(Not) Like Old Times


Cast:
Cure Black, Misumi Nagisa - age 22
Misumi Arisa - Nagisa's daughter - newborn
Cure White, Yukishiro Honoka - age 23
Yukishiro Houtarou - Honoka's son - age 1
Hamura Akane - Shiny Luminous's cousin - age 31
Kujou Hikaru - Shiny Luminous's brother - age 12


May, 2012

As they used to in years past, Nagisa and Honoka sit down at the park tables near the Tako Cafe truck. These days, the first girls to be called Pretty Cure are fully grown women, wives and mothers. On either side of their table, strollers are parked with Nagisa's newborn daughter, Arisa, and Honoka's year old son, Houtarou, both quietly resting.

A young blond boy brings their order. The women accept the food and then wave back at the Akane, who by now counts as an old friend.

"Now, if it were Hikari bringing out the food, it really would be just like back in middle school." Nagisa turns to the boy. "How is she doing, anyway?"

Hikaru rolls his eyes. "My big sis is loving Osaka, and she's absorbing the dialect so fast that it's getting hard to understand her. Anyhow, why would you want things to stay like when you were in middle school? Wasn't that forever ago for you ladies?"

"Just how old do you think we are?!" Nagisa shouts.

"Old enough to be mamas! That's old!"

Honoka giggles. "He's got us there, Nagisa."