2152/Pengipengipengipengi!

Pengipengipengipengi!
Date of Scene:	23 November 2016
Location:	Mitakihara/Pikarigaoka - King Penguin Park
Synopsis:	WPS-CCS zoo trip!
Cast of Characters:	Sakura Kinomoto, Haruna Kurosawa, Hannah Sharpe

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Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto ran off ahead, her eyes wide and excited. "Penguins penguins penguins! Come on, Kurosawa-kun!" she called back, practically jumping up and down with excitement. "Tomoyo-chan!"

Tomoyo just grinned, her camera out as she followed besides the other girl. "Go on, Sakura. You're just so cute when you're excited."

"Eh... heh heh," Sakura said with a nervous scritching of her face. She then ran off a little bit ahead and then... "Penguins!" she said oh so happily, putting her hands up against the glass and staring in on the penguins, shaking from side to side with excitement.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Penguins. /Penguins/. Okay. Haruna liked birds. She liked flying birds. Penguins were like. Wannabe birds. They were birds but didn't fly. Corvus agreed in a fit of bird-based elitism.

Still. Corvus is perched on Haruna's shoulder.

She had, at some point. Texted Hannah last night sometimes before she was invited out on this trip asking if she was insane and crazy and if that Scorn stuff totally happened. Hannah reassured her that 'it totally happened'.

So she is not crazy and she fells much better after last night.

Hannah probably knows where she is right now too.

Haruna puts her nose to the glass leaving an imprint when she pulls away.

"Yup. Those are penguins alright. Soon it'll be the right weather for 'em." she insists. "Winter!" she says.

Which means /ice skating/. and she has the /Figure Skating Precard/. Which means she's going to /show up a bunch of people next time rather than fall on her butt!/.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah is definitely a bird elitest. She only really likes three kinds: Gulls, eagles, and Corvus. That's about it. But she'll make an exception if it gets her close to the Best Gull Ever (tm) and her feathery buddy. Thus it is that as Haruna and Sakura gawp at cute pengis, there's the sound of a husky saying hi and Hannah calling out.

Woof! "Yoooooo! Haruna!" woof woof!

Hannah, in jeans, a horribly green sweater, and a scarf, comes bounding up behind Gull and wraps her about in a vague tackle-hug only to release her.

"There you guys are. Sorry I'm late. I was...distracted."

~Twenty Minutes Ago~

Miss White puts her hands on her hips, scowling! "Bad, Bob! Bad! Give....me...back...my...INTERN!" YOINK! POP!

~Now~

She leans down just a bit as Boris tugs her closer to Sakura, the husky doggie-snootle-booping Sakura's leg! "Hey! Sakura, right? I'm Hannah. Hannah Sharpe! And this lug is Boris. Yes, you can pet him. Glad you're adding to the friendpile for Haruna!" Grin! She'll try to clap the girl on the back in a rough, friendly manner. "So, how's the zoo? Do they have whales?" This isn't seaworld, Hannah.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto was absolutely loving them. She waved to one of the penguins and it waved back. "Oh my gosh! Look, look! Kurosawa-kun, Tomoyo-chan, it waved at me! Eeeee!" She had her fists under her chin and just wiggled excitedly, waving back.

Tomoyo just gave a happy sigh as she watched. "Maybe if we're lucky they'll let us come back and pet them. Sometimes they let the kids do that."

"Really? You think they will?" Sakura asked, practically having hearts in ehr eyes. And then doggy! She, once given permission... politely bows. "Hello. I'm Sakura Kinomoto. And this is..." She waited for Tomoyo to introduce herself.

"Oh, no, Sakura. You can do it. You do much cuter introductions."

"Err... okay... Ummmm, this is Tomoyo Daidouji. Nice to meet you, Sharpe-kun." And... then the moment... it was done... she quickly knelt down and began to double handed pet the doggy. "Who's a cute lil doggy? Who? You are, yes you are, yes you are~" she said so happily, before smiling up at Haruna. "You just know the coolest and prettiest people, Kurosawa-kun!"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa turns around and beams! "Sakura, this is Hannah-chan. Hannah this is Sakura. The uh. Girl. I talked about last night." that totally made her a nervous wreck for a few hours, but Hannah already knows this. Haruna looks much more at ease. Corvus gives a little wave wave wave.

"Um this is Tom---yeah." she says. "I dunno. She's following us around with a camera!" she insists.

"Whales?" she asks. "Hannah this isn't an aquarium, it's a zoo! Aquariums in Uminari." she insists. "They have... like a shark tank and stuff." a pause. "We can go there soon!" she says.

"It gets cheaper in the winter to entice people to go in the cold." she insists.

She peeks back to Sakura and giggles. "That's Boris-kun. She's Hannah's service dog and friend! He helps her out." she says.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah can't help but rub the back of her head as Sakura bows, smiling in that vaguely nervous way she's adopted whenever someone's being horribly polite. No, even now, she's still not /quite/ used to Japanese culture.

"Uh, yeah, nice to meet you kiddo! Both of you!" She turns to the sound of Tomoyo. She very, very nearly asks about the camera. Then, deciding against it, she throws up a goofy pose and bunny ears behind Haruna's head! So sneaky!

Meanwhile, Boris luxuriates in headpets, eventually rolling over for belly pets too before Hannah clears her throat. He rolls back over, arf'ing, looking vaguely guilty!

Hannah can't help but preen at the compliments, looking very bird-like for a moment!

"Great! Oooh, maybe they have one of those pet-a-stingray tanks too!" Adds the young woman. Leaning in to Gull, Hannah whispers. "Keep Sakura's attention a minute."

One hand in her pocket, she touches Raging Tempest, the Device doing a light scan of Sakura on the sly. Time to see if poor Gull-chan really is nuts!

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto blinked and looked up to Haruna. "You talked to her about me? What about?" Then eeped. "Oh gosh. Was... was it the outfit? I-I don't wear stuff like that normally, I swear!"

"Oh Sakura-chan, you looked so cute in it though! And I already have your next outfit in the works!"

"Sigh... Oh, the aquarium? That sounds like a lot of fun!" Then the dog is called and she gives it one last pat before... is distracted again by the penquins! "Pengi pengi pengi..." she says oh so happily. "They might have a stingray exhibit!" While distracted, the scan went off without a hitch. And yeah, she had some kind of magic... thing, on her. Likely fading now, but it was a biggy and would be howing effects for a while. Odd, if she looked, she'd find it was on Tomoyo-chan too...

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa looks to Sakura. "Oh..."

"OH! nono. Um. Hannah's my girlfriend. So I talk to her about stuff that bothers me so I talked about.. the stuff last night." she says sheepishly.

She distracts Sakura. "Oh look, that Penguin has like a white heart shaped patch on it's butt!" well. it /does/. It's kinda silly looking and she has to actually giggle at it and take a picture with her smartphone.

She looks back at Tomoyo. "So...you're the one that makes Sakura's outfits?" she asks with a blink. "I thought they were magical clothes like.. my Pretty Cure..stuffs." she says as she taps her chin. "That's kinda neat..."

She says curiously. Corvus frowns. "I swear to god." he says. "If this ends with me in some sort of outfit." he says. "I'm going to start rhyming again." he insists.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah can't help it. "The outfit was adorable. In fact, I think Haruna could use a few new things for dates." Griiiiiin. A conspiratorial wink to Tomoyo. Hannah looks superbly smug for a moment.

Thankfully, Haruna distraction is go, and Hannah gets her scan off. Turning away on the pretense of touching the braille on one of the exhibits, she frowns. It's faint, but it's magic. She'll have to study the scan back at WPS tower, but it gives Hannah all the more reason to stick near Sakura and her camera-toting outfit-lover.

Wince. "Corvie, if you start that rhyming mess again you're going in the stuffing for tomorrow." Some things should remain buried. That, or Hannah hates poetry.

She does, however, drag the trio along to the next exhibit. Snakes! Hiss! Boris woofs at one, while Hannah sighs. "....Wish they'd let me hold one."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto eyed the little penguin, sighing.

And then Tomoyo was there. "Ohhhh, are you like Kero? Actually, I've made him adorable little outfits too." Oh dear he could see where this was going. "I could make all of you little outfits if you like! And of course. Sakura doesn't get magical clothes but every magical girl needs some, don't they? So I just had to make her some!"

"T-Tomoyo-chan, I really don't need... ummm, those. They're just for..."

"But you're the cutest magical girl around, you need to have some! If you two want, I can make you some too. And some for your little friend. It'd be so cute. I bet I could make matching outfits for when you help Sakura-chan!"

Sakura just sighed. "I'm sorry," she said sheepishly. And then she was dragged off to the snakes and, ummm, kind of hid behind Haruna. "I-I'm happy they don't. Snakes are scary..."

"Oh, Sakura, you're so cute when you're scared!"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Corvus keeps his arms crossed and hrmphs! mellodramatically.

Haruna grins. "Yes please. Like. Something /nice/ though. Like a little suit. He needs a suit!" she insists. That isn't also magical from a precard.

She glances over at Hannah and huffs! "I..I dress plenty nice already!" she insists with a severe embarassed blush. She's /okay/ at it. She could use fancier things.

She looks over to Tomyo and smiles. "Corvus is my partner. He helps me with things." she says. "So yeah maybe a little like Kero." she says.

She peers at the snakes. "Ohh snakes! They're kinda cute. If you don't think about how they swallow things whole... or constrict things... or... you know what. They're just cute. Let's leave it at that!" nervous smile.

"They're behind glass!" she smiles. "So no worries. They can't get you!" she insists.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"And don't forget a tiny hat! A trilby!" Encourages Hannah. Poor, poor Corvus!

She also can't help but chuckle as Gull huffs and pouts! Leaning into the frame of Tomoyo's shot, she practically photobombs as she grins oh-so-cheekily.

"Isn't Haruna just the cutest when annoyed?" Poooke! Poke right on blushing Gull-cheeks!

Thumbs up to Tomoyo! "We're in your capable hands, oh mistress of thread and film!" She adds, before poor Sakura tries to hide! Hannah's having none of it, as she's trying to drag Sakura over to the exhibit. "Oh, nooooo you don't Saku-chan! You're gonna say hi to Mister Snakey! You're too big for him to eat anyway! Snakes eat rats and horrible pests that carry diseases, too! Snakes are your /bros/, Sakura! Aren't you going to come say hi to snakebro? C'mon!" Draaaaag drag drag!

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto nodded. "I... I think you're really pretty, Kurosawa-kun. Both you and Sharpe-kun are so pretty and mature looking.

Tomoyo nodded. "I'll take good care of you, don't worry. You can come by my home later for measurements, okay?" Well, it would be invasive. Probably.

Then Sakura was dragged and she let out an eek, her eyes going wide. "Ack! No no no! bad! Noooo!" Tomoyo got allllll of it. "E-eep... w-whimper..." she said softly, staring at the snake.

"You know, it's probably a lot more scared of a monster like you than you are of it," a voice said. Sakura blinked, then turned back to glare at her brother. "TOYA! I'm not a monster!" she said, scowling and stomping a foot. Of course, her big brother! In a worker outfit. He had a job here it seemed. "You didn't tell me you'd be here today!"

"It's not my job to tell you my job," he said flatly.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa does sheepishly grin at Hannah as she's poked. She /does/ like the attention, which girl wouldn't!? but she watches Hannah try to tug Sakura to the snakes and she grins. "Come on Sakura! Look at those snakes, stare 'em right in the eyes and give 'em what for!" she urges on!

Then Toya. She blinks and turns around and faces...

The guy who's soul she stole.

Things immediately go from happy to super awkward and straight faced for Haruna. Same for Corvus. Corvus whispers so only Haruna can hear. "Oh...her brother was... that boy?" he asks.

Haruna just nods softly back in turn and just sort of sheepishly walks back a step.

"Oh. Um. Hi. There." she says.

"How are you? Are you okay? Is everything okay?" she asks in rapid fast succession to Toya.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah claps her hand. "Sounds fun Tomo! I'll bring Boris so he can get a doggie suit!" Boris wuff's, hanging his head, glaring a doggie death glare at Hannah. He's so going to chew on her dress shoes for that!

"See, Sakura? He ain't gonna hurt y..."

Suddenly, big bro! A slow grin. "Hey there! Has anyone ever told you that your little sister is /adorable/!? And brave too, saying hi like that to Mister Snakey!" She encourages, 'helpfully' slapping Toya on the back.

"Hannah Sharpe. And this is...Haruna..."

Only for said 'runa to suddenly launch a thousand questions at the poor guy.

Arms around Haruna from behind. She's all but clamoring atop poor Gull in an effort to distract both her and the subject of her guilt! "And THIS is my amazing, beautiful girlfriend, Haruna Kurosawa! Say hi, Mister Sakura's Big Bro! Hey! Can we hold the snakes? I think your little sis wants to. Facing fears, et cetera! One small step for Saku, one giant leap for saku-snake relations! C'mon, we can do it! Right!?" Draaag Haruna left. Wiggle wiggle. Draaaag Haruna right.

"Riiiiight?" Hannah can be 'persuasive' in her negotiations.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto blinked a few times, then paled. "W-what? NO! I'm not touching the snakes! I can't, no, no no, nononononono!" she squeaked.

"Eh, sure. Come on. Just be careful. Some of them bite."

"Oh Sakura, you're so cute when you cry!" Tomoyo was NOT helping matters as Sakura was dragged along.

However, as Toya led them along, he kept glancing towards Haruna. Finally, he spoke up. "Yes, I'm fine. And a few people have mentioned that the monster can be... adorable. I've yet to see it, though." "I'm not a monster! Let me goooo!" Then he eyes haruna and Hannah a bit more, before finally... "Ah. You two are underclassmen at my school. I thought you looked familiar. There's no need to be so nervous. I'm not mad you're hanging around my sister."

"Tomoyo-chan, help meeeee!" "Don't worry, Sakura-chan, I'll get it all on camera." "Whimper..."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa just sort of stares like a deer at headlights at Toya. And it isn't that 'he's so handsome/pretty boy' look that sometimes she gives certain guys because she's still kinda Haruna at her core- it's the 'please be okay please okay' kind of stare.

And he's okay! And now she realizes she's made a big fuss! and she blushes quite hard.

"Um.. augh.." she manages to blurt out before HAAAANNNAH to the rescue. Wiggle to the right...wigggle to the left. Much better.

"Aha---yep. I go to. Infinity..." she says nervously. "With Hannah here." she says.

"Yeah Sakura totally should face a snake. Make it a cute one." she insists.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Toya has officially become Hannah's best big brother she never knew she wanted. After relinquishing Haruna from clamor-climb-distraction-time, she gives a double-fisted 'yes!' to the sky as Boris guides her along with Toya to the snakes!

"Oh yeah, I think I've seen you. Isn't Sakurai-sensei an absolute /jerk/!? I swear, he's a good teacher, but somebody needs to remove that stick. Hey, have you been to any of my matches? There's a regional coming up! I've got extra tickets." Gushes Hannah, more than happy try to reel in a potential fan-to-be for the kickboxing president!

Finally, though, they're at the snake exibit. Hannah feels around on the display plaque. She points! "That one will be perfect for your tiny monster there!" It's a cute little beady-eyed grass snake!

Hannah herself is happily picking up a boa. It's already wrapping up her arm, causing the young woman to giggle. "It's so smooth and ticklish! Look at him, 'runa! Isn't he just a cutie little snakey-snakey! Aaaaaren't you? That's a good little snakey!" Smooch! Right on the snake-snootle!

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto whimpered as she was dragged into the snake room and... Toya left them alone. For a few minutes. He was talking to one of the other care takers. And the care taker was totally obviously smitten, because that's what Toya do. "That little girl was your sister? She's so cute!" Of course she was. Sakura kept trying to escape, but nope! No one was having it. Then he brought the snake over and... "If you pet it, they'll let you pet a penguin."

"R-really?"

"You wanted that, didn't you?" Awwww, he WAS a good brother. Mostly. She whimpered and timidly reached out to pet it... and she very gently did and... "It's... not so bad," she said softly. "See? You worry about nothing."

"Oh Sakura-chan, you're just adorable when you're brave..." This girl was definitely Sakura's stalker. She had to be. And then he held it out to Haruna. "Here. And I've seen you a few times, but only at practice." Wait, was he watching her? "Yukito and I have to sometimes help the basketball team and you two sometimes share the gymnasium." Of course not. A shame. "Yukito would probably like that."

"W-wait, you're going to go with Yukito? I-I want to get tickets too!" Sakura said quickly, her eyes going all heart like. Then... "wait, I'm not a monster!"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa head tilts a little and looks between Hannah and Toya and just gives a short smile. "Yup! Regionals! I've been /practicing/. We are totally gonna bet up Alexius-kun!" she insists, making punchy motions at the air for a moment. She then watches the Grass Snake be presented to Sakura. "See. That isn't gonna bite! Grass snakes are cute and docile unless you're mean to it!" she insists.

Oh god, Hannah went towards the gigantic huge snake so Corvus sort of hops onto Haruna's head for a moment and then upwards toward's a rafter. Away from /snakes/.

Haruna doesn't mind this despite that snake moving slow enough to do things about if it thought Corvus was a tasty snack.

"It is cute." she insists. "I prefer birds though. Flighty birds!" she insists.

Corvus nods matter of factly from the rafters. NOD.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Truly, Hannah is the luckiest. She's holding a gigantic snake, Haruna is pumped for regionals, and Sakura is petting a tiny grass snake. The young woman can't help but laugh a little as Sakura finally gets over her fear! ...Even if Tomoyo is a little odd. A nice odd though.

With gigantic snake-friend finally placed back with the handler, Hannah rounds on Toya and Sakura. "Well you're in luck! I think I can push tickets for all /three/ of you!"

Grin! She fist-bonks Haruna's back, grinning like a demon! "Oh yeah! The other schools are going down! I can't /wait/ to see you fight, too! Believe it or not, this one actually gives /me/ a run for my money!" Adds Hannah, helping with the shadow-boxing!

"You can come down Corvus. I'll pet any snake into submission that tries to turn you into a snack!"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto moved behind Haruna and kind of clutched her shirt from behind. "So, ummm, I touched the snake. Do I get penguin now?"

Toya sighed and shook his head. "Fine. Once your friends are finished. I figured a monster like you would like these kinds of things."

"I'm not a monster!"

"You're so cute when you're mad Sakura-chan~"

"Tomoyo-channnn! Don't encourage him!" she huffed, stomping a foot and clneching her fists at her side.

Tomoyo's eyes narrowed and he glanced to Corvus. his eyes narrowed. "Jsut make sure to keep an eye on your bird. It better not attack any of the snakes or it'll get in trouble."

Sakura blinked. "Ummm... could you make it four tickets?" she asked, before pointing to Tomoyo. "Of course! I could make you a special outfit to wear that night, too." Toya sighed and, once the snakes were put away, led them towards the penguins.

Sakura, of course... Full on hugging on, gently cradling it in her lap and even feeling it fishies. Little hearts for eyes. And then she gets over run by a baby penguin stampede. Because of course she does. "E-eek! So fluffy!"

Toya just sighed. "Don't go all monster on them, Sakura..."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa gently urges Hannah to put the snake back so Toya can get back to work. "I'm sure your new friend would appreciate his warm box better than this cool zoo~" she says. She grins over and takes another picture of Sakura totally petting/snuggling penguins.

She doesn't post this one to tumblr because Sakura is actually identifiable as someone.

She looks at her watch. "Whoops!...." she waves to Toya and Sakura. "Speaking of regionals we gotta go meet the rest of the squad for a meeting in like an hour." she says. "Annnnd I still gotta pick up donuts for the meeting!" she insists. She grabs Hannah by the hand. "Bye Sakura, call me later!" she says as she begins to drag Hannah off. Run run run run run.