Starring Ain't Nice (Luka)

[Luka Kurokawa]

This first idea that the boy listed was quite an interesting one, even if it sounded a little ambitious. She would have the capability to make her own clothing should she wish it. It probably wasn't something she would seriously pursue though. The second idea made Luka ponder for a moment. Gifts, huh? People probably enjoyed getting handmade gifts. Something that came from the heart. Sewing was probably one of the number one ways of obtaining such a gift. I suppose you can make some nice gifts like that. Though, I don't have anyone to give gifts to, I'm afraid. But being able to make clothing for myself sounds like something interesting. She said it quite plainly; as if stating what she had eaten for breakfast that day. It was not odd for her. This girl did not have people she considered friends. Nor did she have someone she could call family for that matter. It had been that way for quite some time. Hence, talking about it didn't seem like an oddity for her.

Finally, the girl eyed the new materials presented to her. She could make the pillow any size she wanted, it seemed. She wasted no time sizing up the pieces, finally choosing a size for the actual product. The boy explained some of the more intricacies of the stitching that would be necessary. He really knew a lot of information about stitching for someone who didn't know how to stitch. Uwah~ You must be pretty smart if you simply know random bits of information like different stitching techniques. Luka would probably have believed him if he told her that he was actually a genius. The ironic part about this was the fact that Luka had some of the best grades in the school. It was those grades that had gotten her here in the first place.

When the two sides of the pillow seemed to match in terms of size, she began the stitching process once again; just enough so that the two pillows were connected. Enough so that she wasn't getting cotton all over. The "double hem" as it was called was actually pretty easy for her. Am I doing it right? I think I got the hang of this one. She held the stitching up a bit as she continued stitching the parts together.

[Tenchi Lui]

”Jus’ need to make some friends then, or sumthin’.” He wasn’t one to talk but if she didn’t have anyone to make gifts for then she just needed to find people she wanted to make gifts for. Actually she could just as easily make things and sell them too if she wanted. She didn’t need to gift them. He could probably sell things too but not as well as his old man was able to do. He made stuff that was fantastic in quality, Tenchi tended to think his own stuff was ‘good’ at most.

”No. Where’d ya think my materials came from? My old man makes things for a livin’.” He shrugged his shoulders. Surely it would have been somewhat obvious since he wouldn’t just have such materials lying around to begin with. Someone had to have a use for it. His old man kept quite a bit of supplies at the house despite having a shop for the stuff. It wasn’t uncommon for his old man to be working from home sometimes.

”Yeah… y’got it. Like I said. This stitching is simple. There’s a lot of other ones available but they take too long to hand stitch. A lot are done on the machine.”

[Luka Kurokawa]

The boy gave a rather simple answer. Simple, in the sense that it was only logical. Unfortunately for Luka though, such an idea was not something that she could do. Making friends was an impossibility. I'm afraid that is out of my capabilities. That is fine though. Making clothing seems interesting enough. She continued to do the stitching along the sides of the pillow until there was only enough room to start stuffing it with cotton. Ah, that would explain how you got all these materials ready so quickly. The boy's father was the stitching expert. That would explain all the lingo the boy knew as well. Had she really stopped by a sewing shop by chance? That was quite the interesting turn of events.

The boy seemed satisfied with her stitching. Was stitching really this simple in practice? Sure, there was fine tuning one's precision when creating such things. But other than the obvious, it didn't seem too hard to get good at. A sewing machine, you say? So most other stitches were done with a machine it seemed. That cleared a bit off of Luka's mind. Whenever she looked at the stitching on one's clothes, she wondered how the patterns on them got to be so intricate. A machine would certainly explain that. I suppose a machine like that would be necessary for larger project then.