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Yell It From The Rooftops

Chapter 1: Scream Your Heart Out

Yukishiro Honoka wasn't exactly what one would call afraid of heights. It wasn't that she would bravely defy them, though they were something that were easy to get accustomed to when you were able to jump like she was. It came with being one of the legendary warriors, the Pretty Cure.

There was still something unnerving about her best friend inviting her to the top of a building for reasons yet to be revealed.

"Um..." the young warrior fiddled with her school uniform's skirt, having been rushed to this location almost the instant the bell rang, "why are we here?"

Kujou Hikari was also not what one would call afraid of heights for a very similar reason to Honoka's. While less unnerved than her elder companion, she was still certainly confused by their friend's sudden rush to the rooftops.

"I'm curious, too," Hikari took a brief look down the edge of the building before taking three brisk steps backwards.

Misumi Nagisa was not afraid of heights. There weren't a whole lot of things that she was afraid of, in fact. Right now, she was certainly not afraid of what she had summoned her friends to do. She turned to her two best friends and smiled widely.

"I thought of something great," she said, hands on her hips, "This morning when I was yelling at Mepple to stop nagging me to feed him, mom came in and told me not to be so loud."

"It was your own fault-mepo!" a small motion and voice came from a small pouch on her hip, belonging to the aforementioned hero of light with his familiar speech quirk, "You were taking so long! And no one said you had to yell at me-mepo!"

"Shut up," Nagisa grumbled. The short exchange elicited a brief giggle from her companions causing a slight blush to crawl across her face. She shook it off and resumed her declaration of intent, "So I thought 'what if I need to be really loud?' And then I realized that if I came up here, I could shout whatever I wanted right into the air and no one would complain about it! Isn't that great?"

"I suppose," Honoka lightly tapped her chin with a thoughtful look, "Your voice could easily get lost in the wind and we're too high up for anyone to hear us."

"But why do you need to come up here now?" it was Hikari's turn to question Nagisa, "Do you have something in particular you want to yell?"

"Euh..." Nagisa paused a moment and scratched her head. The blush from before returned, "Haha...I didn't really think about that. B-but we can designate this spot! This can be our yelling point!"

Honoka tilted her head at her best friend, "I don't really have much to y-..."

"Hikari is my very best friend-popo!"

All of the inhabitants of the roof were snapped out of their various musings and conversations as a squeaky voice had suddenly burst from the edge of the roof.

Turning to look, they were met by the sight of Hikari's close companion and the prince of the Garden of Light, Porun, hopping happily up and down near the edge with the biggest smile he could muster.

"I did it-popo!" he said proudly, "I yelled as loud as I could and I didn't have to get in trouble-popo!"

Hikari couldn't fight the smile that found its way to her lips as she walked over and picked up the tiny prince, "I guess when you have to be quiet for so long, you really do want to yell something out. Do you feel better, Porun?"

"Uh-huh!" he happily clung to his self-declared best friend, the intensity of his smile not faltering for a single second, "Porun feels great-popo!"

"I guess it does have a certain therapeutic quality to it," Honoka looked over to the side of the roof beginning to wonder if it was worth experimenting.

"It's good for secrets, too!" Nagisa grinned as she stepped near the edge and cupped her hands around her mouth before releasing the cry to the world, "I ate the last of the cupcakes mom brought from work and blamed it on Souta!"

Honoka stifled a giggle as Nagisa stepped down, "You're terrible!"

"He started it," the other girl puffed out her cheeks, "He blamed me for taking the last piece of dad's birthday cake when he was saving it!"

"Silly," Honoka simply smiled.

The next half hour was dedicated to shouting off the rooftop, falling upon the ears of no one but its inhabitants, all others too far to hear. Nagisa had quite a few things to yell although most of it – to no one's surprise and everyone's amusement – was about food. Even Hikari found herself joining in twice; once to say she lied about having lost her homework two days ago and once to return Porun's declaration of friendship. The only one who would not take part was Honoka.

The more reserved and quiet girl had remained reserved and quiet, though she had stuck around to watch, listen, and smile. While Nagisa was glad to have Honoka be there for this, she couldn't help but be disappointed that she didn't get to hear her secrets, her bottled up feelings, or anything she would have been willing to yell, really. Oh, well. There would be other days.

This was their roof now.

"Hey, do you guys think if I saved enough of my allowance, I could buy the roof entirely?" Nagisa joked as they made their way down.

"With the way you buy all that chocolate, I don't think you'd ever save enough-mepo," Mepple sniggered from Nagisa's hip, gaining his pouch a small whack.

"I think it's fun," Hikari said, still feeling slightly embarrassed from her own actions, "It's a little weird but it's fun."

"It was a pretty good idea, Nagisa," Honoka smiled at her best friend, "Good job."

Nagisa gave her a sidelong look, albeit not an unfriendly one, "But you know, you never did any shouting yourself. What was up with that? We all did it, too."

"I guess I just don't really have anything to say," Honoka's smile neither faltered nor shifted, betraying nothing, "Maybe another time, though."

"Ah, if you say so," Nagisa sighed, "But now I'm a little tired from yelling so much."

"You did yell a lot of things," the younger companion noted, "but enough to make you tired?"

"I also didn't get a lot to eat today, maybe," Nagisa scratched her stomach, "Well, whatever. I'm gonna head home."

As soon as they reached the doors, Nagisa began making a brisk pace in the direction of her home, "I'll see you guys tomorrow!"

Honoka and Hikari waved off their friend and parted in the other direction. After some time, Hikari turned to her older friend.

"You really had nothing to yell?"

"Nothing important," Honoka walked along, "Nothing important at all."

"I see..."

Silence fell over them as they continued until reaching Honoka's sizable home. Waving her friend goodbye, Honoka made her way inside and soon found herself on her own bed. Any thoughts that may have followed were interrupted by a light "poof" from her hip.

"Honoka, you have homework to do-mipo," Mipple's voice chimed from beside her head.

Honoka said nothing in return. Mipple's ears drooped sadly.

"You want to tell her-mipo."

"It would have been a good time, right?" Honoka sighed into her pillow. She slowly propped herself up and sat at the edge of her bed, "I do have something to yell, don't I, Mipple?"

Her answer came as a simple nod.

"Maybe...maybe tomorrow," Honoka mumbled, "Yes...tomorrow."