Pocket Full of Posies [ Kiko et Rumi ]

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Ima couldn't put her finger on it, but she felt like she was being watched. Aiko told her she was being silly but what the loli chara wasn't telling her was that she also had a case of paranoia. Vaguely, Ima wondered if Easter Corp. realized she was a knight and was keeping tabs on her. After all, her sister had worked with them - maybe they wanted to scout her, or at least keep her away from solving the mystery behind Himeko's disappearance.

After her fifth period class it was now lunch time, and she went out to find Aiko who had disappeared on her. She found Aiko playing with another chara with cat ears, doing something along the lines of ring-around-the-rosies in the school garden.

"Another chara...?"

Aiko was enjoying herself with Mitsukai, glad to make a friend that wasn't Ima. "Ima-chan, come play with us!"

[Kiko/Hotaru]

"Matte, is this your master?!" Mitsukai asked, still spinning around. She had giving Kiko the slip, because she was doing something in the art room, and she had the luck to find Aiko. How delightful. Shortly after their meeting, both of the chara had decided to play ring around the rosies. Mitsukai smiled at Ima.

"Hello! I'm Mitsukai!" Mitsukai introduced herself, glomping Ima. The girl reminded Mitsukai vaguely of Kiko, and the cat chara had tooken an immediete liking to her.

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Meanwhile, farther away, Kiko was having a more miserable time. She had agreed to help the art teacher, but now the old lady was just abusing Kiko's work! Kiko had originally agreed to post up the best artworks, but the old lady had also made her organize the paint bottles, clean the brushes, and move the heavy canvases by herself.

And Mituskai had left her to do all of it!

When I find her, she is so going to get it! Kiko thought as one of the paint bottles opened and splattered over her dress.

"Oh yeah. Mitsukai is so going to get it." Kiko whispered malicously, glaring at the bright blue paint splat.

(I don't want to descirbe Kiko's clothes, so I'm posting up a pic so you can see it.XDD i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm153/lolitababyangel/P1020548.jpg)

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[ OOC: Understood, but...they're at school, so they wouldn't be wearing clothes. Japanese students in middle school and high school always have to wear uniforms. I'm pretty sure it's actually a law. ]

Aiko winced at Mitsukai's choice of words but recovered quickly. She shook her head and smirked deviously, looking at Ima as if she were merely a waste of space.

"Her? My master? Please! As if I'd let someone as pathetic as her control me."

Ima just stared at her, her expression clearly saying 'yeah right'. She wasn't mad nor unhappy with Aiko, but sometimes, Aiko could be a little brat. Ima flicked Aiko in the butt, making the lolita chara exclaim 'ow!' and rub her little bottom.

"And I'm sure you meant that in the most loving way possible, right, you ingrate?"

Aiko winked at Ima, smiling like a devil and giggling. "Of course!" Then Aiko glomped Mitsukai and took her cat-eared hat. Then she took off her little bowler hat with the red ribbon and placed it on Mitsukai's head while she wore Mitsukai's hat. "Look, look, Ima-chan! I character changed into Mitsukai-chan!"

"...pffft...!"

She had to cover her mouth with her hand to keep herself from bursting into laughter and 'awes'. The two of them together was just an overload of cuteness that she couldn't resist. Then she snapped out of it, realizing that meeting Mitsukai had been such a stroke of good luck.

There was another person at the school with a chara!

"Mitsukai-chan, where is your master?"

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[Kiko/Hotaru]

Mitsukai fiddled with Aiko's bowler hat, trying to make it cover both of her cat ears. It didn't work and the small hat only covered one of her ears. She considered Ima's question, twirling herself around.

"Mm, Kokiss? She's in the art room, helping the paint hag." Mitsukai sang, dancing to a silent beat. She floated over to Aiko and snatched her beanie back, giving Aiko her own bowler hat. Mitsukai put the beanie back on and floated back to the school building. "Let's go meet her, yeah?" Mitsukai said cheerfully. "Kokiss is shy, but she's lotsa fun! You'll love her! Let's go go go!" Mitsukai exclaimed.

(arg. Then forget the link and Kiko got paint on her uniform then...arg...so lame...)

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Ima followed Mitsukai, sighing as she had to hear Aiko and the cat chara discuss what sort of cakes were the best. The lolita chara was bad by herself, but now that she found a playmate, Ima could just imagine the trouble that the two would be able to uncover together.

She followed the two charas, accidentally pushing past a few people and unwittingly dropping her key chain next to the feet of a certain carrot top. She did not stop until she got to the art room - pathetic as she is, she was already out of breath.

"Where is she, Mitsu-chan?"

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[Kiko/Hotaru]

"IN HERE, IN HERE!" Mitsukai yelled, ignoring a very familiar scent. She opened the door of the art room and charged inside, officially tackling Kiko in the most viciously energitic hug ever. Kiko, being unprepared, fell down. Mitsukai can be strong when she wanted to be... "MEOW! KOKISS! I BROUGHT NEW FRIENDS!!!" Mitsukai yelled, floating back up. Kiko glared at her.

"What happened to the bathroom? What happened to I'll only be gone for a second?! HUH?!" Kiko yelled, grabbing Mitsukai and squeezing ever so slightly. Mitsukai grinned.

"KIKO! MEET AIKO-CHAN AND IMA-CHAN!" Mitsukai yelled, effectively stopping Kiko's rage. Kiko let go of her chara and blinked at Ima and Aiko.

Downloading Data...

Instantly Kiko blushed bright red and she bowed.

"H-Hello! Pleased to m-meet you. I-I'm Hirogawa Kiko." Kiko mumbled, anger being replaced by embarrasement. Mitsukai snickered.

[Rumi]

Shouta’s day had been peaceful so far, nothing out of the ordinary at all. That is until saw Mitsukai fly past him followed by two others he failed to recognize. Normally, the carrot top would have left and minded his own business for today he was supposed to meet some of his few close friends at a restaurant soon, but stopped when he noticed that the girl with raven hair had dropped something. Stooping down to examine it, he found that it was a small insignificant key chain.

“Ne, I think that girl dropped it.” His fox chara said with enthusiasm next to him. He always failed to cease to amaze him.

“Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Ryuu. I don’t know what I would do without you.” His comment was dry, but Ryuu hardly noticed.

“Let go then! This is much more exciting then going to eat at some restaurant.” With that, the chara left, leaving Shouta to stand in the middle of the hall sighing to him. It wasn’t soon later that Shouta found himself in the art room, but that was not the surprising part but the sight he saw before him. Kiko was red faced and stammering some apology to the raven haired girl while she merely watched. Ah, the things Shouta got himself into now that he met Kiko.

Sending the messy girl a bemused glance the carrot top came up from behind the raven haired and dangled the key chain in front of her eyes. “ Yours?” He said with the fewest words he could manage.

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The first thing that popped into both Ima and Aiko's collective minds as they met Kiko for the first time was one single word: cute! Ima also blushed and rubbed the back of her head, slightly ashamed of the frantic state she had been in only moments before. Aiko was much more polite and hovered over to Kiko and curtsied in the most polite and lady-like manner Ima had ever seen her chara possess.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Aiko-chan."

If the moment wasn't so serious, Ima would have rolled her eyes at Aiko. She was rarely this well-behaved. Rather, she bowed her head to Kiko as well and shyly stammered out her words.

"H-hey, it's nice to meet you. My name is...um..."

Ima blinked as she realized her key chain was being dangled before her, by a male student she had passed in the halls. She carefully plucked her keychain from him and turned around to face the new comer, her face just as red as Kiko's from before.

"Y-yes, thank you!

She bowed to Shouta and then noticed Ryuu being teased by Aiko. The lolita chara was scratching both Ryuu and Mitsukai behind the ears with each hand.

"Hey...you have a chara too! That's so great!"

Suddenly she blushed again, realizing that she was being rude and glanced from Kiko to Shouta and as she finally introduced herself. "My name is Murakami Ima. I'm the Peridot Knight."

[Kiko/Hotaru]

"H-Hello, Aiko-san, Murakami-san. Hey Korafu-kun. Ryuu-kun" Kiko greeted, raising her arm in an embarrassed wave. "I'm sorry about all the paint I'm wearing...The bottles were being rebellious today..." Kiko mumbled, the blush growing brighter. The other paint bottles had followed the blue bottle's example and now Kiko's uniform represented a rainbow. Usual Kiko clumsiness. She couldn't go two steps without causing chaos...

"Aa, Murakami-san, what's a knight?" Kiko mumbled, trying to draw the attention away from her uniform.

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"NO TOUCHY THE EARS!" Mitsukai batted away Aiko's hands. She hated it when someone touched her ears. It made her all...cattish. Straight down to the purring. "TOUCH THE EARS AND BE MASSACERED!...or burned by angry insult. Rawr." Mitsukai yelled, being silly. She took several steps away from Aiko, though.

"Hey...dog....what's up?" Mitsukai greeted Ryuu, trying to put as much formality into the greeting as possible. Kiko had scolded her last time, telling her she shouldn't bicker so much with the fox-like chara...

[Rumi]

Shouta smirked at the raven hair’s stuttering attitude; it seemed like he met up with those types of shy girls often now a days. Shifting slightly so that he could see both Kiko and the girl, he gave Ima a curt nod as his own way of greeting her. “Ayazawa Shouta and frankly, I don’t see why you have to blush so much.” He said in his own blunt way that hardly anyone understood.

“Ah, are you talking about those Knights?” Ryuu suddenly exclaimed as he broke away from the lolita chara. The tone of voice he used had an edge of annoyance to it, for like Matsukai, his ears were a sensitive spot as well. “The one’s who are all goody-goody with the staff of the school and always get their way? The ones that always, always look like they walk and talk with a stick jammed way up their -“

“Ryuu.” Came the dangerously low tone of the carrot top and at the tone, the fox chara shrank back some while muttering things such as “I didn’t do anything.” and what not. “Gomen, Ima-san. I think the knight are pretty interesting.” He grinned and lightly poked her forehead before making his own way to Kiko; a towel in tow. “Ah and I like the blue contacts.”

Sighing, he examined the mess that only Kiko, was capable of making. “Must you make my life difficult?” He muttered under his breath as he began cleaning the mess that the honey eyed girl made. Maybe impossible was not a strong enough word for the girl’s capability to do anything, though at the moment, he couldn’t find any words that were stronger than impossible, but when he did that was what he would describe Kiko as.

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The fox chara sighed as he floated back to the other charas, his good mood had dwindled since Shouta’s scolding. “Hey Furball.” He bit back in an equally formal tone of voice. Giving the cat one last scowl he turned his attention to Aiko.

“Hey! Would you like to play with me and furball?” He said as he bounced up and down. He used his hand to direct their attention to the spilled paint, a playful grin coming to his lips. “Want to paint? The ones spilt will go to waste so we might as well paint something together ne?”

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Ima was a bit embarrassed when he mentioned her blushing cheeks. She bunched her shoulders and pressed a palm to one hot cheek, realizing that she probably looked like a tomato now. It never meant anything when she blushed; or rather, it meant too many number of things. She blushed when she was shy, or embarrassed, or flustered, or even being friendly. Sometimes, when she was mad, her cheeks would also turn as red as her rage. It could possibly be a health problem, but it did little harm other then make her blush more due to the awkwardness it caused, like now.

"It's...it's fine, honestly. I blush all the time, even when I'm upset. I can't really control it, and...and I'm babbling. Sorry!"

She bowed her head slightly to Shouta, then heard what Ryuu said before Shouta countered him. Again she blushed and shuffled her feet, not able to look the fox chara and Shouta in the eye any more.

"Not all of us are like that," she muttered under her breath, though she knew some of the upper classmen students who just graduated had been bent over their pride. She noticed the blue splashed on Kiko's uniform and suddenly sprung to action, grabbing some paper towels, wetting a clump and helping Shouta as he cleaned the girl's uniform.

"You should wash it when you get straight home, Hirogawa-san. But it may still stain."

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Aiko frowned as she glanced at the paint, not looking thrilled about playing in it. She twirled in the air, still looking as if she was thinking hard.

"Won't I get my dress dirty?"

Then she glances at the humans and their frantic attempt to get the blue out of Kiko's tainted uniform. Suddenly a grin overtakes her face and she grabs Ryuu and Mitsukai by the hand, zooming towards the paint.

"I'm going to be my own masterpiece!"

You can only imagine what she means by that.

[Kiko/Hotaru]

Kiko blushed red as the two started cleaning her mess. "Arg! No! Korafu-kun, Murakami-chan, please. Let me clean this up! Please. It's my mess, it only makes sense that I should clean it." Kiko stuttered, stepping away from both Shouta and Ima. The smaller girl grabbed the paper towels out of their hands. "I know that, Murakami-chan, but I think I'm okay because I have a spare uniform here. And please ignore Shouta-kun's bluntness. He does it all the time." Kiko told the taller girl, refering to all the times Shouta had been straightforeword to her. "I think it's his way of making friends." Kiko teased, closing all the opened paint bottles. She really was too comfortable around Shouta, it was shocking. Kiko threw away all the empty bottles and the used paper towels. The raven wet a few clean rags and she started wiping the paint that had spilled on the floor. "Ano, Ima-chan, you never told me what the knights were." Kiko asked, from her position on the ground. "I've heard of them, they help the students don't they? What exactly do they do?" Kiko stopped cleaning to look up at the blue tinted eyed girl.

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"Yeah! Paint!" Mitsukai cheered, not missing the chance to play around in the bright, cool paint. She considered Aiko's words. "We're going to paint on you, Aiko-chan? That will certainly get your dress dirty." Mitsukai said, pulling out of her new friends grasp.

"If you're going to paint, please don't make a bigger mess you three." Kiko warned, overhearing her overly loud chara.

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Ima smiled and nodded to Kiko, letting her take the paper towels from her. She didn't understand why the girl was so stubborn but she wouldn't hold it against her. In fact, she found Kiko rather charming and Shouta seemed to be both kind and amusing albeit a little tactless. Yet she found that she liked the both of them; part of her wondered why she hadn't met them before.

"It's fine, I'm used to it. I have an older brother whose the same way."

Yes, her older brother, a soccer star who disappointed many by not entering the big leagues. People were very critical of him but found nothing to slander him with. In turn, he was incredibly critical and blunt with others. His favorite victims were his sisters, but when both were ever bothered, he would be the first to bare fists.

She heard Kiko's question and pondered on how to answer. Was she allowed to tell them about the embryos? Perhaps she would just give the cliff notes. Ima shuffled uncomfortably under the weight of the spotlight and of concealing part of the truth.

"Well, the knights are a lot like the student council and we help protect students against harsh rules and all sorts of injustices when it concerns the school. But we also hunt down X eggs...the charas of people who have been tainted. We're meant to purify them by finding the embryos, which are special types of people with certain charas, who have the ability to purify X eggs, among other things. But so far we haven't found any..."

That last sentence was a lie, but as a knight, it was Ima's duty to protect Bien and his identity as an embryo. But then she realized that there was an aspect of having a chara that neither Kiko nor Shouta would know of.

"Now that you have charas, you need to be really careful. An organization called Easter Corp. has employees searching for the embryos. If someone from there finds out you have charas, they may target you. If you feel like anyone has been...AIKO!"

Before Aiko could dive into a pallete of fuschia water color, Ima grabbed her from the air.

"Aww! The tanuki is right, knights DO have a stick up their a--"

Ima's glare shut Aiko up quite quickly. The lolita chara grumbled to herself and looked way, furious that she wasn't allowed to paint herself. Then she glanced at Kiko and frowned.

"But she did it too!"

"But she's not going to whine until I get her dress spotless, now is she? And she's not going to have to explain why she's scrubbing an invisible dress, either!"

Aiko grumbled some more but said nothing else. Instead, she looked towards her new friends with big blue puppy eyes, pleading for some help.