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E-mail: dark_angel_998@yahoo.com
Time Zone: US central time
Screennames (AIM/Yahoo/MSN): AIM: drakekasteel
YIM: dark_angel_998
IC Information
Name: Kabaji Munehiro
Journal: foundavoice
Major: Culinary Arts
School Team?: no
Part-time Job and where: nowhere at the moment
Roll to change character’s handicap?: no
Explain what their future plans are and how they have changed in the past six years. (To be answered IC 1st or 3rd person and written as either a RP tag or a journal entry of 200 words minimum so that the mods can get a feel for how you play.)

Six years. It’s a long time, isn’t it? A lot has happened in six years. Some of it, I think for the better. Those who would see me now, I don’t know if they would recognize me. I’ve not changed on the outside. Not much anyway. I’ve grown taller, yes. I have to duck to get under doorways, but I’ve always been the biggest. I think it’s an internal change. I think it is because I’ve finally found my own voice, and sometimes, I even use it.

I’m sure most everyone remembers me as the big shadow behind Atobe-sama. Always there. Always present. Just right behind him, never saying anything. A loyal, solid, stoic yes man to his every whim. Some might remember me as a monster on the tennis court, turning their own precious techniques against them, copying them. Because I’m simple…I’m stupid. I can’t make my own decisions. I can’t make up my own techniques. Poor, dumb Kabaji. Poor stupid, simple, pure hearted dolt. But I wasn’t. I wasn’t any of those things. I’ve always been very smart and I’ve always made my own decisions. It was my decision to join tennis, just as it was my decision to follow Atobe-sama to hell and back more times than I’d like to remember. And a few times that I rather enjoy remembering.

But then he went to high school, and I was a year behind. I had no one to follow anymore. I had to start doing things just for myself. I didn’t have fingers to snap at me. I didn’t have knowing eyes that could read my every lack of expression or familiar years that could translate my every “usu”. Though I had the others, those who’d yet to go into high school, I was on my own. I was on my own for the first time since I was in elementary school. Before Atobe Keigo walked into my life and swept me away in his tide. I… I had to grow up. I had to become my own man. I had to speak for myself and act on my own whims for the first time in years. It was an awkward time, and I was glad. I was very happy when I went to high school and returned to that place of comfort for me.

But the seeds had already been planted. And I think, I think Atobe-sama was glad for it. I think he pushed me more. Helped me branch out. Assisted me in finding my own voice. My own paths. Even when they led me away from his side in the end. I left his side and I’ve not returned, because it was always my decision to be there. I went to be with my sister and her husband for a while, and I went to look for something I could do. Something I could enjoy, for myself.

I found cooking. I’ve always liked Home Economics. I’ve always enjoyed cooking, even if I wasn’t always very good. My fondest memories with Atobe-sama usually involve sitting with him and eating something new and strange and delicious that the cooks made for us. I likes the idea of how happy it made people, to sit around a table with company they liked and good food. I decided I wish to be a chef. After all, I already know how to handle picky people. One doesn’t follow around Atobe Keigo without learning a thing or two about pleasing the toughest of critics.

I was rather surprised when I found a school that offers such a curriculum. I was worried. I was worried I’d have to go to France or Italy or places far away. Osaka is far away, but not so far that I can’t visit home when I want. So, I’m attending now. I’ve always been shy though and so, I will use the new voice I’ve found within me and I will do my very best. I will become the best chef in Japan and I will make a lot of friends.

Watch out Iron Chef…Kabaji Munehiro is coming to take your place.

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