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When; March 27, evening until the last party animal goes home.
Rating; I have no idea. I assume it would cap off around R? For language and drunken debauchery. And possible table dancing.
Characters; The staff at any of the City schools, TAs, and anyone cursed and not currently underage.
Summary; There has been a lot of talk about the teachers cutting loose after finals, and I thought it might be cool to have a general post to do it. Start a thread, tag someone else, end up backtagging like mad, whatever sounds fun. While the students are away, the teachers will play, and whatnot.
Log;

It's been an insane week, and Dawn is just ready to take a break from it all. And drink more alcohol than is probably intelligent.

She's one of the first to arrive, and after flashing a smile at one of the bartenders, she gets both an Appletini and help dragging a couple tables together; it makes one corner of the bar into a nice home base of sorts. Then Dawn sits down, puts her feet up on another chair, and starts in on her first drink of the night.

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Wanders in after a while, not entirely sure why he's shown up, he's not big on social gatherings to begin with... but there was a slight draw over the thought of seeing Kamiya Kaoru with a few drinks in her... Granted, there was probably some significant danger as well, but most interesting things had a touch of danger in them, didn't they? And he was fairly sure he'd overheard her talk about going out with the rest of the teachers, so! Here he was!

He'd done what he normally did at the end of the year for his students--gotten the last of their physical tests out of the way a week early and then just let them have free gym periods during finals week. After all, when you were already stressed out about writing a paper the length of War and Peace, who wants to worry about the number of sit-ups they can do inside a minute?

He waves at the people he recognized, making his way to the bar and requesting a bottle of warm sake, pouring a little in a cup and sipping, keeping an eye out for Kaoru.

Naturally, Kaoru was half lost in thought, thinking about the final. Would her students do well? Of course they would! After all, Miss Kaoru Kamiya was teaching them, and she did all she could to instill the seeds of knowledge and success into them! She was confident that her students would prevail!

But.. then again... there was the possibility of the grading curve being put to use. Kaoru hated that. It wasn't something to be used as a crutch, nor something to be used at all! But the school had 'standards to uphold,' and in that respect, her hands were tied.

In the end, she found herself walking into the teacher's party, still thinking about those tests, and not really able to relax yet. It was also that time she saw Mr Himura by the bar, looking calm and collected as usual.

"Good evening, Mr Himura!" She added a pleasant smile to it. "I trust exam week hasn't been terribly stressful on you."

He spotted her coming almost immediately and gave her a friendly wave.

"Saa, we're not at the school, Kaoru-dono. There's no need for formalities," he said smiling before giving a slightly awkward laugh. "And yes... it's all pass or fail--and this one scheduled everything so that they were done last week."

Kaoru couldn't help but smirk. "And yet here you are, tacking on the 'dono' to my name!" She took a seat as she smiled at him. "Well that's good, at least! Less stress on achieving minds is a good thing, after all."

He chuckled, scratching at the back of his head. "At least it's not 'Kamiya-dono'... ne?"

He sobers up a bit, though his eyes are still smiling. "That's what he always thought. He tries to let his classes during this week be a chance to unwind from the stress. He knows most of his students are thankful for it--at least the ones who care."

He nods toward the bartender. "Can this one get you anything?"

She smiled sweetly. He really was charming, in his own way. "Anything? Oh, I have no idea. I really have no constitution for alcohol."

"Sou ka," he smiled gently back. "You don't have to drink something alcoholic." Yes, that flew in the face wanting to see her drunk... but he was still a gentleman, after all.

He waved the bartender over. "Well, you can always try something and if you don't like it we'll get something else." He turns to the bartender. "This one would like to buy the lady a drink..." pauses a moment. "Ah... whatever you think would be good."

Already the bartender was mixing up a drink, nodding companionably. "That's right, Miss. If you don't like it, you don't have to drink it. But it would be a damn shame if you wasted it."

Kaoru blinked, watching the bartender push the tall glass to her. "It's all... milky."

He didn't particularly care for the bartender's commentary... Kaoru was the type of person who would probably just drink it whether she wanted to or not if someone said something like that to her...

He raised a brow at the drink itself as well. He motioned at it. "What is that one?"

"Called a 'time bomb.' Very smooth, I'm sure you'll enjoy it." He winks at Kenshin and migrates to the other end of the bar.

Kaoru still looked at the drink and finally curled her fingers around it, bringing it to her lips for a drink.

His lips press a little bit at that wink... suddenly wondering just how much alcohol had been put into that thing...

...

Maybe he should have just offered her some of his own sake...

He watched Kaoru move to take a sip, letting the suspicious look fall away to a curious one. "Is it any good?"

"Yes!" She was surprised! It was good, and warming, all without that bitterness of booze. "It's like tea, Kenshin." And Kaoru was more than happy to take a larger sip.

"Sou ka," smiles seeing the reaction.

"How did your finals go today?"

It took a moment for her to stop sipping at that drink and pay attention to the question. "Ah... Well. I hope my students did well. They didn't seem overly worried about it. As long as I don't have to do a grade curve, I can be satisfied with their effort."

He pours himself another small cup of sake, sipping it while listening to her. "He hopes that's the case then."

"So how did your students fair?" She smiled sweetly, leaning a little close to the bar as she nursed her drink.. a bit quickly, actually. "Was there much dodgeball?"

He chuckled, finishing off that cup of sake. "Saa... he only had a handful out of all his classes that he had to fail... and he isn't sure what else he could have done to not fail them." He got a slightly irritated look at that. "After all, they just need to participate, not even perform well..." He let out a distinct 'mou' before changing the subject instead to 'dodgeball'.

"Actually... there was," he laughed a little. "And he is always amazed at just how violent the boys manage to make it."

She had to giggle at that. "At least they're playing with balls and not weapons, then!"

"Sometimes he thinks they could be used as weapons..."

For some reason, she thought that was the funniest thing and started giggling all the more.

He raised a brow. It wasn't that funny... was it? He smirked slightly laughing a little himself before eying her drink.

She was... a giggly drunk apparently...

Maybe she should take some more of her drink. Yes. That's a good idea. It would keep her from laughing all over the place. So Kaoru drank more, watching the gym teacher playfully and then set the glass down on the bar.

"So did you ever have to retaliate?" Of course, she started to sputter then as well, the thought of the older man pelting the kids with dodgeballs hiliarious.

"Saa, they don't throw the balls at him, just at each other." He got a bit of a goofy look on his face then, pouring some more sake. And actually he was on the receiving end occasionally... but he was pretty good at dodging himself.

She does remember hearing these stories about him in class! And it makes her start giggling again, her eyes fluttering slightly as she watched him. "And you don't get caught in the crossfire? Ever?"

Stories? What stories? There are no stories! (Ok, maybe a few.)

He took another sip of his sake, glancing away, trying to hide a slightly smug look. "Maybe once in a while."

He glanced back at her through the corner of his eye, taking another sip and starting to feel a little warm himself.

Lol, the phys-ed teacher makes an appearance!

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