Jinchuu - [R3] [Cut] Open Door Policy

Description: On the one hand, we've got Naerose tossing an egg at Sakura's door. On the other, we got a stowaway on the boat in a time when Sakura is wanting to get all stowaways =off=. But Sakura needs to get both under control! Commence with the Scooby-Doo chase scenes!



An egg, the one thing that would be considered food and yet Naerose might be willing to waste. This was because raw it was truly disgusting. Some people sucked eggs, those people were sick. Protein drinks are the height of disgusting and raw eggs can make you sick besides. We're not talking the peeling of an orange, what sets eggs apart from almost any other food you have to prepare is that an egg is not edible if you don't. Oh and preparation takes time and cooking, neither of which Naerose was terribly good at. So this particular egg she was so lucky to find mysteriously in her cabin is voted in as a play thing. You might ask.. What was an egg smaller than a chicken egg doing in her cabin? The answer..? Too horrible to recount.

Balancing said egg on her broom, the very end, while walking, you might get the correct impression that Naerose just watched the movie the illusionist. You might also get the idea that she bought all of those tricks in the movie (such as balancing an egg on a stick). They don't, however work in real life like that, or really much at all. So with a ,
"Woah snaap!" she fumbles the egg and sends it sailing through the air. . .toward a cabin door.

No longer trying in vain to disguise herself, seeing as the ninjas appear to already know that she's here, Momo happens to be walking down the hallway as well. She was intending to go to the crew quarters and find somebody with some degree of authority, and ask about RoboMomo. Naerose is given a strange look as she tries to balance the egg on her broom, but otherwise doesn't care... until the egg goes flying off the handle, anyway.

"Hey, watch out!" Momo says as she watches the egg sail through the air at somebody's door. Oh, that's not going to end at all well.

Not just any cabin door... Sakura Kasugano's cabin door. And that door is just now opening, because Sakura Kasugano was in there for a moment, and she really doesn't like spending a lot of time in her room alone on this boat. (Or in the security office. Or any one place anywhere, really.)
The chance of her walking right into an egg on this ship is phenomenally low, but nonetheless, it's happening right now. And Sakura Kasugano, a professional and trained fighter, has the reflexes to snap her hand out and snatch the egg out of midair before it can collide with her door. Confidently, she smirks back in the direction the egg came from, pride welling up within her. Yeah, she's so cool, she just did that with only an instant's notice!
... Not knowing what the object in her hand is, though, she overdoes it... and cracks the egg's shell.

It's pretty plain to see the prideful look melt into rather extreme disgust as not-quite-fresh egg yolk dribbles down her hand. "... What the..." Inverting her hand so as not to spill even more yolk, she looks back up at Naerose... and Momo.

.. Wait, how'd she get on the boat? Never mind that for now...

"What're you tryin' to do here, huh? You wanna get tossed back in the brig?" snaps Kasugano, glaring over at Naerose.

Of course Naerose can only imagine one thing that would be proper and right in this instance. The shades slllide down her nose and she peer peers over the top at Sakura in shock and hoooorrer. Then she does what comes quite naturally. She points at Momo and states with confidence,

"She did it!"

Yes, Dame Naerose bravely runs away, well in a sense. At that point she just takes a few steps back and tries to give Sakura a friendly look, rather than a guilty one.

"Err. I'll get you some paper towel or something, teechs." And Naerose is gone, except not really, she doesn't think there even is paper towel on this entire ship, something those pesky ninja probably did on purpose. Instead she's trying doors and murmuring something like.

"Please be a bathroom, a girls bathroom, it'll be the only way I can get away."

At the exact same moment as Naerose pins the blame on Momo, the tennis player points at the witch and says, "She did it!" It's like something out of a cartoon. Momo really shouldn't be so surprised that she's having the blame pinned on her, though, and gives the sunglass'd girl a shocked, "What!?"

Looking between Naerose and Sakura, the Taiyo student considers her options. Considering she snuck onto the boat on the first place, and Sakura's past history with Kurow, she has a sneaking suspicion that she doesn't want to be anywhere around here right now. "Uh... bye!" she says simply, bolting off down the hallway.

Kasugano was able to put Momo out of her mind until Naerose pointed the finger at her. And until =Momo= pointed the finger at =Naerose=.

The fact that =both= of the young women are bolting is a point of aggravation to the young security chief... but when push comes to shove, Naerose is here as a 'guest' of sorts.

The snap decision for Kasugano to follow Momo, then, has some logic to it as well. She takes off running after Momo, tearing off down the hallway after Momo. Sakura may be short, but her legs are longer than at least =one= person's in this chase!

"Oh yeah..." she mumbles as she dashes past the door Naerose ran into -- a door that's still =open=. And with one good sidearm toss, she chucks the half-broken egg after Naerose to keep =her= company. She may not know who lobbed the egg in the first place, but darn if she ain't gonna find out!

There is a cry, indicating that egg might of made contact with something not all together inanimate, in fact, very animate. Then Naerose emerges from another door, further down the corridor. As silly as it may seem there is surely a logical explanation, such as the room she entered had two exits, one which let to a room or hall leading to the corridor again. And so there she is, only a moment later indicating she was running.. Where the egg landed is.. so far still a mystery as she doesn't seem to be showing too many signs of egg. The moment she realizes that she is still around Sakura, she is like oh no ! And turns back around, this time closing the door behind herself.

"I didn't do it!" Momo says as she glances over her shoulder, catching Sakura bearing down on her. "Eek!" There's no way she can outrun the taller girl, so she'll just have to outmaneuver her. Abruptly turning around and skidding to a stop, the tennis player dives forward, between Sakura's legs and rolling back to her feet on the other side. "Nyaaah!" she taunts as she opens an adjacent cabin door and goes inside, slamming it behind her.

"Then why are you on my ship?!" Kasugano likes to use the possessive pronoun in reference to the Suiryuu even though she has no =actual= claim on it, simply because... well, it's the ship she's in charge of security for. She cares not for the shade of difference here -- the point is that Momo's running, and runners are guilty! She was starting to gain on Momo until the smaller girl dashes between her legs -- but despite an attempted place-kick to the face she's unable to stop the tennis dynamo! Scrambling sideways to keep from falling over, she skids to a halt... and finds herself face-to-face with Naerose. Man this boat is creepy sometimes!

Irritably, she swings a punch at Naerose, idly wondering =why= there's no egg on her despite the earlier cry, but the witch has already disappeared behind another door. Frustrated, she turns to follow Momo, jerking the door open and dashing inside. "GET BACK HERE!"

Okay okay okay, woah, Naerose totally only JUST gets missed by that punch and it's through no action of her own, just luck. Like one of those situations where you're walking down the street, the camera is panning over you from just a few feet in front and you turn a corner then WHAMO, someone socks you full in the jaw for no apparent reason. It was totally just like that, only in this case she doesn't get hit and she's like wew, close one. Too bad she didn't realize a punch was coming until it was too late.

As to the cry, the room she is in, or corridor, is dark, the egg added to that and caused her to slip. Luckily as she was falling and her mouth was opened well, the egg went the only reasonable place food should go. Too bad it had egg shell going on and yolk and ew, disgusting.

Anyway, a moment later a rather confused and disoriented witch comes out the door she originally went into, looks around then opens the door directly in front of her. She doesn't seeee anyone so it's time to make a casual walk for safety, and starts to go in.

The room that Sakura runs into is... empty! How is that possible? Momo very clearly ran into here. Even a thorough search of the room will reveal no trace of the girl.

A not-so-thorough search, though, will discover that the grate has been pulled off of the air conditioning vent (because we know damn well that no heat comes out of these things).

The door of the next room over opens and Momo peeks her head out, looking up and down the hallway. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary, she takes off down the hallway as fast as her little legs will carry her, coincidentally in the same direction as Naerose.

How confusing! ... But with as quickly as Momo had made her escape, the removed grate will be shown dangling from the wall, still vibrating from the sudden manner in which it was removed. Kasugano starts to reach for it... but instead hears the pitter-patter of little feet out in the hallway. No, there's no children racing for their Christmas presents, that's her little stowaway!

Storming back out into the hall, Kasugano is more than just a =little= upset! "Naerose! Where is that towel?!" One should always know where their towel is, after all! But in lieu of an actual reply, Kasugano curls her egg-yolk-soaked hand to the side, coupling it with her left hand, and summons forth something which might run just a bit faster than any of them -- a brilliant blue ball of chi, crackling with a fair amount of electricity. Her hands plunge forward, sending one hellaciously fast stun bolt of a fireball hurtling towards the two fleeing fighters! "Hadoooooouken!"

No way you get out of the way of one of those, I mean even if you do, Sakura will probably just make a bigger one and make you wish you never got out of the way of the little one. So what do you do? You get hit the first time and then she doesn't feel like hitting you again.

Well Naerose does get hit, regardless of Momo's actions, seriously, there is enough energy to go around, or to miss one person and hit the other. She's blasted through the door she tries to duck through too with a,

"Oh SNAP!" cry of panic.

A moment later she emerges again and shouts, "Heere it is teacher." It was the only thing she could find in the small cabin. Something white.. fabric.. far to small to be a towel, more like something you wear, she tosses it at Sakura before realizing what she just did and slams the door, ducking back into the cabin and finding only one way out, a window, she decides to dive through it. Only it's DARN solid so instead she face plants.

It's a sock, by the way.

Foolish Sakura! Nothing can stop the Momo! The tennis player passes Naerose without incident, then hears the sound of fiery chi death coming right for her, partially weakened by it's impact with the witch. Just weak enough for the Taiyo student to do something with, actually. She skids to a stop again, bracing herself as her tennis racquet is removed from it's place on her back. "Momo SWING!" cries the little girl as the chiball bears down on her, swinging the racquet as hard as she can... and reflecting it back at Sakura!?

She proceeds to go into the closest cabin. Moments later, she comes out of another door right behind Sakura. "...what!?"

Kasugano's at least =somewhat= pleased that she got to tag Naerose... but it doesn't seem to keep her down for long. She starts to protest, "I'm =not= your--" but then she realizes Naerose's still up and about. "Darnit!" At least there's a satisfying 'thud!' sound to satisfy her there.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, there is a Hadouken flying back at her in the meantime! Kasugano didn't expect that! Now, in the movies, all it would take would be for a person to hold up their hand and re-absorb their own power... but Sakura's chi doesn't work that way! So she sidesteps, lowering her profile by pivoting to the side so that her Hadouken can careen right past her...

And =slam= into the reinforced metal hull right beside Momo, sending crackles of lightning throughout... and charging the ninja magick seals or whatever they are with a brief, low-frequency hum.

After a moment to gather her wits, the security chief reaches out for the nearest of Momo's pigtails! "Gotcha!" she exclaims! ... But does she really?

We'll find out in a moment, but first a message from our sponsors! ... Well, by 'message' we mean 'sock' and 'our sponsors' we mean Naerose. And that 'message' flops right down onto Sakura's head, the smell causing her face to pull into another distasteful grimace. "Yuck!"

The witch, dazed, dizzy and counting stars, just sort of stumbles out of the room, looks around and tries to keep herself upright. She fails, falling face first through a door, her feet dangling out across the hall. In an aside she whines,
"Why do you keep picking on me.. Is this some sorta new training, Teach?"

She doesn't look at Sakura since she's halfway in a cabin and halfway in the corridor threatening to trip the next person who comes by.

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Momo yelps as the hadouken impacts RIGHT NEXT TO HER and leaps away instinctively. Unfortunately, this leaves her right next to Sakura, and it's an easy task for the security officer to grab the tennis player by her immense pigtails. "Hey! Leggo! I had nothing to do with the egg!" she says. "You haven't read me my rights! I want a lawyer! Police brutality!" She continues spouting buzzwords until otherwise silenced.

Kasugano just =griiiiiins= as she tightens her hold on Momo's pigtail. Sure, she'll be moving to place her hand on the girl's shoulder to help in that -- restraining her =that= way if at all possible.... and if not, she'll just move to grab the girl about the waist and haul her over one shoulder! She's babysat before, she knows how to carry younger folks =that= way, at least!

Either way, the first goal here is to get Naerose and Momo together in one place. "Oh, knock it off! We're in international waters as of about three hours ago!" She drops her voice about three octaves and totally @stallones, "Out here, I =am= the law!" Ahem!

Regardless, having put Momo and Nae both in the same field of vision, Kasugano crosses her arms and gives the best impression of 'stern' that an 18-year-old Japanese girl can give. Which is to say: not very. "Anyway, whatever! I can toss you both off the ship if I wanna, so you each gotta give me one reason to stay! And I think... cleaning up the cabins is an =awesome= way to start! What about you two, hmm?" As to the claim of 'picking', Kasugano shrugs. "Or I could just lock you two up, also... You're both getting in the way of official business!"

Momo continues struggling despite being captured, and is thus hefted up and over Sakura's shoulder. "Hey! This is no fair, stop being taller than me!" the tennis player demands, flailing uselessly.

The revelation that she's going to be cleaning cabins brings a look of shock and horror to Momo's face. "What!? Noooo! Momo can't do that! There are nasty creepy people here and being in their cabins is nasty and creepy! Lemme go lemme go lemme go!" She starts to flail with increasud gusto, before finally reaching down and attempting to VICIOUSLY TICKLE SAKURA INTO SUBMISSION.

"Cleaning? What hold on, what official business? You brushing your teeth?" Exclaims the witch looking horror-stuck. This was not where she wanted things to be going noooo siiiirr-ee.

"Okay, so check it, I didn't do anything wrong. And umm, anyway teach, what are you talking about, er why you being so mean lately? Usually you're totatlly like the hard knock teacher sure, but lately you've been really mean, like angry, like trying to actually hurt people and make them sad, what's with you Sakura-Sensey? Shouldn't you be the one saying don't give up? Since when did you take things all seriously like this and turn to people who used to be your friends and like scowl all the time? Look what this boat has done to you!"

Cries the witch, totally trying to SHAKE Sakura into her old self again.

Stop ... being taller? That's ridiculous, but Kasugano has a lot of things to keep track of right now!

On the one hand, Momo's reaching down to strike at her bare midriff with the dreaded tickle attack! She never has been able to form a defense against that, and convulses to the floor, laughter erupting in a somewhat =painful= cacophony! "Ha-haha.. qu-quit it! Ahahaha CUT IT OUT..."

On the other hand, Naerose is up there bawling her out while the security chief is brought to the floor by Momo's terrible tickle torture! "Th-that's not... it's AHAHAHAHA STOP IT it's my job, okAHAHAHAHA argh!" Kasugano is involuntarily =violent= when she's tickled, mind, so while Momo may be in a relatively safe spot... Naerose might just get kicked when she gets close to shake her!

And on the third, uh... hand? That sock was still covering one eye for a while, but thankfully that gets tossed off when the security chief is brought down!

"People have to pay for tickets, is why!" she shouts, once she finally gets a moment to breathe! Geez!

If she gets a moment she'll try and scramble after Momo, but with =that= much... well, it might be too much!

"Momo Tickle Attack!" the tennis star says as she brings Sakura to the ground, succeeding in getting off of the girl's shoulder now that they're down at ground level. "Momo may be a stowaway, but she is a fighting stowaway!" she declares once she's back on her feet, pointing down at the wheezing security chief. "And don't you forgoh hey you're standing up again."

With all the grace of a frightened duck, Momo turns on her heels and bolts off down the corridor again. Distract her, mighty Naerose, for great justice!

[ ed: scene got cut short! Naerose had to leave. x.x ]

Log created on 13:13:52 09/22/2007 by Sakura, and last modified on 01:28:58 09/23/2007.