There were days where business had to be taken care of because it was necessary and had to be done. This just happened to be one of those days for the oldest of the Mukamis. It was not always often for him to be at the shopping center unless he had to be there for himself and his brothers. Usually while at the shopping center, Ruki's purpose on being there would be having to get anything garden related for his younger brother, Yuma or if there wasn't any vegetables left. Most of the things his other brother, Kou would need, he would bring him along since Kou knew exactly what he wanted and Ruki didn't need to hear his whines if he had gotten the wrong item. As for the youngest, Azusa...it mostly dealt with knives which leads to sometimes a messy result and also spices which seemed almost unnecessary.

While here, Ruki went to collect some school supplies he needed for an upcoming school project. Better to get it done than never, correct? He mostly needed notebook paper and books for sources. The project was fairly simple and he knew he would be done in no time by the time he got what he needed. Though he found it rather annoying that he needed to buy sources for this project since it seemed rather a waste and he didn't have anything that was relatable to the project.

Arriving to the aisle where most of the school supplies were located, the male vampire scanned through with his eyes to find what he needed, he didn't pay much to anyone who was also there until suddenly he was bumped into by a blonde female. A bit irritated but still kept the calm look on his face, Ruki eyed on the female to take a complete glimpse of her. She stepped aside and apologized to him, though it didn't sound like she was sincere about it much to the elder Mukami's concern. Ruki just glared at her, he sensed that something wasn't exactly human about her but he didn't give it a lot of thought.

"If you're going to be disrespectful about it with that tone of yours, then don't apologize unless you truly mean it." Ruki responded, assuming she wasn't true to her apology, "Next time focus on your surroundings before making a move." Despite the calm sounding of voice, he was very blunt and cold on his wording.

As usual, there was always that same reaction of offense from others every time Ruki had 'lectured' them and it never bothered him at all since most actually learn from it, thus, proving his point that they shouldn't exactly be all that offended. This woman's logic was rather odd, she first took an offense to it, then tried justifying herself and suddenly, thanked him, afterwards. It was almost confusing at that point.

The elder Mukami just made a glance at her with his piercing blue-grey eyes, "You speak as if you were insulted by my words but yet you thank me for the suggestion." He spoke in rather a monotone, "You just made your act of offense empty and thus, proven that my commentary was necessary." He narrowed his eyes at her and then turned his face away, continuing to skim on through the aisle to search for what he needed, "If you were truly offended, you wouldn't have thanked me but it is shown that you didn't seem that way." He added more to his sentence.

While looking through the school supplies, Ruki heard the blonde's suggestion for him about him commenting by assumption. The audacity that she had, thinking she can have any right to just tell him what he should or shouldn't do. Admittedly, it was rather bold of her but of course, the vampire wouldn't let his pride down by just a few mere words from someone who tried to act as superior as him, "I do not need to take your suggestions as an adjustment for myself. I could honestly care less about it as your words mean nothing to me." He responded, not looking at her but instead, looking on through the supplies. He finally found the stacks of notebook paper that he needed, grabbing them and placed the stacks between his side and right arm.

The dark haired Mukami heard the woman tell him. "Then why make a suggestion in the first place?" He asked, getting fairly annoyed with the blonde's attitude towards him, "You could've saved yourself some time by just keeping your mouth shut yet you decided to waste both of our times by not saving your breath. Unless you're the kind that likes to suggest things and not be sincere about it." He took another glance at the female, she didn't seem to look at all familiar as being a student in Ryoutei Academy but then again, Ruki never exactly paid attention to any student at his school unless it was his brothers, Yui Komori or even the problematic purebloods of the Sakamaki family. The blonde couldn't be a middle schooler since she didn't look all that young. Possibly a college student? It shouldn't even matter since he didn't even know this person at all and already she just has an atrocious personality in his opinion.

He got what he needed and heard the girl passing by him, giving him a very rude farewell. She had the right to be mad since he did after all offend her but that didn't occur to Ruki and he didn't care if she was offended or not about his words. He believed he was right on what he said and that was final. Before she completely walked away from the elder Mukami, Ruki spoke again, "To be frank, you have wasted most of your time. You did all of that by speaking more to me and had you taken my word, you probably would have gotten what you needed and left a while ago."

Goodness, no matter how many times Ruki had said something to this woman, she'd say something back despite him telling her that she was wasting both of their times with her justifications that sounded insincere due to that coldness tone in her voice. Was she doing this intentionally to irritate him or just trying to take the final word? Admittedly, he saw that she was basically like him; calm speaking but had the rather assertive tone in the voice. Was she filled with pride herself? It bothered him to even think about that; someone who attempted to meet up or be higher than his standards. It almost made him feel attempted to just take her here quickly while no one was nearby and feed on her but that wasn't Ruki at all. He had his restraints and knew to take responsibility.

Another thing he realized just by the scent of this woman was that she didn't seem at all human, or at least she was human but not fully if that made any sense. She had also the scent of a vampire but it was mixed in with the average human's scent. Was she...half-human and half-vampire? Was that even possible? Then again, it came to his mind that it was possible for a human to be turned to a vampire like him, for example so it should be possible for someone to be a dhampir, half mortal and half immortal. It shouldn't matter to the elder Mukami, he didn't know anything about this woman except that she was such a nuisance, it was ridiculous.

Once again, she spoke back to him before taking her leave completely. Ruki eyed on the blonde dhampir and a tiny smirk began to form on his lips. "You know, you could've simply just ignored me and left to continue on with whatever plans you have." He began to walk towards her only to pass beside her but stopped for a temporary moment as his face went near her ear, speaking quietly to her, coolly, "Yet, you made the choice to continue speaking with me. You are proving my point on wasting your own time, again. You're quite simple-minded." He pulled himself away, the default look on his face formed back, "If you're going to leave, then just do so. Don't speak to me about it."

The woman went on ahead to the cashier before Ruki could go forth. He already got what he needed and went to the direction she was heading. It seemed like he was following her but all the cashiers were in that direction.

Noticing that the woman didn’t answer back as usual, Ruki felt accomplished as he knew she couldn’t say anything in return to irritate him. The argument died and he had taken the final word against her. She was more or less irritated herself and he didn’t care since he didn’t let his pride down. He did notice the redness in her face, (“What a lewd woman.”) he thought. Did his words when he was up close to her spike up the face of arousal? Was this the reason why she couldn’t say something back at him?

She left before he could say anything more to her but she still left off that scent. Despite that it was both a human and a vampire’s mixed in, the dhampir’s scent was almost intoxicating to the Mukami. The thought about trying out the blood of a dhampir almost seemed tempting to him but he restrained for himself as he knew better than to just take the woman right here and now. He knew everything about self-control however, that didn’t mean he wouldn’t mind tempting her if they were ever to meet again even though she was still a nuisance.

The Mukami went to look for the shortest line or at least an empty spot throughout the queue of cashiers but to no avail. Every booth had around three or four people in each line. His patience was beginning to thin until by his luck, there was one booth that had a line of two people. He walked to the shortest line only to see that the second person behind the former happened to be the dhampir much to his exasperation. He had no choice but to go behind her and wait for the first person to finish up paying while more of his forbearance was fading away. He noticed that the woman’s vexation increased and broke the silence between them, “Do not think that I’m following you, you are no concern of mine and this just so happened to be coincidental and unintentional.”

As if he wanted this to happen either. If anything, this was the last thing Ruki wanted to happen. He believed this was all just coincidental, to be in line with a woman who had a bit of a sharp tongue on her. Albeit, he'd admit for someone like her to have the audacity to come off to him with her own ammo of words for her own defense was rather impressive, he wasn't going to allow it however. Ruki was not the kind of person that would show weakness or back down on his words and if he was going to be in a situation like he was for these past couple of minutes, he was going to make his word final, whether the opponent liked it or not.

The blonde female had her own beliefs and they were different from the Mukami's since she believed that there was a sense of suspicion going on. Was the dhampir that paranoid or was there another reason why she felt rather cautious towards him? Or is she trying to give him some sort of signal? She wasn't even looking at him in the eyes or just looking at him in general. This time, she was facing away from him, waiting in line to be next to pay to the cashier. Was she hiding something? Perhaps a reddened face that she was too ashamed to reveal to him? Maybe even the expression of fear that she was going to lose again to him. The vampire somewhat found this amusing, he nearly could smirk but the default face expression he had on remained and never changed.

He gave out a sigh, "For you to feel that sort of way, do you honestly believe that I would want anything to do with someone who is so insincere as you?" He asked, a very modulated tone in his voice but still cold with his words, "How audacious, do not think of yourself as exceptional all because you have spoken with me, gaining my little attention towards you. This was no more than sheer coincidence and once I leave, I'll be more than happy that I will not see such a nuisance as you again in my presence." He added.

It almost felt as though time was going slower by the minute. Ruki’s patience began to thin and his irritation only grew worse for the fact that he had to wait beside the dhampir. It’s true that he didn’t ask for this nonsense but was this really all that necessary? He stayed honest about this, did he not? Albeit, very blunt but it was still true about what he said to the blonde woman, no matter how she’s going to look at it, it was all just a coincidence for him to be standing next to her to pay what he has.

Once it was the woman’s turn to pay, he could tell immediately, just by seeing a little bit of her face that her once pallid cheeks had reddened. It was then that she still attempted to be on the defence and called him a jerk though she muttered it out as if she didn’t want him to hear it. However, she suddenly added in a calm voice that it was by no guarantee that he would do nothing to her. Was that supposed to signify him? Were Ruki’s morals less restrained he would, with haste, make a rather vile action towards her even if they were in front of the cashier but he was nowhere near that sort of man, nor will he ever be. He said nothing towards that but kept it in mind.

He found it quite pathetic that she couldn’t call him anything else but a “headache”. Was that the best she could think of? For someone, who tried to act so intellectual or someone of high standards, like the Mukami, it was downright weak. “Given to how you refer to me as a headache,” The vampire responded, “Allow me to say that I only speak the truth and from what it looks like, you seem like one who can’t take criticism very well. Perhaps if you were to have a stronger skin and understood my words as more of a correction, you wouldn’t be taking this rather harsh.”

Before the dhampir left the line after finishing her payment, Ruki once again went up to her ear. His voice dropped into a whisper and he remarked about her comment earlier, “Whatever your thoughts are on what I would supposedly do to you, given by your redden cheeks. I suppose that these actions are rather foul. Such a lewd woman, you are.” He slightly pulled away, “However, I will not make such actions towards you, I don’t have time for ones who are by far mediocre.” And he left it as that while he went to finish paying the cashier.

Once he finished paying, the blonde had not left, yet and made another comment on leaving her be. Once he passed by her but took a different direction than where she’s going, without looking towards her, he responded with, “I do not take orders from mediocre women like you, nor ones who think they are of high standards as I am. As I’ve already said before, I was by no means following you, where we stood was all coincidental and with that, I’ll be taking my leave.”