Title: dieting
Summary: Honoka is annoyed after one of Umi's lectures, and she looks to Kotori and Hanayo for comfort... And comes up with a brilliant idea.
Notes: If you squint, you might be able to see slight KotoUmi and PanaMaki.
Honoka was not pleased.
From the way she stares intently at the wall of the club room with her arms crossed and the angry hum that comes from her... It was rather uncharacteristic. However, one of the two other girls in the room knew why she is rather angry. Kotori laughs nervously, "H-Honoka-chan, I-I'm sure Umi-chan didn't mean it-"
"Of course she did!"
Honoka cuts off rather sharply, turning around in her seat and giving off an angry look. Kotori is used to this, but Hanayo squeaks in surprise (she shifts back a little just in case). "Umi-chan is a demon!" The ginger-haired girl declares loudly, and suddenly rips the ribbon out of her hair, ginger hair falling just past her shoulders now.
She stands up, furrowing her brows and giving off her best 'Umi impression'. Kotori and Hanayo giggle lightly, a serious Honoka looked rather funny. "Honoka! Have you been gaining weight, again?! You should be more conscious of your weight!" She attempts to drop her voice into a deeper tone to match Umi's. Kotori is trying hard to not laugh too loudly and Hanayo is giggling behind her hand.
Honoka continues with her Umi impression, not even caring if the other two were laughing at her. "And stop eating that bread! You always eat bread!" She drops back into her seat after finishing her impression with a heavy sigh. "She knows I can't have bread often and lunch is the best time to have it!"
At Honoka's whine, Kotori tries her best to console her ginger-haired friend, "Umi-chan is just looking out for you, Honoka-chan."
"Kotori-chan, you said that last time Umi-chan went on one of her diet rampages." Honoka retorts with a small grumble. Kotori needs a few seconds to think about the last time they had this conversation, and she slowly laughs as she remembers she did give the same advice. "Well, she is." She offers again.
"What happens if Umi-chan said that to you, Kotori-chan?!"
Kotori blinks in surprise at this turn of events. She points a finger at herself, "M-Me?" She squeaks quietly. She fidgets a little, and looks down at her lap. "If Umi-chan called me fat..." Her face pales and you could almost see the tears that wants to leave the corner of her eyes. Convinced, Honoka turns her attention to Hanayo (who 'eeps' when she notices Honoka's eyes on her).
"And Hanayo-chan! What would happen if Maki-chan said you ate too much rice?!"
Because Honoka knows that Rin wouldn't say anything of the sort, so she has to resort to Hanayo's next best friend. Hanayo's face pales just like Kotori had. Soon, the timid girl's face turns into a bumbling mess, "M-M-Maki-chan wouldn't say that... She wouldn't say that... right?" She tries to convince herself otherwise. The brunette starts to mumble about making Maki the best rice so that she wouldn't say she eats too much rice... Or at least turn a blind eye to it.
Honoka almost puffs her chest out in pride, she got her point across to her two friends and that was the main goal.
... Except both of them were a wreck now, and she realizes the extent of how her words hurt them. She looks back between the both of them, waving her hands to try and get them to stop.
"I-I-I'm sorry! I-I didn't mean to go that far!" She says with a nervous laugh, she actually did but didn't mean for it to hurt that much. An idea crosses her mind, and she snaps her fingers to get their attention. "Let's go on a diet together!"
Kotori and Hanayo stare at Honoka in horror. Kotori is speechless, but the words "B-But my rice!" falls out of Hanayo's lips, and Honoka replies quickly with "But Maki-chan!" Hanayo let's out a quiet whimper and her eyes fall to her lap.
Honoka grins at the two of them, "I mean, it'll be fun! Sort of, but at least we won't be suffering alone!" It takes a few minutes, but Kotori slowly nods, "We'll be together in this..." She grasps Hanayo's hand next to her, and smiles at the brunette as she looks up.
A small smile creeps up on Hanayo's face, "... Together."
Honoka is ecstatic and wraps her arms around Kotori and Hanayo's shoulder, shouting "Together!" as well.
The next day, Honoka hums to herself happily as she skips down the hallway to the club room. After her agreement with Kotori and Hanayo, she ate a hearty breakfast and brought a healthy bento (her Mother was surprised at this change) for lunch, skipping out on her usual bread. Even though she was upset about not having her daily bread... Well, some sacrifices had to be made, right? All for the sake of friendship!
Her head perks up as she places a hand on the doorknob of the club room. She hears a soft munching sound coming from the club room and her face falls into a state of panic. She swings open the door and her jaw nearly drops.
Kotori was in her usual spot, eating the new flavoured pita chips that just came out earlier this week. Honoka forgot that they came out and wanted to try them...
Kotori turns around when she hears the door open, holding half of a chip in her hand. She smiles brightly, "Honoka-chan! Do you want on-" Before she can even finish her sentence Honoka screams and suddenly Kotori is being shaken back and forth vigorously.
"Kotori-chan! How could you?! We had a pact! Me, you, and Hanayo-chan agreed to go on a diet, together!" Honoka continues to shake Kotori, her ashen-grey haired friend crying out in surprise now, nearly dropping her bag of delicious avocado pita chips. "H-H-Honoka-chan!"
Honoka recognizes that she may have taken her 'punishment' too far and lets go of Kotori. Her shoulders drop, "I-I thought we were going to diet together..." She mumbles with a cute pout. Kotori, realizing that she upset her friend a lot, slowly drops the bag (and sneaks the half-eaten chip in her mouth without Honoka noticing) on the table.
She brings a hand up, and rubs Honoka's head comfortingly. "There, there. I-I'm sorry, I won't do that again. We'll diet together from now on." She chirps, making Honoka sniff a little, but nods in silent agreement. Kotori has a thoughtful look on her face, "Although, I did see Hanayo-chan sharing a rather large bento with Rin-chan and Maki-chan at lunch today..."
All you could hear is Honoka screaming "Hanayo-chan!" as she runs out of the club room to find the first year. Kotori giggles, typical Honoka-chan... Her eyes fall on the bag of chips on the table now, and from the way her face contorts, Kotori is having a rather difficult, internal struggle.
She soon breaks out into a smile. "One can't hurt, right?"
A/N: I really like all the sub-units of Muse, but I feel like printemps doesn't get a lot of love (I can understand why tho). I needed a break from working on an AU that I've been diligently writing as of late, and this random idea hit me (while listening to sweet&sweet holiday). After I finished this piece, I was like, "man, these characters are great, maybe I should do more of these..." and well, here's the idea of White Fluffy Alpaca Manjuu (name pending, I can't think of a better one right now LOL).
I would like open this up to you too, if you have an idea or a prompt you want to see printemps involved with, let me know in a message or review or whatever you like and I'll see what I can do about it! I'll also try to keep these as friendshippy as possible, but I can't guarantee that my shipper heart won't drop hints... I'll warn you at the top if there is any!
Thanks for reading and hope to hear from you!