On the roof of the dorms, late Monday

[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

Edward is sitting out on the roof of the dorms, staring off into the night and brooding. He's got a cup of coffee and an older, ratty notebook beside him but he doesn't seem to be very interested in either.

[Open to any and all interaction, he prolly needs it.]

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

After his misadventure (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhighdorms/376157.html) earlier, Walter was feeling restless.

He was rather disappointed he and Pippi had failed in setting a record. Maybe next term.

Taking advantage of the fact that Principal Smith had permitted him to keep his wires despite his misbehavior, Walter was using them to do a bit of climbing. He wasn't expecting a young man who bore a strange resemblance to his roommate.

"Oh. Hullo."

[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

Edward looks over in surprise, he hadn't really expected anyone else to be out here. "Hello," he nods at the stranger.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I'm Walter. I'm on the third floor." Hoisting himself up over the edge of the roof, Walter dangled his legs and lit a cigarette. "I didn't expect to find anyone up here."

[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

"It's a good place to come looking for quiet." Edward is quietly amused that was the opposite of what he found. "Plus, you really can't beat the view."

"I'm Edward Elric," he added, almost as an afterthought. "I'm on the second floor." Finally remembering the cup beside him, he picked it up to take a sip.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Elric?" Walter frowned. Alphonse hadn't mentioned having family here, but... "Are you any relation to my roommate, Alphonse Elric?"

[ninja-brat.livejournal.com]

Yuffie was, well... practicing. As a ninja, it behooved her to know the alternative routes around the school. That and she always found finding a way up and around really fun. With an old building like this there was plenty of nooks and cracks for hand-holds or to step on, and she easily found her way up onto the roof.

She seemed to beam with pride for a moment before she noticed she wasn't alone. Her head cocked to the side as she looked at the kid on the roof, her hands on her hips. "Hey there... you okay?"

[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

He started in surprise. A second person, this was unexpected. "Ah. I guess." He kinda shrugged at her.

[ninja-brat.livejournal.com]

Yuffie didn't seem to believe him, but only held her hand out to him. "Well, I'm Yuffie. Yuffie Kisagari. Nice to meet you." Yuffie looked at the other climber, nodding to him with a bit of apperiation of talent.

[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

Edward took the offered hand and shook it gently. "I'm Edward Elric," he said, kind of absently. He resumed staring off at the sky for a long moment, before asking abruptly; "Do you have any brothers or sisters?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

What Walter had expected even less than someone on the roof, was someone coming up in a somewhat similar manner to his own. "Hi. I'm Walter." He stuck out his hand and smiled.

[ninja-brat.livejournal.com]

Yuffie gave Walter a grin and shook his hand. "Yuffie, nice to meet you. And good form." She winked, a huge grin on her face.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Thanks. Yours, too. I'll have to ask you to show me how you do that sometime. I cheat." He winked and smiled broadly to go with that admission.

[sakuracchyan.livejournal.com]

Sakura scowled, wandering outside the dormitories and sitting on the ground. She set her chin in her hands, scowling at her feet. Where the hell had Edward disappeared to, anyway? That whole ordeal in the common room, and he'd just... disappeared. I mean, sure, he was little, but yeesh! People aren't supposed to just do that!

She paused, going still for a moment, when she thought she heard talking coming from somewhere above her. Standing, she looked up at the underside of a roof overhang, eyebrows raised. As good a hiding place as any, she supposed...

A moment later, she had donned her staff and casted Jump on herself, donning tiny wings on her ankles. Tapping her shoes on the ground a moment before making sure she was in a good position to jump and actually land on the roof as planned; she hurtled herself upward, landing easily on the edge of the roof.

Once there, she froze, staring awkwardly at Walter and Yuffie before her eyes settled on the third of the group. She frowned.

"Ed," She sighed, rolling her eyes. "Maybe you did it on purpose, but do you have any idea how hard you are to find when you wander off? Yeesh."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I'm starting to think that Ed didn't take the stairs either. Nobody here gets to the roof the boring way."

[sakuracchyan.livejournal.com]

Sakura turned to Walter and smiled. "Well, considering where we are? I don't thinkg anything is boring." Forgetting herself, she made a face. "...Oh! I'm sorry," She stepped toward him and held out her hand. "Kinomoto Sakura," she stated. "Nice to meet you."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter took her hand, shaking it and inclining his head slightly. "Walter Dornez, the pleasure's mine. That was one of the better entrances I've seen since getting here."

[ninja-brat.livejournal.com]

Yuffie blinked when the new girl *jumped* up here with seemily no problems. She even had little wings on her ankles! She looked the girl over, then leaned over to Walter to mutter. "Our way up here is more fun."

[sakuracchyan.livejournal.com]

Once introducing herself to Walter, Sakura turned with a light smile to Yuffie. "Same for you. Kinomoto Sakura, it's nice to meet you." She offered Yuffie a hand, as well. "Seems the roof is a good little gathering place tonight."

[ninja-brat.livejournal.com]

"Yuffie Kisagari. And duh, getting up here without useing the door is a sign of coolness." Yuffie nodded happily.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter smirked slightly and nodded. "Yeah, but she'd have us beat if the walls were covered in thorns."

[sakuracchyan.livejournal.com]

Sakura raised her eyebrows.

"Maybe you would have been stopped by thorns... but most of the school would take thorns on the walls as a way to keep them off the roof, and would therefore try harder to get onto it." She grinned.

[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

Edward raised both his eyebrows at Sakura's grand entrance. Now that was impressive. "How did you do tha..."

Beat.

"...are you implying that I'm so small I escape everyone's notice?!"

[sakuracchyan.livejournal.com]

Sakura rolled her eyes at him.

"No, I'm implying that when I do something wrong and point you out to people you don't want to be pointed out to, you should inform me of these things before you run off and make me freak out over your absence."

She scowled and called back Jump, tucking it into a small outer pocket of the bag she seemed to always be carrying. She stood there a moment, scowling at him, before -- deciding she didn't care if he wanted to be bothered or not -- circling around to sit on one side of him, a strangely worried look on her face.

[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

"No, you did nothing wrong." Ed shook his head sharply. "I just... I really, really wasn't expecting to see Al here. At all."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Seeing that Ed and Sakura's conversation seemed to be more personal than a brand new acquaintance might get drawn into, Walter gave the two a quick wave goodbye and left the same way he'd come up.

[ooc: Nice to meet both you and Sakura. I'm dead. Gnite.]