asgardmeridiem | [open] i wouldn't do this for just anyone.

Who: Nakama and anyone who wants to be crashed into?
What: Teaching herself a new skill. Again, badly.
When: Day 143
Where: All over the city!
Rating: Assuming G, will edit if necessary.

Nakama's on a mission. A very cut up, bruised, aching mission.

No, it's not fighting or weapons this time. She's brought so much drama and sadness into Roxas's life lately, and they may have plans for fun times later, but she feels like this needs more. A gesture like the ice cream on the roof, something bigger that's all her.

So she's dipped into her savings and bought herself a skateboard, and the plan was to expand on his one brief lesson until she was good enough to go out riding with him. Unfortunately, that first lesson didn't go very well, and she doesn't know anything about skateboarding other than that. So she's careening around the city, arms waving wildly to keep her balance and legs occasionally flying out from under her and sending her sprawling onto the pavement. But like the thousands of needles she took to her fingertips while learning to sew, she barely feels any injuries left behind.

If you find her early in the day, she'll look alright; later in the day, there'll be a large tear in the left knee of her jeans with a bloody knee beneath, and a limping gait that suggests more bruises and wounds under her clothes. Heck, you might even meet her halfway and have to leap out of the way. It's hard to say!

Make your choice, but choose carefully.

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"I'll call him once I -" She makes a gesture to her head, which is getting foggier by the minute. "- um, feel better."

"Okay." Yukari gazes at Nakama a little anxiously. The girl's wooziness is evident.

"Should I call something to get us there faster?" she says.

"No - no, I'll be okay. I don't need the ambulance or anything." She forces herself to stand up straighter and take longer steps, even though each one makes the world spin.

Yukari eyes her forcefully for a moment before shrugging. "Okay, Nakama-chan," she says. She can't tell immediately whether Nakama just needed that to wake her up or what. Hmm. What's that they usually say...?

"Can you count backwards from 100 by sevens? You know, like, 100, 93..."

She tries her best, but gets stuck around the 70s and stops walking, a confused expression on her face.

"This is hard..."

Uh-oh.

"Um. That's not good. I'm gonna call the ambulance, okay...?" She stops next to Nakama, her arm tightening around her friend. "Hang in there."

"I don't need..." But then her legs waver, and she finds the nearest flat, upraised surface to sit down so that Yukari doesn't have to hold up her entire weight. "... o-okay."

Yeah, of course you don't need, Nakama. Of course. That said, Yukari tries to support her in sitting down before turning to the bracelet and placing the call.

"Might as well give them something to do, right?" She looks anxiously over.

She attempts a smile, but it's pretty weak and wobbly. "Yeah, I guess so."

Slowly, idly, she turns the skateboard around in her hands. "I - I guess that was pretty dumb, huh? Trying to do this without help?"

"Umm." Yukari laughs a little. "It was a little dumb, Nakama-chan. You've got to let your friends help you when you need it... and you've gotta know when you do need it, right?"

But she lets her grip around Nakama turn into a tighter hug, trying to convey that the criticism isn't meant to hurt.

Besides... She's a little better at doing that herself, but it's not something she's still super-proficient with.

"I know." She hangs her head. "I thought I was getting so much better at that, but when things are really important to me, I still want to do them alone."

She's touched by the hug, though, and smiles a bit more genuiely up at Yukari.

"Thanks, Yukari. For... all of this, and for always being honest."

"That's just the way we think sometimes." Yukari shrugs. "It's hard to ask for help. It's definitely that way for me too." But yeah. Honesty. It's a good thing most of the time; certainly with Nakama, and it's not like she really restrains herself anyway.

"I almost got in a lot of trouble that way, though." She glances away, not willing to go any further with that thought. It's something she hasn't told anyone here. "That's what filters on the network are for. I'll definitely ask someone to help next time."

She rubs her temples, trying to chase off a building headache, and wavers a bit in her seat. She's still mostly lucid, when not being challenged to math questions, but she's getting worse.

But Yukari's curious, as well as worried. Maybe it's better to keep her talking and awake...? She's not a doctor, she doesn't know, but... The ambulance will be here within a few minutes anyway, right?

"Trouble...? What kind of trouble?"

"I'd rather not say." Her face closes up at that, making it obvious that it's a secret she'll never share. "But if I was desperate, I'd do almost anything not to have to ask for help."

Creepy.

Yukari can only really shrug at that. It's ultimately her life. All she can do is make sure Nakama doesn't keel over and die before the ambulance gets here.

...Does she hear it in the background? Hmm-- she looks over to check. Looks like it.

Nakama turns her head - very slowly - at the sound of the clip-clopping hooves as well. They can't be more than a block away.

"Um... you can go now if you want, Yukari... they'll take care of me. Thank you for calling them."

She shakes her head emphatically. "I'm not going until I see you in bed. Otherwise you might just get out and try ramming into a wall again."

"..." Her mouth opens to argue, but her brain doesn't have the strength, so she just allows the ambulance workers to shuffle her into the back of the wagon and won't object if Yukari comes along.

And Yukari, indeed, hops into the wagon, sitting there mostly fretting and being useless (as predicted). She tries to keep Nakama engaged, though, at first trying to think of conversation to make, but, when she fails at first, mostly by just taking her hand.

She's surprised by such an affectionate gesture from Yukari, and it brings up a weak smile. Now that she's on her back, the urge to close her eyes and slip away from the pain in her head is overwhelming, but she knows she can't.

"... thanks."

"No problem," Yukari says. "Better just relax, okay?" Bumpy ride as it might be, it's better than walking, after all.

"Yukari... I can't remember right now..." Nakama turns bleary eyes to her. "... do you know Roxas?"

"I've never met him." Yukari shakes her head. "But I've seen him post on the network." Even stalked a bit, since she knew roughly about Nakama and him, but, uh, not going to say that.

"Oh, okay. Um, if you do talk to him for some reason... don't tell him about this, okay? It's - supposed to be a nice surprise, not a reason for him to worry."

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