Little lerim Yukari was eat cake in Spica's cafe. After her time with Akira, she had realized not all Spicans were scary, in fact a lot of them were super cool. Some were still scary though, so athletic and...her fork fell out of her mouth when a pink haired Prince entered with a tall red head. She stared at them, immediately overcome with frozen fangirl syndrome. They were so cool looking! Were they a couple? The pinkette was blushing, how cute!!

It was as if floating pink heat bubbles had appeared in the air around her, her eyes sparkling too much as she watched the handsome pair.  Just when she thought she might be noticed by either of them, her face turned red, as if someone filled her face like a pitched of red kool-aid and she furiously focused on eating her cake. AS long as they didn't look at ehr or talk to her she could get through this. The athletic looking red head had really long hair, she looked so confident int he way she carried herself, and the shy albeit boyish pinkette, what a Prince! 

She didn't mean to, but her had a hand on either cheek, curled in fists, a fork still sticking out from one hand a quiet "Haaaaaa!" came from the depths of her fangirl heart. Ah, but the redhead did look a little scary, maybe she'd even get mad if she saw her looking at the pinkette like that! She tried her best to hide herself, but a high pitched squeak erupted from her anyway as she watched the pinkette remove her jacket, even one of the girls dressed as maids working at the cafe asked if she was okay. She sank down in her chair, nodding at the server who left her alone. 

She was just freaking out, but someone else might think she was sick, jt then she was the pinkette was looking at her,-she was making a scene.

"Are you alright?" she asked,

Yukari felt her heart crack a little, it was the same line her beloved Akumu had used on her the day they finally got to meet, one of the only things she'd ever said to her thanks to her having thsi reaction to everyone cool she ever met.

"Hah, I'm y-y-yeehh." her voice faded as she felt the red head was also looking at her. 

"Want to sit with us? You must be a fan of Raion, you can say hello if you want."

A fan? Of course, Raion, the red head was on the tennis team, a new addition, a really popular one.  She thought she might hyperventilate, "No I'm fine!" She said with a  glowing face, but she met eyes with Raion again and the deepening of her blush made it seem as if Kisumi had hit the nail on the head. The truth was, she was more a fan of appearances then and now than she was of their athletic talents at that moment.

Ah, finally. A lion required a feast, and she planned to find it. The sweet scent of the food overpowered the sharp smell of the jungle wildflowers, and she soon found her face slightly flushed in embarrassment at the fact that she had probably just visibly turned her head like a cat, ears perked up and all. She shook it off quickly and decided to follow the cub to her destination. Young as she was she definitely had an air of dominance about her,so taking a follower position must have looked odd.

However, she didn't contemplate any of this as her cub made contact with another girl. Ugh... Did she have to? Fine.

"Fan? Don't be. I'd rather have challengers than fans." she said to quickly diffuse any delusions. She said it sternly, but tried to soften her words a bit more. She knew she was a bit aggressive at times, and made the effort to be less so for this one occasion. Not for any reason, just because she wanted to. Baka.

"Look, the little cub here needs somewhere to study and I need food. You have space at your table. Can we sit here or are you waiting on someone? Doesn't matter to me either way. "

As if to show her complete lack of investment in the girl's answer, she didn't even wait. She set down the supplies she was carrying at a seat vacant at the table and made her way to get food alone. She certainly asserted her position as a lioness quickly.

the black haired girl squeaked and looked liek she was going to faint as Raion sat in front of her, her heart must have been beating so fast! Kisumi felt a little bad for her and put her coat down over the chair beside her,

"Is it alright?"

Yukari nodded furiously and a maid was soon over with a notebook to take their orders,

"Hot chocolate with caramel for me, that's all," said the pinkette. She pulled out a school book and a notebook and flipped everything open, shyly smiling at the smaller Lulim.

Yukari was stiff as a board, staring, squeaking, she wasn't even affected right away by the red heads brash nature. Her hair...was that wildflowers?

"Your hair smells so good!" She said, then clapped her hands over her mouth, "I mean, I could never challenge you, I'm not athletic at all....but uh..." she looked at Kisumi, acting like this toward Raion in front of her was embarrassing too. What should she do? If she was a cat, she'd have been all puffed up with nerves. Cat...wait...Raion can called the boyish girl a cub? As in an uke? like an uke prince? Uke to..>Raion?...she covered her nose as she felt a rush of fluid. and reached for her napkin. (lol nosebleed)

As much as this sight was pathetic, it also made her remember her old school. Yeah, as Lion D'incendie she got plenty of this. Only the most popular girls at Vincennes got Titles, so she was used to being treated like some kind of high tier person. She just shrugged it off, minus the shrug.

"A little of everything hot for me." she said without a second thought. Things were certainly not as she handled them before when it came to food. Perhaps this is why she usually didn't come here. This girl was definitely into... Whatever was happening in her head.

"God, could you at least try and keep your composure?" she almost said the words with hostility, but it came off more as just kind of bored. "I only want to see blood if you worked for it. Don't just up and bleed without earning a scar or two."

As she spoke, she turned her attention back to her cub.

"You sure you want to sit here? "

This was probably why Akumu had quickly abandoned her company, and it was surprising that Akira tolerated her, finding her freak outs more endearing than annoying. She stuffed her nose with napkins. "I-I'm sorry!"

All at once the noseblled was over and she sighed, looking tired, as if she'd been up for days.Remembering how she'd lost her senpai probably because she was such a nutcase was always a downer. A piece of cake made it's way into her mouth.

"Raion, you made her sad..." noted Kisumi, reaching for her, "don't cry," she patted her hand, which brought those round hazel eyes up to her, a stunned expression that turned her pale and then red again.

"N-No! It's not that, It's just I do this a lot and..there was someone I really liked and they...well I think I made them like me a lot less because of it...I just..I can't help it when I meet someone really cool like this..I just..."

"It must be hard for you," said Kisumi, "It's okay, I know how you feel, just take some deep breaths. It'll be okay. Sometimes it's better if senpai doesn't notice you, trust me."

Ugh, did she have to say that? It was her senapai. But then...she did have Akira now, Akumu didn't matter....but somehow, she did.

She took some deep breaths, "Doesn't anything make you excited Raion-san" asked Yukari, trying to change the subject off of herself. The server came back with their orders and Kisu took to her cocoa happily. Yukari watched her drink it a little too closely and would have to be snapped back into reality before she could register Raion's answer.

"Baka..." she mouthed the word under her breath. "You should focus a little more on yourself and a little less on celebrities." she shot out, neither confirming nor denying her own title as one. She knew she wasn't yet, but she also knew it was coming. She wouldn't hate it either, but she needed it to be earned. None of this popularity crap. Sheer victory is all she wanted.

The food arrived and she immediately took to hers. The contents of her rather large order were gone so quickly that one had to wonder what was even there to begin with, and where it all went. She looked up from her food only once, and it was to respond. To her name of all things. That was new. She either hadn't been addressed since arriving here, or had been called by her Title back home.

"Excited? Sure. Victory. Challenge. The heat of the battle. The fire in my opponent's eyes." she stopped listing things when she saw the girl who had asked her the question was zoned out.

"NNevermind. Yes, in short. " she shook her head, closing her eyes.

The pinkette giggled, watching herself be watched. She turned red, which turned the other girl red and both looked to the redhead.

"I like to run," she added, trying to expand Raion's point, "when I'm running it's like...all I want to do is win. It's really something else. Especially when my opponent is really skilled, I have to...I don't know, when I have to push myself harder than the last time, it feels good."

Yukari shook her head, the redhead sure was scary after all. Compared to these two, she wasn't excited about anything to that degree...other than celebrities, as the redhead put it. How could she focus on herself? What was interesting there? Ah...Having Kisu sympathize with her made it worse, and then here she was having an actual conversation with two athletes.

"It's not that bad to get fired up," said Yukari, "sometimes it's really helpful, the only thing standing between victory and utter defeat...but ah, when it comes to the heart it's not that easy. Being excited can be wrong sometimes I guess." She paused, realizing that Raion ate all her food already, wow, so this is how athletes ate too? They had to use all those carbs, she guessed. Raion ad red eyes, she noticed, just like Akira, and now found herself staring at them a little too hard.

Kisumi found the girl's actions endearing, but looked at her studies, starting to make notes on the chapter, smiling a little to herself as the fangirl stared at her partner instead.

So the cub had Guts. She actually had a genuine smile at that. Not her competitive smirk or anything like that, but just a happy expression. The value of challenge was one everyone felt if they had even just a taste. It was addictive. Victory was intoxicating if one earned it properly.

"Thats right. The heat of the challenge is what drives me. I'm glad someone agrees."

As they continued, she relaxed herself a bit. All that food was nice but she needed something else. When she got back to her dorm she would definitely be restringing her bow. Tomorrow she would randomly challenge someone on the archery team. The day after, she would challenge a fencing team member. She would win the favor of the school and take the role of student council president, and then she would inject her Vincennes experience into the way clubs ran. She would use her influence to issue a challenge to Vincennes itself. That was her ticket to seeing her home and her friends again. Boy, the looks on their faces when Lion D'incendie cane home as a student council president...

She noticed the girl looking at her more intently. It was unsettling.

"What? " she asked plainly.

"Ah! Um, you-your eyes, I was just um....they are pretty, remind me of someone...." She sank back a little, blinking at how Raion had smiled a moment ago, the way Kisumi spoke about running, wow, it was like she had respect from the other spican because of that. Yukari wasn't excited about anything like that, getting worked up over handsome people, it was silly anyway, but it was really silly in comparison here.

"You're both so...so cool," she sighed, touching her warm cheeks, "I'm so lucky I got to meet you!" She somehow really wanted to get back to Akira, and soon, to tell her all about meeting these two. She kept running into cool people, and even someone like Akira too! It was too much for her fan girl heart to bear.

"I'm just a Lulim student, I can cook a little bit, but that's not anything to get competitive about...Ah but, I should get going, I know you have to study and ah...I have someone I need to...meet." she felt ehr heart fluttering at the thought of texting Akira so they could meet up for the first time since the ball, "You have given me the courage to see them again."

She'd been a little embarrassed to see her after their interactions at the ball, but now she was missing her a lot and excused herself in favor of the new company.

This left Kisumi alone with Raion once more, "Did we scare her off?" she asked, making another note from her book.

That was definitely an odd encounter.

"II don't know, nor care. More table for us. " she said casually. It did click to her that she had yet to put her ring back on though, and so she opened her locket and slipped it out to do so. It wasn't anything flashy, but it did have his and her name engraved inside it. Just a normal gold band otherwise, so as to not draw too much attention. That was fine by her.

"Listen. I'm going to issue a challenge to an archer tomorrow. I'd like it if you came to talk after. You may be sort of spineless but I enjoy your company anyway. Don't disappoint me. "

With that, and after putting her ring back on, she stood. No need to walk to cub home. She had a date with a shower and a comfortable bed that required her on top of it. This was fun and all, but it was really getting to be a bit much for her first day socializing again.