Yotsuba!&...

[sunflowerfairy]

Characters: Yotsuba and you!
Setting: Dorm Room 2-07, the Meadow, and the Mailroom.
Format: I'm starting in prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: After waking up and seeing that Daddy and Jumbo are gone, Yotsuba decides to take Lucifel's advice to heart..and starts making flower crowns and pictures in the meadow, which will be delivered to her friends in the mailroom.
Warnings: Other than loads of cute, nothing at the moment.

When Yotsuba woke up, she didn't expect to be in her bed, like she had the first two times she died. Nor was she expecting the absence of Daddy or Jumbo. Had they run back to their hiding place? Or..maybe the bad people were keeping them away, since they had enchanted them. She knew that Daddy and Jumbo couldn't kill her, so Lucifel had probably put her in bed when she fell asleep. She knew what death was..she just wasn't used to waking up from a peaceful death before.

However, remembering Lucifel reminded Yotsuba of something she had to do to help people, so when she was finally able to move around, she put on her sling, the sash that held the pouch for her sling bullets, gathered up her sketchbook and crayons and set out for the meadow.

Yotsuba, sadly, was not prepared for the weather. While she loved the rain, she was smart enough to know that you couldn't draw on soggy paper. So, she had to quickly run back to the dorm, leave her things there, and run into the stormy meadow to pick flowers, which would be later made into flower chains. One could find her laughing and getting soaked as she worked against the wind and picked flowers. She would have to do her drawing elsewhere, but for now, this was fun!

Finally, one could find Yotsuba dumping her creations and letters into the mailboxes of her friends. If one asked, they might receive a picture too, or a hug.

Comments

Meadow (or just outside it)

[bashfulshifter]

Rick got up late and was even later getting to the elevator for breakfast--or, as the case may be, lunch. Yesterday's therapy session, though definitely good for his peace of mind, was of no help to his shaky physical condition, and ultimately was Not a Good Idea. The flavorless nutrition bars did not help. By the time he was ready to head to the morgue for his usual job, Rick already knew he wouldn't be able to hike the six flights of stairs without a break. Thankfully, the meadow was on the way; he resolved to take a quick nap there to regain his strength.

He was not anticipating that the weather would be as inhospitable as it looked yesterday. Rain gusted onto the landing--he couldn't even cross to the next floor without getting soaked. Rick slumped on the railing and sighed deeply; while he had his cleaning equipment on-hand, he already knew he lacked the energy to do his job (and he most certainly was not going to chance sleeping in the morgue). Rick was about to shamble his way back to the elevators (maybe he could nap on the way up instead?) when he heard, over the howling wind...a child's laughter?

Rick chanced poking his head through the entrance. Maybe there was someone in there...the rain spattering his glasses made it difficult to tell. Best to make sure.

"...H-Hello?"

Meadow (or just outside it)

[sunflowerfairy]

Moving around in a hurricane was quite difficult, but since the wind felt nice and pushed her around a lot, Yotsuba couldn't help cut laugh at it and the rain, since they were both so much fun! As she moved and laughed about, she kept on picking flowers..until she heard someone call out.

She thought she saw someone at the entrance of the meadow, so, holding a bundle of flowers in her left hand, Yotsuba ran out, soaking wet, to meet the new person.

"Hello! Who are you?! Are you a good person?!"

[bashfulshifter]

Rick stumbled back in mild surprise. He was certain that there was someone in the field, but he hadn't expected to be approached so...forwardly. Or by someone so young! He'd seen younger kids out and around the Tower--just over ten, at the least--but this girl couldn't have been much older than five, and with seemingly no adult supervision! What was she doing here?

A little concerned and overwhelmed by the implications, Rick regained his composure as quickly as he could and put on the stern but friendly face of a Responsible Adult. "Um...I w-would think I'm a-a g-good person, yes," he said, squinting slightly. The question was odd...although it made a strange amount of sense coming from someone who could have grown up in a place like this.

Rick decided not to press the issue. Following with her greeting, he knelt slowly onto one knee (even though the action pained him, since his joints felt shaky and brittle) and extended a hand.

"I'm Rick. W-What's y-your name?"

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba was here picking flowers, despite the rain and despite the lack of adults. She was always one to run off on her own if someone didn't drag her somewhere with them, thus her sling and the knife back in her trunk. However, Yotsuba took the hand that Rick gave her with her free one and held up her flowers as she spoke. Her hand, along with the rest of her, was soaking wet and cold.

"I'm Yotsuba Koiwai! I'm here to pick flowers to make crowns out of and the rain's a lot of fun! Why don't you hop in? The wind feels really nice!"

[bashfulshifter]

Rick nearly chuckled, though he was trying to keep a more-or-less serious facade. He didn't want to encourage her to go back into the raging storm, but...oh my goodness, was she adorable. He couldn't help smiling.

"S-Sounds like f-fun, b-but you'll c-catch a c-cold if you k-keep this up! I think y-you have enough f-flowers, y-you c-can take a b-break."

[sunflowerfairy]

Rick didn't really have to keep up a serious facade. Yotsuba didn't really care about those sorts of things, and one could lead her along easily without one, for better or worse.

"I'll be fine! Yotsuba won't catch a cold! But resting is important! If you don't rest, you won't be able to work! Can I rest with you?"

[bashfulshifter]

...Well, at least she was willing to go somewhere else. Best to pick his battles, Rick decided.

"...I d-don't see why not," he nodded, scratching his chin. He'd have to pass on cleaning the morgue for the time being, but providing Yotsuba with proper supervision (and getting some sleep if he could help it) was, to him, a far more pressing matter. One of the lounges--the one on the fourth floor was the most inviting--would do well enough for this task.

In the meanwhile, the child's insistence did not change the fact that she was soaking wet and would probably be very cold later. Rick rooted around in his cleaning supplies and procured a ragged towel (but clean, cut from scratch fabric he found in the workshop yesterday), which was arm-length for him but probably plenty big enough for Yotsuba.

"...Here. You s-should d-dry yourself o-off."

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba was always happy to go places, especially with good people. If supervision was brought up, she wouldn't be able to quite understand it, since, other than the monsters, there was no reason-in her mind-for anyone to watch her. However, she happily accepted the towel with her free hand, smiling all the while.

"Okay! I will and then we can rest! Yotsuba can make you a flower crown!" As she spoke, she dried her hair and the rest of herself off as best she could with one hand before handing the wet towel back to Rick. She was still a little chilly, but she didn't mind.

[bashfulshifter]

Rick accepted the towel, folding it neatly before putting it back in its designated spot (hung lengthwise over the handle, underneath the smaller, more abrasive rag used for scrubbing) in his makeshift cleaning caddy. He didn't have anything else Yotsuba could use to keep warm later...hopefully there were some blankets in the lounge.

"--Oh, w-why thank you!" Rick grinned as he collected the work ensemble in one hand and ushered Yotsuba onward with the other. "L-Let's go to the f-fourth floor, okay? There's l-lots of room f-for you to sort your f-flowers on, and r-really comfy c-couches to rest in. S-Sound good?"

Meadow

[blockspenguins]

Endou was pretty happy with the rain too, to be honest. Gave him a good terrain to do some heavy training in, but when he came to the meadow with that intention in mind he found himself stopping to watch the girl. And, after a moment, he goes running into the field, hoping to play with her.

"Heeyyy! What're you doing?"

Meadow

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba, for better or worse, didn't know anything about soccer or training for it, but she stopped laughing to herself at the wind's antics so that she could speak to this boy. As she did so, she picked a few more flowers and held them up so that he could see.

"I'm picking flowers to make crowns for everyone!"

[blockspenguins]

"Flowers for crowns?" He finally came to a stop by her, looking at the flowers and then tilting his head. "For everyone? That's a lot of people to make crowns for!" But hey, there are also a lot of flowers in the field.

"Think you need any help?"

[sunflowerfairy]

It was, which was why, in Yotsuba's head, 'everyone' translated to 'the people I've met and liked'. "Yeah! It's super cool! And you can help Yotsuba..but are you a good person?"

After all, she had to avoid bad people, or she'd die!

[blockspenguins]

"Am I a good person? Well yeah!" But then, everyone was technically a good person. There were no enemies or allies off the field, just people. Sometimes people did bad things, but that didn't mean they were bad people.

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba, on the other hand, knew there were bad people in the world. After all, Daddy had said to look out for them, and she had been murdered here before. However, Yotsuba smiled at that and picked another flower, happy that this guy was a good person and that it was raining so much.

"Then you can help! Pick alll the flowers you can, okay?!"

[blockspenguins]

Yotsuba...sweet heart, you're way too trusting. Luckily he really is a good guy but if you're really that worried about whether they're good or not.....

He nods, setting the soccer ball down and starting to pick. "You got it! I'll pick you a ton of flowers!!" He was probably way too excited about picking flowers, but he always puts his heart into everything he does so.

Prepare to have way too many flowers.

[sunflowerfairy]

Sadly, Yotsuba was pretty gullible, so if anyone told her they were a good person, she would believe them until she found out that they were lying. It was the same if anyone told her that they were a bad person-she would avoid said bad person until she found out that they weren't bad at all.

"Good! We'll need a lot for everyone so that they'll cheer up and be happy!"

Thankfully, in Yotsuba's mind, there was no such thing as too many flowers, so she laughed as the boy helped her and as she herself worked at picking flowers. She wasn't laughing at the boy, but at a sudden gust of wind that had blown her hair and clothes back. However, as she worked, she couldn't help but notice the soccer ball.

"What's that?" She asked, pointing to it.

Mail room - will edit this if the part with the letter isn't okay.

[brbtalkingtogod]

The past days haven't been easy for Lucifel. Dying, being blamed for others deaths and what would happen to him if they were able to go home. Would everything still be the same or would his fate go in the direction his shadow children have told him about?

The archangel had been revived from his death today and tried not to think too much about the recent events and revelations. He went to the mail room, checking if he had gotten yet another humiliating present...

Just to find a picture and a letter.

"... This child..."

It's perfectly fine!~ :3

[sunflowerfairy]

One of the few habits Yotsuba had in the Tower was going to check her mail every day to see what letters people had gotten her. Sometimes she spoke to the mailmen too, but she really loved getting letters.

However, the thought of checking her mailbox went right out of her head when she saw Lucifel near his mailbox, reading a letter..and holding her picture! But he didn't have his flowers on. Happy to see her friend, Yotsuba ran to him, smiling, and tried to hug his legs. She really wanted to get taller soon so that she didn't have to be down a knee-level anymore.

"Luci! How are you?! Are you okay? Did you see your flowers?"

[brbtalkingtogod]

He didn't get the chance to respond with his legs getting tackled for a hug. Flowers? Where- oh. He found the crown in the back of his mailbox and took it, carefully exterminating her creation. She had put a lot of effort into this, hadn't she?

"I just found them. I'm glad Yotsuba took my advice to heart."

It did cheer him up, not much, but it was a start.

[sunflowerfairy]

She really had, and the reason he was even getting hugged right now was partly because he had told her that hugs helped cheer people up. She was happy to see him and she didn't want him to be sad.

"Good! Yotsuba made a whooole bunch of them and sent them to everyone! Enoch and Romeo and Diarmuid and Kariya and Edgeworth and that pretty girl with the braids! I'm gonna do my best to cheer up everyone and be a support like you!"

..Have fun being a role model, Lucifel.

[brbtalkingtogod]

"..." At the moment he didn't feel much like a support. But Yotsuba had tried so hard to follow his advice. In all honesty, he'd rather like to tell her not to be like him at the time being.

"Yotsuba does her very best, doesn't she?"

[sunflowerfairy]

While Yotsuba didn't know much about the issues Lucifel was dealing with now, she did get the feeling that..something was wrong and that Lucifel wasn't okay. So, letting go of him, she gave him a puzzled look, even though she was still smiling.

"I do..but what's wrong, Luci? Are you okay?"

[brbtalkingtogod]

He had forgotten... Children could be sensitive when it came to these kind of things, couldn't they? He wasn't even sure how to speak to Enoch about this or how to deal with this matter on his own.

"I still think about all the things that were said to me, that's all."

[sunflowerfairy]

That they could, and while Yotsuba was weird, she wasn't that different from any normal kid in that regard, even if she didn't quite understand exactly why people might be sad or mad sometimes.

"Oh..they said those things because they were enchanted, Lucifel, so it's okay! They don't hate you! You said it yourself! Or..did they say something different? What did they say to you?"