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Home under the sun - Heraklion - 09-16-2010
Shizuma puts the bowl down in the sink and carefully gets down from the counter "It's not for you..." she reaches up and carefully takes the cake off the fridge and lights the candles. After making sure everything was set she sneaks up to Kiri's room with Leo on her tail. She puts the cake on the bedside table so kiri could see it when she opened her eyes. She gentle pokes her so she'd wake up and the moment Kiri opened her eyes she started singing happy birthday to her now 14 year old daughter.
Home under the sun - Hidamari - 10-04-2010
Kiriko stirred a little, when she opened her eyes she was looking directly into the flickering fire of the candle light, her eyes opened widely as she froze in place, unable to move out of fear. Kiriko lay caught like rabbits in the headlights, the fire dancing close to her face. Shizuma's Voice seemed to trail away rapidly, images of her burned home flooded her mind.
Still frozen Kiriko trembled and began to hallucinate unable to look away from the fire, *she stood in the living room of her house, flames crawled up the walls surrounding her, the deafening bang of a gun wracked round her ears, she jumped both in her hallucination and laying on her bed, turning round she saw two faceless figures falling to the ground slowly, she knew they were her father and older brother, blood flooded from their lifeless bodies, it swept across the laminate flooring towards Kiriko's feet, she yelled as loudly as she could, in reality she quietly murmured in terror, a fearful sound quivered across her lips.
"Toru! Kotaro!" the sound of Mikoto Hidamari.. her mother screaming as she was dragged outside by a Kusari police officer and thrown into the mud rang clearly in her mind... "Okasan!" she screamed, but her voice was drowned out by the sound of another gunshot, as her mother fell slowly into the mud.
"O..oka.s..s.sama.." she quivered..
Home under the sun - Heraklion - 10-04-2010
Shizuma tilts her head and looks to the weird reaction of Kiri "hai honey, i'm here... did you have a bad dream?" She feels Kiri's forehead and almost drops the cake on the bedsheets. Still not understanding what's wrong she mumbles "lights" and the lights in the room slowly start to shine a bright light. "Guess what day it is? Today is the day you turn 14!"
Home under the sun - Korny - 10-04-2010
Leo, who sat on the other side of the bed, just observed both, Shizuma and Kiri without saying a word at first, obviously a little concerned about his daughters expression. He looked up at Shizuma, as if asking her what's wrong...Shizuma gave him a little shrugs, clearly not knowing what's going on with their daughter aswell.
He then gives Kiri a calm smile and bends over to kiss her forehead. "Come on Honey, blow out the candles and make a wish..." He said, as if knowing that Kiri's expression was based on the fire from the candles...
Shizuma smiled and nodded, grabbing the cake again and places it infront of Kiri so she could blow out the candles...
Home under the sun - Hidamari - 06-25-2012
Several years later.
It was another sunny day on Gran Canaria, with a mild breeze and a sparse fluffy white clouds here and there. Kiriko's home, named the Home in the Sun had always remained a relatively peaceful place, a kind of calming great sanctuary for Kiriko and of course for Cly too.
Due to intense and ever increasing amounts of work and responsibilities at Border World Exports, Kiriko found little time to respectively return to the place where she was essentially given a second chance in life. Being allowed to move on from her scarred past and start again with a new family, everything began to look up for Kiriko after that point in her life.
Kiriko stood on the end of the long driveway to her home, having been in space for a long time she didn't have any suitable summer clothing, her thick padded Bowex dress and bow were designed for cold temperatures and made her much hotter, and not having any head wear made the journey from the space dock seem much longer than usual as she had forgotten how hot it really gets. "Uuh.. Cly. we are nearly there, look" Kiriko pointed Cly in the direction of the large villa in the distance, Cly showed several water droplets resembling sweat and then a thermometer which displayed 312 degrees Kelvin at the top of the current level, Kiriko nodded, with sweat on her brow too, she felt sticky and horrid. "We should have bought a... a hat from that nice man at the port" *a sad face was showed for a moment* Kiriko laughed, "its okay, its okay.. we are there now"
Eventually making it to the front door which was heavily shaded by a extended roof over the marble flooring, *Cly showed a lock turning and opening* "Arigato" Kiriko said as Cly unlocked the front door for her as they both approached. It was so strange coming back home that Kiriko almost knocked on the door not being sure if she was still welcome, but since Cly could still open the door Kiriko quickly dispensed with that idea and pushed open the right side of the large front double doors to the villa, it creaked a little and Kiriko walked in.
"Tadaima!.... Okachan?" Kiriko called out announcing her return, eventually calling out to her mother Shizuma also, Kiriko wasn't sure if her mother would be home or not but had really hoped to see her. With Kiriko's voice echoing around the large open stairs in front of her and no sound returning right away, Kiriko's heart sank a little, really hoping to have a hug from her mother after so long.
::The premises appear to be unoccupied:: Cly said after a minute of silence, Kiriko nodded but then looked around, the place was very clean, there was no dust or immediate signs of aging on anything around in the hallway. Kiriko took her shoes off at the door and then remembered shoe rack, there was a few spaces and Shizuma's flats (shoes) were not present, only the big fancy heeled ones that she used to wear all the time. Furthering the realization that she was not home. Kiriko looked at the top of the shoe rack and there was another pair of heels whom she didn't recognize, they were a different size to Shizuma's too. and then there was some really small and cute pink laceless shoes.
Kiriko blushed and picked one up, "Aww.. look Cly" she said pointing Cly at the baby shoes "Hera-chan's shoes are reaaaaly cute.. Hyahaha... Aww, ahaa" Feeling better Kiriko stood upright with a big smile and looked to the hallway, and then up the stairs, "maybe they went out and we will see them soon?" *a thumbs up was seen and a smiling face sun with shining rays followed it quickly* "lets go and have a shower and get nice and clean again" she said looking down to Cly in her hands whom showed a bath house symbol for a moment with a thumbs up.
Kiriko walked to the stairs and slowly made her way up, she found it amazing how little things had changed over such a long time, the carpet over the marble flooring still felt really soft and gentle and the design of the villa meant that it was really well aired even on a hot day such as today. Kiriko reached the door to her bedroom looking down across the hall to Ali-neesan's old room before entering her own.
Opening the door and stepping inside her room the first thing that Kiriko noticed was the air, it was fresh, as though it had been recently cleaned, the long bedroom windows were both open slightly, her curtains drawn and neatly tied, and the violet flowery duvet cover was perfectly straight on the bed and her pillows placed on top of it. "Uwa.. Cly its like we never left, Okaa-chan has been making everything stay clean like usual" Kiriko said in amazement looking around, and really appreciating the feeling of the thick carpet through her socks, always being used to the hard cold metal surfaces on stations like Kings Cross.
Kiriko walked to the door to the bedrooms en suite bathroom, opening the door the smell was fresh too but she could tell that it had been unused for quite a long time, since nobody used this room it was to be expected. Kiriko turned the light on in the bathroom and walked to the bed, placing Cly down for a moment, *a love heart was seen and then a few z's crept onto the screen with a question mark shortly following* "mm, no its not sleep time yet Cly, besides I feel okay.. and.. we need a shower first, ne?" Kiriko said with a smile *a sun with shining rays was seen brightly* "Hyaha.. hai.. so lets do that first".
Kiriko pulled her one piece dress over her head careful not to get it caught on her arm plate, and smelt it a little, the fabric had a faint aroma of H-fuel and dirt from the constant loading and unloading of ore's onto Kings Cross. "Eew.." she admitted dropping it to the floor "smells strange..hyaha, come on Cly lets get clean now so we aren't icky for when Okachan comes home.." Kiriko chuckled, picking up Cly and walking into the bathroom closing the door behind her. "Brrrrrr" she shivered at the cool air on her skin whilst turning on the shower, "Should we have a cold shower...mm.. actually no a normal one should be okay.. ne?" Cly showed a pair of unbalanced scales, indicating she wasn't really sure, Kiriko smiled "never mind.. its okay" she assured, placing Cly on to the side near the shower and removing the rest of her clothing Kiriko stepped into the powerful shower jets.
"Cly! there is still bubbletown here too, hyahaha! thats good!" (a fictional shampoo brand) Kiriko picked up the bottle and squirted a little of the red marble coloured solution onto her hand, rubbing in on her hair it immediately frothed up an immense torrent of pleasant smalling foam and lather, "myahaha waah.. Cly theres so many bubbles!" Kiriko continued to play whilst showering, that brand of shampoo being her favourite and always managed to make her feel happy regardless of her previous mood.
Several minutes later the front door was pushed open, a lady had entered and briskly placed down a large amount of shopping just inside the door to keep it from spoiling in the sun, an automobile having been also pulled up there with the boot open and plenty more shopping still to come. The woman placed down the groceries and stopped, noticing a pair of shoes that she didn't recognize at the door. stopping in her tracks the woman looked upstairs, to her knowledge Miss Sakuragi was out on business and would be for a while, moving to the base of the stairs the woman called up the stairs instinctively in Hispanic, "Quién anda ah�" (who's there?) Nobody responded "Hola? ..Senorita Sakuragi?" She said again and listened waiting for a response. Kiriko however was too busy in the shower to hear her.
The woman heard the sound of running water, she cautiously made her way up stairs and the water stopped causing her to stop dead and listen again. After a few more moments she continued up the stairs, stopping outside next to Kirikos room door she ducked back and froze as Kiriko opened the bathroom door into her room, wrapped in 2 brightly coloured towels, one for her hair and one for her body, she walked over to her bed and sat on the corner, then using a hand towel she carefully began to give Cly a 'bath' by wiping her down and making sure there wasn't any dirt in the small gaps along the PDA surface. Still hiding the woman swallowed and peeked in.
Cly's screen rapidly changed and began displaying a blinking red exclamation mark with a flashing yellow background and arrow then appeared pointing to the direction of where Cly could hear the woman breathing, Kiriko had never seen Cly become alarmed like that and it actually made her panic "W..what is it Cly?" she shook looking at the arrow and then at the door and seeing the Hispanic woman standing there herself looking flustered. Kiriko screamed a little and jumped up right away moving quickly behind the bed from the door "W..Who are you!!?" she yelled in panic. Kiriko's quick movements startled the woman whom had gone back round the corner thinking about what to do, she spoke in Bretonian with a thick Hispanic accent recognising that Kiriko was speaking Bretonian also.. "That is my line senorita! you don't want to mess with the owner of this house.. si.. si you don't, it would be very unhealthy for you senorita! If you leave now i wont mention it ever happened si?"
Cly was at a loss, there were very few electrical devices in the area that she could remotely connect to to help Kiriko. Kiriko was stood behind the bed holding her towel and crouching down on the opposite side of the bed from the door she listened to the woman as she spoke about Shizuma, whom was indeed somebody who it would be unhealthy to cross were you not a family member. ::she may be an employee here, to keep it clean when mother is away:: Cly surmised quickly placing the pieces together, working overtime to try to find a way out of the situation, Kiriko looked down to Cly and then back to the doorway quickly, the woman still hiding to the right of the door. Kiriko had heard that accent so many times in space that it was extremely difficult to be as casual about it as Cly, especially as it always meant trouble whenever she had heard it. "M.. my mummy will come and get you!.. you shouldnt be here corsair-san!" Kiriko yelled at the door, being called a corsair really got under the womans skin quickly and she instantly shouted back "I'm not a criminal, senorita! and thats my line again si?! who are you!?"
Cly placed an arrow pointing to Kiriko's bed side table with a question mark next to it and a symbol of a handgun. Kiriko suddenly remembered the handgun she was given when she started at the BPA those years ago, and how she had put it into the drawer because she didn't want to look at it. "W.. We are Hidamari Kiriko! We live here! you.. you just wait until mummy comes back you'll be sorry!" Cly couldn't find the time between searching for things to help to correct Kiriko's grammar. The woman suddenly became calm outside in the corridor frowning to herself adding up all the pieces, "Aaaaaaaah... senorita Hidamari!??" she sang coming to a realisation and clapping her hands together and revealing herself, "I have heard about you from senorita Sakuragi, you are her treasured daughter! ooh its so nice to finally meet you senorita. I am the maid for your home, my name is Ana Ortega" Kiriko looked at her fiercely still not trusting her an inch and unable to shake the negative feelings associated with the accent and language. Cly located and began to search the local network of the house to find proof of this, coming up with it quickly she displayed the identification image and name of the woman, who was apparently a "live-in Maid" named Ana Ortega.
Kiriko looked down very cautiously ::let me see her, please, Kiriko.. I think its okay:: Cly said very quietly, Kiriko turned Cly around to let her scan the woman whom was a bit puzzled and then chirped up again "aah, and the Cly machine too, we have heard about you too from senorita Sakuragi, shes really always talking about you, im sorry that I have made such a fuss for you, I did not expect to see anybody in the house for some time and you startled me i just came back from the supermarket w-with, oh.. oooh!!!" she wailed turning and running out of the door. Kiriko heard her descending the stairs with great speed, puzzled by this Kiriko turned Cly around, *a thumbs up was shown* ::she is telling the truth as far as I can see, I will keep searching but please don't be mean to her.. we remember what its like when that happens to us too..:: Cly pointed out, her words struck a chord with Kiriko, she eventually nodded softly and tried to mellow out a little taking a deep breath, standing up still holding her towel, "Gwaah! now im all sweating again.. that really scared me.. Cly".
After a second quick shower Kiriko dried herself and got dressed, unfortunately most of her clothes still fit her, which meant that she hadnt really grown an awful lot in the time that she had been away. That made her feel a little sad inside as Kiriko wondered if she would be small forever. Dressed in a knee length white pleated skirt, a light pink t-shirt that had a white rabbit illustration printed on the front with a sparkly pink nose, and a white headband to replace her usual hair bow, Kiriko picked up Cly and walked out of her room and slowly downstairs, Ana was at the bottom now with Hera Sakuragi, Kirikos younger sister, whom she had left in the hot car by accident after all the commotion.
Home under the sun - Hidamari - 07-14-2012
Kiriko beamed a smile as she saw Hera in Ana's arms, reaching the bottom of the stairs she walked to the pair of them. Hera looked over, her hair still very fare, her cheeks puffy and rosy and her lips drooling, she kicked excitedly and gurgled putting her fingers inside her mouth. Kiriko came closer her voice becoming much softer, "Ohayo Hera-chaan.." Kiriko said syrupy, Hera erupted in a torrent of excited cries and Kiriko laughed along "hiyaaa" Kiriko continued with an almost constant beaming smile and look of wonderment at the same time.
Hera reached out to Kiriko with a loud excited cry whom offered the excitable babies hand her index finger, Hera coiled her tiny pudgy fingers around it, Kiriko bubbled in laugher "Hyahaha.. have you gotten our finger? did you? you did... you did!" she squeaked, her voice going even more syrupy and high pitched with each passing word almost, "look at those cheeks... aah, omnomnomnom.." she said as Hera pulled Kiriko's finger to her mouth and bit on it with her bare gums, a very odd feeling indeed. "Hyahaha, Hera-chaan.. that feels strange.. nahaha.." Kiriko chuckled and carefully managed to prize Hera off of her finger resulting in another excited kick from the baby.
Ana smiled watching the two of them, since as Ana understood it, it must have been the first time Kiriko really had a proper chance to play with her sister since she was born. "Would you mind holding Hera for me? si? I need to start putting away the shopping." Ana said calmly bopping Hera up and down whilst she drooled uncontrollably. Kiriko looked a little unsure but keen, having never held a baby before, "Um.. how do we hold her?" she asked hesitantly, Ana smiled "just look how I am and copy.. si? its easy, just one arm under her to make sure she cant fall down, and one arm around her back to make sure she cant fall back, here come on.." Ana passed Hera to Kiriko whom rather awkwardly took hold of her sister and perched her up so she could look over Kiriko's shoulder, Ana stood back and clapped her hands together, "Aah Si Si.. thats right, I told you it was easy, you look so alike.." she said trying to be nice, "do you want to come to the kitchen or maybe do something else you can do just be careful okay?" Ana said picking up a mountain of shopping all of which looked like bags Kiriko would have to have carried one at a time.
Kiriko wasn't listening much, but acknowledged what Ana had said with a semi coherent nod, looking at her baby sister in her arms made Kiriko become warm, a sense of family she hadn't felt since she had practically moved out to live in space to make doing her various jobs easier. Kiriko shuffled Hera upwards again to make her more secure, she bubbled her lips and drooled onto Kiriko's shoulder, out of compulsion Kiriko pressed her lips into Hera's puffy rosy cheeks and gave her a kiss, "Kawaii desu yo! Hera-chan.. hyahaha, mmmmah" Kiriko said again in a syrupy giving Hera another kiss. "Cly! Cly! Hera-chan is so cute!" Kiriko called outwards, knowing Cly would be able to hear her as she was clipped to Kiriko's waist band.
Cly lit up right away, ::we should take a picture and maybe we can print it later so we have one for our desk at work:: she spoke softly, Kiriko bopped around in excitement at that thought, "wow Cly thats a really nice idea!" she said watching Hera's expression as they walked slowly towards the east wing of their home to the living room. Opening the large door they walking into the living room, it was a big room with a huge rectangle mat covered in a thick incredibly luxurious carpet that felt like heaven on kiriko's feet compared to the hard floor around most of the villa, and the sofa were huge also, easily able to seat 4 adults on each of them with 3 to chose from and then the single armchair version near the broad full length windows. hurting her arm a little Kiriko knelt down and helped Hera down gently onto the thick rug, laying her onto her back.
Gurgling and kicking her legs Hera looked up to Kiriko in a strange sort of fascination, unclipping Cly from her waist Kiriko lay down next to Hera, whom shouted excitedly in baby talk and conintued to gurgle loudly with a smile, looking over to Kiriko and reaching for her hair, taking hold Hera pulled at Kiriko's hair and tried to eat it, "gaah.. no dont eat that, its bad to" kiriko exclaimed at the tugging motion of her sisters hands on a small bunch of her long black hair. Ana popped her head into the room to check on them both, not speaking since Kiriko hadnt noticed her and just watched. "Eeeeeew... my hair has dribble in now Hera-chan" Kiriko complaining a little looking at her hair as Hera kicked her legs again and laughed putting both of her hands into her mouth.
Kiriko couldnt help but crack a smile and went to give Hera another kiss on her succulent cheeks however Hera quickly reached out and grabbed Kiriko's hair and face, laughing and gurgling as she did, "oh!.. Hera-chan what are you doing? what are you doing mmm?" Kiriko laughed with a syrupy voice and snuggled into her sisters face, her cheek and hair now covered in drool but she didnt care and felt a powerful love and warmth as Hera laughed and spoke ambiently in baby talk.
RE: Home under the sun - Heraklion - 11-01-2012
A small two person shuttle lands on the spaceport closest to the Home under the sun, the shuttle is light grey and on the side there is a black sacred chao painted on with underneath the word "Discordia". The small door opens and a blonde woman in a red dress steps into the sunlight followed by a man in something that looks like a military uniform without markings on it.
The woman, Emmanuelle Mimieux, is the captain of the Discordia which is currently in orbit of Gran Canaria. She looks at her companion "Would you be a dear and try to find us a taxi Flint? I'll pass by the dockmaster to pay for our parking spot." Flint Stone, former Liberty Navy now serves as head of security aboard Discordia. He just nods and they both head their way and after about 15 minutes they meet again at the gate of the spaceport where a taxi is already waiting "Excellent job Flint!" they both get in and Emmanuelle hands the address to the driver. As the taxi moves through the landscape the two passengers don't share alot of words, Flint takes a breath "There's something I need to tell you..." Emmanuelle looks at him from the corner of her eye while he looks for the right words "As you know I always wanted to grow... And I feel like I can't do that as head of security, I want to have my own ship one that and that's why... Well.... I'm leaving, I've been talking to the captain of the Astral Queen and he said he would be happy to have me if you agree." He looks at Emmanuelle hoping she would say yes, she thinks for a while "Well it sure comes as a suprise... But I do not own you and although I hate to see you go there isn't much I can do about it now is there?" Flint wasn't exactly sure this was a yes or a no, but he thanks her anyway and let's the subject be.
After a short while they arrive at the house and after paying the driver they get out and walk up to the front door, Emmanuelle rings the door bell but no one came to open the door "Maybe no one is home?" She looks over her shoulder at Flint and says with a tone that has sarcasm all over it "You think?" She looks around to make sure no one is watching them and then takes a hairpin out of her blonde hair and begins to force the lock while Flint looks suprised "You're breaking and entering you know... How do you know how to do that anyway?" He couldn't help admiring her skill as she opened the door after less then a minute, he never got the hang of forcing classic doorlocks, all the Liberty navy ever thought him was to hack a digital lock. Without responding to his question she enters the house "is anybody home?!" When she didn't get an answer she walks further into the hallway and Flint follows her, he shuts the door behind them "You take a look down here, I will go upstairs."
Flint soon found his way to the the kitchen where he opens the door of the fridge, he spots a bottle of beer and reaches for it, he looks around to make sure Emmanuelle isn't around and unscrews the cap. At the meanwhile Emmanuelle is looking around a pink room, pressumable the room of the girl called Kiriko in Shizuma's diary. Both of them where to busy to hear the front door opening again, Ana returned from shopping and as she closes the door behind her she mumbles "I swore I locked the door earlier..." She walks straight to the kitchen to put away the groceries. Upstairs Emmanuelle got startled by a scream and she rushed downstairs, when she arrives in the kitchen she looks at Flint, who had his hands in the air with a bottle of beer in the left one and on the other side there was Ana, a hispanic woman who was pointing a large kitchen knife at him. Emmanuelle clears her throat to announce her presence, Ana hastly turns around and now points the knife from Flint to Emmanuelle. "Who are you?! What do you want?!" "Calm down s'il vous plaît." The fact that Emmanuelle spoke Gallic didn't really help and Ana started to panic. Emmanuelle practically yells to make herself hearable above Ana's screaming "We are here because of a woman named Shizuma Sakuragi, do you know her?!" Ana calms down a bit "Senora Sakuragi? She is dead..." Emmanuelle shakes her head "Not really, she is aboard my ship, she survived the destruction of Freeport XXI but she suffered a major concussion" Ana lowers her knife a bit "You... you are not lying?" Emmanuelle smiles "Of course not, why would I? My name is Emmanuelle by the way and that's Flint"
Time passed by as they talked, Flint who eventually got tired of all the talking decided to walk around the house for a bit. While the two women where caught in a conversation "They took away the children after senora Sakuragi was pressumed dead, I have no idea where they are now. But Kiriko is the current owner of this house so I'm trying to keep it exactly like she remembers it for when she returns." Before Emmanuelle could reply to that, Flint enters the room again and gestures at the fireplace "Do you mind if I light a fire?" He sounds as if he had a couple of beers to much, Ana nods and he gets to work. "So you really have no idea where the girls are? I believe meeting them is our best chance for Shizuma to regain her memo..." she was interrupted by a bang as a large flame reached from the fireplace all the way to the ceiling "uhoh..." Flint jumps back and the two women jump up from their seats "What did you do?!" "I... I think I used a little bit to much accelerator" he stutters. They try to put out the fire but it reaches around it so fast that they barely made it out of the room, by the time the fire departement arrived the house was entirely consumed by the fire.
It took almost an hour to douse the fire and by that time there was nothing left of the once so majestic house, Ana sits defeated on the sidewalk "Gone... it's all gone..." Flint keeps stumbling apologies and Emmanuelle sits down next to Ana "I am very sorry, but perhaps you could help us to find the siblings and try to have Shizuma regain her memory?" Ana slowly nods and Emmanuelle wraps an arm around her and helps her on her feet. After all three of them have been questioned by the fire chief he said they could go and that the insurance company would most likely contact the owner of the house, 'if' they can find her.