Her eyes couldn't let go off the 'other world' she was in. The portal was shining bright right next to her, she could then finally go back to her own place, finish this whole nightmare. But something felt really heavy. It seemed like she was leaving something really important here, greeted by nothingness. She took one last glance before entering the portal, to see… no one.
She was greeted with 5 curious stares this time.
"Lu…Luka-san?" Ahim carefully asked making sure it was their Luka.
Luka sighed in relief. This was it, the end of the nightmare. But then someone else caught her eyes. Then, she sighed in relief, for real. It was so visible that the others saw it too.
Luka found out that her urge of cries were swelling up again, but this time in happiness. She rushed towards Gai, changing the latter's expression into surprise from curiosity, and embraced him. The grip was so strong as if she thought Gai was going to disappear. And for Gai, he almost fell on the floor.
"Gai," Luka said in a low voice as she quietly sobbed.
"Lu…Luka-san, what's wrong?" Gai asked, still surprised for why Luka's crying like this.
The others were surprised as well, now looking at the scene with double confusion.
"Luka, it is you, right? What happened? Where did you go?" Joe asked, but the questions hardly seemed to reach Luka's ears.
It seemed like Luka was not going to let Gai go so soon. So Gai stopped being stiff and slowly patted her back.
"Daijoubu, Luka-san, you can let go off me now," he said slowly.
His voice seemed to assure Luka somehow. She loosened the grip.
"Don't leave us like that, baka," she muttered.
"What?"
Luka's face turned into a grin, she stood straight.
"Well, I was just glad that Gai's even alive!" she said playfully.
"EH?" Gai asked with shock again.
"What happened, Luka?" Marvelous asked.
"We are dying to know!" Don added.
"Oh, you'll never believe it." Luka started talking in her own style, "I went to an 'alternate dimension' and you guys were like this…" she continued blabbering to the others.
But even 'alternate dimension' didn't catch Gai's attention. He was wondering what Luka meant.
"Luka-san, what do you mean?" he walked upto Luka for an answer.
"Oh, nothing, sentai fan-boy, rather just listen to my story," she said with a grin.
"Luka-san!" Gai whined.
So Luka kept talking big about her great adventure, with everyone's 'Shinjirarenai.'
"That even beats the Boukengers' bouken!" Gai commented at one point.
"Yeah yeah!" Ahim and Hakase nodded.
Luka glanced at their most enthusiastic member, jumping and arguing goofily with the others, as always. But today the aura seemed different somehow.
Maybe there is much more potential in him than we see.
A/N- just a head or tail- less random one-shot.