[Off you go to the hospital!] * Haruko sighs and puts a hand to her forehead as she walks. She comments quietly to Taki. "Damn, he's actually not coming, is he." Looks like it's just the two of us. * Haruko sighs again. "She wanted him to come, but didn't want to tell him. I thought.. I mean.. she loves him, he knows it.." * Taki shakes her head, "This is Kaede...He's probibly great at building bikes and such...but anything that has to do with other people..." * Haruko smiles faintly. "No probably, he is actually good. I can state this as a fact. Anyways.. I suppose I'll give him another minute to run after us, then just call her up and port over." * Taki blinks, "There's a phone in the room?" * Haruko keeps a slow pace. Her side thanks her. "Well, she called me, so I guess so." * Taki facepalms as she walks alongside Haruko, "I left my cell with Katie in case something happened...And there was allready a phone there...Even when I'm trying it doesn't come out right." * Haruko pats Taki on the back. "Those sort of things are never easy." She then frowns and glances back one last time. "I guess he's not coming.. well, maybe I can get Katie's help." * Haruko calls up Remi. * Taki blinks at Haruko and then sighs, "Just have to start small I guess." * Haruko nods. * Haruko speaks into her phone. "He's tied up at the moment, I'm going to try to get some help and convince him to visit later. If the rooms empty, Taki and I can teleport over and say hi." * Taki looks around for peoples that might be surprised at the sudden disappearance of two girls. [A buncha students might. They're milling about on the campus, being annoyingly there.] * Haruko sighs. "I'm sorry... I'm probably the worst person to get Takeuchi-san to do anything. But I think he'll come later of his own accord.'" * Taki rubs her head and keeps walking. * Haruko kicks at the ground. "Feel better Remi. Good bye." * Haruko hangs her head a little. "She wants to be alone, I think she means it." * Taki nods, "I guess we're taking the long way then." Well we can take the short way to Satoshi's place at least. * Taki brightens up a bit, "There is that." * Haruko keeps walking slowly. "Thanks for coming with me, I appreciate it." * Taki forces a grin, "Don't worry about it." Playing your personal valet is the least I can do to pay you back for the tickets. * Haruko grins slightly and then drops it. "Don't let any sense of obligation to me keep you from more important matters though." There's...not much I can do there...This way at least I'm doing something. [Annnnd.... You get to the hospital some time later.] [Shortly thereafter, so does Kaede.] * Haruko nods walks down a hospital hallway towards Ryuji's room, as she got there first and hasn't seen Kaede yet. "Oh, I told my parents. Apparently my father knew already, that made things easier." She then frowns. "Mom didn't take it so well though." Well...if he allready knew and Headache lady hadn't done anything to him... * Taki trails off and looks thoughtfull. * Haruko nods. "He thinks keeping a low profile does the trick. And I've kept the tape... what are you thinking?" If I should tell my dad...I don't know how he'd take it though...Mom was more than... * Taki stops walking and takes a sudden deep breath. * Haruko hugs Taki, and then as their sides touch, Haruko winces sharply and goes for a looser hug. * Taki lets it out again, "Yeah. I shouldn't make him worry." * Kaede walks down the corridor and looks at Haruko and Taki for a bit, tilting his head. He then lets out a sigh and dials Satoshi on his phone. * Taki blinks as she's hugged and then puts an arm around Harukos unhurt side. * Taki speaks softly, "You've got your own worries to deal with here and now." * Haruko smiles very faintly. "I'll be alright." She then goes to an only slightly forced grin. "Particularly with my own personal valet to keep my activity down." She slowly lets go of Taki and gets walking again. * Taki grins back equaly, "At your service my Queen." * Haruko gets walking again to Ryuji's room, keeping that grin. "Oh, and he's been out when I've visited him so far. If I actually get anywhere, don't take it personally, but..." I'll just wait outside then shall I? * Haruko shakes her head with a smile. "You can come in at first, just scram if he's up and acts interested at all." Right right. * Haruko then grins genuinely. "But if he's up and he's not, stick around, cause I'll want to sulk a little, and can't carry the conversation for the time it'll take to finish up." * Taki nods. * Haruko speaks softly as she keeps walking, she seems to be hustling a little, perhaps with anticipation. "You're a good friend Taki, I mean, I know we haven't really managed to be there for the important stuff, but I'd still take you over any of the knights of lore." * Taki blinks several times at Haruko, "Ahm....Thanks..." I...don't quite agree with you on that...but thanks...that means a lot. * Haruko nods, and seems content to leave it at that. * Kaede walks up to the door and takes a look at Haruko and Taki. He then looks down the hall at Remi's room. * Haruko keeps walking, as if I'm reading that right, she'd have no reason to see him. [You get to Ryuji's room, where there's both Ryuji (who looks considerably better) and Eriko.] * Haruko surveys the room, if she's disappointed Eriko's there, she hides it fairly well. "Hi Ryuji! Hi Eriko! How are you both feeling?" * Taki waves to Eriko. * Haruko walks over to Ryuji's side. [Ryuji looks up and smiles calmly. "I've been feeling much better." Eriko nods. "Yeah, head doesn't hurt so much now."] * Haruko smiles and looks over at Ryuji and bows. "Thank you again for coming to save us." Shen then switches to a smile grin. "If you like, I can continue to try to repay you in some part by finishing with my healing." Ryuji shakes his head. "That won't be necessary. I've nearly recovered. As it is, I'm being released tomorrow." * Taki finaly speaks up, "That's good to hear." * Haruko blinks for a moment and then smiles again, "It is." She keeps it up, though prolly only Taki can see that it's a tad forced. "As you already have a visitor and we've said hi, so I'll leave you to be, unless you'd want me to stay." She does her best to hide a not of hope as she says the last bit. Eriko shrugs. "Eh, it's not like more than one visitor will kill him." * Taki nods slightly. * Haruko glances at Ryuji for any sign of his thoughts. ( Haruko can't read minds ;_; ) Ryuji looks calm. * Haruko pulls up a chair by Ryuji's side. "How about you Eriko? I can't do much healing for you, but if you've got any pain left." "Nah. I'm fine. Little concussion like that's not gonna stop me." * Taki leans on the wall near the door. * Haruko nods and smiles. "I must admit, it was a rather new experience for me." She plays with her hair briefly before continuing. "I'd actually gone unconscious before, which was worse in it's own way." She grins. "Think I'll try to avoid both in the future." Eriko nods. "Yeah. Rather annoyed at that. I shoulda won a fight like that." * Taki nod absently. * Haruko roots through her bag again, frowning slightly when she realizes she still has the paper bag. She takes out the robe and sewing material again soon enough. Do you actually remember what happened? I think they took me down before I even saw them coming. Eriko "That one guy came at me with a led pipe. Caught me off guard." * Haruko nods. "Probably what happened to me. Shingo went down in there, but you probably know that." Haruko looks down for a moment. "I took Miho down with uunwarrented force..." "Who?" Another Arcana, groupy of the band apparently. She was hanging out in the lounge, I thought she might have been Shingo's weapon, I was wrong. * Taki listens to Haruko talk. Eriko looks to Ryuji, who shrugs, then back. "Don't know her. So, what happened?" With Miho? I was able to escape my bonds by turning to a liquid, Tenjirou sent Miho to retrieve me when I went outside to call for backup. * Haruko looks down again, and sounds rather ashamed. "I was afraid she might be how Shingo was planning to take down Ryuji, I was afraid of wasting time with her, I didn't remember that water made lightning more deadly, not just easier to hit people with, and so Kaede and I hit her with too much power." "... Oh." (Personally, I think Kaede probably would have been just as deadly without the water. That attack is nasty. ^^;) * Taki nods slightly. * Haruko looks back up. "I guess Ryuji's told you the rest, even with all that, I didn't make the difference, I'm sorry. Anyways, afterwards Senshirou kidnapped Remi in retaliation." Ryuji: "So we've heard." * Haruko nods. "Oh, Saki tell you the rest? And about the reversed cards?" Ryuji: "Reversed cards?" (Water makes a huge difference when it comes to damage with electricity.) Well, we think reversed cards. Kyon has a duplicated named Senshirou ::she tilts her head:: who Saki met at one point oddly enough, anyways Katie also has a duplicate, ::a tone of anger creeps into her tone:: Who looked her in a closet for three days and took her place. * Taki pushes herself off the wall, "If I ever...argh..." * Haruko nods to Taki. Ryuji: "Hmmm... The only reversed I can think of off hand is Saki." We've been assuming the duplicates we've met were the reversed versions of the Queen of Wands and Page of Swords, but we could be wrong in that. There was another one last time we met Senshirou...but I can't remember her name...She looked western. * Haruko thinks for a moment. "Megumi Ishiwatari. She was going by Megan though." * Taki pauses and then nods, "Yeah, that was it." I think they've been working with the Black cards, we're pretty sure they have the Wand now. Ryuji: "I'm afraid I don't recognize the name." Eriko: "Me neither. What'd she look like?" Hmm.. she had long blond hair, and like Taki said, looked western. * Taki nods Eriko nods. "Hmmm... Pretty?" (I don't see it in the log...Brett?) ( Uhh... ) (Yeah, doesn't say. I'd guess as much, but, :P) ( She was reeeeeal pretty :P ) (...dood you just rolled a six...Doesn't that make her the #1 in appearance?) * Haruko nods. "Definately, pretty fashionably attired too, if you like red leather pants." * Taki nods. (You'd think we'd notice a thing like that at the time :P) Ryuji shakes his head. * Haruko half grins. "Not personally my style, but if the look works for her." She shrugs. ( Oh, well, she was a foreigner, so you didn't pay much attention. Or something :P ) To each their own. (::chalks it up to being too worried about Katie and Senshirou::) Oh, and we've been in contact with an Arcana claiming to be the hermit, he hangs out in the reversed world and has given us a lot of information, seems trustworthy. Ryuji nods. * Taki snorts, "If you can get him to talk about something other than his knowing everything." ( Sure you can. Just ask about the war :P ) * Haruko giggles and then she settles. "Anyways, so we've got a lot we're worried about. We're going to deal with the duplicates, ::she looks down:: find out if it was really Yushiro that beat up Maki and Nanami Eriko nods. "Yeah..." * Taki looses her anger and sighs. * Haruko then looks up again. "And I'm going to try to work out a peace with the sane part of the band. I've got Sumire's number, Tenjirou used his power on her and Senshirou is ignoring Zein's wishes, so I think we can reach a deal." Eriko and Ryuji look at each other, and then back. * Haruko then continues in a softer voice. "And hopefully we can work it out so I can finish healing Miho." Eriko: "I... don't think that's going to go over well." * Haruko tilts her head. "Oh?" * Taki blinks, "Why not?" They pause for a minute, before Ryuji speaks up: "The Knight of Swords... Shingo Ryuuzaki is dead. He died late Saturday night." [Session End!]