"My client wishes to see your client on the sixth of May, at twenty-one hundred hours, for cocktails and a late dinner." Yanagi glances up from his PDA; he'd only looked at it for appearances sake, already knowing the schedule by heart.
"My client is unfortunately busy until twenty-one fifteen," Inui responds, glancing down at the PDA he holds; like Yanagi, he only needed to glance for appearances. "However, if he is agreeable, that appointment can be shifted down to end at twenty-one hundred. He would be late still, simply not as late."
"I shall talk to my client and see if meeting at twenty-one thirty is acceptable, provided your client can prepare for dinner in thirty minutes."
"I assure you, my client can be ready in that amount of time. We will meet in five minutes to compare notes."
"Of course."
They rise at the same time, without bothering to exchange any pleasantries in parting, and cross to opposite sides of the cafe.
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"Fuji is busy until twenty-one hundred," Yanagi begins, only to be broken by Yukimura's impatient sigh. Another person would find it disturbing, and start again, but Yanagi only smiles, and continues. "Provided he can alter an appointment. The earliest you will be able to meet is twenty-one thirty."
"I hate when you talk in twenty-four hour time," Yukimura tells him, stretching out his legs. "And really, is all of this necessary?"
"You wish to keep up appearances, do you not?" Yanagi asks, and pulls out his PDA, rearranging the time on the appointment. "Or rather, I should say - you wish to keep your schedule running smoothly so you do not miss any."
"Stop scheduling things so close together."
"You'd grow bored if I didn't."
"It's just frustrating when you have to get your manager to schedule a fuck with your boyfriend."
"Ah this will be sex," Yanagi says, and makes a few notations on the PDA. "Tell me how long it lasts so I can adjust your exercise for the next day. And I was not aware that Fuji was your boyfriend. I can get rid of the others now?"
"Renji, you're going to forget everything I just said and go reschedule my date with Fuji."
Yanagi chuckles and replaces the stylus in his PDA. "I shall let you know when you will be able to go out for cocktails and dinner. Eat light that evening, I'll cancel the trainer for the next day."
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"Was your client agreeable to the changes?" Yanagi asks, as he slides into the chair across from Inui. Inui was there first, but only because his client was a phone call away, rather than across the room, demanding attention.
"He says twenty-one thirty is acceptable, but he wants to add that he will be eating heavily that afternoon, and perhaps simple cocktails would be the best."
"My client is eating light that day, so cocktails are fine. However, it should last quite a number of hours."
"That is exactly how my client wishes for it to happen. A number of hours, until say, oh eight hundred the next morning?"
"Oh eight hundred is cutting it close, but it shall work out."
"The last thing my client wishes to know is if cocktails shall happen at the Club Apple or the Hotel Demon?"
"Since the Hotel Demon is currently under renovation, it shall have to be the Club Apple."
"My client will be delighted to hear that. And he adds that he is looking forward to the evening."
"Mine is as well. The next two days shall pass too slowly for him."
"Surely with as many appointments as he has, they will fly by. That is what I assured my client of."
"It is acceptable encouragement. I will relay it back to my client."
"Send my wishes as well. Good evening." Inui inclines his head, as Yanagi does and they stand together, both departing, once again, to opposite sides of the cafe.