Unfortunately for Hideaki, he had arrived late to the increasingly nonsensical gathering and missed all the good stuff. Damn. But with that said, he probably wouldn't have been able to make neither head nor tail of most of the terminology indicating 'yes-we-are-totally-criminals-planning-to-do-criminal-things' being dropped left and right, anyway. So perhaps that 'unfortunately for Hideaki' should have had an addendum of 'but fortunately for his mind'. Either way, it was inconvenient for him to not have been able to get the tidbits of information from the careless speech of the gathered few, like the hints as to the ulterior motive of this assembly, the [i]interesting[/i] organizational status of the amassed individuals, and even the very real hype over the baby clad in crimson changshan. 

Yeah, he didn't get it either. 

But anyway, as if some cosmic force had willed it, he [i]had[/i] managed to arrive precisely when Asuka was acting infantile with the infant. Man, Hideaki was a really inconvenient person like that, wasn't he? However, while there were he [i]wanted[/i] to say on the topic of Asuka and babies, he was unable to. After all, there were people here, which meant he was supposed to be 'happy-go-lucky Hide', not '200% asshole Hide'. That 'privilege' was reserved was reserved for his strikethrough internal monologue and making fun of Asuka later.

[s]...Speaking of which, what was Hide doing with that cellphone, anyway?[/s]

Once he had done what he needed to do, Hide surveyed the shrine area, taking note of all the people there. Gathered here was an assortment of faces, each drawn by the curious firework that no one else could see. Most of the people here were familiar to the middle school student, if only in passing in some cases. Still, he wouldn't just chalk this whole thing up to coincidence. He directed his attention towards the two unknowns. Apart from the baby, however, the only unfamiliar face was-

[i]'[color=bc8dbf]Wait... Is that...? It can't be...[/color]'[/i]

[i]FLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAIL-[/i]

Ahem.

This was now something within the purview of his interests.

([s]Maybe he should not have played so much MGQ[/s])

Continue.