101/Cure for the Common Cures

Cure for the Common Cures
Date of Scene:	17 July 2023
Location:	Dorms
Synopsis:	Cho visits Aki in her dorm. Problems are discussed. Friends are made! Puns are also made!
Cast of Characters:	Aki Kurosawa, Cho Konishi

---

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Aki Kurosawa gave Cho Konishi, well, Cure Wukong, her dorm building and number during the aftermath of that mall fight. So today, Aki Kurosawa is busily working on a finals paper as she busily taps taps away at her paper. There's two beds in her dorm one. One is neatly made, the other is a complete and other mess. Aki Kurosawa is having a time though. She's too bothered to work on her homework as she sighs and stops typing. She sulks a little.

She looks to the messy bed and decides she needs something to eat. So she saunters over to the kitchenette in the dorm and peeks into the tint mini fridge there. Removing some sort of microwave meal of some sort and puts it into the microwave, pressing the appropriate buttons to make it work.

She taps her foot as she waits in her dorm room, alone, for the moment.

There's a full length mirror on the backside of the entrance door.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi sighed as she walked up to the door. Well, she'd been given this room... right? Well, the number. And it wasn't... like she wasn't welcome. They'd talked, gone out once.

More than that, though... Aki needed someone. She'd seen her tears, the way she was upset. The way she'd run. While Cho hadn't been able to catch up to help... She knew that look well. And while she hadn't had the chance to bother her since, things had been so hectic, and the dance...

Today she would do it. Today she had finally worked up the nerve to... face Aki. To be there for her. Nervously, she reached out and knocked on the door.

Amusingly, if Aki hadn't known who she was, it might have been concerning having a member of the student council at her door. As it was, it... likely would stil lbe concerning. For different reasons.

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Aki Kurosawa looks from the spinning microwave meal in the microwave's carousel. She walks to the door and peeks it open. Oh. It's Cho. She opens the door more properly as she motions her inside. "Hey." she says quietly. "Come on in." she says, closing the door behind her.

"H-hey. How was the dance?" she asks. "Did that boy ask you out or something?" she asks. She smiles a little, "At the dance I mean." she says. She's teasing. But she backs off after that, not wanting to push too much.

Hey. So. Uh. I don't think." she says. "You're one of Blue-sama's Precures. Right?" she says. "Can you.. tell me. A little bit. About what you do?" she rubs the back of her head. "Sorry. I've been curious. Ever since that fight at the mall."

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi nodded. Slowly, she stepped inside. A part of her wanted to hug the girl, but was that too much? Was it--

Oh, RED flooded her cheeks when the other girl asked if she was asked out. "O-oh, no no. No. Oh gosh no. I haven't even considered, wow. Uhhhhh. D-dating? That... that's a bit above my uhhhh, ability level right now. Eh... heh heh. I mean, I already have so much to do, with class, lessons, e-everything, you know?" she said sheepishly.

The question about Blue-sama... made her blink. "Uhhhh. No. I'm Wuwu's precure. Ummm. We defend history. Cause the deadbeats want to erase it from, well. History. Our heroes, all that. Get rid of human motivation, things like that. Kiiiiind of annoying, but hey. I'm getting something cool out of it, so there's that. I... don't even know who Blue-sama is? Is he like, part of a council of colors? Or... is it more Blue like 'sad'?" she asked. "Err, right, not... not why I'm here. Kurosawa-san? What... in the dress shop. What happened? Why... were you so scared? So upset?"

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Aki Kurosawa hears the microwave ding. She ignores it. The food isn't going anywhere. She can always reheat it. She looks to the messy bed. And back to Cho Konishi. "...Blue-sama is kind of like our guidance figure. He gives out the love seeds that let us become Pretty Cure... It's.. complicated. The Phantom Empire wants to spread misfortune everywhere. Ruin happiness." she says quietly. "--that's enough of that. Uhm.."

Aki Kurosawa looks back to the bed. Again. "O-one night. Me and my sister-- Haruna... Cure Gull.... was on a night fly. She thought she saw something. I didn't follow her. She... never came back. Okay. She's missing." she rubs the back of her head.

"I..I think she's... I think she's that girl. Haruna used to yell kerfluffle a lot. I hit her with... with purification and things started showing through and then that... dumb bird took her." she says angrily.

"Before I could even follow up on her. It's.."

"It's a lot. I'm sorry. I'm not even sure I'm right about it." she says, looking a little unsure about herself.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi nodded. "Right. Love seeds. Going to just... not... comment on that. Cause.... that sounds weird. All you precures are like, plants, then? Ugh. No. No. I said not commenting on it," she said firmly, shaking her head. Right.

However, the comment on her 'missing' made Cho cringe. Oh... oh no. That... that didn't... sound good. Until, well, Aki said she knew where her sister was. And Cho's face lit up. "Wait. Wait wait wait. SCORN? That weird girl? That's your SISTER? Oh, that's PERFECT!" She uhhhh, was taking it well, reaching out and taking her hand. "No no no! This isn't a lot! This is GREAT! Don't you know what this means? This means you KNOW where your sister is! Or have a, well, hint! You KNOW how to find her! More than that, more than ANY of that, you know what else this means? It means we can RESCUE her! This is GREAT! You went from NO leads to the PERFECT lead! Your sister is... okay. Ish. Well, for varying levels of it. But now it jsut means we need to beat up one of the bad guys, stomp on her bird, then bam. We've got your sister back! Why do you look so sad?" she asked, before reaching up to cup her cheeks.

"Now, more than ever, you know EXACTLY what we need to do! We have have a path forward." We. Not her. But we.

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Aki Kurosawa has her cheeks cupped. She blinks a little and is told things. "I mean. If she is. Then yes. But. I don't know. What's happened to her. And. Even if we do. I hit her with my strongest purification attack, And it wasn't enough. We.. we need something stronger. AND to stop that bird. AND to stop her teleporting away. It's."

""It's still a lot. And I'm just myself." she says as she ughs. "Even with help.." she says. "We'd need to contend with whatever Terribad she summons. And there's other Phantom Empire Generals, too."

"...sorry. I should be happy. But.. it's hard." she pauses.

"Ugh, even as a Phantom Empire General, she is weird isn't she..." she trails off. "I wonder how bad that brainwashing must be..." she pauses again. "If it even is."

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi nodded. "I mean, yeah. It'd be a lot for one person, silly. But THAT'S why you don't do it alone. Only an idiot would try to do everything on their own. Like, even if you had a thousand chances to do it and you could plan everything and all that, you know what would happen? You'd get your butt kicked. Terribad AND her AND possibly other generals interfering AND trying to purify her and all that? That'd be like, so dumb," she said firmly.

"That's why we have friends. That's why we do it together. Like. Even Wukong didn't do the journey to the west alone. You know what he did alone? He got stuck UNDER a mountain. A WHOLE mountain. For like. Ever."

"And like, whenever I do it alone? I get my butt KICKED. Like. Hard. I've died sooooo many times. But whenever I'm with other people? I WIN. I've NEVER lost with backup. And duhhhh. Of course it's brainwashing, silly. You like. Purified her. And I don't have any siblings, but if I had siblings I'd NOT try to like. Beat them up. And if YOUR sister is as nice and sweet as you and has a like. Love tree, or whatever? Then I'm sure she's gonna be easy peasy to purify. Trust me. This? This is going to be..."

Then her smile wavered and she shook her head. "Okay, admittedly. Probably REALLY hard. But you know what? Hard isn't impossible. It isn't even improbable. But we CAN do this. If... that's your sister? We'll find out. And we WILL rescue her. You want to know why?"

She then grinned at her and gave a thumbs up and a wink. "Because you've got monkey bullshit on your side and NOTHING is more obnoxious that being the enemy of that. So come on, smile. The hard part's done. Finding out where she is. Right?"

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Aki Kurosawa shifts a bit and listens. She sighs a little. "You're right of course." she smiles a little. "And even if she isn't my sister that's still. Someone who's doing things they don't want to." she gently pauses a little.

'Yeah.. maybe we can do this! Just.. in the meantime. I should speak to Blue-sama about Scorn. Maybe he has insight I don't." she says a little hopefully. She looks to her food in the microwave and takes it out before it gets cold. It's some. Microwave pasta with a white sauce.

"Um. Want some alfredo noodles before they go cold?" she asks curiously, offering a plastic fork to her.

"I'm sorry I lost it. It's."

"The Phantom Empire. They trap Precure. In Mirrors. Take them away. Then you're not seen again." she says. "It's what Scorn. That weird girl. Was talking about when we're in the purse. Taking us back there."

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi nodded. "Of course I'm right. Except when I'm not. But we don't talk about those times," she said with a chuckle. "And yeah. If like, he's your mentor guy thing, then do that. Maybe I'll introduce Wuwu to him sometime. Is he like... let me guess, a blue fairy?" she asked before snickering. "No, wait. Go entirely off theme. Have him be a red fairy."

She glanced to the noodles for a moment before nodding. "Sure! It can be a whole hangout and plan session. And no, NO," she said firmly, turning to look at Aki.

"Don't be sorry. You were scared, you were hurt. You were worrid. And there is NOTHING wrong with that. Getting scared is a thing... we all do. And hiding it isn't healthy. It's okay to be afraid. So long as you don't let that fear control you. Instead, accept it, then pile drive it into a turnbuckle," she said firmly.

"And... no matter what. If you ever get trapped in a mirror, I'll rescue you. Likely not alone... but I will. I won't let them keep you. No matter what. Okay? Since... we're friends. And I'm never going to leave my friends, or my friend's sisters, hanging."

"... Yeah, I know that pun was awful."