Day 35: Twin Pines Restaurant

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Artemis walked into the restaurant and glanced around at the decor. He wasn't impressed, but he wasn't disdainful either. He simply smiled. It was nice... for a town with a population of barely three hundred.

The boy smiled up at the person up front. "Two, if you please."

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When they finally got to the restaurant, Kenshin beamed at the young woman out front. She looked nothing like Tae or Tsubame, but she was working the same job and greeting the same people as the two girls back home. Perhaps the more things changed, the more they really did stay the same. People were the same wherever you went.

"Two please," he said brightly.

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Sanosuke had to wonder at the woman standing there, something that seemed so out of place just because it was familiar. Looked like the future finally had something in common with the past. Or something. Sano wasn't going to exactly spend too much time thinking about it or staring or anything. Besides, the woman was already leading them inside.

By the time they had been seated, Sano decided that things here were better than the cafeteria in the hospital, but still not Akebeko. It definitely smelled better than that other place though.

"And sure it matters what you say. I only smack you when you say something really dumb." Sanosuke grinned across the table to his friend, then looked around. "You think they might have sukiyaki here?" It was a long shot, but man, Sano would be much happier if they did.

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"You can ask," Kenshin replied, thumbing through the menu and marveling at how it all seemed to be in Japanese, "but this one seriously doubts it. Do you know what a 'meat...loaf' is?"

Probably not...but, like Kenshin had said, there was no harm in asking.

What had he ordered last time? It hadn't been that bad. It hadn't been the "meat loaf"--of that the rurouni was certain. "You got an idea what you want to get, Sano?" Besides sukiyaki.

"Ah, miss?" Kenshin called over to the waitress, politely. "Please pardon the question, but what's a...stro-gan-off?"

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Sanosuke seriously doubted it too, but come on. It was hot pot, and he had a coupon! Kenshin was just too damn out of it if he hadn't thought of asking himself. But no, the rurouni started talking about all the other weird dishes with the waitress. Sano wasn't paying too much attention as the woman prattled on, mostly because he decided to check out the menu to make sure the words "orange" and "rice" didn't appear anywhere close to each other.

"Hey, look Kenshin. They have fish tempura. Or something." They didn't call it fish tempura, but coated and fried sounded like fish tempura. About the closest thing to home he saw, at least until he came to another section.

"Kenshin!" With more urgency and certainly more delight, Sanosuke turned his menu so Kenshin could see. "They have beef stew, and it even comes with rice! Hell, who would've thought they had something Japanese here!"

Finally! Sanosuke was so damn happy over the idea that he smiled brightly up at the woman. "I'm getting beef stew. And if my friend has any sense, he'll get one too."