2103/Meeting a Princess

Meeting a Princess
Date of Scene:	24 November 2024
Location:	Dorms #1
Synopsis:	Adrien stops by to visit Naru and meet this new 'roommate' of hers. A bit of chatting and eating of pastries occurs. Plagg presses his luck to steal a danish.
Cast of Characters:	Adrien Agreste, Chibiusa Tsukino, Naru Osaka

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Adrien Agreste has posed:
The news had traveled rather quickly that there was a third person now staying in Naru and Usagi's room. A child of suspicious origin. Adrien had been a bit busy with work to be able to come visit for a few days--The holidays always meant there were a ton of things to do to ramp up for the season in his work. Photos, meets, comercials. All sorts.

Now he was free for awhile and could properly visit! With a takeout box of treats in one hand and a fresh thermos of coffee tucked in his bag he knocks on the familiar dorm door with the back of his knuckles. Just a quick polite tap-tap as he waits with a little bit of nervous anticipation.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa Tsukino is laying face up in her top bunk with a stack of manga. She's reading through it quietly and generally sticking to her own, with her tiny feet propped up on top of Luna-P. When she hears a knock on the door, she frowns and shifts around to peer over the edge of her bed at the door. Does she answer? Does she not? Who could it be?

    The smol pink girl glances at Naru to see how she responds to it, then climbs down out of bed on a ladder. After a moment of hesitation, she walks towards the door and reaches up for the knob. When it becomes clear that there's no way in a thousand years she's ever going to be able to reach it, she turns the catball into a stepping stool and stands on it in order to open the door.

    She quietly stares at Adrien, scanning him up and down to decide whether he's recognizably evil or not. When she decides that he seems relatively not-murderous, she asks, "Do we know you?"

Naru Osaka has posed:
There was not at that very moment, a Naru in the room to actually ask. She's in the suite's bathroom, washing her face, or putting on makeup, or 'powdering her nose' or whatever else she might need to do to get ready for the day. Post morning run, pre-actually doing something on a Sunday morning.

Apparently she had been in the shower, and mercifully for everyone involved, she had brought her clothes with her in there to get dressed. She's still drying her hair with a towel as she pads barefoot out into the main room and looks over at Chibiusa at the door. Standng on Luna-P. Well. Gold star for creativity.

Naru's expression lights up as she spots Adrien on the other side of the door. "Adrien! Good morning. C'mon in. Yes.. we know Adrien, Chibiusa. That's my boyfriend."

Adrien Agreste has posed:
Adrien Agreste finds the door open but no one to meet his gaze at least for a second. Green eyes dip down toward the pink haired child there asking a very matter-of-fact question about knowing him. His expression softens into a warm and friendly smile in response.

"Well hello! You don't yet," he admits only for Naru to thankfully come out and introduce him. "Adrien Agreste, at your service," he introduces with a little sweep of his arm in front of him in a semblance of a bow. Not too much of one because he did still have a messenger bag over his shoulder, and a white bakery box held in the other hand. Once the gesture is done he offers his hand out toward ChibiUsa to offer, "A pleasure to meet you!"

Eyes glinting with good humor he adds, "I wasn't aware we had such a beautiful guest, Naru! Can I help you down from there, Princess?" It's all said with the smooth charisma of a model used to dealing with younger children on occasion. Including the addition of looking over to Naru with a wink and remark of, "I brought pastries, and coffee."

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa blinks as she hears who Adrien is. Naru's boyfriend? She has a boyfriend. Well, duly noted. She continues staring at him before realizing that if he's been around long enough to be known, he's probably not The Enemy. This lasts up until the moment he calls her 'Princess'.


    How does he know?!

    Her mind races as she tries to put two and two together, wondering if he's making an assumption because of her name and its connection to Princess Serenity, except he doesn't know her name yet so that doesn't add up. It never occurs to her that he's probably just being polite and is the kind of guy to refer to girls he doesn't know as 'Princess'.

    "You may. My name is Usagi Tsukino, but since my cousin has that name too, people call me Chibiusa." She looks at the hand, and reaches up to grab a finger to shake it. She still doesn't trust this guy, or anyone really, but he at least seems alright.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"We have a whole new roommate." Naru explians to Adrien as she comes to hold the door more open, her towel momentarily abandoned on the back of the couch. The room has been rearranged since last Adrien was there, too. A bed over Usagi's desk, another desk tucked in, a larger couch. The room feels crowded certainly.

Naru puts her hand out to take the pastries from Adrien as he makes a good effort on charming the youngster that now lives with them. She leans over the smaller girl to drop a kiss on Adrien's cheek. "Pastries and coffee? You know the way to this girl's heart." She smiles warmly and then gestures. "C'mon and sit down you two. Chibs? Do you want to share a pastry with me?"

Naru is not feeding a five year old coffee. Nuh uh. Nope.

Adrien Agreste has posed:
Adrien Agreste accepts the little shake to his hand as he holds his hand there so that she can get down from the step stool easily. Not that she likely couldn't, but with the door open wider it did leave less for her to hold onto. The pastry box is graciously surrendered to Naru, and the cheek kiss met with a happy little sigh.

"Ah, another of Usagi-chans cousins! ChibiUsa it is, then," he agrees with a solemn nod. As Naru heads over to set things up he chuckles. "I *think* I may have a pack of hot chocolate mix in my bag, too," he offers as he'd at least been forewarned about 'child' so packed accordingly. He was if nothing, prepared.

"There should be enough pastries in there for all of us, unless her appetite is also like Usagi-chan. You did let me know you had a guest after all," he explains while strolling in.

From his messenger bag comes a bit of movement. Just a little shift of the flap as a pair of green cat eyes peek out at ChibiUsa in passing.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa has had coffee before. She didn't like it. It was a bad idea for everyone involved. Even poor Diana suffered. She is not asking for coffee. Hot chocolate is a much relatively safer choice, as much as feeding sugar to a child ever really is.

    Chibiusa is helped down the stool, which she admittedly could have done on her own just fine, but there's something to be said in defense of formality. The moment her feet touch the ground, the stool transforms back into Luna-P, and the floating catball returns to Chibiusa's side. The magical device's unchanging smile silently watches Adrien's pack. If it has any thoughts at all, it does not reveal them.

    Small Lady, meanwhile, doesn't really notice the little cat eyes peeking out. Right now her mind is on pastries as she asks, "Oh? What kind do you have?" Following Adrien in, she closes the door behind her, then climbs up onto the sofa to take a seat, slowly kicking her legs as they dangle off the edge.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"We've got hot chocolate mix too." Naru moves over to set the pastries down and over to turn the kettle on and get out cups for the coffees. For the 'adults'. Hard to think of the fifteen year olds being the adults here, but the decade of extra life they've got over Chibiusa is close enough for the moment.

"I.. don't actually know." Naru has to admit on the topic of unending apetite. "She's so little, I can't imagine she can pack away like Usagi can." Naru considers. "And I dont remember how much Usagi ate when we were Chibiusa's age. I think Usagi was finishing my lunches even then, though."

Although now, even Naru eats. Not at Usagi levels, but she's no longer entirely an air plant.

Adrien Agreste has posed:
Adrien Agreste chuckles with amusement as he settles down to sit at the couch, where he swings his bag off his shoulder to dig inside it. Soon a thermos is in hand that he sets down on the table newly opened so the scent of strong coffee fills the room. "The basics so far as pastries go. Croissant, danish, and eclaire." Grinning toward Chibi he adds, "You'd probably enjoy the eclaire." What kid didn't? There were a few of each in the box at least as he had indeed come prepared.

"How hungry do you feel, Chibi? Feel free. They're not as good as the ones back home, but they're still excellent." Back home? Just where was this blonde from?

Looking to Naru he asks, "How'd the morning run go?"

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa is a physically active small child and eats a lot for her apparent age, but considering that she's so small that's not a whole lot. Plus, someone at some point has told her about the cafeteria and she's been sneaking food here and there so that no one actually witnesses her gorging down snacks.

    She takes the eclair and eats slowly, tiny mouth taking tiny bites, eating carefully in such a way that crumbs never seem to fall and her lips never end up with cream on them. It's almost refined in a way, as if someone at some point has tried, valiantly, to teach her some level of etiquette. Which might be surprising considering how rude she often is. It will take her a while to get through the treat.

    On the subject of hot chocolate, she asks, "Do you have mint flavored? Does that exist here?" Is the 21st century too primitive for mint flavored hot chocolate? Or any flavored hot chocolate? She doesn't know. She's pretty certain that there's none in that thermos, though.

    Chibiusa might have questions about Adrien's origins, but that would likely lead to questions about her own, so she doesn't ask.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"It was a good run." Naru grins as she putters around, ensuring everyone has napkins and cups and making Chibs a hot chocolate. "Mornings are getting cold, but that's just incentive to get a good time and get back to a hot shower. I keep thinking I should sign up for a race or something, to give myself something to train for."

Naru sets a cup of hot chocolate to sugar Chibiusa up a little more in front of the pink haired child. "It exists here." Naru confirms wiht a nod. "But we dont have any. I can get you some when I next go shopping if you'd like." She offers as shr eaches over to collect herself a croissant to go with her coffee. Mmmm. Coffee.

"Do you have another shoot today, Adrien, or do you get to just be normal levels of handsome, rather than primped and posed levels of handsome?"

Adrien Agreste has posed:
Adrien Agreste looks only mildly confused as Chibiusa asks if such a flavor existed here. Where was she from exactly? Of course, 'the ceiling' was the current information that he'd had passed on to him from Naru, from Usagi, and so he knew about as much as anyone else. He pauses in tearing a bit off his flaky croissant to actually DIP into his coffee before tucking it away neatly.

"No shoots today. They're compiling the Christmas calendar with what we've done the last week or so, though. I assume you might like a copy?" He asks with amusement twinkling in his gaze as he stares, perhaps a tad too adoringly, at Naru. He's behaving though! Just being stupidly smitten.

"But if we want to play around with makeup I could bring some over," he offers looking to the properly mannered child that was a bit oddly quiet in his mind. "I just have to run some errands today. I'm low on cheese," he explains with a sigh.

Which MAY explain why there's a little blurr of motion as SOMETHING moves from Adriens bag, and back. There's one less cheese danish on the table.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    So... they have mint hot chocolate, but it's not in stock here. Is it some kind of luxury item? Has it only been recently discovered? She'll have to explore that question later. When Naru offers to get some, Chibiusa glances away with a frown. She doesn't feel comfortable yet asking for things, so she says, "Well... if you're going to get some hot chocolate anyways..."

    Upon noticing Adrien dip the pastry into his coffee, she looks down at her eclaire and at her newly acquired hot chocolate and considers. She dips the pastry, holds it over the cup to let the hot chocolate drip off, and then eats the softened bread. Huh. So that's how you're supposed to eat here?

    Luna-P notices the blur of motion, or at least one might assume that it does, and it turns towards the pastries to notice the sudden lack of a cheese danish. Curious. The catball's owner remains unaware, taking time to appreciate the way that dipping the pastry subtly changes the flavor of the hot chocolate. She swishes it around by tilting it back and forth before drinking, as if she were a wine connoisseur. Rather, as if she had seen one and was imitating the motions for some reason.

    "So you do shoots calendars?" she asks. Guys wearing makeup is not unknown to her at all, but she usually associates it with appearing before a camera.

Naru Osaka has posed:
When in doubt, assume every new student is an alien. It's a princicple that Naru has been working from for a while now, and its rarely steered her all that wrong.

Naru makes a face as Adrien dips his croissant in his coffee and she teases him. "You love getting crumbs in your coffee. Ewwww." Clearly she isnt about to get into that trend, but she hardly protests Chibiusa giving it a try. She'll decide if she likes it or not all on her own.

Naru grins to Adrien. "You betcha. I get to have you gazing adoringly at me, and all of your fans, while I consider homework deadlines?" She giggles softly. "The rest of them just get to look." She points out and than oohs. "If you're out anyhow, could you get more hot chocolate? Save me a trip." She ahhs softly on the lack of cheese. She doens't comment on the vanishing cheese danish, it all makes sense to her. "There might be some cheese in the fridge if he'd prefer that over a danish."

Because what's /yet another/ talking (or not) cat in one dorm room. Naru has just leaned into the reality.

"Adrien is a model." Naru explains to Chibiusa. "So not just calendars."

Adrien Agreste has posed:
"Among other things," Adrien agrees abou the calendars. When Naru explains he chuckles softly trying not to seem more than just the boyfriend visiting that he was at the moment. It was hard not to, he kind of always looked put together even when he wasn't on the clock.

"My father runs a clothing label and I've been it's spokesmodel for several years now. We do calendars, cologne and perfume, magazines, runway displays. It can be a rather full schedule at times."

At the little tease about crumbs in his coffee he leans over to give Naru's cheek a quick peck. "It tastes better when the butter is warmed up!" Of course that does make the coffee a bit yick but it was suitably drinkable still. Noticing Chibi doing the same he grins. "It's an aquired taste. If you don't like it, it's not necessary," he assures. "It's just how my mother used to eat them."

With this explained the mention of 'cheese in the fridge' does apparently garner some interest from the bag--That suddenly has Adrien's free hand smacking down on it lightly before SOMEONE might be tempted to fly out of it again. "Sure, I can pick up some mint hot chocolate mix. Anything else?"

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Ah, so Naru is dating a model. Somehow this makes sense to her. Of course Usagi's BFF would be dating a model. "Sounds like a busy life. You do all of that and also go to school?" Cheese is mentioned again, and Chibiusa tilts her head. Who is 'he' in this circumstance?

    As if sensing its master's confusion, Luna-P's head antenna pings while watching Adrien's pack, flashing and making a ringing bell noise, drawing the pink girl's attention to where the danish vanished to. She looks up at Adrien as his hand suddenly covers the bag, raising an eyebrow but not asking any questions.

    She hasn't spotted Plagg at all, but if she did... Talking cats are more normal to her than non-talking ones at this point.

    Chibiusa shrugs on the subject of dipping pastries into coffee and says, "I can see the appeal of it. Assuming the flavors go together." Granted, eclairs already have chocolate on them, so it's not likely to taste all that different aside from being soggy.

    When asked if there's anything else Adrien should get, Chibiusa shrugs and shakes her head, then glances to Naru to see if she has anything to add on that topic. More than anything, the small child has no feel for how much she can really impose upon Adrien and already feels like he's being generous.