Outside the dorms, Sunday Night

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Ranma had finally gotten the punch out of his hair and clothes and when he finished a certain cute beagle was whining at his heels. After leasing Mizu he was walking around outside, paying much more attention to the sky then to what Mizu was doing, or what his own feet were doing. He was only pacing around the dorm at a slow amble, with Mizu doing most of the leading.

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Chad was feeling a little restless, what with the whole moving and meeting new people, and unpacking and getting settled into a new place, and decided to take a nice, thoughful stroll. He wanted to get himself familiar with the grounds at night, too, because he had a feeling he'd be spending a lot of his time out there at that time.

He half-expected others to be out, too. It seemed like a pretty...active student body. But what he didn't expect....

Oh, my God, puppy! Very, very cute puppy, ambling along the path on a leash as he approached. Chad was just about ready to crouch down and pet the living bee-geesus out of the adorable little dog when he realized. Oh, yeah, leash. Dog was being let by an owner. He slowly followed the leash up.

Oh! Chad waved. "Ranma, right?" There was a bit of internal gleeing at the fact that the cute dog belonged to someone he'd met.

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"Hi Chad." He was not as hyper as he was earlier and he give a calm smile. "You like dogs?"

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Chad nodded. "They're okay." But, for being okay, his eyes were definately more on the puppy than on Ranma. "This one yours?" One hand idly drifted toward the dog, and his mind raced with a chant: wanna pet the doggy, wanna pet the doggy, lookit the cute doggy, oh my God.

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"Yeah. His name is Mizu." Ranma lifts his puppy up into his arms from where he'd been sampling Chad's shoelaces. He holds the waggly tailed beagle out to Chad. "Want to hold him?"

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"Yes!" Chad exploded a little there, eagerly, probably the most emphasis he'd put into any of his speech all day. His eyes widened excitedly. But then he coughed and brought himself back down to his usual stoicitity. "Er, I mean, sure. If you don't mind."

When he took Mizu, holding him against his massive chest and happily scratching behind the cute puppy's ears, Chad closed his eyes and smiled a little, an obvious side of contentment. Cute, cute puppppppy, and he was pettting it!

It took a moment for him to remember that, oh, yeah. Ranma was there too. He continued scritching and made idle talk to keep from being too puppy-centric. "'Water,' huh? That's a funny name for a dog."

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Ranma has to smile a bit at the way Chad handles the little beagle. He probably gives that same look when he snuggles Mizu. "I have a water curse." He looks a bit wistful. He might sound a little cryptic, but really he doesn't mean to. He just thinks very disjointedly. "So I thought maybe if I named my favorite thing after my least favorite thing then I could make myself stop hating it.." He looks a little goofy, wondering if it really worked.

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Chad ruminated over Ranma's logic and nodded. "That's pretty clever," he accesses. But he was pretty wistful at the moment because he had a cute puppy in his arms. He was being very carefully not to inadvertently crush the little guy.

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Clever. Now there's a word Ranma's never heard directed at himself. He shrugs though. No need to question a comliment on his intelligence, he needed any he could get. He could ramble more about his curse but he decides that Chad is probably more interested in dogs than he really let on. "Mizu is pretty smart even though he's still a puppy. It's been nice having a friend to come back every day."

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"You mentioned your friend earlier, when you were getting food," Chad noted; small talk was easier for him when he had a puppy to play with. At the moment, he lifted Mizu up and rubbed his sharp, big nose against his little, wet one. And then realized what he was doing, cleared his throat, and cradled the dog again as if, no, he hadn't just did that. Nope, not at all. "You make it sound like this little guy's your only one."

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"Well Mizu never gets mad at me." He laughs a bit.

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"Your other friend does?" Chad frowned a little, but only for a fleeting second, because he had been scratching Mizu's belly and the little pup was trying to gnaw on his fingers. He was dying inside from the cuteness, but all that breeched the exteriour was a rumbling little chuckle.

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"A lot." He smiles. "Not to say she's a bad person. It's probably my fault." He'd never blame anything on Setsuna.

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Ah. She. Chad grunted a little. That explained a lot, but, most importantly, it denoted a problem that Chad knew he wouldn't want to touch with a heavy, ten foot pole. He recalled all the tension and drama between so many of his friend back home, particularly Ichigo, Orihime...He found it best to stay out of situations like that, because he was never involved in situations like that.

Besides. Puppy. Puppies made a lot more sense than girls, anyway. Small talk could wait, unless Ranma decided he wanted to lead the conversation. Or the puppy away for fear of crushing, but Chad hoped not. He liked Mizu.

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There was nothing there.

And then, when no one was looking, there was.

"Hiya!" Schrodinger said. "I was taking a walk and I saw you and thought I'd say hi!"

He noticed the dog and took a step away.

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Ranma notices the cat boy and does almost the same thing. Except he took more than one step. "C-Cat..." Mizu yipped harmlessly, not the fierce type.

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Schrodinger felt his ears. "No, catboy. Homo felinus." He bared his teeth at the dog. "Are you one of the new people or have you been here before?"

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Ranma is too scared to ever really process the question, at the moment he's trying to scale a shear brick wall.

((ooc: Hiii. Nice to meet you. I apologize for his being difficult. He's deathly afraid of cats.))

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"...Are you okay?" Schrodinger asked.

_{[[Oh, I know! Why do you think I showed up? I'm actually also Pip, Alfred, and El Mariachi mun.]]}

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"C-Cat..." Ranma whimpers, unable to climb the wall with poor Mizu in toe, he curls up into a ball and whines.

((Didn't know if you were new or not XD Hiya Pip. Hehe. I totally heart that journal name.))

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Schrodinger tilted his head to the side. "Yes... I am?"

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Ranma curls tighter and tries to work out some words. "I-I'm... s-scared.. of cats..."

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"...Oh. So you wouldn't like it if I got close to you?" Schrodinger asked, doing just that.

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Ranma nearly wailed, but managed to keep it to a choked scream. Mizu was finally starting to see that someone was hurting his master and began to bark loudly at Schrodinger's heels.

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"GAH!" Schrodinger jumped impossibly high, bounced off the wall, and slid across the ground. "Damn dog!"

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Ranma looked up a little teary eyed, still scared out of his mind, but feeling a little more comfortable with Schrodinger farther away. //Mizu heel..// He pulls in the slack of the leash so that Mizu is at his side rather than close to Schrodinger.