933/Unexpected Gifts

Unexpected Gifts
Date of Scene:	27 January 2016
Location:	The AM/PM Mini Market
Synopsis:	After returning from Paris, Usagi has a present for Kyouko!
Cast of Characters:	Usagi Tsukino, Kyouko Sakura

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Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko is at work. She often is, when she's not hunting Witches or stirring up trouble or any of the other stuff she does on a daily basis. Unlike a lot of people she knows, she's on her own, and doesn't have much money. If she wants to keep eating without stealing and pay rent on her tiny-but-livable apartment, both important steps in her 'be a better person' plan, she needs to work a lot of the time.

    She doesn't mind it, though. She actually kinda enjoys it. The lady who owns the conbenie is old, and so Kyouko ends up actually doing a lot of the work to keep the store running, and she finds it satisfying. She's never been the 'brainy' type, and this is a job she can do where she feels like she's accomplishing something, helping somebody out, and providing people with much needed snacks and lottery tickets at the same time!

    That 'Last Chance Dance' is later today, though, and she's thinking about showing up. Not that she's that fatalistic about Walpurgisnacht, but there's always the chance... she wants to say something to Mami, in case she doesn't get the chance later. Expressing her feelings has never been easy for Kyouko, and she's dwelling on it a bit, kind of dreading it, when she gets the text from Usagi asking to meet up after she gets off work.

    That makes her smile, at least, and she promises to meet the girl on the street corner near her conbenie, which is on the way to the park where the dance is. So, after she gets done at the shop, she heads in that direction.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi is happy, happy, happy! that Kyouko agreed to meet with her. After all, the best part about getting someone a gift is seeing their reaction to it. And the suspense on whether or not it would be liked has been gnawing her leg off! Clean off! Like a very gnawed on leg!

So she waits, bouncing in place, shifting from one foot to another as a rather hoity toity Paris shopping bag sways from her wrist and the two cups of cocoa in her hands are in danger sloshing out the tiny little holes on the lids.

When Kyouko comes into view, Usagi beams and goes to wave, but alas her hands are full, so she settles on a body wiggle. She's waving with her body! It's a thing!

"Kyou-kun~!"

How did she start calling her Kyou-kun, again? Ah well, who knows. It fits!

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko is walking down the street with her hands in the pocket of her hoodie, seeming a bit subdued, likely because she's still dwelling on what she intends to say to Mami later. But when she sees Usagi, she grins her toothy, lopsided grin, unable to help herself at seeing the body-wiggle-wave. She pulls a hand out of her pocket to wave. It has a stick of Pocky in it, which goes into her mouth.

    "Hey, hon." She greets as she gets near, a nickname of equally mysterious origin that she uses exclusively for Usagi, but it also seems to fit in her mind. "What's up?" She glances at the shopping bag but doesn't pay it too much attention, assuming it is just a purchase Usagi has made for herself. "How was Paris?" She tilts her head slightly.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"The non-work bits were fun! I didn't understand anything people said. But there's this app! A lot of the people were nice and let me talk to them with it. And I saw the Eiffel Tower! It's huge! But best of all! People Presents!"

She's bouncing now, giddy and happy and excited. "Okay, so I found something that's so cute and adorable and pretty and it just screamed your name so I had to get it so so so--" She lifts the hand with the Paris bad around her wrist. "Also this hot cocoa is for you!"

She bounces, her excitement growing. "And and and I tried it on and it's a little big on me, so hopefully that means it'll fit! Because you're taller and have more of those muscles than I do!"

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko laughs a little as Usagi talks about Paris and the various upsides. She's never been out of the country- hell, she's never been out of the Prefecture, so to her it seems like another world, even more so than a Witch Labyrinth. "That's really cool." She says, and means it.

    Then Usagi mentions having gotten her a gift, and she blinks, glancing at the bag. "For me?" She hesitates- in the past, she's never been one who liked getting gifts, often because she was never in a position to reciprocate, which made her feel like a leech. But, well.. Usagi just seems so excited about it, and Kyouko can't help but find that infectious.

    She reaches out and carefully unhooks the bag from Usagi's wrist, peering at it without opening it yet. "Oh, it's heavy.. you better not have gone overboard.." She warns, but affectionately. "Can I look?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
She's wiggling again, now, happy and excited but also nervous! "Of course you can! Please, please, please! And aieeee I hope you like it!" Then her eyes widen, hoping she's not forcing Kyouko to like it! "But it's okay if you don't! Or if you don't want to wear it!" Back to wiggle bouncing! "But I still hope you do!"

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko pulls out the bundle of cloth from the bag. It feels really soft and nice in her hands, but at first she's not sure what it is. Then it unfolds and drops open, and she can see it's a coat, holding it up in front of her. It looks like it'll fit, alright!

    Her eyes widen and she stares at it for a moment mutely, her mouth open. Then her eyes fill up with tears. "Wow.." She breaths.. "It's beautiful.." There's almost a subtext of 'too beautiful for someone like me' in there, but that remains unspoken.

    A moment later she hugs it to her chest. The grin she gives Usagi is a little stunned, and her eyes glisten. "Wow! It's awesome! I love it!" She exclaims.. then she reaches out and thwaps Usagi lightly with the back of her hand. "And it looks expensive! Dammit, Usagi, you probably paid more than I make in a week for this coat!"

    But she's laughing and still hugging it to her chest anyway.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
She giggles at the light thwap. "But Kyou-kun! That's the beauty of it!" She leans in close, voice in a whisper. "It was on saaaaale! But even if it weren't! It's just too Kyou-kun not to be yours." A very sage nod.

She is, of course, Usagi, and hears the subtle subtext. "And Kyou-kun is beautiful, too." Another sage nod.

"And don't worry! I got me stuff, too! Wanna see? Look!" She pulls out her phone and scrolls through images until she finds one of the things she tried on in the dressing room. "This nighty looks like it'll be sooooo comfy in the summer."

It is, of course, sheer and black and perhaps not designed to actually be slept in, but this is Usagi.

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko is still a bit overwhelmed. This is officially the second gift she's gotten in the past..three years? Four? And both of them have been super expensive (by her standards) and from people she likes. She sniffes just a little, but luckily for her pride she doesn't actually cry. After a moment she pulls the coat away from herself and swings it on, sliding her arms in and buttoning up the front. It does fit! "How does it look?" She asks almost nervously, turning a bit this way and that.

    Then Usagi is flashing her pictures that belong in a bedroom, and she blushes just a little. "Hon! That's not the kind of picture you should be flashing around in public!" She chides, but she can't help but laugh because Usagi obviously means exactly what she says. "It's nice." She says, but is still looking down at her new coat in semi-stunned pleasure!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi squeals and claps her hands! "It looks perfect! Oh I'm so happy!" A giggle and a hug for Kyouko!

And then she's blinking in confusion. And looks down at the picture, tilting the phone this way and that. "What do you mean? I know the lighting isn't the best. And I'm not flashing it in public, I'm showing it to you!"

Much confusion!

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko is hugged! Which momentarily panics her as Usagi is still holding two cups of hot cocoa /and/ her phone, somehow, and Kyouko is terrified she's going to get hot cocoa on her amazing new coat! She manages to extricate herself and then reaches for the 2nd cup of cocoa to help free up some Usagi-hand-space. "Don't worry about it." She sighs at the confusion about the picture.

    She smiles, but looks more serious as she says, "Thanks a lot Usagi, I mean it. I just hope I can repay you someday. I ain't been in a position to receive or give many gifts the last few years so it's still a bit of a shock to me but.. I'm starting to remember why people do it." Unconsciously, her hand raises to the red and gold hairpin in her hair, her Christmas gift from Sayaka.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi shrugs and puts the phone back in her pocket. "Okay, then. But since you asked, I won't go waving it about all willy nilly!"

Kyouko's unconscious fingering of the hairpin sets off one of Usagi's own, but instead pulling a locket out from her jacket.

It might have been my mother's.

"You don't have to repay me, Kyou-kun. I got it for you because I love you! And that you like it is sooooooo awesome!"

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko blushes a little more at the L-word even though she knows Usagi doesn't mean it like that. She's had that word on her mind a bit recently, and not being the type to throw it around, it brings her thoughts around to other areas she has to banish with a quick shake of her head. "Well.. still. Thanks." She says after a moment, smiling.

    "I'm still new to the whole 'having friends' thing, so it means a lot. C'mon, you're going to the dance, right?" She asks, spinning in her pretty new coat and offering her arm to Usagi in a gentlemanly fashion.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"You're welcome~!" She is one Very Happy bunny. Kyouko likes her coat! Success!

And then she giggles, curling her hand through the offered crooked elbow. "Why yes I am! Are you offering to escort me?"

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    "I happen to be on the way there myself, so I think I can do that." Kyouko says happily, as Usagi takes her arm, and she sets off down the sidewalk.

    She has a friend, hot cocoa, and a fancy new coat! Kyouko is a happy girl.