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[u][b]Location / Business District - Outside Mr. Freezy's Icy Treats[/b][/u]
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[i]"If my Master should be troubled by the ice cream, I would be delighted to dispose of it for you."[/i]
Chieko reacted by laughing. But it was less a graceful laugh, and more the kind of laughter one makes when they discover they just married their brother who was estranged from the family because he was actually an evil clone. AKA: A shocked laugh that droned on a bit too much. 
[color=00aeef]"I'm fine with vanilla. It's nothing. It's stupid."[/color] She said, glancing away dismissively after the fact. A loud huff making her point clear. 

There was silence for a good minute...
Tick... Tock... Tick... Tock...
[color=00aeef]"Do you promise not to laugh?"[/color] She said, to break the silence more than anything else. It wasn't an order not to laugh, but a plea. As if... [color=00aeef]"It's really stupid... But I've never had vanilla ice cream before." Bombshell. "I know, it's sounds so STUPID! Vanilla's the original flavor! It's one of the most popular? Who hasn't had vanilla? Who hasn't had it with root beer before? Well, cards on the table, [b]not me![/b]"[/color] She was ranting, and in between words she was biting down into her soft cone'd ice cream. She looked at Hanzo now, heart thumping in her chest. It was... [color=00aeef]"I just thought... There might be more to this vanilla, you know? I guess... When you spend thirty years of your life looking at something from a distance, you give it some greater value."[/color]

[color=00aeef]"I hate chocolate... Because it's the only ice cream Atsuko likes."[/color] She said it, and it was out there. [color=00aeef]"I hate chocolate because it's bitter, and tasteless, but most of all... It's because I never had a choice! Whatever Atsuko wanted is what everybody else had to deal with! Some stupid family tradition!"[/color] Her fingers clenched, till the cone cracked between her fingers. 

[color=00aeef]"I hate her! Did you know that until I was 15, I never spoke to a boy? Because Atsuko was the only one allowed to do s-so-s-s-so!"[/color] Her voice finally cracked. Tears streaming down her cheeks and landing on the table. In frustration she took one more bite of her broken ice cream, and tossed the rest into the trashcan nearby. Even when angry she couldn't bring herself to litter. 

[color=00aeef]"I'm sorry... Assassin."[/color] She said, wiping tears with the sleeves of her outfit. [color=00aeef]"Just... I never had a chance to say that to anybody before."[/color] 

She was over five hundred miles away... The other side of the world... And sometimes... She felt free... But she would have to return to her cage. [color=00aeef]"I want to enjoy vanilla ice cream... As long as I can."[/color]