Thanks for the Gift
~o~
Perfect.
Nagisa hardly used to spell that specific word to describe something, maybe a beautiful sunset after a nice saturday, or the new dress her mother bought for herself, even an afternoon with takoyaki and her lacrosse teammates after a hard training session.
But this… This Yukishiro girl was perfect.
Whether her perfect notes, her perfect brilliant mind or her perfect body… Yukishiro even had two or three love confessions monthly (according to Shiho and Rina) and she even took every chance to turn them down.
Nagisa wasn't the jealous type but…
"Black! All yours!" Cure White exclaimed as she sent the weekly dark monster to the ground with a judo movement, near to her battle partner.
"Man, that must hurt", Black muttered and quickly attacked the monster with fast, powerful punches. The black-clad warrior also sent the monster away.
White landed by her side and held Black's hand. They invoked their best attack and finished the monster.
"MARBLE SCREW!!!"
The monster turned into black, tiny stars and ran away.
"Good job, partner," White said, a knowly smile on her pink lips.
It wasn't jealousy…
Black frowned. "Sometimes I think you alone are enough to deal with these monsters".
White chuckled and winked at her. "Maybe".
"You…" Black bit back a rude word. "Well, Miss Perfect surely can be a Pretty Cure all by herself."
"That's not in the contract mepo," Mepple barged in.
"Shut up, dude! What contract?"
"You two need to be together mipo," Mipple's little head popped out the case in White's uniform. "Only you two are capable of using the light like this."
"Like what?" Black asked, annoyed.
"She means in a pure, dense and solid form," White explained, her voice full of enthusiasm. "The Light we know comes from the stars, the Sun being the closest of them to us. Light comes in tiny particles; think of them as dewdrops. Now, imagine controlling those tiny droplets to gather all the world's oceans into a single sphere in your hands. Something similar happens with Light when we transform and when we attack, but Light is more powerful than water; such a concentration could kill anyone."
Now Black was terrified. "Mepple, you want us to explode or something!?" She exclaimed. "I can't believe this…"
"Well, duh! You two are the Warriors of Light for this, you two can handle the power of Light mepo."
"Don't worry, Black, we won't explode, desintegrate is the correct term," explained a calm White.
"Right, like being turned into dust is any better," Black growled and looked at her partner. "You know what? Maybe I'm enough to handle the Light by myself. So Miss Perfect can take classes and turn down boys like a champion. I can work alone."
"Oh, are you sure, partner?" White smiled at her, a content expression in her face.
"Wanna taste some of this?" Black showed her fist.
"Well, I have something to do later but I can spare some more minutes with you and… Maybe I want to taste something else?" White said with a flirty smile, now her face close to Black's.
Cure Black violently blushed and jumped away from her. "Bring it on, partner!" Now her fists were ready.
"Glad to."
The fairies were alarmed.
"Black, what the heck mepo!?"
"Shut up, Mepple, this is between us!"
"White, please, don't fight mipo!"
The girl smiled. "It's just a professional and civilized discussion with my battle partner, don't worry, Mipple."
"Ugh, you…!" Black roared and attacked White with her fists. Powerful, crushing punches against her partner.
White, on the other hand, seemed to be having fun. With fast movements, she used her arms to block every punch and kick. Where Black was powerful, White was fast, every furious punch was stopped by slender arms dressed in white gloves.
The longer they fought, Nagisa was angrier, and Honoka was happier. Since they were forced to become Pretty Cures together, even before that (since school) Nagisa saw Honoka as the perfect girl who seemed happy to show to her face how smart and nice she was. And Honoka really found Nagisa funny, always trying to get on her nerves because… What was her reason? She wanted to know.
"Hey, Black." Quickly, Cure White held down her partner thanks to a judo hold. "Why are you angry with me?"
Black clenched her teeth, frustrated. "What?"
"You seem angry with me all the time, why?"
Black snapped. "You, Miss Perfect, are always meddling in everything, like what happened with the math teacher."
"Oh, that… He's needlessly strict and makes tons of errors. We can't learn with someone like him. I got angry when he tried to make you look bad when he wrote all the problems on the board wrong."
"He wasn't the problem, after that I thanked you and you just nodded and left!"
"Oh, sorry if I made you feel bad that time."
"And then this guy from the boys' section, I thought he was about to confess to me and he only asked me to deliver you a love letter!" Black was able to get out of the powerful hold and kept attacking her partner.
"Ummm, I don't know how to stop them, sorry."
This time, White was the one being held on the floor when Black managed to crash her on the ground. Nagisa kept Honoka's right arm secured, still.
"And then you turned down the poor guy!"
"I didn't like him." White clenched her teeth.
"It's because you like Fujimura-senpai, isn't it?"
"What?"
"You're always too friendly and smiling around him!"
"Of course I am, he's my childhood friend."
Those words were enough to distract Black and, quickly, White pinned her down again, this time her hands holding her partner's hands. Both girls were almost face to face. Nagisa blushed. Honoka smiled at her.
"Why do you care about him?"
"Leave me alone!"
"Oh… Do you like him?" White asked, this time turning into her human form and leaving the civil girl behind.
Nagisa, not Cure Black, furiously blushed. "What? S-Shut up!"
"Don't worry, I could never like him like that, he's like a brother to me".
"The hell! How could you say that? He's handsome, nice, and…!"
"And…?"
Nagisa tried to fight back and push her partner but Honoka was surprisingly strong in her civil persona.
"Just take off me!"
"Then… I've won?" A smiling Honoka asked.
"Excuse me?" Nagisa tried to struggle. Impossible, her partner was on top.
"You won once, I just won twice," Honoka gently held Nagisa's hands in hers, her face closer to Nagisa's. "See?"
Poor Nagisa blushed even harder. "I'm not over yet?"
"But I am. Sorry, maybe next time? I need to go to the airport, my grandma is waiting for me."
"Oh… Alright", family matters were important for Nagisa. "Then let me go, we'll settle this next time."
"It's a date then. See you tomorrow at school, partner. Thanks for the gift, partner."
"What gift?"
"This." And Honoka pecked Nagisa's cheek. "It's my Birthday, my parents come from France to celebrate with me."
And just like that, Honoka left her right there and ran to the airport. Poor Nagisa crumbled. Mepple heavily sighed.
~o~
Next day, Nagisa gave Honoka a Pretty normal present: a Notebook.
FIN