact that this pissed off the carpenter. By the time he got better, it was time for him to leave the village. Hell at this rate, he might be stuck here with all the repairs needed doing. He was pretty bored so he went off to the inn to hang out with Gray.
He was happy that Gray agreed that Rick needed to loosen up some with Popuri. "It's amazing she doesn't attack him for always snapping at you. I mean she did attack Mary and they're pretty close from what I've seen."
"Popuri doesn't care." Kai shrugged as he took a drink of water. "The only ones who can control her is her mother and just barely."
"Yeah, Lillia doesn't go out too often." said the blonde man. "She can't keep Popuri on a leash for too long and Rick couldn't if he tried. I wonder how their dad would handle it."
"It's no use to bring him up." Rod, Lillia's husband and father of her children, had gone off searching for a rare flower to cure his ailing wife. Kai had never seen him and neither had Gray. From what they had heard, he hadn't been in the village for years and left behind his wife and children only occasionally writing them. Even if Kai was able to contact him, he doubted he'd come back and handle Popuri.
"So what are you going to do?"
"I have no idea." he sighed. "I can't date Mary because of what happened and another girl I'm interested in...well she won't talk to me because of Popuri. I doubt any girl in this town will look my way anymore."
"Well you are a good looking guy. Who couldn't resist you?" Gray suddenly realized what he said. "I-I mean...I didn't mean it like that! I just uh..."
"It's okay Gray." laughed Kai. "If it helps, you're pretty cute too."
Gray just blushed as he adjusted his hat.
"You know you should go out and find yourself a girl too." said Kai.
"I dunno." said Gray. "I don't date often and it's been a while. I haven't gone on a date since the city..."
"Gray, you just gave me a great idea!" said Kai.
"What?"
"I could disguise myself as a friend of your's from the city!" said Kai grinning. "That way I can get a girlfriend and Popuri won't know until it's too late!"
"That is pretty smart!" said Gray.
"'I know right? Now all I have to do is get some different clothes on." said Kai. "This town doesn't have a clothing store so I guess I'm going to have to do some online shopping for a new look."
Gray and Kai then discussed what type of disguise Kai should get after paying their bill and going back into their room. Kai was enthusiastic about his plan and was happy he had thought of it. Now to perfectly execute his plan and pray that it worked. Hopefully this plan was as full proofed as he hoped. With Gray's help, he'd finally get a date! Maybe even with that beautiful woman Claire.