Daisy Crazy [BunBun]

[Kimi Tachibana]

It was a pleasant day. Not boiling hot, but warm enough that Kimi could happily sit with her cute friend and talk without their toes dropping off. In her hands, the slight girl held a delicately made daisy chain, not yet completed, that she was working on rather meticulously. Her history with making her own kitsch jewellery meant that these fingers were used to precision. She was still able to carry a conversation, though, despite her focus.

"Tell more about Jackson-san." Slight grammar slip up, but the meaning was there. She knew he was in yearbook, and knew that Bunny liked him (even for someone who wasn't all that interested by things like crushes, it was obvious), so clearly she needed to know more, and a talk about coitus wasn't the time for that, so now it was. There were a few others around, considering the nice weather, but it wasn't too crowded (thankfully). Kimi shuffled to sit a little more comfortably. She liked Bunny's style of dressing, but Kimi couldn't wear that pretty stuff all the time. She was just in a nice, simple, comfortable outfit. The girliest parts about it were the short heels on her feet and the bow in her hair. She was happy like this. "I like your dress." She said, with a small smile. It was cute, like her.

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Bunny enjoyed being outside when the weather was nice and sunny like this. The only downside was that she needed to be under a parasol or in the shade if she didn’t want to risk breaking out in rashes, not to mention other, much worse things that she didn’t want to think about. It was a bummer not to be able to enjoy the sun like she wanted to, but it wasn’t like she had much of a choice. And besides, just being outside with one of her good friends was fun enough on its own!

She fiddled with the daisy chain she was working on; Bunny had delicate fingers, too, but she was more used to baking and makeup, so hers wasn’t quite as neat as Kimi’s. “Jackson?” she replied, blinking up at her friend with a smile. “Oh gosh…” Bunny gave a dreamy sigh. “He’s so… So… Manly and able to take charge,” she gushed. “He volunteered to lead the yearbook meeting when no one else did. And… He’s really sweet, and his smile is just…” The excitable girl squeed. However, she had noticed a certain boy nearby in the gardens who totally thought he was being subtle with his glances at Kimi. Bunny giggled and nudged her friend. “Speaking of boys… I think that flower boy is totally checking you out!” And he was really cute. If Bunny hadn’t been obsessed with Jackson, she would be drooling. “Oh, thank you!” she chirped, smoothing out her skirt. “I like your bow.” It was a smaller version of the one Bunny had in her own hair.

[Kimi Tachibana]

Kimi occasionally checked that Bunny was indeed completely covered from the sun. She cared about her friend, and the last thing she wanted was for her to be in pain because she wasn't diligent enough. As for now, she was good. They were under a tree, and if needs be they could move even further into some other shaded areas out here. Kimi wouldn't mind doing so, if it kept Bunny from being hurt.

Of course Bun had basically already fallen in love. Kimi was used to it. After a week or so, she would find out he was gay or something and she would move on - it had happened once, it could happen again. "He seem perfect when you talk like that." She gave her friend a small, cheeky smile, which quickly died off when she spoke again. Her head dipped self consciously and she continued to focus heavily on her daisy chain, "You are wrong, people don't notice me." It wasn't derogatory, it was generally true. Her ability didn't help with that. Maybe Bun wasn't mistaken, but Kimi found that hard to believe. She hadn't looked up enough to see anyone more than Bunny anyway, so she couldn't tell.

She smiled at the compliment, touching her bow for a moment before pointing at Bun's hair, "You have the same, Usa-chan, you complimented you too." She smiled before putting her hands to work, "I should wear more dresses." She said, casually. She liked them! They were just more difficult than simple clothing sometimes.

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Bun really appreciated Kimi looking out for her. As hard as she tried to do all that she was supposed to in order to prevent her lupus from flaring up, she still had been diagnosed recently enough that she sometimes forgot certain things. She did remember, though, that too much sun without protection = big no-no.

She was fortunate that her friend was able to put up with Bunny’s constantly changing interests. Although it was true that her last couple crushes had turned out to be gay… but… it was okay! There were plenty of other fish in the sea, like Jackson <3. “He does, doesn’t he?” she sighed dreamily, pausing in her work to stare up at the clouds. “And he actually asked me on a date!” she exclaimed for probably the fiftieth time. Bun was already imagining what their wedding would be like, how many kids they would have…. Mmmm…. But she was distracted by the boy in the garden and Kimi’s denial. “Kimi, just look at him!” she insisted. “He’s over there, by the rose bushes. And you’re wrong, you’re too cute not to notice!” Bun pouted stubbornly. “It’s just because you always turn invisible before boys get the chance to talk to you…”

Because seriously, Kimi was adorable. What guy wouldn’t think she was gorgeous? “Oh, I guess I did!” Bunny giggled, fidgeting with her own bow. At the comment, she brightened visibly, and nodded enthusiastically. “You should! I can help!” she chirped. “I bet you’re about my size… You should come over to my house sometime and try on some of my dresses!” Bun giggled and nudged her gently. “What do you say?”

[Kimi Tachibana]

Kimi definitely wasn't like Bunny. For one, she wasn't even interested in thinking about boys most of the time, she had too many other things on her mind, like math, and science, and things that would move her forward in life. She liked being smart and she wanted to keep it that way - but she could understand where Bunny came from in her own way. It was easy to like a lot of things at once, so Bun could do enough boy oggling for the pair of them whilst Kimi did enough learning for the pair of them too. And all this about Jackson being 'perfect'... well, Kimi didn't know the english word, but in japanese, the word she wanted was tsūji (OOC: means 'interpretation'). To Bun, Jackson could be amazing, but to anyone else, he might be boring or something. Kimi had no personal opinion, she didn't know him personally.

She shook her head slowly as Bunny continued to speak, and then looked down almost guiltily, "I turn invisible when scared." It was a reflex, basically. Maybe she would stop it if she could. Probably not. "I don't want to look." All the same, Bunny had peeked her curiosity now, so she turned invisible, making sure she was still well under the shade, and took a glance. The boy seemed cute, but that was by Bunny's standards, in Kimi's mind. Kimi hadn't given herself the chance to build up standards and opinions. She turned back around, but it would still take a couple minutes for her to gradually be revealed again, unless she wanted a headache, which she didn't.

Kimi wasn't sure she would fit well into Bunny's clothes. Her figure was rather boyish after all, but... it couldn't hurt to try. She smiled, even though she 'wasn't there', "Okay. I will. If that is okay with you." She didn't want to intrude. And that would be if she had any spare time, what with school starting up again soon and all...

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Bunny kept up with her grades too! Just… Not quite as obsessively as Kimi did, because she so easily got distracted by male classmates. And maybe spent some time daydreaming when she should be taking notes. She couldn’t help it! And hey, at least Jackson being in the yearbook club would help motivate her to work hard to impress him! If only she had him in her classes too… But he was older than her. Sigh.

She pondered over what her friend said as she continued to work on her daisy chain (it was getting fairly long now). “I probably would too, if I could,” Bun admitted a little sheepishly. All she got to do was stammer and make herself look silly when she was nervous. “We should try to get you out of the habit!” she chirped with a smile over at her friend. “So you can be more confident!” Bun pouted at Kimi’s stubbornness. “He’s not looking now, you can just-“ Oh. Well, there she went. Bunny unintentionally went back to looking at the cute boy in the garden, who she now realized was looking their way with a confused expression. She blushed and giggled and waved a little; the flower boy’s cheeks reddened and he quickly turned away to work on whatever. “Kimiii~!” Bun giggled into her hands. “You should have stayed visible! He would have been looking at you!” She reached out blindly towards her friend until she found something solid, and gave it (her arm) a squeeze. “We should go talk to him!”

Given Bun’s recent rapid weight gains and losses due to the various medicines her doctors were trying with her, the gender shifter had grown used to fixing her dresses into different sizes. Kimi should be no problem. “Of course it’s okay with me!” she beamed. “It would be fun! I can do your makeup and hair too…” Oh the possibilities. “And… And we could have a sleepover!”

[Kimi Tachibana]

Kimi was in yearbook, she could motivate Bunny! She wasn't a cute boy but she was... a person. A friend, daresay. Whatever worked best for the individual, she supposed.

Though they'd been working on these daisy chains for the almost same amount of time, Kimi's was shorter. That was the price she paid for being so gentle, but she wasn't rough, she was delicate; not impatient, instead calm. Well, somewhat relaxed. Calm was hard with your friend squeaking in your ear. Kimi nodded. Invisibility really had it uses when one was timid. "I am not confident." She didn't have the lowest self esteem, but she was in no way extroverted or 'brave'.

Yes, the boy was cute. Reminded Kimi of her own shy self - he looked like he wanted to be invisible now. She smiled softly, despite still not being visible, "He was looking; he didn't see." Which was why she loved her meta ability. It allowed her to be secretly nosey. She blinked at the arm squeeze, but she knew Bun was used to her power enough by now. The suggestion had her shaking her head, looking at the (supposedly floating) daisy chain in her hands, "No." She said softly, brushing off her idea gently and brushing off Bunny's hand just as gently. She would be useless talking to a stranger.

She smiled at this other idea though. She was almost back into plain view, "My hair is short." Meaning not much could be done with it. Still, Kimi was definitely into this idea. She nodded at everything, knowing what 'sleepover' was in English, thanks to Bunny, and just about understanding what she was saying (although the shifter was speaking rather fast). Kimi liked what she heard, "Okay. I would like that." She was a girl of few words. Which was why she was hoping the topic of conversation wouldn't return to talking to that boy - she would never manage.

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Kimi was a cute girl, at least, so she had that going for her. It just didn’t do anything for Bun other than make her want to dress her friend up in cute clothes.

Bunny’s daisy chain-making had come to a short, abrupt halt when she’d caught sight of the cutie looking at her friend (because he was totally looking at Kimi). The older girl might catch up to her at this rate. “I’m not either,” she said with a small, meek laugh. “Sometimes you just gotta pretend, you know?” And she was sure that part of the difficulty was being surrounded by a culture that wasn’t the one you grew up in. “Someday, we can go to Tokyo, and I want you to show me everything!” Bunny chirped. Maybe she would be less shy in a more familiar culture.

She flailed a little when Kimi spoke. “No! He didn’t see! That’s why he looked so confused!” Bun lamented. “You guys could have made eye contact and then you would’ve knownnnn that he was looking at you, not me!” Yes, this was that important to the dress-wearing girl. She wanted her friend to find a cute boy to crush on so they could gossip together! “Aww…” she pouted, finally going back to work on her daisy chain when Kimi brushed her hand away. “Hmph… Maybe I’ll go talk to him myself, then.” Yeah, right. She wasn’t that bold on her own.

Bun shrugged and smiled a little. “You can still do different things with short hair,” she replied. “Trust me, I can get really creative.” Maybe she would have to make a video about short hairstyles…. She hadn’t done anything like that before! “Good,” she beamed. “I’ll ask my parents, but I’m sure it’s alright with them. I’ll make some desserts and stuff and… and… it’ll be great!” Kimi definitely needed a crush by then, because talking about boys late into the night was the best part! “I think I’m done,” she announced, holding up her complete daisy chain. “How’s yours?”

[Kimi Tachibana]

Kimi could have almost laughed at Bunny suggesting that she pretend. Considering she enjoyed acting (and thought she was good at it, at least, despite the addition of an outside opinion), 'pretending' in such a way shouldn't seem so hard. But then against, Kimi also had insufferable stage fright, so of course this would be tremendously hard for her to even imagine doing. She just shook her head gently in reply. The mention of Tokyo had her brightening a little, though, and she giggled, "Okay," she agreed softly. Now that could be fun.

Kimi blinked. Too many words, not enough that she understood. She blushed silently and kept her head down, too embarrassed to ask Bunny to repeat. She had a little in the past but it made her feel stupid. She understood the next bit, though. She shrugged (cutely, but not that way on purpose). Bun could do what she wanted. Besides, the boy had probably been meaning to look at Bunny anyway. She actually looked like a girl, after all.

"Okay, you will have to... experiment." That was the word, right? Anyway, Kimi usually just washed her hair and brushed it. She knew how to add volume or make it curly, she just wasn't very good at it. That along with makeup. Makeup was hard, and time consuming. Didn't need it. She just nodded along as Bunny spoke, gradually taking the words in. "Yes. I hope so." She looked spending time with Bunny, when she had time. She relaxed a bit around her excitable friend.

Kimi blinked at Bun's daisy chain before looking at her own, "....one second." She said softly, before adding in a couple more daisies. Once finished, she held it up carefully. It wasn't perfect, but that wasn't what Kimi had been striving for (thankfully, or she might have been there all day and night trying to fix it). "Is it good? Yours is pretty."

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Bunny was determined to help her friend get some more confidence! Maybe if she met a boy, and finally was convinced of how pretty and amazing she was… Hmmm. She beamed at Kimi’s agreement to the trip to Tokyo, though. “Maybe next summer. Or winter break,” she gushed. And only if her lupus was stable, she knew.

She had a bad habit of chattering on quickly when she got excited about things, and sometimes forgot that Kimi couldn’t keep up with how fast she could be. Bun pouted a little when she didn’t really respond to her excitement, but let it drop. “Okay, I won’t really talk to him,” she admitted sheepishly. Probably.

“Yes! It will be fun!” she chirped excitedly. “Maybe I could even make a video about it. I’ve never played a lot with short hair before for my viewers.” Only if Kimi was okay with it, though. It wouldn’t be helpful if the girl turned invisible in the middle of filming. It was true that the girl didn’t need makeup though, she was absolutely adorable without it. Bunny just loved doing makeovers for fun! “I’ll ask my parents if it’s okay, but I’m sure you’d be welcome any time,” she beamed. Easier than trying to have a boy over, at least.

Bunny watched as Kimi expertly finished up her daisy chain. “You’re so good at this,” she complimented with a smile. “It’s really good! Here….” The gender shifter gently took the crown from her friend’s hands and placed it on her head just so. “There,” she beamed. “Perfect.” Kimi looked adorable with it on. Bun glanced at her phone, then, and gasped when she realized the time. “Oh no! I told Jackson I was going to meet him soon!” she mewled. “Sorry Kimi, I gotta go! I’ll see you soon, alright?” She leaned over and pecked her friend on the cheek before grabbing her things and scurrying off. She could never be late for such things!

[Kimi Tachibana]

Kimi didn't have time to spend trying to find boys to hang out with her. Bunny was lucky she had time to spare to talk to her currently, though right now that was purely because they were still off school - once lessons started again, she would be back to studying and that meant less socialising. Kimi was interested by the idea though, "If I can, I would like to see my family." She didn't exactly have a rich family like Bunny, just doing it because she could wasn't always a possibility. That was what Skype was for.

Kimi didn't mind what Bunny did! She just pouted a little to herself and let out a tiny sigh. Never mind.

"As long as I am not part of it." Cameras, though less daunting than real people, were still daunting. Kimi would be so embarrassed. "You can find someone with short hair, maybe?" Someone who wasn't her. She smiled at the next part, "That's good." People didn't always think Kimi was friendly, but that wasn't the case. Just because she was quiet didn't mean she was mean (even if she was rather nosey sometimes). She was just... shy. There was nothing wrong with that.

Kimi blushed and dipped her head at the compliment, "No~" She just took way too much time. She blushed even deeper as Bunny continued. The crown almost fell off from how much she was dipping her head, but she straightened up enough to take the bow out of her hair and to slide it onto her collar, so it looked like a cute bowtie instead. "I look silly." Still, she only touched it to adjust it so it would stay on. She perked up gently as Bunny became frantic. "Oh." She wasn't hurt by her friend suddenly running off - it was just... sudden. She nodded a little, making a cute face at the peck and watching as the bright girl ran off.

Kimi just twirled her fingers a little, sitting there by herself for a while before letting out a soft sigh and carefully getting up, looking at where the boy had been. Well, vaguely. She looked at the floor in that direction, not noticing if he was still there or not, before carefully walking over to the flowers. She took one rose in her hand ever-so-gently, feeling the soft petals. It was really pretty.

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Bunny nodded excitedly at the prospect. “That would be fun! I’d like to meet them too, if I can.” She didn’t speak a lot of Japanese, mostly just conversational stuff, but she seemed to know enough to get by, since she’d done alright on her trip to Japan in the past. And if she needed to, she would be more than happy to help Kimi with expenses.

She pouted a little at Kimi’s response. “But that’s the point… My viewers would love a cute girl like you in my videos,” she predicted (probably correctly). Especially someone with such delicate, feminine features as Kimi. But ah well, she wouldn’t force the girl. “I guess I could,” she replied, though she obviously would rather have her friend do it. Still, they could definitely do the sleepover!

“You don’t look silly, you look adorable,” Bun protested. She would have put her own on her head if she hadn’t had to run off, but maybe Jackson could do it for her, heehee..! Bunny would definitely text her later to keep talking about them getting together for makeover things.

Jiyong was still there. He was bent over and somewhat hidden by shrubbery as he tended to some flowers. It wasn’t his job to do so, but being in the garden reminded him of home, so he was happy to help weed and prune and do other chores in the dirt that most boys would turn their noses up at. His hands were dirty and even his cheek had a bit of dirt smeared on it, unknowing to the Korean boy. He had been glancing occasionally over at the two cute girls sitting a little ways off, apparently making daisy chains. If he had more confidence, he would have gone over to talk to them, but he was just shy and smiled over them from a distance.

He didn’t realize that one of the girls had left and the other had come closer until he finally stood to wipe some sweat from his brow. The girl was surprisingly close to Jiyong, and he stared wide-eyed at her, slightly startled. It took a moment for him to remember to speak English. “Ah… Hi!” he greeted with a smile. “Do you like rose?” He’d noticed her touching the petals. “I like rose! Very pretty, yes?” At least he hadn’t forgotten how to form sentences.

[Kimi Tachibana]

Kimi pondered for a moment over the possibility of being in one of Bunny's videos, and, after internal deliberation, "...maybe." As in, maybe she would do it. Some days she was more confident than others, and if she was happy enough to step in front of the camera, she would, if a little tentatively.

Apparently looking adorable over silly, Kimi stood in front of those roses. She caught movement in her peripheral vision and froze. Woopsie. She focused back on the rose for the time being. It was like one of those ones you saw in photographs, almost flawless... almost, this one had a little dip in one of its petals - presumably made by some bug. Kimi wouldn't say that though, that would be plain rude.

The movement changed after a short while, someone standing. She supposed this was the boy Bunny spied over from the shade of the tree, and that definitely made Kimi nervous. If she had her running shoes on her person she might have began jogging away. As it was, she was wearing small heels, and she didn't want to hurt herself. When the boy spoke, Kimi blinked, swiftly taking her hand back, but still looking at the rose, only slowly making her eyes drift up towards the boy, just about making weak eye contact as he finished speaking. Then she looked at the roses, then back at him, before slowly nodding - yes, that were very pretty.

And so was he. If you could call a boy pretty.

Apparently, as well, she could no longer speak any language. She looked across the garden and all its things... and then looked at him again. He was a bit mucky. Hard worker. She looked down at herself and sighed. She didn't really remember what Bunny thought, she knew she looked silly. (note: only a little, but not to her) However, she didn't do anything about it. The gentle girl just played with her fingers, looking away nervously.

[Jiyong Kang]

Jiyong would have been heartbroken if Kimi had run away, and wondered what he did wrong. Fortunately she didn’t, and it gave the gardener a chance to get a better look at the girl without the distance. She was even cuter like this, he thought. He’d always thought he had a thing for long hair, but she was so pretty that he thought she would probably look good with any haircut, although the one she had now was very flattering. He hoped his wasn’t mussed up with pieces of leaves and stuff.

Jiyong blinked as he saw her pull her hands away, as though afraid he might be mad or something that she was touching the flower. “No worry! You very gentle with flower, it’s okay,” he tried to assure her. He could tell how tender she was being with the petals. He smiled when she seemed to agree with him, even if she didn’t say anything aloud. He almost wondered if she was mute, but…. He’d been pretty sure he’d seen her mouth moving with her other friend. “What color you like?” he asked, motioning around him. “I have seen all colors of rose in here. I can pick one, pretty rose for pretty girl!” The gardeners wouldn’t miss one flower, surely.

He fidgeted a little when she still didn’t speak, and self-consciously rubbed the back of his hand against his cheek, smearing even more dirt on his face. When the girl looked at him again, Jiyong smiled. “I like flower hat,” he commented, pointing to the crown on her head. “What is your name? I am Jiyong. Mannaseo bangabsuemnida.” He dipped his head a little bit.

[Kimi Tachibana]

Kimi had no idea about all the lovely thoughts running through this boy's mind about her - she just thought she had gotten in his way, and that he was friendly enough to make conversation instead of complaining at her.

She stopped, looking at the boy when he spoke again. He sounded like he wasn't completely confident with English quite yet, but he could understand him. He spoke similarly to how she used to, and how she still did when she became too flustered - which wasn't too often, thankfully enough for her. She dipped her head in response though, still keeping her hands to herself, folding them together, "Okay." She said ever so softly, he might have even caught it. At the offer, she looked at him again, then at the roses, blushing. "...I..." She was flustered now. Not only Bunny had called her pretty, but now this person too? Was everyone insane today? "I'm not pretty." She thought she was pretty average, "And I don't need a rose." After a pause, she dipped her head again, "Sorry."

When he mentioned the flower 'hat', Kimi became self conscious. Her hand went to her head and gently took hold of the crown, taking it off and holding it instead. "...thank you." She stood, twisting her body gently as he spoke again, "Jiyong?" She said quietly, just confirming. She wondered how old he was. "I'm Kimi." The delicate girl bit her lip, "I don't know Korean." Whatever he said, it had gone over her head. She thought, "...how old are you?"