Harry looked at him for a moment in a mixture of guilt and embarrassment, before turning to the phone. Peter politely waited for the phone call, obviously to Mary Jane, finish.
"Incredible? What do you mean incredible?" Harry asked Mary Jane, drawing a bit of a self-indulgent smile from Peter behind him. "Listen, I could come over and take you out somewhere, buy you something. Because I like to buy you things. It'll make you feel better. Yeah, yeah. All right. I'll see you at that party then, and I'll be sure to thank her. And what do you mean incredible?"
The phone conversation ended and Harry looked to Peter, still embarrassed.
"I'm sorry, I didn't want you to find out this way," Harry said. "It's just, you never made a move."
"You're right," Peter said idly. "I never did."
Harry decided he'd had enough at that point and changed the topic.
"What the hell was that thing?" Harry asked.
"I don't know," Peter said, thinking back to the maniac that had crashed the party. "But whatever it was, someone has to stop it."
Peter was wondering just how that could be done when he considered something else.
"What were you talking about, a party and thanking someone?" he asked.
"There's some new girl in my old neighborhood holding a party a couple of days from now," Harry said off-handedly.
"Kodachi Kuno?" Peter asked, a little surprised, though on second thought, he didn't know why he should be. Harry was, after all, in the class of people that were being invited to this little shindig.
"You know her?" Harry asked.
"Never met her," Peter said. "But she wants a photographer for this party, and Jameson wants me to do it."
"Oh," Harry said. "Anyway, she apparently pulled me inside when I got knocked unconscious."
"Was she the Japanese girl on the balcony?" Peter asked.
"I guess so," Harry said, shrugging. "I can't say I noticed her."
Peter considered the information with the possibility of a second spider. If she were from Japan, however, that was very unlikely. How would a spider from New York get that far?
*****
"I'm settled in fine over here," Kodachi said. "How are events proceeding back home?"
Kodachi paused a moment to listen to the response.
"Nothing has changed then," Kodachi said with a sigh. "I suppose I could not expect much to in so short a time. I suppose we're all too young no to know better."
There was another pause and Kodachi took a sip of her tea as she sat in the dim room of her study.
"My maturation was not what one would call natural," Kodachi answered the unheard side of the conversation. "How about...her?"
Kodachi stood up straight, setting down her tea and looked disturbed for a moment.
"She'll be laying a plan of some sort," Kodachi warned. "No, there's nothing here she wants. She wants the same thing the rest of us do, Ranma. I'll keep my eyes open regardless."
Kodachi sat back down and cautiously tuck another sip from her tea.
"No, things are quite boring here," Kodachi said. "There was a little excitement the other day, I'll admit, but it is likely no where near as bad as the Tokyo papers made it out to be."
*****
Several thousand feet above the Pacific, a girl sat patiently in her first class seat. A smirking smile sat on her face as she twisted a black-petaled rose under her nose.
Read the comments on this episode
See other episodes by Thrythlind
(Posted Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:04)
Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de
or use the contact form.
らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.