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Kokoro 5

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The first thing Cirno noticed when she awoke was the smell of animals, her nose stretched up and her eyes promptly shut before they could even open as her face scrunched up in disgust trying to go back to sleep as best she could, but it was too late, she was already noticed.

“Cirno get up.” Cirno rolled in the lap of the offending voice, trying to pull the fabric of the skirt around her like a blanket. “Cirno.” The monotone voice said, somehow more angry sounding. “Last warning.” Cirno stirred but made no movements to leave the voice’s lap.

Suddenly Cirno felt the merciless pull of gravity, followed by the unforgiving tiled marble of the Earth Spirit Palace.

"OW!" Cirno complained as she fit the floor, looking up she could see Kokoro with an unimpressed and glaring mask looking down on her.

"Hehe." Cirno tried to get up but slipped when a leg didn't meet the marble, only catching herself mid-summerault with her wings, leaving her body flying upside down, but her balance was off and it took her a second to adjust. Only then did she notice she was missing a leg.

"Huh!" Cirno exclaimed as she stared at the stumped limb. The lower half of her left leg was completely missing, and where it should have connected to the knee should have been, only to see the inside of herself, 'ice' she realized 'my insides are made of ice.' Cirno had never quite thought about it before, but she guessed it made sense, she was an ice fairy after all.

"Ah, somebody's awake I see~" Cirno flinched in the direction of the voice, standing at the entrance to the room was the half-pint Oni, Suika, happily drinking from her Ibuki gourd.

"Ah yeah, good to see you Cirno," said the laughing voice from earlier, 'Orin' she realized.

"Orin!" Cirno exclaimed, twisting back around in the air, almost falling over again. There she was standing next to the door opposite Suika, a large set of imperious-looking black and gold doors.

"Yep that's me" Orin exclaims as she strikes a cat pose, both her hands to imitate a cat's paws. “You four certainly gave Miss Satori a hard time,” Orin says giggling.

“Huh?”, Cirno asks, tilting her head in confusion as she gazes at Orin, ‘wait wasn't I-’“The snow” Kokoro states, interrupting CIrno’s thoughts as an unamused and tired mask covers her face

“Don’t forget the rest of our tussle!” Suika exclaims, thrusting her Ibuki gourd into the air, some sake spilling out onto the marble floor as she does so.

“Well I hoped you learned your lesson after that lecture she gave you, Satori seemed a bit flustered,” Orin said mischievously as she played with one of her braids.

It was then the door she was leaning against slammed open, moving so fast that it wedged the cat against the wall with no time for her to react. Yuugi skulks from the room, unaware of the cat she nearly flatted against the wall, a shadow cast over her eyes as she moves to leave the room.

Everybody stands in silence as Yuugi leaves the room, Suika following behind her energetically and with a smile on her face. Orin crept from back around the door that slammed her against the wall, shaking as the Onis departed. Suika whispering in Yuugi’s ear all the while.

“K-k-ko-kokoro” Orin finally says as she regains her demeanor, “It’s your turn.” She says as she gesticulates in the direction of the door she was nearly squashed by. Kokoro just nodded, trying her best to ignore Orin’s distress as she walked into the pitch-black room, closing the door behind her. Cirno eyed Orin as Kokoro vanished.

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Kokoro couldn’t see a thing as she closed the doors behind her. ”Tell me why you came here apologize, and leave.” The tired voice of Satori answered. “I’m keeping the lights off so I don’t have to look at you, yes I don’t need to read your mind to answer that question.” Kokoro had the impression Satori was hiding under the desk as well, she couldn’t blame her, they’d caused a lot of trouble in their short time underground.

Kokoro decided she might as well get this over with

“I think your sister might be pregnant,” Kokoro stated in a monotone voice as she heard a sound suspiciously similar to a head hitting a desk to resound in the darkness.

"WHAT!"