Reikoi > Hey Nagisa, help me commit a crime of love. ;_; Meet me out at the gardens! At Midnight! No henshin just um. Um. be a ninja!
This was the text Nagisa got. So Reiko was standing outside the botanical gardens with a black pack. Also. She had a black band with eyeholes poked out around her face.
Also, she was carrying a stuffed koi.
Also, there's fruit snacks in the backpack!
Asigan2007 > W-what?!
Half a minute passes.
Asigan2007 > Oh..! Do you mean the special roses? I'll be there soon as I can!!
Ten or so minutes later she's arriving at the park, what looks like a blanket wrapped around her with a stocking cinched around it at the neck to make it act more like a hooded cloak.
It's more brown then black, but at least it's really dark!
Upon seeing a figure standing around she hides behind a tree and hisses out quietly, "Psst psst! Reiko..! Is that you..?!"
She's what looks like small gardening pruning snips in her hands.
Reiko Touyama beams! "It is. I hope this disguise works well. I don't think there's anyone in the gardens though. Okay. Um..." She opens her backpack and pulls out a string of sheets tied to other sheets. Then she ties the end around the koi plush.
"Go Mister Bloopy!" she calls out--- obviously the plushies name---- and throws it upwards, at a tree branch that sticks out from over the fence. It wraps around and Reiko 'hahs!' and smiles. "Can you climb stuff like this?" she asks softly at Nagisa. "I can carry you on my back..!"
She pauses. "Right. Using Magic. Cheating! You need to WORK for the magical love rose!" she insists.
Nagisa runs out when Reiko responds to her, pushing her hood back just for a moment and giving a bright smile. It also reveals why she needs it- her white hair sticks out like a sore thumb if any light hits it!
She giggles as the plushy koi 'flies' up and wraps around the treebranch. She looks at it skeptically for a moment before commenting, "I... I'll try!"
Cue several attempts of trying to get her tiny noodle arms to lift her weight to no avail.
"I'm afraid I'm going to need to rely on you, Reiko-chan..."
She looks a bit shyly to Reiko then, "Are you sure? It'll be a lot harder with extra weight." A moment later she adds, "I can wear your backpack for you so we don't have to leave it!"
Reiko Touyama watches Nagisa try and nods. She takes off her backpack and has Nagsia piggyback! When she's on. She begins climbing. She manages to climb up, but this takes a few minutes gets onto the tree branch, and begin shimmying across the branch before...."Ekkkkkk!"
They fall down on the side of the gate into a bush----that isn't a rose bush because thorns hurt! But it does break thier fall. She peeks her head out. "Aha!" she says quietly. "We're in!" she beams.
Nagisa is luckily pretty light even for her age, but the extra weight will still probably give Reiko a workout! She lets out a cry of surprise as they go tumbling down into the bush.
A moment after Reiko's her head pops out of the bush, the girl looking around. "That was close." She stifles a giggle since they're being sneaky and slips out of the bush. She goes over to a different one, a bit to the north, looks around a bit, and waves Reiko over. "Um... is it any specific rose you need? There's a lot of them here."
Reiko Touyama nrgs. "The special...pink ones. There on the otherside...I think. This place is....um...." she looks around. "Spooky at night. Eek...." she begins to tip toe on the path as she peeks into the water along the path. Awww. It's too late to see any koi.
She pulls out a tiny plastic koi and squeezes it.
It's a tiny flashlight from the mouth!
"Just call me Kaito Koi-chan~" she giggles.
"The pink ones, okay!" she says cheerfully... only to slums. a little, "I don't know where they are." Hopefully Reiko does!
She can't stifle her next giggle as Reiko's plastic koi ends up being a flahslight, and she beams brightly to her friend, "You thought of everything! Maybe I didn't need to bring a pair of pruning shears."
Nagisa looks around a bit before making a face, "Do you know where they are, Reiko-chan? It's all kinda muddled and grey at night."
After a moment she blinks a few times and then sneaks closer to Reiko, trying to hide behind her.
Reiko Touyama eek! "No...I actually. Forgot those. So it's good you have those!" she smiles.
She walks along the path and...pink rose bush! Eeee!
"Nagisa...gimme the shears..." she says gently. While this is happening there's FOOTSTEPS! Behind the two. She turns and eeks! and grab Nagsia and runs around the rosebush and hides getting down to her knees a bit to keep a lower profile.
"Ah...!? Someone else!?" she asks silently to herself and Nagsia. "Nrg...! I hope it's not a security guard....!" she says.
She tries to see who it is stealthily!. But it's too dark out.
Nagisa smiles happily- she's going to be a help!
When they get to the bush of pink roses she sneaks close to the bush, sniffing one of the lower ones a bit before peering at it, wondering about any magic that might be in it now that it's closer to midnight. She's never been here this late at night and she knows magic exists... so maybe the rumors are true?!
Except suddenly she's yanked aside with an, "Eek!"
When Reiko mentions someone else being there the small girl cowers behind her. "I hope it's not Griselda..." she whispers quietly.
Where did that come from?
"We're not supposed to use magic..!"
Reiko Touyama hides. and there's some chatting...
"Hey...here they are. Come on...hurry up...!"
Theres rustling on the otherside of the bush. Some snipping...and footsteps away. She waits a bit and then peeks out and points her koilight into the path. "...they're gone...." she says as she walks back out around the bush. And then turns around to face the bush....
"...THEY'RE GONE!" she shrieks. Indeed! The Rosebush is now bare!
"Ack what was that?" says a louder voice down the way. "Who cares, let's run!" says the other male voice.
Reiko whinnnnnes in defeat. She kind of begins spastically trying to search around the bush.
Nagisa slowly creeps out after Reiko, peeking around carefully and trying to hand her the shears, only for the roses to already be missing.
All of them.
"Hey!" the elementary school student shouts, "That's not fair at all!"
Her attempts at stealth are disappear when she hears the boys voices- these don't scare her a bit.
As Reiko whines and flails at the bush Nagisa charges off in the direction of the voices, "Get back here you jeeeeeerks! You don't have to take them all and ruin everyone else's chance for love. At least give us -one-!"
She's waving her arms in the air as she chases after them as fast as she can run.
As she goes her impromptu hood flops off from all her energetic movement, letting her long white hair stream behind her.
Combined with her partially red eyes and the blanket flapping behind her she almost looks like some sort of tiny evil spirit come to life.
"Ah a Ghost!" screams an older boy. "Ah....! Get over the fence!" the two older boys crawl over the fence and begin to run away, with thier own backpack it seems. Nagisa doesnt get to them intime and she's def. not climbing that iron gate. "N..Nagsia get back here...!" she whines. She looks back into the bush...
"Ah...! There's still one left...." she says as she bites her lip. She goes to take the pruning shears and reaches in to clip...and...
She comes out with the tinyist, pitiful pink rose. She looks a little sad. "Awww...it's so small." she says.
"But...I got it!" she says.
She holds it out to Nagsia. "See!" she says.
As the boys run off she chases after them, but unfortunately her tiny legs don't carry her very fast. "Hey! Wait!" And then as they disappear, "I'M NOT A GHOST!"
After possibly giving the boys the fright of their life she walks gloomily back over to the rosebush and Reiko.
When Nagisa gets back it's just in time to see the little rose. "...there's nothing wrong with being tiny..."
Brushing off the momentary indignation she looks at the little rose closer and giggles, "I think it's perfect, Reiko-chan. It's not just little..."
She gives her friend a shining bright smile, "It's the fresh bud of new love!"
Reiko Touyama Ahs... "Nrg...I wanted bigger..but..." she carefully reaches into her backpack and pulls out a hard case, and places the rose carefully inside and puts it back in the backpack--- the hardcase so it doesn't get smooshed, of course!
She beams! "Yup! I just... hope... he at least likes it..." she says looking down. "I guess it's kinda silly to belive in a love legend about roses you steal from a garden..." she says with a blush. "But! We'll see!" she says. She begins to walk back towards the tree with her koilight. And then she pauses and looks back to NAgisa. "Ah...thanks for..helping me Nagisa!" she says with a smile!
Nagisa watches as the rose is placed carefully into the case.
She smiles to her friend since she seems happy now that she's gotten the magical rose she came for. "I bet he will. Even if he doesn't believe the legend, he should realize how much your feelings for him mean to you if you're willing to act on them like this."
She follows back to the tree, giving the high branch a bit of a perplexed look, surprised a bit when she's spoken to. "Oh, um... you're welcome, Reiko-chan! I'm really glad I was able to help. But now that I did, you need to tell me how things turn out!" Another smile, cheerful and a bit playful this time too.
Calming down a little she pokes her fingers together, "Also, can you tell me about who it's for?" She giggles a bit.
Reiko Touyama gets to the tree and turns around. "Climb on my back! I can climb trees." she says. As she waits for this... Nagsia asks who it's for. She blushes. "Um. There's a boy...I met in a .. magical hospital..." she murmurs. "He was like... a king. and.. handsome and..." she just kind of blushes. "I know his name is Tadase though." she says softly. "He goes to Seiyou!" she says.
She begins to climb the tree. This takes a lot of effort and she needs to pause as she crawls up the trunk.
Nagisa climbs carefully up onto Reiko's back again, wrapping her arms around her shoulders and doing her best to hold tight without needing Reiko to steady her herself.
There's a blink as Reiko tells her who the rose is for, and the younger girl giggles. "I know who you're talking about! He's really nice- I met him when delivering treats from the Cooking Club to Seiyou's Guardians. He's their King's Chair!"
Her head tilts back and forth a little and she giggles, "I bet he's the kind of boy to really appreciate your doing this for him too."
Reiko Touyama blushes. "Yeah...he said something about that....I hope he does...." she says silently.
Oh, poor dear sweet Reiko!
Regardless She wraps the sheets around the branch of the trees and steals Bloopy back, Before descending down the sheets. She lands on her feet and give the sheets a tug...
"Ugh... I guess I can't get the sheets back. I don't think they'll be missed thou....they were old!" she says.
"We uh. Better. Get back home now. Want me to walk you home Nagsia?~" she asks.
Nagisa smiles quietly and doesn't embarrass Reiko any more than she already might have by mentioning the cute blonde boy.
She detaches once they're on the ground, dropping off of Reiko and looking up at the hanging sheets. "Well... they'll know someone was here, but I guess they would anyway since those boys took almost every rose."
She smiles then and looks up to Reiko, nodding, "Sure! We'll have to be quiet once I'm there though- I kinda snuck out without telling Papa."
She's happy just to get a bit more time to be around her friend!