Momoko began wetting a towel she withdrew from her bag in the sink. When it was sufficiently waterlogged, she turned to her twin sister. Without delay, she lifted up the back of her sister's shirt and pressed the wet towel against the rash, in a bid to try and clean out the scratch.
edited 3rd Apr '12 7:25:22 PM by AnnoR
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."While normally ever vigilant, Yuki had, stupidly, chosen thos one moment to let her guard down.
And a moment was all it took.
Her face turned beet red as she straightened up, gasping softly...
...And, doing her best to retain what composure she had at the moment, bowed politely to her visitor.
"Um... H-hello, Rensaki-san... Did you.... did you need to use this sink? The water is... very nice. It.... It's a good sink..."
She paused, and, if possible, turned redder.
"...N-not.... Not that I'm enjoying it too much! It's just a sink, after all!"
She paused nervously, then poked her index fingers together nervously before grabbing Hikaru's wrist and starting to make her way, as quickly as she could manage, back tot he secluded area of the locker room where she changed, beckoning with her free hand for Hikaru to follow. She didn't really want to have to pull Hikaru... Or, more likely, utterly fail to pull Hikaru and wind up hurting herself.
edited 3rd Apr '12 7:39:38 PM by Scrounge
Hikaru blinked, a bit startled by the force with which she was pulled by. Hoshizaki was stronger than she looked. Nonetheless, she didn't say anything and quickly turned away while the other girl finished changing.
She hovered, unsure if Yuki would want her to stick around or not.
edited 3rd Apr '12 9:17:41 PM by IchigoNeko
Avatar from http://x0whitelily0x.livejournal.com/7486.htmlYuki fidgeted a little, then gently placed her hands on Hikaru's shoulders, gently turning around. She hadn't bothered to get dressed, and was very clearly nervous...
"...Y-you.... It's my own fault you caught me like this... but... please don't tell anyone... You can.... I... promise I'll show you anything you want... As long as you keep it a secret."
The pale girl's expression suddenly turned serious as she stared into Hikaru's eyes.
"But I swear to Himuro, Rensaki, that if you tell a soul... I'll tell the whole school you were peeping on me. I... want to trust you... but I'm scared you'll make me regret it..."
She blushed, suddenly softening again.
"...But... Well... This whole thing is my fault... So I promise I'll do whatever you want if you just keep it a secret..."
Hikaru blinked, confused, as the other girl talked.
"Hoshizaki-San...." she said slowly. "I'm not going to extort you. You don't have to...to try to bribe me," she added, blushing slightly. "I promise I won't tell, alright?" she finished gently, sticking a pinky out as proof.
Avatar from http://x0whitelily0x.livejournal.com/7486.html"It's not a bother, Hyou-chan," Kanako responded, but held herself back from actually massaging the girl's shoulder. Delinquent she might try to be, but that didn't entail violating a friend's request regarding not being touched.
"No idea, but it's probably going to be boring," she answered the question and then asked, "You in any clubs? I was considering the music club, but my voice is really unique and I don't think many people there would approve of it. Probably I'll just go home and do.. stuff."
Avatar from: http://x0whitelily0x.livejournal.com/5953.html N: 5 F, 0/40 S"Oh! What?" said Kyoku, shaking her head and blinking. "Clubs? Coincidentally, I'm in the music club... You see, I play the flute and the guitar. I've my flute in my bag." She pointed to the schoolbag that was leaning on a nearby wall. "Sakura-chan says I play rather well, but she exaggerates. She is way better; if I'd succeed in convincing her — no small task, considering how she behaves — I highly recommend listening to her playing the violin, or the harpsichord. As to your voice... Shimada-chan, giving up before trying is a no-no;" —Kyoku wagged her finger at Kanako— "if you don't know, take the chance; life's better thataway, and as one of those boring people with unpronounceable names that Sakura-chan is wont to quote said, it's better to be sorry about things you've done than things you could but didn't, because the later is infinite while the first is not."
She smiled and tilted her head. "Besides, other people's opinion shouldn't matter overmuch to you! If you enjoy singing, do it!"
edited 4th Apr '12 11:50:21 AM by desdendelle
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.Torako made a tiny, almost imperceptible, whimper; it wasn't that she couldn't make any noise at all—she could, though nothing approximating speech for some reason*—but rather that she preferred not to in case people got strange ideas. She didn't want to go through several years of someone's falsely assuming that enough metaphorically prodding her would finally get some response.
Either way, this stung, and it broke her normal self control a little.
"Flute, huh? Can't say that I've ever met anyone who could play one," Kanako replied as she took her bag out of the locker and set it down on the bench, "Maybe I should drop in at the meeting to hear how good you are. I'd ask what kind of music you play with it, but honestly I'd rather be surprised."
She paused to pull her backpack over her shoulders before adding, "It's not that I don't enjoy it, I'm just... bad. Probably the worst singing voice you'll ever hear even if you were to live a thousand years. That's not something that just anyone can boast though! Really it's something I'm pretty proud of, but I don't think I should trouble others in your club by performing. However, if you promise to play something, I'll be there to cheer you on. Deal?"
Avatar from: http://x0whitelily0x.livejournal.com/5953.html N: 5 F, 0/40 S"Deal," said Kyoku. "I don't know whether you're just self-deprecating or you're telling the truth and you're really horrible. Though, if I should believe you," she said and chuckled —her shoulders and chest shook— "you're venturing into the So Bad, It's Good territory, eh? Stuff like that has charm of its own; look at the stuff Sakura reads (the stuff I can understand, anyway; she knows a lot more languages than me), for example — it's weird and sometimes written badly, but is still rather entertaining..."
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home."I don't think there's anyway I'd be considered good or charming with my voice. It's like it's bad in all the right ways to irritate anyone who likes music. I'd give you a preview but the girls in here would all go deaf," Kanako replied with a giggle of her own, "Think I'll just stick to appreciating everyone else's talents. And maybe looking intimidating to keep rabid fans at bay.."
She realized it was close to time to head to the next class, so she smiled and concluded, "We'd better get going, Hyou-chan. Don't want the next teacher to get upset because we're late, right? She might be even more weird than Miyashita-sensei. I look forward to this afternoon!"
With that she started towards the door, actually singing a little bit under her breath. Unlike how she'd boasted it was her normal voice, honed through a few years in her mission school's choir. The choice of song was something traditional and simple, but unless anyone was close enough they would be unlikely to hear.
edited 4th Apr '12 12:22:31 PM by Bombadillo
Avatar from: http://x0whitelily0x.livejournal.com/5953.html N: 5 F, 0/40 S"All-righty," said Kyoku. She got up and shouldered her bag. "I'd say I can't imagine a weirder teacher than Miyash'ta-sensei, but that'd be Tempting Fate and about as foolish as letting Sakura lecture you about Hegel or Camus..."
Following Kanako, she whistled softly; a particularly observant listener would notice that she was whistling one of Bach's suites for solo cello.
Momoko frowned further at the whimper.
"I know it stings, Torako-chan, but I need to clean out the scratch," she replied, wiping at her sister's back a bit more. Well, this was wonderful. Hopefully the itching powder was just irritating her skin, and not causing a far worse allergic reaction of some kind.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."Hikaru's eyes widened slightly. She glanced around briefly before placing her hands over the other girl's.
"Hoshizaki-san. You do not deserve to be coerced because I walked in on you," she said firmly. "It was an accident, I didn't see much of anything, and even if I had we are in the locker room and it's virtually impossible to avoid stuff like that. Okay?" she finished gently, giving a small smile to the other girl.
"I think we should continue this conversation once we're out of the locker room—I'm not even sure where we're supposed to be right now—but I'm not going to tell anyone, and you don't have to show me anything you don't want to."
If she was the type to pry into other people's problems, she'd consider Yuki's statement to be rather worrying. Wasn't the other girl overreacting a bit...?
...wait, had Hikaru just said 'show me anything you want'?
edited 4th Apr '12 2:55:11 PM by IchigoNeko
Avatar from http://x0whitelily0x.livejournal.com/7486.html"Right... I think it's washed out by now," Momoko said, taking a step back and turning to wring the towel out over the sink. After it was properly dried as much as possible, she put it away and turned back to her sister. "The nurse should probably check it out, though."
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."Yuki bowed politely but solemnly, and turned towards her locker.
"...I'm sorry my body is so disgusting to you, Rensaki-san..."
She didn't even bother with her bra or stockings, instead quickly putting her blouse on and quickly buttoning it with far more speed than accuracy, before putting her skirt on crookedly and standing.
She quickly stuffed whatever was left for her to put on... including her shoes... into her backpack, atop her books, and began walking, as quickly as she could without actually running. towards the locker room door.
She had no idea what her schedule was for the rest of the day, but she was sure that, if nothing else, lunch period would provide her with a chance to get dressed properly, and to do it without putting on a show for anyone.
edited 4th Apr '12 4:25:05 PM by Scrounge
"Wha—of course it's not—"
The normally taciturn mage was left struggling for words once she heard Yuki's reply. Unfortunately, it seemed she couldn't quite get a coherent sentence out quickly enough to divert the other girl's attention.
Hikaru gave a quiet sigh, waiting a few minutes before following Yuki out. She'd try to apologize later. Once she figured out what, exactly, she was apologizing for—she'd been trying to calm the girl down, not hurt her feelings...
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Once class was dismissed, Hikaru quickly ran to the changing room and got out of her uniform, efficently pulling on her normal clothes. She noted that the itching seemed to have stopped—which was good, it looked like her skin was a little red from the scratching. She knew she needed to cut her fingernails...
Not really watching where she was going, she somehow wound up near the sink where Yuki was...and thus looked up to an eyeful of topless Yuki. The mage's face went scarlet and she quietly attempted to back away before she was seen, knowing as she did so that the attempt was probably futile—it looked like Hoshizaki would be able to see her in the mirror...
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