Omake thread, Haruka.

[Anastasia]

She looks up briefly, "I will, I will," she says in a giggly, distracted tone that tells you all you need to know about when that will happen. Another shower of sparks comes from the nanobot modifier, almost ominious as it sparks...

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka sighs at Viluy's antics, but allows her to continue on her special project for now.  Walking off back towards the living room, she plops herself down on the couch.  She takes out her cellphone, scrolling through the contact list, to give a certain fiery Senshi a call.

"Please give me something a bit more fruitful, Rei..." she pleads, while dialing for an order of 'miko initiated fire reading' to go.

[Anastasia]

"Miko fire readings! This is Rei-chan, how can I help you!" Dressed in a blue and white restaurant uniform accented with a cute apron, Rei-chan answers the phone, ready to do all your fire reading biddings!

....Well, no. In a cruel turn of events for reality, Haruka's momentary daydream isn't how things work. How rude!

Though, you do reach a miko, at least. "Hikawa Shrine," Hotaru's voice, somewhere between childhood and adolesence, is what greets your tender ears. A brief conversations ascertains that Rei is indeed there, and once Hotaru fills her in, she's sure that she'll do a fire reading for you. Just leave your number and she'll call you back in a moment.

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka does give Hotaru the number to her cell and bids the girl farewell, letting her return to her miko duties.  With the call now complete, she sighs as she's left to the oppressive silence of the house that is only broken by an occasional shot of laughter from Viluy's room.

"Be a little considerate of a girl's low tolerance to boredom, will ya..." Haruka tells noone in particular as she lies across the length of the couch, letting her phone rest on her chest.

[Anastasia]

And thus, Haruka waits. And perchance to dream?

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Stirred from your reverie by the gentle ringing of your cell phone, Haruka blinks. Strange dream there, even as it's memory fades from your mind like the receding waters of the low tide.

"Haruka," Rei answers into the phone on your hello, sounding cheerful enough. Guess that hopefully means she didn't see your splattery demise...

Or it's assured and she's planning her own block party. Can never tell with girls like that, can you?

"Hotaru told me about your call," she goes on.  "And..."

Of course, she lets a dramatic pause go, savoring the juicy tension.

"I saw a man in a mask," she shrugs. "A bit on the big side, with a striped purple and black mask."

[Liddo-kun]

"That's all your fire reading revealed?" Haruka asks, feeling rather dissapointed if that was the extent of it all.

[Anastasia]

"Sorry," Rei shakes her head, unseen by you. "He didn't look overly threatening or anything, though," she offers. "I didn't sense great hostility or darkness."

[Liddo-kun]

"So perhaps a weird fanboy as I guessed earlier..." Haruka says aloud, more for her benefit than anything.  "Well, come to the rescue if things turn south, Rei.  I'll keep my communicator thumbed open so you can listen in."

[Anastasia]

"Will do," she nods. "Crazed fan or not...just make sure he doesn't have any doujinshi," she says darkly, muttering to herself. "Or burn any you find."

[Liddo-kun]

"Awww.  You mean I can't keep the Sailor Mars issues?" Haruka teases, finding this a nice distraction to the boredom.

[Anastasia]

Wow.

That's the first time you've ever heard someone twitch so hard that it was an audible clack over the phone.

"No," she says slowly, "You may not. Nor the Sailor Moon issues, or even the Sailor Mau issues. Heh....if you need any help, I'll gladly hold a bonfire afterwards," she rebounds, almost sweetly cheery now.

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka blinks at the 'sound' of the twitch then chuckles, finding Rei's annoyance cutely amusing.  "So... what you're lightly implying is that I might not be allowed to read about the adventures of Mistress Mars or Topless Avenger Mars-chan?"

[Anastasia]

Wow, again.

If Rei keeps grinding her teeth that hard, she'll need dentures really soon. Man.

"Exactly, Haruka-chan," she replies, the -chan honorific laced with more honeyed venom than  you could imagine. "And I won't read about Uranus Plus."

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka luckily carries a steady supply of anti-venom so she pushes on, taking Rei's veiled threat in stride.  "Oh very well.  If that is your wish, Mistress Rei," Haruka quips, now sporting an overly cheery sing-song tone.  "Anything for you."

[Anastasia]

Ah, cartoons! Road RUnner, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Wily E Coyote. So many fond memories of those American cartoons they liked to run for little kids. So hilarious when someone got so mad that they blew up or choked someone over the phone.

So, in context, it's damn lucky this isn't a cartoon.

"Goooood," she grinds out. "Now get going." With that and a click, the call is ended with a final dose of regal Mars Princess pique.