594/STS: Aftermath

STS: Aftermath
Date of Scene:	18 November 2015
Location:	Mitakihara - Mitakihara General
Synopsis:	Hannah and Suzuki visit Haruna and Aki in the hospital after
Cast of Characters:	Hannah Sharpe, Suzuki Natsume, Haruna Kurosawa

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Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
To call last night stressful was like the understatment of the CENTURY. Regardless. Gull made it to the hospital on her own power and Aki was in a bed and on an IV. Tsukasa and Blue were here already and they had a long chat with Haruna and Aki about things. Stories were shared, reassurances were made- because they both knew there would be some basic panic about things- and really---- they did NOT want Haruna to have to tell well---- Aki all the things she went through to save her alone. No. That was not a thing that was going to happen. They refused.

There was a LOT of big, adorable hugs given.

Corvus is a seagull now. That's weird, but it suits him. Haruna is sitting by her sisters side and mostly talking her ear off about all her adventures. "Oh--um! Then there was this...giant--- sun device thing!" she says. "And we had to talk it down and stop it from destroying the Earth!" she says with wide eyes.

Aki is a girl who looks a little like Haruna-- older, shorter hair, not as svelete. Aki is just kind of blinking. "Woah..." she says. Her voice is a little soft. "That's pretty amazing Haruna. I'm glad that Blue-sama went and found you in time." she says a little softy. Aki is still coming to terms with a lot of things. "You let your hair grow out, and everything too. I like the feathers." she smiles.

"I'm thinking that..um.. uh....." she winces. "Ugh, sorry this identity thing is really weird, but two of my friends might be coming by soon to see you. They helped me save you. I want you to meet them okay!" she says softly.

Suzuki Natsume has posed:
     It was /totally/ not stressful at all! Really! Which is why Suzuki didn't have a massive argument with her family after getting home! ... In an alternate universe. Last night had actually ended up mildly miserable for Suzuki. She should probably be resting, but once again... she found herself not really wanting to be at home. As such, in spite that everything was still sore and some parts of her body still felt a little numb.

     She wouldn't let any of that show though, as she walks up to the door to the hospital room calmly and quietly as usual. Once she was at the doorway, she lifts her hand to knock at the door. And... in her hands, she was holding a bag full of various random sweets and chocolates and treats. She didn't know what Haruna or her sister liked -- so she got everything. Some tasty sweet breads, pocky, chocolate, and a few healthy things like a couple of orders of takoyaki that was still warm.

     Basically, Suzuki brought the most awkward care package ever because there was no way they'd be able to eat all of the stuff that she brought. That was a pretty full bag. "Haruna-chan, hello!" She says in that quietly cheerful way of hers once the door was opened. "I brought some snacks. I'm sure that you're already sick of hospital food."

     Yep. A 'snack'. That's what you'd call what she brought.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Not a few minutes after Suzuki steps in enters one Miss White, now with an extra scarr on her left cheek neatly stitched up. Despite the look of exhaustion on her face, she's about 81% smiles right at this moment.

After a knock of course!

"Hey! This /is/ Aki Kurosawa's room, right?" She has her barrier jacket up, of course, but none of her spells up. She probably should have brought Viktor.

As it stands, she doesn't notice that there's a Haruna and a Suzuki in the room, even as she leans on the door frame with her crossed arms.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa gets up off her chair and gives Suzuki a great, big, and very tight hug. She has no idea if Suzu wants a hug or not. She may not care. She places the snacks to the side. "Thank you, Suzu-chan~" she says. She blinks and looks to the door and opens it and wraps her arms tightly around her and drags her into the room and smiles~ "White-chan~" she beams. She smiles and closes the door. She turns around and walks back to the chair and sits. "Um... Aki..." she motions to the bedridden girl. "This is... Suzu-chan, and White-chan. These are two of the people who helped me rescue you last night. Just two---there's...so many more I need you to meet Aki..." she says silently.

Aki smiles. "Hey. So you two helped rescue me, eh?" she beams. "I'm still feeling a little weak, so I apologize if I'm not very animated. She peeks to the snacks. "Ugh...I could use something besides hospital food, can I see...?" she asks motioning with a hand. "Thanks!"

Haruna smiles. "Suzu-chan is.. Cure Victory's---um...." she blushes a bit. "Erm. I'll say friend for now, as not to embarass myself totally later." she insists. "She came and risked a lot of her newfound happiness for you with me..." she mutters. "White-chan is someone who---who helped me when....um.. the...witch...thing..we talked about." she stutters. Corvus is perched on Haruna's head and the seagull gives them a little wave both with a smile. Corvus is happy, but is also being silent. This is respect time.

"They're both really good people. Even if. Well...." she pauses. "We'll worry about that later." she smiles to White-chan.

Suzuki Natsume has posed:
     Suzuki would probably be unaware of Miss White as well -- except that she called out and spoke. And that wasn't exactly a voice you forget, your most dangerous rival and yet also a strangely good friend. It's a strange balance of enemy and friend and Suzuki ... actually doesn't really mind that. It helped Suzuki in some ways, because she knew the /good/ of Miss White as well as the bad.

     The tight hug from Haruna gets a slightly stiff hug from SUzuki in return -- it didn't seem hesitant. But a tight hug when she was sore... yeah. That was a thing. "You're welcome, Haruna-chan." Suzuki says, giving a small smile. Still that reserved, 'cool' girl! Yep. And possibly slightly awkward. She turns her head towards Aki, bowing her head towards her. "Hello, aki-san." Suzuki says softly, smiling towards her. "I'm glad to see you appear to be well." She takes a thoughtful breath. Hmm.

     When she mentions the food though... that bag is set on the bed next to Aki. She carefully sets the hot things on a convenient bedside table; specifically the Takoyaki, because it was, in fact, hot stuff. And she didn't want Aki burning herself while digging through things! "Cure Victory helped me out a while back." She murmurs softly, thinking quietly a few moments.

     She looks towards Miss White, and then back towards Corvus and Haruna. "Miss White is very good at helping people. I would overall say that she's a good person at heart." Even if she had some conflicts of belief of how things should be handled overall, but that's beside the point! Miss White still was trying to do her best to change the world for the better.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Wah! Gull-hugs! Hannah laughs and squeezes right back, just before ruffling her head! Even Corvus isn't immune, as he gets a little finger-pet on the wings!

"Hey you! Good to see you're up as well. Hey there Suzu! Feeling okay? That little...stunt back then seemed to cost you." There's real concern in her voice for the pair, her confidence and bravado fading for a moment.

Then, once deposited in by a certain Haruna, she kneels down to be relatively eye level with Aki. There's a hand being offered to her!

"Well, after being locked up for that long, I'd be a bit stiff in the limbs too. Nice to meet you. Call me Kasagami White, White-chan, whatever you want really. Nice to meet you at long last, kiddo! This one!" Reach out! Swat a Haruna on the back!

"Has told me a lot about you. I'll look forward to getting to know you." She's smiling a touch too wide here. She's under no illusions that it will likely mean both as a PreCure and as a person.

Then she's blushing just a bit as the two comment on her 'goodness'. For once, she can almost agree.

"Hey, hey! I have a reputation to keep now people!" Protests Miss White. For once, it's a little less hard than she usually does.

The she stands up. Her Device makes a beep, and then she shivers. There's the feeling of magic around her as she turns on her perception spells. A quick Wide Area Search later, and she pockets her Device. Double checking to make sure the door is closed, she crosses her arms.

"Ok, before I forget, here." She pulls out four tiny cases for SD cards. She hands two to Haruna, and two to Suzuki.

"Alright. That's all the combat data I recorded from the fight with Phantom, during his shadow trick, and all of the data I could get on the Mirror World itself. Give one of those to Blue. Don't tell him who it came from. Better yet, all of you, don't mention it. A little bird gave them to you, right Corvus?"

Poor bird.

"Keep the other one yourself, or give it to somebody you trust who can work with the data. Same thing for you, Suzu. Find somebody trustworthy, keep the other one. You need to learn to sift that data anyway." Her tone is serious and businesslike here.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Corvus takes it and gives Hannah a salute. "I'll do it when I talk to him next. He wants to check me out anyways. I---he's not really...handling......" he pauses a bit and looks down.

Haurna looks down and closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. She smiles to Miss White. "We'll go on our date soon. I really wanna do that...." she blushes a bit. "Besides, I wanna have a little fun after this." she beams.

Aki is ready to eat a Takoyaki ball when it seems she has a mental BSOD. "Date?" she looks over to Haruna, then over to White, then back to Haruna. She blinks rapidly and shoves the ball of food into her mouth so she can't say anything for a moment. Haruna blushes back. She peeks back at Suzu who's found a corner for a moment. She frowns. Whoops---did she hug too hard?

She sits back down and smiles. Aki finishes and thinks. ANOTHER TOPIC.

"So... who are you Haruna." she asks. Haruna looks back at Aki. "Huh...oh. That's right. Um....I'm. Cure Gull..." she says sheepishly. "I didn't tell you that. Did I. I'm sorry. Yes. Cure Gull!" she says. Aki grins. "That's appropiate... close to what I imagined at least." she says. "I was thinking Cure Shell, or Cure Wave, or something like that." she says.

Haruna crosses her arms as she looks back between everyone. "I...I'm really. Sorry. About Procyon." she manages to say silently.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White raises a brow. "Just hang in there, okay, Pidgeon-kun?" She slips something towards him aside from the card! Tasty birdseed!

"We, little Gull, are going to have the /best/ time you know?" Cue one arm around Haruna, and squeezing her close. A tired Miss White isn't a thinking Miss White, and it's a telling slip that might just give Suzuki all she needs.

"I have a restaurant picked out and everything!"

Miss White refuses to back down, all smiles as she too finally finds a seat.

"She flies like a gull! Fits her perfectly."

Her expression wavers for a moment. It turns to a wistful smile.

"He got to go out doing what he believed in. Like a real hero. Don't ever forget him. Thanks to him, he might have just given you hope for your sister here. And more than that, maybe for all of the Pretty Cure Phantom locked up."

Suzuki Natsume has posed:
     Suzu shrugs slightly towards Miss White at the comment. "I am ... acceptable. Parental issues happened." She says, wrinkling her nose a bit. That had made things worse than anything. Arguments had meant she didn't sleep properly last night at all. She reaches to take the offered SD cards, giving a small nod. "Alright. Thank you. Your Device should already have the combat data Verdrehen Sturm recorded." Suzu says softly, thinking on that. Hmm. Who /could/ she give the SD to? Maybe she'll have to text Mamoru later.

     Maybe that sailor lady who had the techy stuff going on. Yes. That's probably a good option! ... Mamoru hopefully would know how to contact her. Ugh. Just going through Mamoru felt like she was using him though. Suzu lifts her hands to rub at her face quietly. She was definitely tired.

     In fact, after she settled down in a seat, she fell asleep shortly after hearing mention of something about dates from Gull. A brief nap! A few minutes later and she's shifted and eyes opened quickly. "Mmmh? Oh. Sorry about that." Suzu mumbles softly. "It took a lot of energy to shield and deflect those attacks of his ..." She mumbles. She had only really attacked once that fight directly, but shields weren't her device's specialty, so it took a lot out of her.

     "Anyway, uhm. Aki-san. I hope you enjoy the snacks." She pauses. She looks towards Haruna. "...So. Uhm. You seem to know a good handful of the others in the city ... can you uhm. Point me in a somewhat ... right direction? ... Being solo or only meeting up coincidentally is ... not ... really working."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Aki continues to stare between Haruna and White for a bit. She swallows her food. "Well, Haruna." she smiles. "I was looking forward to embarsssing you in front of boys but it looks like I'm going to need to shift focus." she insists. Haruna blinks and blushes. "H-hey!" she huffs and points! "I'm.. a lot better! Around---everyone I like!" she huffs at Aki.

Aki smiles softly as she continues to eat. "I know. I know. From my prespective it's only been.... like a day." she admits softly. "I feel so terrible, Haruna." she admits softly. "From my prespective, I saw you yesterday and your hair was shorter and you were going to stay inside because it was cold and you just wanted to read and you said to try to be back early...." she says softly with a sad smile. She peeks back at Suzu. "Virtue. That's who you want." Aki says.

Haruna nods matter of factly. "Virtue. You're going to want to speak to..Tsukasa-sensei... or Hotori-kun." she says softly. "I can give you both thier numbers. I gotta talk to Victory about that, too...." she mutters.

"Do you want me to use your real name or...." Haruna offers.

"They respect identity."

"Yeah and you broke mine." says Aki coyly.

Haruna huffs! "W...Well!"

Aki grins. "Don't worry. I think things are better for it. Besides. Eh. If you trust these people with who you are...." she says.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White gives a thumbs up to Suzuki. She tries to not look concerned. She can guess almost exactly how it went down.

"Hey, hang in there. Those kind of issues go away eventually, right?"

Then she's standing up as Suzuki awakens, grabs an extra blanket, and throws it over her.

"Get comfy. We all had it taken out of us last night. You and Gull especially."

Suzuki has a point.

"It's not safe." She agrees.

Miss White lets the two sisters have their reunion, politely looking away but not able to hide her smile.

She finally looks back to Aki after the talk of Virtue ends.

"You'll have to tell me all of her embarrassing secrets, Aki!"

Then, more seriously, she 'looks' at the other girl.

"What are you going to do now? Civilian life, or are you going to get back in the game?"

Suzuki Natsume has posed:
     Aki speaks, and Suzu listens. Haruna speaks with Aki... and Suzu watches and listens further! They're ... actually something that makes Suzuki a bit jealous. Siblings! They're very cute together! Suzuki sits quietly and then... 'Virtue'. Suzu gives a small nod, as she calmly stands and begins to walk towards Aki's bedside. She lifts her hands and reaches... to give Aki a hug. "...I hope that you can feel better and adjust as well as you can. If there's anything I can do to help, please ask." She says, pulling out a small notepad and a pen from her bag. She tears off a piece of paper and then jots down her phone number, which she then holds out for Aki. "Here. Call me if you ever need me. Or text!"

     Paaause. She looks towards Haruna, tiltin her head. "You uhm... don't ... need to give me their numbers. You just mentioned the name of my headmaster and one of the Guardians from Seiyou Academy." Suzu says softly, giving a soft chuckle. "...Who knew that things were so close." She adds, stretching slightly. "...Honestly, at this point... either way works. I'll probably approach Tsukasa-sensei during a lunch break or after school tomorrow." Suzu says, giving a small nod.

     Aki is given a small smile. "If it makes you feel any better, unless I see you henshin I probably won't recognize you if you don't introduce yourself." Suzu says with an amused little smile towards Aki. "Oh. So that we're not just dancing around things." Suzu crosses a hand around her waist and the other around her back.

     "I am Suzuki Natsume, the Knight of Rolling Storms; Or Storm Knight for short." Suzuki says softly, slowly straightening up again. "It's a pleasure to meet you. And I'm glad to see you well."

     "Either it will go away, or things will break." Suzu says softly towards Miss White, settling in that chair again. Just in time to be blanketed. She looks at the blanket, then at Miss White, before she just decides to quietly accept it. "It's very not safe. I'm rapidly finding that I'm finding that things are frequently in a situation where stuff is faster, or stronger ... or both." Suzu says, wrinkling her nose a bit as she settles a bit more, falling quiet as Miss White begins to question Aki.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa smiles. "You can rest here. Nurses won't bother ya, I don't think." she says to Suzuki.

Aki looks at White-chan. "Well. I'm getting back to doing what I do best." she smiles wide. "That's being a Pretty Cure. Besides. I have a dream." she grins. She looks at Suzu and returns the hug softly. "It's okay.." she smiles. "Thanks for watching out for my sister n' all while I was. somewhere." she says.

Haruna nods matter of factly. "We're gonna be a team. Like she wanted! It's gonna be neat!"

"THUNDER FORCE PRECURE!" screams Aki as she suddenly leaps up out of bed, points a finger skyward and then wide eyes and /erks/......"Ow......"

Haruna shrieks! "AKI WHY DID YOU DO THAT!?" she begins to help Aki get down back into bed. Aki laughs painedly. "Ahaha---I got..stuck. In the moment. I felt I had to pose..." she grumbles. "Some--- things never get out of your system I guess." she says. Haruna sighs and pats Aki's side. "Rest. No one's taking you away ever again." she insists. A fact, as far as she's concerned.

"Also---that name is HIDEOUS!" she giggles.

She smiles at White-chan. "I'm sure she'll tell you everything but there's not much she can tell...I wasn't very exicting." she says meekly. "That long ago. And--she wouldn't know the recent things." she insists.

"No. But I know someone who will."

Corvus begins whistling innocently.

Haruna frowns and crosses her arms.

"She's Cure Tide." says Haruna. "Aki is Cure Tide." she nods. Aki also nods weakly. Ow!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White sighs.

"Well, at least you have an 'in' to some permanent allies. Just be careful. You know how dangerous things are right now. But just like last night, you can overcome powerful foes with enough allies." She doesn't elaborate on the family stuff right now.

Miss White smiles.

"...Really? Well. I'll be interested to see what kind of dream you have. And if you have the determination to see it through."

Then takes a step back, only to bust out laughing.

"That's....that's something else!"

A deep breath to calm herself after she letz the two banter.

"You two are definitely a proper pair."

Heh heh heh!

"Corvus, Aki, you two and I need to have lunch some time." YOu're doomed, Haruna!

Suzuki Natsume has posed:
     Suzu shifts under her blanket, listening to Aki and Haruna some more... and then... when Aki leaps out of bed. Suzu's hand lifts from under the blanket, covers her mouth... and she ... ~GIGGLES~. It's only for a couple of moments, and if anyone looks towards her, Suzu suddenly shifts back to how she was before, pretending very carefully that she hadn't just done that. Looking calm. Cool. And ... probably a little sleepy, really.

     "The other day, Haruna-chan was there at the arcade while I was spending time with a close mutual friend of ours ... she was trying to be a ninja. She was being so bad at it though." Suzu says, her lips twitching upwards briefly in amusement. "I think she could have been less stealthy though. If she'd said 'nin nin nin' or something of the sort... but only a little." Suzu adds. Was she ... teasing?! Dun dun dun!

     "It's a pleasure, as I said, Cure Tide; and Aki-san." Suzu says softly, bowing her head towards her. "I hope you enjoy the snacks I brought. I uhm. Didn't know what you liked, so I uhm. Got ... a little of ... well, not /everything/ but... well." Everything that the store that she'd visited had. It even had some gum and mints in there somewhere! And one of those comically oversized multi-colored lolipops.

     "Of course, Miss White. I don't have much interest in being kidnapped again. Or defeated." Suzuki says softly towards her, giving a small smile towards the 'dark' magical girl. SHe takes a small breath as she thinks on things. Hmm. She was actively a bit weak right now, in front of her rival; a person who she SHOULD consider a danger to her. But ... it wasn't ... that simple. She supposes. Things aren't black and white. Or Storm Knight and Miss White as the case may be.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna blushes. "That was not me! That was Cute Ninja Gullwing-chan!" she insists. Corvus asides. "Haruna does a bad job at being sneaky." he saids to Suzuki. "Really bad." he reiterates.

"I WASN'T MEDDLING!" she insists. No one accused her of such a thing so Haruna crosses her arms.

Aki grins. "We'll do lunch sometimes, sure when...I can move again. Shouldn't be long. Probably set myself back a day with that stunt. My dream is simple. It's not a secret." she insists. "But we'll talk about it then-- and, Yeah that name stunk, I'll think on it."

Haruan sighs and folds her arms again and hrmphs. Sour!

Haruna smiles at Suzuki however. "Virtue is nice people, Suzu-chan. Talk to them. Bring Victory if you can." she says.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"Wait...Haruna? A ninja!?"

Snicker. Snicker snicker. Hannah falls to the floor rolling about at this mental image!

Give her a few moments everyone! She'll eventually drag herself back to her seat.

"Well, get stronger, and /maybe/ you won't have to worry about that. Of course, with me around, that second one miiiight just not be possible, huh?" Teases the woman darkly, grinning that feral grin of hers like she's ready for a fight.

Then she slumps back down into her seat.

"...Later though. I doubt I could fight a wet paper bag at the moment."

Miss White stands up, and gives a thumbs-up to Aki.

"Sounds good. Anyway. I should get some rest myself before the board members start wondering where I am and what I'm up to. Suzuki, Haruna, see you two later, okay? Aki? Will be looking forward to it."

She grins at the pair, and then steps out, yawning all the while.