HMMM well if Yata was born and raised in Recolle then they probably didn't cross paths until Kurama moved here (he's a recent arrival, for uni) BUT that still leaves open a few options...
1) I love the "they crossed paths once on a case and then it turned into weird friendship" idea, like idk Yata was chasing a guy and Kurama was coming out of a coffee shop and THINKING QUICKLY threw his boiling-hot Americano into the perp's eyes, enabling Yata to tackle the perp and haul him in for JUSTICE
2) I SEE HE LIKES VIDEO GAMES so if you'd like them to have a longer history than that, maybe they met via the internet and were long-distance gamer buddies and then when Kurama was thinking about moving to Recolle that was one of the perks in his considerations, was like oh hey, I know someone who lives there, cool
3) Regardless of what we choose it might actually be really fun to do something kind of like - so Yata's dreaming of making detective, that means he's gonna have to understand THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CRIMINAL MIND and so maybe we can find a way to have Kurama be his obviously purely hypothetical criminal consultant who he talks to for insight into stuff like that
because it's not shady at all when Kurama's like YOU KNOW IF I WERE GOING TO ROB THAT BANK THIS IS DEFINITELY HOW I'D DO IT...
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1) I love the "they crossed paths once on a case and then it turned into weird friendship" idea, like idk Yata was chasing a guy and Kurama was coming out of a coffee shop and THINKING QUICKLY threw his boiling-hot Americano into the perp's eyes, enabling Yata to tackle the perp and haul him in for JUSTICE
2) I SEE HE LIKES VIDEO GAMES so if you'd like them to have a longer history than that, maybe they met via the internet and were long-distance gamer buddies and then when Kurama was thinking about moving to Recolle that was one of the perks in his considerations, was like oh hey, I know someone who lives there, cool
3) Regardless of what we choose it might actually be really fun to do something kind of like - so Yata's dreaming of making detective, that means he's gonna have to understand THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CRIMINAL MIND and so maybe we can find a way to have Kurama be his obviously purely hypothetical criminal consultant who he talks to for insight into stuff like that
because it's not shady at all when Kurama's like YOU KNOW IF I WERE GOING TO ROB THAT BANK THIS IS DEFINITELY HOW I'D DO IT...