Tange, Aya
Vlas

[color=lightblue]“AYA!” Kiya bounded toward me as Yuki and I entered the mall, stepping through the automatic door. I barely had time to react before I was tackled to the ground. “Aya, Aya, look.” Kiya breathed gasping in and out for breaths as she tried to roll up her shirt.

“Kiya, girls don’t do that” I yanked her shirt back down as onlookers began to pass by and stare at the crazy girl and her friend.

“Hey you two!” Kanna smiled walking up to us as Yuki helped both of us back up. “We were just leaving..” Her voice trailed off at the sight of both of our smiling faces.

“Can Kiya come with us?” I begged, giving off the most childish grin possible. Kanna just rolled her eyes so I figured it was time to move it up to stage two of begging. “Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease.” I strung out the ‘e’ as long as possible.

Kiya picking up on this added her own voice in, saying. “Easeeeee.”

“Fine, fine, but you two have to take her home.” Kanna through her arms up in the air as Kiya and I smiled happily.

“Now, c’mon you two.” Yuki sighed taking Kiya and I by the hand and leading us into a department store. “It feels like I am a babysitter..” She mumbled leading us up to the second level where they kept dresses and other girlish items.

“Now pick out anything you want.” Yuki smiled as I looked back at her in disbelief.

“Anything?” I breathed in disbelief.

“Anything, and do you want anything Kiya?” Yuki asked turning to Kiya, Kiya walked over slowly and began to sniff one of the dresses before turning back and shaking her head no. “Okay, then just you Aya.”

The smile on my face grew even wider. I had never ever had the chance of getting anything I wanted; usually it was handy downs from my brother, or something from the goodwill store. If we were to ever get something new it usually came in the form of an illegal activity. This time I was getting something and I didn’t have to steal it. “What do you think of this?” I asked Yuki coming out with a new dress on, this one more spring like with a very light blue color, the shoulders open, and small flower designs going down the side of it. Kiya nodded happily as I spun in front of the mirror while Yuki gave me a thumbs up.

“Now..” Yuki began as she paid the casher for the dress that I had refused to take off. “Comes the fun part.” She added clamping down on my wrist and dragging me in the direction of the make up booth.

“No, no please anything but that.” I cried, grabbing a clothes rack and knocking off several of the dresses on it in the progress. “Yukiiiii.” I pleaded as she pulled my hands free from the rack and threw me down onto the make up chair.

“Kiya, hold her down.” Yuki commanded as she went to get the make up person. I began to struggle only to feel Kiya’s hands clamp down on both of my wrists and forced me to remain still in the seat.

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“What do you think?” The woman asked spinning me around in the chair, I gasped when I saw the mirror, was that really me? The girl with her hair down and combed, lipstick on her lips, and eye shadow? The girl that looked like Yuki’s age than some kid that was just another bully?

“Is that me?” I asked, looking back and forth from Kiya and Yuki and then back to the mirror. “What do you think Kiya?” I asked turning back to her. She glanced around and then walked up sniffing the lipstick a little and then the perfume they had sprayed on me.

“Aya, pretty, but…why?” She questioned poking the lipstick tube. That was a good question, was this really me? I had never been girlish or anything but now, when I was with Yuki, I did feel like a girl.

“Sometimes, it’s just fun to dress up, I guess.” I shrugged trying to figure out a response. “Right Yuki?” I smiled glancing up at her. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted what looked like Ami, yet when I turned back she was gone.

“Yep, now I’m going to go pay for this stuff so…” Her voice was interrupted when I jumped down from the chair and cut her off. “Here, you two go have fun.” She sighed handing over 2,000 yen.

I smiled grasping the money before taking Kiya’s hand and running out into the mall. “Hey Kiya? Have you ever had candy?” I asked as we ran through the mall.

“Can-dy?” She asked as we ran, slowing once we reached the candy store.

“Oh then you will love this!” I smiled, walking her inside the candy store. I didn’t even look like myself anymore, I looked, grown up? I could be myself, I could act like a kid with out anyone noticing, that was something that I hadn’t done since I couldn’t remember. Today was turning out to be the best day of my life

Saotome, Emi
Duran

I kept my body in a crouched stance as Kami lay next to me, she raised her head only slightly to give me a sideways glance as her Child dissolved away, just like Aya’s did and Duran did a while back. “You did good!” I grinned helping her onto her feet. She shook off the dust that seemed to have already faded away to nothingness and looked herself over.

That monster, it looked like a mixture of one of the babies and the big one that Yuki and I had fought early. Could one of them have escaped? It made sense there was that one that got past Yuki. Could it have gotten out and powered up? Maybe even coming after me to finish the job? Too many questions were running through my head as I glanced back at Kami.

“You look like shit.” I fought back a laugh as she shot a glare over to me. I instantly quelled the laughter and helped her outside and onto a bench at the bus stop. Out of the way of the medics that were piling in to take care of the injured people. “They got here fast..” I whispered trying to stay out of their sight. I didn’t want to answer any annoying questions right now.

“So you’re a HiME too?” Kami’s voice brought my attention back over to her. I shrugged and sat down next to her, cutting off a piece of my sleeve to wrap around her wound. “Thanks..” She grimaced as I secured it to cut off any bleeding.

“I’m not a HiME, I haven’t agreed to anything yet, I’m a spectator.” I answered her back before flipping open my cell phone. Yuki had given me her cell phone number before I left her back at the field house at the school. This was going to be fun. I gasped in a large amount of air and winked to Kami before pressing talk. “Yuki! There was a attack at the mall, another HiME appeared and there was a big battle with lots of explosions, it was awesome, call me back when you get this, bye.” I rambled off like a child on sugar.

“She is going to flip when she hears that.” Kami giggled, I nodded as I caught the sight of Nagi sleeping in a tree, tucked securely in the branches. “What is it?” Kami piped up trying to follow my line of sight.

I got up from the bench and took a few uneasy steps in the direction of Nagi. Images of Aya trying to shoot Nagi and the whole scene played through my head again. Was he truly evil? Was Aya and Yuki the evil ones? Aya did try to harm him. “I’ll be right back, stay out of sight of those medics.” I whispered. Kami nodded and I was off running in the direction of where Nagi slept. It was only a quick stride before I reached the tree; I pondered doing something to knock him out and then decided against it. “Hey teacher.” I shouted up to him.

Nagi turned over lazily and opened an eye at me slowly, realization struck him that I was one of those ‘HiME’s’ and he came to full awareness. “Why Emi, I wasn’t expecting to see you here.” He yawned hopping down from his tree branch. “What brings you to wake me?”

I cocked my head to the side studying him for a second before shrugging and putting on one of my grins. “If I am going to do this HiME thing, I want to know who the players are.” I replied placing my arms behind my head and taking a body stance of relaxation.

“I can’t tell you who all the HiME’s are, I don’t even..” He trailed off as I shook my hand to quickly stop that answer.

“I mean you.” I stated as Nagi’s eyes lit up. “Aya seems to hate you a lot, and you seem to be more than a simple school teacher. So tell me, how are you connected to all of this?” I asked leaning against the tree trying to figure him out.

“Aya has always hated me, along with some of the other HiME’s I really don’t know why.” He sighed his voice filled with sorrow. “As for how I am connected to all of this, well that would be spoiling” He grined. I grined back just as mischievously.

I walked over to Nagi, close enough that there were almost only a few inches between our faces. “Do you think I hate you?” I whispered, not in fear of some one was listening in, just to heighten the closeness of the scene.

Nagi smiled back and kept his answer short and sweet. “No, not yet at least.” He kept his voice down low to mimic mine.

“Good.” I chirped up and leaned in kissing the side of his cheek, not willing to waste a good exit I walked past him leaving him standing there. “By the way, I like being spoiled.” I replied referring to his remark about his purpose being a spoiler. I couldn’t hear a response if he even gave one before I had walked out of earshot.

Kami jumped up at the sight of me as I quickly walked over to her and checked on her wounds. “Where did you go?” She asked obviously not having seen Nagi, which in essence was a relief; I had no idea what she thought of Nagi. “The medics just left, they took a lot of people with them.” She stated her voice wavering a bit in fear.

“It’s okay, now c’mon lets go find one of those stores that sell bandages and get you cleaned up.” I suggested leading Kami back into the mall, she didn’t seem to mind so I decided to sweeten the deal for my friend that. “I’ll even buy you something, anything you want, just name it!” I smiled.

“Really?” She asked in shock as I spotted the end of a glowing tail sneak in through a loading door of a shop. It was one of those tiger orphan babies. From the size of it's tail it didn't look fully grown yet. "You saw that too..." She wispered her weapon materializing infront of her as we both took cover from the sight of prying eyes.

With a nod and a shake of my wrist the two pistols appeared in my hands. "Did you catch the shop it went into?" I asked taking off with a dash, Kami right behind me as we burst through the automatic doors and into the mall.

"Women's Unlimited, it's the lingerie shop across the book store." Kami pointed out as we rounded the corner out into the central area of the mall. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted Kanna watching us along with Tsuneo, our eyes met before her sight traveled down to the pistols in my hand. The smell of perfume assaulted my nose and snapped my attention back as we came close to the shop. With a bit of luck I realized that it was near the battle scene and the only people around was really Kanna and her friend, everyone else was probably just returning or being checked on by the medics meaning the shop was empty.

"Alright be ready for anything." I said as I moved back into battle mode, I was the first in rushing into the shop with guns ready, it was too small to summon a child in with bras and other undergarments hanging everywhere. "I dont see any..." I turned back to Kami only to be cut off a large pink object slaming into the side of my face. I fell backwards onto the ground as the object slumped down the side of my face. With my hands shaking in anger I picked it up to realize that it was a large bra. That little creature was throwing undergarments at me.

"Okay, this is war." I grunted jumping up and shooting wildly. That monster would pay for the insult of throwing a bra at me!