Yotsuba!&-

[sunflowerfairy]

Characters: Yotsuba Koiwai and you!
Setting: Outside room 02-07.
Format: Starting with prose, but I'll match you.
Summary: Yotsuba has just woken up, and she's looking for her Daddy and dealing with the Tower.
Warnings: She might end up crying if you're a bit too rough with her. Or you might scare her with birds and bird-like objects.

Yotsuba blinked her eyes open as she started to wake up and sat up. This place wasn't her room..and Daddy wasn't in bed beside her. And this white ou-..outfit weren't her pajamas. Ignoring the notes that lay on her trunk, Yotsuba ran out of bed and, slamming the door open, ran out into the halls.

"Daddy!? Daddy?!! Where are you?"

Comments

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

She smiles a little.

"That must be it. You protected your Daddy from the bad people very well."

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba returned the smile.

"So Daddy should be coming here soon then! Yotsuba can wait!"

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

She really doesn't want to give Yotsuba false hope, but she also doesn't want to scare the little girl.

"Or it might take a while longer. Your Daddy is way stronger than the bad people, right? They won't take him easily."

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba gave 'Arada' a puzzled look as she spoke.

"Of course they won't take him! Daddy's strong, so he'll find this place! He won't get kidnapped!"

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

"That still might take a while, I don't think we are close to your home."

Not even in the same universe to be exact.

[sunflowerfairy]

"That's alright! Even if it's far away, Daddy will be able to get here!"

..Such was the optimism of small children.

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

"Will you be alright on your own until he gets here? I mean..."

Way to be nice, Aradia.

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba nodded, smiling.

"Yotsuba will be fine! As long as she doesn't run into any bad people."

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

She nods in approval, Yotsuba is quite brave.

"And if the bad people hurt you I will help you defeat them, okay?"

[sunflowerfairy]

She was, even though she didn't know what the word meant yet.

"Okay! Yotsuba is strong, but help is always good!"

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

Yotsuba might just make it on her own in this tower.

"I'm glad to hear that."

[sunflowerfairy]

Provided she managed to avoid the monsters and any of the unsavory residents.

Yotsuba opened her mouth to reply..but before she could do so, her stomach growled.

"..I'm hungry."

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

Now that she thinks about it, they have been walking around for a long time.

"Have you eaten since you woke up?"

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba shook her head.

"Yotsuba hasn't!"

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

She laughs a little.

"No wonder you're hungry then! Would you like to go to the cafeteria to get something?"

The cafeteria should have the obligatory first meal in stock, she doesn't want Yotsuba to get sick for not eating it.

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba smiled and nodded before looking around.

"I would like to! Where is the caf..cafeteria?"

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

"All the way down! We could take the elevator."

Which would probably be safer than the stairs too.

[sunflowerfairy]

"Elevator?"

Yotsuba had encountered escalators before..but not elevators.

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

"It's like a moving box, and it will take us all the way down really fast!"

Aradia was a little excited about the elevators herself. There weren't any on Alternia and it would be a real pain to descend all those floors every time she wanted a meal.

[sunflowerfairy]

At that description, Yotsuba brightened up, excited and happy.

"Yotsuba wants to ride the elevator! Where is it?!"

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

"I think we can get on on all the dormitory floors so..." She points down the hall, "that way."

[sunflowerfairy]

"Okay! Let's go!~"

Yotsuba would run a few feet forward before stopping to look back, smiling all the while.

"Come on Arada, or I'll leave you behind!"

Something her father had said often.

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

"I'm coming!" She follows Yotsuba a couple of paces behind to study the young girl more closely. She's glad that she doesn't seem too upset by her current situation, but of course there is no guarantee that won't come later.

They reach the elevator and Aradia pushes the button to summon it. It only takes a short while for it to arrive and the doors slide open.

"Well, let's get in there."

[sunflowerfairy]

Smiling, Yotsuba waited to catch up and kept on running forward. However, she always made sure that Aradia was a few paces behind her. After all, Daddy didn't like it when she wandered too far off, so maybe she wouldn't either.

When they reached the elevator and the doors opened, her eyes widened in surprise and amazement. Quickly, she wandered in, looking at everything, and her eyes caught the buttons.

"Which one do I press?!"

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

She's glad Yotsuba doesn't run off to far, she thinks Yotsuba wouldn't do too bad on her own but she feels a little responsible for the little girl.

She enters the elevator to stand next to Yotsuba smiling.

"The lowest button."