Koga's stomach was rumbling, He had already trained twice today. once with Cs and once down at the sword dojo, that Kaz had turned him onto...it was fun explaining that he had a reason to be carrying swords on a bus...Eventually he learned to keep them in a case, so there were less questions, though he still answered honestly when someone asked him what he had on him. But swords on a bus was not what brought him to the kitchen. his stomach was and more so it was a hope that the fridge(s) had culture today and there was stuff to make sushi with. Sadly there was not...he was going to have to invest in a min fridge. So He was simply going to have to break into his money he earned doing yard work for the neighbors. it was Sushi time... and sushi time could not be ignored!

He picked up the phone off the wall and dialed a local Japanese cuisine place by the name of Taste of Osaka. It struck him as odd, that they claimed Osaka so proudly but that was only because he heard the stereo type of Osaka was about the equivalent of saying someone was a hill billy in the states.

He put in a huge order for Sushi as he felt the need to share and insure that he had enough to share and enough to stuff himself with. It would be thirty minutes, that was one of the great things about living in a mansion, the delivery person loved bringing stuff to the zip code, in hopes of a big tip. which he or she would get so long as they were on time.

Ryuichi Koga then called security just to give them a heads up that he had sushi on the way.after that he calmly started brewing a large pitcher of jasmine tea.

A new past time of Nika's was listening in on the security radios. While it was easy enough for her to just get a radio and listen she got more of a rush out of using her keen hearing and literally listen in on the chatter. Finding a spot close enough to listen from while not being seen was always fun. Most times it was just boring talk about what they did on their time off and how their familes are driving them nuts, but once in awhile something sparked a little interest. This time someone had mentioned a delivery of sushi. Had Shin ordered sushi from his friend? Maybe he wanted the catgirl to taste some new things.

Patiently Nika waited for the food delivery. She would then follow it inside to see what Shin might be wanting to share.

The wind blew as the leaves in the tree or what was left of them swayed back and forth with the branches, most of the students were inside but Carrick wasn’t most people. The wind of fall never bothered him in fact he loved it. As the clouds above head moved by quickly Carrick’s tail wrapped around a branch his wings hung down loosely the branch he was laying on swayed with the wind. The branch he was on let out a small moan as he sat up right to greet a pair of friendly sparrows that hadn’t left yet for winter.

Watching the birds land on the branches just out of arms reach thinking they were safe. Carrick’s stomach let out a small groan hoping that the birds that were foolish enough to and inches away from him would become a small snack for the Gryphon. Shaking his head as his tail unwrapped the branch he was sitting on, Carrick’s eyes trailed to the main gate as a large van with Japanese cuisine on the sign entered the drive and came closer to the main door. ”Human food works too…” Carrick said simply as he put his hand on his stomach.

He was after all at a school for kids and money wasn’t tight as it was for him when he was living on his own dime at the circus so instead of picking up any stray animal that had the misfortune of running into him in his shifted form Carrick now had the option of eating food that society had deemed acceptable. Raccoons were unfortunately not apart of this menu but from the looks of it fish was, and from the looks of it lots of fish.

Mouth watering slightly Carrick rolled from the branch and extended his wings as he broke into a small flight that took him to the main entrance. Not greeting the men carrying the food Carrick decided to enter the mansion following the men down the hall his wings tucking themselves up tight as his tail swayed out behind him.

Koga grinned as the two men came walking back to the kitchen, with only a bit of concern on their faces...He took it that they hadn't been to the school yet and judging by the winged young man and the catty young woman following them, they had seen some interesting people already. He turned the color of the kitchen counter just before waving to the gentle men holding the four Large trays of sushi. "Hi Fellassss." Koga took out a card and ran it through their little hand held credit machine. They looked at him skeptically, knowing just how much he was spending. When he added their tip, they went for skeptical to hopeful. After paying he was again thankful for the ridiculous tipping generosity of their neighbors, that meant if he did a good job and showed up on time, that he would be able to afford to do this sort of thing.

"I appressciate, you bringing it out so fassst. Jussst on the counter will do. Ssshould I walk you out?" after a short no thanks he gave them directions just in case. " its just right down the hall to the left, that'll take you to the front and the drive."

He grinned at the pair of Teens that lingered after the men had left. "Hi, I'm Ryuichi Koga, I hope you guysss like sssussshi, cause there issss no way I am finishing it all on my own." He popped one of the trays open and reached into a bag of disposable chop sticks, He then went for a stack of colorful plastic plates and set it next to the bag.

"Help yourselvesss!"

Following the men carring the aroma filled trays lead Nika to the kitchen. There was where she found a bit of a surprise. Instead of Shin there was someone else. Another boy she had never seen before stood in the kitchen.

Another person joined the small gathering shotly after Nika. This person didn't look like most of the "normal" looking kids in the mansion. No, his mutation was much more visible just as her own. He was shorter than everyone in the room, and looked part bird with his huge wings.

Nika's attention was taken by the first boy she saw as he spoke up, but when the girl looked in his direction the boy had changed colors. That was a pretty cool trick. Nika began wondering just how many colors the boy could change to and if he could make patterns. Again her attention snapped back to the color changing boy as he greeted Nika and the winged male and invited them to join him to eat as he opened one of the trays.

Nika spoke up shyly.

"Umm...my name is Nika. It's nice to meet you."

She looked at the two boys and smiled while waiting for a moment to allow the winged boy to speak.

Nika looked at the servings. Some were more colorful than others while still others had small pieces of fish layed over their tops. They all smelled interestingly good. Nika watched as Ryuichi picked up a pair of sticks and began using them to pick up the sushi.

"Excuse me, but what are those?"

Nika pointed at the sticks in question.

As the trays of food were set Carrick eyed the color-changing boy and blinked. He was far larger than himself both in the height and width department. He had always been on the runty side but like his father and brother before him he was expecting a growth spurt that would put him on the larger side, hopefully just height wise.

Turning his attention to the woman that entered shortly after he arrived or before he arrived he frowned slightly at her ears on the side of her head. ‘Cat!’ screamed Carrick’s mind as his eyes trailed down to her tail white tail. She was tall and with her white hair she stood out but what caught his attention were her eyes, which he only looked at for a moment before shifting his gaze his own tail twitching low behind him as his wings shifted behind his back.

”Name’s Carrick” he said simply as his accent covered his name. Turning his attention to the spread of food Carrick nodded his head slightly in the direction of Ryuichi, ”Thanks, was going to go hunting but then I spotted the food coming in so it saves me the trouble of scouring the grounds.”

Walking over to the area where the plates and sticks were located Carrick eyed the food before answering the Cat woman, who suddenly reminded him a lot of Sara, ”Those, are chop sticks.” he nodded his head as he piled some food onto his plate before stabbing a rolled fish with a single stick before placing it into his mouth and chewing it happily as his tail lifted and twitched happily with each bite.

Gray and Blue eyes found themselves trailing back to Nika’s ears and tail hoping she wasn’t a typical cat, if she was then he would have to watch her to make sure she doesn’t try making a pass at his wings. Even if she was somewhat human like him and Sara he knew all to well the animal urges sometimes overpowered the rationality of human thought.

“Nice to meet you, Nika and Carrack.” He loved this school! He went to school with a neko and a winged, tailed guy. He nodded in agreement with Carrick, “they are indeed chop sssticksss, they are asssia’s versssion of sssilverware we have plenty of forksss, or feel free to go finger food on the sssussshi, it isss just force of habbit that I ussse them.”
She was Gorgeous, he had definitely not seen her around, she walked strait out of a manga and he would have remembered. He kept his jaw from dropping and made a simple kind Gesture. “ Would you like me to ssshow you how to ussse them? Carrick doesss have a good technique there though.”

He popped a pink and green California roll into his mouth and chewed for a second. “Oh and then there isss the ultra ssspicy Wasssabi. I love Wasssabi, but it iss not for everyone.”