A/N: While the most probable answer for how to solve the paradoxes Hugtto has presented us is two timelines. (Future people from bad future, who go to (and cause) good past, who go back to their bad future, while the good future... you get the idea...). But I don't like it quite so much. Because it means our girls are really truly separated because it would mean this Ruru isn't our Ruru, and this isn't the same Hugtan, and so on.
Also is it Hagumi or Hugumi?
I'm going with Hagumi for now.
Edit: I forgot to add the page breaks. Oops. And while I was at it I edited a couple things.
Ruru wasn't quite sure what to expect when she returned to the future. She was an android. She should be able to calculate the way the future was influenced by these events. That is to say hardly at all.
She didn't want to, nor did she think it necessary to do a more thorough analysis.
After all, she was from the future, and she hadn't changed, none of her companions had either.
But the future didn't work the way she thought, and the future they were from simply didn't exist anymore.
But the new one didn't exist yet either.
As they traveled into the future, they were welcomed home into the arms of Mother, and the new future was set, and the pain of their pasts disappeared into their new shining futures.
The next thing Ruru knew, she was small, and new to the world, and looking into the eyes of someone, who she knew who to precious to her, but yet, didn't know at all.
She knew she was an android, she was the first android with a heart. She was programmed with this knowledge, the way she also already knew three languages.
But she also knew that something was different.
How could something be different if there wasn't anything before?
As she grew, slowly her memories returned of this old life.
Doctor Traum… her father… he remembered things from this previous life too. Things she liked, didn't like. A previous connection gone wrong.
Traum had continued life as normal, until the day he had met Aisaki Emiru, a popular rock star, who approached him about a project.
He was surprised, but as she explained her request Traum realized he could anticipate parts of her request before she even spoke them.
Purple hair and eyes, super-strength, advanced calculator abilities.
He was the one to propose the model name RUR 9500. When he said it, Emiru's eyes lit up, "Ruru Amour,"
"Love," he agreed, "After all we can't just call a child by a string of letters and numbers,"
The day she was fully awakened, (Not the day she was "born", that had been about a month previous. She had spent a month in testing, working out some final kinks in her programming and body's design.) she met Hagumi, or as everyone took to calling her, Hugtan.
She loved Hugtan immediately. She was so small, and her entrance into the world was so unlike her own. Ruru asked questions, and Saaya answered each one patiently.
Hana, Saaya and Homare threw her arms around her the moment she entered the hospital room.
"You're back," Hana whispered into her ear.
"We're all together again," Saaya added.
"Well, except for Harry," Emiru added with a bittersweet laugh.
"He's at home," Homare replied, "Speaking of everyone, I ran into Papple on the way here," Homare informed them.
"Papple, that name sounds familiar," Daigan said entering the room, he spotted Ruru, and gave a fond smile, "and Ruru, it's good to see you again,"
Ruru was confused, but she didn't get the chance to ask.
"Daigan, did you need something," Saaya asked.
"Ah, yes, just for 5 min, you're needed in room 732,"
"Oh, I'll be right there,"
Daigan had begun to remember they day Saaya showed up at the hospital, eager to learn, and dedicated to each and every patient. She had taken however a special interest in him. She had known his name without being told, and something in him made him take the effort to show her the ropes, at least as much as he, a lowly nurse could to an aspiring doctor.
He hadn't had to even gain her trust. From the moment they met Saaya had been nothing but supportive, and open. When he had fully realized why they had been looking over patient records together, and he had burst out laughing. It was funny how life worked out.
Somehow she had inspired him into following her footsteps without him even remembering her.
When he told her this Saaya almost dropped her tablet in shock, but the whole rest of the day, whenever they had 5 min, they'd share memories of that time.
Ruru had returned to the lab that night to her father, "How was the baby? What did Hana name her?"
"How did you know the baby was a girl?" Ruru asked,
"There are ways of knowing before,"
"Yes, but Hana didn't find out, she said it was worth the surprise,"
"My clever Ruru-chan, we'll call it a hunch shall we?"
"Her name is Hagumi," Emiru replied.
"How fitting,"
"I'll return to my chamber,"
"That's not necessary,"
"What?"
"Your finished, you can go to your bedroom,"
"Bedroom?"
"Ruru, you know how Hana and Hagumi are going to stay in the hospital for a little bit,"
"Yes,"
"Well that's what happens when a baby is first born, they have to make sure they're healthy. We've made sure you are all healthy, and so you don't need to go back, except for check-ups or when you're broken… just like a human,"
"Oh,"
"I've already decorated, I hope you don't mind," Emiru told her.
The room was decorated in purple, with ribbons and diamonds. But simple too.
She spent the next week (re)meeting familiar faces. The Nono's, who had long since known about Precure, Henri and Masato, and of course Harry, Bishin, Ristoru.
They were small, orphaned, and just a few years old. The entirety of the Harihamu village was protected and cared for, but these three had been drawn to Homare and the others, and Ruru was drawn to them. They lived with Homare, and while they had their own sleeping area, it wasn't uncommon to see them snuggled up with the dog and cat.
Part of her kept expecting them to turn into humans. But they never did.
Ruru began elementary school when she was only a few months old. This was where she met Charaleet, Jelos, Takumi and JinJin.
Something about these people sparked memories of a past life within her. They were all a couple grades younger than her, and yet, they were drawn to her as well.
They took it upon themselves to introduce her to school, despite the age gap, and she took it upon herself to help them with their homework, protect them from bullies.
She was a Precure of Love, whatever that had meant.
The age had never mattered to her before.
It hadn't mattered with Emiru.
It was a few years before Ruru met Papple. She and Emiru had wanted to begin singing together (again), and Emiru's current agent was retiring. (She confessed to Ruru that she purposefully made sure to keep her options open, and to choose a temporary organization)
Papple had her first real feeling something was off after she ran into Homare. She hadn't recognized her at the time, but… she was someone important.
It was a couple years before Aisaki Emiru, a popular rockstar requested she help her, and Ruru (she didn't understand the relation at the time, what could Aisaki Emiru possibly have to do with a little girl?) out with their careers. A talent agent.
She didn't understand why, but found she took to it like a fish took to water.
As her time in the past came back, she understood.
They really did make for a beautiful duo.
Hagumi was 4 years old, nearly 5, when she asked Ruru, "Do you remember before?"
"Before?" Ruru asked, taken aback, stopping their stroll suddenly. Ruru had become Hugtan's go-to babysitter when everyone else was busy with their careers. She may have only technically been a month older, a couple years older if you counted her previous life, but Ruru had taken on the role of Hagumi's older sister.
"Before you were born," Hagumi said, looking up, as though it was the most normal thing in the world, "back when I was a Cure, when I fought Papa,"
"You remember? You were just a baby? Humans don't usually form their first permanent memories until they are about 3,"
"Before I was a baby," Hagumi explained, looking back forward, and tugging on Ruru's arm to continue, "When I was Cure Tomorrow,"
"You remember being Cure Tomorrow?"
"Mhmm. That's when I met Harry,"
Ruru paused a moment, "Yes, I remember before… shouldn't you talk to your Mama about this?"
"Mama wasn't in the before," Hagumi asked twisting her face in confusion.
"She wasn't?" Ruru asked, before mentally checking the time, "Well, she's should be almost done with work, so let's go ask her anyway,"
"Okay!"
They had made it to the future. It wasn't how they thought it would be, but they made it.
But it wasn't the future anymore, and the new future was still full of surprises. New challenges, new sucesses. Both good times and bad.
There may be a second (or even third part).