If she picks up the panic over her own jazzed nerves, Mumei doesn't show it, head swiveling in darting looks around the floor, until she locked on target. "Oh?" Her eyebrows lift. "That one looks faaancy. C'mon! Just let me drive, and we'll be fine."

Their joined hands lift as she spins the athletic Crab underneath, fingers smoothly releasing and catching as she moves their center along the floor. Catching Akemi's waist with her free hand again, she she grins as they near the unsuspecting couple. Another, more careful, spin clears some necessary space as she leans in to whisper-shout over the music once more. "Just groove right here a sec. Show off your assets, cutie."

With both hands moving to the Crab's waist, Mumei slides slowly into full splits, eyes on Akemi's face the entire way before releasing her to perform a complex arrangement of arms and legs designed to get her feet back under her with some grace. Everything is done around the dance's center of gravity, Akemi.

"What are you talk....?" Ishiyo managed to say before.....



Her pilot trained instincts acted on reflex, which with combined with the twirl the Daigotsu had already been guiding her into...meant she was now pressed against him far closer then she had hoped. Her face red again. "..."

He stayed close. "You're doing fine", he said into her ear. "Close is fine, just don't get frisky."

And he looked over her shoulder at Mumei and Akemi as he kept up with the beat with Ishiyo. Yeah, there was zero competition he could enter to in that. If the Osprey wasn't so good he might be able to fake it.

But, maybe a man just has to step forward and lose sometimes to prove he means what he says.

"I am not sure this is comfortable...rumohs..." Her cheeks were probably burning by now, "Propriety...."

Ishiyo's eyes were flicking between the dance floor, in case of any other Dance-Floor-to-Bar-Foxissiles should fire off. What ever drama was happening with the Daigotsu and the Hida, and whatever unwilling part she was playing, the Crane was completely unaware.

Izumi meanwhile had made it back to the bar.

He caught the bartender's attention.

Surely he wouldn't?

He couldn't?

. . .

Yup, another Energiser for the FULL ON FOXEH.

It seemed a lot happened in a few short moments and almost everyone got to the dance floor. That was perhaps enough reason for her to lay off the Engeriser. She carefully put her glass where she found it and nudged it away.

Turning her attention to the Matsu who might be left. She crossed her arms and gave a shrug of her shoulders. "Yeah, totally agree, nothing fun or good is ever easy. That's not going to stop me from bitching about it, however."

Hide watched most of her new friends hitting the dance floor. That was fast. She gave Jin a smirk, his dancing definitely made her feel better about her own. “Yeah, yeah... I might join soon.”

But there was still someone left: Eriko. And she seemed to still want to chat. Hide ran a hand through her hair and gave a solid chuckle. “Hey, nothing wrong with a little bitching here and there. Or a lot of it. It’s one way to let off steam. I might not seem like it now, but I can get a bit worked up every now and then, and bitching gets you in a lot less trouble with the higher ups than slamming a vending machine into another vending machine.”

Eriko nodded slowly as she dwelled on that thought. "...now that you've said it that way, it sure makes me a whole lot civil and agreeable. So long I'm just below smashing property, I'm probably doing all right, aren't I? Thank you for putting all into perspective, Matsu-san. I think you can call yourself popular and wise while you're at it."

"Matsu-san," said Hakka, getting rather tired of shouting, "I may be mistaken, but that looks like a spot over there." She pointed at what seemed to be a series of standing tables, with a few patrons scattered throughout talking in small groups. Or, maybe they were still shouting, but, there was hope. "Should one of us wait for Kuchiki-san to direct him or do you think we'd be able to garner his attention from there, after he returns with our drinks?"

Hide looked really confused for a moment, but then she realized her error. “Huh? No, I was making a self-deprecating joke. Like, I actually did that once.” She looked down at her glass and downed the rest of it. The Matsu then tugged at her tie, slipping it off and placed it with her jacket. “I’m sorry if I ruined the good mood.”

Eriko looked confused at the sudden apology, enough so that she gave a quick tilt of her head and gave her a very questioning look. "Okay, now you're starting to confuse me, kiddo. I kinda assumed that's what happened. Just the compliment and roll with it. And please, I think it would take the water sprinklers to go off for this place sour. Even then...I have my doubts," she said as she looked out to the people dancing.

The Matsu looked up, even more confused now. But that look of utter confusion was replaced by an amused smirk. “Honestly, I would kill for the sprinklers to go off right about now. It’s so damn hot on this planet. Not just hot, but humid as well.”

Hide looked over to her dancing companions and then back to the bottle left on the tray that Jin had brought for the group. “Want another glass?”

"If we don't claim it now, someone else will," she declared. Without further hesitation, she moved directly to the table, standing as tall as she can to make sure that she was noticable. "Shame I'm not tall enough to tower over the crowd, but I should still be able to get his attention!"

She pointed to her glass.

"This."

She spoke quietly as she could with still being heard, despite the loud music and general chatter, "Maybe I'm just not used to the ingredients they use, but it all tastes artificial besides the obvious imports."

Eriko raised her brow at the bottle that was picked up. "Just so long it isn't that energiser stuff, I think tht stuff tasted more like syrup than anything else. What do you have there exactly?"

“Ujina-sama brought over this bottle of straight shochu earlier.” Hide inspected the bottle, a brow slightly raised. “Honestly the syrups and juices aren’t that great on smaller colonies like this. He had the right idea.”

With a slight shrug, Hide poured one glass before looking up to Eriko expectantly as she offered to pour one for her as well. “So, you ever do this kind of thing before? Looks like Kitsune-sama and Nakauchi-san are no strangers to night clubs. Ujina-sama said he never has been to one before and... Well I can definitely see that.”

"Still taller than I, Matsu-san!" Hakka followed along once more in the wake provided by someone else. It was so much easier to move through such an energetic crowd if someone did the parting for her.

Her fan made an appearance once more as the reached the table, snapping open and moving with more energy than it usually did, creating a nice bit of breeze. The sound of the music was still there, at their small table, but it was at a more acceptable level. "This is much better suited for conversation. Though, it seems that there are other methods one may employ here than shouting, to keep the conversation going," she said with a hint of a playful smile. Hakka seemed to be referencing the variety of people dancing very close.

"Oh, the real stuff. I can't believe I missed that bit when he brought it. Admittedly, Kitsune-sama had been so enthralling with is form that it was very hard to outclass him with anything else tonight..."

She was more than happy to take the poured glass. After giving the contents a very unneeded swirl, she took a sip from it and nodded in appreciation. "I hang out at plenty of night clubs, they seem to be the biggest sources of everything: information, luck, trouble...you name it. Funny enough, I don't really much dancing in these sorts of places. This might be the longest I've been to one where someone hasn't drawn a sidearm that they magically found on the floor by now..."

"What do you..." Chiyoko finally got a good look at the dancers. And how close they were dancing. Her face reddened just a bit as she realized just how close people were getting. "Oh. That is... I suppose effective if you must be close to the music or on the dance floor." Surely that was the reason they were so close. Right?

“Well, it is a Phoenix colony.” Hide gave the crowd a glance as she took a drink from her own glass. “Ah, good. Now when I invite you all out next time, I’ll have a better idea of what to expect. I... Might have to help Ujina-sama out with his choice of shirts. I wouldn’t want him to scare all the potential suitors away.”

Hide shook her head, not even looking at Jin she could still imagine that ridiculous shirt. Forever ingrained in her mind. “At least he’s having himself a good time out there.” Her attention trailed back over to Eriko, an sparkle of amusement in her eye. “So you don’t do much dancing, huh? Do you reject invites to do so?”