1319/The Love Doctor Is: IN

The Love Doctor Is: IN
Date of Scene:	04 April 2016
Location:	Pikarigaoka - Seiyou Public School
Synopsis:	Reiko Touyama talks to Kuaki about Sachiko's predicament, about Prism Keeper Pink, and helps Kukai figure out some of his own issues with his romantic problems.
Cast of Characters:	Reiko Touyama, Kukai Souma

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Reiko Touyama has posed:
Kuaki gets a text! It goes a little something like this:

Reikoi: Hey Kuaki! Can you um. Meet me in that planetarium on Seiyou's School Grounds? I have stuff I need to ask about. Heart Egg stuff.

Thusly, Reiko was sitting in the planetarium in one of the seats closest to the projector in the middle of the big domed room. She purses her lips a bit and looks down on the ground.

She seems to look with some sort of purpose however, rather than being in mopey concentration-- when she doesn't see anything, she nods matter of factly to herself. Two koi appear and swim under the seats and take out magnifying glasses and start peeking around.

Indeed, it seems that Reiko /was/ looking for something specific- but she didn't seem to find it. She doesn't seem perpturbed at this at all!

..what the heck could she be looking for anyways?

Regardless, she stands back up and walks over to that big projector as she mulls it over. That's an older model, isn't it?...

...she wonders if they do laser light shows here occasionally...

She seems to be waiting patiently otherwise, for Kukai to come over when he's able to get free from 'whatever Kukai does that is probably sportsball related' she bets.

Kukai Souma has posed:
It's been a busy day or two for Kukai. Sachiko was in serious trouble, he'd almost punched out Mizuno-san's boyfriend (and discovered his tendancies towards dark magic as well), spent part of the night talking Virtue with Mamoru and his friend, and then went out for milkshakes for three girls at once first thing the next day.

So that afternoon, when he gets a text from 'Rei-koi', he grins and texts her back.

Sportsball-Kun: Sure, I'll be there in about 30 minutes. Don't mind the bags.

And in fact, in about 30 minutes Kukai arrives, pushing open the door with one elbow as he appears to be carrying a couple of large bags - apparently he'd been out shopping this morning. He waves at Reiko and kicks the door closed with his heel, the door mechanism catching it and pulling it gently shut. "Hey Reiko. What's up?" He sets the bags down on a chair, then goes over towards her. Daichi waves from his shoulder and greets her as well. "Hi Reiko-chan!"

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama turns around. "Oh! Hi!" she smiles softly. She smiles. "Oh, out shopping?" she asks. She peeks at the bags and hrms. The koi are still searching-- she purses her lips. She smiles and gives a little wave at Dachi with a grin.

She smiles. "How's it been going?" she asks as she sits back down softly into one of the planetarium seats again.

She sighs a bit. "Okay.. I guess. I dunno if you know yet or not. But some jerk named 'Miss White' stole someone's heart egg recently with some sort of gun..." she says. "This person is a friend of.. my friend's little sister, Momo Akatsuki-- who is-- Prism Keeper Pink." she says softly. "Her sister is Prism Keeper Red, but.. she's away. Trying to find thier mom." she admits softly.

"This friend's name is Sachiko-chan. She's not doing too well now." she says.

She sighs a bit. "I'm going to do my best to help Pink. I know we can do it. I've-- I've dealt with much worse!" she says.

"But..."

"Can I ask what happens if someone doesn't reobtain thier heart egg..?" she asks meekly. "Is--is it something we need to fix fast? Does something worse happen?..." she asks.

Kukai Souma has posed:
There's a bag from a toy store, a bag from a music shop with CDs in it, a bag from a sporting goods store - of course - and maybe another one or two in the back, one with a red string hanging out of it.

Kukai peers at the Koi as they poke around, then nods. "It's going ok. Got some stuff on my mind, more than usual." He listens to her story, frowning at the idea of a gun stealing a heart's egg - Miss White, hadn't she hosted the funeral party some time back? He doesn't know the name Momo, but hey, a new Prism Keeper - he's sure he'll meet her eventually.

And then sits straight up at the name 'Sachiko-chan.' "Whoa. Wait." His face grows intense as he leans in. "...I know Sachiko-chan. She's..." ~the little sister of one of my guardian angels. "...It's complicated. But... I saw her the other day and heard someone had stolen her heart's egg. I..." He lets out a breath. "She scares me more right now than usual. See..." He has to focus on what he's thinking. "See, usually when someone loses their heart's egg, they lose their most cherished dream of what they want to be in the future, of who they are. For most people that means they go through life for a long period just living day to day, with no plans or no dreams. That happens to some normal people too, but it's sad to see people who could have had great dreams lose them, which is why we fight so hard to protect all of them. You never know who's going to hatch into something amazing."

Kukai thinks about Sachiko, sitting next to Reiko at this point in one of the chairs around the planetarium. "In Sachiko's case, though, her only dream was to see her sister again. Without that dream, she's unable to defend herself against the fact that Anshi's dead, and it's eating her alive. I've seen grown-ups that take medicine for mental conditions that aren't that depressed. I'm... If she doesn't get it back, physically, she'll be fine. Mentally..." He lets out a slow breath. "Mentally I'm afraid she'll try to hurt herself or, even worse, just lie in bed and waste away to nothingness. I could see her in the hospital real easy over this, being fed through a tube. It would take some time to get to that point though."

Kukai seizes Reiko's arm though. "But you said you know who did this, right? Miss White, yeah? Maybe if I talk to Tadase-kun I can find out who that is!" He looks positively radiant at the idea.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama blinks and erfs as she listens intently. "Yeah... Sachi-chan." she frowns. "She.. told Momo things. Stuff she didn't understand. Like Walpurgisnacht-- before she got her Prism. It scared me because..."

"Momo is Sachi's age. Mei.. Prism Keeper Red- her sister- didn't want her involved in all this." she says.

"But I guess it was inevitable when they met like that." she sighs.

She shakes her head and listens with a look of seriousness on her face. "Then we need to get it back. Momo's all set and ready to help!" she insists.

Then she blinks again. "Erm.. Miss White. Is a jerk who runs some company. She's not a nice person I guess-- I think she was... okay... she seemes apologetic about a lot of stuff she did... or does but.. she still /does them/ and that is /not okay/!" she huffs.

"--and hurting one of my friend's by hurting thier friends is not acceptable!" she insists.

One of the koi flags the other over. They pick up a medium sized scrap of old orange paper that looks like it has footprints on it.

They scoot it over to Reiko. Reiko blinks at this and softly takes it from them. Then stares in horror at it for a moment as she reads what may be words on the paper. Looks up at Kukai--- like a deer in headlights. Then turns around and begins to shove the paper into her mouth.

Why talk reasonably with someone when you can just swallow evidence!? Nomnomnom *augh* nomnomnom *erk!*

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai winces as Reiko talks about how Sachi and this Momo girl talked about Walpurgisnacht and other things, but then shakes it off. It's magical girl history 101 at this point. "That's good that she's willing to help. And I think I know who Miss White is, kinda, but I've never talked to her."

He grins as she insists that hurting a friend isn't acceptable, and is about to agree just as one of the koi floats over with a piece of paper. Kukai blinks at it as Reiko goes pale white - and tries to stick it in her mouth! A moment later he's tugging at it, trying to get it back out of her mouth - he's not sure what it is, but this can't be normal! "Reiko - Reiko! Let it... c'mon, let it go - spit it out, come on!"

He seizes the younger girl's cheeks and squishes them into her jaws so she can't chew, then stares her in the eyes. "Spit it out and I won't sit on you while you tell me exactly what it is."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama has puffed cheeks. "No!" she says with a huff. "It's super embarassing! Let go!" she says-- and---ugh. "Fine....!" she huffs as she takes it out of her mouth. It's in fact not very wet with spit or anything! It seems it wasn't very tasty to chew anyways!

She does however, hold onto it with coveting hands- she's NOT letting Kukai see it.

"L-look! It's private! Ahahahahahhaha!" she says nervously. She looks down at it still, using her hand to hide it.

"It's super embarassing! Aha~" she says with wider eyes-- and also a blush now.

"Nrg...." she mutters.

"I ripped up--up a confession letter a while agom here, okay!? It doesn't matter to who it was! But--but it's super private so!" she huffs a bit and crosses her arms-- she still has that blush on her face though.

She huffs. "Okay, fine it was to Tadase! But... he knows n' stuff. He just didn't get to read it because I ripped it up! and I'd like to keep it that way!" she huffs!

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai Souma puts his hands down over Reiko's as she takes it out of her mouth, holding onto it, not looking at the paper just yet but holding it away from her mouth, leaning back a little. "Really private, huh? And super embarrassing?" He grins. She's adorable when she blushes like this, like she got her hand caught in the cookie jar.

And then she starts talking. Confession letter? Super private? ..TADASE. Reiko had maybe mentioned having a crush on Tadase at one point, and this is a confession letter to him?

Kukai finds himself torn. On the one hand, this is a matter of the heart, of someone telling someone else their most private feelings. It's inviolate. It's practically sacrosanct. On the other hand, he really wants to see what she said about Tadase. Holy crap this could be a gold mine of teasing the little prince.

Kukai finally pats her hands and then releases them, grinning slightly. "Oo..okay. So. If this is your private letter to Tadase, I'll let you keep it. It's yours." He can't help breaking into a big grin. "But if there's anything in there I can use to give him hell with, please. pleasepleaseplease. It would bring joy to a steadily more crappy month to have something I can use to tease the hell out of him with."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama huffs! "T-the letter is more likely to give me hell!" she huffs. "Besides... t-there's someone else I like now and I don't need to be screwing it up with my old feelings! It's even going super well!" she huffs. She stuffs the piece into her pocket and reminds herself to flush it down a toilet asap instead of eat it.

"Besides it's only a piece, but it includes stuff like--- um..."

She looks down at the paper. I want to be your princess

She mutters with a blush still. "S-so! Yeah! No!" she says as she places her hands to her hips with a huff. "I should had ripped it up better! There better not be anymore pieces of paper around..." she huffs..

The koi are in fact, already suddenly back searching!

Nrg. "Look-- just. It's embarassing." she melts. "With stuff like that." she mutters. "Cuz I usually stink.. at stuff like that..."

"But that letter was amazing!" she says with wide, slightly sparkly eyes. "Get--get it!?" she asks.

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai Souma sighs and then nods, leaning back. "Well. Ok." He looks around curiously, searching with his eyes for pieces of orange paper. There's none to be found that easily, though. He shrugs, then pats her on the shoulder. "Easy there piranha. It's ok, if you say it'd cause you more trouble, I won't read them."

He laughs. "Man. Maybe I should take lessons from you in romance. I'm awful at it." He sighs. "I sorta drove off the two people I really liked and none of the others I've been interested in have..." He hmms. "What's the verb for it? 'Sparked'? Yeah. Sparked. We haven't sparked."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama softly sighs and crosses her arms. "I find that if you're not honest with your feelings things suck. That's how it was with Tadase!" she says. "But I was more honest with myself about Haru-kun and I think it's working at--least. He got me Chocolate on White Day. The non-friendship kind." she blushes a bit and clears her throat.

She head tilts. "Also, I find if you don't treat love with a pie, you'll have a better go of it. Because love isn't a pie!" she says placing her hands on her hip. "People forget that koi are fish but that koi also means love!" she insists.

"Oh.. right..."

"What I mean. By the pie.." she says. "I'll give you the shortend version um..."

"People treat love like a pie most of the time. That there's 'only so much of it' before it's gone-- or people think you can give people a bigger piece than thier piece and stuff like that."

"But that's a stupid way to look at it. Love isn't a pie at all!" she says. "--and while you can love some people in different ways.." she says. "That isn't the same as taking thier piece away from them and giving it to someone else." she says as she crosses her arms.

"Do you understand?" she asks as she head tilts.

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai leans back, grinning at Reiko for a moment. "The non-friendship kind, huh? Wow." And then she loses him with the talk of pies and fish.

He hmms, looking at her as she talks about 'love is a pie'. Daichi leans in, listening intently too, maybe more so than even Kukai. He thinks, turning away from her for a moment, reaching over to take her hand, considering what she'd said.

He's quiet for a long moment before he finally opens his mouth. "...No. Not really. I mean, sort of?" He side-eyes her for a moment, then nods at the seat besides him. "C'mon, sit down a sec?" He takes another moment to think. "Ok so. Make you a deal. I'll help you keep an eye out for any more of those orange pieces of paper, and I won't tell anybody about them or who they're from or anything like that. But..." He coughs into his elbow, then reaches up to scratch the back of his head, obviously a little embarrassed. "I need somebody to talk to. About love. Think you're up for it?"

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama huffs. "If I can help Amu with Tadase I'm pretty much sure I'm a miracle worker so sure!" she says as she sits down quietly. "I can keep a secret." she insists.

"I may not have all the answers but I do a good job helping people it seems with things like that! Sometimes even myself." she grins a bit.

She sits down and nods- fixing her glasses.

A tiny koi appears and hangs a sign in the air- it's different shades of orange it says:

The Love Doctor Is: IN.

She stares at this as she facepalms.

"I Have literarly no control over them." she says matter of factly.

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai Souma has to have a minute to stop laughing. "Oh... Oh, man. OK." He sits back up, grinning at Reiko and her koi. "Yeah, sure."

He hmms, leaning back. "OK. Let's start at the start. Up until.. I dunno. A couple weeks ago? I'd never even thought about romantic love. I've been too busy with training, with sports, with doing my own thing. And... like I told Daichi at one point, it was a challenge I'd never bothered getting into."

Daichi grins and gives Kukai a supportive, strong raised fist. "And I told him that he needed to face up to every challenge no matter what it was!"

There's a bit of green fire that immediately fades from Kukai's eyes as he continues. "So, the start. Utau." He sighs. "I like Utau-chan a lot, but..." He frowns. "She's naughty." He hmms. "Belay that. She's wicked. Most of that is because she's trying to help her brother Ikuto. They're both trying to get out from under Easter."

He looks over at Reiko. "Look, you know Utau, I'm pretty sure. I fought her to get the X-Eggs to you when Yellow got hurt, I fought her at the concert, I danced with her at the party afterwards, we had dinner together just before we all went north and if anybody had said 'Kukai, you don't gotta go.' I'd have stayed there with her. But I don't know if I love her. We had a talk a week or two ago..."

He rubs his chin. "Which I can't finish talking about without talking about Nadeshiko. You know Nadeshiko, right?" He looks over at Reiko to make sure she's keeping up.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama listens intently. She purses her lips a bit as she listens, she seems intent on picking up on the words as she thinks this over. "Okay. Sure! That's okay. Romance isn't for everyone- but sometimes it just creeps up on you and it grabs you- and suddenly-- you're head over heels for someone." she says softly.

She listens a bit. "Wait... Utau.. is Ikuto's brother? The jerk cat's sister!?" she says caught off guard. She taps her chin. "And they're trying to get out from under Easter- okay I know a little about that- the jerks trying to steal all the x-eggs." she scrunches her nose.

"So..." she says softly. "You think you might have a thing for Utau, but you're not sure. Okay. That's reasonable. I mean. Eventually, you're going to need to figure out how you feel." she says softly.

"Nadeshiko?" she asks softly. "No I'm afraid I don't know any Nadeshiko.." she says softly. She head tilts a bit.

"So tell me, so I can understand what's happening!" she smiles.

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai nods. "Yeah, brother and sister, and I swear they're a matched pair, one a rotten cat, the other a bad penny." He sighs. "OK. Nadeshiko. She is the... sister of... Wait. Remember the last dance? The purple haired guy that came to the dance with us? That's her brother. They're twins too - also a matched pair." He coughs. "We may have kissed. A bunch. A whole bunch." Kukai appears to be quite red at this point, remembering. "She has this thing where she bites her lip and I don't remember a sodding thing for the next four seconds except I usually.. uh." He looks over at Reiko and remembers how young she is. "Well. You remember the 'sparking' I mentioned? I got it from her, or how I felt when we were together, like I had the warmest fire in my heart."

He lets out a casual little shrug and continues. "Sooo.. At the time I was taking care of Utau's Chara, Eru, the little angel? She saw it all. And then I saw Utau again recently and Eru told her what I'd been up to and..." He rubs his eyes. "She was very upset. Very, very upset. And right at the same time I apparently sent Na-chan a text that she took really badly, and she vanished for several days. I haven't seen her more than once or twice since at school, and she was.. I think the term is 'ice queen?"

"So... that was a couple weeks ago. I don't know how to talk to either of them, so I've been..." He coughs. "Looking around? I've been on a few dates here and there, but... I haven't felt anything for anybody like I did for them yet." He grins faintly, the Jack's Grin, that self-confident smile, in a lesser chord. "It's been pretty awesome having a bunch of cute girls hang out with me though."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama crosses her arms. "No, I understand what you mean. Like. One time, Haru came to the door in this shirt- but the few buttons were just opened a little, so it was flapped out? And I swore I just kind of remember coming too sitting in his kitchen next when he went to go changed because I caught him at a bad time!" she says. Well there goes 'too young' for you.

"Okay..." she says softly. "Oh! Okay so. There's another girl you like- but that's more serious. "Wait---didn't. You kiss that boy too?" she asks. She scatches her head severely.

"Anyways." she says softly. "That sounds more serious. Okay... so. Lemme follow this."

"You like Utau. But you're not sure on her. You like Nadeshiko, and you've actually kissed." she says softly. "But since you don't know how to talk to either of them, you're trying to find someone new?" she asks.

"Wow!" she says as she sits back and thinks for a bit.

"If I was in your shoes, I would try to figure out how you feel about Utau and Nadeshiko before you go piling more onto your plate- but that's just me."

"If you /truly/ belive that it'll help, then go for it, just understand that it'll probably complicate matters with Utau and Nadeshiko more than fix them in the end, based on what I'm hearing." she says. "Because they'll probably not be happy about that either." she says and taps her chin. "At least, if I was in thier shoes, I'd be upset too if I found out someone I like-- and possibly knew it, was doing that kind of thing."

She blinks and blushes. "I dunno if I could deal with a buncha guys like that." she admits. "I like to stick to one at a time!" she insists, perhaps a joking tone.

"So my advice is this." she says. "I would try to fix things with Utau and Nadeshiko, but you may also need to choose who you love and who you..." she adds emphasis. "love" she says.

"Do you get that? I mean, it's fine if you don't agree." she smiles! "We all have our own ways we need to handle things in the end!"

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai laughs as she talks about her experience with Haru and just shakes his head. "Okay. Wow. Must be a real thing." He frowns and rubs his head again. "Well. I'm ok with complicated. I don't really want to hurt anybody, of course. But I don't know how to..."

He rubs his temples again, hand over his eyes, and Reiko can swear she can feel more than see that green light behind them again. When he drops his hand, he looks more determined than ever. "No, I can and will find love with somebody! It's not great what happened but I can't just give up or backpedal! I have to keep pushing on."

He looks over at Reiko and grins, reaching over to pat her hair. "OK! I feel better already - I think I just gotta get out there and get to work again! And besides..." He grows more serious. "Enough sitting around. I gotta go talk to Tadase and figure out what I'm doing for Sachiko. I can't fail her."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama beams. "Happy to help!" she says with a smile. She steps up. "And remember...don't. Tell Tadase. He never read it. I don't want him to know even a few things that were in that letter!" she huffs.

She nods matter of factly. "Take care, Kukai-kun!" she said with a soft wave!

She looked around, and began to find her own way out. She needed to find the nearest bathroom... to flush this damn piece of orange paper where no-one would ever find it again.