A/N: Pretty Cure, Open My Heart! Yep, I'm reentering the fanfic world, this time with a Pretty Cure fanfic! Don't worry, for anyone who reads my other stories... OK, story (a.k.a. Code Guardian), it'll get updated very soon! The next chapter's nearly done!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Pretty Cure franchise. Toei Animation does. I don't own Tsubomi, Erika, Itsuki, Yuri, or any of the other characters from the show.
Claimer: I do own the title of this fanfic and the plotline. I do own all of the OCs except for Syoku, who belongs to my little sister. Everyone enjoy! Arigatō!
On what looks like a floating island, a large tree stands, surrounded by energy of all different colors. The tree's leaves rustle in the calm breeze. Looking closer, flower buds can be seen on the tree. Suddenly, the wind starts to pick up as dark clouds surround the tree. A dark energy form starts to appear near the tree, trying to break through the wall of energy. The wall gives way and the tree starts to become swallowed up in the dark energy. When the energy finally leaves the tree, it examines its work. The tree's branches are brittle and all of the buds and leaves have wilted and fallen off. The dark form seems displeased, but disappears.
"Whoa!" Sayuri said, waking up suddenly. "Where did that come from?"
Theme Song: Shine! Pretty Cure of Tomorrow!
Chapter 1: Pretty Cure! Open My Heart! Wait, what?
Under a full moon in another world, a castle stands. Its very appearance is haunting. The dark sky only enhances the effect. From the outside, it looks empty and abandoned, but in fact a war is being planned inside.
A young woman with a striking appearance sits at a table across from a masked man in a dark hood. Beside the table, another man with a worried face paces. Finally he turns towards the others. "We must start immediately. Our leader demands it."
The woman nodded. "The wheels have already been set in motion."
"Good luck at your new school today, Sweetie, OK?" A woman who looked to be in her early-mid thirties entered the kitchen to bid her daughter farewell.
"Don't worry Mom, it'll be a piece of cake." Sayuri smiled, grabbing her bag from the door. Her mother sighed.
"I'm really sorry that we can't send you to the private school anymore, but we really can't afford it." She smiled sympathetically at Sayuri.
"Hey, no need to be sorry. Besides, these uniforms are so much more comfortable than the ones at the private school." Sayuri was wearing the winter uniform; an off-white dress with a sailor-uniform-type collar, a red bow, navy blue knee-socks and brown shoes. Her bright orange hair was in its usual short twin-tails style.
"Oh, right! Isn't my uncle the principal of Myōdō Academy, the school I'm going to?"
Her mother nodded, then looked at the clock. "You had better get going, sweetie."
"Right. Later, Mom."
"I'll see you when you get home, Sayuri-chan."
"Class, we have a new student today. Please introduce yourself." Their teacher, Tsukikage-sensei smiled at Sayuri, who stood next to her. Sayuri hesitated. "Come on, Sayuri-chan," she said quietly to her. "Don't be nervous. You're just like Tsubomi-chan in that aspect." Sayuri smiled at the comment, then took a deep breath.
"I-I'm Nara Sayuri. N-nice to meet you all." She looked down at her feet in embarrassment. Suddenly a girl near the front leaned forward and yelled, "Welcome to our class, Nara-chi!"
Sayuri lifted her head up a little, then muttered, "Thanks."
"Now, let's see," Tsukikage-sensei murmured, looking around the room. "Why don't you sit back there, next to Tanaka-san, ok?"
"Yes, Sensei." Sayuri shuffled across the floor towards the vacant desk, then sat down quietly. Suddenly, she had an overexcited classmate in her face.
"Hi!" her classmate said excitedly. I'm Tanaka Syoku-chan!" Please just call me Syoku-chan, though. I really don't mind!"
"O-ok..." Sayuri said, a slightly scared look on her face. "N-Nice to meet you."
"Class, it's time to hand in your homework. Please get it out." All of the students groaned; by the looks on their faces it was easy to tell who had forgotten to do it. Sayuri sat quietly as all of the students handed in their homework. As soon as the students had handed in their homework, the bell rang for lunch. Sayuri took hers out and hadn't even started eating before nearly the entire class was crowded around her desk.
"Where are you from?"
"The teacher called you -chan. Do you know her really well?"
"Is it true that the principal of the school is your uncle?"
"Didn't I see you going to the private school?"
"Do you mind being called by your first name?"
Sayuri was taken aback for a minute, and was slightly panicking inside, but Syoku came to her rescue.
"Ok, guys, one question at a time. First, we're all wondering about Sensei calling you -chan. Are you guys related or what?"
"Well... you see... um... uh..." Sayuri stuttered for a moment before collecting her thoughts. "Tsukikage-sensei is a very good childhood friend of my mom's. She's practically like family. Sometimes I call her Aunt. And she calls me -chan because we're like family."
"Oh wow, that's cool." Syoku said, then moved on to another question. "You don't mind being called by a first-name basis, do you? Everyone in the class goes by first names. You'll find out really quickly that we're a close-nit group in this class. And there's always room for more!" Syoku smiled at Sayuri.
"Don't worry, I don't mind at all! It's nice to be in a class like this, my old classmates were kind of distant and a bit cold."
"Ha ha, we're nothing like that!" one boy called out. The rest of the class responded with "Yeah", nods or laughter.
"Speaking of which," another boy asked, "Where did you go before? I've seen you around, haven't I?"
"Yes, you have. I used to go to the private school in the next town over. My parents can't afford to send me there anymore, so now I'm going here. I only live a few blocks away from this school."
"Wow, you mean the rich-kid school? It's a pretty fancy building, isn't it?" one girl asked.
Sayuri nodded. "It's huge."
"Last question, since we've covered all of the others," Syoku said, taking over again. "The principal is your uncle, isn't he?"
"Yeah, he is. He's also my instructor at the local dojo I practice martial arts at." She hopped off of the top of her desk, where she had been sitting, and walked to an open area in the room, then quickly demonstrated a simple straight punch routine for her classmates. There was a chorus of "oohs" and "that's awesome" from her classmates.
"Wait, one more question!" a boy yelled as she walked back towards her desk.
"Yeah?" she asked.
"Can I have your rice dumpling? I'll give you my egg-roll."
"Sure," she said, smiling and trading with the boy.
"OK everyone," one girl near the front of the crowd said. "How about we introduce ourselves?" Then she smiled at Sayuri. "I'm Natsuki. Nice to meet you!"
"My name's Sora."
"I'm Tadashi."
Each of her classmates introduced themselves, and Sayuri was really glad she had ended up in a great class.
"Wow, today was easy. Everyone's really nice." Sayuri was so lost in her thoughts she didn't even see the flying figures that were coming closer...
"WE'RE FALLING-DESU!"
"Huh?" Sayuri said, looking up. "Whoa!"
The creatures might as well have been trying to attack her; one of them hit her on the forehead while the other dived into her stomach. She fell on the ground.
"Owww..." she moaned, sitting up. The creatures quickly climbed off of her.
"We're very sorry about that-desu," the smaller, light green colored creature said.
"Whoa... wait, YOU TALK?"
"Of course we do, are you stupid?" This time the bigger, red creature spoke. He walked up to Sayuri. "By the way, I'm Kaosu and the little one is Keepu."
"W-what are you?" Sayuri was still in shock, and the talking stuffed animal with an attitude wasn't helping at all.
"Oh, now we're whats? That's nice. We are fairies who were born to protect the Heart Tree, thank you very much."
"The Heart Tree? That's weird, I had a dream about a tree last night."
"You did? Really?" Kaosu asked, obviously interested.
"Yeah. But what's it mean to you?"
"W-what? Oh, just curious." The red fairy tried to keep his 'whatever' attitude.
"Yeah, right. You know..." Suddenly Sayuri was interrupted by a loud noise. She looked up to see a tall figure mysteriously appear above her.
"Wow, it's another weird person!"
The guy who had appeared looked at her. "Us? Weird? You humans with your stupid Heart Flowers are the weird ones. Now if you'll hand over the fairies..."
"Like I'd do that, you creeper." Sayuri picked both of the fairies up and held them protectively in her arms.
"You wanna make this hard? Then I, Kurai the Desert Apostle, will do what it takes." The dark-haired guy dropped on the ground and before he could even take a breath, Sayuri was off in a cloud of dust.
"Well, no need to get myself all messed up, I'll have someone do this for me." The Desert Apostle caught up to Sayuri an a few seconds, then looked for a victim.
"Give me the fairies now or you'll regret it." Sayuri didn't budge. "Fine, you wanna do it the hard way? Well, two can play that game." Looking around, he saw a blond woman with tears in her eyes as she stared at a photograph. "Heart Box, come to me!" Dark purple energy surrounded the woman, and she was shrunk down to a beautiful music box.
"What is that?" Sayuri asked.
"Just run!" Kaosu yelled. Sayuri turned around and ran as fast as she could. Suddenly, she felt the ground shake. Looking behind her, she saw... a giant park bench?
"What is that thing?" She yelled
"I-It's a Chinmokuchi-desu!" Keepu yelled, on the verge of tears. Suddenly, the monster stopped. Sayuri turned around.
"Why?" the Chinmokuchi yelled, thrusting it's arm at Sayuri. She threw herself on the ground to avoid being hit. "Why did my son have to die?" Sayuri scrambled up and the monster barely missed her.
"I'm sorry your son died," Sayuri said, jumping away again. "I really am." The Chinmokuchi stopped attacking, and looked at Sayuri with faraway eyes.
"What are you doing, Chinmokuchi? Attack!" Kurai yelled.
"But let me tell you this," Sayuri told the monster. "Only you can decide whether you'll move on or dwell in the past. You have to keep going with your life; you can't just stop." Sayuri let the fairies fly out of her arms.
"Kaosu-chan, what can I do to help her? I want to turn her back. I want to let her move on with her life. I want to heal her heart! What can I do? Please, help me!" Suddenly, the heart pendant on Kaosu's body started to glow. Kaosu and Keepu looked at it in shock.
"The transformation device is responding to your heart! Please recieve the call of Pretty Cure!" An orange light shot out of Kaosu's heart pendant, turned into a perfume bottle and fell into Sayuri's hands.
"W-what is this?" Sayuri asked. Kaosu and Keepu both smiled.
"It's the Heart Perfume! It was created as a response to your cry of help. Hurry up and transform-desu!"
"Transform?" she asked, then shrugged. "Whatever, let's go Kaosu!" Her perfume bottle opened, and she spun around a few times before red energy formed in front of her. Spinning around again, she transferred the energy to Kaosu, who yelled "Pretty Cure Seed, Go!", creating the Heart Seed, then flew away as Sayuri grabbed the seed.
Pretty Cure, Open my Heart!" Sayuri inserted the Heart Seed into the open perfume bottle, and the seed started to glow red as the bottle closed. As the glow faded, Sayuri sprayed herself, then sprayed all around her as she spun. The glittering substance surrounded the long orange energy dress she was wearing and formed her top, then the white part of her skirt and her red shorts formed. She sprayed the skirt once more, and three petal-like pieces of cloth formed in the front of her skirt and two longer ones formed in the back. As she spun on her toes, the red energy formed her socks and shoes. She then sprayed her left arm and chest, then clapped her hands above her as her arm pieces and bow appeared. Her hair straightened out and lengthened in its two twintails, then changed color. She sprayed the top of her head, creating a tiara and changing the hair bows that held her pigtails. She clapped her perfume bottle once, creating a pink outer covering on it, then attached it to the side of her skirt. She spun around again then froze, hands outspread at her sides.
She looked down at herself in shock. She was wearing a white shirt that showed her stomach with the bottom red, five red flower-petal-like pieces over a short white skirt, and a pair of red shorts underneath the skirt. She also wore white knee-length socks and short red boots. A shiny red bow was attached to her shirt with a green heart pendant, and her wrists had red pieces of cloth wrapped around them and two layers of cloth, one red and one white, sticking out. Her hair was red orange and tied back into two long twintails. She wore an orange bow around her neck. "W-what's going on?"
"Hurry up and name yourself!" Kaosu yelled.
Sayuri thought for a moment, looking around and seeing the autumn leaves falling around her. Suddenly, her face brightened as she came up with the perfect idea. "I am..."
"The flower that blooms in the harvest sun, Cure Autumn!"
Ending: Tomorrow Me! (one of the songs on the 2nd Heartcatch Precure Vocal Album)
Next time on Heart Catch Pretty Cure! Future Flowers!
Kurai: Be silent, Chinmokuchi! No one wants to hear you!
Cure Autumn: No one's heart should ever be silent! Those who try to silence a person's heart shall be punished!
Sayuri: The former Pretty Cures are in danger? I can't let anyone suffer!
Sayuri's mom: It'salrigh-
Sayuri: Pretty Cure, Open my Heart! Heartcatch Pretty Cure! Future Flowers! Episode 2: My job is Pretty Cure! I won't stop! Don't forget to tune in next time!