[center][h1][color=39b54a][b]Hakuro Kuroda[/b][/color][/h1][/center]

[center][color=39b54a][b]Mentionings:[/b][/color] [@PrankFox][/center]

Kenzan's reaction was priceless, leaving the hatted youth snickering a little as the question was asked.

[color=39b54a]"Come on.  Not while you're listening to music.  D'you know how many people hate that?"[/color]

A little thing about the Hatto-san: He lives in a world that both pushes the boundaries, but remains respectable at the same time.  It was a trait that most people couldn't hate, because he was not harmful by nature.  So, for instance, he was one who collected alot of information.  He knew things about a number of students in this school.  Mainly, it was habits and background blurbs that he could either corroborate himself through observations or hear from another whose statement - whether they knew he was around to hear it or not - would confirm it as true.  Thus, there were a number of things he knew about people that he could rattle off with ease, such as...

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Ebina Hoshiko is good-natured and kind, as well as a lover of baseball caps, but all of this is offset by the falaity that is her grades.
Munehisa Nara will defend your cause to the hilt if the cause is just, and he seems to enjoy art, or at least drawing quite a bit.
[i][b]Sakai Kenzan is distant and doesn't like to be disturbed, yet he isn't anti-social per se, just not particularly social by nature.[/b][/i]
Chen Akio doesn't talk much, and he seems to be observing people around him alot, so he may be figuring out how to approach them.
Saboru Masashi is the kendo master, not just be practice, but in philosophy, going through life as the proverbial samurai of old.
Tanimoto Akira is very [b][i][color=ec008c]PINK[/color][/i][/b], and I'm not sure why, but she seems a nice enough person.
Nakano Nagi is not to be written about, because if she's reading this right now, I know you'd force me to eat my hat if I did.
Shirasawa Asumi claims that she can be 'too much' at times.  She means overwhelming with her personality.  It happens, sometimes.

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And to that end, it allows Hakuro to get away with a minor tease involving not bothering Kenzan in the usual way, because he hates talking to people when he's listening to music.  You learn something about people, you have an 'in' with them, some means to break the ice and converse with them like normal.  Hakuro [i]himself[/i] wasn't normal, and Kenzan really knew that because they were in the same class, but because he was never so outlandishly addressed by anyone, he has to ask the why.  Putting away the notepad, the hat-and-coat stepped on over to the doors, which had people walking in and out of it, inspecting the storm before he turned back to Kenzan.

[color=39b54a]"There's only one way to do this, and that's at the speed of GO.  The question is, 'Go where?', though.  I've an inkling for the curio shop, myself, but given the storm, you might want the bookstore.  I was out on a day like this over there, and they like to offer the use of a towel in case of heavy rain.  Protects the books."[/color]

He wasn't sure if anyone else knew what he tended to pick up in the time he's lived in this town.  Some things were known while others were not.  Kenzan might never have gone to the bookstore in the rain, after all.  Maybe he didn't know.  Hakuro liked to know what people knew anyway, so a test here and there never hurt to find out.  And yes, that IS part of why he might be showing off a little.