[center][h3][b][u][color=de3163]       ERIS REINHARDT [color=808080]&[/color] [color=8493ca]YOSHINO TSUGUMI[/color]       [/color][/u][/b][/h3]
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[b][color=808080]Current Location: Murasaki City's General Hospital[/color][/b]
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[color=808080]Eris' initial reaction upon entering Yoshino's room was to smile softly as she glanced at the current state of Purple Crown's Student President. [color=de3163][i]"She looks so... fragile. I didn't think what happened with her was this serious,"[/i][/color] she thought. [color=de3163][i]"Then again, who am I to think anything? Pity doesn't help anyone, you know that very well, Eris Reinhardt,"[/i][/color] Eris shook her head lightly, to get rid of contradictory thoughts, before making her way to the chair beside Yoshino's bed.

[color=de3163]"Excuse me,"[/color] the platinum-haired girl said, before sitting. Once Eris had fixed her skirt and rested the gifts she brought over her lap, she finally turned to Yoshino. All of it took just a few seconds, but the heavy aura which hospitals seem to have made it feel like a small eternity.

After that brief pause, Eris finally said, [color=de3163]"I came to see you because I was worried. Simple as that."[/color] After replying to Yoshino's question, Eris picked an apple and began to partially slice it. The platinum-haired girl looked quite dexterous while handling the prized fruit, a proof that the skills she learned for the festival still remained with her. [color=de3163]"Would you like some? I know these are not the crepes I promised, but I guarantee they are better than any hospital food,"[/color] Eris said, as she finished turning one apple in a small plate of [url=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NmPEJVOS8qY/TZqK9Gjke-I/AAAAAAAAA6w/uuT5kyHYs84/s1600/apple+bunnies+w.jpg][b]cute looking[/b][/url] treats.

Yoshino remained silent even as Eris carved her apples. There was no point in pretending this was a fun situation. [color=8493ca]"There's no reason to be worried about me. I'm fine,"[/color] she said simply. Unfortunately she neither had the physical capacity to shoo Eris away nor was she in the mood to verbally do so. That meant the other girl would probably remain here for some time. More gloomy than usual, Yoshino moved her gaze to stare at the apple bowl.

[color=de3163]"That may be it,"[/color] Eris replied before stabbing one of the apple bunnies with a fork. [color=de3163]"Still, that doesn't forbid someone who cares for you from being worried, does it? Here, let me help you,"[/color] the platinum-haired girl said, still trying to sound as positive as possible, while presenting the fruit slice to Yoshino, clearly intent on feeding the Student President, if she allowed it, of course.

Yoshino would once more stare at the fruit, not able to think of a retort to that line of logic. So with a slow frown, she shrugged before motioning for Eris to do what she wanted. She didn't feel hungry at the moment but what did she know? It wasn't like she was starving and quite frankly she thought she could go without food for a little while longer. The bubbling sensation in her gut could have signified hunger but she wasn't sure. The apple slices would probably decide that for her. [color=8493ca]"Is there anything else you needed?"[/color]

[color=de3163]"Well, to say the truth, there was an issue I wanted to talk about, but that's not important,"[/color] Eris said, genuinely glad that Yoshino didn't turn her away as she fed another apple slice to the other girl. [color=de3163]"I think that, in the end, I just wanted to continue that conversation from the other day. Thinking about it, that was a coincidence, right? On that day we talk while you were on your way here and I gave you a ride, and now we are here."[/color]

[color=de3163]"I don't believe in fate, but I can see why circumstances like these cause other people to,"[/color] Eris said, somewhat pensively, before asking, [color=de3163]"Say, do you remember what we were talking about on that day, Yoshino— sorry, for being so informal with asking first."[/color] Eris apologized after slipping up, correcting herself shortly after. [color=de3163]"I mean, do you remember it, Yoshino Tsugumi?"[/color]

[color=8493ca]"Yes, real ironic this all is,"[/color] Yoshino said, holding back the urge to roll her eyes. If Eris was going to point out the obivous, she would just tune her out because she didn't need to be reminded about her current predicament. Being strangled by one's best friend was hardly comforting either and she had no idea where Retsu even was right now. Forced out of those thoughts by Eris, Yoshino gave the other girl a blank stare. [color=8493ca]"No...I don't really remember what we were talking about. Apparently it was something important if you're bringing it up to me now,"[/color] she said, dipping forward to chew more at the apples. 

[color=de3163]"Hmm, I don't know if I would call it important, as in a real sense of importance,"[/color] Eris replied to Yoshino's question, noticing that she somehow were slipping further away from the Student President. Really, that girl had a shell probably as thick as Eris old one around her. [color=de3163][i]"Cracking it will likely leave many unhealed scars, I know that. The best thing I can do is find a a way for her to get out on her own",[/i][/color] she thought.

[color=de3163]"Let me see if this will make more sense for you,"[/color] Eris said, deciding to not use many roundabout ways to talk to Yoshino, not if she wanted to really find a way to get the other girl's attention. [color=de3163]"At that time we were talking about simple life issues and I felt that... there was something the two of us had in common. I wondered what would be if all this attrition between us didn't exist? Maybe... we could have been friends? I don't know how to explain it really,"[/color] the transfer student's words sounded a lot more sincere now that she said what was really in her mind. She made a brief pause to let Yoshino get the meaning of her words before adding, [color=de3163]"That's why, when I learned about what happened to you, I had to come here. I— I guess that I just wanted to talk to you once more and see if my impression from the other day was wrong or not."[/color] For a moment, Eris' fear of being rejected almost made her clench her stomach, to avoid throwing up her lunch, but the platinum-haired girl grit her teeth, and stared away from Yoshino, trying trying to disguise her won weakness that put Eris on the verge of leaving the room on tears.

Something in the way Eris was speaking made Yoshino clench up herself. Suddenly she felt extremely uncomfortable being near the other girl; or maybe she was just unused to having confessions like this. Honestly, she didn't know what to think of Eris aside from that she wasn't one of the people that probably hated her for one reason or another. Perhaps that was why Yoshino slowly turned to the other girl and listened in silence. [color=8493ca]"Well...you've definitely made friends with my relatives,"[/color] she said simply, knowing full well Eris was Chiyo's lap dog. Suddenly the same surge of paranoia and fear began to sweep her and she unconsciously backed away from Eris. Who was to say Chiyo, in her sick little mind, hadn't sent Eris here to do something?

[color=de3163]"I don't know what happened between the two of you,"[/color] Eris said, still not looking at Yoshino as she continued, [color=de3163]"And maybe, I don't want to. After all, I can't imagine anything so bad that would make me hate my sister like the two of you dislike one another. Everyone has their own history, I can't really judge any of you two."[/color] For a moment Eris sounded really serious. Yeah, this may not settle well with her, but she wasn't in a position where she could say anything regarding it. If their own mother supported this sisterly infighting, who was Eris to think that she knew better?

Even so, there was a thing that Eris was certain of. [color=de3163]"But, that doesn't matter, does it? It's not because I chose to help Chiyo that it means that I must be your enemy. If it comes down to it, we may have to fight... no, I want us to fight,"[/color] The platinum-haired girl's voice suddenly got filled with resolve —or was it excitement? When she continued to speak she was facing Yoshino's direction again, with a challenging smile in her face. [color=de3163]"Yes, I want that, but not here. I want to face you  what you are hiding from the whole world. I want to fight the true Yoshino Tsugumi, but I don't want ,or need, to hate you for that. Then I can show you that, even though I'm Chiyo's ally, that promise I did to be your knight, still hasn't been broken."[/color] Eris concluded her statement full of confidence. There was no way Yoshino couldn't know what she was talking about and, as Eris knew too well, the best place for two people to settle their differences is the battlefield.

It was hard not to have her heart racing when Eris spoke with this much conviction, as if her enegry alone was addictive and a drug of some kind. Almost like medicine. Yoshino stared at her lap, head reeling and not sure how to respond. [color=8493ca]"If that's true...why do you follow her then? Why do you approve of the violence she commits and acts she's done? Why don't you stand against her?"[/color] Yoshino sighed; there was something else bothering her but didn't know how best to proceed with that issue given Eris' presence here. [color=8493ca]"Furthermore, you don't need to be my knight. I'm no King Eris. I'm just a girl who thought she knew what was doing and ended up getting hurt because of it. That's all I am."[/color]

Yoshino's reply weighed heavily on Eris's mind. Wasn't she like this even a few days ago? If things went a different way, she could be the one on that bed right now, but... would there be anyone here for her? [i][color=de3163]"Well, maybe Cassandra, and certainly Eins, but... would any of them understand what's to be on the place Yoshino was now?"[/color][/i] Likely no, but Eris did, because she had been there before and she knew how bad it was.

Almost instinctively, Eris clasped Yoshino's hands within hers, feeling how cold and weak they were, before meeting the other girl's blue eyes with her red ones. [color=de3163]"I have my reasons to do what I do, just like you have yours, Yoshino,"[/color] this time Eris spoke Yoshino's name without hesitation, carrying on without correcting herself, [color=de3163]"It may be true that sometimes things we don't want to will happen, but the you that I looked up to, the one I wanted to fight and be allies with wouldn't be defeated so easily. I'll still stand by Chiyo's side, you may not know, or understand, it, but she needs someone she can trust beside her to protect her not only from everything else, but from herself as well. Nevertheless, I want to be with you as well, the promise I made wasn't in vain, but... I cannot do so if you don't find it within yourself to, once more, become the person I admire."[/color]

The Student President didn't know why Eris was going out of her way to just to make her feel better. The only people she had known would do such things were either missing or had tried to murder her. Still, the familiar sensaiton and warmth of having Bel or Retsu around...was being replicated right here and now. Yoshino sighed yet again, the instinct to look away from Eris' stare into her eyes very much present and tensing her muscles. But just this once she forced herself to look into the other girl's eyes. [color=8493ca]"I...guess you're right,"[/color] she said with a very small smile. It was miniscule, but it was there all the same.

[color=de3163]"Indeed, I guess so,"[/color] Eris replied to Yoshino, letting the other girl go, before turning to the remainder of the apple slices. [color=de3163]"Now, how about you have some more of these before they go bad?"[/color] the platinum-haired student picked another treat and was about to feed it to Yoshino when the door opened slowly, revealing Aaron on the other side of it. Apparently, Eris hadn't locked it fully, which allowed the soaked American transferee to get a privileged glimpse of the two girls quite intimate looking moment. At least they had finished talking about any compromising issues before he arrived. What would he think of this sight was another issue, though.[/color]

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