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Characters: Oichi and you!
Format: Action/prose.
This log is: open!
Location: Shower blocks
Summary: Being from an era with no running water, Oichi is mystified by it.
Warnings: Derp.

Oichi finds herself wandering the school grounds, unsure of what to do with herself. There are new people here, but Oichi recognizes none of them.

Eventually, after some time, she finds herself in the washroom blocks. It's a strange place, she thinks to herself, spinning around, a strange place full of porcelain and metal. She steps towards the counters and plays with the sinks for a moment, figuring out what they do. Fiddling with the taps she discovers water comes out when she twists them.

She goes down the line and turns them all on, and then goes to the shower block. More strange metal. She fiddles again, with the taps that resembled the other ones, and gasps when the water comes down.

"Ichi… made it rain," she says, holding her hands up, quickly getting soaked. "Rain inside, rain inside, made by Ichi… how strange, how strange…"

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It felt like they'd been chasing Ichi for the last hour, always just missing her. Behind a corner, through a copse of trees, up a stair. It had been kind of fun, actually! But now, the chase was at an end, and Huashi stares at all the showers turned on.

Like waterfalls inside, but these don't look like the ones the one time she was allowed to bathe (the bad man said she stunk) while kidnapped.

"Ichi! How'd you do that?"

Kotarou didn't speak, being too busy trying to catch his breath. After a few moments of panting, he managed a, "You run too fast, Huashi!" before he straightened from his breathing and actually spotted the showers.

"Yeah, Ichi, how'd you make it do that?"

Oichi isn't surprised to see them; she hadn't known they were following her, so it's mostly the fact that not much surprises her.

"Ichi twisted it," she says, wandering out from under the showers, to the running sinks. "This strange part, it moves, and the water comes out faster or slower when you move it."

Huashi walked up to one of the open faucets at a sink, and, with a frown, hit it a few times in some places, until she came to the part that actually moved.

"Ohhh. It works the same for the others?" But when Huashi wandered over to one of the showers, the things in there didn't really look the same as the small ones. She stuck a hand in and grinned. Too soft to be like the waterfall of the god's palace, but it was nice enough.

"I dunno if I'd want to bathe here, though. Nowhere to swim!" This was important, in her mind.

"It doesn't look like there's enough water in there," Kotarou added, electing to just peer in suspiciously rather than test it. "How've they all been getting clean in these?"

He was going to tell Lelouch so as soon as he saw him. Stupid fussy guy.

"Bathing..." Ichi repeats it slowly. It hadn't even occurred to her that this was a place to clean yourself. "Ichi... doesn't understand, either..."

Huashi even stuck her head into the spray, but mostly got her shoulders and arms wet, her hair being too thick to get wet easily.

"You're right, Kotarou... How can anyone get clean in there!" She was kind of offended, were you supposed to stand around forever in that thing? In confused annoyance, Huashi reached out and hit the fixture set to the wall.

The water suddenly came down much harder, and while her hair got somewhat wet, it was mostly the rest of her that go throroughly soaked.

"... Oops," Huashi grinned at Kotarou and Ichi and shrugged, stepping away from the now-furiously falling water of the shower.

"Ohh right! Ichi..." Huashi sighed and shook her head. She was gonna do this. Even if Ichi stilled smelled. "Would you like to be my Weapon?"

That... was more water. Kotarou jumped back when Huashi triggered whatever it was that made it worse, but wasn't fast enough to escape the spray. Now none of them were dry. He looked down at his soaking uniform for a few disgruntled moments, then shook himself off and put his hands back behind his head casually.

"You aren't already?"

Ichi doesn't move when the water comes down harder-- just holds her hands out to feel the spray. She supposes it might be okay if it's going down as harsh as it is now.

She turns her head slowly towards Huashi when she addresses her. She almost smiles. "Yes... yes, Ichi would not mind being your weapon... Ichi wants to be of use, she does..."

A sword! It may be silly to as excited as all that over a sword she knows she can use, but... There are so many strange weapons here. And she feels confident that with Ichi's sword and Kotarou's pendant, she can be quite unstoppable.

"Thanks! At least I can use yours..." Huashi grimaces and then shakes her head stepping up and taking Ichi's hands in hers. There's a size-difference, yes, but not huge.
"I promise to protect you to the best of my ability!" Huashi grins and then looks around the loud shower room again, scratching her head.

"How'd you end up in here, anyway?"

Has there as of yet been a stranger place to make a vow in?

"Ichi goes wherever she wants, right?" Kotarou had sidled up at they'd made the vow, and was in the process of craning his neck to see if the mark had appeared on either of Oichi's hands yet. "She went everywhere else too."

They should know, they followed her all over campus.

Huashi's hands are warm, a sharp contrast to Oichi's ice-cold ones.

"Ichi goes where Ichi goes," she says, and she nods, both to acknowledge Huashi and to agree with Kotarou. She doesn't find anything particularily strange about them knowing where she went before this, either. It's starting to get steamy in here from all the hot water. "This room is hot, too hot... let's go."

"Okay! We can go have a proper bath! There's a really nice pond in the forest!" Huashi claps her hands, and hopes they'll agree, because she still feels kinda grimy from that... 'dream'. She hasn't had a chance to bathe yet. She was busy before.

Huashi bounds up to the entrance, completely ignoring the faucets and showers. She didn't see anything strange with leaving them on, it wasn't as if waterfalls turned on and off, either!

Kotarou would try and turn them off... if they weren't all too high up, and if they weren't guarded by torrents of hot water. So instead he glances back at them warily, and follows the other two out of the block.

"The pond near our camp?"

Oichi is also with them on not thinking to turn it off; she just wants to get out of the steamy room, and she does.

"A bath... yes, Ichi would like that," she says. "A pond, how lovely..."

Huashi nods at Kotarou, offering her hand. She'll go slower this time, but they had to be fast to keep up with Ichi last time! For appearing to have walked rather slowly, Oichi always disappeared so fast...

"That's the one! It's nice and big and ought to be warm enough by this time!" Huashi may not exactly trust Ichi fully, but she trusts her enough to at least not with meaning hurt at least Kotarou, therefore, she's safe to take to the pond near the camp.

A hand! Technically, it's kind of babyish to do that... but... He disdains it for all of a second before slipping his hand into hers and jogging a little to catch up. He then turns back to offer his other hand to Oichi.

She takes his hand without thinking, squeezing once before stepping along with them. She's quiet, watching them and swaying on her feet. Oichi hums before finally saying, "Then let us head there..."

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